loxs

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by loxs 6y ago
Until you realize that big government is what keeps monopolies in place and what forces them to act politically.
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by loxs 6y ago
Yeah, the US is better than many countries with regards of laws that allow you to stand your ground. That's exactly the reason that made me consider moving there. Not any more :-(. I might have overplayed the 'commie' part a
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by loxs 6y ago
- Corporations have the right to censor whatever they want. But that's not moral (what they are doing currently). We should abandon these instances and find better ways to communicate - less centralized. - Store owners (and property ow
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by loxs 6y ago
The sad thing is that this is exactly how the right sees the actions of the left. and it's even worse, as they (the left) are now winning. Their eyes are not blinking - they don't care about freedom of speech or fair game. In the
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by loxs 6y ago
Yeah, probably should have said that this is not "UI design", but "UX design". In my original comment I was talking about strictly graphical design.
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by loxs 6y ago
These are features, not "design". I agree that they are nice. On the other hand Win 10 "mobile friendly" design is much worse than Win 7.
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by loxs 6y ago
On the contrary. I think desktop UI design needs lots of improvements. To me the peak was around Windows 7 but that's not "perfect" - it needs more improvements in the same direction. Probably KDE is a small improvement over
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by loxs 6y ago
The major shift is exactly the right development
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by loxs 6y ago
I don't empathise at all with "small sites" that track me or benefit from someone else tracking me.
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by loxs 6y ago
Judging mostly from the way the US government and Big Tech is handling this, I am now almost certain that widespread election fraud did occur. It does not differ one bit from the way Russia and Turkey handle their election frauds. I haven&#
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by loxs 6y ago
I came here to say exactly this. The way it is phrased, to me in means that the vaccines are not effective on whites.
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by loxs 6y ago
Yeah, and he has the money to prove that he is right.
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by loxs 6y ago
Of course it's not "really" true and of course it's not "given"... it's just the sentiment. And the sentiment affects decision making a lot.
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by loxs 6y ago
The main reason (JVM apps are not more popular) is that the average JVM desktop app does not perform better (or use less resources) than the average Electron app. I know this is not supposed to be that way, but one way or the other, it is.
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by loxs 6y ago
I don't know how I painted it in your eyes, but at least my intention was exactly to point out that the real world is nuanced. I never said that python should not exist. I celebrate its strong parts like being a great first language an
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by loxs 6y ago
Nothing stops them. It's their own choice. And the government literally pays them to not have to work and be able to live like this.
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by loxs 6y ago
You are right. Their situation is mostly of their own doing. And of course it's exacerbated by the discrimination, but they don't have to live in mountains of trash. Also they don't let the police in their communities, neithe
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by loxs 6y ago
Yeah, yeah, Python is fast... nevermind that my program (that does real work) that I ported from idiomatic Python to idiomatic Rust became around 140 times faster. Real world doesn't matter, synthetic benchmarks (with clever calling o
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by loxs 6y ago
Yes, sorry, not a native speaker
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by loxs 6y ago
This sounds true if you only optimize for (hedge against) one risk only - stock market crash. To me, an emergency fund is a hedge against various different risks like these (I am guilty of not being prepared for all of them): 1. A pandemic.
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by loxs 6y ago
I did that already with a ThinkPad T495. Couldn't be happier. With Arch Linux and KDE it's objectively far superior to Mac OS for development (I do mostly TypeScript and Rust). The crazy thing is that I've been blind to the
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by loxs 6y ago
To me it seems really preposterous and dishonest when somebody does NOT think like this. We have one life. The time we do not spend with our children (or the time we postpone having them "for the greater good") can never be return
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by loxs 6y ago
Yeah, so far Rust is proving to be that language for me. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24893285
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by loxs 6y ago
I tried doing that for my program and failed miserably, mostly because CLR is not optimised the same way the OCaml runtime is optimised to minimise copying of memory. As a result the (direct translation of the) program became more than 5 ti
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by loxs 6y ago
So you say that a government which takes (unwillingly) the inheritance of all its citizens can pull it off without a totalitarian approach, suppressing freedom of speech, constant surveillance (to figure out who has what) etc? I don't
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by loxs 6y ago
Can you show one "non-abusive" government that confiscates people's properties? I fail to see one. And I see many proving the opposite.
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by loxs 6y ago
- Yeah, I know it wasn't real socialism. You will build the real one. - The OP says nothing about not allowing Bezos to become billionaire, only confiscating his wealth upon his death. Yeah, I think he would have given up in this case.
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by loxs 6y ago
Enlighten me, what ruined it?
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by loxs 6y ago
1. Who is going to do it? Politicians? As it works here with the EU subsidies - 80% of the money goes through the PM's cousin's company and a hefty percentage leaks to offshore banks :) 2. Yeah, after they did that, people didn&#x
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by loxs 6y ago
There are two reasons this is a very bad idea: 1. Who is going to take it? The government is a very bad guardian. Everyone from the former East Block can attest (me including). This literally happened here after 1944 and we still suffer the

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