PorciiVorbesc

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by PorciiVorbesc 14d ago
>For some reason nowadays, that ointment does not exist any more. <tinfoil_hat> big pharma? </tinfoil_hat>
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by PorciiVorbesc 15d ago
Yes, I was never against that. I initially argued/asked where do you get the money to implement it if the city is broke? And until that is solved decades from now maybe, how should people get to work without their cars?
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by PorciiVorbesc 15d ago
>Car infrastructure is typically a huge part of the costs of any city. Car drivers, at least in EU where I live, are net cash cows to the local economy with all the taxes they pay on everything car related and second order business th
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by PorciiVorbesc 15d ago
HDMI and Ethernet are comedies at this point, no need to hoard so many. The point is to not throw away the more rare/niche ones since getting one after will be hard and/or expensive.
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by PorciiVorbesc 16d ago
>Because they're intelligent, work hard and have strong family ties. So when imported workers are having strong conservative values prioritizing their family over progressive values = good, but when western locals are having stron
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by PorciiVorbesc 16d ago
>There's an interesting dynamic with this in that the Chinese and Indian (and other foreign born/first gen immigrant) workers at big tech companies don't care about these things at all. Why do you think the elite busine
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by PorciiVorbesc 16d ago
> the cities could invest in public transportation today Again, with what money? My city is insolvent and every extra money it gets goes to cover the massive financial hole of social programs like elderly care and handicapped people, w
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by PorciiVorbesc 16d ago
>Urban centers are significantly more economically productive and significantly less expensive. There's no enough real estate in urban centers.
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by PorciiVorbesc 16d ago
>The point is that society's priorities are messed up. People's priorities are putting a roof over their heads and food on the table for the family. Everything else is secondary. > Throwing your hands in the air and takin
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by PorciiVorbesc 16d ago
People are poor because of the economy and gave up on their car loans?
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by PorciiVorbesc 16d ago
YES, unless you wanna build me public transport from your tax money, let's! If you want people to stop fucking the planet with driving, then you need to stop fucking their lives with hellish public transport commutes and improve it til
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by PorciiVorbesc 16d ago
Wouldn't 'America Park' been the correct renaming pun?
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by PorciiVorbesc 16d ago
>I think you're coping, like most car owners, we bought the propaganda of freedom &Co When the bus (in your example) runs on a hourly schedule, while your car is always there when you spontaneously need it, then that freedom
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by PorciiVorbesc 16d ago
>You could always invest in actual public transport & sane infrastructure, rather than relying on clogging the streets up with more cars, autonomous or otherwise So what should the disabled people do until that amazing public trans
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by PorciiVorbesc 18d ago
>The per capita part literally covers the amount of people in an economy. But like I said, it doesn't cover inequality. >Switzerland? High GDP per capita objectively nice place to live. Japan? High GDP per capita, objectively
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by PorciiVorbesc 18d ago
> (German) that is believed to be a "climate extremist" Gonna be tough to narrow that down
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by PorciiVorbesc 19d ago
>there was a left-anarchist sabotage of power distribution in Berlin in winter Anyone go to jail for that one?
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by PorciiVorbesc 19d ago
>Does a PhD do more for the nation than an entrepreneur who creates a unicorn and hires 10k engineers? As someone from an EU country which has an oversupply of PhDs, says, definitely not. I'd much rather have more entrepreneurs an
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by PorciiVorbesc 19d ago
If idle on Win 11 already pre-caches most-used apps like Chrome/FF and not on Linux, how can you accurately measure what true idle is? You have to remember the Win (and MacOS) kernel is tuned to consumer desktop user use cases, while L
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by PorciiVorbesc 19d ago
The windows kernel is smart enough to free RAM for the highest demanding app like rendering or video editing, even if the idle is high. That's why there's no accurate 1:1 comparison between operating systems. Windows, MacOS, and L
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by PorciiVorbesc 19d ago
Where did I use "always"?
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by PorciiVorbesc 19d ago
Whose "actual definition" is that? Which authority established the the "actual definition" is in the name of all of us? At the end of the day, definitions are irrelevant, what matters is majority voter perception. GDP&#x
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by PorciiVorbesc 19d ago
> Take a brand previously known for quality, start selling shite, and then you get to pocket the delta until the market catches on Similarly how every former reputable consumer electronic brand from 'The West' that sells cons
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by PorciiVorbesc 20d ago
>And economic performance of the US though Trump's first term was pretty good. Depends on your definition of "the economy". The Trump administration, like many before it and much of HN, defines "the economy" a
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by PorciiVorbesc 20d ago
>It's a business and career like any other. Then why should we treat Wikipedia any differently than we treat Meta, OpenAI, Google, Apple etc? When they're just in the business of making money and the "mission" can a
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by PorciiVorbesc 20d ago
WDYM?
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by PorciiVorbesc 20d ago
Making = what employees earn gross, not the extra burdens on the employer that the government takes
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by PorciiVorbesc 20d ago
Would wikipedia/WMF protect its editors even if they were known to be supporters of Trump and ICE?
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by PorciiVorbesc 20d ago
>Anyone can be a Wikipedia editor, assuming you haven't done something egregious and gotten a lifetime ban. Firstly, not all articles are open to editing by gen-pop. See: Extended confirmed protection on many. Secondly, some pages
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by PorciiVorbesc 20d ago
FANG juniors make 350k+/year?

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