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nkkollaw··on The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May
I see. I can see this being the reason, yes.
nkkollaw··on The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May
1 more month will probably put a huge number of businesses out of business.

Is there a reason why they'd do something like this, where anyone who looks will see that it's not at all needed?

nkkollaw··on Lung damage in recovered Covid sufferers apparently permanent, research finds
RAI is Italy's state-owned TV channel(s).

It's controlled by the party that is governing, and has all the problems of anything that is state-run, including a huge potential for inefficiencies, bureaucracy, and at times corruption.

Given the quality level of the "experts" used by the government in this pandemic, I wouldn't give it any credit.

nkkollaw··on Make Linux Fast Again (2019)
Linux 2020! :-D
nkkollaw··on An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
GA can't really be replaced easily.

There is an army of web consultants ready to help you set up and track your marketing with GA, and just as many marketing consultants that can only work with GA.

While it's nice that someone works on alternatives—although I don't really see anything wrong with GA—it's here to stay.

Reminds me of Excel, people have been trying to replace Excel for 20 years now.

nkkollaw··on Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
Sure, Amazon might not be the only one, but every time I tried to buy somewhere else, something happened.

They charged me twice, charged me to never sent me the product and forcing me to waste 2 weeks, sent to the wrong address, etc.

Amazon seems to be the only one that can actually do their job properly without hassles.

nkkollaw··on Hungary's emergency law 'incompatible with being in EU', say MEPs group
we have the zloty in Poland, though.
nkkollaw··on Hungary's emergency law 'incompatible with being in EU', say MEPs group
> I mentioned Hitler and Mussolini because what Salvini aims at doing is exactly the same: gaining control of the parliament through a mix of popular acclaim and underground extremist movements, then get full powers and kill any means of removing those powers.

Do you have anything that could even remotely give credit to that, or is that like saying he's a reptilian from Mars who will kill us all?

You're just making stuff up to justify the rest of what you're saying. He called for an election because the M5S lost like 90% of support compared to the beginning, he didn't attempt a coup like you're implying.

What's really using democratic power to remove democracy is the EU—which isn't democratic by design—and is and has been trying to strip power from sovereign nations. In part thanks to people like you, who look for Hitler everywhere but where you should actually look.

Anyway, everyone is entitled to think whatever. I should move on to more productive things, anyway.

nkkollaw··on Hungary's emergency law 'incompatible with being in EU', say MEPs group
They saw what happened in other EU countries where guilt-ridden citizens don't have any respect for their own county anymore, and were not looking to repeat their mistakes.

The vast majority of immigrants are economic migrants that have no right to ask for political asylum, and were let in by left-wing government who—contrary to popular belief—are now hand-in-hand with big companies rather than looking out for workers, and kept letting them in just to keep salaries low and make their masters happy.

Back when I was a kid in Italy I used to pick grapes for something like 15/h, now there are Africans that do it for 4/h and are literally treated like slaves. Very sad.

nkkollaw··on Hungary's emergency law 'incompatible with being in EU', say MEPs group
That's right!

Unfortunately (for the EU) they just got our country back, and they're not looking to give it up anytime soon. I hope that they can get as much money as possible and then leave this nightmare once they're in good shape.

Not bad, uh? I wish Italy had the same courage. Unfortunately even in the middle of a crisis like this one our spineless PM goes to the EU begging Germany for peanuts.

nkkollaw··on Hungary's emergency law 'incompatible with being in EU', say MEPs group
No end date that I know of.

Historically, when laws get passed in case of emergency we don't go back how it used to be if it's good for politicians. Hope we don't get quarantined for life, though!

We'll have to wait and see.

nkkollaw··on Hungary's emergency law 'incompatible with being in EU', say MEPs group
I find it laughable that you talk about democracy, and then you praise "booting out of the government" elected politicians you don't like.

You're also misinformed about how the Italian Constitution says acts that limit freedoms should be passed which is—not how they're doing that—therefore Hitler.

