Hacker News: houlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=houlHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:40:11 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by houl in "Complexity fills the space it's given"]]>Space and time ... "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

]]>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:43:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40715102houlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40715102https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40715102<![CDATA[New comment by houl in "What is the difference between free as in beer and free as in speech?"]]>And: how come the truth is paywalled, but the lies are free?

]]>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:33:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145264houlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145264https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145264<![CDATA[New comment by houl in "What is the difference between free as in beer and free as in speech?"]]>And: how come there is free beer, but no such thing as free lunch?

]]>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:33:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145257houlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145257https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145257<![CDATA[New comment by houl in "Is Germany once again the sick man of Europe?"]]>> a series of reforms in the early 2000s ushered in a golden age

Who did the reforms? -- Cabinet Schröder.

Who did nothing since then? -- Cabinet Merkel.

]]>Fri, 18 Aug 2023 09:46:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37173348houlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37173348https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37173348