xdennis

If you're not an English speaker, it's even more aggravating when speakers of your language replace common words with English ones to sound more sophisticated/corporate. So instead of using the native word for "knowledge", they'd use "know-how". (Of course using more common words like "knowledge" or "skill" are not good enough, you need something that sounds more sophisticated to the foreign ear, like "know-how".)

Wow, I didn't expect to see transsexual steps in front of a church.

Their priorities are all messed up. There are 12 emojis for pregnant non-women: 6 shades of pregnant men and 6 shades of pregnant non-binaries.

But there's no emoji for things you do need, like pouting face (you're forced to use enraged face which is too strong).

Considering YC invests in AI I doubt you’ll get anything of the sort.

Conspiracy minded responses are low value, and yours is especially so considering HN bans AI comments.

What's even worse is when you go though such PRs and your comments are handled in minutes, with replies explaining the change with perfect spelling and em dashes. At which point you ask yourself: "What am I doing here? His agent wrote the entire thing, and now I'm going through it and telling his agent what to fix. Why is he even needed?"

Or even, even worse is when you get a PR from a co-worker, you spend a lot of time explaining why that's bad idea, only for the person to say "Sorry, my openclaw/etc posted that. I'll close it." Or even the opposite, you tell a co-worker: "Hey, it was a great idea to change X." and he says "X? What is X?... Oh that must have been my agent."

A country is not a contract, it's a culture.

It's quite audacious to want to be part of a country, but also to be so quarantined from them as to not even want to learn their language.

Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme.

This is also why capitalization is important. In the title, "remarkable" refers to "Remarkable Paper Pro", a tablet. Not knowing that "Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary" is very hard to parse.

It's all about what you actually care.

Piracy helps people who can't afford to pay or have no way of acquiring legally.

LLM training helps megacorps replace people.

If you side with common people against megacorops, you're okay with piracy and against LLM training on copyrighted works.

And it is not actually a "designated terrorist organization".

It is.[1] Perhaps you mean it's not a statutory Foreign Terrorist Organization, like Al-Qaida or Hamas. That is a harsher designation, but that's not possible for Antifa because it's not foreign.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/desi...

Why the scare quotes? Are you denying he was a cop?

A sentence of 30 years in prison for obstructing an investigation is excessive

Being excessive is the point. It's to deter others from trying to copy their actions.

Brown people existing doesn't hurt you.

BBC:

    About 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the past five years were born abroad, according to data from Swedish national TV.

Biden. His policies led to a huge increase in illegal immigration.

Look at the huge jump due to his policies: https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20240127_EPC...

The same was not true for Obama, who was actually much better than Bush.

To me too, then I got to the leaders quote on TV: "We must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense."

Firstly, you should probably cite that. Searching for it leads here. Hopefully, you didn't manufacture it.

But, while the language is unfortunate, do you really think natives should tolerate migrants who are not a net positive?

People are trying to have a serious conversation here. There's no need for dismissive jokes.

A country is not just a random set of people. They have to be linked by a common set of values. Importing people who don't want to assimilate, or importing more people that can be assimilated will lead to disaster in the long term.

Additionally, immigration is not a solution for low fertility. If they assimilate, they will also have a lower fertility rate, pushing the problem down the line. If they don't assimilate, and keep a high fertility rate, they will replace the population.

Immigration is a positive thing, but it needs to be low and open only to like minded people.

Curiously enough, Romanian, though a Romance language, was also spelt with the Cyrillic alphabet. Probably because we were under the Bulgarian empire (the ones who invented Cyrillic).

In the 1800s when we switched to Latin, it didn't happen abruptly, there were several intermediary alphabets which mixed Latin an Cyrillic[1].

Example:

    ши се варсъ (Cyrillic) 
    шi se вapsъ (transition alphabet)
    și se varsă (Latin)
    ʃi se varsə (IPA for reference)

    ши се варсэ

Probably because Persian is an Indo-European language, and alphabets are better than abjads (alphabet without vowels) for it.

Semitic languages are easy to write without vowels because the meaning is very obvious even if you omit the vowels, but in many languages you have a great deal of collisions if you omit vowels.

It's the same reason Chinese characters are a poor fit for Korean and Japanese. Chinese is not an inflected language so one symbol for a word works quite nicely, but other languages need a way to add prefixes and suffixes to works.

Stop spreading misinformation. They were found guilty by a jury of their peers of providing material support for terrorism[1]. They shot a cop in the neck.

They coordinated on Signal to bring firearms. They didn't plan to "protest".

They got off lightly. Should have been life without parole.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Prairieland_ICE_detention...

However painful these price hikes are, and they are painful, it is worth remembering that computing has become incredibly ubiquitous and cheap.

Counterpoint: it's also become essential and poorly optimized.

Back then you could live quite well without ever using a computer, but during COVID you literally had to have a phone or the governments wouldn't let you move around in certain cases. Many services are restricted or inaccessible without a computer.

Computers have become cheap if you want to run 1996 software, but the two Gmail tabs have have open (work and personal) are costing me 2GiB and 779MiB of RAM respectively. I have no idea how it takes 2GiB to display an inbox with 4 emails in it.

Romanian is isolated now, but even quite recently there where languages forming a bridge between Romanian and the rest of Romance languages. For example Dalmatian, whose last speaker died in 1898. Now, most people think of Dalmatians as the dogs.

"EU is left". Haha, good joke.

You are out of touch. The left supports the EU far more than the right. See this Pew poll from 2025[1].

In Europe, for every country, the left view the EU more favorably. The largest difference is in Poland where 88% of left wingers support it and 41% of right wingers support it.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/22/opinions-...

It's useless to judge left vs right on a global scale because different countries have different standards.

For example, supporting universal healthcare does not make you a left winger in the UK. Or, take conservatism for example. It was first used in France, where it meant supporting the monarchy. By that definition, no one in the US is a conservative.

Whenever someone tries to create a global definition for left and right, they're just baking in their personal biases for what left and right ought to be.

huge government involvement into economy

This has nothing to do with the right. Stalin had the government even more involved in the economy and he wasn't a right winger.

That's one aspect, which is a bit of a gray zone. But Anthropic trained on pirated books. That is explicitly illegal.

Yeah, like all those Chinese bootleggers selling DVDs for a few dollars rather than $20. Free market!

It's supremely ironic analogize distillation to copyright infringement when it's literally what Anthropic was found guilty of. It's not illegal to distill. It is illegal to pirate. And it's what Anthropic was found guilty of, not Alibaba.

https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-authors-copyright-judge...

After a while you age out of getting carded. The vast majority of alcohol is bought without ever showing any ID.

It's surprising to me to hear that these systems are considered racist when they're the same ones that are so color blind that they generate pictures of SS soldiers as African American women.

If someone hacks you/deceives you and somehow they got $5000 from your debit card, then your bank account is $5000 smaller.

That's a myth. I had my debit card cloned and some money stolen. The bank gave my money back. Debit cards are protected too.

Europeans being so scared of debt is so funny.

I've never understood this mentality. It's like walking through a dangerous neighborhood knowing that you have excellent health insurance. If you get stabbed, you'll probably recover very well, but why take the risk?

I can understand going into debt to buy a house, but I can't understand going into debt to buy a can of tuna. Why take an unnecessary risk?

No, it just means you'll achieve nothing.

The right has been complaining for a while that billionaires want us to eat bugs and own nothing. Instead of forming a common cause, left wingers only complain about right wing billionaires while sanctifying left wing billionaires like Bill Gates.