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How is being tied to a clunky text editor different from being tied to a clunky GUI? No matter which alternative text editor you use, apparently it's still clunky (slow) according …

My programming is a hobby that turned into a business. It's just one application that I write and sell online. I think the reason it works (just about) is that my market is a niche…

My day job is a school teacher in China. You sometimes have to find a country that suits your lifestyle to do the low hours thing. I'd guess 90% of HNers could very easily walk int…

It was unskilled laboring work. Others in my situation had criminal records and drug habits but they could do it too. Now I do programming for my own business so no clients to worr…

My opinion is that people who are motivated to do things or make money work as much as they can to work towards what they want. Sitting around would be frustrating. That doesn't me…

This is a nonsense attitude. If you vote for a party, then you 're acknowledging that you want them in power. If you don't want them, stop voting for them. Sure, your action won't …

It's sad that after 20 years of the web, it still doesn't work properly. These kinds of bugs should have been solved years ago.

It's good to see conservationists admit that their task is mostly killing. Too often people confuse conserving a species with being nice to animals. They're diametrically opposite …

How is this bad for anything except Uber's public image? If prices remained the same, cars would be unavailable. If you want that outcome, then simply don't order a ride. There's a…

An attacker could advise your trusting church-mates to download and run an application that turns out to be a virus while they believe it's from you. A real but milder story - a cu…

If it's only systematic abuses, then the rogue police torturings in Brazil that the article described would count as "crime" and not be human rights violations. I think it's a grey…

Indeed. Restrictions on women in Muslim countries sound bad, but western countries don't allow women to go topless in public and don't allow prisoners or children to work for money…

As well as being vague, human rights prioritize actions of the government over those of ordinary people - the high murder rate in America is not a human rights violation (what righ…

It's better for a soldier to die than a civilian. This is why they statistics are always separated.

Keep in mind that every alternative free library to do something adds cost to the task of selecting a library. Some open source projects (not suggesting any specifically) actually …

It does represent the will of the people. The people aren't voting for change and didn't do so when any of the "draconian" laws were passed, despite it being public knowledge. So t…

The USA is only number 10 by that measure, so nobody would care if China got to number 9. Go to Singapore or Quatar to find the richest average people, not the USA.

It absolutely, positively hurts local labor - naturalized citizens - etc. Without a doubt. I agree. But that's not a bad thing. That's the market operating more efficiently. The fl…

What if the H1B visas were not for foreigners, but for US people from other states? Would people still be making the same arguments? California companies hiring cheap midwest talen…

The Romans did - be the most powerful nation. We often see America compared to them, not as a bad thing, but as a good thing that might fail someday. The cruelty of the Roman circu…

When will it be acceptable to be a Nazi sympathiser? It's been 80 years now. We know that being a Roman or Viking sympathiser is acceptable 1500 years later. There must be a cutoff…

When will it be acceptable to be a Nazi sympathiser? It's been 80 years now. We know that being a Roman or Viking sympathiser is acceptable 1500 years later. There must be a cutoff…

He didn't claim lower mortality, nor that they wanted it. We assume living long is important, but some people value their lives less than others, just as some value their possessio…

You're certainly losing torque with the gearing but that's not a problem. The problem is losing energy. Energy loss can be made arbitrarily small at increasing cost to build the tr…

Gold is about 20g/cm^3, and although it sounds expensive, there's a lot of gold just sitting in storage. Why not store it underground here instead? This is in contrast to tungsten …