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by gpanders 6y ago
Do you have any messaging suggesting that people donate in proportion to their ability/usage? I personally have found that I end up donating more frequently to projects that are both explicit about donating and make it easy to donate.
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by gpanders 6y ago
Codeberg looks like it’s just a hosted instance of Gitea, so it’s the same comparison between sourcehut/Gitea (which is largely the same comparison between sourcehut/GitLab/GitHub, etc)
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by gpanders 6y ago
> savings accounts are a terrible, terrible way to invest your money. If you have money in a savings account for the purpose of earning interest, you're doing it wrong. Agreed. > And really, interest on savings accounts shouldn&#
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I think you're splitting hairs here. The greater issue is unaccountable, internet mob justice, of which "cancel culture" is one part.
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> What I think is ridiculous is to jump to the authoritarian/soviet comparisons, especially when the US is in the midst of a horrific authoritarian violent crackdown by a militarised police force. I mean, this too warrants authorita
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> Americans tend to reject it entirely out of hand as it smells like vile socialism to them. This is a bit too reductionist. I'd wager that most Americans agree that these are worthwhile goals, but many are skeptical that empowering
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by gpanders 6y ago
There are a plethora of reasons to be concerned and wary about Chinese companies that have nothing to do with race or nationality. There is an intense ideological divide and, as the article mentions, the Chinese government freely uses every
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by gpanders 6y ago
This question is explored in-depth in the article.
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by gpanders 6y ago
> Unless you have math that says the average winnings people will get will make up for the .7-8% difference you see other institutions giving? That is how I personally interpreted this statement from the OP: > We provide a rate of ret
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by gpanders 6y ago
Start by reading the comment you replied to.
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by gpanders 6y ago
From the linked shell style guide: > Indentation is two spaces. Whatever you do, don’t use tabs. The recent obsession with 2 space indents is boggling to me. I find it much more difficult to read (especially in long blocks of code with l
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by gpanders 6y ago
The actual `man` command does this: /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -mandoc -c | /usr/bin/less -is So you could do it "manually" that way. Not the cleane
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by gpanders 6y ago
> No democracy has lasted more than a few hundred years. Is it even this long? AFAIK the Greek version of democracy in Athens was very short lived, and the Roman Republic (which lasted about 500 years, give or take), was certainly not
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by gpanders 6y ago
govtrack.us offers RSS feeds for every legislator as well, so if you have an RSS reader already set up you can just add the feeds for your representatives (you don't even need to create an account on govtrack!)
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by gpanders 6y ago
My graduate school advisor is a big name in satellite-based navigation (e.g. GPS), and I spent a lot of time learning about state-of-the-art advances in GPS techniques such as precise positioning. I was surprised to learn that many of the f
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by gpanders 6y ago
> But beyond that, there’s very little publicly accessible information demonstrating that these tools are actually effective at stopping or decreasing terrorism. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, particularly in this contex
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by gpanders 6y ago
> As lousy as this is, the consumer experience is dramatically improved. I also am a (generally) happy iPhone user. That being said, I don't think this is a strong argument in support of Apple's monopoly on the App Store. Make
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by gpanders 6y ago
The app is free, the service is not. No ambiguity here.
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by gpanders 6y ago
I self host Miniflux [1] and am really happy with it, although recently I have moved toward using Fraidycat [2]. I really like the way that Fraidycat groups things by author, whereas traditional RSS readers just give you a feed. This enable
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by gpanders 6y ago
> Taken a little deeper, your statement would imply that people should build and maintain their own data centers and host all services by themselves One doesn't need a data center to host these kinds of services. Nextcloud on a Rasp
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It doesn't strike me so much as a handout as an investment in domestic infrastructure and chip manufacturing. It's pretty clear from the present situation that international supply chain risk is huge and this is an attempt to ince
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by gpanders 6y ago
> 3 - can't add a custom search engine. You have to add its extension, if available. Or add as a bookmark with a keyword, but then you won't be able to see a list of all search engines... As a full time, happy Firefox user, thi
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by gpanders 6y ago
Just like democracies are run by the voters? True in principle, but rarely in practice.
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Indeed, the trope of "<verb>er, <verb>er, <noun>, <verb>er of <noun>s" is so overused that it's basically self-effacing at this point.
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by gpanders 6y ago
The Wikipedia page[1] has some information on the scientific inaccuracies in the film. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Humans#Scientifi...
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by gpanders 6y ago
I don't personally use the software that the OP mentions, so I'm afraid I can't answer that for you.
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They're unique. Zettelkasten titles can be quite long: "Practices for nurturing healthy brain development during pregnancy" takes up a lot more space for a link than a 14 digit ID. You may say to just use a keyword of the tit
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by gpanders 6y ago
Well in this case, "software that sucks less" is on the top of every page of their website, so the intent behind their name is pretty clear.
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Show HN: Evaluate Markdown code blocks within Vim(github.com)
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I noticed this post mentions GoatCounter but says that it doesn't meet his needs because it isn't self-hosted. It is not by default, but you certainly can self host it, and the author has been quite open about that being a viable

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