Recent submissions

Comment · 2 years ago
IME (also observing other drivers), the usual multi-lane roundabouts are something you get comfortable with after just a little spaced repetition and then it's not all bad.

There are major cities in those countries with a few exceptionally gnarly ones, though. I don't blame if you're traumatized if you ever found yourself circling Arc de Triomphe in Paris, for example.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
He primarily uploads publishes all his material, alongside with Jerry Jackson et al, to his own website[0]. I remember subscribing to it over RSS as a kid and his stuff would always drop there first. Might be some gems to discover if you haven't browsed it before (: Newgrounds, ebaumsworld etc were all reuploads [1].

[0]: https://www.fat-pie.com/

[1]: At least ebaumsworld was notorious for the bad kinds of piracy. albinoblacksheep, newgrounds, and somethingawful, were the major hubs outside of other individual creator sites like weebls and lemondemon otherwise IIRC. Firth did publish himself on NG, and later on YouTube. But I think he only appeared as himself on YouTube like a decade or so after Salad Fingers first went viral. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/276616 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBaum%27s_World#Copyright_infr...

Comment · 2 years ago
> This is one of the major problems with the Nordic model I would say.

I'd say it's a key factor to why it can sustain at all.

Compare to tech startups and big tech where I imagine the majority of those who would be able to drive a union are already intertwined enough in leadership that they feel prevented from organizing due to conflict of interest.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
For one: Public healthcare used to be reasonably accessible. Now it's not rare to wait >6 months to get examined for anything beyond emergencies. Also true for mental health.
Comment · 3 years ago
A reporter wrote the text; a photographer took the photo; an editor arranged the final composition.

They don't always perfectly align on big nor small.

Comment · 3 years ago
They would still have to go back to past contributors prior to introducing CLA.

Source: My PR was merged in 2021, the changes are still part of Synapse, and I never signed any CLA. I don't think they'd be able to get enough sign-offs from historical contributors to pull off any actual shenanigans with the Synapse license.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
> Sweden probably has more people in prison for drug possession than America.

Don't know if you picked Sweden in particular intentionally but they are very much an outlier of their own when it comes to drug-related crime. Simple possession of small quantities for personal use can still have you end up in jail or even prison for up to 6 months.

They're still all-in on the War on Drugs.

Comment · 3 years ago
I am pretty sure that even in France, getting caught with possession of <1g of cannabis while nowhere near a vehicle won't be very likely to get you detained, fined 1000s of EUR-equivalent and having your drivers license restricted pending you showing up for regular urine samples.

This is roughly what you should expect if you get busted carrying one joint in Sweden.

Source: Some people around my social circle smoked back in uni.

Comment · 3 years ago
> No matter immigrants or not, they need to get locked up, and they would've gotten locked up in their respective countries.

Because the perpetrators are often children/teenagers, in many places actually not. It's the underage factor making many of these cases challenging to prosecute.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton