HeinzStuckeIt

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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
> Not everyone gets UBI. UBI pays you up to an amount, based on your other income. This is not how UBI is typically discussed, and it wasn’t how the regional pilot projects I am familiar with worked. Rather, every single citizen of a com
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
In Finland, the institutions that now call themselves “Universities of Applied Science” in English for marketing reasons, are still known in Finnish as ammatikorkeakoulu “tertiary professional-training institutions” and this is a rung bel
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
It really depends what field. In some branches of history, archaeology, and linguistics, for instance, many matters of emerging consensus often reach students only through lecturers’ handouts that are not put online. What a curious person w
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Your post is very naive. In the UK, some universities are so dependent now on foreign students paying high fees to break even, that it has been widely reported in the media. And in a few EU countries, polytechnics have been upgraded to univ
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
IMO, Watterson stopped at just the right time to preserve his legacy and keep the strip associated with childlike wonder and innocence. In the last years of C&H there was a certain curmudgeonliness creeping in, as Waterson started to
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
I have taken three multihour Flixbus journeys in Central Europe this year. Each time, what astounded me was how every woman under 30 in sight from my seat was watching Tiktok for the entire journey. Just one thirty-second clip after another
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
YouTube can be used in a healthy way: use NewPipe and subscribe to channels with edifying content and then, when a new video appears that you would want to watch properly, send the direct video link to yt-dlp on your computer. You then avoi
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Over the last many years, newspapers have slashed actual journalists in a number of areas: investigative reporting, arts, local news. A lot of those actual journalists have moved to Substack in order to maintain some kind of career writing
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
There’s got to be a chronological point where older Greek gets much easier, though. Or at least, there was back when Greeks still had to work with katharevousa in school. I learned both Ancient Greek and then, though a year spent in Greece,
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Already in the very early millennium, jokes like “Perl is an explosion in an ASCII factory” were going around the computer-nerd community, while several publishers were putting out affordable and fun and engaging books to learn Python. No s
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
The author writes, “You end up in a world where changing your mind becomes impossible because you've built your entire identity around being right”. Yet social-media personalities regularly do a 180° turn on some issue (e.g. pro-Ukrain
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
The Guardian from a desktop browser started confronting me with a paywall about two weeks ago. Can’t even see the front page, and uBlock Origin doesn’t help. Far from encouraging me to subscribe, I think this might actually finally cure my
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Man, your post is just so out of touch. Puncture-repair kits are cheap, you can find them from hardware stores for just a couple of euro even in countries seen as expensive. And those kits work just fine regardless of how cheap they are, be
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Wherever you are in Finland is more considerate than wherever I am in in Finland. Often when I arrive at my local Prisma there’s an employee outside wrangling abandoned carts.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Sometimes I wonder about the survival of insect cuisines in non-Western countries if the West keeps holding out in its general disgust. Will this cuisine fade in the face of the West’s cultural juggernaut, just as traditional music in so ma
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
I have, it’s an originally online meme that has been taken up by some of the people in my life, frankly as a shibboleth for the progressive values they want to be seen as holding. But anecdote aside, a search for "abolish policing slav
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
That might be the liberal position on average, but if you have a social circle that’s lefter than average, as in many metro areas, you’ll occasionally hear a desire for outright abolition of police. Not even a simple local constabulary walk
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
People have been stashing a puncture repair kit in a small saddle bag since the nineteenth century. The kit just sits there until it is needed, potentially for years. To depict this as a big stress and risk is a real reach.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
The “high-end”-ness of a bike and the likelihood of punctures are completely orthogonal. You can get a low-end e-bike and just put decent tires on it. Since weight is less of an issue with e-bikes than acoustic bikes, it’s common for people
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Talking about “superior sound quality” in the context of mobile phones isn’t controversial, it’s not like a home-stereo audiophile snake oil debate. It is well known that DACs are an area where mid-range and low-end phone makers have cut co
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
None of what you are saying holds water. Scientology’s old business model became less effective, but the cult segued into a real-estate empire and still has several mega-wealthy members (so-called “whales”) it can milk for donations. And No
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
I must admit, I don’t get the wish for 3.5mm headphone jacks in 2025. Already six years ago, with a phone that actually still had a headphone jack, I bought myself for just a few euro a Bluetooth DAC (a FiiO) that had superior sound quality
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
One of the problems of our time being discussed on a website that exemplifies another one of the problems of our time: I am skeptical that any benefit is going to come from an article on a content-mill-like platform written in that tiresome
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
The Russian Revolution you are probably thinking of is the October Revolution of the Bolsheviks. But the tsar had already been overthrown by the February Revolution earlier that year, and some of the initial steps towards improving Russian
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
If true, it makes the magazine come out even worse. The Haitian Revolution was followed within a year by the massacre of most of the European population, a few selected demographics aside.[0] This was already well known down the long decade
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
The GP isn’t wrong. Jacobin magazine is controversial even among the left because of its name and some of its bedfellows.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
It’s a well-known phenomenon that with the internet and modern media, large countries’ version of a language can affect the speech of the smaller countries using that language. Think kids in Portugal today growing up using lots of Brazilian
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
A lot of musicians these days are using sample libraries instead of actually holding real instruments in their hands. It’s not just DJs or electronic producers. It’s remarkable that Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance, for example, who played g
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
> Back in the 1990s, it was exceptionally difficult to get TS clearance. SCI on top of that must have been even harder. I think you are exaggerating this as the other poster points out. Every US military cryptolinguist gets a TS-SCI clea
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
HN is all about content that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity, so if you are admitting you have lost the desire to learn, then that could be triggering the backlash.

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