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IGN's List of Top 100 Game Creators of All Times (2010)(ign.com)
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by kleiba 1y ago
Sounds terrible. But in all fairness, it's not like pretending isn't part of everyday Western culture too.
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Not by head count which I would say is the more relevant metric than area when we're talking about a country's energy supply.
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by kleiba 1y ago
Just to give a little context: in Germany, which the OP was about, just the search for a suitable place to store nuclear waste started in 1999 with the formation of a working group of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Acti
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And interesting, this is in stark contract to France's biggest neighbor: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-shuts-down-its-last-nuclear-po... However, the opposition to nuclear is currently being reevaluated by the Ger
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Agreed, I actually tried and go back to change the wording to exactly that, but unfortunately it was already past the editing grace period. But lesson learned for next time.
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It's not really that hard to learn how to hone a knife. There's different techniques that work and I'd think anyone who loves to cook regularly hones their knives anyway. Now, sharpening is a bit of a different story but also
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by kleiba 1y ago
None of the previous submissions of this article have ever been flagged.
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by kleiba 1y ago
> almost everyone is very bad at it [citation needed] It's more that sharpening a knife - like many other skills - takes practice.
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by kleiba 1y ago
Why do you think it bothers me? I wrote the original comment because previous discussions might be interesting reads.
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by kleiba 1y ago
Posted here multiple times before: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943973 (02/2025, 473 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25083315 (11/2020, 382 comments) - https:/&#
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by kleiba 1y ago
I suppose that article is written by someone who doesn't have: - young kids - chores to do - a house/yard to maintain - hackernews to read ?
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> so there's some argument for getting them involved with digital stuff at some point And that's how the argument usually goes, but I don't buy it: every one of us who attended schools without devices learned to pick up
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There is an incredible pressure on a lot of public facing endeavors to include digital , no matter whether it makes any sense at all or not. Take education, for instance - if it weren't such an important topic, it would be almost comi
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by kleiba 1y ago
Don't know about washing machines, let alone this particular one, but my reasoning for replacing a twenty year old machine is that a new one will hopefully use less energy and might be better for the environment thus?!
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I'm not a dog person but I think that one is totally explainable: if you're walking your dog in the neighborhood and it just did its business on the side walk, sharp eyes will be watching you to make sure you pick up after Milo or
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by kleiba 1y ago
For someone who hasn't spent any time thinking about that matter, could you please elaborate your point?
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10 shocking secrets about the solar system!
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This would be removed from the app store faster than you can say Jack Robinson.
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Google having your privacy in mind is laughable: this is a company that literally makes money from collecting information about people. So please, don't buy into that folk tale - it's a company, their interest is and always will b
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I disagree, lots of volunteers have provided tons of high quality information since the inception of the web. Wikipedia is written entirely by people that didn't get any compensation for it. People answer questions on forums for free.
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The argument seems flawed to me: by "killing the web", they refer to the example of a company adding SEO'd information to their website to lure in traffic from web searches. However, me personally, I don't want to be l
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by kleiba 1y ago
I cannot speak for the grandparent, so here's my best guess what was meant: namely the introduction of a centally managed "app store" as the central/only way to install new software on your device, thereby taking control
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by kleiba 1y ago
I worked in research for decades - no idea where you get that $20,000 number from. Also, I cannot follow this argument of "only the rich can do science", this seems to bear any relation to reality.
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Why shouldn't we abolish any digital markets then, because in theory, you could have a service similar to sci-hub for books, movies, music... And these exist and existed (and are regularly shut down by the authorities).
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If anything you could argue that copyright has shifted in that direction but it was certainly created originally to foster the development of art and science by protecting creators , not publishers.
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Why is that? Most relevant research in AI is done outside of universities and instead by companies these days. Shouldn't they have the right to sell their findings? Their research is not funded by tax money. (Note that that's not
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Er, what?
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> Just because something has a price associated with it, that does not make the pricing model inherently correct or just. And just because a pricing model is not correct or just does not automatically give you liberty to circumvent tha
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It does not matter if it should or shouldn't. Since someone else brought up insulin before, you could also argue that all medication should be free - alas it isn't. It is totally fine to object the status quo of certain aspects of

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