berdario

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by berdario 2mo ago
I think that the concept of "Capitalism going wrong" is silly and ahistorical. Capital and capitalists ("capitalism" was initially not the focus) is a concept which appeared in the last 17th century with the Dutch East I
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by berdario 5mo ago
> "being heard and appreciated" ... is very recent and only from the last (or two) decade(s). I think that in the past it was just a lot more difficult to *not* be heard or appreciated at all
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by berdario 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars
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by berdario 5mo ago
(also a non-native speaker here, mildly annoyed by the obscure joke from GP) Wordplay are exactly the kind of stuff that LLMs excel at, so I asked Gemini flash, and I got > snarky play on words by suggesting that the answer to AnthonyMou
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by berdario 6mo ago
I think this is denialism of the profit that the USA extracts with its crimes. The most recent example include the profits from Venezuelan oil: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgn7p7g79wo https://v
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by berdario 6mo ago
I think there's a bit of confusion between > (Ethically, if you do not agree with the company you work at), the optimal course of action is.. And > Ethically, (if you do not agree with the company you work at, the optimal course
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by berdario 7mo ago
I don't think he's arguing for rural, just expressing concern about the *biggest* cities. > entertainment, variety, walkability, and many other benefits that rural places don't provide I appreciate all of this as well, but
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by berdario 8mo ago
Good point... It depends on what I would turn up. It it's something public/political like a Lemmy/Mastodon instance, I would pick a foreign jurisdiction which is unlikely to enforce something like the UK's OSA or USA and
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by berdario 8mo ago
> As a result they now can't book a hotel, use credit cards or access everyday services. As Nicolas Guillou says 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system' Totally agree that this is absur
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by berdario 9mo ago
Not only stupid, but also a nazi meme... Besides the appeal of "though people", the idea that we're also in a cycle, of which the current phase is the worst one, is also basically the Kali Yuga concept, popularised by openly
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by berdario 9mo ago
Yup, the change was in the news in September https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/china-blocks-sal...
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by berdario 9mo ago
> I don't think that there is any need to restart a new category. Just make your new phones... For HTC, yes... But neither LG nor Blackberry are still making phones
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by berdario 9mo ago
Since 2024, it isn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT
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by berdario 9mo ago
> I doubt even someone as big as Samsung will be willing or able to develop their own alternative OS Huawei pulled it out with HarmonyOS (I don't know how good/bad is it, and if it'll have staying power, but other companie
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by berdario 10mo ago
Despite what the USA did in its invasion of Vietnam, not because of it. Vietnamese are trying to not forget their history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Remnants_Museum (I'm not sure how many Vietnamese actual
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by berdario 10mo ago
I think there's a kernel of truth in what you said, but you're also talking about avoiding accidental "income inequality" in this comment, and "economic stagnation" in the other. It seems like you might've
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by berdario 10mo ago
Ok, but the market is absolutely flooded with exploitative stuff, laden with micro transactions and a trickle of miniscule rewards, in attempt to addict the user, rather than genuinely provide enjoyment. How do you even discover the good ga
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by berdario 10mo ago
Rooney is Irish, not British (nor a resident in Britain), so it's perfectly normal for her to try to avoid the consequences of a foreign regime trying to oppress its population. In the same way, someone who supports the Azov brigade, w
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by berdario 10mo ago
"defeated", yes "easily", not so much... As in, services can still detect if you're connecting through a VPN, and if you ever connect directly (because you forgot to enable the VPN), your real location might be dete
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by berdario 10mo ago
I tried with the same prompt in the examples provided on gibberifier.com, and it works well[1]. (Amusingly, to get the text, I relied on OCR) But I also noticed that, sometimes due to an issue when copypasting into the Gemini prompt input,
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by berdario 10mo ago
40% of the bombing victims in Gaza are under 10 years old https://msf.org.uk/article/gaza-msf-survey-shows-almost-half... Comparing it to the war in Ukraine ("Even in Ukraine") isn't really helpful or in
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by berdario 1y ago
FYI, most of your comments show up as [dead]. I assume that the ones that didn't (like this one) have been vouched by others. Not sure if dang see this, but it might be worth asking hn@ycombinator.com otherwise
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by berdario 1y ago
> Capitalism isn't meant to do anything. It was probably meant in the manner of: "the purpose of a system, is what it does"... I.e. regardless of how it evolved (system of laws written with good intent, or system of laws o
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by berdario 1y ago
> Insisting on flaunting English spelling rules... To flaunt: > display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance. To flout: > openly disregard (a rule, law, or convention). (
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by berdario 1y ago
Bland protest speech is already going to see you arrested under the Terrorism Act, we are way past a "first step". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/private-eye-ca... https:/&
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by berdario 1y ago
One big difference, is that the opposition to nazi Germany was relatively weak before the start of WW2: After Reginald Drax's mission to Moscow failed, the Soviet Union ended up signing its famous non-aggression pact. Italy was allied,
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by berdario 1y ago
> if this in fact is the first recorded death that is directly linked to the car driving itself There have been 51 such deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tesla_Autopilot_crashe... > There seems to be s
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by berdario 1y ago
And the bloomberg.com page hangs and never fully loads the video. I tried with 2 different browsers on 2 different devices, but it doesn't work on neither of them. (I've been able to see only the sun blinding the image, and the an
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by berdario 1y ago
> there are a number of places you can try those components out. Such as... ?
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by berdario 1y ago
> What's wrong with [...] You need to send money to a family member (immediate or extended), I tend to agree, but the same applies if one family member is in Belarus or Russia, and the other one is in the USA. I.e. just because it&#

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