komali2

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by komali2 6mo ago
There's also this strange suggestion that it's somehow wrong of family to ask a wealthy family member for money - your parents especially sacrificed their bodies and some aspect of their lives to birth and raise you, and your enti
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Lots of valid criticisms of the oft touted "happiness index." Off the top of my head from something I read a while back: Finland is listed as one of the happiest countries, but also has a higher rate than normal of prescribed anti
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It seems this only matters in economic systems with compound interest, like capitalism. In gift economies, all these distinctions are meaningless. The bounty of a funeral would be a direct representation of the deceased's popularity (l
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> Your argument isn't principled because starting in the 20th century is arbitrary. No it isn't, we were alive in the 20th century, it's recent and we are fully capable of, and responsible for, handling fallout from decisi
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The entire neighborhood was already there, and then Israel showed up as a settler-colonialist state. I don't really sympathize with any State's desire for self preservation (especially since, like Israel, most states will happily
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> And sure, it doesn't really matter other than it's a reason to avoid events. I guess it's this part I'm not really understanding - what harm are you avoiding?
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I'm pretty sure the OP didn't mean they literally put a note in an excel document next to your name. So to explore the issue, is your anxiety around the fact that some people will think some aspects of your personality or behavior
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Context dependant. I do similar to the OP. Sometimes my events have one other person, sometimes 40. First, you have to do whatever it takes to make you able to just do things alone, frequently, and then go ahead and do things alone, frequen
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This is just par for the course of human existence. Lump it under all the other "human situation" stuff, somewhere between "stubbed toe" and "cancer."
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I'm not a bot, my email and website contain my full name and are visible on my HN profile, and my website has pictures and videos of me. First, collective punishment is not acceptable. Shooting through a baby to kill the criminal holdi
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Blowback. Israel is responsible for being an impossible neighbor. A better question to ask: what do you do when an ethnosupremacist state sets up shop near you and immediately begins territory expansion and meddling in your local politics w
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Imagining that hurricane prediction cone they put on maps, Twitter encompasses the entire cone and then some. Someone on Twitter is gonna be right, but rarely the same person consistently.
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If Israel is interested in protecting its citizenry, it should probably stop letting them occupy the territory of its neighbors, or rape prisoners. Sometimes preventing blowback is the best strategy.
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PA Their brief democratic period was inconvenient to Israel, which is why when Netanyahu decided to fund Hamas, he first said that Hamas is important to keep Palestine divided.
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Less times than Israel, and usually in response. Israel has done more terrorism than Hamas.
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Go out and record free sounds https://freesound.org/ Go complete OSM quests using the "Street complete" app. Or just add stuff that's not on OSM yet using OsmAnd app. Record open street view photos using Mapi
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Oppressor and activist may sometimes use the same tools. The activist needs to first go to where the people are.
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During the KMT military dictatorship in Taiwan, the KMT used the radio to spread its anti-democratic propaganda and disparage pro-democracy activists. Activists meanwhile spread their messages via pirate radio.
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I agree with you on all points, but I'm surprised you come with that much experience but also faith that contracts are enforceable, especially when dealing with PRC clients. I understand you had a California based entity you were deali
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If we're going to do public/private cooperation, we still need the whole competition thing. If we don't have it, either we're subject to monopoly, or just a State owned company, at which point, why not just cut out the m
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Despite the stupendous amount of evidence to the contrary? So far no evidence has been detected in space or on earth, for all of history, of anything being intelligent in the way humans are. One certain outcome of the Fermi Paradox: humans
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If wealth becomes too captured at the top, the working class become unable to be profitably exploited - squeezing blood from a stone. When that happens, the ultra wealthy dynasties begin turning on each other. Happens frequently throughout
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Until someone in the PRC distills DeepSeek Security++ from them and lets anyone download it.
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We're entering a world where developers are going to need to start implementing anti cheat that works on Linux. It's clearly possible, and as we break past 5% it's no longer economically viable to ignore Linux. Especially onc
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If you have any unusual set-up going on personally I'd recommend a rolling release distro like manjaro (arch) or fedora, so you get latest drivers and whatnot fast. Modern releases of these distros come bundled with the same desktop en
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> bad code can build well-regarded products. Yes, exactly. Products . It seems like me and all the engineers I've known always have this established dichotomy: engineers, who want to write good code and to think a lot about user ne
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wl-copy is a program to put text into the system clipboard if you're on a wayland-based system (so you can ctrl-v paste it somewhere else). Imagine like, cat ~/.ssh/whatever | wl-copy and then pasting into github or something
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Not exactly the same... > YC invests $500,000 in every company on standard terms. Our $500K investment is made on 2 separate safes: > We invest $125,000 on a post-money safe in return for 7% of your company (the "$125k safe"
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The barrier to replicating TSMC isn't just cost, it's supply chain, geopolitics, and talent. Only one company on Earth can make the UV lithography machines TSMC buys for their highest end fabs, and they're not selling to anyo
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There's an accelerator here in Taiwan with a model I truly don't understand: 100k usd for 10%. 10%!! You've just valued the company at only 1 million! And taken a HUGE chunk of equity, not much left on the table! Maybe it mak

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