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by wtcactus 11mo ago
One of the reasons I enjoy coming into HN. Is to read comments stating that the guy that created Facebook, alone in his dorm room, could “maybe“ be counted as a tech lead.
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
A planned economy will always, always get worse. All historical examples show us that. But you are free to give us an example of a planned economy that worked properly and brought freedom and prosperity to their citizens. Just one single ex
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
Oh, yeah. Regulating the food prices is the trick here. That went really well in the Soviet Union and Mao’s China... just to name a couple of examples. It's funny that for some people, the answer of the enormous failings of Marxism is
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
- “Hi. I’m an engineer at NASA.” - “(Scoffs). You’re an engineer? Yeah, right. What about that Challenger explosion? And how come you don’t put anyone on the Moon for 50 years? Engineer…” That’s how your comment reads.
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
According to the results of the article, one should be expecting the “World Coordinator”’s 1st action to be to abolish the post of World Coordinator and to reform society to escape the sick ideology of communism. Looks like not even Grok is
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
But, that’s the thing. Hyperbole is the only way of doing this an issue. Like you said with your example, any minimally functional citizen won’t have any trouble with this.
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
If you are doing integrated GPU transcoding, Intel is still the best option. That’s a bit niche though. But for a NAS is great.
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
We are talking about pennies here. I don't get it, what guidance do you really require? Do you think there will be some major cartel by the retailers to rip the costumers off, at maximum, 0.04 cents of a dollar per every purchase in th
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
When you go around advertising it, it’s a bit, yeah.
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
> "If the revolutionaries have won, Spain would have been an experimental socialist/anarchist republic." I tend to agree with that, because nothing shouts "experimental socialist/anarchist republic" like &qu
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
As you might understand (or avoid to). Franco didn't wake up one day and decided to start a civil war out of nowhere. In the period of 1933-1936, there was major violence against the legitimately elected Right-Wing government from Marx
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
I'm not going to comment on the words chosen by BBC to portray the case - I think there are a lot of other better entries on HN where BBC bias (or the lack of it) can be discussed. But I see a lot of comments here about what Fanquismo
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
What do you mean Portugal wasn't safe? I wholeheartedly agree it wasn't prosperous, but not being safe? Where did you take that from?
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
So, people should only be allowed to drink and to vote at 25? (And probably also drive, it always stuck us in Europe pretty weird you allow minors to drive in the USA as the car can be a very lethal tool).
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
The taxes come out of every taxpayers' pockets - forcibly - not from your pocket, as you seem to think. If you want to do charity, do it with your own money, your own time and your own effort. Wanting to redistribute other people'
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
There we go again. USA is the richest country in the world, people there, even the ones at the bottom of the work ladder, have access to riches that for most of the people on the planet are only dreams. You have no idea what it is to be poo
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
You are right it's not the kid's fault, and that they should be properly fed by the state since their parents are bad parents, but that doesn't mean you can't blame and call out the parents.
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
Well, some of us refuse to indulge in this permanent complete lack of accountability for one’s choices and actions, that people like you try to push.
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Alternate theory: their parents are too lazy to actually prepare proper food for them. Healthy food actually costs less than pre processed crap. But it does take a lot more time and effort to prepare.
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
Around Manchester.
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
Hum, there are a lot of trains from London to Manchester today for between 42-47£. Those do take 3h45m. But there are also trains for £80 that take 2h11m. https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/journey-planner/?type=single&
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
Depends. According to BBC & Friends, or according to reality?
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I hear these stories about UK private rail system being terrible for more than a decade now. But, truth is, I go there frequently and the times I had to use it it was quite fine. Lots of trains and they arrived on time (and they were fairly
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
> "If I wasn't a US citizen, and my goal wasn't to gain official, above-board citizenship in an EU-member nation by way of doing work as a programmer, system administrator, or other such similar job, then I imagine I would
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
Oh, right. Those famous EU Schrödinger emigration laws that let in 30 million people while simultaneously not letting you - specifically - get in. I'm sure that's your real reason for you not to follow your own advice. Advice that
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
We have millions of literally illiterate people living here on sketchy visas for more than a decade now. I’m sure an American with an IT background (degree or no degree) would not be sent away. Come and help us feed the great wealth redistr
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
Funnily enough you are also free to move here where you can have all that safety net you say is so great, and yet, you keep living in the USA. Funny how that works, isn’t it?
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57% is the average. If you are here writing on HN, it’s safe to assume you are way above average salary and taxes. But you are right, I don’t have to pay out the ass for my basic life-sustaining services… what I do have to pay out of the as
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
The ultimate “you will own nothing and be (un)happy” is the state, in EU countries, now taking an average of 57% off our salary in taxes and all kinds of mandatory contributions, and giving us little to nothing in return. I can live very we
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by wtcactus 11mo ago
Relativity restricts us to explore a very tiny sliver of the universe. We can observe, but we will never be able to interact unless Relativity is completely wrong.

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