jbirer

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by jbirer 4y ago
"No" and then close the issue. Don't give them the idea that they can talk their way out of it.
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by jbirer 4y ago
Pretty good idea, actually. He should also name it "Darwin Tax" maybe.
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by jbirer 4y ago
I get freelance payments in crypto and I try to cash it out as soon as possible to prevent losing any money. It baffles me that there are people out there who put their life savings in centralized platforms. Some people have to learn lesson
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by jbirer 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2NZtcfqjDs Warning: it's very emotional
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by jbirer 4y ago
After watching a female judge sentence a child with autism for killing his rapist and childhood abuser, after he was acquited by a male judge years before, I kind of lost faith in all types of judicial process. AI needs to take over for suc
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by jbirer 4y ago
I see people who overexert themselves in sports not too dissimilar from drug addicts. They are coping with some internal issue by forcing their bodies to produce endorphins & adrenaline, to the point of giving themselves diseases like t
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by jbirer 4y ago
I laughed, but as a Turk, I am a hardcore negotiator and most locals hate me, you will be OK I think.
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by jbirer 4y ago
As an European, I dread this. Americans are not the best negotiators and some even seem to be OK with being overcharged, raising prices of all sorts up. At the same time, I myself am planning to move to Asia because it's getting expens
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by jbirer 4y ago
I don't like Microsoft demanding personal data from my children.
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by jbirer 4y ago
So the biggest complaints, from what I read here, is "it does not allow me to write bad code or make mistakes, I want something I can hack together without having to worry about conciseness", and based on groupthink "HN was n
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by jbirer 4y ago
The American left seems particularly fond of censoring those who they deem are "problematic" and have bad thoughts.
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by jbirer 4y ago
He just needs to rebase to a country that doesn't really listen to US laws.
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by jbirer 4y ago
Have not done front-end in a while but so happy to see Webpack die.
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by jbirer 4y ago
A SaaS for creating Bitcoin Cash invoices that generated 500k in revenue before being overtaken by BitPay.
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Lessons in Liberty: Hong Kong, Crown Jewel of Capitalism (1990)(fee.org)
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by jbirer 4y ago
That's an easy way to reach max writes for your SSD and have to buy a new Macbook.
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by jbirer 4y ago
HN is very susceptible to pseudo-nerd hype (Encrypted apps that are actually honeypots, decentralized networks that really are not etc), since a lot of people are not very deeply technical (but consider themselves geeks) they fall for this
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by jbirer 4y ago
Until I reach a point I find boring, like the technical details, unless it's one of my obsession points like ISA and OSDEV
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by jbirer 4y ago
Getting high on opioids and frequenting the most crowded area of my city, conversing with strangers with a complete lack of anxiety and boundaries, learning about their lifes and struggles, it's very novel to me.
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by jbirer 4y ago
While I have used FreeBSD before on my desktops (starting with version 8.1) and love the design of the system along with the UNIX feel, I do not really see how it can become popular with the WiFi stack in shambles (my current Intel Wireless
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by jbirer 4y ago
This is just playing into their hands, allowing them to claim lack of free speech in the West.
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by jbirer 4y ago
I have done it all, from large amounts of money from online businesses, to travels, to drugs, to sex (not trying to brag here). Nothing really stimulates me except interesting articles and weird technology blogs, I really just want to learn
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by jbirer 4y ago
1000mg doses in the morning and evening. I was on Effexor and self-medicating with opioids ocassionally. The BPD is from childhood. Since Paracetamol experiment I dropped all the other drugs, I am totally functional and focused on my work n
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by jbirer 4y ago
I am doing blockchain + frontend development right now and loving every minute of it. I am writing Rust smart contracts in Solana and been given leeway to use any React library I deem fit and to design the app as I wish. The money is also r
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by jbirer 4y ago
I have BPD and I self medicate with low dose Paracetamol. It makes me feel less mental pain and also less guilt/empathy that is in excess for others. It helps me function better than my medication which is quite funny.
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by jbirer 4y ago
Are you the creator of Redox OS?
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by jbirer 4y ago
The US dollar is losing relevance each year.
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by jbirer 4y ago
Today I struggle much more with finding relevant information and having to sift through endless SEO crap and fake articles. Back in the days (early 2000s to early 2010s) I would have enjoyable information consumption and discussions with pe
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by jbirer 5y ago
Sometimes you used to hit on ads with minors doing questionable things, if you were not getting a ransomware.
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by jbirer 5y ago
I grew up on Ubuntu (8.04, what a great release and gorgeous looking GTK2 theme) and this was the last straw for me. Firefox included as a snap on default just takes too much to open on my beefy new Thinkpad. Off to Fedora for me.

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