nikatwork

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by nikatwork 10y ago
I've heard the XPS13 has a nearly-15 usable screen size because of the tiny bevel, any owners care to verify?
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Now you've taught me that the Glycemic Index is an illusion and that Doritos are high in micronutrient fortification. This is so informative.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Thanks for the heads up, since you've told me that all food is equal I'm going to switch my diet to only include Soda, Doritos and Hotpockets. I'm sure my body will adapt amazingly.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> magically Siri can understand what you say. I'm not saying the person was right, but is it really far fetched? IIRC gmail already targets ads based on your email content (ie conversations).
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Kogan charge your card a slightly lower random amount than the transaction total and ask you to verify the exact figure before they will fulfill the order. Simple and clever.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
>substance was known good. Salvia?
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> Yeah but Most professionals have a financial safety net the working class do not. That is a huge psychological difference.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
It is exactly this kind of bigotry that forces the KFE scene underground.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Some people enjoy very specific genres. Do you really want your family and workplace to know you rather enjoy watching Klingons fellate Ewoks?
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by nikatwork 10y ago
I still don't understand why <img lowsrc=""> never took off.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Hey mythrwy are you pregnant, you're looking a lot bigger? And also you should dump your partner because they conform to mainstream social standards, total red flag. Oh and you're raising your kids wrong. Hey why are you offended?
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by nikatwork 10y ago
You're seriously suggesting that I should theme OSX manually using a hex editor? Until the new equivalent of Flavours[1] is available, theming OSX is dead in the water. [1] http://flavours.interacto.net/
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> gives you everything that linux offers that you would need Homebrew is dope, but it's still a bolted-on package manager. I also hate hate hate that Apple have removed the ability to theme the OSX UI (RIP Flavours). If I'm g
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated I'd read this more as a position and statement of intent than a concrete plan. The devil will be in the spirit of the execution, not the letter.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
HN is neither twitter nor a blog.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> I hope you still understood what I meant It wouldn't be HN without autistically pedantic nits on scope and definition that add nothing of value to the discourse.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Pleasant side-effects include forcing a clear cogent point by eschewing excess verbiage. I personally find the 140 limit a useful antidote to the waffling academia trained me to employ in my writing.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> management will probably just call your bluff. You don't need some enormous revenue or productivity win on the board to ask for a raise (although it helps). It just needs to be less hassle for them to pay you a raise than to rep
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Being in that situation is so satisfying. Boss: HR won't give me the money for your raise. Employee: I quit. I've been offered more money elsewhere. Boss: No wait actually I can get that extra money Employee
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by nikatwork 10y ago
This might be useful: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Some drive a utility van. Others a custom hotrod.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Twitter is blocked in China. e: my bad, TFA also uses these exact words.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Chinese citizens veil government criticism using innuendo ranging from obvious to subtle as a means to avoid censorship etc. Westerners often miss this subtext. The innuendo in TFA is so blunt that the translation is believable.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
It's almost like time-poor people are willing to pay a premium for convenience.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
65%-90% of humans are lactose intolerant[0], and lactaid pills aren't always effective. https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lactose-intolerance#statis...
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> about something real vs die over bullshit While the military-industrial complex is a thing, most armed conflict can be abstracted as resource exploitation or contention expressed as territorialism. Religion and ideology is just a c
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Ape troupes fight all the time. Chimps genocide monkeys. Human war is just scale.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> I often hear this sentiment that new languages and frameworks du jour pop up every week, and that past an age a fellow just wants to learn a single reliable stack and collect a weekly paycheck. TFA clearly and repeatedly states the au
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by nikatwork 10y ago
"Please, he prayed, now - A gray disk, the color of Chiba sky."
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Is that an argument in favor of China's relentless infrastructure spending?

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