lkrubner

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by lkrubner 17d ago
In late 1945 the exchange rate was 360 yen to 1 dollar. If that was good in 1945 then it should be good in 2026 because nothing ever changes.
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Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?
5 points by lkrubner 3mo ago|8 comments
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by lkrubner 4mo ago
The Iliad was written after the classical era of Bronze Age Egypt, so no classical age mummy could be buried with the Iliad because it didn't exist yet.
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by lkrubner 4mo ago
No, it is exactly the same thing. The tax on cassettes raised money that was given to artists.
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by lkrubner 4mo ago
Nothing you said is true. The fact that you didn't name a single person is an example of the style of reasoning that has increasingly shaped USA discourse over the last 60 years. If you don't have specifics then you are simply giv
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by lkrubner 4mo ago
The problem is more general. Trust in American institutions peaked in the 1950s. Starting in the 1960s, Americans began to slowly withdraw from institutions, and also distrust them. Robert Putnam covers this in his book "Bowling Alone.
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by lkrubner 7mo ago
“Ireland offers long-term grants for artists” is how this would have been written 50 years ago. The idea is not new, only the rhetoric.
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by lkrubner 11mo ago
Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection -- this totally makes sense if you assume they believe that the future of human connection is with an AI friend. That https://character.ai is so enormously popular w
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by lkrubner 11mo ago
I don't think this is a great article, as I think it focuses too much on the Washington Post, but there are some issues that will have to be addressed in American democracy. National democracy is built on top of local democracy, in the
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by lkrubner 11mo ago
They went from $559.36 to $132 a month on Hetzner, and they seem happy about the performance. This matches my own experience as well, I have been stunned regarding Hetzner and how cheap it can be.
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by lkrubner 11mo ago
Why do volunteer firefighters rush into a burning building to try to save children from some family they have never met before? Every day we afforded examples of people sacrificing their personal interests for the benefit of others. But als
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by lkrubner 11mo ago
I tried to read this, but it's just gibberish. I cannot figure out what you are trying to say. Obviously Putin leads the international right-wing movement. This is well known. I have to assume you have some deep emotional commitment to
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by lkrubner 11mo ago
You are making up your own, personal definition of genocide. But "genocide" has a specific definition under international law, and it is a crime of intent. Israel clearly had no intent to permanently remove the people of Gaza, sin
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by lkrubner 11mo ago
In late 2021, Ed Zitron wrote (on Twitter) that the future of all work was "work from home" and that no one would ever work in an office again. I responded: "In the past, most companies have had processes geared towards offic
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by lkrubner 11mo ago
It's not invisible, because some people can see it. It is illegible because the leadership of a large company won't know how to interpret it. This particular usage of "illegible" has been around for awhile, but is probab
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by lkrubner 1y ago
"Ordinary people—who watched their rent, groceries, and gas bills skyrocket—saw a profession more invested in protecting Democratic policy narratives than in telling the truth. The result is a self-inflicted torching of trust." Th
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by lkrubner 1y ago
England was the first nation to escape from famine. A national market began to take shape shortly after the civil war, and the national market transformed traditional famine into a question of high prices. Jethro Tull began his experiments
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by lkrubner 1y ago
I have read that before the Industrial Revolution, most people faced famine for about 10% of their lives. And while, historically, that would have probably been concentrated into a few bad years during their lifetime (months of starvation,
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by lkrubner 1y ago
Surprising they don’t mention Fernand Braudel: https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-Capitalism-15th-18th-Cen... The Annales journal was established in 1929 and shaped the context of everything that Christopher Hill did: htt
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by lkrubner 1y ago
Sadly, these tweaks don't address any of the more obvious oddities that people have with proportional representation in the legislature. While such a system won't necessarily end up with Dutch levels of weirdness, it is still poss
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Ask HN: What is the best open source software for a jobs board?
1 points by lkrubner 1y ago|0 comments
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by lkrubner 1y ago
If intelligence was always the correct answer then it would have developed much faster than it did.
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by lkrubner 1y ago
I agree with the emphasis on networking. At the risk of sounding like I am doing an advertisement, last month I gave away 5 free tickets to graduates of Fullstack Academy to come to my event, and one of those people found a part-time connec
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Here in the USA we currently have a regime that is focused on destroying all forms of American power: they are destroying our economic power, they are destroying our cultural power, they are destroying our military power. They are destroyin
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Ask HN: If you use MongoDB, is there any reason to use Kafka?
1 points by lkrubner 2y ago|1 comments
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Nate Silver has shifted his politics very far to the right. That's simply a fact. He used to do reports on polling in which his math was straightforward and very reasonable, and back around 2016 he gave the public a good education abou
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by lkrubner 2y ago
"But what does this mean for frontline engineering managers? Is the new normal just about writing more code and doing less of the other things that peacetime managers would normally do?" "Should they be able to do code review
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Decentralization is not the answer. Centralization is the answer.
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by lkrubner 2y ago
What we are seeing is clearly an act of malice. We need to be honest about that. Trying to obfuscate what we are seeing helps no one. We should use plain English and talk in a straightforward way about what is happening.
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by lkrubner 2y ago
We can rebuild the government. We will eventually rebuild the government. All of these agencies will eventually be rebuilt. It might take 20 years, but eventually the USA will get back to where it was in late 2024, in terms of state capacit

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