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by pibaker 16d ago
If I am the evil corporations owning the state I would love to make all citizens pathetic cynics who think they have no capability for change and therefore bears no responsibility.
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by pibaker 16d ago
> There isn't. Not with this attitude.
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by pibaker 16d ago
Does the availability of oxygen bottles undermine the achievement of people who summited Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen?
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by pibaker 16d ago
Why does an optional, opt in easy mode take away the satisfaction of its target audience? You are not required to play it. It is like saying having a gluten free option on the menu takes away the enjoyment of a meal's target audience.
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by pibaker 16d ago
Getting past cloudflare can be a problem if you are from a less reputable country or a VPN or if you use a less conventional browser. There is also a larger problem of a private entity being the MITM for a large portion of internet traffic.
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by pibaker 16d ago
YMMV obviously but when I see someone using a phone case it's usually one of those thick rubbery protective ones, or one of those with a flap over the screen that also holds credit cards and IDs. There is a clear utilitarian case for p
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by pibaker 17d ago
Your definition of what is a social media site may differ from the definition of someone who has an axe to grind against you and take you and your phpbb forum to court.
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by pibaker 17d ago
Hard to blame this on politicians when raising gas prices is one of the most reliable ways of making voters mad.
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by pibaker 17d ago
There is only so much a human can master in his lifetime. And if you choose to master the art of video production, then you are probably not spending that much time on mastering the thing you yap about on camera…
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by pibaker 17d ago
If you are adding yourself to the docker group, you have presumably read the documentation and its warnings. Does an Omarchy user know the distro has made the decision on their behave? TFA spells out why this is wrong better than I could. &
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by pibaker 17d ago
It is one thing to do things the risky way on your own system and another thing to ship an unsafe and unconventional default to your users.
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by pibaker 17d ago
I was expecting a more sophisticated attack and then I scrolled down… > Omarchy configured its default user as a member of the Linux docker group. What the fuck? Docker makes it VERY, VERY clear this is unsafe. Feel free to verify the do
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by pibaker 17d ago
Your daily reminder that many people don't see lethal self defense as an unfortunate last resort. They active want to be put in a situation where it is justified so they get to enjoy killing another human, as seen on TV.
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by pibaker 19d ago
I don't think the local political mess in San Francisco warrants breaking two hundred years of federalism. Nothing does, really. Also worth keep in mind the US tried mass public housing projects in the 60s. And then they stopped becaus
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by pibaker 19d ago
I don't think you can equate Kalshi style "prediction market" with gambling in Vegas. The worst thing that can happen in Vegas is you the gambler go bankrupt. In the meantime we already have reports of war intelligence in Ukr
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by pibaker 19d ago
This is the third time in this thread you have called a game an edge case, or an odd one (Cyberpunk 2077), or an exception (The Witcher 3) I think if you have to keep adding these caveats to some of the most popular games of the past decade
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by pibaker 19d ago
It's less about being a maintainer and more about being on the SWE job market. Making it possible for any person to appear to be a prolific open source contributor even though his contributions are net negative for the projects he cont
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by pibaker 20d ago
Judging from your username you were from a country that ended up integrated into the EU. Good for you. But in Russia you can draw a direct line between the economical collapse and drop in living standards of the 90s and the rise of Putin as
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by pibaker 20d ago
An HN post like this will gather like what, at most two dozens of anecdotes from a highly self selected user pool of maybe a million top? Is this how you base your "sheer number" on? Is this how you judge what is good or bad for y
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by pibaker 20d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil
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by pibaker 20d ago
> https://dohmh.codify.nyc Why are you using a voice recognition box instead of just a plain old search bar? It took me a second to realize what's even going on and I backed out because I ain't giving you microphone
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by pibaker 20d ago
Alienating every allied nation with tariffs that come out of nowhere will surely help you win wars.
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by pibaker 20d ago
The charts in question are compiled by the Australian Recording Industry Association. It makes economical sense that they would not want something that bypasses the music industry completely on their charts.
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by pibaker 21d ago
> Homelessness on the other hand is mostly a mental health and drug addiction problem No it's not. It's not a coincidence that homelessness only skyrocketed at the same time housing price took off to the point even professional
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by pibaker 21d ago
"Check our Wikipedia page for our latest domain. Next stop the Central African Republic!"
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by pibaker 21d ago
Hacker News gets mad if you deviate a little from the usual profit maximizing routine to do something a little humanistic. And then they keep upvoting articles on how corpo streamlining sucks all life out and how the modern society lost its
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by pibaker 21d ago
Judging from the kind of content creators nebula hosts I'd imagine they do in fact have the kind of nerdy audience that notices miniature font differences.
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by pibaker 21d ago
I suspect for many people productivity tools are more about feeling more productive than actually being productive. And then there is the kind of people who spend time on productivity tools to avoid spending time on real, hard work.
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by pibaker 21d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
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by pibaker 21d ago
Don't forget the gas powered leaf blowers. A whole symphony of them.

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