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by noarchy 6y ago
>The Hacker News comment section tends to be factual, rational, and logical. To a fault, perhaps. Humour is frowned upon, while overly pedantic comments are upvoted. Far too many comments uphold the stereotypes about engineers. I wouldn&
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by noarchy 6y ago
Is this another one of those "true communism has never been tried" posts that inevitably crop up?
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by noarchy 6y ago
Some software shops, unfortunately, take their "Agile" a little too seriously. They end up treating developers like assembly-line workers with a quota to meet. Those burndown charts become a very important metric that managers can
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by noarchy 6y ago
And don't forget the mandated CanCon that radio stations have to play.
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by noarchy 6y ago
Canada here. I currently cannot load DDG unless I'm connected to a US VPN (haven't tried other countries yet). Edit: the site is accessible for me again at 14h30, Eastern time.
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by noarchy 6y ago
Is Stef still claiming to be an atheist? It seemed like he was making up with Christianity in recent years. Just the same, while he used to be an outright anarchist, he went all-in for Trump.
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by noarchy 6y ago
>I don't blame the programmers, it feels they had deadlines to uphold from managment. This is my own experience. The teams that spent the most time on standards usually had the least pressure, in terms of things like deadlines. Once
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by noarchy 6y ago
This remains an issue in Canada with regard to cannabis, now that it is legalized. And we still have a thriving black market in cigarettes, due to high taxes.
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by noarchy 6y ago
Possibly Russia? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-documents-reveal-...
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by noarchy 6y ago
>The world really needs to stop self harming itself in order to protect a few boomers with power. While I would not phrase it so harshly, I understand the point. But looking further down the road: I worry that if we encounter a virus tha
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by noarchy 6y ago
Perhaps this is too much of a tangent, but why do people feel the need to type out "Uh" or "Um" in internet discussions? Are they trying to mimic the way they speak offline, because if so, it doesn't come across par
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by noarchy 6y ago
Obviously the voluntary actions people are taking is having an effect on the economy. But when you declare that entire sections of the economy are illegal ("non-essential"), then this has an even bigger impact. Now businesses that
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by noarchy 6y ago
Jira supports the kind of software management that has become ubiquitous in our industry. So one "needs" tools to create burndown charts and the like. This is now a multi-million dollar industry, and Atlassian is all-in for it.
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by noarchy 6y ago
I would even say it is nearing end-cycle for consoles, given that we'll see a next-gen Xbox and PS by the end of this year.
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by noarchy 6y ago
How much of their concept of "rights" enters into the "positive vs negative" rights debate? Depending on one's perspective, this could heavily skew things in one direction or the other.
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by noarchy 6y ago
Canadian here. Supply management is probably great for many producers. They participate in legal cartels engaged in mandated price-fixing, so this can protect their bottom line. For consumers it keeps prices high on things like dairy (even
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by noarchy 6y ago
The dealerships are making their money with various add-on packages now, to try to bump up the sale price. It isn't even in your favour to offer cash in most cases.
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by noarchy 6y ago
>The NSA doesn't have access to US security cams and couldn't care less about them. The same NSA that has vacuumed up phone and internet data, including that of US citizens?
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by noarchy 6y ago
If those cameras have any kind of outside accessibility over a network, the NSA is probably just one of many with potential access.
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by noarchy 6y ago
You went through way too much effort only to miss the point to which I replied (which was your own comment). I specifically mentioned that covid fatalities in the US appear to exceed that of the flu. That was my point. I said absolutely not
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by noarchy 6y ago
>Compared to the FUD regarding a virus that's trending to be less lethal than the normal Flu... Demonstrably false. The US alone is over 50,000 deaths. This is already worse than an entire year's toll for the flu. Are you going
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by noarchy 6y ago
Great to see this! On another note: there was a six month gap (unless I'm mistaken) between the iOS version being open sourced, and this Android release. I am a bit surprised that iOS got open sourced first. Is this because it did not
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by noarchy 6y ago
It's a bit of a tangent, but is downvoting or flagging on a site like HN a threat to free speech? Maybe it restricts speech on HN, specifically, but then we would be separating the more traditional understanding of "free speech&qu
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by noarchy 6y ago
It sounds like wages are higher than the welfare number you quoted, so I wouldn't expect people to necessarily drop out of the workforce en masse .
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by noarchy 6y ago
What you call "BS jobs" are necessary to someone out there right now. That said, if they cannot fill those jobs because UBI is more attractive than the wages for said jobs, indeed one might find those jobs to be automated in the f
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by noarchy 6y ago
>There is vastly less pollution, people are spending much more time with their loved ones, people are spending much less time in vehicles and commuting, and people have much more time to explore their passions and hobbies like instrument
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by noarchy 6y ago
Did shutting down huge swaths of the economy "improve society"? Even if one agrees that is has been necessary in the short term (most seem to agree it has been needed), if we're still mired in this even mere months from now,
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by noarchy 6y ago
Stimulus cheques handed out at an actual time of crisis is not the same thing as an unending flow of such cheques during times of low unemployment and economic stability. I think that distinction is being lost in this discussion. A lot of p
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I can't be the only one who has noticed the huge influx of articles and comments for UBI in places like reddit and even HN, of late. It seems that the ongoing crisis is fuelling a lot of agendas.
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>Every country wants to impose its own laws on it in order to guarantee the rights of their citizens. I think that is a very charitable interpretation of what they're imposing, though it may not have been your intent. Rather than &q

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