yomly

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by yomly 2y ago
Please define safe? The stabbings and acid attacks suggest otherwise Please define functioning police force? The fact the police had to remember that turning up to burglaries is a good thing suggests otherwise Please define takes care of s
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by yomly 2y ago
10 years ago the entry level SWE salary for FANG was about 160k USD. Today, about 100K GBP or EUR are still "senior" SWE salaries at a lot of non-FANG tech companies around UK and Europe. In that time, the currencies have also cra
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by yomly 3y ago
Yes - writing PHP in 2024 is a crime that we should hold PH accountable for.
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by yomly 3y ago
I got shutdown on twitter on this subject once - but I maintain can crime stats go down while crime goes up? As crime rates go up (and police get flooded) do people stop reporting all but the most serious of crimes? I live on a street that
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by yomly 3y ago
off topic, but if I view using incognito then just click YES or REJECT ALL->confirm is that a way to escape this madness? Or should I just nope out of pages like this, seems like the content was pointless anyway
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by yomly 3y ago
What does ignoring babies when they cry have to do with them growing up to be terrified adults?
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by yomly 3y ago
I am personally atheist/apathetic. The closest thing you could get me to profess a religious fervour to is exercise (or martial arts) and mother nature. That said, I am a huge proponent of religion and can see how it is so important to
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by yomly 4y ago
I'm sure there are people who straddle both
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by yomly 4y ago
Twitter. Look for people that aren't trying to bamboozle you with wishywashy arguments or anyone who tries to make things sound too simple or are sales-y. Best is to follow people who are speaking in precise technical details where you
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by yomly 4y ago
>Just the usual reminder that people should not be taking financial advice from random people on the internet. There are lots of people on the internet putting out super valuable insight and/or trying to educate the unsophisticated
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by yomly 4y ago
emergent behaviour in complex systems is still reasonably simple, (eg OpenOffice won't print on a Tuesday [0] or moving my mouse makes Windows faster [1]) but maybe that makes it easier for us to appreciate how behaviour can emerge fro
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by yomly 4y ago
I have done my fair share of drugs and as much fun as they were, the experience was nowhere near close to the peak moments of my life to date. YMMV Proposing to my fiancee, attending my brother's wedding, holding my nephew for the firs
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by yomly 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom) Nine prestigious schools were investigated by Clarendon (including Merchant Taylors' School and St. Paul's School) and seven subsequently reformed
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by yomly 4y ago
Slightly late to this thread - I heard a rumour that Citi were using Clojure, anyone able to confirm whether this is true for the SG dev team?
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by yomly 4y ago
yes - I very often absentmindedly open Clash out of habit even if I wasn't intending to play it.
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by yomly 4y ago
>I very clearly and explicitly said "money they didn't have" in my first post and was talking about financial costs. fair - I missed that context when reading the immediate response replying to. Thanks for sharing your ane
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by yomly 4y ago
So I haven't played Clash of Clans but know Clash Royale exceptionally well (with a some dedicated training could probably shoot for global 10k league finish) So speaking from experience: there's probably a finite sum you can spen
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by yomly 4y ago
financially? ie they played an f2p got hooked and spent dumped their money into oblivion such that they couldn't financially recover? Getting addicted to an F2P game and losing your time, while sad, is not within the scope of this disc
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by yomly 4y ago
sincere question - how big of a problem (in terms of #people suffering) is there of people spending beyond their means on online cosmetics? I could see <18s getting into trouble but are there adults legit bankrupting themselves from paid
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by yomly 4y ago
I think those numbers are all relative? If you're a bored prince with billions of liquid cash and even more billions of yielding assets, do you really care about 10-20k of weekly outlays? Or reduce the scale, if you have 100k annual sa
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by yomly 5y ago
Quite the opposite - I'm not sure how many eminent mathematicians have the background to have gone far in politics. The early pandemic outlined how many politicians lacked even the ability to reason about exponentials (let alone scient
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by yomly 5y ago
>If anything you should feel shame for your lack of self awareness here This is no place for these kinds of statements. Parent posed a question that can 100% be read charitably. In a system where all incentives promote individualism and
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by yomly 5y ago
I think the whole point is that OP appealed, got hard rejection and can't escalate or even compromise. Now their unrelated YouTube Music account is locked
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by yomly 5y ago
I mean this is obviously reductionist but let's cherry pick some examples from the UK, bastion of the free. It's run by an apparently corrupt government [0] The NHS falls over every Winter, even without the help of a pandemic [1]
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by yomly 5y ago
You're right that WhatsApp really took their sweet time to copy WeChat. I wonder though whether there were mitigating factors. I know bringing WA onto the FB infra was a big job. Also had a friend that worked at WA and he was talking a
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by yomly 5y ago
My understanding is that WhatsApp is pretty big in India and my experience is that WeChat is pretty ubiquitous within SE Asia. The Singapore govt uses WhatsApp now for much of its govt comms and a lot of small business uses WhatsApp. Also r
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by yomly 5y ago
Heh on the continent they eat goose sometimes so I guess that might be the longer standing tradition? With no actual knowledge of these matters, game feels in season for late autumn / early winter...?
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by yomly 5y ago
Some of my own personal observations: - a turkey is a HUGE bird - people only cook turkey once a year - most guidelines for cooking turkey overcook the turkey - most people are terrified of undercooking poultry Trying something once a year
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by yomly 5y ago
I will ebike for over an hour. I will not cycle for over an hour to get somewhere (as I will be completely soaked and fairly tired).
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by yomly 5y ago
Here are some things I am counting down the days til I have the free time to go deep on: Martial Arts Music Cooking Here are some things I would love to learn more about World History Science Gardening Sailing Camping + foraging Here are so

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