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by gffrd 4y ago
> Maybe having cameras around makes the average person feel safe? Interesting point! Attempted interpretation: "I'm a person walking by a house that has a camera, and it makes me feel better knowing there's a recording of
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by gffrd 4y ago
It blows my mind how quickly people put up home cameras with zero thought to * (1) what gets captured * (2) who gets what gets captured Walk down the street of any middle-class neighborhood in a major suburb: a healthy chunk have cameras. L
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by gffrd 4y ago
> Try some other projects right now, don't wait. YES. Not "this weekend" or "when things open up a bit," do it now . The river won't part for the stone voluntarily, you need to jam it in the water … Also, i
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by gffrd 4y ago
Contentment doesn't come externally: you summit one mountain, only to see others in the distance. Once you've climbed the tallest, what do you conquer next? You're at the top of a mountain. You're in a great place. You
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by gffrd 4y ago
So … are you saying you're responsible for the outage?
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by gffrd 4y ago
I got some work done for once. There's my 2.35 hours of work for the month!
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by gffrd 4y ago
> when I do it, its almost like my mind just explodes with creativity, I notice the smallest details that would otherwise pass me by. Man, did this resonate with me: some of my some of my best ideas, my most profound revelations have occ
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by gffrd 4y ago
Love the random direction choosing: it's good to choose to see/experience difference. Even just passing down the other side of the street / coming at the same one from the opposite direction you experience such different thin
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by gffrd 4y ago
East New York is the new LES!
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by gffrd 4y ago
Want to second what a great app Libby is: it's like a "management" layer on top of your regular library experience, paired with integrating services seamlessly (libraries, eReaders) that makes it wonderful. Also, some really
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by gffrd 4y ago
Can one family not raise both healthy introvert and extrovert children? Well, if a parent is unwilling, then no … But if they are willing?
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by gffrd 4y ago
One of the biggest revelations of the pandemic: how effective I am when I work in an environment of my choosing. I know, I know … so much has been written about this. I'm 36, and every office I've worked in has been open, so that
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by gffrd 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this, and for actually walking through the problems you're hitting, your process for unravelling them, the decisions you're taking, and the outcome. I see in your response a joy of being totally in an area th
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by gffrd 4y ago
So … how did you solve it? Did it solve itself organically, or did someone have to step in and broker a middle ground?
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Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've worked on recently?
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by gffrd 4y ago
I had no idea who Tom7 is, and now that I do, you're right: I LOVE this stuff. Thank you! What an excellent example of using non-standard formats to explore interesting concepts and be exposed to different ways of thinking. This is wha
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by gffrd 4y ago
This had me smiling the whole time … I love it when projects go so far beyond beyond what was intended, well beyond where most people would have stopped or lost interest, and in to the land of the absurd and hilarious. This reminds me of th
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by gffrd 4y ago
Agree. My wife has an ancient Air, I use a Pro, and it's SO much more comfortable to type on: the lower-rise palm rest, the slight angle, and the less-knifelike edges all contribute to this. Also: something about the aluminum used on t
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by gffrd 4y ago
I find the same. I feel more "weight" in a choice made by a human, who has their own "map" of the music and what connects it … so, I care to know about the choices made and why they were — the context of the choice. I&#x
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by gffrd 4y ago
Want to add: the _about us_ of this site ("Grog Story") is excellent. I always seek out the "about" of sites to find out "why do you do this, and how well do you understand what you do?" This does not disappoin
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by gffrd 4y ago
Exactly! Or … I don't know, fans? I suspect it has to do with that knots are universal, transform something simple into an incredibly useful tool, and has limitless applications. I'm now trying to thing of other things that fit th
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by gffrd 4y ago
I have to ask: what is HN's interest in knots? Regularly (and dependably!), posts about knots make their way to the front page, often to the top … it's nearly in the same mold as "articles warning about lending/housing b
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by gffrd 4y ago
"Mmm, this Bordeaux is delicious!" "Do you mean 'Cabernet blend?' "
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by gffrd 4y ago
Wanted to also add: it’s crazy that we even need to have this discussion. There’s way too much pressure on individuals, too little social and institutional support, and too much free rein given to companies … which they’ve proven they’ll ab
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by gffrd 4y ago
Is privilege bad? Does anyone get anything without demanding it? To my knowledge, nothing has ever happened without someone saying “enough is enough” and walking out the door. Also, I never said anything about IT.
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by gffrd 4y ago
> You need to set expectations early in the job when you aren't defying a standard behavior but setting that 100% to this. It's all about expectations.
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by gffrd 4y ago
I came here to say this: you are treated how you allow yourself to be treated. If you're working too much, do something about it. You have power. Very, very worst case scenario: you get fired. So what? It's a job. There are litera
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by gffrd 4y ago
I look forward to hating my park, beach, and ski area visits!
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by gffrd 4y ago
I read the OP's "compare" as the judgement-filled comparison, where one measures their self-worth based on where others are at relative to themselves / relies on external yardsticks for definition of identity. The compar
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by gffrd 4y ago
It's not about technical superiority … I think it's more about morality/ethics: is it _right_ that we should introduce scarcity artificially when it doesn't exist naturally, with the primary outcome being that a small gr

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