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by caseyross 5y ago
It's ironic, because Facebook loves to talk a big line about "connecting the world". But when the "wrong" people benefit from that connection, they find themselves swiftly cut off. Now, I'm not saying it's
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by caseyross 5y ago
"Any run-of-the-mill engineer can design something which is elegant. A good engineer designs systems to be efficient. A great engineer designs them to be effective." - from Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
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Gossamer Network(gossamernetwork.com)
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by caseyross 5y ago
(2011) Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2676263 And 2 years later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6817095
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Thanks, this puts into words what I remember about watching Arthur as a child. As I recall, it was constantly teetering on the edge of too advanced for a younger kid, and too staid for an older one. A shame, because even at that age the hig
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by caseyross 5y ago
Interesting. I can't say whether the judges' decision is a good legal theory, but it seems like, in practice, trying to enforce equal access to buying creative goods is a total non-starter. If I sell lots of identical goods, it&#x
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by caseyross 5y ago
Another way to think about it is as time pollution . It's not a perfect analogy, but you can imagine the US government as a factory that slowly churns out "Benefit Programs", and in the process emits a large amount of pollut
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by caseyross 5y ago
Of course. But the "official" (as you say) transliterations of world languages enjoy wide usage not because they're necessarily the best anyone could come up with --- rather, they just represented the right local maxima at th
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by caseyross 5y ago
(Note: I've shortened the title slightly to fit within the HN limit.)
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‘Five years since a white person applied’: the immigrants milking America’s cows(theguardian.com)
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by caseyross 5y ago
Similar: https://www.dimensions.com
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Dogging It (2001)(web.archive.org)
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by caseyross 5y ago
For those interested, VICE recently did a fantastic report about the street violence that's consuming parts of Port-au-Prince, and how it's connected to Haiti's current political climate. https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by caseyross 5y ago
What's telling is that TurboTax's UX is really, really, good, deceptive pricing aside. Like, so good I almost enjoy using it to do my taxes. The very fact that Intuit has clearly invested money into making a beautiful interface
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by caseyross 5y ago
Plutocracy is the natural state of a capitalist society. But America managed to break out of it briefly in roughly the 1940s-70s period, and has since regressed to the mean. So in a "what your grandparents remember" sense, things
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by caseyross 5y ago
It looks like this is your own work. Please read the HN guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ), and specifically: use the original title of the submitted material, not one that is editorialized in a w
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by caseyross 5y ago
> Children want to learn from "real" work, not the fake work of school, which is why so many of them can't sit still in class, and get poor grades despite being smart, etc. Furthermore, you could argue that not paying atte
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“The Atlantic” employees unionize(twitter.com)
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Kannada: Google apologises for 'ugliest Indian language' search result(bbc.com)
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by caseyross 5y ago
I know we as HN readers have a tendency to look in the comments for a TL;DR, but this time, do yourself a favor and read the article first. You won't find anything below that wasn't already covered, with more nuance and historical
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As of today, I've been on Reddit for ten years. Here's what I've learned(reddit.com)
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How date-fns came about(twitter.com)
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Why Joe Biden Punched Big Pharma in the Nose over Covid Vaccines(mattstoller.substack.com)
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Nature at its craziest: Trillions of cicadas about to emerge(apnews.com)
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by caseyross 5y ago
Interestingly, there's nothing particularly novel about investing in a person's early career to reap late-career rewards. In America, it used to be that parents and employers would invest a lot of money in raising and training you
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by caseyross 6y ago
I can't help thinking that this story is a fantastic example of the free market at work. Two college kids use their insight to spot a market need that the "big guys" missed, and create a wonderful, useful product that becomes
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by caseyross 6y ago
Agree 100%. It's also possible that a migration path could end up using the proposed "leading-trim" and "text-edge" properties as part of the solution.
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by caseyross 6y ago
Fantastic job - this is probably the only time I've seen a "code replacing humans" tool and thought "this could actually work". I think a lot of commenters here are not quite getting the use case for these kind of s
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IMO there's an even better design, which is to not hide links in an expandable menu at all. Just show all the links at once! With appropriate headers and visual hierarchy to provide organization, this is better in pretty much every way
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by caseyross 6y ago
> I would honestly be amazed if a single person, anywhere[1], looked at this change and thought "yep, I don't have to think about slavery now". Surprisingly, human minds do seem to work that way. After doing a "good

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