I was active in Wikipedia from 2002, and there was a lot of idealism back then among editors that it would be a "reference for all knowledge". Those wishing for a more constrained site eventually won the day, and they…
The issue is that even if one community puts up resistance, the corporation will eventually find some other community that plays ball. In the end, someone or another still gets screwed.
No, no local anasthetic at all . A lack of anasthesia seems usual for public healthcare in multiple EU countries; if you want anasthesia, you go to a private clinic and pay. Recovery? The procedure left no lingering…
When industry is negotiating with local government to open a facility, often one of the stipulations is that the facility will pay no more than local residents for access to utilities (in fact, the industry may even…
A lot of that is due to relatively low rents by EU standards (even if locals might complain, because their salaries are low compared to some other EU countries).
I had the colonoscopy without anasthesia, it was over in 5 minutes with less pain than almost any visit to the dentist. The experience made me baffled at the insistence on total anasthesia, and the assumption the…
The need to eat more fiber, and the dearth of fiber in most processed food, is something always mentioned in writing on colon cancer incidence by actual researchers. I could understand your post if one were posting in…
When one says "tech" like in the linked articlez one is really talking about the advertising-supported internet and subscription models. A few nerds might participate in creating that themselves because they work for…
You apparently missed the explosion in Emacs activity in the 2010s. I, too, remember using Emacs in the early millennium and feeling like a partisan of one powerful but nevertheless unpopular editor, with an uncertain…
No, your post wasn't "basic atheism" (a basic atheist probably wouldn't write anything there at all) but New Atheism, which was such a web community-ruining scene and thankfully peaked and declined nearly two decades…
Your last paragraph is out of order and sounds like the kind of dig that made Usenet and so many early-millennium web forums so tiresome. Catholics amount to a minority of people making up postliberal trends, and many…
I'm not advocating for making all (or even most) users spend so much time on internals that they don't get productivity gains. Rather, I'm concerned about maintaining, ensuring generational turnover, and healthily…
On one hand, AI boosts Emacs development. On the other hand, as an Emacs user of 30 years, I have always felt that the number of people who deeply grasp Emacs Lisp and Emacs' internals is really small against the…
There is nothing in Sanskrit literature that securely old. The Vedas already postdate the mixing of Indo-European speakers and the people of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, and we know that was much more…
The humanities being cheaper than STEM is irrelevant to this thread about Schwarz bulk-downloading a source of myriad copyrighted papers.
The intent of Buddhism's founder is ultimately unknowable. The earliest source we have, the Pali canon, already contains the supernatural and the mythological. It cannot be emphasized enough just how modern attempts to…
JSTOR is a major repository of twentieth-century humanities publications. When these come from the US, they are usually privately funded research. HN is dominated by a STEM crowd that tends to think only about that…
Do you have a citation for the claim that Schwartz was only copying "publicly funded research papers"? My understanding is that he was trying to pull all of JSTOR, which would be copyrighted papers going back to all…
Maybe curtailed freedom of speech and self-policing is a good thing that (in combination, of course, with other factors in the Chinese model that the West could learn from) is bringing real-world results, while a…
I'm a night owl, and have been fortunate to always work jobs that let me set my own hours, but the older I get, the more this schedule wears on me. Even night owls need sunlight, and if one's biological schedule is the…
Buddhism as actually practiced for the last 2500 years ascribes all kinds of deity-like features and the supernatural to the Buddha – travel Asia and you’ll see people praying to Buddha in order to be reborn in his Pure…
Separate user accounts have been a feature in stock Android for years now, and a quick search shows that Samsung supports this same stock Android feature.
> Why do you make this out like it's some major thing to have someone ask, and then decline Notice how in China, which is currently outpacing the West, no one is asking others if they could avoid using a common term…
On an Android phone, put corporate apps like DoorDash, that you don't want to think about except when you are actually using them, in a separate user profile. Then they are out of sight and out of mind.
