Viewing profile — martey

This is covered in the post (emphasis mine): > With similar concerns in mind, we also decided to limit the tank size to 20 gallons, as the grow-bed above also contains an additiona…

OP's alt text makes it clear that by "Galapagos Island" they mean Vancouver. I assumed that this was some sort of local nickname, but all of the references to "Galápagos of Canada"…

This is a good story, but you can read both the Treaty of Ghent (which ended the War of 1812 while keeping the US-Canada border the same) and Rush-Bagot (which restricted naval fle…

This initiative isn't about maintaining a certain population density, it's about restricting immigration and separating Switzerland from the European Union.

While I agree with you that this blog post (and the "carrot disclosure" described in it) is ill-considered, the pull request is not really "new code", it adds quotes to HTML attrib…

Unfortunately, no. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395320 .

> "Its fine if the media lies to the people if the people believe the lies." That is low, but that's neither a direct quote or not an accurate paraphrase of my comment. While I rea…

It's bad etiquette to edit your comment after people have replied to it without showing what your edits were. Please do not do this.

Your comment is full of historical revisionism. The Second World War has little or nothing to do with the Holodomor. The Times' lack of reporting on it has nothing to do with Ameri…

> World Was 2, they uncritically accepted Walter Durranty letting Stalin ghostwrite for him, specifically w.r.t. Stalin's man-made famine in Ukraine, because America was allied wit…

I think this new guideline is nothing like the Bathroom Singing Prohibition Act, because that law doesn't seem to really exist: https://www.grunge.com/1710070/is-pennsylvania-stran…

" The fundamental issue is that SendGrid’s business model depends on making it easy for legitimate businesses to send email at scale. " I disagree with this conclusion, if not only…

> In this case, the fact that it took 2 years. And of course now that FFmpeg is getting more exposure in the media due to their association with AI hype, now they finally get 'fair…