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by fermienrico 5y ago
I apologize. It is difficult to tell when to refute praise of evil (Saddam, NK) and when to avoid starting a political flamewar. I'll just disengage since it leads to unpleasant toxicity, you're right.
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by fermienrico 5y ago
What's with astonishing praise for evil just for the sake of sticking it to the status quo? Completely orthogonal to any US allies and their action, it is absolutely disingenius to dismiss the evils of Saddam's empire: https:&#x2
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by fermienrico 5y ago
Just shows how politics have divided us. No one seems to be thinking independently and that includes myself - I try but often the first reaction is otherwise. You can despise someone deeply, but if they are citing facts, reason, logic, etc
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I hate these damn illustrations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_memphis https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-... It's cliche. It is obnoxious. They serve absolutely
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I see your point, and that's a valid concern. I wonder how much damage public PR does to investors - who are supposed to be highly informed and not be pursued by public hype.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
May be its just easier to pronounce Pfizer than BioNTech? Not everything needs to be distilled down to nationalistic undertones. I am getting sick of this kind of discussion permeating on HN - It is extremely juvenile and damaging to the sp
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Obviously, option A. Improves the morale instantly.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I have the complete opposite view: it’s such a naive thing to say we don’t want wars - ofcourse no one wants wars. Spending on defense and being prepared isn’t going to war, it’s preventing it in the first place.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
On the other side of the fence: Your own shitty framework owns your code, it locks you into this custom frankenstine thing that is a ball of mud that also smells bad. No one wants to look at it, it brings the best developers to their knees
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I wonder if the person you're replying to is correct in but in a different way. Since text files and excel sheets are "outdated", we don't stack them up against bloated webapp that Asana is. What if, really, excel sheet
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I think it just takes a really powerful single AGI that can convince other humans, impersonate them, do things that is super-human level and we can't even conceive it or imagine it (think how far a chimp is from AWS load balancer docum
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Yep, I have an emotional attachment to this thing. Such a magnificent piece of software. Everytime I need to edit something, it's right there for me. Launches instantly, can handle a kitchen sink thrown at it and regexes like there is
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by fermienrico 6y ago
You're forgiven :), cheers!
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I meant the pronunciation, not the spelling. Also, learning to forgive is a rare virtue these days. Entitlement and expection creates conflict. Learn to forgive others and you'll have a better time with everyone else. No one who even
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by fermienrico 6y ago
This is an unreasonable expectation. People should try but if they don't, there is no malice here. There are many languages around the world and it is impossible to remember every nuance of how to pronounce things. Ghandi is common pro
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I urge you all to go back and look at how people discussed things on HN, perhaps 8 years ago and see how civil, well behaved, critical, funny and deeply interesting HN discussions were. Now-a-days, HN is extremely polarized. Go against the
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by fermienrico 6y ago
We need to show some restraint towards extremely bright fully saturated colors, especially for text. Observe contrast and don't just go around cranking up the saturation slider. It's the HDR of website design, stop doing this plea
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by fermienrico 6y ago
It’s like looking at the binary file and saying “that’s pretty simple” while ignoring the massive amount of machinery that allows us to run that file and use it (CPUs, Motherboards, computers, etc). I presume a whole bunch goes into making
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I think Gen X are the finest, most practical, the most insightful generation of engineers. Sure, its is a generalization - of course it is - but it is worth noting how exceptional both the circumstances and the incentives were for them to l
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I know this is supposed to be retro but I use NPR text mode always. No pics, just text, its glorious. https://text.npr.org/ Far easier to read since the length of the line is absolutely perfect. Pro tip: https://
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Let's put it this way. Just because we have zoos doesn't make those animals native. There is probably some threshold of self sustainance and propagation in the region to call it native, after many centuries I would presume. More t
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by fermienrico 6y ago
> A lot of it is just garden-variety right-wing freemarketism, with all due respect; I have no horse in this race but can exactly the same thing can be said about your own response? Garden-variety of ineffective left-wing agenda that has
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Why a snarky response to a harmless question? The person asking the question didn’t say anything about US expertise or Egyptian expertise. It’s considered condescending to send help in dire situations? Damn, everyone is on the edge these da
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by fermienrico 6y ago
You shouldn't be interrupting people unless they go to unreasonable lengths without providing a pause for others to chime in.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
It needs to go in the reverse direction to correct. We need less opinions than ever.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
These are not common enough words to lean into. Corporate speak will just incorporate them into the new normal and we're going to have to pivot to something else. How about we streamline to just basic english words that encourage open
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I was mostly mocking how fast JS ecosystem moves. Evidently, HN didn't find it funny. Just about the time we have a matured React framework, we've got another framework to jump to.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Ridiculous Arm-chair Concept: - What if we make a 1 meter wall thick lead / steel container and seal the waste in and leave it? Surely nothing can break it, not even an earthquake. Just make a giant tennis court sized containers and du
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Ah yes, Svelte. What we're witnessing is a mass migration from an established society with great infrastructure, education, governance and stability moving to a barren uninhabitable land of opportunity and unlimited possibilities albei
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by fermienrico 6y ago
More than gov, I am bothered by HOAssholes in our community. These people are the worst, the most empty people on the planet. Being part of the HOA leadership doesn't mean you're an emperor of this land that I paid for. I would ki

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