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Comment #48537296
OP could have made this point in a better way without expressing it in a way that isn't true or implying that nationality is by birth. Let's do that having looked at https://www.bf…
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Comment #48531854
> That’s unrelated to the fact you reply to. I was addressing the implication in the "fact", which is incorrect anyway. One in five of that 27% were born in Switzerland: https://ww…
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Comment #48531251
> 27% of Swiss residents were born outside the country. Swiss nationality is not linked to your birth country, it is linked to lineage. There are second, third, (fourth, fifth, six…
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Comment #48276391
@cylo (I think the author) - get in touch, I'd like to use this essay as part of a photo book project. With your permission of course.
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Comment #47165842
> I've read the issue is that some countries require you to renounce your previous nationality to get citizenship, and people have taken advantage of not needing a British passport…
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Comment #46375143
There it is, right? Seven days and twenty years, gone. To quote, it is "the slow decline, the emptying out, and the long, long process of forgetting". Wikipedia's deletion proposal…
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Comment #46374980
You're basically reinforcing my arguments - these are the policies, deal with it. I believe the 7 day deadline to avoid the deletion of 20+ years of history is destructive because …
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Comment #46374059
I'm sorry, but I just don't believe that. As stated below in several other comments, none of this makes sense and the Wikipedia editors hiding behind "this is the policy, you do no…
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Comment #46354009
> The sources is the only part that matters. And they sufficed to keep the CPAN article on site, so the system works. The system works if the sources remain available, and in an en…
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Comment #46353051
> Why is the deletion (or even deletion proposal) regarded as such a heinous act that people feel the need to attack and bully others? FWIW I don't see this as an attack (with, per…
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Comment #46352775
The CPAN page on Wikipedia has existed for 24 years, has dozens of references, yet an editor nominated it for deletion - I can't help but feel that as hostile. Fortunately this one…
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Comment #46310309
I sell photographic prints. A breakdown of income and costs for this year can be found here: https://leejo.github.io/2025/11/01/print_costs/ TL;DR? It's a grind, an absolute grind.…
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Comment #46255229
My Xpan is now over 25 years old, and I've been doing stuff like this with it for over a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIy2_IpEw8c # electronics are still holding strong.…
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Comment #45981909
I may blog about this next year, again[^1], as I'm working on a project that sort of covers it - not in a way that will answer the question but more observational. Anyway, I feel P…
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Comment #45899521
> Thats a good question. I wonder if the "virtual drum" was there to get over film holding issues (as in it physically bends the film) or that its a line scanner Both. > personally…
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Comment #45579356
For those who missed it: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
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