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> If they are Am I the only one slightly disturbed by the use of "they" in that sentence? I know that the HN commentariat is broad-based, but I didn't realise we already had non-hu…

I wonder how much good it did? You do see lots of places for sale in the countryside with XXX of land with a ruin of YYY, and it sounds like people have been using those to build s…

I'd go the other way with the buildings -- there are lots of unmaintained or even semi-ruined buildings, even in central Lisbon, which would benefit from foreign investment. Some o…

Also worth noting that the real estate option has excluded property in Lisbon and the surroundings, Porto and Algarve for some time, and those were the places where most people fro…

Agreed, if it's not your primary purpose for having the account then it should be fine. I did a bunch of FX through them not long after opening mine, and they sent me a polite emai…

Really? I rather like the German industrial techno they play while you're in it.

Makes sense. A bring-your-own-model feature would be awesome, but would make it impossible to do that for rarely-used models without using valuable GPU RAM.

Thanks! TIL that nyancat is something like "meowcat"

I picked up the term "beg bounty" from somewhere a while back. It's a very useful phrase to describe the low-effort run-some-crappy-scan-and-spam-security-at-domain junk that comes…

Great article, but I'm saddened by their view that C is too hard to work with, so the 2-year-old extension must be rewritten in Rust. C certainly has its faults, and while I have n…

Reading this on a Fold 3, which I'm considering replacing with a OnePlus Open, if the reviews are good. The crease is not noticeable in use for me. Having more screen real estate i…

It's an old one, but this alleged Steam screenshot handles the problem quite well, as well as fixing the use of the UK flag for English: https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/…

That was brilliant! Thank you for sharing it.

Still true that it's not based on seniority, though. And there will generally be some kind of skill involved, even if its (eg) skill in the sleazier end of soft skills rather than …

Is there any way to bring a private prosecution for perjury under US law? IANAL but I have the impression that it's something you could do in the UK, and the legal systems are simi…

Same in Portugal :-(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34717702

Lower taxes? Which countries are you thinking of? (Genuinely interested not a rhetorical question; IME many poorer countries have higher taxes, in percentage terms.)

"Fire them quickly" isn't always easy in some jurisdictions, though, at least without some very careful planning -- and sometimes not even then.

+1 to that. I picked up a pair of Castle Howard S2s (lovely floor-standing speakers from the 90s) for a few hundred on eBay ten years ago. They're my forever speakers unless I add …

40" Dell U4021QW UltraSharp Curved Monitor. It's a great monitor, but what really makes it amazing is the built in KVM. My personal machine is a Linux desktop with displayport, but…

The original 420 joke was about Tesla: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776 . It got him into trouble with the SEC. He did set the share price for his Twitter of…

It would be really interesting to see a Wayland version with equivalent functionally to the X one to get some idea of what the real difference is in complexity.

I've always wanted to get an account with them because of a throwaway line in a Patrick O'brien book: > 'Mr Babbington,' he said, suddenly stopping in his up and down. 'Take your h…

Interesting. I used to commute between Reading and London, and had been wondering if the Elizabeth line might have made things easier then; after all, not having to change at Paddi…