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Meanwhile some people still don't have access to clean drinking water.
by sourcecodeplz 4y ago
Meanwhile some people still don't have access to clean drinking water.
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- messe 4y agoPresumably, you’re donating 100% of your own efforts to remedy that? (With the occasional and understandable break to comment on HN, of course)
- xenospn 4y agoAssuming you’re on your way to deliver them much-needed clean drinking water while typing this comment?
- smoldesu 4y agoYou make a fairer point than people realize. In 2023 we need less 'dog video game' disruption and more impact. Trying to commodify increasingly stupid things is a direct product of the startup culture this site (and Twitter + the community at-large) promotes. This will look more embarassing than a professional history with fushigi balls if you put it on your resume. It doesn't matter if you're Joipaw-scale or DogTV.
- swatcoder 4y agoAgreed. What we really need is a new payroll system with an API that uses GraphQL instead of Rest. But seriously: niche products always look uninteresting and stupid to someone, and niche products trace all the way to folk crafts. cottage industries, and open air markets. Making video games for dogs is neither embarrassing nor a “product of startup culture”. It’s just something somebody thought was cool and put some time and money into. It’s great.
- int_19h 4y agoThere's no "we". Different people need different things.
- aaron695 4y ago[dead]
- serf 4y agoeveryone else is replying with 'Yeah, and whatabou-you?!?' , which I think is non-constructive. i'd just like to remind everyone that when you see something that represents an effort that you feel is trivial , it doesn't represent an opportunity to add effort elsewhere. A thousand dog exercise machines won't fix world thirst. The people that work on dog exercise machines aren't going to suddenly divest all their effort from exercising dogs and throw themselves into tackling world-thirst should their company dissolve tomorrow. 'World effort' isn't one big commoditizable sum.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoAre we to have no fun at all because people suffer elsewhere?
- favaq 4y agoThey've had the same time we've had to build a system to deliver clean water to themselves - if they haven't it's their fault and they deserve what they have (or don't have).
- dopidopHN 4y agoAh yes. The « they should have work harder at school » argument. I struggle with this one. People are not idiot, if water is scarce, it’s usually due to external factors. Having grow up in a major colonial power, I sure benefits for the extraction of resources that happened since the late 17’s. On the receiving end, societies being reduce to mere shadows of themselves by force does not exactly help. Moreover, Some existing irrigation systems have been abandon during colonial times for lack of workers. ( workers being either diverted to slavery or other more lucrative endeavors for the colonial power ) Finally, modern pollution is a thing. Are the resident of Ohio responsible for their newly polluted water? Or the one of Jacksonville, Ms, they should have voted differently to avoid flooding of their system? Same for Flint, Mi. They had a working infrastructure. Distributing water just fine. It was broken for years. Is it their fault? I struggle to see the benefit of finger pointing here, as opposed to human empathy and « yep, that sucks » Finally, and the examples above were hitting at that : drinking water is not a problem in country lacking propers infrastructure anymore. The list of US cities having issues is growing; and the causes are diverse. From negligence to poor location ( haha; Las Vegas ) My point : saying « they should have a infrastructure by now » is silly.
- mertd 4y agoOP's comment history suggests that they are not engaging conversation in good faith. Best not to feed the troll.
- anigbrowl 4y agoTrue. But if you know a bit about programming and a lot about dogs, that won't necessarily translate into being able to help with infrastructure.