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by blell 9mo ago
The fact that this word is misspelt every single time makes me want to dismiss the entirety of the comment.
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by blell 9mo ago
I’m pretty sure he didn’t vote for the constitution.
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by blell 9mo ago
That’s what remains to be seen. Although I suppose the US could always wash their hands.
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by blell 9mo ago
I suspect that invading and bombing a country for a few hours and then pulling out is not what most people will have in mind when you mention "taking military action". People are much, much more likely to remember the military qua
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by blell 9mo ago
I don’t think anything in particular “should” factor into everybody’s choices. Some are sensitive to price, some are sensitive to design, others to autonomy, others to speed, and then, yes, some will buy depending on human rights records.
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by blell 9mo ago
Are BYD proponents allowed to say that this doesn’t matter much to them, or are they expected to measure themselves by your political views because they are the only correct ones?
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by blell 9mo ago
If this were a private business, people would be piling on and calling for the executives to face a firing squad.
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by blell 9mo ago
This is very important. It's one thing to have your money improve CPython, it's another to have your money go towards an outreach program to help disadvantaged girls in Uganda write a Tetris clone in Python. It's similar to w
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by blell 10mo ago
It's always a bug. Usually, some issue with an iframe navigating to another html page, which makes the back button go back in the iframe instead of the page itself. This usually happens because of an ad, which makes me wonder why peopl
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by blell 10mo ago
What kind of evidence would you take? If it’s someone from the project openly saying what I imply, there obviously isn’t any. But if you are looking for evidence that the project took a politically biased turn to one side of the aisle, I’m
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by blell 10mo ago
It’s much simpler. The Tor project is politically biased in a way that they think the things the UK arrest people for should get people arrested.
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by blell 10mo ago
Isn’t the Deutschlandticket for public transportation?
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by blell 10mo ago
2025 and we still get smug comments like this one. I am sadly disappointed.
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by blell 10mo ago
Maybe we have different concepts of what a group chat is. To me, group chats have my friends, and we will never invite anybody who is not already a friend of everybody. They are supposed to be high-trust environments.
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by blell 10mo ago
That’s because HN isn’t social media. It’s a forum.
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by blell 10mo ago
Lately it feels like more and more people who are not religious invoke Christ to tell believers what they must do.
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by blell 10mo ago
Of course "make sure we have a reasonable mix of ethnicities in our artwork" is a deliberate political ideology.
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by blell 10mo ago
It is only hazardous if we can’t get rid of the insane regulations that have been imposed. And I’m pretty sure we will in the next ten years or so.
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by blell 10mo ago
Don’t they have phone service in Little Saint James?
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by blell 10mo ago
Just the fact that people can’t talk on the phone whilst on a plane makes it infinitely better than a bus.
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by blell 10mo ago
Why did you remove the quotes around the word "innocent" that implied sarcasm? You can't quote things and modify the contents.
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by blell 10mo ago
You can lock up all the rapists with the same result and it would be much cheaper.
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by blell 10mo ago
I imagine the average HN commenter seeing every new story being posted and thinking "how could I criticise big tech using this"
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by blell 10mo ago
>Welfare systems very often end up being a trap because of this--people can't afford to succeed because they'll hit some tripwire that makes them worse off. Or maybe they consider getting money you can live on without working
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by blell 10mo ago
1) It may be out of date 2) Storing it costs money
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by blell 10mo ago
This is outrageous and anti-customer. I’m completely sure the EU will be all over it any day now.
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by blell 10mo ago
Immigration policy is one of the most important things that are voted on in functioning democracies.
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by blell 10mo ago
I actually live in southern Europe and most of my friends who are >35 and have been out and about for most of their lives do indeed look much older than they are.
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by blell 10mo ago
Remember when people in this web site would blame the recent increase in accidents on the supposed cognitive decline from COVID and how hooked we are on our phones because of the evil tech companies.