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by hnbad 2y ago
I know that a few years back before WSL was even a thing someone at Microsoft "leaked" that some departments were using macOS almost exclusively. I would be surprised if the decision makers who force all that crap into Edge actual
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by hnbad 2y ago
I'm a dev who switched from desktop Linux to Windows with WSL without regrets. That devs at a company use Windows doesn't mean they're forced to. Often it just means the designers also work on Windows.
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No, he isn't saying that. The context was "children are taught why Nazis are bad but now people are voting for Nazis" and his response was to say people were brainwashed to defend going against their interests. He may not be
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by hnbad 2y ago
At the EU level these exist. In Germany they're called balcony power plants: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkonkraftwerk They're capped at 800 W in Germany for fire safety reasons and because residential fu
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by hnbad 2y ago
Problem is probably that the masks are supposed to be single-use when used as protection and you're meant to replace them even when moving between different places. You're also not meant to wear them for extended periods of time b
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by hnbad 2y ago
That is fair and personally I would argue that you should not comply with an unjust law like that (how's that for a "strong sense of justice" in autistic people?) but of course it's safer to avoid the legal risk of non-c
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by hnbad 2y ago
That's entirely fair, it's just important to maintain that context in case someone stumbles upon it and takes it at face value thinking it's legally equivalent.
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by hnbad 2y ago
Did you read my comment? Or the article you linked? I'm genuinely asking because I literally stated the opposite of presentism: > I think the problem is actually greater than you say: even the concept of "foreigners" vs &q
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by hnbad 2y ago
Exactly. As a cis man the closest I have experienced was being mistaken for a girl (both as a kid and later when I had long hair) and getting cat-called or receiving unwanted sexual comments from strangers. Those situations were rapidly def
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It can help reframe personal experiences and past struggles for one, but it can also help gain access to support that isn't available if you're just a "weird nerd". It can also serve to legitimize your struggles to peopl
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by hnbad 2y ago
> the author puts politics in an article about history and archaeology That's a very "end of history" level of understanding of history and archaelogy. History is inherently political because it's shaped by our own po
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by hnbad 2y ago
Yes, and I didn't know that because I don't live in Spain nor trade in Spanish real estate.
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by hnbad 2y ago
Well, considering how GitHub's ToS was defended as "but they need it to host your code" and was what ended up as their justification for feeding all of your code into Copilot, I don't think that argument aged well. They
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It's easy but it also means this is not the GPL despite what its text claims. It's a new license and may behave differently because some of the words that were changed have specific legal meaning.
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by hnbad 2y ago
I was talking about the website the article is on, not HN. I'm well aware that HN is run by Y Combinator. It's in the URL. That said, squatting unused housing is literally "disrupting the housing market" by eliminating t
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by hnbad 2y ago
Turning your pets on and off to accomodate your lifestyle? Yeah, that doesn't sound great. I'm sure there'd be a huge market for it though.
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Russia literally complained about Ukraine putting its military installations in civilian centers rather than putting them in the middle of nowhere (where they'd be more exposed and easier to destroy). "Human shields" have bee
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A screenshot of one of his tweets no less. Yes, this is likely to leave a bad first impression for many people.
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I used to know a guy who had an impressive physique and foreign accent and was hired for similar "communication jobs" (debt collection). It was all above board so he didn't carry any weapons and didn't do anything but th
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by hnbad 2y ago
> I need landlords to invest their money in houses I can rent. No, you need affordable housing. There's no reason that has to double as a way for someone to make a considerable ROI. Having to rent means that even if you stay in one
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by hnbad 2y ago
> I bet you'd see something wrong if I went into your wallet and took some cash, after all you're not using it right now Sure, but that doesn't demonstrate inconsistency, that only demonstrates that different things are di
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by hnbad 2y ago
I don't see how the housing market could ever be less exploitative than the healthcare market given that you literally need a place to live the same way you need to not die and that there's more money in building extremely expensi
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by hnbad 2y ago
> There is also the problem with the insecurity for the landlord in Spain: right now, is you rent to a family with kids, and the family doesn't pay, you can't do nothing! How is it a mistery that landlords are retiring their pr
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by hnbad 2y ago
I was wondering what kind of website this is given how obviously it is siding with landlords. Squatting is only a problem that can happen if housing remains unoccupied. And it's more likely to happen if there is no strong communal netw
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by hnbad 2y ago
Well, the article says the "ganj" root in "Ganjifa" is Persian. I didn't know the etymology of the word "ganja" before so I had to look it up: "Ganja" seems to originate in Vedic Sanskrit but its
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Creating investment opportunities. Also green-washing. From the "activist"'s company's website: > We are committed to returning capital and giving 100% returns within 1 decade. With long-term returns of up to 300% wit
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> Flora Dutra, a Brazilian activist who works with indigenous tribes This made it almost sound like the effort was led by an NGO but she's the co-founder of an investment company that claims to support "conservation efforts&quo
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by hnbad 2y ago
The name is unrelated to "ganja" (cannabis) except for a shared word root of "ganj" (treasure). I don't know what the anime would be about but the title makes as much sense as "Harry Potter: Pot Master".
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That was my point. Austerity measures tangibly affect most people in easy to understand ways: cuts to healthcare, cuts to education, delayed retirement, etc. Police violence and overreach are a significant concern especially among certain m
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There's a certain type of people that considers emoji unserious and distracting and thinks they are detrimental to nuanced and intelligent conversation. Of course it doesn't follow that a lack of emojis is sufficient to create nua

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