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by toyg 6mo ago
It accepted unfettered capitalism in a very fundamental way. Once you make it axiomatic that taxes should always be low, that the private sector is always better, and that massive inequality is just fine, you basically renounce all meaningf
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by toyg 6mo ago
Literally the same in Italian, la notte porta consiglio . It's in the Bible, in nocte consilium from the Book of Proverbs, but it's likely to pre-date even that by centuries.
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by toyg 6mo ago
And let's be honest, that is also partially Clinton's legacy. Him and Tony Blair, with their "Third Way" triangulation bullshit, effectively moved the Overton window to the right for good. And here we are.
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by toyg 6mo ago
The title is from the HN user, the actual post uses 1,300 everywhere. So you can write it down to tech brainrot.
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by toyg 6mo ago
Ah, the youth... "The new economy" also didn't have anything to do with the previous one. Turns out that it crashed just as well.
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by toyg 6mo ago
I think it has more to do with Comedians having to work their way up the chain.
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by toyg 6mo ago
I initially thought it was a pun on Pearl Jam's classic "Even Flow", then I read your comment and noticed the username... Sad.
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by toyg 6mo ago
Android has QuickShare which can be leveraged. For the record, the feature you describe was first introduced on Samsung phones 14 years ago - and later removed, likely after poor adoption. Because Apple "reinvented it", it's
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by toyg 6mo ago
If I understand correctly, when a nowhere URL is pasted in a browser, what happens is: 1. the browser downloads generic JS libraries from the main site 2. these libraries then decode the fragment part, and transform it into the UI If that&#
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by toyg 6mo ago
Nitpicking, but IIRC, Wi-Fi was born largely as a marketing effort rather than a technical one. Interoperability was an afterthought.
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by toyg 6mo ago
Could it be because of the history of radio and early electronics being full of inventors getting ripped off by unscrupulous parties...?
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by toyg 6mo ago
"Just because newspapers print something, it doesn't mean it's true!" <proceeds to believe everything 'printed' on the internet>
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by toyg 6mo ago
Personally, I'm using side projects to test what a basic agentic setup can achieve, i.e. not paying for anything but the electricity bill. Reaching that state is the real side project. (I've not landed on a good solution yet, olla
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by toyg 6mo ago
At some point they will still likely have to force that cut-off, but yeah, it's great that they seem to be able to stretch it for longer than most people would have expected.
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by toyg 6mo ago
Personally, I also would never trust a random stranger with carrying my stuff. Delivery companies have tracking systems and insurances.
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by toyg 6mo ago
This is the company that once remotely removed 1984 (of all books). Of course they don't care about you.
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by toyg 6mo ago
> One of the most frustrating things about HN is that people seem so unaware of how idiosyncratic their preferences are. <proceeds to state opinions contrary to what the overwhelming majority of elected representatives of the people
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by toyg 6mo ago
I guess it depends on the industry, but most people would happily run anything that had undergone a single round of patching. And plenty were so obsessed with the latest and greatest that they would jump at .0 releases without a care in the
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by toyg 6mo ago
Windows Me was some weird marketing attempt at squeezing more life out of the dead-end '9x line. I honestly don't know who, in their sane mind, would ever pay for such a thing.
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by toyg 6mo ago
I have kids and I am quite the opposite. My interest in them is very occasional. Teaching anything takes a lot of work and they're typically not interested anyway. Most of the experiences they have at school, I have no real insight on.
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by toyg 6mo ago
I reckon "old hardware" is likely to be more reliable of "new hardware", generally speaking... If we could fix how they get energy, these things could probably go on for centuries.
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by toyg 6mo ago
Well, we don't know about them, do we? Technically speaking, some alien might have already plotted the entire Milky Way hundreds of years ago without telling us.
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by toyg 6mo ago
Indeed. In the case of music-obsessed boomers, that saying rings true in a very literal way.
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by toyg 6mo ago
I don't think SP2 made much of a difference in the popularity of XP. It was already dominant, and it's mostly remembered as "legendary" because it had become the target platform for every hardware and software vendor on
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by toyg 6mo ago
Did you engage any lawyer/solicitor? Companies don't care about individuals, but they do fear lawyers.
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by toyg 6mo ago
That's effectively how it was in European countries, when TV was nationalised. Then everything became about extracting as much money as possible from consumers, and here we are.
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by toyg 6mo ago
I infer, you presume - we all know what you're trying to do, and it's pretty sad.
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by toyg 6mo ago
Er. IIRC, Spolsky was involved in creating VBA for Excel. Which was arguably orders of magnitude more popular (and still more widely deployed and world-supporting) than Java.
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by toyg 6mo ago
I think you're trying very hard to look for reasons to condemn people who think this war is stupid and illegal, under the pretension of gatekeeping what one can reasonably be opposed to what. The main point remains: this war is stupid,
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by toyg 6mo ago
There are dozens of equally "bad" regimes out there. The point is that invading them and/or killing a ton of their people is not the solution. Iraq: made things worse. Lybia: made things worse. Afghanistan: didn't make t

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