It is OK to simply admit that you didn't understand the context in which "transplant" was used and its (ir)relevance to this particular thread. To post three separate replies where you are reaching for a way to avoid…
I was active in Wikipedia from 2002, and there was a lot of idealism back then among editors that it would be a "reference for all knowledge". Those wishing for a more constrained site eventually won the day, and they…
The issue is that even if one community puts up resistance, the corporation will eventually find some other community that plays ball. In the end, someone or another still gets screwed.
No, no local anasthetic at all . A lack of anasthesia seems usual for public healthcare in multiple EU countries; if you want anasthesia, you go to a private clinic and pay. Recovery? The procedure left no lingering…
When industry is negotiating with local government to open a facility, often one of the stipulations is that the facility will pay no more than local residents for access to utilities (in fact, the industry may even…
A lot of that is due to relatively low rents by EU standards (even if locals might complain, because their salaries are low compared to some other EU countries).
I had the colonoscopy without anasthesia, it was over in 5 minutes with less pain than almost any visit to the dentist. The experience made me baffled at the insistence on total anasthesia, and the assumption the…
The need to eat more fiber, and the dearth of fiber in most processed food, is something always mentioned in writing on colon cancer incidence by actual researchers. I could understand your post if one were posting in…
When one says "tech" like in the linked articlez one is really talking about the advertising-supported internet and subscription models. A few nerds might participate in creating that themselves because they work for…
You apparently missed the explosion in Emacs activity in the 2010s. I, too, remember using Emacs in the early millennium and feeling like a partisan of one powerful but nevertheless unpopular editor, with an uncertain…
No, your post wasn't "basic atheism" (a basic atheist probably wouldn't write anything there at all) but New Atheism, which was such a web community-ruining scene and thankfully peaked and declined nearly two decades…
Your last paragraph is out of order and sounds like the kind of dig that made Usenet and so many early-millennium web forums so tiresome. Catholics amount to a minority of people making up postliberal trends, and many…
I'm not advocating for making all (or even most) users spend so much time on internals that they don't get productivity gains. Rather, I'm concerned about maintaining, ensuring generational turnover, and healthily…
On one hand, AI boosts Emacs development. On the other hand, as an Emacs user of 30 years, I have always felt that the number of people who deeply grasp Emacs Lisp and Emacs' internals is really small against the…
There is nothing in Sanskrit literature that securely old. The Vedas already postdate the mixing of Indo-European speakers and the people of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, and we know that was much more…
The humanities being cheaper than STEM is irrelevant to this thread about Schwarz bulk-downloading a source of myriad copyrighted papers.
The intent of Buddhism's founder is ultimately unknowable. The earliest source we have, the Pali canon, already contains the supernatural and the mythological. It cannot be emphasized enough just how modern attempts to…
JSTOR is a major repository of twentieth-century humanities publications. When these come from the US, they are usually privately funded research. HN is dominated by a STEM crowd that tends to think only about that…
Do you have a citation for the claim that Schwartz was only copying "publicly funded research papers"? My understanding is that he was trying to pull all of JSTOR, which would be copyrighted papers going back to all…
Maybe curtailed freedom of speech and self-policing is a good thing that (in combination, of course, with other factors in the Chinese model that the West could learn from) is bringing real-world results, while a…
I'm a night owl, and have been fortunate to always work jobs that let me set my own hours, but the older I get, the more this schedule wears on me. Even night owls need sunlight, and if one's biological schedule is the…
Buddhism as actually practiced for the last 2500 years ascribes all kinds of deity-like features and the supernatural to the Buddha – travel Asia and you’ll see people praying to Buddha in order to be reborn in his Pure…
Separate user accounts have been a feature in stock Android for years now, and a quick search shows that Samsung supports this same stock Android feature.
> Why do you make this out like it's some major thing to have someone ask, and then decline Notice how in China, which is currently outpacing the West, no one is asking others if they could avoid using a common term…
On an Android phone, put corporate apps like DoorDash, that you don't want to think about except when you are actually using them, in a separate user profile. Then they are out of sight and out of mind.
It is OK to simply admit that you didn't understand the context in which "transplant" was used and its (ir)relevance to this particular thread. To post three separate replies where you are reaching for a way to avoid…