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It's amusing to see the (perceived) David beat the (perceived) Goliath. It's not neccesarily fair, or nice, but punching (perceiv-ably?) up is funny.

Didn't China ( https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/l... ) and the USSR ( https://borgenproject.org/tag/poverty-in-the-former-soviet-u... ) do similarly?

I find the concept that my ideas are not flawed (and how dare anyone suggest they are) and success is a matter of connections and existing wealth more self pleasing.

You see "people succeeding too much", i see "amazon workers peeing in bottles", which I suspect is a fundamental difference between Europe and the States (in point of view, i'm not…

An airbnb (often) has a washing machine, a kitchen you can cook on and a fridge you can store food in.

Is read count the metric we're using?

"personally, I have a second hand denon HDMI decoder thing, with airplay [..] dsp filtering [..] calibration stage [...] decent flat reproduction" These are certainly words, and ev…

Previously Londoner for ~8 years here. I can confirm the six month unfilled position period has been going on for at least a few years now. If anything else, and at least on the hi…

And the actual name for Greece is Hellas.

Of course they can be used for good or bad. So does heroin (which is fundamentally diamorphine and used medically). The issue is that nudge techniques as they are implemented on th…

"Nudge techniques" should be banned outright.

If you want to see what's there you're probably looking for https://www.amdigital.co.uk/primary-sources/mass-observation... . "Free, four-week trials are available on all Adam Matt…

H0RS3 by uber.

"90 day limited warranty guaranteed to be free from defects in material and workmanship." Is such a short warranty common in the states?

As a robot with no feelings or worries, I do not see how you people just refuse to wait until ((friendlyDate.tomorrow)) Yeah, snarky but whatevs. The assurance of control helps, ev…

That's certainly a lot of capital double-yous "white" in that generally unsubstantiated comment, friend.

"psychological quirk". I see.

This website you’re reading now has “guidelines”, yet no-one is accusing hn of creating a harsher world (at least not in the word they use instead of rules).

Calling a detention facility a Nazi concentration camp is not the same as calling a grassroots effort a "telegram revolution". One is making an analogy to history, the other is usi…

The geographical indication in the EU is used to protect a product's name/brand, not stop it from being produced outside that area. I can make Aceto Balsamico in my basement the tr…

My (admittedly) conspiracy theory fear is that a regulated facebook is a facebook tightly embedded in government ("It's ok to require a facebook account to sign up for xyz public s…

Hm, the actual tweets are claiming that the BLM movement has been taken over by flat earthers and creationists and continues by calling protestors irresponsible children. "Cancel c…

And all you have to do is work every day during a pandemic.

Can't live without my one day delivery for sure, amazon workers will just have to deal with the virus, right?

Do you sometimes think that instead of moderating bad behaviour, you're burying critisisms under the guise of rudeness, perpetuating the atmosphere in hn that seeps into (and from)…