CKKim

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by CKKim 13y ago
Indeed. I hadn't seen that video (cheers!) but we both seem to be thinking the same thing!
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by CKKim 13y ago
"Oh yeah, and you don't get from the first picture to the last picture in 16 weeks, not gonna happen." Someone who looked like the second picture when dehydrated, oiled, posing, and flatteringly lit could perfectly well make
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by CKKim 13y ago
I do not have a corporate job, nor have I ever. The closest I have come is teaching in schools. However, I find your sentiment at odds with the experience of many I know in the corporate world. Most work long hours, but they find time for w
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by CKKim 13y ago
I love the short timers on blocks of text too large to read properly before it moves on. I kept clicking back and of course starting from the beginning of the quote to remind myself of the flow and then SWOOSH it moved onto the next one. I
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by CKKim 13y ago
That seems the most likely, doesn't it? I'd love it if somewhere there were an official diplomatic language glossary with translations for what these terms really mean, e.g. groundless and unacceptable: "justified and permi
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by CKKim 13y ago
[Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov] criticised what he termed US attempts to blame Russia for his disappearance, saying they were "groundless and unacceptable". and Meanwhile, China has also described US accusations that i
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by CKKim 14y ago
In so far as I have had "success" with speed reading it has been to force myself to run over the words more quickly and so interpret the commonly seen structures as single units. This means that if a piece is written in a very formulaic sty
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by CKKim 14y ago
Nowhere. It was speculation on my part extrapolated from the premise that the piece was written as a joke and nothing in it could be taken at face value. A little research on the guy suggests I was reading too much into it. Here he is http
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by CKKim 14y ago
Ah, thanks for this and your comment elsewhere in the thread. That Twitter link, for those also intrigued: https://twitter.com/rishil .
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by CKKim 14y ago
What others have said about commenters/lurkers and not being able to downvote, but also I think the "sentiment" is more that SEO sucks than that this piece is garbage per se. I upvoted it because it's entertaining and it did, along with the
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by CKKim 14y ago
I read it as a joke by the end but, worryingly, didn't automatically recontextualise it as racist in light of that. Which, I think I agree with you, it is, if it's a joke and all the East Africa stuff is made up for "comedy value".
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by CKKim 14y ago
Totally with you. I was enjoying the amusing tone of the piece but he lost my sympathy at: "Before, SEO was the game of really skilled people, you know like professional poker players. You had to know the game, know when to raise, and when
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by CKKim 14y ago
As a Mathematics graduate I was going to call you out on your comment, because I feel the subject does not lend itself to the kind of wiggle room necessary for maneuvering such as you describe. Then I remembered this: http://www.futilitycl
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by CKKim 14y ago
Indeed. Reading the Wikipedia entry on Cassagnes I wonder: 'idea' or 'discovery'? "Cassagnes, an electrician at the Lincrusta Company, was performing a routine installation of a factory light switch plate wrapped in a translucent decal cove
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by CKKim 14y ago
Seriously? If you asked someone to build a three page "We're Hiring" site and got this, you'd "probably tell them no thanks and stop returning their emails". Why? Their main .biz site looks fine to my eyes too, like thousands of other busin
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by CKKim 14y ago
A general point and not meant as a criticism of you, but is there a gender-neutral way to express "This, of course, makes him a gentleman" as you use in your final paragraph? Or a clear female equivalent? It seems "This, of course, makes he
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by CKKim 14y ago
Thanks, muellerwolfram. This guide is excellent and dear to me as someone once stuck in the exact same position described in the opening paragraph. Indeed, flitting between operating systems was so natural that even now I instinctively want
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by CKKim 14y ago
I really don't think that's how it works any more than seeing one's siblings naked is a turn on. With the disclaimer that of course narcissism and incest are some people's thing , but while the former may be more common than the latter I c
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by CKKim 14y ago
Needless to say I didn't mean it that way, but the imagery in your comment did make me laugh a lot on an otherwise depressingly rainy Monday morning with three meetings scheduled for the afternoon that I'm really not looking forward to lead
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by CKKim 14y ago
Ah, got it. Thanks very much for the explanation. The alcohol analogy makes it lucid. When it comes to pornography I'm definitely a "glass of red wine with dinner from time to time" kind of person (TMI?), so it was out of my frame of refere
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by CKKim 14y ago
"I am addicted to porn"..."I would look about once per week" It seems odd to me that being addicted to porn would go with only looking "about once per week". I think I understand how this could still be technically an addiction, but compare
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by CKKim 14y ago
I believe the problem is in the way we make "special", or "intelligent", or any one of countless others, an actual part of a person's identity. I'd like to get away from describing the individual and instead concentrate on their specific ac
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by CKKim 14y ago
One of those articles where a lot of ideas have been put down that aren't exactly "true" so much as it would be convenient if they were, to better justify the path the writer has decided to take in their life.
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by CKKim 14y ago
Great example, and I believe complementary to my observation. If talk show interviews are to be believed then when Hugh Laurie began on House he wasn't famous in America, and most people didn't have any idea he was British. The show was
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by CKKim 14y ago
"Really never, or do you just never notice?" Indeed. Folks seem unbelievably harsh on accents they know not to be the native one, which is every time a famous actor does an accent , but all those no-names doing even not very good ones fly
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by CKKim 14y ago
A similar effect can be heard in "Skwerl (How English sounds to non-English speakers)": http://youtu.be/Vt4Dfa4fOEY (speaking starts at 0m30s). It's not quite as good, is it? I wonder if this effect is easier to achieve in a song or if it
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by CKKim 14y ago
At first this looks like another submission about the value of objects, a la "The Best" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470 , "The Worst" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838109 , and countless others in between. However, it'
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by CKKim 14y ago
You did, and I think this submission found me in a mean mood. For people who have read about polyphasic sleep etc. the phrase "26-Hour Day" has an intuitive meaning which led to disappointment on clicking to the article. I stand by my point
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by CKKim 14y ago
I'm broadly with you on this and upvoted both your comments, but I don't feel quite strongly enough to call him out. I find more and more that "hack" is used figuratively not only in the way you describe but also in the "hacking down a tree
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by CKKim 14y ago
Bingo. I'd reserve judgment on anything before having a good shower, dressing in fresh clothes, and eating some real food. Plus lots of water and a nap or workout, if necessary. Biology > Internet ;).

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