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New comment by paavope in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

paavope — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:15:28 +0000

Online casinos AFAIK tend to shuffle the deck after every deal which makes card counting impossible. Then it just becomes like any old casino game where with optimal play the house has a small edge still

New comment by paavope in "Transit rewards"

paavope — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:45:07 +0000

Yeah, the car will be faster, unless there are accommodations that benefit the bus only (like dedicated lanes). But the bus doesn’t have to be _faster_ to be viable to many people: there are other things going for the bus like not having to park, often being cheaper especially if it allows you to not own a car, etc. etc.

New comment by paavope in "Transit rewards"

paavope — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:31:57 +0000

> It will (again by definition) never be a viable alternative to driving

I don’t follow the logic here. Why would a bus (periodically) getting stuck in traffic forever invalidate it in comparison to getting stuck in the same traffic in a car?

New comment by paavope in "9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game""

paavope — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:57:12 +0000

FIFA has little to do with “Swiss” or “European” style capitalism and more to do with Gianni Infantino & friends’ style.

New comment by paavope in "A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]"

paavope — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:47:42 +0000

That was a really, really cool read!

New comment by paavope in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

paavope — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:24:40 +0000

It’s possible that many of the Americans commenting here have gone to very different restaurants than locals have in mind, and are basing their experiences on a very different sample. Like touristy places with a patio on the main old town square of (insert European city here)

New comment by paavope in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

paavope — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:50:25 +0000

Nobody in this thread is claiming Apple is perfect, just ahead of MS in UI consistency and _less_ buggy

New comment by paavope in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

paavope — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:35:34 +0000

The use case could be e.g. exactly processing an old trove of logs into something more easily indexed and queryable, and you might want to use jq as part of that processing pipeline

New comment by paavope in "AI coding is gambling"

paavope — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:21:08 +0000

The good ones have original thoughts and can combine knowledge from different domains in nontrivial ways

New comment by paavope in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)"

paavope — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:52:45 +0000

I think the ”Indian” there referred to India the country and Gandhi’s nonviolent protest as background

New comment by paavope in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

paavope — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:07:38 +0000

I think the easy play in that situation is to ask that someone else to show the menu to you

New comment by paavope in "Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself"

paavope — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:11:49 +0000

I don’t see any signs of bad parenting here, but a lot of signs of carrying on of a suicidal conversation by ChatGPT indeed, to the point of encouraging the suicide.

New comment by paavope in "Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow"

paavope — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:06:27 +0000

I've seen the `itsdangerous` [1] package (which is a dependency for lot of Python projects) raise some eyebrows several times.

[1] https://itsdangerous.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/

New comment by paavope in "Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year"

paavope — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:13:03 +0000

Based on my experience living here in Helsinki for 30 years, people drive cars _more_ in the winter rather than less. That’s because the alternative is usually some combination of walking and public transit, and walking is uncomfortable in the winter and public transit is a bit less dependable, too.

But altogether people mostly still use public transit, there’s not a whole lot of driving per capita and the traffic is relatively slow and non-chaotic. I think that’s the core reason for the road safety.

Also, the requirements for getting a driver’s license here are stricter than it sounds like in other countries, with a high emphasis on safety; that probably contributes to the non-chaotic traffic

New comment by paavope in "How to Firefox"

paavope — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:55:30 +0000

I use profiles on Firefox daily and they work fine

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

New comment by paavope in "Show HN: Goboscript, text-based programming language, compiles to Scratch"

paavope — Mon, 19 May 2025 08:07:07 +0000

I had pretty much the exact same experience with Game Maker too. In retrospect, feels like a very powerful pedagogical tool. Even when I wasn't really trying to "learn coding" but rather I just wanted to make some games, I ended up learning to code

The fact that _most_ things could be done with drag-and-drop, but for some features you had to drop down to scripting, served as a really nice and gentle stepping stone to writing code.

New comment by paavope in "Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening"

paavope — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:12:19 +0000

At least in my clique in Finland, BeReal is alive and kicking. Definitely nothing like Instagram in terms of popularity, but quite active

New comment by paavope in "Belenios: Verifiable online voting system"

paavope — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:57:31 +0000

So there is a clip of someone dropping multiple ballots in a drop box. Apparently [1] that is not necessarily fraudulent, you can drop multiple ballots from family members.

There were international observers in the 2020 election and they found no evidence of fraud [2], and many mainstream media sources that I hold reliable, (e.g. [3]) fact-check multiple claims of election fraud and nothing has showed up that would suggest that the election was "stolen".

I don't think it is at all preposterous to assume that the 2020 US election was fair, unless you subscribe to a view that the global mainstream media apparatus is in on some grand conspiracy.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-election-ohio-ballots-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55016029

New comment by paavope in "Belenios: Verifiable online voting system"

paavope — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 22:30:37 +0000

No, I haven’t seen evidence of that, and a quick googling for “2020 us ballot stuffing” doesn’t show me such

New comment by paavope in "Experts vs. Imitators"

paavope — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:00:49 +0000

IMO Dunning-Krueger has become such a cliche that it’s more refreshing to _not_ read a reference to it in a piece where one could’ve been made. Kinda like quantum mechanics and that stupid cat in a box.