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by toenail 2y ago
> It has the same feel as there being no 'true communist countries So you've never worked in an environment where developers were trusted as professionals who can organize themselves?
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by toenail 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. If you can't follow the guidelines it would probably better to remain quiet.
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by toenail 2y ago
Waste energy like unused methane, flare gas and the like.
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by toenail 2y ago
(sigh) Do you expect a reply when you start like this?
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by toenail 2y ago
Proof of work mining is probably the only industry on the planet that has the potential to be carbon negative AND profitable.
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by toenail 2y ago
Interesting guide. I wasn't aware Wayland still had such shortcomings even for graphics professionals. > It's now up to each desktop environment project (e.g. GNOME or KDE Plasma) to develop their own full featured GUI for tabl
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by toenail 2y ago
It's ridiculously easy to make any computer insecure.
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by toenail 2y ago
Not sure what you're trying to say. Global warming is a human activity, global warming is unproductive, global warming is caused by one human activity, that activity is unproductive?
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by toenail 2y ago
> The whole reason you're fact checking in the first place is because some nugget of bullshit was put into some large distribution channel and the damage is already done. Selective fact checking that only happens when you're pr
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by toenail 2y ago
Covid is not a scientist who lied.
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by toenail 2y ago
> History has shown that to not be true. [citation needed]
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by toenail 3y ago
The individuals decide what matters to them. If the company thinks their employees are too incompetent to know what they need it's time to move on.
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by toenail 3y ago
Er what? https://www.jetbrains.com/business/
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by toenail 3y ago
If your management doesn't get you the stuff you need to be productive your company is a failure. Move somewhere else.
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by toenail 3y ago
> But is it used for anything? What people like you usually miss.. hodling bitcoin IS one of its uses, store of value. > It looks like not a single HN reader is using blockchain technology for anything. You haven't missed anythi
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by toenail 3y ago
Who put you in charge of the discussion?
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by toenail 3y ago
If you don't care about downtime or reliability, sure.
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by toenail 3y ago
Peace of mind
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by toenail 3y ago
They get into it at the beginning, from the second minute. I didn't get much out of it, it's more on a personal level, but the readers here seemed to be insatiable for info when it happened.
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by toenail 3y ago
> It makes no sense for you to be able to save for X decades Aristotle would have disagreed with you, and today's market seems to disagree as well.
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by toenail 3y ago
> Why are you obsessed with holding currency? I don't know about parent, but I don't want to be forced to gamble on the stock market or to become a landlord simply to save the fruits of my labor. In an ideal world I could have
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by toenail 3y ago
> keeping teams aligned is hard If keeping teams of professionals aligned is hard the problem is unlikely to be in the professionals..
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by toenail 3y ago
> The first and most clearly top of mind recently is the US defense umbrella Defense has to be believable, a 50/50 bet that treaties will be honored in the future isn't. All that debt fueled spending doesn't mean a lot.
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by toenail 3y ago
> In case some still haven't realised, Apples has become mostly a status brand. Yet they sell a phone that generates revenue for them and don't have to sell all my personal data to advertisers.
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by toenail 3y ago
Yeah, and people shouldn't learn to read and write, they should leave it up to AI.
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by toenail 3y ago
It already does in Africa. Bitcoin mining makes hydro plants profitable, and locals get power. Gridless does this.
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by toenail 3y ago
> I am fairly convinced that using cash will slowly be labeled as a "criminal" activity and gradually shamed into non-use by regular people. Of course. The only people who need cash are criminals and terrorists. Now move along
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by toenail 3y ago
> Honestly, when is cash faster? Try to give a random person $100. Can they accept credit cards? Unlikely. Do they have the random cash app installed you use? Maybe. Do they have a bank account? Depends on where you live, and it could ta
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by toenail 3y ago
I don't see why I should give a corporation information about all my payments. I already carry a phone with me, that's enough to spy on where I am, they don't need to know what I do or who I do it with. Privacy is a right, no
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by toenail 3y ago
> Human sacrifice [...] abortions [...] is pretty much the same. Ok, so to you a fertilized egg is pretty much the same as a fully grown, developed, adult human. That's fine, but the majority seems to disagree with you.

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