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by Lutger 3y ago
A nonprofit asking for donations because of <good cause>? What is the definition of a charity then?
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by Lutger 3y ago
Much better than most of the world actually, certainly 2x to 4x better than most US states. Your references are outliers, making it seem that Portugal is a high emitter which is false, relatively speaking. Even without looking at your sourc
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by Lutger 3y ago
That is likely true, though there is still extensive lobbying going on in the EU and within EU countries. It is just done in a different way, with different mechanics.
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by Lutger 3y ago
Sometimes their perspectives could be more accurate as they don't have the same biases. Or maybe its better to say understanding and including their perspectives contributes to a more accurate understanding.
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by Lutger 3y ago
That is what it is supposed to be. Offering a perspective someone said. In a michelin star restaurant, private resort full of prostitutes or after having donated substantial amounts of cash to their campaign ensuring their hold on power. So
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by Lutger 3y ago
You are being sarcastic right? > The CPI measures perception of corruption due to the difficulty of measuring absolute levels of corruption So the difference consists primarily in perception, the slickness of it all as you put it? How we
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by Lutger 3y ago
How sure can you be that your lobby is successful? Can you like 'buy' a politician, effectively a legal bribe, or is it more nuanced? In the EU, a lot of laws are effectively written or co-authored by companies, which saves the po
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by Lutger 3y ago
Its a different thing, but not entirely. Having your choices restricted, by a government of all things, is something most Western people especially Americans find obscene. But it can also lead to good outcomes at considerable less effort. I
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by Lutger 3y ago
If its basically political advertisement its called a cost, not loss. But it helps to avoid tax I guess? Still sounds wasteful for what is basically a rebranded mastodon instance.
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by Lutger 3y ago
There is a Swiss startup which is doing something like this. They have created a plant sensor that taps into the electrical signals of plants, and use AI to develop an understanding of plant communication. The use case seems to be early dia
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by Lutger 3y ago
The OP doesn't state not to review code anymore. I think the most common process is something like: feature branch -> review -> merge intro trunk -> release to prod This is simplified, somewhere in between those stages is ofte
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by Lutger 3y ago
The linkedin post states: "Build a culture of trust around xtreme programming practices; namely continuous integration." I interpret that as saying: trust the process (of xtreme programming), not trust the other developer (to be a
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by Lutger 3y ago
I remember being chased by a pack of at least twenty angry wild dogs. This was in India, not a fun experience.
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by Lutger 3y ago
> It's a hyperbole, a figure of speech used to make a point. I'm pretty sure everyone on HN knows what git is used for. I know. The hyperbole makes it sound as if gits job is actually quite simple and we could easily have a bet
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by Lutger 3y ago
I like the last one and would shorter it to: "Your branch ... origin/main, updated 5 days ago."
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by Lutger 3y ago
Nice. But technically its true. origin/master is not master on origin. It just refers to the last known commit pointed to by origin/master, which gets updated when you fetch (pull automatically fetches). ls -l .git/refs&#x2F
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by Lutger 3y ago
> whose only job is to save text I don't see git as a tool to save text, its for coordinating changes on the same 'text' by multiple people, and doing so quite precisely and reliably, without blocking anyone's path
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by Lutger 3y ago
I've never had any real problems with this (as a developer). The GDPR isn't that hard to deal with, mostly its quite intuitive and obvious. The spirit of the law is simple, you need a good reason to have data on your customer, and
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by Lutger 3y ago
> Ok, my contrarian hot take (for HN at least). The real entities we need to be afraid of in regards to privacy are governments & politicians, not companies & entrepreneurs. I don't think this is a contrarian view here, look
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by Lutger 3y ago
> But Google and Meta in particular have an amazing 15 year track record of basically never leaking user data. I disagree with almost every sentence in your post, but want to point out this one as it is specifically very surprising to me
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by Lutger 3y ago
I guess it is. This conversation reminds me of the classic Tea Consent video, explaining the concept of consensual sex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8
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by Lutger 3y ago
What is fear-mongering? And what is this need to stop fear-mongering about? I'm suspicious of it, because it seems to often lead to suppression of truth. 1. I haven't seen any credible studies prove the total ineffectiveness of ma
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by Lutger 3y ago
Well, the summary states: > and, because it was on notice that the material was defamatory and refused to remove the information, it could not be found to have innocently circulated the information. So in very least this is not just abou
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by Lutger 3y ago
What obstacles do you experience with it? I've used it for years in a professional setting for technical documentation, about 9 years ago. It worked fine for our purposes.
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by Lutger 3y ago
Not the whole world, this is mostly in the United States. In Europe its more like what you describe, banks are the card payment provider and we have (near) instant online transfers. Credit cards are relatively unimportant here.
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by Lutger 3y ago
I don't think it requires a larger time investment. It is really hard to remember how much time you've spent learning windows. Windows is easy not because it is so user friendly, but because you are so used to it. A modern gnome t
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by Lutger 3y ago
> But if humans cause large swings in climate that would happen naturally, then it’s not like what we’re causing is unique right? It is unique in several ways. In a moral sense it is unique in that we knowingly caused it and failed to ta
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by Lutger 3y ago
I don't understand how that is a problem, you want the person managing feature trade offs to be mindful of the budget. If the business itself is sound, delivering the most valuable features will increase the budget. So those two must
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by Lutger 3y ago
Office politics.
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by Lutger 3y ago
Every practice can be abused. If you are thinking like this, is there any process at all which doesn't have negative unintended consequences? Or in which the benefits outweigh those consequences? Anecdotally, we started doing mini-demo

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