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by yakireev 4y ago
> But if you put aside those examples, I need to know what they did, and where they are, and what they are capable of doing. Interestingly enough, the article I linked in my previous comment[0], and another one by the same person[1], hav
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by yakireev 4y ago
> I've been poor and tired a long time ago. I know what it is like. How many times have they turned off your water? "When someone is telling me they are or have been poor and I’m trying to determine how poor exactly they were,
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by yakireev 4y ago
> Is there any Yerba Mate you can buy that doesn’t taste horrible though? The short answer is "no". That's what it tastes like. It's an acquired taste, like coffee or beer, and it takes more than one try to get hooked
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by yakireev 4y ago
Yes, but. As far as I understand, in the US Uber is a dude with a car and a drivers license, who installs an app on their phone and starts driving people around. In European countries I know Uber is just another way to call a taxi. Big diff
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by yakireev 4y ago
> and form a government in exile in Spain Just curious: is this a reference to something?
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by yakireev 4y ago
I'm all for giving more money to poor people, but how is that related to public transport? "Let's sell for scrap metal what's left of our public transit system and give the proceedings to the poor" would be a mad pr
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by yakireev 4y ago
"public transport riders" != "poor people", unless your bus service is specifically designed to be miserable.
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by yakireev 4y ago
> There are many places where bus comes every half an hour, and there are on average 1-2 passengers on it Well, no surprise there are so few passengers: the bus comes every half an hour! Make it once every two hours, and there will be no
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by yakireev 4y ago
Meanwhile, there are places in the world where CBD oil can be found in a supermarket, among other supplements.
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by yakireev 4y ago
Most people (me included) like funny cat videos and send funny cat videos. Shall we include some to Unicode? I mean, this ship has long sailed, but that was a mistake nevertheless. Not everything has to be a unicode character.
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by yakireev 4y ago
One could argue that emoji should have never been added to Unicode in the first place. Peaches and butts are images, pictures, illustrations, whatever - but they are not characters. There's no writing system which has a colored drawing
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by yakireev 4y ago
Dude just gave most of his money away, and you're still unhappy about him being rich. Come on.
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by yakireev 4y ago
> Anyone who has used Tor on Google has probably experienced this. Just having a VPN + private mode is enough. That's how Google pushed me into becoming a happy DDG user.
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by yakireev 5y ago
> I've never heard of weather straight up shutting down an entire train station in other countries, especially in a nation's capital. How about shutting down the entire network? Happens after any snowstorm in the NL. That being
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by yakireev 5y ago
> Majority of average Russian citizens support their goverment actions against Ukraine They do. Now, will installing malware on their computers make them change their mind and support Ukraine instead?
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by yakireev 5y ago
Inevitably, the day will come when Apple will demand that you censor some content on your platform, or your app is banned from app store. This happened before [1], and will happen again. What will you do when this happens? [1] https:/
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by yakireev 5y ago
This happens a lot with folks who aren't native English speakers. It took me years to find out that "bash", "lisp", "git", "grub", etc are actual words. Also, "tinder" - how the are you
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by yakireev 5y ago
In theory it would, but the practical answer is that for non-English-language community in 2010 migration to Reddit could not have happened. The community in question was Russian, so it migrated not to FB, but to VK, which is essentially th
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by yakireev 5y ago
> Who pays to join a mailing list?! Every newspaper subscriber over the course of history.
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by yakireev 5y ago
> I have found that the I can find the same sorts of gathering places for the same kinds of people I always have - in about the same numbers too. My personal experience does not match that. There was a time (2010-2012 or so where I used
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by yakireev 5y ago
You might have heard it before, but here it is again: your "terrible" experience might be (partly or not) due to the fact that you've been using Windows for decades and know how to solve problems. On desktop linux, you might
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by yakireev 5y ago
> Well he's CTO of Oculus these days Oh. That settles it.
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by yakireev 5y ago
Okay, now I need a similar story telling me how Carmack is full of shit too, to restore the balance. Otherwise I will keep feeling sad that we don't have more of Carmacks (and, if I may, less of Jobs/Bezos)
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by yakireev 5y ago
Try their desktop browser version. All the ads can be blocked by uBlock Origin, there are no limits on what you can do whatsoever (I have no idea what are these "hearts" you're talking about), and most importantly - you can s
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by yakireev 5y ago
Darn, it actually works! Thank you a lot for the mention.
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by yakireev 5y ago
I did not imply that your company is an Amazon warehouse, I'm sorry if it sounded like that. But if this "hourly wage for hourly work and nothing else" becomes a norm, that's what we'll eventually get, I'm af
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by yakireev 5y ago
> I think the contract only + no meetings + no HR (no culture bullshit, no “get to know people” social events) So, gig economy. Or, at best, hourly wage at Amazon warehouse, but for developers. I heard those warehouses are super extra no
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by yakireev 5y ago
> But is it an actual, practical, meaningful threat vector or an issue Back when http was common and 3G was still kinda expensive, many public WiFi networks would MITM all the web pages you request to inject their own ads into them. A no
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by yakireev 5y ago
Russian who travelled extensively through South America here. I'm not sure what's wrong with altiplano bolivians, but my impression was that they are not just grumpy, but genuinely unfriendly (and Russian cultural background kinda
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by yakireev 5y ago
Articles, as in "a" and "the". Slavic languages don't have them, and we Russians can never learn to use them properly. Alas. Some languages don't mandate always keeping track of whether something is "an ob

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