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by foofoo4u 6y ago
Relevant article I read the other day: https://www.wsj.com/articles/start-up-city-accelerated-growt... . My impression from it is that Austin will be embracing growth better than the Bay Area. They seem more keen on in
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
I have similar observations and concerns in regards to the United States’ overdependence on China as its supplier. I believe COVID-19 has revealed how dependent we are on China for even the most basic of supplies. America’s inability to dom
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Mozilla VPN now available for Mac and Linux(vpn.mozilla.org)
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
First it was the social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.). Then it was the app stores (Apple, Google). Then it was the payment processors (Stripe, etc.). Then it was the cloud computing platforms (Amazon). Now its the domain name r
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
All good questions. I am not going to pretend I know the answers here. I'll share my thoughts though. > How do I as a consumer know if a product will last or not? You, yourself, wont know. Not unless you are an expert on the product
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
Products are having shorter lifespans with ever decreasing levels of repairability. Like what others have said here, our expectations have become so low that it is commonly expected that the things we buy will only last a year or two before
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
The past several years have made me aware of the vulnerability of overreliance on consolidated powers. Silicon Valley has too much influence on the world. Most of the world’s tech resides within it. The ideology of the region is vastly diff
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Solid Project – Choose who has access to your data via decentralized data stores(solidproject.org)
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He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World(nytimes.com)
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
Of all the institutions on the web, Wikipedia has remained my #1 most trusted source with the least sense of corruption. Remarkable, really. If we want to know how to restore the web, we may want to learn how Wikipedia has remained so reput
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
This is precisely what I expected was going to happen this year. The great purge.
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Ask HN: Is my data within Google Workspace private? Seeking alternatives
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
I'd like to move my family off of WhatsApp due to these concerns. I've used Signal before, but I am not a big fan of it. I often have to re-register my devices to sign in, syncing takes a long time, and conversations do not persis
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Oracle Moves Corporate Headquarters to Austin, Texas(wsj.com)
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
To add to this, there are two active automotive manufacturing plants that exist in Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Motor_vehicle_assembl... . What this means is there is already a presence of skilled labor
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
I highly suggest you make yourself familiar with Thomas Sowell. He has written countless books on the topics of economics, politics, race, policy, and more. I find he makes the most compelling arguments for the "conservative" side
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
Sidebar topic, but something that is always in the back of my head. Cars are becoming evermore connected to the web. If something as simple as this can brick my Mac, then what will it be like in a vehicle? Will all cars simultaneously go ha
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
All of my personal Macs became unusable about an hour ago. Fan would kick up, CPU gets loaded, and every operation comes to a crawl. Thankfully it seems a PRAM and SMC reset solved the issue. Wondering if what's going on here is relate
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
I just need the basics: phone, maps, contacts, banking, Uber, spotify, etc. But I don't want the dopamine slot machines on my phone: facebook, twitter, snapchat, etc. I struggled to find a solution that could address this. Then I follo
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
Great. I lost all of my saved and favorited podcasts. They cannot be found within YT Music search.
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
I think you raise a good point. Why have so many developed countries abandoned wealth taxes? According to wikipedia > Some other European countries have discontinued this kind of tax in recent years: Austria, Denmark (1995), Germany (199
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
You may be interested in https://privacy.com/ . I use it for all online subscriptions. It allows me to block all transactions, which brings me back control of what I am paying for.
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
This is a good point you are bringing up. There will naturally be push back. It is in our natural self-interest, and especially the self-interest of corporations, to not have to pay more. I did not mention this in my comment, but I will hav
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
> The problem is that it's so cheap to make new things that recycling is almost never cost effective. I think I lost faith in the concept (at least in the current economic climate) right about the time I found out that old glass isn
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
> It is really magical if you think of how much you spare our planet with growing your own food: You need to get a job to make money so that you can spend that money on buying food which was produced and delivered close to you by large,
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
Thank you for sharing that quote. It's not the first time I've seen this line of thinking. It's economically naive. I'll explain why. Let's imagine everyone decided to grow their own garden like the author suggests.
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
You may find this perspective by Russ Roberts, host of EconTalk, to be interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dL5G4QYEhc . Explores this very question in his series.
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
I set my browser to block all cookies. Has the same effect as private window mode. That way I can still browse youtube without having to open a new window. Yea, it sucks that I can no longer sign in, but at least the recommendations are bet
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
I've had this happen plenty of times to be before in the past. Back when I did freelance web services, I used to tell my clients to never search on GoDaddy in advance for domains.
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by foofoo4u 6y ago
Yes, I am experiencing similar issues as well in our codebase. Half of it is class based while the other half is now in hooks. Apparently classes are now "bad" and therefore it should be immediately abandoned. Unfortunately this l

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