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> This seems to have happened in history; ideas proposed by lower status folks were less accepted until higher status folks reintroduced them > For example, Richard Stallman’s soft…

The most important thing I remember from Impro is that we all have habits we adopted as children that we still use as adults, even though they no longer work.

As far as I understand, the US taxes its citizens whereever they live (the third alternative I mentioned).

> My first company, Freshflow, is valuable enough that walking out of Germany would trigger a massive six-figure exit tax, on gains I have not even realised, purely for the privile…

A summary is always an expression of distrust: I don't trust the author not to waste my time so I need a summary. It's strange that a website would offer an AI generated summary of…

That's not a problem with the squiggles as a user interface, but with the software assuming that you speak only one language.

> The approval of draft rules by the economic committee of the European Parliament comes after three years of wrangling between the ECB and banks, which have been concerned about d…

Could these things be turned interactive? Like a parallax effect when you move your mouse?

> Sadly, I don't know anymore what kind of web service that was. I don't know that either, but I remember there were websites specifically for that purpose, where you could look up…

I didn't know that but now I did it.

You're right to point this out, but it's still more annoying because you now have to remember that consciously, rather then seeing and feeling that you can just move your mouse to …

This scratches the same itch as same.energy and pinterest, but looks better, with everything cut out, with unique shapes. Truly, every page is its own image. I love wikipedia, but …

Blaming immigration for not finding an apartment is very different from blaming immigration for not finding a job. Jobs appear almost automatically (if some basic economic conditio…

The map in which the entirety of germany is yellow and the legend says that yellow means "exercise a high degree of caution" while the surrounding countries are gray, is awfully mi…

> Like the author is making a big deal that they think scope is more important than type. I may tend to agree, but I think the difference between "fix(compiler)" and "compiler fix"…

I walked 20 minutes to a brick and mortar toy store to buy some bouncy balls recently. It was a chain store though. That's not sad to me, because I'm not emotional about whether ch…

When I think of companies that make cheapness cool I think of IKEA, Primark, Ryanair and Fiat, not Apple and Porsche. The Macbook Neo and the Porsche 968 are cheap only compared to…

A distro making your project the default doesn't give you any responsibility.

Life is about habits. The pandemic interrupted many good habits people had--going outside, doing sports, meeting people--and many people haven't restarted these habits, in part due…

Finland doesn't have compulsory military service to help people feel connected to their society. Feeling connected to one's society is not an end in itself, people should be free t…

Interesting idea, but you need to improve readability. Try black text on pastel backgrounds.

This misses the point. Websites are allowed to replace default keyboard shortcuts for a reason. There are only a few exceptions to this, like Ctrl+W. In other words, you can design…