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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The infamous "I was just following order" defense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders > This is why not every civilian can be a military person. This is why not every civilian wants to be a mili
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
+1 What makes the manager responsible is not the engagement with the question but the power and responsibility that comes with being the shift manager.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> "good old days" there was Unix and apt and it was brilliant Apt is still here.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Just like reminding a stage IV cancer patient to exercise more, it might be well intentioned yet patronizing and quite offensive. A lot of people with two jobs and a rent to pay have no time to sleep/exercise/meditate/read&#x
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Milliseconds? Probably less than one.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
People were following the hype and cargo-culting Java, XML, Visual Basic in similar ways. Yet I really feel that the echo chamber effect is stronger now. People seem to need something to be hyped and polarized about. Nuanced conversation be
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Signal is a walled garden. They refuse to allow federation and even prohibit any modified client to use their servers. It's the least open "open source" model, and once (if) they gain significant market share they can easily
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
8 Euro a month is far from reasonable.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Spot on: telling people to "sleep better" is good advice - in isolation. Telling people to do that when they are struggling with big social problems (unemployment, poor access to education, discrimination...) or already existing m
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
"western" as opposed to what? Isn't scientific medicine practiced in Japan? Or Australia? Russia? It's a very odd use of the world "western"...
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
I also had bad experiences with Revolut including a completely unresponsive customer support. More importantly, what alternatives are available? Ideally: - has an API - reasonably priced or free - works in EU
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Mumble is entirely Free Software and self-hostable.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Is there a word to describe a behavior e.g. doing just enough to look like you are actively trying to solve a problem? It probably goes together with greenwashing and astroturfing.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
What a weird analysis. 1) A lot of correlation can be meaningful only if you can extract independent variables and have a big enough N. Given the complexity of human society, we would need 100000 countries to meaningful correlations. 2) &qu
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
There is no such thing as "deleting" data on somebody's else system.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
I'd be happier to see SourceHut taking over.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> It simply boggles my mind all the things US did to Japan when they were booming ...and also before WW2, which pushed Japan into war.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
On top of that, such Bisquick takes hours of learning, deployment, troubleshooting and has complex failure modes compared to few cronjobs and trivial scripts.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
A lot of architecture and design around the world a better sense of aesthetics than most English-speaking countries, but this nuclear power plant control rooms are indeed quite plain.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
RIIR spam is not useful. People on HN are already aware of Rust. Some are aware that many other langs are memory safe and yet that's not a reason enough to rewrite a kernel.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Like how does this affect you in any way? You can see people you care about getting sick by buying into that absurd diet. Or you care about society in general, as you are part of it. It's also possible to care about strangers in g
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
This is not simply "unfortunate", it's done on purpose. People who are not able or willing to earn money under the existing economic system are denied food, housing, clothing, healthcare, legal representation...
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> It is unrealistic It was absolutely the norm in the '70 and '80 and before. How comes that technology improves and worker's rights regress?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> 3-4 orders of magnitude higher resource consumption Just 10000x? More like 6 orders of magnitude
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
I'd rather have "big F" Free Software: something that ensures that the many efforts I put into development end up benefiting the end users. Right now middlemen are making billions and end users get vendor lock-in.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> has always struck me as bizarre and one-sided in favor of the businesses Companies exist to extract the highest amount of profit from their employees.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Then there are the wicked, amoral, heartless people - like me - who think people should be free to sell their organs if they want to. The act of creating a market for organs is intrinsically morally repugnant. Money are just an tool us
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
You are describing the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window - and in the US it is very narrow and entirely shifted into the authoritarian right side.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Hours of dedication, every day, is not normal It's not the average but perfectly fine.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Google's primary business is mining user's data and selling it to advertisers. Having corporate control over the device is paramount. Therefore, the user must not install software from other sources.

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