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mrcartmeneses··on [dead]
It’s very difficult for the propagandists in Israel to paint themselves as the victims here. Yet they will try
mrcartmeneses··on A Brazilian special-forces unit fighting to save the Amazon
You’re just not thinking like a Brazilian death squad
mrcartmeneses··on Developing a Modern Full-Stack Application: Choosing the Right Tech Stack
Speak to your academic friends for advice on how to get him fired. Do this ASAP for the sake of the company and do not drop the ball once he’s gone. You may have to step into his role
mrcartmeneses··on Britain will have commercial nuclear fusion reactor ‘as soon as 2040s’
Plenty
mrcartmeneses··on A cargo ship's 'WindWing' sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day
Weight and the fact that wings are a modern invention that requires an understanding of aerodynamics
mrcartmeneses··on Why I Like React (even in 2024)
I’ve done exactly this. Can confirm you are correct. Svelte is also much more performant in the client. But react is great in its own ways and I particularly like the way it tends to point developers towards composition of small components.
mrcartmeneses··on Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing
Bike storage was never a problem for me living in London, even when I lived on a tiny canal boat. I can’t imagine Parisian’s bicycles are that different nor their homes much smaller than a boat or my 75m2 flat. Yes, I also have a cargo bike for transporting kids. The only thing stopping anyone from cycling is their anxiety and sense of car-owing identity
mrcartmeneses··on I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic
Mountains != molehills
mrcartmeneses··on Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks
Therefore the total loss on a bad debt is n* the length of the debt chain?
mrcartmeneses··on One place Planet 9 could be hiding
Pluto needs to up its game and become GRAVITATIONALLY DOMINANT!!!
mrcartmeneses··on 165 m private submersible superyacht
Build faster
mrcartmeneses··on New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers
Based on the quotes near the end of the article I’d guess it was a tire retailer’s PR department. Either that or the oil lobby, naturally
mrcartmeneses··on Responses to unicycling
The responses of men are also cultural. Having lived in east Asia, the aggression he observed feels like a very western thing.
mrcartmeneses··on The hovercraft's time might have arrived
I’ve been on the cross channel hovercraft in bad weather. It was just as bumpy as being in a small speedboat in bad weather. But it was huge and insanely noisy and the experience seemed to last forever even though in all of that sensory overload I had no real concept of time.

If it had operated closer to Cuba the Americans would surely have used it as a form of torture.

mrcartmeneses··on 30% of Portuguese people between the ages of 15 and 39 have left the country
The UK has the worst anti-union laws in the G7. Has done pretty much since Thatcher. Crap workers rights in the UK are nothing new.

If you take out London. Britain now has the same GDP per capita as Romania. Right wing economic policies have consequences

mrcartmeneses··on Ask HN: How can I get out of tech?
Have you tried talking to your wife about a change of income? Becoming a guitar teacher would be a wonderful career and give you riches money can’t buy. It might be disappointing at first for the family to adjust to a different financial situation. But having a happier and more present dad/husband will be worth it. By the sounds of it you’re ready to implode anyway. So it’s better to make the change in a controlled manner than with a sudden influx of pressure.
mrcartmeneses··on A tale of two teenagers (2023)
I’m sure this will get downvoted but you might also have depression or PTSD. Talk to your doctor about Ketamine treatment for depression and look into MDMA for PTSD. Both drugs can be abused but can also be extremely effective at treating the above conditions.

As far as reaching your potential goes, just be kind to yourself

mrcartmeneses··on Local councillors, unaware, approve law entirely written by AI in Brazil
“It would be unfair to the population to run the risk of the project not being approved simply because it was written by artificial intelligence,” he added.

Then why not just write it yourself?

mrcartmeneses··on Instagram's Toxic Video Mix for Adults Who Follow Children
Which species are the “females”? Asking for a Ferengi friend
mrcartmeneses··on As Democrats push to ban caste discrimination, some Indian Americans object
You are confusing race with ethnicity. Race is a made up thing, a construct with no basis in reality
mrcartmeneses··on CSS is, in fact, awesome (2021)
I had some developers out of Vietnam who did that. Gentle coaching and strict PR reviews solved it eventually
mrcartmeneses··on The Tyranny of the Marginal User
So it goes
mrcartmeneses··on Is Germany once again the sick man of Europe?
When a newspaper article is headlined with a question the answer is always no
mrcartmeneses··on Brexit Could Be Reversed - Here's How
I see the EU referendum as being like the question: do you want to cheat on your wife?

And any future referendum as being: do you wish you hadn’t cheated on your wife?

So basically it was 51% leave and it will be 55% regret.

The proverbial has hit the fan in the UK since Brexit. It is all very real now for people and not just some silly wet dream

mrcartmeneses··on Lets-Plot: An open-source plotting library for statistical data
I too want the moon on a stick, for free
mrcartmeneses··on Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
And one of the worst ironies is that some of our franchises are run by the state rail companies of other countries. Meaning we are subsidising rail travel in foreign countries.
mrcartmeneses··on Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
There are two tests that privatisation has to pass. 1. Would it result in a monopoly, if so that’s a fail. 2. Does privatisation add value to the consumer? The evidence on that one so far is absolutely not.

In general public services exist as public entities because they would otherwise necessarily be monopolies, and the only lever the public can therefore have is some kind of democratic process.

In the case of UK privatisation it’s clear that the policy was merely a wealth-pump designed to extract value from a captive set of consumers.

mrcartmeneses··on Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world's battery-metal shortage
One problem is the ore deposits contain radioactive elements, so it would need specialist processing otherwise the workers would all have radioactive dust in their lungs
mrcartmeneses··on Why Britain doesn’t build
It’s I my broken because our electoral system favours conservative outcomes. If we had proportional representation then many of the issues that seem impossible would suddenly become easy to solve.

Edit: in before anyone asks for evidence of favouring conservative outcomes: Boris Johnson had a landslide 80 seat majority with only 43.6% of the popular vote. PR would mean more coalition governments, but those would largely be left leaning Labour/Lib/SNP even when the conservatives have higher than historically average vote shares.

mrcartmeneses··on Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta plane engine
And if the mental health of employees isn’t part of aircraft safety then why not?
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