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They don't think you have less moral status than other humans, including religious ones.
Re:Dates That Don't Exist (2015) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:10AM (#49170072)
> The Eastern Orthodox church even continued well after that, only switching to the Gregorian calendar in 1929.

Technically, they switched to the Revised Julian[0] calendar, not the Gregorian. Also, it was only some of the churches making up Eastern Orthodoxy that switched; others remain on the Julian calendar to this day, and all of them still use the Julian calendar to calculate the date of Pascha.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_calendar

Re:Discord Alternatives, Ranked on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @10:19AM (#46976013)
I read in another post that HMC forked from before the Stoat rebrand and are maintaining their own fork until the rebrand settles down, so that probably reduces the instability.
> You might personally have seen a deer just once, but human evolution, and animal evolution prior to that have practiced this skill a lot.

Which pre-human animals evolved instincts for swerving a car to avoid a deer?

Re:Yes, we did discover the Higgs on Friday October 25, 2024 @11:41AM (#41946338)
> I think the author is using the original motivation of musing on null hypotheses to derive the title "The Higgs Discovery Did Not Take Place",

It's probably a reference to "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" by Jean Baudrillard, which took a similar critical view of the Gulf War as TFA takes of the Higgs discovery.

Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation on Monday September 09, 2024 @10:26PM (#41496592)
> the organization that was given plenty of time

One week doesn't seem like "plenty of time" to me. The guy who ack'd the initial report and created the vulnerability tracker in GitHub was on vacation.

Re:Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams on Monday April 08, 2024 @10:14AM (#39969931)
Yeah, most artists let you listen to the whole album before you buy it. Sometimes there are songs that don't have previews, and I think there are sometimes hidden songs included with the album but not even listed, but in general you can stream a few times before buying, and then stream as much as you want afterwards.
Re:Faircamp Is a Free Bandcamp Alternative on Thursday January 25, 2024 @12:51PM (#39132332)
I, for one, hope that the "product vision" people stay far away from it. It works perfectly for the thing it is: an easy way for listeners to listen to and purchase DRM-free music files.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023) on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:17AM (#37496349)
Are you still taking applications for the Software Engineer role? I see the req is still open
Re:Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @05:25PM (#37228723)
nix.dev added a new tutorial for that recently: https://nix.dev/tutorials/learning-journey/packaging-existin...
So what this really says is that 80% of executives would have used a different approach if they had data about the subject. Which... is pretty lackluster? If you don't change your strategy in response to new data, you're bad at your job.
Man, I have backend-specific experience with .NET and all I can find are job postings for frontend, Python, and node. Where are your job postings?