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by knolax 7y ago
> TI-84 calculators I wonder if it would be possible to port CP/M to TI Calculators.
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by knolax 7y ago
It's great that focus has finally been put on bike accessibility within a community, but the problem still stands that in the US it's nigh impossible to safely leave a community on bike. Many suburbs are laid out in way such that
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by knolax 7y ago
> USSR, Imperial Russia, which ok, might have not have been democratic in any modern sense That's a massive understatement. The Russian Empire abolished serfdom in 1861[0]. There's no way that the Soviet space program was an ex
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by knolax 7y ago
I don't find it offensive but using demonyms as insults has always seemed distasteful to me, even if the group in question no longer exists.
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by knolax 7y ago
>The "main" mastodon.social instance mastodon.social isn't even the largest mastodon instance[0]. Even aside from that The majority of active accounts are hosted on small or personal instances, especially for English speak
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by knolax 7y ago
Was there a cut-off year after which all "ABCs of X" guides were obligated to actually run through the alphabet? When did such legislation pass?
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by knolax 7y ago
>I get annoyed reading the same smarmy-sounding "Please don't post unsubstantive comments" replies from dang all the time — but it's what makes this site work, when so many others don't. The thing is I haven&#x27
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by knolax 7y ago
I have "show dead" turned on and most of the time the same account posting dead comment after dead comment keeps it up for weeks.
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by knolax 7y ago
Yeah no, when's the last time you've actually seen the rules enforced?
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by knolax 7y ago
The title is flamebait. It's just the typical rant about NIMBYism with a partisan tinge to it. When I made my comment there was only two comments and one of them was: "Liberal .* hypocrisy would match a lot of things..." Thes
881.
by knolax 7y ago
Maybe it's just me but maybe we should do our partisan name-calling somewhere other than Hacker News. I'm sick of these flamebait articles that do not "satisfy curiosity" in any way.
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by knolax 7y ago
>they live beyond their means in a high income tax state Yeah how dare the poors live near me!/s
883.
by knolax 7y ago
Claiming some stranger's kid is going to become an alcoholic that achieved nothing in life because they like to play with Rubik's cubes is on whole other level of mean.
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by knolax 7y ago
> If your life is entirely oriented around hoarding as much money & power Why do people have to always denigrate wanting money and power? It's an intrinsic desire to want power and resources. If somebody finds happiness that way
885.
by knolax 7y ago
Jokes at the expense of a child aren't funny.
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by knolax 7y ago
Have you been to NYC recently? These things[0] are everywhere and have at least two cameras installed. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/technology/personaltech/a...
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by knolax 7y ago
Well being mean to nerds was the main gimmick, the other stereotypes were just for support.
888.
by knolax 7y ago
Kings abdicate all the time.
889.
by knolax 7y ago
Soon the kerneld service will be added and we will finally have a competitor OS for Emacs.
890.
by knolax 7y ago
Don't worry, BBT does stereotyping of women and minorities too.
891.
by knolax 7y ago
This entire thread sounds like the "gamers are the most oppressed group on earth" meme. Maybe it's a generational thing, but "Nerd Culture" was normalized when people stopped caring about the concept of nerds. I don
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by knolax 7y ago
Brace yourselves for standards fragmentation.
893.
by knolax 7y ago
IMO the NYT deserves $0. Even blogspam is better than the narrative pushing they do.
894.
by knolax 7y ago
You can criticize a system and still participate in it. The author also stated that they only posted on Medium after vetting their ideas with a more private group.
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by knolax 7y ago
All four of the people you used as examples were born in the Mainland and had always used that order. Do you have any examples of people switching from Firstname Lastname to Lastname Firstname after "making it"?
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by knolax 7y ago
>Or just not read tabloids You make a good point. If only the likes of The Guardian and Bloomberg didn't make it to the front page on HN regularly.
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by knolax 7y ago
I've seen tabloid rags refer to Kim Jong Un as [sic] "Mister Un" more times than I can count. I think it would be useful to be able to know the ordering of a name without having to look it up.
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by knolax 7y ago
>One person cannot speak for an entire gamut of people. You're right, in fact the article seems to be mainly about the Japanese Foreign Minister telling other Japanese people to order their names the Japanese way in English. Notice
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by knolax 7y ago
That's a good point. Perhaps we could use Smith`John since the grave character is rarely used.
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by knolax 7y ago
I really don't see how it "It disregards the cultural history of names". As far as I'm concerned the order of the names is just a minor grammatical difference.

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