spery

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Comment · 3 years ago

I see them quite a lot in Berlin.

Comment · 4 years ago

I use your site often. Thank you for creating it, it's a great resource!

Comment · 4 years ago

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Comment · 4 years ago

Got into running and triathlon.

Started out 3 years ago with light running mostly on treadmill during the winter. Ran two half marathons and then one year later ran a full marathon. After that I spent three months preparing for half ironman distance triathlon. That was much fun, race as well.

Last year was most time intensive, I've spent about 6 hours running/swimming/biking a week, which is not that big of a jump as I use to go to gym for about 3-4 times a week.

Effort is interesting since I had to reduce the intensity to build up the endurance, so workouts we're not difficult at all.

I prefer it over other stuff since it makes me active and I enjoy the endurance workouts.

Comment · 5 years ago

Emergency is that if current regime loses the elections, they will all have to be persecuted for various law violations.

It's a fight for survival.

Comment · 5 years ago

I have such mixed feelings about the Demon cycle. I really like the characters and the first book is excellent. However it starts to be the same pattern for the later books and plot deteriorates rapidly as you near the end. Last two books ruined the series for me, I remember reading them during first lockdown last year and being super frustrated the way it ended.

Comment · 5 years ago

You're right on most parts, I'm not as well informed as I thought I was, but I think you're going with assumption that all the freelance folk should have registered 'agencies' and worked with that. That wasn't an option for everyone.

Most of the freelancers I know only did occasional gigs (most were either students or designers) and having to pay for monthly tax wasn't really an option as they didn't make that much.

People with 'agencies' have no tax debts, so they aren't really the issue here.

Comment · 5 years ago

What happened is that basically noone was paying any tax because the Tax Service did not have a way to classify internet workers. You can't pay taxes if you don't know how much you need to pay.

Bigger issue here is that they are forcing the people to play for the preceding 5 years, and taxes include both health insurance (which those people could not receive) and retirement fund (which those people are not eligible for those 5 years).

But Serbian government as a whole is deeply corrupt and this surprises noone.

Comment · 5 years ago

That may apply to yoga class at 11am, but asking for a day off? Come on...

Comment · 5 years ago

I'm not saying windows users love installing services.

I meant, maybe your acquaintances aren't that tech savvy and don't understand the implications. My parents we're the same before I've taught them not to install stuff before consulting with either me or my brother.

Comment · 5 years ago

If your machine is low on RAM and you keep installing services to it, it will slow down. OS has nothing to do with it.

Comment · 5 years ago

You don't have Instagram? All their apps should be treated the same.

Comment · 6 years ago

I don't think that's the case. Or simply from my own perspective. I use to be pretty good at Starcraft2 (like top 0.01 percentile according to ladder, which had me playing vs grandmasters and pros often), but I was never any good at games like Dota2 (game in which I have more than double the hours of SC2).

I think the main difference is that in team games its much harder to figure out what you are doing wrong as you're not the sole contributor to the loss. If you lose in 1v1 in Starcraft, you can watch a replay and pretty easily find out when you lost and why. And with team games like MOBA's you have 10 variables, instead of just 2, so it's always combination of things that went wrong. Another big deal is that you have to master 1 race in RTS and you have a pool of 100 heroes to learn, each with unique mechanics.

Comment · 6 years ago

Why would they get offended by it?

Comment · 6 years ago

That's so true. It sucks a bit when you develop a lot of 'online' hobbies, like gaming, reading blogs, etc. But backpains will make even the most hardcore games into runners :)