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by snovymgodym 3y ago
Germany was also richer than Poland before WWII. > To put the question in a different way, why is things settled between the polish people and the German people, while things are not settled between the white population in US and the bla
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by snovymgodym 3y ago
That's a bit revisionist. Germany was definitely punished through occupation, partition, forced resettlement of its people, forced ceding of territories to other countries, reparation payments, exportation of its industry, and forced l
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by snovymgodym 3y ago
Germany has paid reparations to Polish individuals harmed by the second world war. > In the meantime, Poland and Germany concluded several treaties and agreements to compensate Polish persons who were victims of German aggression. In 197
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by snovymgodym 3y ago
It's worth thinking about the fact that virtually the entire EU gets by with non fluoridated water.
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Ask HN: Best stack to make a 2D game in 2023
9 points by snovymgodym 3y ago|8 comments
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by snovymgodym 4y ago
Tangentially, I really lament the current state of desktop OS's. In a perfect world, you should be able to buy an operating system that's basically Windows 7, with all the security and kernel updates which have been applied to 10&
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by snovymgodym 4y ago
Had a somewhat similar experience. Irritating how harmless and positive psychedelics and cannabis are made out to be in popular culture in spite of the issues like these that can cause.
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by snovymgodym 4y ago
Perhaps because there's less at stake? If you hire or refer a close friend and then you become coworkers, the nature of the work relationship could negatively affect the friendship, and people may not want to risk that if it's a f
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by snovymgodym 4y ago
Sort of like the phenomenon where everyone considers themself a "better-than-average" driver, while complaining about everyone else on the road
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by snovymgodym 4y ago
Last November I was absolutely floored by how low the prices and how high the quality of groceries was in a regular supermarket (a Rewe in Dresden) compared to the USA. Particularly bread and produce. I don't even live in a HCOL US reg
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by snovymgodym 4y ago
It's true, but the lack of curated feeds, semi-anonymous profiles, and the relatively strict moderation of topics and discussion style certainly make it seem less addicting and harmful than the others.
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Ask HN: Anyone else considering moving from US to Europe?
2 points by snovymgodym 4y ago|4 comments
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by snovymgodym 4y ago
The biggest problem about US gun laws is that they are written in an extremely "all-or-nothing" fashion. There are a bunch of European countries where you can own modern semi-auto rifles and handguns privately, and they don't
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by snovymgodym 4y ago
I don't know what to tell you. War is sad and gruesome. It's sad for the Ukrainian civilians being killed and it's sad for for the Russian mobiks who are sent to the trenches to be HIMARS-fodder. I'm glad Russia is havin
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by snovymgodym 4y ago
Odd that this article doesn't mention his piano teacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Weiss It's generally pretty hard for me to get through stuff written in this article's style, but overall I g