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Also one of these conditions is basically curable. Two once men become more fashion accepting.

“Do you keep track of your finances? That’s great because we’ll be withdrawing random amounts into your 'piggy bank' at random times … and maybe even our 'piggy bank' once or twice ;)”

“Do you work for Yelp! and still find yourself blowing all your money on luxury whiskeys and restaurant food? Let us help you with your backup plan before getting yourself fired for calling your boss a spoiled brat, you spoiled brat.”

“Does being an adult with a bank account make you angry? Would you prefer it if mommy took care of your money for you? We’re here to help!”

“Do you accidentally blast 300$ on open bar tabs every Friday night and need that to stop? Give us access to your bank account so we can save you from yourself.”

“Isn’t having so much money that you don’t care if 50$ just disappears for no reason every week just great? Let us help you pretend to be productive with that money by placing it in a negative interest rate savings account!”

"Are you incapable of stopping until it's all gone? We're alcoholics, ahem, compulsive spenders as well. Give the bottle back, Father Jack."

"Do things like 'stocks' and 'bonds' sound scary? Do you think 'gold' and 'silver' are pointless fads? Wish money would stop getting highbrow ideas? We do to, why make your money work for you when you can send it to work for us? Errr... I mean, why make your money work, when you can send it on a tropical vacation?!"

"Hey guys, what's a great way to show time-series, numerical data in a concise and easy to understand way?"

"How about a movie, Bob?"

I just can't stop laughing at that description of that picture.

When the government revokes the Gulf of Tonkin resolution I will again put faith in its ability to act responsibly with emergency powers and provisions that might, just might set a precedence. Until then, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, fuck you.

First he complains about the fact that we use an alphabet. Does he even have experience with heiroglyphic languages like Chinese? Basically the Chinese dictionary is split into 200-something "families", so when you don't know what a word means, you get a dictionary, and you flip to a family, then you basically brute force your way through the family to find your word.

Now he complains about the pronunciation. Sorry, but that fucked up pronunciation is one of the main _strengths_ of English. English readily absorbs needed words from other languages. Some languages like French actively remove words from their language.

And the phonetics? Go try out fucking Czech. I've heard it's legitimately impossible to become fluent in Czech. Or Austrian dialect, which has something like 4 different "r"s.

"Hawaiian no consonant is ever followed by another consonant" ... yeah you also frequently run into the german nightmare of neverending words like "humahumanukanukaapuaa". You think that's a better way to deal with things? An easy to pronounce marathon?

The large vocabulary is undesirable? The large vocabulary, with extreme possible specificity, is what makes English so attractive for scientific application.

And complaining about grammar? English has one of the easiest grammars to learn and get started with, sure it will take a few decades to not make any mistakes, but for just getting going, it is remarkably easy. No genders (some languages have 5 or more genders for things, see czech), no conjugation.

Sorry for the rant, but if you're just gonna post some BS one sided oped I'm gonna do the same. I personally don't think English is the best choice either. But one sidedness is ultra-obnoxious.

I would argue that 90% of the benefit of this music is just from the extended intervals of contiguous playing, so there's no "break" disruption. I think any DJ (esp. deep house) worth half their salt can get someone "in the zone" for half an hour at a time. And artists devoted to minimalist ambient or trambient can get you going for hours straight.

Honestly the "Focus: Intense" or whatever I find super annoying. It's got this constant anxious buildup feel to it and never fucking breaks into what I would consider that peak when I start playin my keyboard like a goddamn piano.

Basically, no fucking way would I even consider shelling out an additional Spotify subscription for some "high tech" whale song machine.

This or a variation is on almost every physicist's shelf I know...

And while the price is indeed laughable to western readers, price increases such as this one are all too tragic to the local population which is paid in local currency terms, and for whom this is merely the latest checkmark on the hyperinflationary wall."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-17/venezuela-devalues-...

and yes, they can only exist if they travel at the speed of light. it's a major test of the limiting speed of light.

Seriously, the only thing this article is says: Physicists and astronomers are agog. On Thursday, experimenters will report the first detection of a phenomenon that has been long predicted: bursts of gravitational waves generated by cosmic collisions of black holes.

That is NOT a report, that's someone guessing what the report will be. There's not a single quote from anyone remotely involved in the project. This is a piece of shit summary of a wikipedia entry on LIGO with a clickbait headline.

SAGE

I find it hilarious that western society has gradually devolved itself to such an extent with fear-fear mongering, hate-hate speech, and an absurd amount of righteous indignation that people are literally terrified to have opinions outside the groupthink; and you not only have to invent a game to feel human again, but that game is apparently novel enough to reach the front page of HN. This is literally an analysis of how to have a disagreement without reacting like a fourth grader.

Results were all Xinhua and such, wikipedia, imdb, etc are no longer results numbers 1, 2, 3 anymore instead seeing a lot of qq, baidu, xiami etc results for song lyrics, movies, etc.

But it seems to be closer to normal today.

The normal internet speed has been maybe halved or thirded since about the week before Christmas, VPNs are all sketchy, there seems to be a regular interval when all connection is cut for a short time. You see pings oscillate between 40 and 400 ms quite regularly.

Chinese domains are always rock solid though. Can stream music off qq or xiami or stream youku without issue for extended periods of time when ycombinator, bbc news, etc are down. Yahoo and Bing stay up when most western sites are down.

However haven't been seeing as much total blockage as usual when they kick up the security. Lots of social sites that usually go black for a week or two are up just fine.

Game of Thrones is a good example. Everyone loves GOT, right? Shit some people even read the books. But you can only watch GoT if you have an HBO subscription right? Up until this year I think (?) that meant you had to be a US resident, with a physical cable subscription, and HBO service. What about people in fucking Thailand? Should they not get to watch GoT even though the whole internet is posting memes and whatever all over the place?

Or what about Django Unchained, lots of people in China went to see that film in theatres in China... minus about half an hour of edited footage. These Tarantino fans cannot legally obtain the entire version of the newest movie from their favorite director. Does that seem fair? Pirates to the rescue.

Most groups do accept bitcoin donations, but I have no clue how much that actually nets.

Honestly, it's just like a library, no clue why people get so worked up about free books, movies, music, etc. The only issue I really see is prereleases -- like cams and especially dvd screeners of films still in theatres, those can do some serious profit damages.

I fully plan on downloading this new star wars shit when it comes out. I also fully plan on going to see it in theatres because _that_ is what a movie is -- I spend 30 bucks on new movies wvery month. I download Ozzy music. I also paid fucking 150 pounds to see him in concert.

The war on pirates is just a pointless exercise by do-gooders with superiority complexes that for some reason think that copyright law as it stands is reasonable and are somehow deluded into thinking that the revenue stream of entertainment is working in a reasonable fashion. In reality that 10$ you spend on a DVD is just 10$ going into the hands of a corporation that does not actually produce anything but just runs around frantically trying to justify its own existence -- usually by harassing fans like this.