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Is there any known/public system that use ReactOS? Is there a goal for this OS? a use-case? Any dev-story I can read? I'm not criticizing their work or passion, au contraire, it's …

How do you define a pleasurable language? Aesthetics? Bug/LoC ratio? Feature by LoC? ROI?

An (anonymous) blog entry that links to another (anonymous) blog and a tweet. No scientific papers or sources linked. We should be more critic with respect to what sources of infor…

Wow, that's tough man... You're life is precious, keep rocking it!

Social unrest is going to increase in Catalonia for sure. By 2050 maybe there are independent or maybe not. On one hand, if Catalans are independent they will be isolated (no EU me…

There is no consensus I can think of. Reducing emissions seems obvious, but most industries and transport vehicles depend on burning fossil fuels. Governments should push for reduc…

Through my career only twice side projects have been brought up during the interview: - When starting in a startup after I lost many years working for a small no-name company. - Wh…

I don't know, but for anarchists and for POUM [1], Franco could be part of "the baddies" (things are never so simple like good and bad), but "Republican" (with support for the URSS…

Well, in this case, it was clear that the choice was between Communism and military totalitarist regime/falangism/Fascism: There was a failed coup by the PSOE and left-leaning poli…

There was a failed coup by the PSOE and left-leaning political groups in 1934: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1934 The Second Spanish Republic was a failed try to make…

I wouldn't be so fast in claiming that the "Nationalist" faction was worse: - Bombing of Cabra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Cabra - Sinking of SS Castillo de Olite htt…

My grandmother was almost raped and killed by Italian comunist/partisans in the Spanish Civil war. Both sides reached out for allies and got resources, men and machineary from them…

I would choose react because is most used and there are some great resources to learn it well.

Would the communist central price-fixing have benefited from AI? I mean, could the fixing of consumer prices have been automated by an AI system? Maybe using machine learning?

My dream is that in some years we could make a film by passing the script as input.

How this compares to pi-top laptop [1]? Both products seem a bit overpriced to me (I'm sure there are reasons). But I think for children, a 100$ (or 100€) laptop will be a best-sel…

Hello HN friends. I stayed in a company for 8 years and feel severily bad-skilled (I know it was the worst mistake in my life). The point is that I feel like I have 1 year of exper…

Stealing a comment I saw the other day in a thread where a open source ventilator was shown, if you need a ventilator you'd need intensive care as well.

So, people of 11 countries can loot statues of St. Paul, Stonehenge stones or even the Crown jewels?

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica [1] that's false: > The city came into existence after the discovery of silver there in 1545 and quickly became famous for its wealth. Within …

Australian native population did not have land rights until 1970-1979 [1] [1] https://indigenousrights.net.au/timeline/1970-79

Spain recognized independence of Mapuche Nation after more than one hundred years of war [1][2]. Chile and Argentina started a war campaign against them [2][3][4]. The Mapuches cal…

Explaining the meaning and history of this mural would be bettern. Couldn't they add a sign with a text and QR code with some encyclopedical knowledge about each "controversial" la…

> The timings of games are as early as 12PM (spanish siesta is at 4PM) and as late as 11 PM local time. No adult does "siesta" in Spain. Please, let's stop spreading this stereotyp…