HigherPlain

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by HigherPlain 4y ago
Whilst it's easy, simple and populist to blame a tiny [x] group of people for all that is wrong with society, it does not have a good historical precedence: try asking any Germans you know! More difficult is to acknowledge the huge mid
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
That's a slightly "luddite" interpretation. The bus conductor job-class was outmoded by technology. More jobs are created at a higher technology level. This is how society has progressed for all history. A fantastic Mitchell
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
Seconded. Don't waste life wrangling raw PDF.
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
Privacy concerns are for everyone, not just rich people. Please don't bring culture wars into this.
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
This is absurdly wrong. The average working person's pension is heavily invested in stocks.
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
I think everything you typed appears to be wrong? For instance there are no laws keeping prices close to producer price. That task is done by the competitive marketplace in capitalism. In socialism/communism the price is controlled by
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
I'm with you, I try and use a different word whilst keeping it plausibly common, it's part of the cerebral challenge. Using an algorithmic approach is efficient but not "fun". Target is always 3.
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
It's not about being offended, it's about having control. The power to change words, and what that represents.
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
It's Bing.
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
DDG is Bing, they use its API to get the search results. They augment it with other sources to provide the "value added" part, but that's a tiny part. DDG doesn't want you to know that it is Bing, but Bing is what it is.
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
Business Insider is not a credible news source, although the paywalled Times (UK) seems to be reporting it too.
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
In particular the posts from /r/politics which hit the front page are often Q-anon tier; absurd misinformation and extremist rhetoric. But yes the smaller sub-reddits can be good.
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
I think people here are underestimating how difficult it is to implement is_deleted in a production system. Literally EVERY query has to be rewritten to reflect the new database schema. If it's not been implemented from the start then
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
"Republicans have repeatedly claimed for over a decade now that the Democrats run an international child sex trafficking network" You're referring to Qanon type people? They are fringe extremists. Why would you group all repu
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
To clarify, if there is a fixed div at top or bottom of page, then pressing space scrolls too far, missing a paragraph of text.
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
Most americans are happy with their employee health plan. Why would they go on strike?
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by HigherPlain 4y ago
A great article which is ruined by politicising it as a "rightwing problem". Everything the author identifies applies equally to rhetoric from the left, as anyone who has spent time on the r/politics section of Reddit or Twit
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Ask HN: Can any browsers scroll a page of text properly using the spacebar?
2 points by HigherPlain 4y ago|3 comments