Scapeghost

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by Scapeghost 18d ago
I have IRC logs from 1998 Most people were dicks even back then including me :)
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by Scapeghost 6mo ago
In Russia, China, the people are under threat of literal torture and murder. You gave up way before that
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by Scapeghost 6mo ago
Reddit bans users based on what they upvoted: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditSafety/comments/1j4cd53/warni... "We know that the culture of a community is not just what gets posted, but what is engag
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by Scapeghost 6mo ago
Man... How did yall white Westerners turn out to be the weakest people in the world? You were supposed to be the bastions of freedom and justice, and the rest of the world begrudgingly admired you for that and were slowly improving to becom
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by Scapeghost 11mo ago
Right now the biggest problem in life is the country of my passport. I have enough in savings and enough passive income to be able to live comfortably almost anywhere, but whenever I talk to travel agents, or people who can help set up comp
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by Scapeghost 2y ago
Without giving away too much PII, some of it is interest from various savings accounts and subscriptions/donations from Patreon etc. and some from sporadic sales.
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by Scapeghost 2y ago
"as well as a native" sounds ambiguous in my head, like implying "and I am a native" so I went with the counterpart to "as good as new"
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by Scapeghost 2y ago
P.S. Since I mentioned being from the Middle East I think I should add that I'm not religious at all lol But I can't get it removed from my passport as there are laws against apostasy and "blasphemy" here :(
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by Scapeghost 2y ago
> If you're looking for a beautiful place to go outside, Svalbard is not it lol. It'd be a nice change from the desert climates I've been stuck in all my life though haha > You can get work as an English teacher in Kor
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by Scapeghost 2y ago
Thank you. Though Mexico has always seemed just as scary and with many of the same problems as the place I want to leave. I'm more inclined towards East Asia, and read that Thailand may have options for "digital nomads". My p
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Ask HN: How can I escape my 3W country as a freelance dev with passive income?
14 points by Scapeghost 2y ago|26 comments
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Why does it have to be one OR the other? Even humans have created systems that sort of create other shit on their own. Like the patterns that form when viewing prime numbers in certain ways, the fundamental laws of the universe could be som
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> I've never understood This is the reason :)
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Ask HN: How to undelete APFS files and recover APFS volumes?
1 points by Scapeghost 6y ago|0 comments
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> Consider turning images off to read the content. I'm sorry, I can try to understand the well-meant intent behind this, but what, and pretend the world is all roses and rainbows? No. Leave the images on. You first world city folk n
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Do you honestly think that most people in the USA believe that?
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Ah yes, the mythical "Locals" But even among them I'm sure there's plenty bread-and-butter 9-to-5ers, just in slightly posher professions.
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
You know what other societal paradigm shift could be really amazing but nobody seems to have brought it up yet? Working in the evening instead of daytime. Specially in hot ass countries/cities. I mean really, do most modern jobs really
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Indeed. People run entire families on like $300 a month, where I've been.
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> taking a 20% pay cut > There has been no drop in productivity Your employer seems to believes different.
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
It's appalling, but not surprising, how little of the world cares about taking even ONE day off every week, let alone two, and laughable to suggest mandating three days off. In the UAE, for example, most people work 12+ hours every d
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Boy Microsoft's software is the most pirated in the world. In my corner of the 3rd world and the countries around it many people have computers but almost nobody pays for software.
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
meh I've just about given up. There's no worse curse than being born and stuck in a place where you can't find any compatible people let alone kindred spirits. All I can hope for is running into someone like myself someday, b
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Bubbles of privilege are never a real solution to endemic societal issues. What will you do when you don't even have any electricity to run the HVAC on? In most third-world regions with similar pollution people don't even have a r
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> with regards to Korea and China. Japanese resentment is still highly noticeable in countries where they colonized and raped them. The US and UK are resented for the same reasons in many parts of the world. For example the https:/
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
To be fair, wasn't Japan invaded first? A few times. The "West" has had the longest record of invading other nations, forcibly "opening ports", or just generally intruding into and screwing up countries in other way
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
On the flip side of what most comments are talking about, here's a very cute and wholesome example of how a Japanese person views the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVcU6i2k9-M (Highly recommended if you are in ne
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
When talking to Japanese people I sometimes surprise them by mentioning or recommending Japanese media or things about Japan I love that they didn't know about. Likewise, when they talk about my country they sometimes mention stuff t
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Anglocentric chauvinism has always had a gross habit of looking at other cultures in a patronizing way. Though to be fair other cultures are guilty of this too when viewing those different than them. Ever since antiquated Orientalism, it&#x
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Only if the people you are kind to appreciate that. I grew up in a third world dog-eat-dog culture where kindness is generally equated with naivete and everyone has to keep their guard up against each other. I'm still struggling with p

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