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on: Wealthy EU states treat Eastern Europe as a colony
My point is that all those things happen in Belarus as well, except even worse. The average salary in Poland is around $1500 usd. In Belarus, it’s 300. In Ukraine, it’s around 800. Belarus is not immune from brain drain, either. Those who can leave, do leave. So the author should consider the alternative to joining the EU before calling the relationship exploitive.
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on: Wealthy EU states treat Eastern Europe as a colony
Are the non-EU states like Belarus and Ukraine really better off than CEE EU states? While the situation may not be ideal for the CEE EU states, the alternative doesn't seem great either.
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on: Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
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4 years ago
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on: Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager (2018)
How is integer factoring not the best-known possible example of a quantum speed-up? What was special about this recommender system problem?
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Dear Non-tech founders, how do you build MVPs?
I would focus on what you bring to the table. If you’re able to drive sales for this idea, or come up with a compelling marketing plan to drive user acquisition, then you should have no trouble finding someone to make the app for you.
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4 years ago
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on: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
The government is controlling how children spend their time. In the U.S., the government mandates a lot about how children spend their time. They need to go to school and they aren’t allowed to buy alcohol or tobacco. Children under 16 aren’t allowed to spend any time driving an automobile, etc.
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on: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
Just because an authoritarian government made a decision doesn’t necessarily mean the decision was authoritarian.
In the U.S., it’s somehow become popular opinion that the government shouldn’t do anything. Without the ability to make coordinated decisions, the U.S. has predictably fallen behind on a wide variety of metrics (income equality, health care, education, mass transit, etc.)
You should reflect on why you view a government making a decision for the health of its citizens as a bad thing.
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4 years ago
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on: Walking increases spontaneous fluctuations in the brain
Couldn’t you use Zoom for that?
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
Discord is chat in a sense. But community forums are also a form of chat. You shouldn’t confuse a technical implementation (e.g. Discord or IRC) with the end product (e.g. fostering community discussion).
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4 years ago
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on: Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers
On Mac, you can pipe input into pbcopy to add it to your clipboard.
cat file.txt | pbcopy
This adds the contents of file.txt to your clipboard.
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
I think Discord is then modern form of this. It’s really a great product.
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4 years ago
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on: Does feeding garden birds do more harm than good?
One isn’t inherently better than the other, but if you spend time making a platform for birds, you probably want to enjoy looking at them rather than let them die.
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4 years ago
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on: Rivian Files for IPO, Seeking About $80B Valuation
Ford has a debt to equity ratio of 4.7.
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4 years ago
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on: Does feeding garden birds do more harm than good?
Only in the short term. The additional food allows for additional bullies to survive, so now the bullies occupy their old stomping ground AND the bird feeder. And of course the new bullies need nesting sites that they’ll happily take from submissive birds.
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4 years ago
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on: Does feeding garden birds do more harm than good?
I don’t think the size of the bird is particularly relevant as birds of the same size compete for the same nesting sites. The article gives the example of blue tits dominating willow and marsh tits by hoarding the bird feeder and kicking them out of their nesting sites. Both the willow and marsh tit are slightly bigger than the blue tit. It seems to me that your garden would also have this issue.
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on: Does feeding garden birds do more harm than good?
The mechanism described in the article is that human assistance benefits more dominant species over less dominant ones, which increases the dominant species population and further suppresses the less dominant species. How is your garden fundamentally different than using a bird feeder regarding this specific interaction?
