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Re:Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta on Monday June 30, 2025 @09:04AM (#44422799)
I've always felt that the best part of writing on a computer is the ability to edit while you write, however, I also understand that doesn't work at all for a lot of people, so I think this app is neat even though I personally wouldn't use it.
Re:Juneteenth in Photos on Thursday June 19, 2025 @07:19PM (#44323394)
I'm unaware of a large non-Christian population living in the Confederate States of America.
Re:RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee on Monday June 09, 2025 @06:37PM (#44230330)
Everyone in the VC community who helped elect President Trump is partially responsible for each child that suffers and dies from a vaccine-preventable disease due to this action.
Re:Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 on Sunday May 25, 2025 @01:17PM (#44089223)
People will work until they're 80 rather than liberalize immigration.
I'm not sure why companies would want a patchwork of regulations across 50 different jurisdictions versus normalized national regulations.

Non-competes are anti-competitive nonsense, which is why the oligarchs love them.

Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:21AM (#42949711)
How is it inaccurate though?

Do you look at someone like Pete Hegseth and think "DEI hire"? You should, because he's in a position for which he is utterly unqualified because of the color of his skin and his political beliefs.

The current administration's purge of DEI has nothing to do with merit.

This gentleman is turning himself into wagyu.
Re:"We ran out of columns" – The best, worst codebase on Saturday August 03, 2024 @09:54AM (#41146622)
Databases have built-in features for this now. What the author is talking about is a regular table.

In reality, that wasn't too unusual to see because frameworks would use that technique because it's a lowest common denominator across RDMS.

Re:How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner on Friday July 12, 2024 @09:51AM (#40945572)
You frame this as a contradiction but a moment of reflection reveals that it's not.

If the US continues to aid Ukraine, then it's likely that Ukraine will be able to beat Russia eventually, due to the West's superior military equipment and tactics.

If the US stops aiding Ukraine, it will be much more difficult for Ukraine to beat Russia. If Russia achieves its goals and gains control of Ukraine, then yes, other NATO countries will be in danger.

Some of the "russia is loosing hard" news is propaganda of course, to raise the morale of people fighting for their homeland. I find it hard to get too mad about that.

Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant on Friday January 12, 2024 @11:52PM (#38977435)
It works in Firefox and Safari too. I like it a lot and pay for it.
Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:15AM (#36879094)
I hope this is something that non-Chrome Chromium-based browsers can omit from their builds.
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