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New comment by TomMarius in "Ask HN: Why are there fewer non-tech personal blogs? (athletes', architects')"

TomMarius — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 07:46:57 +0000

Yes, it's very much like blogger.com, but older.

What we have on 'our loca internet' is a few community hubs, one of them is a general one for all kinds of freelancers where they can put a link to their blog, and also the blog platforms have a general listing of blogs separated into categories that you can explore. I don't know of any such community hubs on the English speaking internet.

New comment by TomMarius in "Ask HN: Why are there fewer non-tech personal blogs? (athletes', architects')"

TomMarius — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 05:35:24 +0000

These blog systems hosted by the news sites do not have FTP access, there is a simplistic web interface that you use to publish articles and set up categories/tags. There are "freehostings" that give you a 3rd level domain and FTP access to a LAMP server (in exchange for displaying an ad banner), but that's a different thing.

I am not sure what you mean by your question, could you clarify?

New comment by TomMarius in "Ask HN: Why are there fewer non-tech personal blogs? (athletes', architects')"

TomMarius — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 05:05:09 +0000

In my country there is at least 10x political blogs than technical ones. They're using local simplistic blog platforms (usually hosted by news sites) that let you have your own third level domain.

New comment by TomMarius in "Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments"

TomMarius — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 04:09:11 +0000

I had that happen to me while doing the same (trying to get my girlfriend off insurance she didn't want). I said I am ill and that was it, I had to know her 'birth number' though (date of birth + four numbers). Am European.

New comment by TomMarius in "Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media"

TomMarius — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 19:58:07 +0000

That's because the country loosened the restrictions. It worked, and should've been kept. Sadly the leadership here is populist too, which worked at first (the popular thing in Europe was to restrict) but then didn't (the popular thing became to open up). If they listened to our experts instead of being populists, we wouldn't have opened up and the cases would go to zero, as it nearly did a few months ago.

Source: am Czech.

New comment by TomMarius in "When Day Traders Do Well, It’s Probably Just Luck"

TomMarius — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 17:21:24 +0000

Suppose that's true, how can people after they get training get so lucky they outperform even most software engineers with their earnings - consistently, for decades?

New comment by TomMarius in "Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth? (2013)"

TomMarius — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 06:47:22 +0000

Then it would make you believe someone else is so incredibly wise. Posts can contribute to the discussion and suggest side points at the same time. If they didn't want to suggest how much Jesus of Nazareth was wise, they would simply post the quote without the "truth of Jesus of Nazareth [the name used for Jesus the historical figure] words" part.

New comment by TomMarius in "Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth? (2013)"

TomMarius — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 06:35:03 +0000

The comment I replied to attributes the quote to Jesus of Nazareth, and presents it as evidence that he was an incredibly timelessly wise, even god-like being. Normally when people make out a person to be way too incredible, other people refute that with actual history.

New comment by TomMarius in "Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth? (2013)"

TomMarius — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 06:25:32 +0000

You know the original bible was lost and written from scratch by the wishes of the new author at least one time sometimes around year 100, right? The first schism. Jesus of Nazareth probably never said such thing.

New comment by TomMarius in "There’s no such thing as a tech expert anymore"

TomMarius — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 06:22:04 +0000

So what do you call a (tech) (expert) if not a (tech expert)?

New comment by TomMarius in "SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts"

TomMarius — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 06:20:00 +0000

That phrase refers to development.

New comment by TomMarius in "Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members"

TomMarius — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:30:59 +0000

> Who says it's stronger? It's OK at best

It's what the Americans point to when they discuss reforms of their education system - and I am the one saying it's not really that strong, or rather, does not seem to be the actual solution.

New comment by TomMarius in "Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members"

TomMarius — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:25:13 +0000

How come they deleted a group, then? They should've only banned the offending members.

P.S. I fully agree with the removal.

New comment by TomMarius in "Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members"

TomMarius — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:21:37 +0000

Catholics and other religious groups do exactly that too, using 'god's wish' as their excuse.

New comment by TomMarius in "Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members"

TomMarius — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:20:15 +0000

These conspiracies are rampant in Europe too. Why didn't the stronger education system help here?

New comment by TomMarius in "Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)"

TomMarius — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 04:57:36 +0000

As if that wasn't already clear from the whole "die at your workplace" thing

New comment by TomMarius in "Ask HN: What hobbies do you have?"

TomMarius — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:36:12 +0000

3D printing

New comment by TomMarius in "Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates"

TomMarius — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 08:49:02 +0000

> This is the exact sort of thing that indicates market-power being concentrated to a point requiring severe, acute regulatory action.

This is what I react to. Sorry I missed that you're not the original commenter, that's my bad.

I am not sure though what other tool should the biologists learn - they usually know R and Python and they use Excel because they need what Excel offers; there isn't any other software that allows them to easily do whatever they need to do with the data, quickly iterating on the ideas AND then present it nicely.

The solution here should be to fix Excel, but it really is a small issue (that has been worked around, too; and if you know how to use excel correctly, it does not happen to you) compared to making another Excel, which seems like a monstrous task.

New comment by TomMarius in "Why did the atomic spy do it?"

TomMarius — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 08:24:34 +0000

I do not say that it's not happening. That does not mean we do not welcome the US, or that its actions here are comparable to the actions of the SU, or that the SU, a comparably much worse regime which caused dozens of millions deaths after the war (many in the SU itself, but not only), helped Europe more.

I guess I should thank the SU for stealing our uran, making my fellow citizens forcibly work in the mines as a punishment for not being communist enough, and for hindering our economical development by decades (of the country that used to be one of the most advanced European states before the war, and got destroyed AFTER the war so much that it fell below Africa in HDI)? Well, thanks...

New comment by TomMarius in "America’s Unholy Crusade Against China"

TomMarius — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 07:42:24 +0000

> Only one country – the US – has a defense strategy calling for it to be the “preeminent military power in the world,” with “favorable regional balances of power in the Indo-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the Western Hemisphere.”

Did Russia cease to exist? What about Iran and Turkey (thankfully not as successful)?