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MickerNews··on Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”
Sorry but I can't credit him with anything much. Al Capone ran charities too.
MickerNews··on [dead]
Why would anyone want one of these ridiculously sized guns? What a silly, juvenile pastime.
MickerNews··on Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze
Or just sell up and find a more respectable way of making money, increasing supply in the buyer occupier market, lowering prices.
MickerNews··on Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze
>The solution is to build houses, but what kind of investor is going to throw their money at Berlin, where their opportunity to make a return on their investment is severely hampered?

Uh, the state. It's strange to me that someone can honestly ask this question. The free market has failed as is its wont in these matters, this failure always needs to be addressed by the state. Where were you for the last global economic collapse?

MickerNews··on Always Own Your Platform
He can always own his own platform and still use others'. Just the keep the pedantry going...
MickerNews··on Always Own Your Platform
Are you seriously trying to say that he can't make this point unless he builds his own twitter?

https://i.imgur.com/iBAIRqF.png

MickerNews··on Guardian records first operating profit since 1998
>Monbiot still has a regular article there, he's as far left as it gets.

Ah come on now.

MickerNews··on Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out
I'm far more experienced with the rental market in Dublin, I'm Irish living in the Netherlands. The situation in Dublin is the endgame of the same property market extremism.

The national obsession with landlording and trying to get someone else to pay for your mortgage ended a few short years ago with the world's biggest bailout. In Ireland there's very little regulation and what there is is almost completely unenforced. No lessons were learned and we now have a national housing crisis with a neoliberal government turning a blind eye to rampant homelessness and a lost generation. All potential solutions are met with excuses as to why it will only cause problems for the young being able to rent, thus furthering the crisis.

MickerNews··on Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out
Disincentivising a predatory rental market only lowers the cost of housing prices because it excludes buy-to-rent commercial landlording. Properties don't disappear from the market just because there's no landlord able to buy them. Granted this needs to be coupled with further disincentivising of the current stock being rented.
MickerNews··on Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
This would seem to imply that the concept of 'sleep debt' is a lie.
MickerNews··on Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
>What's your long term game plan with that?

That they're going to be more mature when that happens because they've demonstrated that they weren't ready just yet.

MickerNews··on Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost
"...would always lose"

Really? I think the reasons for the requirements of evidence are justified in civil matters just as they are in criminal.

We cannot have a situation where men always have no defence because of a lack of requirement of evidence.

MickerNews··on Ask HN: Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?
>It then gets saved as PDF and shelved as an artefact that is disconnected from all the other architectures

Sounds like architecture to me. You're doing it right already!

MickerNews··on End-to-end encryption does not prevent Facebook from accessing WhatsApp chats
The most telling evidence for me was that Signal was banned in Russia because the government couldn't read their messages, while whatsapp was just fine.
MickerNews··on Fedora 29
Anyone remember when IBM was really keen on Linux around fifteen years ago? If they'd only followed through they would have had their own flavour and business to run into the ground.
MickerNews··on The BNC Connector and How It Got That Way
I always thought that these were called British Naval Connectors and were developed for submarines. Not sure if I dreamt that or someone was having a laugh with me.
MickerNews··on [dead]
Wow. Haven't seen this before.
MickerNews··on Brain pollution: Evidence builds that dirty air causes Alzheimer’s, dementia
If this were true we'd expect to see a simple and repeatable observation of decreased Alzheimer's along rural and urban lines. People in the centre of London would be far more likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's than those living on the Atlantic coast of Ireland. This is not the case.
MickerNews··on To become a software consultant, avoid letting clients pay you for code (2017)
Veblen services.
MickerNews··on As fake videos become more realistic, seeing shouldn't always be believing
This site can’t provide a secure connection archive.fo uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

Remember when the web just worked?

MickerNews··on Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
He saw OP's argumentum ad verecundiam and raised it.
MickerNews··on WebSub: Open protocol for distributed pub–sub communication on the internet
The former is a much better name IMHO!
MickerNews··on Ask HN: Best programming language or theory to learn before learning Rust?
I think he's just being modest and not claiming that he's expert, just that he's considered to be one. You're reading way too much into that single sentence.
MickerNews··on Why is syphilis on the rise?
Watching porn makes people horny. Watching violence does not make people aggressive and murderous.
MickerNews··on Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016)
Sapir-Whorf in action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

MickerNews··on What real life good habits has programming given you? (2008)
Spelling and grammar are an obvious one. Less obvious is an improved ability to think critically and spot flaws of logic in arguments.
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