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by xdennis 9d ago
Most people don’t have “é” on their keyboard, yet they still spell “fiancée”.
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by xdennis 10d ago
Singapore is a city, Australia is a continent. Singapore is a poor analog for pretty much every other country. It was founded precisely because it sits near a busy sea route. It makes sense for Singapore to be very open to trade. That does
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by xdennis 10d ago
> as it's a very common style to find for informal writing all over the internet No it's not. It's common in chats where those people don't bother with punctuation at all, often writing a single sentence over multiple
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by xdennis 10d ago
It's not derived from that. Most people don't use IRC anymore and there are basically no open chat platforms left. Most people now use phones to chat, where the keyboard automatically changes case for you after finishing a sentenc
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by xdennis 10d ago
What is the logic behind transforming `FreeBSD RCEs` to `freebsd RCEs`? If what you're trying to communicate is that, like Sam Altman, you're too cool the press the shift key, then why write some initialisms in upper case? After a
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by xdennis 19d ago
Mao did not simplify Chinese. The First Chinese Character Simplification Scheme simply adopted simplified characters in common use. But if it was such a great idea, why is it not an issue in Hong Kong which does not use it?
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by xdennis 21d ago
> The pedantry of being angry at the US for being the only country that actually has the word "America" in its name That is not the reason. People say that Columbus discovered America. They don't mean the country, they mea
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by xdennis 24d ago
> Canadian truckers were doing bad things and A/I were doing good things That is such a platitude that I'm not sure if you're serious or you're just attempting Reddit humor. But if you're serious, at least try to
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by xdennis 25d ago
Am I missing something? There's no SH in what GP said. What does SH even mean?
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by xdennis 28d ago
> Polls show the population regrets Brexit. They also showed that Brexit wasn't going to pass and Trump wouldn't get elected.
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by xdennis 29d ago
Do you really not care to know what the terrorist organization was before you assume that "they are fighting against oppressive bullshit"? Is A/I and ISIS the same to you?
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by xdennis 1mo ago
> You can not be simultaneously pro-legal immigration and support banning legal immigration. Nobody is banning legal immigration. It's being restricted. The headline itself says "pauses". Do you think no legal immigrant wi
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by xdennis 1mo ago
> The irony: many native Americans believe that all of your own immigrant ancestors should never be allowed to enter the US. And your lesson from this is that Native Americans should continue to be ignored and more immigrants let in? If
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by xdennis 1mo ago
If you're saying that's hypocritical, it's not. Being anti-illegal immigration and pro-legal immigration doesn't mean you want to flood the country with legal immigrants. That's the case in the UK, by the way, where
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by xdennis 1mo ago
The trade bazooka was an empty threat. This is somewhat similar to the trillion dollar coin[1]. It's a tool used for negotiations, not a real thing. If the trade bazooka was real, wasn't this the best opportunity to use it? What e
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by xdennis 1mo ago
As a previous massive cheater in RPG games (when a was young and it was easy to write your own tools) the reason to cheat is because many games (especially RPGs) have bullshit mechanics. You have to perform a lot of repetitive stuff to get
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by xdennis 1mo ago
> The part that astonishes me is that in the year of our common era two thousand twenty-six It astonishes me that in 2026 AD, people still like to pretend that our calendar is not based on Christ's supposed birth. Christians have no
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by xdennis 2mo ago
I'd rather have OpenAI steal from Apple, the most valuable company in the world than to steal from everyone else: published books, StackOverflow users, Reddit comments I made 15 years ago, etc. I have no sympathy at all for Apple in th
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by xdennis 2mo ago
> Microsoft stole my copy of Minecraft. Microsoft stole two of my accounts. I bought Minecraft in the alpha days when all you needed was a username and password. At some point they mandated an email in the years I wasn't playing and
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by xdennis 2mo ago
> We are not in the business of mass massacres. Ridiculous take. Defense is not a massacre. They are almost all fighting age men, and they outnumber the fighting age men of Ceuta. They've caused enourmous damage to Ceuta. All of thi
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by xdennis 2mo ago
> What's with big tech companies changing all searches to be fuzzy? Probably because it maximizes usage time, so more ads are served. If the user gets what he's looking for as the first result, he spends hardly any time on the
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by xdennis 2mo ago
No it's not. Americans call it that and they don't even like football.
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by xdennis 2mo ago
Also Reddit-style humorous replies were frowned upon because they ruin serious discussion and encourage karma chasing as opposed to providing valuable insight.
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by xdennis 2mo ago
People don't remember now, but in the old HN comments like "this is so true honestly" would have been downvoted. If a comment just agrees with the parent, people would have said that's what the upvote button is for. Addi
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by xdennis 2mo ago
> Who said it was evidence? Did a judge authorize or issue a warrant to collect said evidence? Absent that, it's just your property, and you can do with it as you please. Why do people go sovereign citizen when reality doesn't
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by xdennis 2mo ago
How is that in any way equivalent? The American government/legislature doesn't force you to adopt any particular view of the 2020 election. You can say Biden won or you can say it was defrauded by dead people and Trump actually wo
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by xdennis 2mo ago
If you're not an English speaker, it's even more aggravating when speakers of your language replace common words with English ones to sound more sophisticated/corporate. So instead of using the native word for "knowledge
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by xdennis 2mo ago
Wow, I didn't expect to see transsexual steps in front of a church.
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by xdennis 2mo ago
Their priorities are all messed up. There are 12 emojis for pregnant non-women: 6 shades of pregnant men and 6 shades of pregnant non-binaries. But there's no emoji for things you do need, like pouting face (you're forced to use e
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by xdennis 3mo ago
> Considering YC invests in AI I doubt you’ll get anything of the sort. Conspiracy minded responses are low value, and yours is especially so considering HN bans AI comments.

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