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by jesushax 3y ago
Isn't this basically how Reddit got popular, when everyone was mad about Digg's UI update so they wanted an alternative?
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by jesushax 3y ago
After /r/TheDonald was banned, a bunch of right wingers did exactly this by creating TheDonald.win and other sites (including one for /r/TheRedPill), forming the win network. Honestly, the interface was better than Reddi
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by jesushax 3y ago
Coincidentally, I just became Top Rated Plus (as opposed to normal Top Rated) on Upwork thanks to finishing my first large contract! I'm going to have a mini-party with my wife to celebrate, haha. Upwork dramatically changed my life. I
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by jesushax 3y ago
Your population size is not growing anywhere near exponentially: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=us+popula...
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by jesushax 4y ago
A good friend of mine is hiring engineers who want to transition to providing therapy for digital nomads, remote techies, and such. His practice actually specializes in therapy and mental health for remote workers and engineers. They provid
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by jesushax 4y ago
I didn't even know David Hasselhoff made music and this song is amazing, thanks a lot for sharing!
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by jesushax 4y ago
>Funnily enough, the old.reddit.com view does have a <link> to the RSS feed. Maybe that's not a coincidence! Aaron Swartz, one of the co-founders of Reddit, was also one of the developers of RSS. Most people already know his s
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by jesushax 4y ago
Who says the two parties aren't on the same team? Maybe the winning team is corrupt politicians and the facade of ideology is a marketing gimmick that sells tickets but at the end of the day, the NFL doesn't care whether you buy a
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by jesushax 4y ago
You are completely correct, I didn't mean to argue against the Dems, just noting that I hear this critique raised against them a lot. >Arguably by the same reasoning, republicans benefit from legal abortion and their finally getting
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by jesushax 4y ago
TIL about the contenteditable attribute, which it turns out can be used on arbitrary elements to make them editable! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att... You seem like a really
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by jesushax 4y ago
He probably didn't have the stat off the top of his head, so it was exaggerated based on assumptions. But the underlying intuition had a kernel of truth and applies to any political party, or any institution, really. For example, if an
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by jesushax 4y ago
> GNU Taler is developed as part of the GNU project for the GNU operating system. Ha, yes, the GNU operating system. I appreciate GNU's commitment to this idea notion that they are developing an operating system (for which Linux is
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Coding on a programmable calculator in prison (a.k.a. prison game boy story)(codeofhonor.substack.com)
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by jesushax 4y ago
A time of my life that I deeply regret and learned a lot from, full of brutality and fear, but also moments of beauty and wonder. I wonder if any other excons are here on HN.
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by jesushax 4y ago
As a Judoka, I wish this was about normal Judo. You know what, I'm going to blog about Judo and submit it here when I'm done. See you in a few days!
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by jesushax 4y ago
Migrant caravans are definitely real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_American_migrant_carav... I've been to Tapachula, Chiapas and it's wild. If you ever go, ask the mototaxi guys for a balsa across th
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by jesushax 4y ago
And only 40 minutes for this thread to become about Hitler.
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by jesushax 4y ago
That is the lowest possible bar for free speech, which as a philosophical principle goes way further. Here's a good talk from Hitchens on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY I'm not a free speec
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by jesushax 4y ago
I learned about Chez when Racket started their rewrite from C to Chez. Made me think why they don't just build Racket entirely in its self!
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by jesushax 4y ago
To be fair, Goodreads also doesn't let you read the book right there on the site. And while I agree it would be convenient for music, I'm so desperate for a good discovery mechanism that I'll gladly accept this (currently I u
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by jesushax 4y ago
It seems so. According to https://worldhistorycommons.org/sumerian-school-days : >This tablet, from ancient Sumeria (as early as 2000 B.C.E.), details a day in the life of a school boy. Students learned by copying lessons
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by jesushax 4y ago
Any specific texts you can recommend?? Thanks!
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by jesushax 4y ago
Which famously resulted in the Reign of Terror ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror ) before collapsing into Napoleon's imperial dictatorship.
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by jesushax 4y ago
You mean "frisco" :D
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by jesushax 4y ago
Probably too much load, should've implemented a modern cache for this page
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by jesushax 4y ago
The same debate applies to all of those things, so this is just another instance of Python battling with a philosophical principle underlying the language, which naturally arises anytime a redundant (but good) feature like this is added to
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by jesushax 4y ago
This debate could be summed up as: There's more than one way to do it *vs* there should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do it
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by jesushax 4y ago
Since we're all about open source, here's the code: https://gist.github.com/JesusAlexV/e561cf3e96fe092f004f75bde...
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I created a free malware to become the next TikTok
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by jesushax 4y ago
>But social media is basically letting everyone have a voice in the conversation Me and Elon Musk both have "a voice" but one reaches much farther than the other. It's like saying capitalism is true democracy because every

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