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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What about the past participle though? With Google it's easy - I Googled it. But DuckDuckGoed? That doesn't sound right. DuckDuckWent?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, but I think it'll take a bit longer. Reddit'll be given some artificial value, then the initial stock will be flogged at 80% of that to make people think they're getting a good deal, so loads of people will buy it, then the price'll shoot up, so loads more people will buy that; meanwhile Spez'll cash out his billions then when the true value of Reddit is realised there'll be a "correction" - i.e. a crash, and the last bunch of suckers to buy will be sitting on a huge loss that'll take years to recover from as it slowly inches back up by a couple of percent a year.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Maybe, but they've also been well assisted by those countries which are shining examples of SC&L but have failed to get their messages across the world. Perhaps replies to this comment could indicate which countries those are, for some independent research.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why does it bother me that you only typed seven 8's?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

What do you mean, they're right.... ohhhh. Thanks uBlock Origin!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But doesn't that extension just assume dislikes is some proportion of likes (1/3 comes to mind but I'm not sure why)? The whole point of dislikes is knowing ahead of time that the video is a pile of shite, for example if it's got 20 likes and 200 dislikes it's probably not worth bothering with. But if it's got 20 likes and, say, 7 dislikes based on dislikes=likes/3, that gives you no useful information.

Now if that extension queries some API that returns the hidden 200 dislikes, THEN it'd be useful.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

There's more to the story than the headline. Separation costs from his wife (a lawyer), plus child maintenance, plus burnout from lots of different roles. It's not just the mortgage payments.

If I understand high salary taxation correctly, there are no tax bands above £100K and you just pay 40% on the lot, which makes his take-home net £6K/month, of which a £2K mortgage is one third. I'm managing OK with my mortgage being one third of my net takehome. But I don't have an angry lawyer ex-wife and child maintenance to pay, or a stressful job.

Maybe mortgage increases were the last straw for him. But they are not the only reason for him quitting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It might be a creative interpretation of Genesis 5:3, which I just read as Seth being born when Adam was 130 years old.

Perhaps if they didn't age in Eden, the concept of "living X years" wouldn't apply, so "when Adam had lived 130 years" could be interpreted to mean after they'd been booted out. But they hadn't had Cain and Abel before the Fall, so I don't really see how that interpretation could work, unless it's being merged with other narratives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Genesis 5:4. Eve had three named sons (Cain, Abel and Seth), but also other sons and daughters. That would be where Cain found his wife.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Adding a bunch of quarters together gets a third.

Admittedly a bit of an oversimplification. It's from a YT video: a chocolate bar costs £1 but four wrappers gets you a free bar. How many bars can you get for £1000?

So you buy 1000 bars which gets you 1000 wrappers. Turn those in for 250 bars. With those (actually 248) you get 62 bars. Add the 2 from before and turn in 64 wrappers for 16 bars. And again for 4, then 1. It's a sequence of quarters and the solution is 1,333.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

"First, focus on maximizing the benefits..."

No. First, get your CV up to date and start jobhunting for a guaranteed fully remote position. That's what the smarter employers are offering. You don't want to be stuck working for those stone-age dinosaurs who insist on in-office work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Dating agency for Hamas?

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