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by lhorie 5y ago
> how could they intentionally stop a country from developing? Isn't the petrobras scandal a good example of that? Or before that, the ridiculous culmination of the "steals but does" campaign by Maluf? My understanding is
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by lhorie 5y ago
Well, if your idea of chilling is being away from civilization w/ moderate amounts of physical labor, then rather than acquiring a rural abandoned property, a possibly less committed option with more flexibility for tourism is camping.
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In a nutshell, the article argues about similarities between Brazil sociopolitical landscape and that of other western powers (mostly US and EU). The similarities, it argues, are that the capitalist system consists of growth based on exploi
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by lhorie 5y ago
It's probably not as romanticizing as you expect. Watch the beginning of Totoro to get an idea of what an abandoned house in rural Japan looks like (rundown, in the middle of nowhere). Vacation homes anywhere get quite dusty in a mere
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by lhorie 5y ago
> ReactDOM.render is only different to these examples in terms of scale I think you're confusing longitudinal vs latitudinal comparisons (see point about direct competitors). Sorting is not a competitor to React, or even in a simila
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by lhorie 5y ago
> it can be used in multiple and qualitatively different ways, in contrast with your own position I agree React can be used in different ways but as I already pointed out earlier, this is a not-particularly-notable characteristic shared
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by lhorie 5y ago
I used a company called worldwidemovingsolutions.com to move from Toronto to San Francisco (shipping 2 adults + 2 kids worth of stuff, plus a car). They quoted me CAD 4.8k, this was 4 years ago. They were very thorough, especially consideri
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by lhorie 5y ago
I don't think it makes sense to say "React is a library because you can forego using enough of its features to fall below some arbitrary line". By that logic, I can include Ember in a page and not use any of its features othe
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> The starting point for doing anything with React is where you call it to render a certain component at a certain point in your document You're trying to use the literal meaning of "you call it" to make an argument but th
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- It "calls you" (i.e. you never explicitly call your React components, React does) - It permeates your codebase (e.g. migration from moment to date-fns is something you can realistically do piecemeal, React to Vue or vice versa n
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by lhorie 5y ago
Not that I'm doubting you, I'm just trying to understand this claim. Can you explain the motivation behind exporting at a loss? If the argument is that there's too much timber supply driving down prices to the point that some
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by lhorie 5y ago
> Allow these timber companies to ship our timber overseas to create an intentional artificial shortage ( yes it is documented ). Am I understanding right that this would mean US would be incentivized to not export lumber (since domestic
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Some content creators constantly advertise posting extended versions of their Youtube videos on Nebula[0], which apparently exists precisely to solve the dichotomy between high quality content vs monetization. [0] https://nebula.
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by lhorie 5y ago
Re: strings, this is a thread about that topic: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/234 It strikes me as a difference in opinion wrt at which level should strings be handled (zig folks saying it should be a
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by lhorie 5y ago
This exact question was answered before here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
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You can take a look at Japan[0] for a place without a history of religious animosity towards homosexuality. TL;DR: it's a mixed bag. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Japan
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by lhorie 5y ago
Straws aren't truly banned per se in CA. McDonalds still provide the cardboard ones. Only plastic straws specifically are banned, and only at retail establishments; you can still buy them in packs at the dollar store. IMHO, a lot of en
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IMHO, the problem is that the incentives are not aligned towards improvements but merely to follow the letter of the law without considering its spirit. For example, there's a ban on plastic straws here in California, and the workaroun
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by lhorie 5y ago
Honestly, I don't think age is an issue. My mom did a career change at 50. Your problem is grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side syndrome: you seem to think that if only you put in years of study into some field, it'll turn into your
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by lhorie 5y ago
> Many of the comments on this article are so cold. I mean, the tone of the article is pretty much "me vs them", so is really any surprise that some people would take offense? The anecdotes range anywhere from caricatures (hot
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by lhorie 5y ago
> If $SPY dropped 40% we'd all call it a crash SPY is highly diversified though. The crypto market is known to move in tandem w/ BTC swings. A 40% swing may seem large compared to SPY's usual 1-2% swings, but consider that
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It's not pedantry, it's calling out issues in armchair proposals. "Why not regulate" and "Why not let the market sort itself out" are kinda intellectually lazy propositions: there are good regulations and bad r
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I can see that this idea comes from a place of good intentions, but I think this is a slippery slope. With this idea, PoW Ethereum is banned, but PoS Ethereum is ok; how does one even regulate that? And what of things like Chia (proof of sp
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> The sound change -hon to -ppon and similar sound changes are not actually regular in Japanese -- there's not a clear phonological rule for them. There is a loose rule for compound word contractions (adding tenten to the first lett
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My impression is that adult learners tend to struggle with Kanji even though furigana exists because age is a strong identity factor in Japanese culture and furigana is usually used in age-specific contexts. So a Kanji that might be accompa
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I think the difference (and what makes Japanese harder in this case) is that you can't stumble into the correct number suffix for a large number of mundane nouns. For example, "12 bottles of wine" uses words that are used in
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Personally, as a user, I'm not going to a website to appreciate the owner's artistic sensibilities. IMHO, system fonts are perfectly readable; the trade-offs involved in a site owner imposing custom web fonts don't seem to ta
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"be" and "have" can be quite quirky from language to language. For example, in portuguese, "I am healthy" can be translated to "eu sou saudavel" (meaning, the person lives a healthy lifestyle) or &quo
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> To say "it was delicious", you need to say "it is delicious-ed" The "desu" isn't strictly necessary. You can just say "oishikatta". With that said, Japanese does have a bunch of curious feat
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Sure but if you consider that you could say the same about e.g. Moscow/Vladivostok or Sao Paulo/Manaus or Sydney/Perth, it doesn't seem like homogeneity is that unique or impressive of a characteristic for an expansive c

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