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You are just very pessimistic and cinic person.

Governments DO HAVE to try to protect its citizens against internal and external threats. Otherwise people will "abandon" the government up to a certain point.

Case in point: When cartels dominated small towns in Mexico, people gathered in small armies (Auto defensas).

Same thing with Zapatistas.

Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:10PM (#47787493)
I find it funny you call it an Obsidian project.

It is just folders and MD files. You are not even locked-in with Obsidian.

Or maybe OpenClaw is reading the graph view?

Re:Nvidia NemoClaw on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:58PM (#47433436)
cant that be fixed, tho?

If the analogy is a personal asistant, a good assistant will know when to notify you and when not to.

Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did on Thursday March 12, 2026 @11:14AM (#47351867)
60% job loss is not off a cliff?

That huge job loss also means no hiring. If you were a bank teller you would seriously need to consider a job switch

Re:Microslop Manifesto on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:30AM (#47218393)
There was this old hispanic site called mocosoft (moco translates to booger) that was succesfully sued by Microsoft due to a very similar name.

Or at least the mocosoft owener received a ceise and desist by Microsoft and decided to drop the site.

I expect something similar with this site

Re:Helm v4.0.0 on Thursday November 13, 2025 @01:08AM (#45911301)
The way I understand, helm is the npm of k8s.

You can install, update, and remove an app in your k8s cluster using helm.

And you release a new version of your app to a helm repository.

Is opensource synonym of free?
Re:Detekt โ€“ A static code analyzer for Kotlin on Thursday July 24, 2025 @10:38AM (#44671262)
We use it for backend. F500 company.

There is almost no locking with Kotlin. You can stop writting Kotlin code any time and start writting Java code.

However I think it's not possible to call coroutine code from Java.

Fruits are good fiber sources.

Juices do not have fiber, just sugar.

Re:Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:58PM (#44265365)
Is there any way to check that with non-plain-text password?
Re:Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:57PM (#44265362)
Bad habits are hard to kill.

Sometimes you just cant convince people that something is no longer recommended.

That is assuming there is stil a company left.
Re:Elephants evolved to beat cancer, and how we could too on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @11:51AM (#44052795)
> It has been estimated as little as 5% of elephants ultimately succumb to cancer, compared to 25% of humans.

That's a scary percentage. And probably will increase if we dont radically change our life style and status quo

Re:The Worst Programmer I Know (2023) on Sunday March 23, 2025 @08:39PM (#43456982)
> The problem was that this intern was bad, so we had him write unit tests.

Please tell me you assigned this person a "increase code coverage" task and not "I wrote a new feature, write the unit tests for it" task

Re:Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study on Sunday February 23, 2025 @09:46AM (#43149583)
Which tradespeople have the same limitations as uber drivers?

> an Uber driver and accept and decline fares.

That just sucks. Bad system.

Re:Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study on Sunday February 23, 2025 @09:44AM (#43149567)
Yeah you could set your rate at 1m per hour but the market would kick you out.

Let's put an example with carpenters. Lets say I have contracted two different guys and I know how they work. One is cheap but unreliable and the other one is expensive but reliable. As the customer I can decide that the rate of the second one is acceptable and he is being fair with it because I have trust he will show up on time. If he were to charge me 1m per hour I'd no longer consider his rate as fair and no longer hore him for gigs. Also I can also search the unicorn carpenter who is cheap and reliable.

The market decides the rate. You can charge as little as you want but you might be missing money or even be in red numbers. Charge too much and you wont have contracts.

Setting your own rate is not the same as everybody accepting your rate.

> Dynamic pricing is suppose to do just that.

If an Uber driver has a nicer, cleaner car can he charge more? No. Then he cant set up his own rates. No matter how much better he is at the job he will charge the same as everybody else.

That's why Uber drivers are caught in the worst of two worlds. They are not employees but cant decide how much to earn per trip

Re:Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:51PM (#43144109)
Are you really an independent contractor if you cant set your own prices?

To me Uber drivers are neither employees nor independent contractors. Working as much or as little as they want is not enough to be considered independent contractor.

Re:Why Are Startups Losing So Much Money? on Monday November 25, 2024 @07:50PM (#42241605)
Tech is also a pretty wide umbrellla of industries.

A SaaS product is tech. So is a VR headset. One suceeding does not mean the other one will.

Re:Ask HN: Is It Wrong to Use My Personal Laptop for Work? on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @10:46PM (#41931429)
Yes, if they do provide one no matter of quality.

No if they dont.

Outer wilds is such a unique experience. Not only from other games, but I mean it as well as once you complete the game you wont experience it again.
Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:44PM (#41396786)
Yes, doesnt Elasticsearch do the same thing with Lucene?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27793721/what-is-the-dif...

AWS just offered a convenience layer over ElasticSearch

I dont think users care about sofwtare design.

At most they might care about non funcional requirements (e.g. security and performance)

It's not me, is it?
Re:Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras on Monday March 11, 2024 @01:16PM (#39670861)
Next time book a hotel then.

The only way things will change is if all of use refuse to keep giving them our money.

>He is not sure if he can recommend it for $3,000

Oh for fuck's sake

Why does it baffle you?

Kids are an expense. Money is tight.The future is bleak.

That's why I only have one kid (and it was unplanned). Every now and then my wife and I discuss having another one but the cons overcome the pros.

There is no non-selfish reason to bring a kid to this god-forsaken world.

Thats a strawman fallacy. You can control not writing your sticky note.

You cant control a sim swap attack.

>Nobody in the right mind will fire key software engineer 48 hours after system goes live.

Thats the thing. Hedge funds are not managed by people in their right minds

Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:38PM (#39256065)
>Eventually, everyone starts using it and then no one will be able to see properly at night anymore

That will be the only solution, truly.

We should all install these annoying headlights so they get banned

Re:Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% on Monday January 15, 2024 @10:48AM (#39002225)
I have worked in places where adding a new server is a bureocratic nightmare at best.

Granted I dont think thats the norm, but also host your webserver yourself is not as user friendly as AWS.

People always forget that.

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