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by drekipus 3y ago
I live in one of those communities (eco village in Australia) and all it takes is one old haggard lady to reduce the workforce to nothing, as no one wants to put up with her abuse. I think one thing people keep forgetting is that all these
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by drekipus 3y ago
> UBI plus a free market If there's a ubi, then there's price floor that is higher than a non ubi price floor, meaning that the median prices of goods go up, less taxes to find the ubi, and the ubi must then increase to meet th
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by drekipus 3y ago
> bored engineers under such a system can get a LOT of shit done Or they can go spend time with their families which is a much better use of their time.
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by drekipus 3y ago
> Who says we need bosses and overseers to get stuff done? I prefer being told what to do so that I can use my mental capacity on things I care about. I do not care about making a dishwasher or a 3d printer. I would rather pay someone el
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by drekipus 3y ago
> It's bound to happen at some point, right? No. As a hardware hacker myself, the benefit and draw is the fun of it, I don't want to have to hack my own dishwasher and make it work to my requirements, not maintain it. Hackers u
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by drekipus 3y ago
Which?
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by drekipus 3y ago
This is a really good comment, I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. This is literally the underlying context of the discussion
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by drekipus 3y ago
I feel like it's a "part" or incomplete religion. I'm not sure where it came from but I could easily believe it was a part of a larger set of beliefs.
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by drekipus 3y ago
> turning water into wine is plausible in the slightest? If you drop hallucinogens into water, it could be perceived to others that people would be getting drunk off water, which would be, in effect, turning water into wine. The story co
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by drekipus 3y ago
We're well on our way. Look at the data for poverty over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty
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by drekipus 3y ago
Http and the internet is also a made up concept that has not actual value outside of what we place in it. Conversations get no where if you're going to talk nonsense. We don't (feed and house everyone) because the people who grow
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by drekipus 3y ago
Nice, another comic user. I use comic mono and I absolutely love it. I like to use Monokai/Molokai and joke with my colleagues that I'm using "clown colours"
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Ask HN: Do Emacs users feel as stuck without Emacs, as Vim users do with Vim?
3 points by drekipus 3y ago|4 comments
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by drekipus 3y ago
I'm curious what games you made without the concept of a scene or node.. at least from an code organisation standpoint. I used to try and write GLES games back in C++98 out of highschool. I find modern engines much quicker and easier t
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by drekipus 3y ago
But not every game does have those, which is why they must be coded. How else does the system be flexible enough to make either a 3d fps or a Bejeweled puzzle game from the same API? I generally agree with you btw, but I think it's jus
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by drekipus 3y ago
I'm similar boat but I've learnt that I need to put the brakes on a little bit. Wife and family need me, so that is the most important. More important than my desires. I tried going "cold turkey" and give up my ambitio
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by drekipus 3y ago
because water is more treacherous and a smaller domain of control (as in, it's more complex, greater unknowns, etc) than having cubic kilometers of open air that you can fly through. Think about it, 2D plane, tough medium that has low
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by drekipus 3y ago
Funnily enough the waterproofness of the phone wouldn't be much of an argument if the phone data was easily recoverable / easy to repair / we had the right to repair
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by drekipus 3y ago
I don't think there is a "big deal". people didn't like the original version and people don't like this "new and improved" approach. it's the same as what's already out there. Frankly i'd be
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by drekipus 3y ago
> Companies don't make products out of the goodness of their hearts, they create products to make money. Yes, precisely the point. This is to make money from you. It would be much better if companies could make worthwhile services t
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by drekipus 3y ago
Harmful? As a formally harmed person, does that word have any weight or meaning anymore? "Sprawl" from a name of font? Not anything like policies, media, immigration etc. No, the name of a font. That's harmful. Do we need a r
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by drekipus 3y ago
This is the "jonny_eh meta-principle" at work! Finally see it with my own eyes!
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by drekipus 3y ago
> to summarize the discussion so far _in a format to be used as a prompt_. Very nice idea, thanks. i might steal that.
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by drekipus 3y ago
What is the alternative to stripe? I was going to set it up for a new service in making but with all these posts I'm not so sure. A quick google brings up paddle, is that going to have the same issues?
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by drekipus 3y ago
https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb
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by drekipus 3y ago
Could* imply that. I think it would make more sense if they called it: * Windows Android subsystem * Windows Linux subsystem Etc
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by drekipus 3y ago
resync = git checkout master && git pull && git checkout - && git pull --rebase master asquash = git rebase -i master --autosquash abs = git absorb -b HEAD~20 everything else is handled by vim-fugitive
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by drekipus 3y ago
A lot of comments are saying "other languages have fixed this" but i think the point is more that this is fixable within C itself .
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by drekipus 3y ago
Unions are for the people, not the company
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by drekipus 3y ago
1. Upper Class / rich people would be generally more affected, as they rely on a lot more nice-to-haves like pools, cars, and air-cons. I'm middle class and I only just got these things, I can very easily do without them, like I h

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