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New comment by nsksl in "The case for having roommates even when you can afford to live alone"

nsksl — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:16:45 +0000

Buying an old beater car as your first car has been the norm forever. But that’s because young people still have no wealth, ie they are poor, not because they don’t want a shiny Audi.

New comment by nsksl in "The case for having roommates even when you can afford to live alone"

nsksl — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:07:13 +0000

You could argue everything, but I’m pretty sure 99% of those sharing a flat are doing so because they can’t afford a flat for themselves, not because they enjoy the company.

New comment by nsksl in "The case for having roommates even when you can afford to live alone"

nsksl — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:55:50 +0000

The case for normalising poverty.

New comment by nsksl in "Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie"

nsksl — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:47:31 +0000

Find a pirate version if possible…

New comment by nsksl in "Atlassian terminates 150 staff"

nsksl — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:45:40 +0000

How exactly should they be terminated? 150 1:1 meetings?

New comment by nsksl in "Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved"

nsksl — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:07:37 +0000

I don't understand. For you to see the message, you have to click on the link. Your clicking on the link must mean that the link is active, since it is getting clicks. So why is the link being deactivated for being inactive?

New comment by nsksl in "MacBook Pro Insomnia"

nsksl — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:55:04 +0000

Okay, then… As a user I’d expect the device not to waste any time connecting to my wireless network and getting a dhcp lease, instead being already connected when I open the lid.

New comment by nsksl in "MacBook Pro Insomnia"

nsksl — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:50:09 +0000

Wait, low temperatures drain your battery? I would’ve expected the opposite.

New comment by nsksl in "Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided"

nsksl — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:40:50 +0000

If you give the EU a lot of power, which some people in HN are in favour of, they will use it for good and bad. I’d rather they have no power and live without the good things. Those who celebrate the good things are too ignorant to realise that the power they use to do good things will eventually be used to do bad things.

New comment by nsksl in "Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death"

nsksl — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:39:32 +0000

How is that better than what the article describes? You need gas, electricity (outdoors!) and get constant fan noise.

New comment by nsksl in "Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals"

nsksl — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:31:41 +0000

So civilisations that are in decline had a peak of energy consumption a couple of decades ago? Whilst civilisations that are progressing keep using more energy? Are you sure this helps your argument?

New comment by nsksl in "Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals"

nsksl — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:46:06 +0000

That was true of every single civilisation before ours.

New comment by nsksl in "Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals"

nsksl — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:56:24 +0000

As they say there isn’t a single civilisation that has prospered by spending less energy.

New comment by nsksl in "‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler"

nsksl — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:53:05 +0000

Ah sorry, I thought he may be talking about the bombing of Belgrade :)

New comment by nsksl in "The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe"

nsksl — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 08:45:03 +0000

Averages as well as you say are useless. You know this, so I don’t know why you bring averages up. I specifically mentioned the most common salary, not the average or the mean, which are completely skewed.

You should also research the salaries of other people who also have a “bachelor’s degree” as you call it. That is, if they get employment and don’t have to emigrate.

New comment by nsksl in "Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations"

nsksl — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:12:57 +0000

Mobile operating systems have very great children controls. You should research the topic yourself and you will see.

New comment by nsksl in "The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe"

nsksl — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:19:31 +0000

Fewer, for sure.

Not to mention they work for the state so they are guaranteed to have lots of free days by law and their work hours are always respected.

New comment by nsksl in "The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe"

nsksl — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:34:37 +0000

Nurses in Spain make 2500-3000 euro a month, in a country where the most common salary is 1250 euro. Are they overworked? Well then they can take a pay cut so we can hire more of them.

New comment by nsksl in "Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations"

nsksl — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:16:24 +0000

Maybe so, but it’s better than the alternatives.

New comment by nsksl in "Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations"

nsksl — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:34:32 +0000

Not necessarily. If they want to have uneducated children, let them.