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by honkdaddy 4y ago
If someone paid me $50 to admit on camera I've broken laws in the past, I think I'd probably be more than happy to. Are you under the impression the police are going to start arresting people on Soft White Underbelly because they
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
You're right, I definitely made the stance out to be a lot more simple than it really is, I know there's a tonne of nuance to this topic. I think all I was trying to say is in my limited experience, addiction and recovery seem to
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
That's a good question, I don't really know. I guess I just have a hard time accepting that when I was a teenager, my folks were aware that our uncle (my god father) was 40min away using every day, but as an extended family we&#x2
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Definitely agree on that. Part of what I like about HN commentary is getting to zoom in on the juicy, interesting parts of small communities without having to sift through alllll the history. I don't have the online attention span to d
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Thank you for the reply! This is exactly what I was hoping to see. Exactly like I pointed out, if you're going to make such strong statements about such fringe communities, it helps to provide some context. I wasn't asking you to
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
It helps to provide some context when making comments like this. Most HN readers don't follow YouTube drama, so at least suggesting what you think the criminal charges would relate to would help a lot. To help others, the first result
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
This is a shame. There are some uncomfortable conclusions which one can reach hearing people in such dire positions being completely honest about what brought them there, but giving them a voice at all is incredibly valuable, even if what t
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
If you're going to make comments which deliberately call out a political or social agenda, please just be respectful to the community and explain what you actually mean. This isn't Twitter or reddit, it's HN. How would you de
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Right, so one one might use a more specific expression if they were talking about the parental responsibilities of their own future child. Again, you're trying to argue against the well-understood meaning of a colloquialism that most E
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I've told this story before, but one of my college buddies is an ex-Twitter engineer and I can anecdotally answer this question. He worked about 2h/day. When he _was_ working, it was on a 5 person team whose sole job that quarter
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
https://www.ohmyrockness.com/ is fantastic, I think because it's personally curated by boots on the ground music fans who make a living researching up and coming New York bands. It has a focus on the NYC scene, but fea
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I mean if it's helpful to you, people can deconstruct the meanings of their colloquialisms so it's more clear, but for most English speakers it's not really necessary. Are you ESL? If I told someone "we'll be workin
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the expression, but usually when English speakers say they "take full responsibility" for a tragedy or unfortunate occurrence, they mean from a moral and blame-based standpoint, it's rarely
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Totally. It also has friendly, hilarious, tall and broad shouldered men who love to drink and gamble on soccer, women with great fashion sense who get their nails done religiously, and some of my favorite local folk music I've ever hea
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
After living a year in Florida and then living a year in Serbia, I can't say I'm convinced it's the socialized healthcare is what makes Europeans so much skinnier than Americans.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I spent the first part of my career following this kind of advice, working as hard as I could, and chasing some mythical prestige I thought would make me happy. Now I make $320k, work remotely about 20h/wk, and have never been happier
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
>The very idea that she, a Black person living in Alabama, could make $75,000 a year in the tech industry after just a 10-week boot camp is what drew Aaryn Johnson into Flockjay. Isn't this where someone with reasonable critical thi
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Are transwomen creators really disempowered online these days? The internet's a very different place from how it was in 2007. Contrapoints, Gigi, Maya Henry were the first three that came to mind and from what I've seen all have w
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
What medium would you recommend Mr. Ebright use to deliver his message to his 50,000 followers, plus the other several hundred thousand who would have seen it given its popularity? He didn't write this for HN users to read, it's p
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
"Just asking questions" is also a common strategy among people who would like answers to their questions. I spent a long time in 2006 asking questions online about USA's actions in the Middle East, and what I found was that t
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Most of the time when I see people reference this principle it’s because they’d like a convenient way to hate Christians or republicans while still considering themselves a good person.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Athletes don't train to make the Olympics so their nation can take home the most medals, they're there as individual competitors. The Olympics aren't really presented as some large metagame, it's about the actual athlet
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I can't think of a good reason Apple would want to support developers who want to publish in their (very) walled garden but aren't willing to purchase at least one macOS device. There are services which provide virtual Macs, this
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Am I misunderstanding the Wikipedia article? >There are various ACH systems around the world. The World Bank identified 87 systems in their 2010 Survey Seems to me like there are many different ACH systems, but perhaps the one referred t
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Putting down my bong and loading another, I remark to the travelers that the human brain is the only set of atoms in the universe which wonders why they are there. All the other atoms seem perfectly happy to exist at all.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Yep. Perfect example of this being the Lego Mindstorms platform. We had a "robotics club" at my private school which used the Mindstorms visual programming tools; there were 10 year olds learning about loops and variables in a way
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
What would application or full-stack engineers expect to charge? I'm Canadian and have often wondered about who's behind the broad spectrum of quality in our country's online offerings.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Right, but you should be able to see that the “why” doesn’t really make any difference here, the effect is still the same. D’s remain motivated to keep immigration high, R’s remain motivated to bring it down.
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Tell HN: Plex was hacked, emails and hashed passwords stolen
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
(I'll preface this by noting that I'm Canadian and will never vote in an American election) One of the reasons that immigration and green cards has always been such a hot-button political issue in the US is that first and second g

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