bmn__

43 ms·

541.
by bmn__ 5y ago
> Chinese faith in their government This does not really exist. Explanation: Corruption in its forms – bribes, nepotism, scams perpetrated by officials, selective law enforcement, exploitation of socialised resources and capital for pers
542.
by bmn__ 5y ago
> From the outside looking in This perspective is not useful. You have to put yourself into the shoes of an abroad student, and then you will understand why the majority of them chooses to return home after getting the degree. Attraction
543.
by bmn__ 5y ago
I can make a guess: GP does not know, he started working on the software and pointlessly duplicated existing projects, but with worse quality, because he neglected to survey the landscape. I have noticed that happening regularly and out of
544.
by bmn__ 5y ago
recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uj4G6XlQcY
545.
by bmn__ 5y ago
KRunner in KDE 5 (default shortcut: Alt+F2, but also replicated at the bottom of the start menu) does that. The modules for different purposes (like running applications/shell commands, searching browser tabs/history/bookmark
546.
by bmn__ 5y ago
Called it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27024026 Feels good to be validated by someone like Tantek.
547.
by bmn__ 5y ago
In the spirit of HN's creed to encourage curiosity, I want take this opportunity to make my fellow hackers' lives easier and teach you skills for looking up information. Giving up after a Google search indicates you likely have a
548.
by bmn__ 5y ago
Life's too short to worry about people doing dumb things. If you managed to fix their middle finger, they would find a different way to make you miserable. Just block/circumvent, use your time in a more joyful or productive manner
549.
by bmn__ 5y ago
You don't understand. GP talks about topics being censored (HN euphemism: "flagged by users"), he wants to see more, not less.
550.
by bmn__ 5y ago
> Are they still extending the language? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22328219
551.
by bmn__ 5y ago
> opi Phones home to domain `guoyunhe.me`. Not cool! I only noticed because the host is down. Plain zypper already works for installing from OBS. Click "expert download" link on a package search result page, or click "down
552.
by bmn__ 5y ago
This result link should be cached, does this work for you? https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Erd%C5%91s&tar...
553.
by bmn__ 5y ago
Offloading/fencing the booty really is much more difficult than stealing/robbing it. Dramatisation of < http://enwp.org/Nationalmuseum_robbery > by the Internet historian: < https://www.youtube.co
554.
by bmn__ 5y ago
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/609:_Tab_Explosio...
555.
by bmn__ 5y ago
You would enjoy < http://www.nitcentral.com/index_legacy.htm >.
556.
by bmn__ 5y ago
> Privacy never existed. False. Correct is: privacy as a concept already existed in the Ancient era. It is one of the younger human rights, it gained wide-spread adoption in society/culture and accompanying recognition in law about
557.
by bmn__ 5y ago
> but #2 is wrong Nonsense, it's been that way since Civ 1. Demo (Freeciv 2.6.4): https://files.catbox.moe/3af6xu.webm
558.
by bmn__ 5y ago
What is going wrong in the Golang community that Duffield, who is a language designer and implementer, does not know about gofpher < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648031 >? Not a rhetorical question; I really w
559.
by bmn__ 5y ago
> Is the use of arcane constraint-solvers part of the metagame? If deployed for free so that everyone can use them, is that fair? Mu. An experienced game designer should have the perspective here that this part of the game is just a tedi
560.
by bmn__ 5y ago
uBO + IDCAC is still worse than uBO + Consent-O-Matic. Not the right solution.
561.
by bmn__ 5y ago
You should not use "I don't care about cookies", it is broken by design and chooses the wrong policy. Instead, use Consent-O-Matic. This kills consent banners but preserves privacy to its best ability. https://addo
562.
by bmn__ 5y ago
> it's been on HN before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22685537
563.
by bmn__ 5y ago
Yes, and?
564.
by bmn__ 5y ago
versio originalis in lingua latina ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxfDIV1f0R4 (subtitles available)
565.
by bmn__ 5y ago
There is no immediate penalty, normally the opponent notices the illegal move and points it out, and the player has to undo the illegal move and continue with a legal move. Now if the player disobeys, then the opponent is able to declare th
566.
by bmn__ 5y ago
He did so with a certain motive, Bill. You can't just look at the end result of a socially proscribed action or crime, the motive is important. Examine this: why do we sanction research fraud? Because we want to discourage people from
567.
by bmn__ 5y ago
> It's a very mysterious phenomenon that the dissidents, whether inside China or overseas, almost all happened to have integrity issues. Oh, so very mysterious! It's called a smear campaign. The government purposefully discredi
568.
by bmn__ 5y ago
"Latin alphabet" is ambiguous, you understood this to mean "the classical Latin alphabet", I was sloppy and meant "the set of letters in the Latin alphabets that make up the Latin script". Now it's my turn
569.
by bmn__ 5y ago
I made a mistake, I meant to write Latin script.
570.
by bmn__ 5y ago
However, "implement our idea of intrusive laws in your country" is.

More ›