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by pibaker 3mo ago
I don't know why people say Houston is unregulated. Minimum parking requirement is a huge factor in any kind of housing development and Houston has one.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
0.001% chance of being murdered is 1 in 100000 which is about the murder rate of the UK. That does not seem to stop the UK from wanting more surveillance. The problem with murder rate is it doesn't matter what the actual numbers are. J
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Japan is not a surveillance society. UK is not a high trust society. If anything the most trusting British people are likely found in places with the least surveillance.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
This is like saying "I fully expect visiting that neighborhood to have the chance of getting mugged." A true statement and an incredibly sad one.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Correct. Conscription in Russia largely happens to rural people, ethnic minorities and convicts. Russia is the way it is because a large enough number of ethnic Russian middle class urbanites don't give a fuck about anything, and Putin
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by pibaker 3mo ago
When i think about being indie, I think about the era when personal websites were not meant to be money business and the common sense on the internet was to adopt a pseudonym and never tell anyone where you live. Having a CV seems antitheti
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by pibaker 3mo ago
I feel some uneasiness when I go to a website branded as "indieweb," and see a link to the author's CV prominently on the page. Sometimes you also see a professional taken headshot of the author or an enthusiastic description
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Few people host their websites as hidden services because it's just asking too much from anyone who uses your site. Imagine you are in a conversation with a stranger. You want to show him your personal website. Consider the following t
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by pibaker 3mo ago
None of the things you listed are free of middlemen. Record companies were the OG villains of the music industry. Livenation has a monopoly over event venues. Sometimes you can't just outrun the bad guys. You have to fight them head on
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> You can only cram so many houses into a place like San Franciso Well, yeah, a human can only run so fast, but San Francisco is not even trying to run — it's barely crawling. Go to the sunset district, or Bayview, or any neighborho
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Telegram and Session are never secure by any means. Honestly I'd consider both of them to be intelligence and law enforcement honeypots given how aggressively they marketed themselves as the "secure" option and how little the
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by pibaker 3mo ago
The voluntary adoption of modern tech products says otherwise. People aren't forced to wear Apple Watches, order food through doordash, look up things on ChatGPT, ride Waymos etc. And yet everything I listed above is very popular. Popu
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by pibaker 3mo ago
A regime can only be as oppressive as the people following its orders. There are only so many protestors you can order your army to kill until your troops realize they are killing their own friends and family, at that point they either dese
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Except people have been doing obnoxious shit to feel better about themselves since forever ago. Look two hundred years back and you will see European men duelling each other over the most random stuffs. If anything, I'd say I am seeing
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by pibaker 3mo ago
What's going on with all the open proselytizing on HN these days? I don't remember seeing them five years ago but now in every thread about personal struggles there is someone trying to convert people. Always to the same religion,
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> So this was a 4-5% increase in costs …spread over an entire country. I can't find anything breakdown in the article. But from what I have heard, you either live somewhere with a high concentration of new data centers and see a mas
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by pibaker 3mo ago
You are mixing things up. Just pricing your product based on demand does not necessarily make you a scalper. It's the fact that you are not the producer of the good itself that makes you one. To use the real estate example, there is a
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Do we actually have any measurements of if AI helps you learn something better? Because it is one thing to feel like you have learned something and another thing to have actually learned it well enough to put it in use. There are so many Yo
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by pibaker 3mo ago
The Roblox experience also includes a huge existing player base who may come and play your game without having to install anything new on their machines. I'd say this social factor actually matters a lot for Roblox where many if not mo
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by pibaker 3mo ago
None of the engines you mentioned are nearly as approachable as roblox when it comes to making a 3D game with little programming or art skills. Don't get me wrong. I agree roblox is a very shady operation, but that does not erase the
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by pibaker 3mo ago
There is nothing Porkbun or any other registrar can do if Montenegro decides to suspend the domain, which seems to be what actually happened.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> the political system in the UK not working very well "Joke candidate making a serious attempt at practically unseating a probably corrupt party leader through democratic voting process" is infinitely better than what happens
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Shortwave radio had a reputation for hosting political nut jobs before the internet existed. So are podcasts. At least transit users don't get road rage.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
It's less like HOA and more like sharia law if I remember his background correct.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
When I learned that this website is by the same people who gave us AI 2027, I immediately thought about the Wikipedia page on doomsday predictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap... Notice
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> Gaming is getting too expensive If you buy a new game every month or every week, sure. But that is not representative of all gamers. Here's a survey that shows only 15% of American gamers buy one or more games a month. Not only th
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Well, because most recent AAA titles would be miserable to play on a handheld.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Are you willing to show us your work history and let hackers news judge every single feature you have implemented in your career in exchange for money?
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> I now learn he's donated significant chunks of money to them. Biting the hand that feeds you might make you an asshole. But sometimes you have to be an asshole to uphold standards and principles. I don't think Linus or Jobs w
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> If any of those people were politically connected Connection works both ways. You can be your superior's lapdog on Monday and jailed for being so cordial that he thinks you are trying to take over his position — I mean, taking bri

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