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If donating money is free speech why don’t you try giving some to a group categorized as a terrorist organization

Even as an American reading some diaries of English colonists provided a lot of insight into the culture to this day. I remember one where a man decided to move to America to escap…

> having kids and raising them unlocks completely new human skill trees that were previously hidden from you Holy mother of autism. “my life is like a video game”. Please tell me y…

Trump is a puppet. At least since his second term. Isn’t it funny in this country, how people will shoot at some figurehead of a subsidiary company or a fat geezer with narcissisti…

> And aside from algorithms, it usually comes down to avoiding memory allocations. I’ve heard about HFT people using Java for workloads where micro optimization is needed. To be fr…

Very cool thread. Middle school jokes and culture wars. I’m so glad we don’t allow political threads on here and can instead bask in the intellectual might of people talking about …

> We're about to pull the rug underneath all knowledge workers. This will disrupt wage earners lives. This will disrupt the economy. It will put and end to the middle class entirel…

> The behaviors of NFT advocates and AI advocates are shockingly similar. It’s the same people every time. Stupid, gullible idiots. Remember when HN was obsessed with the room temp…

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Sadly indie developers are only just starting get into my preferred genre. I am excited to see how a number of upcoming titles turn out, but for the time I’m stuck waiting for $AAA…

> Then cut to 2026 and suddenly its like we just collectively decided software quality doesn't matter Is this new to people? I figured this out when I first entered the industry. T…

Nowadays you need ID to buy dextromethorphan cough syrups even. Being sick got a lot more miserable when I learned Id have to interact with the doordasher to get my remedies delive…

It happened in the Simpsons.

You say that, but I’ve been watching a lot of those body cam channels over the past few years. I remember one quite well, in which the police were raiding some suburban Texas home …

> Even in utopia of automation and post scarcity society good location land will be truly lucrative and unimaginably expensive if not outright prohibited to own by private individu…

It’s all fun and games games until you’re municipality starts banning adult co-living situations. You underestimate how intrusive these people will be to protect the value of the s…