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by romwell 4y ago
As an adult who grew up in country where ball pits simply weren't a thing: My own ball pit? Hell yeah! A public ball pit for adults ? Depends on the crowd. A ball pit for children ? Haha no, there's no way someone didn't pe
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by romwell 4y ago
Some were. To say that these are the good languages is hubris.
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by romwell 4y ago
That applies to more than one article on that website :)
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by romwell 4y ago
>I personally stop browsing Reddit and Twitter when their fuck-you-banners appears That's what https://old.reddit.com is for. Simply prepending "old." to the reddit link makes everything work better. Works on
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by romwell 4y ago
I understood the OP's point, but even if the two sentences mean the same thing to a particular faith-based group , we should take care to not to take on and spread that group's biases . Because the sentences absolutely are not
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by romwell 4y ago
>I see very little difference between these two sentences, Sex workers do.
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by romwell 4y ago
There's a difference between "very complicated to accomplish" and "crazy" in my book. For example, balancing a bowling ball on the tip of a pencil is technically very challenging, but accomplishing that isn't e
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by romwell 4y ago
>But only partly because Google has tried crazy things recently too. Our definitions of "tried" and "crazy" clearly differ. >They killed it before it got to consumer By that definition, I "tried" building
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by romwell 4y ago
Creating a product that operates at a loss (by funding it with ad money from search), effectively evaporating small players in that niche, only to kill the product in several years, leaving a smoldering hole where an ecosystem used to be? O
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by romwell 4y ago
The joke from when I worked in Google was "deprecated means stable"
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by romwell 4y ago
Yes, but without this information one can't arrive at the conclusion that it's OK to phase out https://old.reddit.com The information you provided may not serve as a basis for such conclusion.
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by romwell 4y ago
>Only Reddit knows how much old UI users contribute, user activity in online communities is very unevenly distributed. Which is why they don't phase https://old.reddit.com out. They know the contributors use the "
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by romwell 4y ago
>old.reddit users are like 2% of pageviews now, 5-10% of uniques (Source - traffic stats for a mid-sized sub), they could just phase it out. Yes, let's just phase it out, and drive away people who actually contribute to that forum
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by romwell 4y ago
>But the OP-1 is literally the only piece of music gear you can bring on an airplane and write a whole song. Show me another way to write a song in an airplane, and you can have my money. Assuming you mean without using a phone, compute
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by romwell 5y ago
>Russia wants to retain it's great power status in the world Russia can go fuck itself. Nobody cares - or should care - what they want anymore. And the "power status" is already nothing more than a story - the one only f
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by romwell 5y ago
Commenting 1 week in to note that Russia's top oligarch now sees the parallels where you have failed to observe them: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/business/russia-potanin-putin...
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by romwell 5y ago
Well, look back on this conversation in 2023. For history's sake.
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by romwell 5y ago
That's the outcome of the war on truth. Two decades of TV saying one thing today, and the opposite thing the other day, while the internet offers a thousand mutually incompatible (and often, self-contradicting) accounts for any event
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by romwell 5y ago
>people _want_ to believe it is a justified and necessary act of violence. Well of course, because otherwise, the guilt and shame is too overwhelming. Sadly, shame is the first casualty of the War on Truth. And without shame, there is no
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by romwell 5y ago
Yeah, but as bad as "precision strikes" are, there's a difference between at least having a target, and indiscriminate shelling. Russians are doing the latter. In your thought experiment, imagine there's a baddie at th
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by romwell 5y ago
It looks like you are missing the point of it comment you're responding to. They know that the US has all the money and capability to supply the troops. And yet, there were many cases of troops on the ground lacking essential supplies
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by romwell 5y ago
Yup. Anyone educated enough to know about Makhno would probably be too smart to be a fucking Nazi.
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by romwell 5y ago
Ukrainian Xoogler from Odessa living in the Bay Area checking in. I stand with Ukraine. We are with you. Wrote this song a week before the war started: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdU21AoP Now it's time for me to live by th
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by romwell 5y ago
As a Ukrainian & Russian speaker, I find Polish intelligelible, and Polish people generally understand me when I speak Ukrainian. The languages are much closer than any of them is to Russian.
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by romwell 5y ago
The title is misleading. The request wasn't to cut off Russia from the net. It was to let .ru domains expire, and not issue SSL certificates for them. It would only affect .ru and .рф websites. Russians would still be able to get their
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by romwell 5y ago
There's nothing here about "we're the good guys", and the only naïvety in this thread is believing that Russia's invasion was caused by Ukraine wanting to join NATO... after Russia invaded, took Crimea, and esta
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by romwell 5y ago
Thank you! This is the best feedback I ever got on HN.
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by romwell 5y ago
Sadly, the person you're asking the question to seems to be either arguing in bad faith, or has internalized circular logic, and won't be able to see the point you're making Thank you for highlighting it for everyone else rea
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by romwell 5y ago
I beg to disagree. * An out-of-touch autocrat? Check! * Established revolutionary movement? Navalny. Check! * Instability? Did you miss the protests and martial law starting tomorrow (in spite of no fighting going on on Russian land)? Check
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by romwell 5y ago
Look at Russia in 1917, and what caused the Tsar to abdicate. Sanctions on Russia can recreate these conditions.

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