room4

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by room4 2y ago
> the only explanation I can come up with Maybe you should think about it a while longer. Or find a friend who's better at coming up with ideas to help. There are about a zillion other explanations. Maybe they think that "ANY m
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by room4 2y ago
Maybe the problem is that the government funding is unreliable, the rules keep changing and progress keeps getting interrupted.
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by room4 2y ago
I agree that this is bad, but we've already had state mandated lists of forbidden words for years, and this is a reaction to those less explicitly defined rules. The shift is just which layer of the establishment is making and enforcin
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by room4 2y ago
Germany could power their entire grid using only Organic, fair-trade, hand-picked, artisanal Uranium and still be far ahead of relying on fracked gas and petroleum. Wind and Solar are great, but still require peaker plants to maintain 24x7x
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by room4 2y ago
I drove a Hyundai that wanted to sync contacts from my phone when I connected it to Bluetooth to play music. I declined for privacy reasons, and the car then had this loud booming audio request to sync contacts every single time I turned on
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by room4 2y ago
> thus why most consider them to be white collar You've claimed this twice, but I would guess that almost no one thinks a bank teller is white collar. Sure they work in an office environment, but their role is more similar to the cl
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by room4 2y ago
From the HN guidelines: Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
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by room4 2y ago
Ironically, the actual violence was the people negligently spreading a disease that harmed the innocent people around them. There's a funny spectrum between like, someone intentionally infecting the water supply of a city with a diseas
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by room4 2y ago
> how dumb it was for them to think they could create new legal/copyright theory in the wake of the mass-hysteria of 2020. I haven't followed the details of this case, but as a general notion, that sounds kinda reasonable to me
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by room4 2y ago
> Saying "raise your son to be patriotic and fight for his country" is acceptable in western societies. Maybe kinda in some circles? I suspect almost none of the tech-worker urban liberals who are the majority on HN would embra
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by room4 2y ago
> In places like the US, employees are often terrified of getting fired or laid off because they'll lose their health insurance This is a common misunderstanding. If an American loses their job for any reason, they can always keep t