jjulius

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by jjulius 4mo ago
Knowing Watterson, I'd wager he's taken certain paths to prevent this from happening.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
My wife and I take turns each night doing bedtime for our two girls, 4/6. I have the full C&H box set and, a whiiiiile back, my oldest asked what it was and if we could read it. For over a year now, any time it's my time to do
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Let's not have a conversation, ask questions and understand nuance, let's just flippantly assert judgement via absolutes!
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>And the landline at home doesn't help you coordinate pickups and drop-offs as people start to do a wider variety of activities. How did people coordinate these before even email became widespread?
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Same! ~25 years or so for me. I'm just now letting my oldest begin to manipulate the vinyl records beyond just playing them, but they've both loved slapping CDs into my CDJs and going wild with them.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
It's a massive struggle. I'm somewhat thankful that we didn't have kids until after it was apparent what the impact of this sort of ecosystem has on them, and it's refreshing to meet other parents who feel the same way.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Awesome! My kiddos love digging through my vinyl collection.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>What a dumbphone doesn't solve is the social tax — opting a kid out of the addictive layer can also opt them out of the group chat. That's the actually-hard part. It's hard to say how this'll go in the long run. I ha
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>Disagree and if you actively use it in your workflow well you will realize its a major competitive edge. Depends on your line of work. I regularly try to incorporate it with mine and find myself telling it that it's wrong more ofte
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by jjulius 4mo ago
D'oh! Sorry! I'll go grab some more coffee before trying to think critically.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
The fact that people have instantly and permanently stolen Bitcoin renders that argument moot.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>It is special in the universe unless proven otherwise. There's that hubristic ego OP references.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
What about the less-tech-literate-than-us adult who tried their best to lock down the phone they gave their teen for "emergencies only", but the teen ended up hopping on social media anyway because of FOMO from their friends who w
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by jjulius 4mo ago
I don't have the latest iPhone, my Android is years old and I'm genuinely considering a true-to-life dumb ol' flip phone for my next purchase. I hardly use the damn thing. We don't have a tablet in the house, or the late
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>If meta is paying you high-end why would you give it up for something that pays you less? Sure, because I don't value high-end living. A modest living is enough to keep me happy. If I can provide a happy, comfortable life for my fa
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Of which Meta is but one source of, among a sea of countless other places to obtain it.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
When the entire world has been built around requiring you to use petroleum to go places and build certain things, and requires you to use certain software to interact with everyone, I have sympathy for users whose hands are often tied from
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>And I find it disengenous to now pick on a single solitary entity, Meta, as if the rest of these newly arrived big techs were/are clean and ethical. Possibly some want to virtue signal while earning big $ at some other VC unicorn.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
There are many, many ways to provide for one's family, Meta is but one. And I say this as a father providing for mine. Additionally, putting the blame for using Meta products on the users in spite of all of what we know about how the
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Hey, at least you're open and honest about being okay with contributing to such a global net negative as long as you get something out of it.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
I'm trying to have sympathy for those who work there and are opposed to this, but the irony is so thick that it's a struggle.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Ick.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
The number of people in these comments who would be happy to be "paid well" to contribute to what's inarguably a huge net negative worldwide is exactly how the company got to this point. It's astonishing how many people
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by jjulius 4mo ago
The irony of not reading the comments... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377930
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by jjulius 4mo ago
This was shared about a half-hour prior to your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377930
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Oh sure, and I've considered that move a few times. It's definitely something I'll do in the future if the quality of these rips begins to look worse on newer TVs. I think the biggest thinking preventing me from pulling that
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Still missing the forest for the trees.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Well now we're just ignoring the point for the sake of a semantics debate.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>Sam Altman, the man who runs YCombinator, is my favorite example of this archetype. He seems entranced by the idea of reinventing the world from scratch, maximizing impact and personal productivity. He has assigned teams to work on rein
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Alrighty. :)

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