dunce2020
Re:Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to I...
on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:51PM (#25680408)
LMAO, the electoral college certification ain't democracy.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:17PM (#25661787)
and you're a retard.
Re:Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. T...
on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:52AM (#25658752)
> Is this some sort of a social response to how terrible and bleak reality seems to be?
Yep, a distraction to increasing alienation and atomization under Kapital.
Re:Extreme poverty is history in China, officials say
on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:27PM (#25617673)
Tech company employee donations are overwhelmingly democrat
A center-right party.
Re:Clams filter the water and check whether the water is polluted or c...
on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:36PM (#25588135)
Is the water vegan?
Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:31PM (#25586369)
What options are available if I want to keep it, security be damned?
Re:FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:23AM (#25552032)
Yes, I could have. But I didn't. Oh well.
Re:FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
on Sunday December 27, 2020 @10:51AM (#25551795)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby
but on accident.
Re:Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi
on Saturday December 26, 2020 @09:22AM (#25543623)
> Embarcadero Dev-C++ has a low memory footprint because it is a native Windows application and does not use Electron.
Seems like they're using it as a VS Code offering/counter.
Re:Amazon to face U.S. union push in year ahead
on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:24PM (#25532521)
His "special" skills didn't protect him from getting fired. Not that hard to understand.
Re:FreeBSD src repository has transitioned from Subversion to Git
on Thursday December 24, 2020 @09:54AM (#25527926)
I've only ever really used git as a locally hosted SVN.
Re:Amazon to face U.S. union push in year ahead
on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:33PM (#25525082)
> If you're a skilled worker, you're livelihood (and security) comes from your skills.
Didn't protect James Damore.
Re:Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds
on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:48AM (#25467579)
It's not always 100% correct, but when asking why someone didn't do the "right" thing you can usually answer with "their material conditions."
Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:42AM (#25399457)
What vetting do you do on people purchasing bandwidth?
How confident can I be that the Feds wont pay me a visit at 4am?
Re:Ask HN: Learning about philosophy
on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:25PM (#25317970)
Just take classes part time at your nearest CC/Uni.
Re:The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders
on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:16PM (#25156712)
Oracle might "fix" that?
Re:The SEC “Modernizes” the Accredited Investor Definition
on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:31PM (#25153995)
> Most people are 100% exposed to their job and perhaps their home, and I think it would be good if they would also invest small amounts long-term in businesses directly (rather than indirectly via bank savings).
$VT/$VTWAX let them invest in 8800+ different companies across the globe.
Re:Short term, high-dose Vitamin D supplementation for Covid, a random...
on Sunday November 15, 2020 @08:11AM (#25100907)
The fruit-juice drinkers, nudists, sandal-wearers, sex-maniacs, Quakers, ‘Nature Cure’ quacks, pacifists and feminists are all behind Big Vitamin D.
Re:The Economics of Sex Robots
on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @07:46PM (#24994633)
Peak alienation under Kapital
Re:Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval wi...
on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:35AM (#24942631)
> so I don't understand the obsession with correcting people online who call it "friction".
It lets dumb people feel intelligent. The type of person that confuses trivia for insight.
Re:Are we losing our ability to remember?
on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:30PM (#24921629)
Agreed - I learned examples, not rules.
Re:Are we losing our ability to remember?
on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:22AM (#24919782)
I don't know any of the definitions, grammar rules of English yet I'm still able to effectively communicate with and understand others.
Re:Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement
on Sunday October 11, 2020 @11:01AM (#24746228)
Naked Money/Naked Statistics/Naked Economics by Wheelan.
Re:Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement
on Sunday October 11, 2020 @08:57AM (#24745460)
"The Theoretical Minimum" series by Susskind.
Re:Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of it...
on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:46AM (#24671665)
> It can't be one rule for the tech companies, and another for all the other companies.
Says who?
Re:Calibre 5.0
on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:50AM (#24588809)
Calibre rules.
Re:Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri
on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:37AM (#24452313)
That's how you know the author is cool and irreverent. An iconoclast!
Re:Ask HN: Do you send emails to yourself?
on Monday August 31, 2020 @08:49AM (#24330897)
Yes, journal@(my name).com
Re:Secrets of Elite College Admissions
on Sunday August 30, 2020 @10:12PM (#24327887)
They're not fucking nerds, no.
Re:Warren Buffett traded Goldman Sachs for gold
on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:10AM (#24168013)
That's not hypocrisy.