unmole

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by unmole 1y ago
> And to be fair, investing does not apply to most people either. Why doesn't investing apply to most people?
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> Most of my family and extended American family doesn’t really invest. I think probably 10% of us “believe” in the stock market. ~62% of US adults own stocks: https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-amer
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> audience that could usefully reflect on their prognostications isn't there. This is your own bias talking.
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> I’m convinced it is impossible to do better than Evince, I’ve never found any deficiency or lacking feature in the program. For me, Evince fails to accurately show the physical paper size. Okular manages to do this just fine.
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It's not too far removed from sky burials or cremations.
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> Most people including US natives, would rather choose to be somewhere nicer like Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, etc The US is far more welcoming to immigrants than any of those places.
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> median techcrunch reader Is probably a consumer tech enthusiast and not a software developer.
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Are you using Cloudflare DNS? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39925822
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There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language
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> why it's important to listen to the experience of grads seeking jobs. Anecdotes from people who didn't experience any other hiring market?
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> In German, to breathe is just a verb: atmen If you want to go down the Proto-Indo-European rabbit hole, the Sanskrit word for soul is atman .
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> Varoufakis Is a crackpot who shouldn't be taken seriously.
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> Websites that want to invade privacy must run cookie banner to ask permission. Why does the EU want to invade my privacy? https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en
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> almost every website When https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en has a cookie banner, it's entirely fair to blame the EU. Until quite recently even https://gdpr.eu/ had a cookie banner. They fi
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> The argument I've seen on Mastodon Is guaranteed to be some utterly deranged crackpot nonsense which some reason otherwise intelligent people find plausible.
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> have we seen evidence of lawmakers submitting AI-generated language in bills or amendments? MPs are definitely using AI to write their speeches in parliament: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/
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The username sounds Turkish. Make what you will of it.
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CBDC's are a gimmick. Alternatives like Union Pay and Rupay and were built without any of this nonsense. Same for Pix and UPI.
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The EU is perfectly capable of violating user privacy without the involvement of foreign tech.
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Is Henry Kissinger a tech bro? Is the New Yorker a VC publication?
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> and you can split the view You could do the same with Nautilus. But in their infinite wisdom GNOME developers decided to remove that ability.
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You can pretty much walk into any decent clinic and just ask for one.
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> We're made to feel like we should open source things and not retain exclusive rights to commercialization, because that's not open. The overwhelming majority of software is not opensource. Somehow the people writing and presu
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I used to work for Huawei where 996 or worse wasn't uncommon. While middle management definitely pushed for extended working hours, I didn't get the impression that anyone viewed it as failed management. If anything, upper managem
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Most Indian discoms (power distribution companies) have progressive slab rates for households.
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> Cory Doctorow has a compelling theory that the megatech companies have to appear to be startups, or else their share price reverts to normal multiples. Meta's P/E is about the same as S&P 500.
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by unmole 1y ago
A bit off topic but I've never understood how cash basis accounting is supposed to be simpler. How do people keep track of receivables and payables?
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- Supply chains - Skilled workforce - Risk capital - Regulatory overhead
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HN comments default to cynisim.
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> if you and me are living on an uninhabited island and grow/catch all of our food for consumption, our GDP is $0 No. The imputed value of goods produced for self-consumption is included in GDP calculations. The UN SNA term of art i

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