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by 0xEF 2y ago
I wish HN readers were not so afraid to openly discuss this more, but it is a much bigger issue than even what that article lets on (which is a good article, I might add). Cuts to critical agencies like this aren't about efficiency at
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> it's always expected/that's just the custom This is the problem. You basically said "we do it like this because that's the way we've always done it," which is the weakest form of justification for any
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I'm not well versed in celestial mechanics, but I see a lot of "we're in a black hole" comments so far, and I'm super curious as to whether or not we know why black holes prefer a direction of spin. Can you (or anyo
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Sorry for the late reply, but I'm wondering if you can explain why you tip for delivery? In my area, pizza delivery drivers (read: not DoorDashers, etc. I am not sure what they make since I refuse to use those services) make about $12
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Holla if you think the data has already been sold many times over since there's no real enforcement for saying "we don't sell your data" then selling your data.
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No offense, but it seems to me if you really believed in taking updating docs seriously, you'd teach people how to be better at it instead of handing the work off to a gen AI agent and it's potential hallucinatory or swiss cheese
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Yep. My favorite thing is when I am not even at a restaurant and I'm being asked to tip a retail worker making well above minimum wage. As a former bartender who made $2.65US an hour and relied on tips for my "paycheck" each
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by 0xEF 2y ago
I agree with you. Been shaking my fist about it since I cast my first vote. But I genuinely feel like an ant attacking a lawnmower. The machine just keeps going and barely notices our efforts. I was a Bernie supporter, too. Same deal althou
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Yes, if you want to call them candidates. That word seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting, here. Were they better options? Probably. I personally was a fan of Stein. Were they available to us on any realistic level in our broken "de
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You're fighting a losing battle, I'm afraid. Instead of trying to justify your position, explain to me and my fellow voters what the alternative third option was when we were presented with Kamala or Trump? We don't like this
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I'm in the same boat. This whole thing is a War of Attrition, and my enemies are willing because I am getting too old and increasingly stressed out to keep up with and counter their irrationality. I honestly don't know where they
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by 0xEF 2y ago
It's crazy that so many don't realize this. I am not an Apple user, likely never will be, but I recommend their tech frequently. They meet that market's needs with aplomb and I respect that.
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This is pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if the yellow lightning bolt stayed yellow in the PuTTY icon (among other uses) because the symbol was likely just borrowed from safety warnings. Yellow has been preferred for a long time si
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> who says that? People who watch US TV shows about the American South. Having lived there for awhile and still travel there for work today, I can say with some certainty that the folksy dialect that media gives to people of that region
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I'm not sure what the goal of that would be and it seems like it would be taxing on the service, if your target audience is global. Asynchronous platforms make sense in a lot of ways, but I am not a strong developer and just speculatin
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It depends on how likely you are to succumb to burnout. Unless you get a very cushy day job, building an SaaS you can take to market on the side will definitely eat up any free time you think you might have. People operate at different freq
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by 0xEF 2y ago
What if we took a note from the BBS & time-share days of network computing and used a credits system rather than being open for specific hours? Users make content, get credits to spent on minutes of platform use whenever they wish, etc.
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The job seekers time is more valuable than that of your company. I want you to drill in your skull, tonight, tattoo it on the back of your hand, perhaps. Time is the one resource that none of us can get more of. It is not saved, like money,
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Indeed, what others have said. Bandcamp files are DRM-free, and they say as much on their site. The only time I use their app to listen is when I'm driving, since the app plays nice with Android Auto, but you can use any capable player
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Interesting take on minimalism, if not a bit at odds with my own. Rather than align it with cheapness, I see it as a challenge of efficacy in communication, asking how we can convey an idea in as few words, symbols or pictures as possible a
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> Message me I don't see any contact info in your profile, but I have an email in mine. I am interested in hearing more about your process and if you have music for sale anywhere, I like to support electronic artists doing interesti
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Why, though? I suppose the point of my original comment was to ask that in broader strokes. I'm happy with Firefox and do not see a compelling reason to switch to Zen without an apples-to-apples comparison, which seems like a ridiculou
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Honest question since I am not exactly of a skill level that really understands what goes on under the hood of popular browsers, but I am baffled as to why people are so resistant to just switching to Firefox. Every time this conversation c
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That's where it turned for me. Originally, I had started a small tech-topic blog with the idea that it would be my portfolio because I really wanted to write for a tech publication, most because I thought I had the chops for it and I w
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It's still very popular in my area during the warmer weather. I don't play the game myself but it is quite nice to see, really and makes me feel a little better about my community, as silly as that sounds. When people get out and
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Perhaps it's just an aversion to having all your eggs in one basket. I am experiencing that with Proton, atm, after having spent a year De-Googling my life and moving my mail, drive, calendar and VPN to their drop-in replacement for th
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It's insane to me that this even has to be pointed out with such a relatively simple page, and then I looked at the source; it screams "I'm gonna just bang something out in [popular framework] without knowing basic HTML/
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What are your thoughts on a more communal approach? Say we have a neighborhood of 20 single family homes that all participate in tending a large garden and raising chickens. Would the cost and chore time drop to a level where it was saving
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It was also developed by the United States Navy and has been criticized for not being as secure as it claims it is. This should come as no surprise since the US military and agencies have a history of demanding backdoors in software, which
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I'd say it's all those things, likely in different combinations based on the circumstances. Cook's notes indicate that he may have considered it a panacea of sorts, triggering a bunch of different stuff that helped overall he

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