abrezas

Joined 14 years ago

Karma
72
Submissions
36
Member since
Jul 4
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/abresas; my proof: https://keybase.io/abresas/sigs/bizChzbTemX11mCmI2Du3OSvwVQWOKDHV1d772sgups ]
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 15 days ago
How do you know no fake votes were added?
Comment · 2 months ago
You are looking at the acceleration but without looking at the initial state.

A more fair metric would be Co2 emissions/person and I’m getting

USA 14.3 t, China 8.8 t, EU 5.5 t, India 2.2 t

Comment · 3 months ago
The history section of the book price index is incredibly america-biased. History of america, american natives, japan after ww2 and vietnam in the last century.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
just a pedantic detail, strings are passed in javascript by reference, they are just immutable
Comment · 4 years ago
Doula (δουλα) in modern Greek is female slave.
Comment · 5 years ago
Wikipedia: "Socialism is a political, social and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and democratic control or workers' self-management of enterprise".

Which is not "...characterised by government giving handouts".

Comment · 8 years ago
It does try to convey something in words in the next chapters, no?
Comment · 8 years ago
I felt the english version was ambiguous so I read the original finnish version. It says that press reports that the trial is aborted earlier than planned is false, and for the time being there is no decision to extend it.
Comment · 9 years ago
> Yes, I am aware that this is likewise no accident.
Comment · 9 years ago
What do you mean by more than 100% margin?

If you sell something for 150$ and it cost you 30$ your gross margin is (150-30)/150=80%.

Comment · 10 years ago
The problem is not if someone merges a PR before you push, but if someone branches off of the current tip of master, works on it, you remove that tip, and your colleague now is based on a history that doesn't exist, has to resolve your conflicts.
Comment · 10 years ago
And Google participating in EU market is voluntary. If it doesn't like the laws or the power of the EU investigators, it can choose to take its business elsewhere.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton