mnouquet

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by mnouquet 5y ago
> Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? No, I will not. > Of course, it's cheap to create a new account, because we want HN to be open to newcomers Of course you don't, especially
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by mnouquet 5y ago
> because earlier planners were confident 50 years ago that single-family homes were the best option SFH IS the best options, nobody WANTS to live in an apartment if given the choice.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
If promoting a certain snake oil because you'll receive government favours, then it IS censorship, cf. all the Title IX unconstitutional enforcement following threats of pulling federal fundings. In this case, GAFAMs are scared as ca
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by mnouquet 5y ago
And naturally, it's blasphemous on HN to speak about it.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
> Making an official complaint to the appropriate government enforcement agency is the exact opposite of “vigilantism”. You're right, it's straight delation.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
> Why journalists don't call it as fraud? Because those who write these laws are the same signing the journalists' paycheck.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
> People want thin phones [Citation needed] My "thin" phone double in volume with the require case, so "thinness" is really a joke...
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by mnouquet 5y ago
It is actually a pretty good system for the CCP "politburo".
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by mnouquet 5y ago
which is gonna be useless if the part require write-only firmware which you cannot extract from the original part, eg. macbook's SMC.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
Southern BC is very much a desert and barely sees any snow in winter, yet negative temperature. Source: I have family in Osoyoos.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
On 10 July 1913, temperatures at the aptly named Furnace Creek area in the California desert reached a blistering 56.7°C (134.1°F). https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/move-over-death-vall... .
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by mnouquet 5y ago
Co-worker from Mumbai (yeah, here-say, I know) mentioned temperature up to 50C in the summer.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
2020: 347,104 hectares 2019: 21,138 hectares 2018: 1,354,284 hectares 2017: over 1.2 million hectares 2016: 91,817 hectares 2015: no global summary 2014: 360,000 hectares Source: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/
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by mnouquet 5y ago
BC had more than a millions acres burned a couple years ago. 85% of the damn province is forest, ravaged by beetle. Lots of tinder just waiting to catch fire, no excuse.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
There was a post yesterday about someone installing it on a recent machine and then swapped the drive to an older allegedly "unsupported" old machine and it worked just fine. YMMV.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
If you need more than a good bridgeport mill to make a firearm, you don't deserve to be in a shop... All you really need to make an AR lower is a drill and some aluminium plates. Heck, pakistanies are making a plethora of firearm with
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by mnouquet 5y ago
Just because they take credit for what they did in the past doesn't mean it will happen again. When did the ACLU last take the KKK's defence ? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-spe
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by mnouquet 5y ago
Existence of such groups is not your original assertion. You stated: > People are disinclined to support your rights if they see you as advocating against theirs. By that argument, the Libertarians would be loved by everybody, but they a
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by mnouquet 5y ago
This might have been the case maybe 30 years ago, today's mentality is really all about submission to power, their power. If they say "put a hand on your stomach, one on your head, and turn from right to left singing the Internati
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by mnouquet 5y ago
> Always look at why someone wants to censor Just as if logic was working. Last time I checked from the Smithsonian woke bullshit, logic itself is racist... Oh well. > we do need to have sex-ed in schools, you need to talk about homos
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by mnouquet 5y ago
Worked so well for Parler, Damore, or even Trump.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
What does China has to do with the actual conversation ?
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by mnouquet 5y ago
Are 95% (to be conservative) of the tech unicorns US-based ? At this point, you can start drawing a trend. European successes are more the exception than the rule, which is kinda irrelevant anyway as 95% of European successes will end up be
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by mnouquet 5y ago
> Until the iPhone, Europe dominated the mobile phone business There was no such thing a "European domination", it was all Nokia, and to a much lesser extend Ericsson.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
Nobody in the US pays the full 21% after taking into accounts credits and write-offs.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
None of these qualify as "industry" being mostly tertiary.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
That's probably not accountable as "renewable"...
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by mnouquet 5y ago
This ideology comes straight from the totalitarian outcome of the French revolution and its thinkers, eg. J.J. Rousseau, Robespierre, but also from the Catholic church itself. The Vatican "pezzonovante" preaching for poverty vows
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by mnouquet 5y ago
No, the Marxism is in having kids at the top being leveled down because of the kids at the bottom in the name of "equity" / equality of outcome.
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by mnouquet 5y ago
I made no argument about viability, merely about facts. Of course they do have something in common, indoctrinating the youth is the foundation of any regime.

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