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by oska 3y ago
A similar vehicle could come out and give you a top up charge
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by oska 3y ago
Previous discussions of this piece : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36873875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36869883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36861088
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by oska 3y ago
I wouldn't call having the article posted here only a day later 'slow', let alone 'really slow' as you described it. A day later is absolutely fine, in my opinion. Seems rather silly to think we have to be discussin
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by oska 3y ago
I would call your take 'jaded' rather than pessimistic. And I don't mean to be critical in saying that; it's quite understandable that people get jaded in this industry. But I think there are still very much hacker cultu
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by oska 3y ago
I hope this doesn't sound like 'sucking up' because it's certainly not intended to be that, but I have been continually impressed at how good a moderator dang is. And more than moderation, he also 'curates' the
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by oska 3y ago
Cheers for the suggestion, I might give that one a go. Something that I was wondering while I was reading about Heinlein and his books was why I hadn't read him. My school library was surprisingly well stocked in classic science fict
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by oska 3y ago
I haven't read any Heinlein but your comment piqued my interest and, after reading the plot summary of the book you linked and summaries of a few others, you seem to be bang on the money.
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by oska 3y ago
> For me, a gay man, living in Russia is a real risk to my life Fair enough, although I would only add a mildly sceptical note that perhaps the 'violent homophobia' is less rampant than is reported in Western media. We are fed
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by oska 3y ago
Yes, that's what I said. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to live in Russia in the 90s, as it was a horrible time for the country. But Russia is vastly improved now, while I see the UK as going, quite quickly, in the opposite dire
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by oska 3y ago
And the Taliban is back in power now, with a population that is more impoverished [1] than before the US invasion. So the US brought 20 years of war and suffering [2] and then left the country to resume under the same government they origin
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by oska 3y ago
> See how Norway, Sweden and Denmark with tiny or non-existent empires did as well as Britain, or how Germany and Austria-Hungary were no less wealthy than France. Sweden had an empire, Austria-Hungary was an empire up till the end of
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by oska 3y ago
And I would take Russia over the UK, even though my roots are British and I would enjoy delving into historical sites, etc, much more in the UK. But from looking on from Australia, the UK seems to be going downhill very rapidly, and has h
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by oska 3y ago
It also used to be better pre USA invasion (the more recent example)
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by oska 3y ago
> A country does not exist in a political vacuum and has to be able to protect its freedom and the very right to exist Do you think that Eisenhower, a professional soldier and 5 star general, doesn't understand that? You're not
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by oska 3y ago
> I have the typical American of German descent hate for Germany because they threw my family away I've never seen this sentiment expressed before (but I'm neither of German descent nor US American). Care to expand further ?
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by oska 3y ago
A firewall operates purely in the physical world and relies on immutable properties of the physical world to function. To use it as a metaphor in the intellectual/political world (where nothing is immutable) is exceedingly unhelpful
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by oska 3y ago
Not a clone in one important aspect, as the article describes : > On Threads, there are no hashtags. Meta has opted not to facilitate them, so there is no way the heart of Twitter could happen on Threads.
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by oska 3y ago
I most definitely prefer to be on the public social platform that is inclusive to the Taliban (as long as they obey the rules) as opposed to one that does not allow them a voice
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by oska 3y ago
> Would you now mind explaining how these people are not far right? Clearly the onus is on the people who are using the term to explain why they think it applies to the people they are using it on. The onus is always on the person who
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by oska 3y ago
Previously submitted shortly after the piece was published, but didn't get much (any) discussion at the time, which surprises me a little. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36532442 Hopefully we might get some discu
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by oska 3y ago
Krassenstein's individual payout isn't news, agreed, and makes for an unsuitable submission. But Twitter initiating its revenue sharing program and making payments to many people under it certainly is news, and I'm surprised
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by oska 3y ago
You can put the listed names in any search engine Here's some links I found for the 3 names I searched on Igor Babuschkin : * https://babushk.in/index.html Yuhai (Tony) Wu : * https://yuhuaiwu.github.io&#x2F
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by oska 3y ago
I had a browse of the videos on that channel and was disappointed to find that there was a strong emphasis on unhealthy street/fast food. Ramen and fried rice and hot dogs and artificially coloured candy and such. Disappointing when Ja
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by oska 3y ago
> Blender, Godot, Firefox, GNOME, WordPress, GnuCash Two of your examples begin with GN, which, of course, is a reference to GNU (explicit in the case of GnuCash) and thus a reference to the Free Software movement. Which the author of th
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by oska 3y ago
I want to be able to read (former UN weapons nspector) Scott Ritter on twitter. A man with a huge amount of experience and someone who is able to give very informed commentary. On pre-Musk twitter I couldn't read him, now I can. And I
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by oska 3y ago
They obviously are changing the environment. You'd need a proper environmental impact statement to determine what the negative aspects of these changes are. I wonder if one was done?
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by oska 3y ago
The acronym was new to me and I found your introduction of it into the conversation interesting, and your brief explanation of it sufficient. (And I didn't in the least find it pretentious)
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by oska 3y ago
Interesting anecdote, appreciate you sharing it. As to the deputy head's given reason (a lesson about safety and guarding against theft), I'd tend to think that was his genuine reason. Theft of valuable personal items in a school
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> In Eastern Germany the underlying neuroticism, persecution complex, and willingness to believe in every conspiracy theory, things that were foundational for the rise of Nazism, is very much still alive. The grandparent (quoted above) i
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by oska 3y ago
I read this comment earlier today, and my thoughts have returned to it through the day. It is an extremely bigoted comment, that prompted further bigoted comments below it. I'm not asking for it to be removed or censored but I have c

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