aklemm

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by aklemm 6y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted, but the idea of individuals owning their own domains is an important pillar of a decentralized social experience. The indieweb is built on the idea.
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by aklemm 6y ago
Protect the Capitol or the point is moot. This is more of a fundamental dilemma that most are admitting right now.
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by aklemm 6y ago
Good question. The root of all of this is human population. Let's get real and talk about it.
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by aklemm 6y ago
That right there is it. You'll have opportunity galore once you're privy to what's going on and what's needed.
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by aklemm 6y ago
Conflict of interest (economic growth relies on population growth) and historic problems infringing on human rights while attempting to control population. But yeah, it’s a shame we can be frank about this.
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by aklemm 6y ago
It's way more nuanced than that. Avoid the treadmill or cargo culting productivity, but don't avoid reckoning with your habits and learning the skills you need to stay organized. That's a real thing and best done as early as
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by aklemm 6y ago
Step one is dev buy-in, then people start federating it and THEY help realize the UX needs. /imo
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by aklemm 6y ago
I mean, if I get throat cancer this is the same story I'll tell. The cigarettes were so long ago.
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by aklemm 6y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by aklemm 6y ago
I fell in quicksand on an island off the coast of North Carolina just a few weeks ago. Immediately was in over my knees but easily walked out. The crazy thing was that area of quicksand immediately hardened after I’d fallen in it. I’m guess
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by aklemm 6y ago
You have learned a lot.
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by aklemm 6y ago
Read the news with a goal in mind: understand civic life. My 20+ years of reading news daily has brought me a personal understanding of the world, and it’s way better than when I started out in my teens ignorant, confused, and unmoored. I k
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by aklemm 6y ago
Is there any way to quantify this common objection? If I felt this way, I’d suspect it is more likely that I am either ignorant or intolerant of the struggles of these whiners that so annoy me.
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by aklemm 6y ago
Is this your actual experience? Can you provide more specifics? I can’t imagine too many people hiring consultants from pure Internet marketing.
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by aklemm 6y ago
The urge to be a polymath comes from a desire to understand the world, hardly a worthless aim. If the polymath claims expertise, I suppose that’s one thing, but he needn’t have expertise to have useful insights for himself.
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by aklemm 6y ago
I would bet daycare rates as proportion of income have the same effect.
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by aklemm 6y ago
That's a population control nudge I can get behind.
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by aklemm 6y ago
That was interesting and at least sort of intellectually honest for the first three quarters, been then ended as a culture war piece with a pathetic conclusion.
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by aklemm 6y ago
The man literally said he’s bothered by something outside his control.
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by aklemm 6y ago
Son, you’re not going to get where you want to be until you resolve whatever lead you to find this thought important enough to write down in public.
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Ask HN: What concepts and facts should be common knowledge among voters?
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by aklemm 6y ago
"Comparative advantage" has always embodied, to me, the difficulty with electoral politics. It's a fairly easy concept, taught fairly widely, yet almost no one really understands it and views the world through that lens. Most
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by aklemm 6y ago
Yes, because it offers no answers. You’re left with all the same questions and more about the designer.
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by aklemm 6y ago
I can't believe MathML just died and it's like not even part of the conversation about the history of math markup.
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by aklemm 6y ago
This, precisely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_189...
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by aklemm 6y ago
Are you aware that using “Democrat” incorrectly where “Democratic” is grammatically correct is used almost exclusively by right-wingers presumably to make it an epithet. You’re watching too much of that “balanced” media you’re defending.
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by aklemm 6y ago
Except that culture is escapable, changeable. Race isn’t. So what is your point exactly?
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by aklemm 6y ago
How do you understand “reframing history”? Your comments indicate that you don’t like it, and that makes me think you believe the framing we’ve lived with so far is authoritative. 1619 feels like a fair and useful project to me. That’s beca
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by aklemm 6y ago
At risk of being flippant, you're overvaluing media and art over actually living life. Where do you suppose art comes from? More from life than from looking at other art.
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by aklemm 6y ago
You could do worse than: 1) Tune into HD college radio stations so you get exposed to a lot of stuff and you can see the artist/track names. 2) Make and explore play lists on Spotify. 3) Google artists that interest you.

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