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esharte··on An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence
Not everyone lives in America
esharte··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
Buy some empathy
esharte··on Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
Did you miss the whole part where these "policial opponents" attempted a coup against the democratically elected president?
esharte··on Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
"Coaching works best for those who are ready for forward movement"

Meaning "if our product doesn't work, it's really your fault"

esharte··on Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
Another thread where all the libertarians that US tech culture attracts come out and have a go at the EU
esharte··on Dublin Airport airbrige collapsed, damaging American Airlines Boeing 787
You likely just went through the newer terminal 2 that time but it's been open 13 years already.
esharte··on Wizards of the Coast Raids YouTuber’s House to Take Back Magic Cards
>"Weren't they pretty beloved by fans before some of these more recent actions?"

No definitely not

esharte··on Google Bard blocks all European Union countries
"Hacker News is full of libertarians"
esharte··on We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates
If you lived in the UK, supported Tottenham and wanted to watch all their games in the 2021/22 season you had to:

Subscribe to Sky Sports (around £50-60 a month) for the Premier League games.

Subscribe to BT Sports (30 a month) for the Saturday early kick off Premier League games and the Europa Conference League games.

Subscribe to Amazon Prime for the 3 random weeks when they are showing the Premier League games instead of Sky.

Subscribe to Premier Sports (£12 a month) to see a Europa Conference League 2 legged qualifier.

And even then you couldn't see all the games legally in the UK because of the 3pm Saturday black out. You are forced to find a stream from another country where they are broadcasting the game.

Then when you are subscriped you get wall to wall gambling adverts during half time. For every other product you subscribe to, it is to avoid ads, but not television.

esharte··on Dungeons and Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition
This was preceded by WOTC bringing in new top brass from Microsoft.

They intend to promote DnD primarily as a digital product.

esharte··on Association between Vitamin D supplementation and Covid infection and mortality
The guy that promoted Ivermectin. He is a proven crank at this stage
esharte··on Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?
I had an ethics module in my Engineering degree. I'm guessing you didn't.
esharte··on Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
Why don't cinemas have them then?

It's because people are listening to shows through terrible audio setups by default

esharte··on Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows
The issue is the "Mourning period" is being used as cover to crown a new monarch with no opposition. People are being told "not now", and how disrespectful they are.

This is by design.

Meanwhile it's somehow not disrespectful to replace the Queen within hours.

esharte··on I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
Firefox is worth it alone for its 'reader view'. Especially on Android. And it's the easiest way to get around the likes of the NYT weak paywalls.
esharte··on A newly updated index ranks English proficiency around the world
Look how Europe corresponds with this map of which countries dub foreign language TV shows and Movies versus which ones use subtitles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/59zyal/map_of_europ...

esharte··on After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning
If I was Techcrunch writer I'd be more concerned about what is going on at Oath than Nvidia having a few bumper years.
esharte··on Who Were the Mamluks?
I really enjoyed the wonderful In our Time podcast about the Mamluks https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bfmlh
esharte··on Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All
Housing is used as an investment asset and a source of income rather than a home.

If you took all the investors out of the housing market, housing should cost just the price of construction.

esharte··on Why I’m Using a Flip Phone
Welcome to the new "I don't own a Television"
esharte··on Possible Vendetta Behind the East Coast Web Slowdown
I had to move my DNS servers off google today to get twitter to load.
esharte··on Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List
The $5 isn't going to the content creators.
esharte··on I set up the petition for London's independence. Here's how it would work
If London was as smugly left wing as he the author thinks it is then it would not have voted Boris Johnson as mayor for two terms. The same Boris Johnson that was the head of the Leave campaign.
esharte··on Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit
No one knows. That is where the instability comes in. That is why there is an effect on the price of the British pound, markets etc.
esharte··on Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit
Schengen just means that there is no border control at the border of other Schengen countries. People from other EU countries can still enter and live in non Schengen countries, they just have to show a passport. That is not really control of your own border.

If 5 million people decide to move from Finland to Ireland in the next month there's nothing anyone in either country can do to stop them. One is schengen country one is not. Both are in the EU.

esharte··on Richard Prince, the world’s highest-grossing “photographer”
I get that a photograph can qualify as having it's own copyright. But what he's done here is take a screenshot on iOS. Surely screenshots don't qualify as photographs.
esharte··on I quit the tech industry
>~53% high tax rate with only about ~$35K in income

I'm sorry but you cant just go on to HN and make stuff up.

You pay 20% on the first €33,800 income and only 40% on income over €33,800 if single.

You pay 20% on the first €42,800 income and only 40% on income over €42,800 if Married with one income.

You pay 20% on the first €67,600 income and only 40% on income over €67,600 if Married with two incomes.

You pay 20% on the first €37,800 income and only 40% on income over €37,800 if a single parent.

esharte··on The Last Man to Beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. Still Regrets It
Signing a contract in a language you don't understand is not an opportunity anyone on here should recommend.

The guy was a few days before an Olympic final he rightly should have won.

After that would have been the time for dealing with offers.

esharte··on Has the time come for a physics notation standard?
As an undergraduate I sit in classes being taught to use meaningful variables in code. Then I walk into one of the many math and physics lectures and wonder what meaningless single letter variables are we see scribbled on the whiteboard today.

This wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have a class with a different lecturer using different notation afterwards.

Should each lecturer introduce their notation the first time its used in class?

Why can't they just use use proper meaningful variable names?