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by smashah 5y ago
Differentiating between pedal assist & throttled e-bike serves no great purpose. There should be no distinction, legally, between a normal bicycle and an electric bike of any kind (throttle or otherwise). Personal Electric (micro) Mobil
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by smashah 5y ago
Precisely! I wonder what chain of events lead this PR being filed. How did the kid(s) get caught? Did a teacher decide to tell the IT department head? Did the head of department then tell the IT maintenance team? Then the IT maintenance tea
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by smashah 5y ago
Well I think you'd find that your first barrier would be the fact that most open source projects are run off of GitHub which is a company owned by Microsoft.
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by smashah 5y ago
> I'm not sure I got that from his, this needless insult did make me feel that way about yours though. Just a little joke, didn't mean it in a bad way. > No, it's not, but in my experience, about 50% of the people who c
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by smashah 5y ago
Almost all npm packages are open and the code available in Github - so if npm package maintainers are not being policed then it's the community's fault for leeching and not looking into the code. I run an install script for my pac
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by smashah 5y ago
In reality the best solution is to mix all available tools in a way where individual interactions always have a specific place to be addressed effectively. For example, I encourage people to introduce issues in the discord. If it is fixable
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by smashah 5y ago
Discord makes sense for my project due to the dynamic nature of it. I agree it's probably redundant for stable projects with minimal updates
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by smashah 5y ago
Maintainers should do exactly what they determine is best for them and the project. open-source puratism isn't a guiding principle for maintainers believe it or not. Running a discord allows maintainers to foster somewhat friendly rela
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by smashah 5y ago
Package maintainers implement install scripts for a reason. It should be opt-out, not opt-in. There should be granualar control over which packages, and which scripts you want to block. E.g in your package.json: `"scriptblock": {
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by smashah 5y ago
"Don't bring politics to work" = "Don't bring your politics to work" One person's every day life is considered by another to be "political".
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by smashah 5y ago
I know about PDS2 which is why I specifically bring up the example of Teller. They literally use mobile clients and reverse engineer banking protocols manually then expose them as APIs to their customers. https://www.producthunt.
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by smashah 5y ago
How come Teller API is (apparently) 100% legal and has massive VC backing but there is possibility of legal grounds for this blatant bullying? Just shows that tech is more scared of Facebook than massive established institutions.
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by smashah 5y ago
Few years ago, when I was more in the scene, I met one of these guys and he told me he was pitching "Uber for Umbrellas" to VCs. Then I got into antler... Let's just say I've become cynical.
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by smashah 5y ago
In an ideal world you're right. However, points 4 & 5 are the limiting factors. The reason why elite MBAs make sure to ensure the success of each other is to make sure they're also given the leg up when looking for opportuniti
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by smashah 5y ago
WhatsApp needs to be taken away from WhatsApp. It is more important to worldwide communication than SMS
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by smashah 5y ago
Good, now I can go for lunch.
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by smashah 5y ago
This concern does not translate well to anybody wanting to switch platforms. This level of sunk cost fallacy would not fly as an excuse for any other technology, let alone on HN.
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by smashah 5y ago
While being federal agents they try to spread democracy with bombs. Once they leave, the pretence is dropped and squash any organic calls for democracy and dissent with hacking. Outraged when these countries are hacking individuals? Then al
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by smashah 5y ago
You think they lowballed him?
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by smashah 5y ago
This would require some sort of open-api type spec but for CLIs. I like this idea. Good luck to anyone taking it up.
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by smashah 5y ago
One day an intergalactic 5th dimension demon investor will buy earth and rent it back to us for 1 Billion souls per year. What madness.
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by smashah 5y ago
Wow that's cool. Now of I can create these snippets to output as SVG then I can add it to my GitHub readme!
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by smashah 5y ago
Nice. Any reason why installation section is not prominent and on the top of the readme? It's even in an non-intuitive place in the documentation.
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by smashah 5y ago
As a Brit living in the middle East for most of the year, I resolved these issues by setting up Home Assistant in my house on UK with the wireguard add-on and upping my bandwidth so my local download speed matches the UK upload speed. This
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by smashah 5y ago
Wasn't able to get over some of the decisions made on yarn 2. Hopefully yarn 3 is more compatible to a usual npm flow.
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by smashah 5y ago
Recent NSO story isn't new. The leaked numbers are new.
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by smashah 5y ago
It is not equally reductive because one reduction serves to perpetuate oppression, apartheid and empowers regimes that are the architects of roadblocks to progress. And the other reduction aims to remove the obstacles to dismantling all the
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by smashah 5y ago
This tactic of dipping your true intentions in the aesthetics of progress is new and designed to trick people with a north-star cause to sympathize with the oppressor. Unfortunately it only takes a few brain cycles for even the simplest of
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by smashah 5y ago
Hopefully some will ask themselves why the "beacon of democracy" in the region is so ready and open to sell tools used almost solely to prevent the spread of true democracy to their neighbours? And then maybe we should all have a
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by smashah 5y ago
It cannot be understated how much damage this company done, not only to the quest for freedom for untold amounts of ordinary people but also to its own clients.

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