nivenkos

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by nivenkos 4y ago
How do you replace the technical subreddits though? Like the Rust subreddit has really good discussion and it's harder to keep up on Zulip, etc.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, if you can afford a Macbook, you can afford a Framework.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Aren't there some student cities, etc. like that there? Even Seattle and NYC had parts that were very walkable, especially compared to LA.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah exactly, comments then DMs.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I just think it's less negative than Instagram, etc. IMO.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, I don't understand all the negativity here. I met one of my friends on TikTok, on a post about an event going on in the city (when I'd just moved). It's much more social than Instagram, etc. IMO.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Salaries are terrible in France - a senior dev earns maybe 60k euros (~60k USD).
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's just American exceptionalism and protectionism. Same for trying to ban Turkey selling drones, Europe using Huawei, Europe buying Russian gas instead of American LNG, etc.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Maybe Netflix needs an ad-supported Freemium entry point too? Whilst cracking down on account sharing?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Payment isn't the only issue though, and it's often complicated internationally if the developer isn't already a freelancer, etc. You really need actual programmers contributing. Ideally large enterprises would give time dedi
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Blender was already a well-developed product before it was bought collectively (crowdsourced) and made a Free Software project.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I think the recommendations are still great, just this week I discovered Hällas for example.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Whilst I support nuclear power, it's not the main issue, but the lack of progress in electrification of industry and homes. A lot of processes and heating still use natural gas directly, and that is what is causing the threat of indust
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Do the same how? Putin's demands were clear at the start of the war - cede Crimea to Russia, and let Donetsk and Luhansk become independent: https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-says-russian-military-... The majo
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, like as a senior engineer I get $85k, that leads to a take home of about $4500 per month. Mortgage and debt payments are ~$2500 to start with. And now that buys less and less. We can't afford to be playing world police or pretend
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, economic suicide to make sure US puppets keep getting their gas transit fees.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
We can use coal for electricity, the issue is natural gas itself for industry and domestic heating.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
> The alternative is letting Putin continue to believe that his vision of Russian irredentism — which could very easily go right though my home in Berlin Maybe if Germany had Russian-majority areas, had started banning the use of Russian
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Italy can get gas from Algeria IIRC - like Spain does from Nigeria too. But the referendum doesn't matter right now anyway, there is no way to rush through electrification of domestic heating and industry and build functional nuclear p
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Electricity isn't the issue, several countries have re-opened coal plants to deal with that (also from what I understand the nuclear plants can't just be turned back on, they are several stages through decommissioning and were alr
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by nivenkos 4y ago
And the US + Canada are doing the LNG exports to Europe now. It's a massive win for the US, the arms exports too.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
You say that as though "material comfort" doesn't matter - it's life and death, people will die during the gas shortages, industry will shut down, people will lose their livelihoods, the Euro will crash further, investme
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by nivenkos 4y ago
In the long-term absolutely, but electrification of domestic heating and industry, and nuclear / wind / solar / hydroelectric power plants aren't going to be built by November. Right now we're using coal for electri
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's crazy, it means the costs of imports from the US (oil, cars, even consumer electronics) have shot up almost 20% in a year - and then there's the inflation and looming gas shortages, etc. Neutrality is looking really, really n
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Is on the NYSE though.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, the EU has pretty much no competing companies unlike Russia + China. And it is now completely reliant on the US for LNG imports, meanwhile the Euro is collapsing since it has to be sold en masse for USD for those imports, and also for
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by nivenkos 4y ago
You don't want to protect groups like that, as it means that they tie up valuable properties in economic centres and workers can't afford to live there. The failures of rent control in Sweden for example, are a great example of th
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I use vopono to run (only) Jackett through a VPN connection too. It feels great when it all works together.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I'd rather it be closer to 20% for sure. Healthcare is incredibly important. But tax mismanagement is a huge issue, my home country and my resident country have sent billions of dollars to Ukraine for example whilst we still don't

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