We'll have to wait and see. Let's see if Orban gives back his unlimited powers (might very well not be the case, no idea), and if Italy gives back citizens their freedom. I know that even 20 years after 9/11, the Patriot Act is still in effect, and Americans were not given back the freedoms they took during the emergency.

nkkollaw··on Hungary's emergency law 'incompatible with being in EU', say MEPs group
> You are a complete idiot if you think that what is happening in Hungary is in any way comparable to how Germany is governed.

I thought that HN was for civil discussion..?

Where is Dang when you need him.

nkkollaw··on Hungary's emergency law 'incompatible with being in EU', say MEPs group
We have the same laws in Italy. I don't see the big deal.

Hungary just gets bad press—along with Poland—because they're not on board with your/Germany's agenda.

Sorry!

nkkollaw··on Hungary's emergency law 'incompatible with being in EU', say MEPs group
Maybe they should just leave. Like Italy should after the EU left us alone with dealing with the virus.

I live in Poland and I'm waiting for Poland to milk the EU as long as they can, then leave when the economy is on par with Germany.

nkkollaw··on Ask HN: Now that CO2 levels are down, can we see if CO2 causes global warming?
Is it known how long it takes for CO2 levels to decrease?

For instance, if we're supposed to reduce by 50% before 2030, after how many months or years would we notice a difference?

nkkollaw··on Letter to Myself in Late 2008
> Doing multiple small layoffs is a form of cascading failure. Do one layoff, but much much deeper than seems correct.

I hope people don't actually think like you (or follow your advice).

In a time like this, it would make more sense to write about people are not a number, and you should keep your employees because there are more important things than money in life.

nkkollaw··on New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro
I spent 4000 USD for my MacBook Pro, and the camera is 720p.
nkkollaw··on New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro
Also, 16:9.

Apple laptops are barely usable at 16:10, it's night and day compared to 3:2 on Surface Books (my favorite laptop of all time by far).

nkkollaw··on Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5
Most FOSS contributors are devs, and might even despite design.

They definitely prefer functionality over looks.

nkkollaw··on New MacBook Air
The fact that Apple insists on both having only 2 USB-C port and still using USB3 to charge their phones, mice, and keyboards is ridiculous.

I hate both going all USB-C and having to carry a dongle or adapters everywhere, and the idiotic touchbar.

Basically, anything that Apple has done since Steve Jobs died is complete shit--even if you ignore the butterfly keyboards complete fiasco.

nkkollaw··on TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor
So, like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube..?
nkkollaw··on TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor
It's not. The whole point is that you keep scrolling and they show you what the algo thinks you'll like.
nkkollaw··on TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor
Well, I guess those videos turn people off and they stay on the app less, and TikTok wants to make money.

TikTok works with AI, but the same would happen on Facebook, where people click on "Like" manually.

Cry me a river.

nkkollaw··on Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country
Italy would monopolize the news if international news reported on each idiotic thing Italian politicians say or do.
nkkollaw··on Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country
What he refers to, is that initially doctors said to stay away from people that went to China.

Some politicians used that to push identity politics and went to Chinese restaurants and took pictures hugging Chinese people.

I live in Poland so I have no idea, but my dad is back home and he's been telling me about it, that's what he said.

nkkollaw··on Coronavirus: A draft decree to 'quarantine 10 million people' in Lombardy
Let's hope so!
nkkollaw··on Coronavirus: A draft decree to 'quarantine 10 million people' in Lombardy
I think he meant that just a few weeks ago there were no cases, now there are 5000
nkkollaw··on Coronavirus: A draft decree to 'quarantine 10 million people' in Lombardy
Where did you get "rich people" from..?
nkkollaw··on Coronavirus: A draft decree to 'quarantine 10 million people' in Lombardy
You mean hiding the numbers..?

If not, it's just hard to believe.

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