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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
15h per month? Even without heavy listening, this sounds really low, doesn't it? And if you want to listen to a series if books, like Malazan book of the Fallen at 388h, you wouldn't know anything about the start by the time you a
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Letterlocking itself is great fun, especially since seal stamps and wax are so cheap nowadays. I highly recommend trying it out by sending letters to friends again. https://youtube.com/@letterlocking is a great resource, an
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
You misunderstood me, I think. I'm not calling doges actions fake, but the reports about how much money they saved. And I call into question the pretense that the projects they defunded were all complete wastes of money, as the head of
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Same here, but if this is because of Firefox mobile, then reader mode is the answer, at least it was for me.
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
> Based on the reports coming from Doge Is this supposed to be a humorous comment, or are you seriously using the reports coming from doge in an argument, as if they were honest reports? I realise that this comment might come off as anta
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I think we don't have to continue to pretend it was ever about merit. If it was, the current government would not look like it does.
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Interesting, thanks for correcting me. Do you have any sources or further insight into this? That theory always intuitively made sense for me, so I never questioned it. But of course a lot of theories like this are repeated precisely becaus
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I don't think that's meant by "filter" in this context. I believe instead that it is a reference to scammers filtering out those people who would likely catch on anyway at some point in the scam, so that they can concent
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Is that really the reason for these stories? I only know about them from memes, and looked it up when I first read about it. In my language this trend hasn't caught on yet, thankfully. I always chalked it up to cultural differences (an
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Well, back to /r/fountainpenpals in order to send more letters, so that this doesn't happen in my country. I love letters and postcards, but I've become lazy recently. While I'm not luddite, there is something speci
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
The policy of the current government does look more like appeasement to me than de-escalation, and I believe we all know how that went for Chamberlain.
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I opened that page expecting maybe one or two accidental flags, since I thought myself to be quiet careful when looking at hn on mobile. Instead, it's more like 70% for me. I'll now try to make it a habit to check this page quite
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
This is a common belief in the US, and it has one obvious weakness: what if most of the people with guns are happy about an authoritarian government, since they feel like they are the "in-group", and they hate the "out-group&
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Very nice breakdown. But while 10,000 dollars seems like a decent sum, I expected more for a bug of this severity, if I'm being honest. Especially as they initially only awarded 3100. But I'm not sure how much is usual for such ca
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
As a German, it's both. The blatant power grab made him very unpopular anyway (though he was already seen as a person of low character by most who read about the cave diver who he falsely accused of being a pedophile [0]). However, the
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
That really depends, as the studios have some tricks up their sleeves, like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Thanks, now I get it! I had completely ignored the "if they think" part of that sentence.
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/F91Ws_on_NATOs/comments/f9udxl/the_... also deserves a mention here, and /r/f91w for more general stuff.
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I'm on android, so I can't help you with iOS. There's infinity and Reddit is fun which I've used and really liked. You might need to patch the latter with revanced nowadays, but being on this forum, you probably have tha
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I still don't get it anyway, is the wink something that requires you to be a native speaker or am I just dense?
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
In Germany, there's a random audit of about 10% of queries iirc. Scandals still happen, but police officers get fired for it, and the chance of discovery and the consequences are both high enough that it's probably not as much of
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I believe that the algorithm of most social media platforms nowadays will try to show you things that trigger an emotional response, as this will result in more engagement from you. This is not a good thing for you mental health, but maximi
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
A comment by redserk in another thread might be enlightening to you, as someone else made the same uninformed remark: "Incorrect. https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-00830.pdf Scroll down to "I. Int
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Not GP, but there's a trend of auto-generated articles being spammed like "the best _X_ of [current year]" and they are rarely of decent quality (the current jetpens one is an exception). This rule would avoid these articles,
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
While I don't have a dog in that fight, describing the opponents position as being against Tintin "becom[ing] part of the shared treasure of all mankind" seems rather unfairly dismissive. I would expect that most of those art
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I'm not convinced that the current trend of positivity is not caused by bots, but I wouldn't be surprised if the old system was just based on engagement. Meaning that upvotes and downvotes would both push the comment up. This is n
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Of course, it's just the symbolism of the whole thing. I now realise that my comment had a bit too much pathos, and could easily be interpreted as looking down on the creator of this harmless concept. Companies waste such an insane am
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Yeah, I kind of expected this to be an art project decrying the wastefulness of our times, not an actual project.
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I admit I gave up halfway through the article out of sheer embarrassment for the author, so maybe it gets better, but is this really fitting for hn? It reads like cheap culture-war drivel, without even the usual pseudo-intellectual affectio
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
There seems to be quite a bit of overlap between cryptocurrency enthusiasts (at least those of the silicon valley variety) and get-enlightened-quick people, and the current favourite flavour of the latter seems to be stoicism. At least that

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