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by jemmyw 8mo ago
> absurdly complicated tax system ... have you never been to another country? I've lived in the UK, USA and Denmark, and NZ has, by far, the simplest and easiest tax system. Especially for running a business. The UK and USA are espe
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
NZ is not less that 50% white. Auckland is <50% European ethnicity, but the county as a whole is just below 70% European ethnicity.
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
I think a good play by the Democrats would be to say that if they get into office they're going to investigate all these deals as potential bribery, fraud and corruption and that any business leaders that appeared to benefit from contr
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
An opinion that formed after the war, but not actually anchored in reality. None of the elite really wanted a war, some levels of the military did. Nicolas II raged against his generals that he did not want to mobilize and send men to their
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
I personally wouldn't try to sell Linux to anyone and get them to switch. It is a futile game and I see no real reason for it. People will move if they have reason to (in any direction) and the best one can do is show and tell. I will
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
One thing Apple seems to do very well compared to other vendors is make all their hardware available in all markets on release. Companies like Dell, Asus, Lenovo, they have a confusingly large array of models, and they never release the bes
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
I'll note that I have gone a slightly different path for the main app I wrote: I've written adapters on the js side that generate SQL or API calls depending on where the code is running and I wrote my own select/insert/u
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
At least with Tauri it's easy to both make the choice and change it later if you want to. I think the docs are sparse because it's your decision to make. I've done it both ways and there are pros and cons. If you use the sqli
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
Does it matter? Generally Linux desktop distributions are made for the people who use them, who would tend towards people who will fix things. You mention distros but there obviously are a lot of passionate distro makers because right now i
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
I can't quite believe how bad Apple Music is. I will say this for Apple, when I tried out Music on a brand new Mac and it didn't work properly, I got to chat to a real support person who walked me through fixing it. It shouldn&#x2
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
> UK default of 60mph for a single-track road, but if you were to try that in many rural locations (think Cornwall, Scotland, Wales) you would likely find yourself upside-down in a ditch. The way the national limit is framed is more limi
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
Ask to become a team lead, get some of those new engineers working for you. If you've been there awhile you're in a position to do that and there are several benefits: you might become privy to information that explains the hiring
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
There is backstory that the films could have gone into, though I don't know if it was written before or after the first film. The humans in the matrix were allied with the machines and they put them in the matrix to protect them from t
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
I'm going to follow your project, it looks good. It's "alpha" btw. I wouldn't usually correct but as you're posting about something you want people to look at you might be interested in a correction.
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
I get something similar, not pain but definitely sensations. It was more apparent when I was having dental work done, and the dentist did say to not over exert straight after visiting him because of the increase of blood flow to the gums. Y
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
And actually further to your point, I would assume that many more people who code in Javascript have read the React codebase and not the v8 codebase. I've read the react source, and some of v8. Imagine how you'd implement hooks, y
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
I feel for you. I moved away to New Zealand long before brexit and then did move to Europe for awhile and freedom of movement made that easier than otherwise. However, if you're mid 20s now you don't need it to move places, you ca
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
English language is probably a factor
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
> they could've targetted demand. They chose to target supply with a "sin tax". I think you've got that back to front. A higher price reduces demand. There is still the capability to supply, but the demand is no longe
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
That don't actually say it's a blame free post-mortem, nor is it worded as such. They do say it's their policy not to publish AI generated anything unless specifically labelled. So the assumption would be that someone didn&#x
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
But the government didn't make the drink awful. They only set the tax. Your position is that you'd have paid more anyway but now tis not an option. That seems like a business decision. Maybe the old version has so much sugar it wa
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
10% every billion years. So negligible on our timescale, but it is significant if you talk about ancient climate conditions like this thread does.
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
That is highly unlikely. People may seem stupid when acting as a larger group, but I think part of that is that our current democracy doesn't require much engagement. If we moved to direct democracy then imo we'd get some bad poli
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
I don't believe in the hard consciousness problem. Yes, materialist. And yes, it might be that we can never actually put together the path of physical level to how it feels, just like we might never find the fundamental physical rules
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
I don't think any of this is particularly nightmarish. Just because we don't yet know how this complex system arises from another lower level one doesn't make it new physics. There's no evidence of it being new or orthog
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by jemmyw 8mo ago
> What you’re looking at here is arguably the most consequential car interior, well, ever It looks like the interior of many cars now except for having stick like manual toggles like a retro control panel. It's not consequential at
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
I never claimed to be polite, although I definitely temper my writing because I've been reprimanded by the mods before. You didn't write anything to argue about. You wrote that you like the smell of weed. Well I think most people
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
I did read their post history. I guess it's nice to understand that people who rant like morons don't believe they rant like morons. I always wondered about the self awareness of it.
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Show HN: Overitall, a Procfile runner like overmind with log multiplexing(github.com)
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
why even do that? just leave it for people who want this discussion. enough voted it up to get on the home page.

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