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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years? on Saturday September 20, 2025 @09:01AM (#45313023)
This means that this person isn't desperate enough to make money. Otherwise, they would have taken any job.

But I also understand them, if they don't like the offering and also have enough money or don't have to have a job to reside in their country then why not.

Re:Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf] on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:40PM (#45306291)
Thanks for your post! Is there a way to add a comment there?
Re:Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024) on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @08:02AM (#45025349)
You can't copy a method from a class and then paste it in the REPL, it will complain about indentation.

Workarounds:

1) copy whole class

2) remove indentation before copying

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:14AM (#44837984)
No, but I think that diplomacy layer did a horrible job in stopping that conflict early. They signed the Minsk agreements just to ignore them later
Re:DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress on Saturday June 28, 2025 @11:09AM (#44405221)
Nice media-led narrative.

The real reason is that the US cannot compete fairly

Good that you're not a policy maker. I'll order something from temu today
Environment protection in the EU

good:

- replace plastic straws/cups with paper based ones

questionable:

- limit nicotine products to 10ml, so now instead of buying one bottle (200ml for example) of nicotine you have to buy 20 bottles 10ml each - ???

For users who aren't familiar with 4chan - this post describes only one board - /pol/, where you can find hateful posts about every race and religion. 4chan have 30+ boards in total
Re:China Raises Tariffs on US Goods to 84% as Rift Escalates on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @09:24AM (#43631787)
> When China was content to make stuff and not invade places

Can you tell me more about Chinese invasions?

> saying it will take back Taiwan

Should the world cancel the USA because it is saying something about annexing Canada\Greenland?

Re:Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:09PM (#43405159)
Good browser, I have been using it for 5 or more years

Workspaces to organize tabs, gestures + layout customizations are all great

> He was from a rich family who gave him everything, including the best education. He had ample free time to be a kid. He was personally escorted to school on a horse and had private tutors on call.

> His family barely got money to eat most days. Cody had to work to help support his family but through struggle was still able to attend school. He had to do his homework on the bus. His life was full of hardship and out of necessity he did little else than work and study.

Cool narrative building, but this information should not matter for the employer, because that particular employer selects candidates based on grades - I see no issues with it

Your comment is also implies that a kid from a rich family should have higher grades, but it's flawed - who has more motivation to achieve something?

Also between "rich" and "poor" families there are a lot of kids from "medium" families, what about them?

> The CCP could mandate that the TikTok algorithm display certain types of political content

Who couldn't? Do we have a proof?

> It's not the US - they are punished in China in a way that doesn't happen in the US.

Do you have a comparison graph? You seem to be knowledgeable

> No evidence?

No

> You’re seeing what you (and TikTok) wants you to see.

No, they can show me anything, but I decide to click or not to click on it - just the same thing as HN.

Not every company should be a public one. Valve is not a public company, so what?

Re:Lex Fridman Interviews Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:14PM (#42626139)
> There is no "slap on the wrist" expression in russian language

> When you say in russian 'beat their hands' it means punishment

Do you speak russian? They have "получишь по рукам" "получить по рукам" which has the same meaning as "slap on the wrist"

But before Gaddafi was publicly executed we had a lot of negative news about Libya but now Libya is a forgotten country.
US has its Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), multiple countries have this kind of law, I have no issues with it.

Why Georgians should be scared?

Re:TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:41PM (#42345358)
> massive predatory loans

Were they forced to use them?

Re:TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:34PM (#42345300)
Not sure that we can use Reddit as a good example, Reddit's "Popular" page was full of anti-Trump mockery while praising Biden no matter what initially and then they switched to praising Kamala, this example is not healthy if you was looking for unbiased information about candidates.
> TikTok needs to be banned.

It won't achieve anything. The issue is not about China/Russia/America or mobile apps it's about media and media control.

Even your comment is filled with a negative narrative - Western Democracies VS our enemies ( China, Russia, etc ... ).

> drive out American relationships for China and Russia to take over quietly

Is it bad for a union to have multiple relationships or multiple vectors of development?

> it is creating mayhem in the systems we have grown to trust

I don't see it, but if something can cause a mayhem in the systems this means that these systems are flawed?

Hots feels great because it has multiple maps, you don't have to farm/ buy items, but it can feel boring comparing to Dota2/Lol
> * if you wanted micromanaged static MOBA: Dota 2

Static? Dota 2 is not a dynamic game? Not why wdym by "micromanaged" - Meepo, Nature prophet?

> * If you wanted a 3rd person shooter MOBA: Smite

Paragon?

> HotS tried to mimic LoL

Completely different games, hots feels more like a team based game compared to Dota 2 or Lol because it has shared experience + no gold + no items - so the gap between a good and a bad player is not that visible compared to Dota2/Lol where you can abandon your team for 20-30 minutes and then destroy everyone

Re:Cqwrteur's fork of Linux kernel, rename it to Cinux on Friday October 25, 2024 @10:51PM (#41952152)
Good, people shouldn't be discriminated based on a place where they were born. We all live on one planet together, but people are placing the "county" concept above anything else, which often unites to hate "foreigners"
I don't understand why it's acceptable in the modern world to discriminate a human being based on where they were born? I see no protests, no news about it, everyone silently agrees.

Feels like they learnt nothing from racial discrimination

> Sure, it’s ok for them to decide what kind of content they want on their own platform.

Even political content?

When I visit Reddit's Popular page it's pretty obvious which party and candidates they are pushing.

Maybe they are now ( haven't used Whatsapp in a while ), but not 5-10 years ago
> Why are you treating any part of his interviews as valid information.

Why should I treat your comment as valid information?

> professional cryptographers pointed out Telegram's crypto is a mess

They can earn a lot of money via Telegram Bug Bounty Program if they can prove it

AFAIK all this info was leaked by the enemy of Pavel's brother, they had a conflict over a woman, not saying the information is false

> while driving a Mercedes it's typical for the rich to register their properties to a friend/family/classmate