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by blfr 8y ago
Please tell me how our system was so much more moral than theirs. There's this FTFA For ordinary workers, quitting one’s job, missing a day’s work or being over 20 minutes late became criminal offenses, with mandatory prison sentenc
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For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends(history.com)
90 points by blfr 8y ago|119 comments
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by blfr 8y ago
How did you start a poll? I haven't seen a poll in a long, long time on HN. I know this is extremely generic but can we have an OS/browser/editor poll like we used to twice a year or so?
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by blfr 8y ago
It meant "don't become Microsoft." HNers keep bringing it up as if they didn't live through the late 90s. Am I old now? And it worked. Sadly, there are many more evils in the world than becoming Microsoft.
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by blfr 8y ago
Don't know about most people but I understand the idea of a holding company. I don't care though. It's still Google because it's the most important part. A synecdoche, not a misconception.
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by blfr 8y ago
These are not the same. Yes, not having Google-like companies, even with their recent turn for the worse, is a problem. Not having a Facebook reflects rather positively on us.
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by blfr 8y ago
A good start would be a law that ensures a woman’s claim on marital property in the case of a divorce. Current Chinese law makes no such provision, and thus provides a strong disincentive to marry and a very powerful incentive to charge hi
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by blfr 8y ago
> In my experience Firefox + DDG is a viable alternative to Chrome + Google Search. Yup, Firefox is better than Chrome (especially with tree style tabs on the side) and DDG isn't really as good as Google so, when you average things
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by blfr 8y ago
I just disconnect when I'm done watching and the next person can connect using their device. With Netflix you need to at least switch profiles so it's about as convenient but I rarely watch anything on TV and never actual TV so it
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by blfr 8y ago
Fortunately, you still can buy dumb screens and add smart features with addons like Chromecast or just a computer with HDMI output. This works reasonably well, much like the bluetooth adapter.
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by blfr 8y ago
I don't like the idea of home automation and these complex, all-in-one systems in general. They are just bound to fail. And not even in some spectacular fashion, they will just be a grind to use with this or that piece not working corr
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by blfr 8y ago
If schools don't do much beyond warehousing kids, which seems to be the case, then one room schoolhouses are just as good, if less comfortable, as multiroom schoolhouses.
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by blfr 8y ago
The fuss is over whether one of these phases will be the last for human workers. Education is an extremely hard problem to solve because it doesn't seem to be working in general. That is, the effects of shared environment are small and
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by blfr 8y ago
Hopefully, they will start with the job of writing "robots will take your job" articles because they seem to be exactly the kind of boring task best suited for robots. Rewording McKinsey's content marketing should be possible
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by blfr 8y ago
I use it a lot for everything from shopping lists and quick reminders to sales leads.
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by blfr 8y ago
Yeah, ProtonMail is about 150% the price of G Suite with weird limits on things like number of aliases or domains. And while I understand that the selling point is privacy, it's not that expensive to maintain one more record in your da
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by blfr 8y ago
OVH is massive and very popular in Europe because it's a French company with datacentres primarily in Europe. Meanwhile AWS is popular with startups from Silicon Valley who set the tone for this site and startup culture in general. T
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by blfr 8y ago
GDPR has been an UX disaster in practice. Now they're also going after content.
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by blfr 8y ago
The most straightforward solution is to create a separate Chrome user/profile for your work account. It's a great way to keep your private and organizational accounts completely separate. You can even sync all Chrome settings, ext
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by blfr 8y ago
Forums lack the integration to the blog (main site) comments. Even modern forums like nodeBB only offer hacky solutions for that.
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by blfr 8y ago
While I would argue that the best alternative to Facebook is nothing, it is interesting that there is no "Internet community creation kit" which would just be a blog+forum software integrated so that one section of the forum is de
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by blfr 8y ago
Third party scripts for dealing with GDPR requirements perhaps?
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Why you can't have privacy on the internet(chrisstucchio.com)
4 points by blfr 8y ago|0 comments
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by blfr 8y ago
This seems more like a problem with your uni's firewall than with any VPN solution. If they're locking things down so hard, why do they allow you to set up an arbitrary VPN just by using TCP and :443? If OTOH they want to allow yo
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by blfr 8y ago
I'm so old I still have a multi-purpose personal server instead of separate VPS/containers for everything.
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by blfr 8y ago
I was just thinking about ghost a few weeks ago! I used to use Ghost way back when and wanted to get back to it but the installation process has become really complex and brittle. I'm a little ashamed to admit that it beat me. The cli
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How we scaled Nginx and saved the world 54 years every day(blog.cloudflare.com)
1 points by blfr 8y ago|0 comments
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by blfr 8y ago
It's a play on the Virgin-Chad meme. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/265/329/e83... https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/virgin-vs-chad
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by blfr 8y ago
The increased demand is the other side of the squeeze on regular people driving the housing prices up. So they lose bargaining power both with their employer and their landlord or developer. Meanwhile many other goods are manufactured outsi
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by blfr 8y ago
Simply put, the vast majority of American workers have lost just about all their bargaining power. And yet not a word about tens of millions of people immigrating to the US. As if supply didn't matter. It's unions and oligopolie

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