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by Arubis 5y ago
For better and for worse, Jobs being so strongheaded about his own health and care was just another expression of precisely the same attributes that made him such an effective innovator: convinced his taste was right, he willed reality to b
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by Arubis 5y ago
The whole thing was put together in a somewhat obscure dialect of Lisp over 15 years ago. There’s probably under 100 people that write Arc regularly enough to meaningfully contribute, so the general approach has been to not fix what’s not b
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by Arubis 5y ago
The best camera is the one you have with you.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Oh, this is neat. Using Spacemacs for a while has inadvertantly pre-sold me on the concept of arpeggiated input.
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I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco(doctorow.medium.com)
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by Arubis 5y ago
Probably? There may be a smaller one available for you. Couchsurfing basically needs three things: a way to establish trust (Airbnb accomplishes this by appealing to a central authority), a demographic that’s able and interested in particip
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by Arubis 5y ago
On reflection, I'm curious how much of this is directly caused by US demographics shifting towards greater urbanization.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Yeah, this is definitely a common experience & a real problem. Rural broadband _access_ can be spotty towards terrible. But it's probably not captured here--in fact, that might skew 'average speed' stats _higher_, since t
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by Arubis 5y ago
That’s…not terrible? Getting broadband in rural America is rough, and the permissive atmosphere for monopolistic behavior by ISPs is maddening. Pricing for internet access is way worse than in East Asia or western and central Europe. Some f
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by Arubis 5y ago
Okay, I'll bite :) Did you pull that kind of income over a year or longer? How long did it take you to get there? Were there major jumps/realizations along the way, or was it linear-ish growth over time? (My own situ: started free
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by Arubis 5y ago
Mullvad has been at the top of my mentally-disorganized pile of VPN trust for years. However, being the best and growing in popularity will eventually be a liability, if it isn't already: the more mindshare, popularity, and traffic, th
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by Arubis 5y ago
There's opportunity for nuance in these concepts. World citizenship needn't mean the elimination of any other hierarchy of rule and representation, in the same sense that the existence of the US Federal government doesn't eli
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by Arubis 5y ago
I agree with my sibling commentator that Of Course You Could, but having a framework to end world hunger and homelessness sounds...nice?
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by Arubis 5y ago
Also notably, of that list, Burkina Faso and Togo border each other, as do Tanzania and Zambia (though the acceptance dates don't line up). In the cases of Ecuador and Mauritania, how acceptance happened on one side of each of their bo
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by Arubis 5y ago
From TFA, in case you were also confused: “Phubbing is the act of snubbing someone during face-to-face interactions by using smartphones instead of paying attention to them.”
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by Arubis 5y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Denver, CO [MT/UTC-6] | Fullstack dev; tech and team advice | Available mid-October. --- Do you have an external API you'd love to pull into your product, but not the bandwidth/background to get it
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by Arubis 5y ago
This is far and away the most encouraging part: that you pulled off an ambitious goal while still keeping your priorities family-aligned. As someone with two very young, very closely spaced kids & ambitions to build something, I needed
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by Arubis 5y ago
We’re out there, in clusters. The agency I most recently contracted through was probably a quarter Emacs users, and entirely the heavy-collaboration/always-pairing sort of developer.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Putting aside whether this would be effective or a good idea: if you literally mean _carbon_, no, because it’s usually a solid.
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by Arubis 5y ago
To the degree that folks have agency over their sleep schedule, yes, improving sleep is the best path to improving sleep. For those of us that have less control over that situation (I'm a parent of young children; others may struggle w
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by Arubis 5y ago
I don't think Quietube ( http://quietube.com/ ) has been updated since 2009, but it does this as a bookmarklet and still works today.
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by Arubis 5y ago
I stayed for almost four years at a job and in a location that I knew with great certainty was a poor culture fit for me by the one-year mark. Similarly, I knew that I needed to do some therapy work, and deliberately did not do it so as not
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by Arubis 5y ago
There’s some interesting selection bias here; “survivorship bias” would be misleading in this case. Specifically, any crisis that _wasn’t_ so well-tuned to run against our species’ inbuilt shortcomings wouldn’t be so threatening, as we’d li
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by Arubis 5y ago
Wow, there’s a name I didn’t expect to run across on HN! For what it’s worth, Bateson just passed away this year. She’d had a fascinating life, living and working in many vastly different cultures and countries since childhood. As a literar
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by Arubis 5y ago
Well, in fairness, there isn’t often interesting _democracy-related_ news about China or Russia. If there were, it would be significantly more remarkable than this story.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Agreed; the minidisc nails the neotokyo vibe for me.
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by Arubis 5y ago
You weren’t entirely wrong; the application is named for the emperor, who was reviled for “burning” Rome. (Quotes for uncertainty around how literal that fire would’ve been.)
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by Arubis 5y ago
…like cleaning one’s home and eating food? Without context, your statement is true; as a response, it seems a bit of a stretch.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Most of the discussion here will be technical, especially around feature flags and friends. That’s fine, but please don’t miss out that this is a clear signal to charge these customers a lot more money.
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by Arubis 5y ago
I liked this hypothesis overall—that exposure to democracy through trade is sufficient to breed democracy in China. It’s a confident and peaceful approach, and I’m glad that we tested it. However, in this case, I believe we’ve disproven the

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