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I have no expertise on the subject or those particular accusations, but generally speaking I feel that a company's response to bad PR is probably not the most trustworthy and objec…

I guess if we're going for "weird" tips: Only shop for groceries on a full stomach. I've found it helps me against being tempted to buy unhealthy things (sweets, snacks, soda)

> There wasn’t much substance abuse treatment at CAAIR. It was mostly factory work for one of America’s top poultry companies. If McGahey got hurt or worked too slowly, his bosses …

I assume making the name of the function they want to eventually get rid of more annoying to type is part of the reason to do this rather than just tracking ones needing replacemen…

The reddit thread mentionned in the article [0] is more interesting. Notably it mentions who filed it (OpSecSecurity) and apparently they claim their DMCA process was spoofed. [0] …

Not in all cases, but when coupled with the private prison system of the US which is less concerned with rehabilitation and more with the extraction of value from its "residents", …

Having 30-ish (or more) children crammed inside a classroom is not the same as having smaller groups of children play together outside in terms of potential transmission.

There's also teddit.net as an alternative less annoying front-end to reddit. I hope it keeps working for a long time.

From the article: "A high level of diversity is paramount on Sharma’s list of essential goals. In projects Afforestt has undertaken in India, his company so far managed to use abou…

I have a git-based wiki, and I've been slowly migrating it to Trilium [0]. There's a certain appeal to having your knowledge base purely contained within a git repo but ultimately …

As a CS student in France, I've never actually seen the French version of most of these terms. (A very small subset of them I've used regularly though) Some of these translations a…

Links to previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11327669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19467367

I really miss Grooveshark's UX, it felt so good at the time.

I'd recommend Godot. Unity is also a valid choice, but networking is in a weird state right now with the official APIs, so he'd have to use third-party solutions that integrate wit…

Can confirm, you just need to look at the networking APIs to see the same pattern. The new API isn't ready yet but the HLAPI of UNet is already deprecated and even though LLAPI is …

Blender has a great Python API[0] that allows you to do almost everything that you could do in the editor with code. You do have to run your code from inside the Blender app though…

I like sifting through Simon Carless' blog on Gamasutra [0]. He has a weekly curated list of interesting articles he's read about video games. I rarely read all of them, but there'…

Nice list, I'd mention the Haut-Koenigsbourg castle which also got renovated in the 19th century as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_du_Haut-K%C5%93ni...

While "feumme" is possible I think it would have gotten too close to the original "femme" word pronunciation-wise (which is a very common word itself), which isn't what you want wh…

Might be just me, but I was expecting the examples to be a bit more fleshed out than they actually are based on the title. A bit disappointed.

Most likely because Singapore is not also putting huge amount of people in detention camps and harvesting their organs. Maybe if they had the scale to do so they would, but that's …

I would recommend this extension: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox (there's a chrome version as well)

My immediate thought went to benchmarks. Some of them get stale pretty fast. Nice to have a name to put on that concept.

Just because another profession is worse off doesn't mean it does not deserve sympathy imo. Why not hope for both professions' working conditions to improve ? On a side note, union…

And a lot poorer overall, which certainly doesn't help. GDP(PPP) per capita for India was 7874 in 2018. Versus 41351, 44227 and 53023 for South Korea, Japan and Taiwan respectively…