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by Fins 8y ago
The cakeshop very much did not "refuse to serve gays", and really there is absolutely no self-consistent way one could agree with FB deciding that certain content is "racist" and banning it while insisting that Masterpie
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by Fins 8y ago
I have to say that when I worked with MUMPS (and even then MUMPS was older than anyone who thought up Mongo) we've never lost any data. Too bad GlobalsDB went nowhere...
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by Fins 8y ago
That sounds much nicer than any edition of Perelman's books I've ever laid my hands on in Russian.Those were great books, though!
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by Fins 8y ago
HN community, obviously, skews young, urban, and often "progressive". Quite the demographic that may not (right now!) be interested in car ownership. When I lived in Chicago, it was quite possible to live w/o a car (I still h
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by Fins 8y ago
I have much more money left over in Austin than I did in San Jose (and living in a 4bd house instead of a crappy SJ 2bd apartment) despite a COLA adjustment from the company... And by the looks of it I could get the pay back up here anyway
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by Fins 8y ago
Does Tesla really dominate anyone in quality? I thought Yugo has been dead for a while.
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by Fins 8y ago
Being "smartest" (whatever that means, and assuming it even is so; being good at coding has very little to do with being smart) is completely orthogonal to being a decent person.
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by Fins 8y ago
I'd think so. I think that the spectacle of Russian regulators banning almost all of the Internet but NOT the Telegram a while ago is even more concerning. Or entertaining, if you aren't using Telegram.
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by Fins 8y ago
The somewhat cynical answer is that it will be around just fine as long as FSB pays for it. Durov has been singing praises of Putin and Mother Russia right up to the moment he suddenly up and left to supposedly do a "banned in Russia&q
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by Fins 8y ago
While Stalin certainly bis one of the greatest mass murderers in history, it should be noted that concentration camps, summary executions, mass reprisals etc. etc. where pioneered by Lenin who did not even shy away from calling them such. W
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by Fins 8y ago
I have some workout clothes with no visible branding, and I think it's of pretty good quality (at least the manufacturer is wuite famous for their high-tech fabrics and general quality)but interestingly it is much more expensive that y
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by Fins 8y ago
There also are luxury brands that cost as much and don't have any easily visible logos, even if they do have some expensive showrooms. All depends on how exactly one wants to wealth-signal.
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by Fins 8y ago
Really, the sooner marxism is completely forgotten the better. And what is usually called "cultural marxism" would make Marx and any classic marxist spin in their graves. I would like to see some references of which groups or indi
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by Fins 8y ago
It's not like there weren't anything like "basket of deplorables" from the losing side either, and saying that it's always "the other side" that "ramped to 11 seems to be a prime case of "they le
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by Fins 8y ago
But that "cultural marxism" label might be neither very cultural nor particularly marxist does not mean that what it labels isn't for the most part senseless bunk either. Oh, and marxism does happen to be more popular in acad
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by Fins 8y ago
It's not that bad, for it's time, and the storage mechanism is very good for right purposes.
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by Fins 8y ago
That does seem a bit excessive, but is getting a transfer permit actually difficult? And it's not like California isn't doing the "war on drugs" either, with the same success.
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by Fins 8y ago
> Also, Austin, while not as bad as other parts of Texas, is still in Texas. So, what's the disadvantage?
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by Fins 8y ago
True (not that those practices were something extremely current though), but it doesn't make complaining about Dragonfly, which neither exists, nor will make much difference in regards to China's oppression, any less pathetic. S
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by Fins 8y ago
They merged with... Essilor, I think, so they do lenses as well now.
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by Fins 8y ago
He well might be arguing in bad faith (it's Crunch...) but, to bring up that quote that gets trotted out on HN every week about people not understanding things when their paycheck depends on not understanding them, it would be much mor
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by Fins 8y ago
Pablo Escobar dominated the world in what he did, but most people would not find it a reason to be proud.
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by Fins 8y ago
I don't think you'll find much bliss on the other side either.
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by Fins 8y ago
Somehow I always get downvoted for saying that, but I worked at a place where all developers (well, everybody) were unionized. Magic did not happen. Bullshit did.
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by Fins 8y ago
Calling torture and murder "ethically motivated" seems to be somewhat of a stretch.
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by Fins 8y ago
The cynic in me says that all of these companies (maybe except Stripe, not familiar enough with them to know if they are embroiled in anything shady) are far to cavalier with privacy, legality, and generally common decency to fly anywhere e
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by Fins 8y ago
But that assumes that the new design does make more money. I, honestly, fail to see how, e.g., moving the account switch button in the new Gmail app from left to right increases ad views. On the other hand, from all we hear about Google&#x2
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by Fins 8y ago
Even a fancy bidet seat can be had for a couple hundred dollars (maybe 400 if you want to go all in for a fancy model) and installs in about 10 minutes. You still might need some toilet paper (drying function is on a weaker side on these)
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by Fins 8y ago
I meant that "1L = 4.54609 Gallons " seems to be off a bit.
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by Fins 8y ago
On artistic merit? I don't think so. As brainless entertainment, as long as you don't mind plot holes you could drive a whole T-1000 factory through, it was pretty good (because Ah-nuld), but as something else... I don't thin

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