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by montagg 6y ago
We're absolutely doing things that future generations will find abhorrent. And as our thinking as humans evolves, I hope we'll also change our behavior. But let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good. When we are aware
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by montagg 6y ago
This was also the case at Fairfax and 3rd in Los Angeles. Violence erupted only when the police arrived, not before. They escalated the moment they arrived.
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by montagg 6y ago
Every situation where the police arrive has become violent. It’s not the protestors that escalate. The presence of the authorities has created this situation. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. I don’t believe the police want to do this, but th
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by montagg 6y ago
The point is that an order to siege an American city would not be unlawful, under the Insurrection Act, because there are parts of the Act that give a lot of discretion to the President about when to use force. That siege order could be leg
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by montagg 6y ago
I think you're basically making an "it can't happen here" argument, and I wholly disagree. I worry this kind of thinking effectively guarantees it will happen here eventually, because it relies on dynamics that govern
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by montagg 6y ago
During the Colfax Massacre during Andrew Johnson's presidency, there were two factions that claimed they had won the gubernatorial election for Louisiana. They both tried to set up governments. White Democrats murdered freed black men
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by montagg 6y ago
I'd love to live in this world, but it is not one I think anyone can afford to live in. This man is a true narcissist who has very little respect for the office, the institutions he's responsible for, or more than half the country
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by montagg 6y ago
It's a risk. It's not a mistake. I appreciate they are trying to thread a very difficult needle. I'd argue democracy's continued survival is predicated on being able to both have a flattened playing field where every voi
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by montagg 7y ago
It's an interesting idea, and I totally agree with it, but the article seems like a long shower thought. I'd love to see more evidence that a list of links is actually the right solution for Berkshire Hathaway customers. I bet it
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by montagg 7y ago
Some of what you're describing is very important for users, like accessibilities issues, but not every general solution makes sense for every audience. That's the essence of user-centered design: a ruthless focus on optimizing for
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by montagg 7y ago
No tool is going to do the job of establishing boundaries with your team members so you can do your best work. You decide that. Any tool can be positive or negative depending on its use and context. I do deep work and have no problem using
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by montagg 7y ago
I’m on a neighborhood council in LA, and this is not consistently the case. You often see this flip when it comes to supporting denser development, especially where it intersects with removing single family homes or rent controlled apartmen
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by montagg 7y ago
The way we thought about it was primarily butts in seats. For simplicity, if open office = about 1000, a reasonable closed office environment for us would have housed about half of that. If we needed 1000 to deliver product X, we’d either d
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by montagg 7y ago
I’d be really curious how much of a hit to people’s salary they would be willing to take, or the reduced capabilities of their business, to get an open office environment. I worked with an internal team that created a brand new office for a
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by montagg 7y ago
Fun is different things to different people. It’s common for many gamers to believe that fun for them is fun for everyone, but balancing fun for multiple parties in a multiplayer game, where losing has to be fun, too, involves a lot of trad
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by montagg 7y ago
This person is describing their own experience; what you're saying is that you haven't had that. Which is great for you, but it's not universal. Hopefully your experience is more common. But if this person's is, then t
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by montagg 7y ago
There are some states, like CA, where discrimination based on political views is illegal, but it’s practically-speaking not too hard for an employer to find a more traditional performance reason that may be related to political views. Cavea
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by montagg 8y ago
> don’t split login across multiple pages At a company I work with, we found that splitting account creation and login fields across several pages actually simplified the account process for customers and led to increase sign ups and mor
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by montagg 8y ago
I guess one could say both are a lot of work, you’re just doing different work. In my experience, poly relationships fail faster, when one doesn’t do the work, than monogamous relationships, which can linger longer with dysfunction that doe
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by montagg 8y ago
I normally don’t post on HN, but I wanted to to add some clarity to this. My wife and I are poly. We’ve been poly for about a decade, we were in a triad for two years (all three partners in relationships with one another), and have had many
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by montagg 13y ago
But the Peters projection is a lot easier to read with the expectations most people have for the word "map." The Dymaxion map illustrates to me why it's not always best to solve for a single variable without making any conces
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by montagg 13y ago
HN titlebar flash: PRISM is just a weekend project.
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by montagg 13y ago
I used something similar back in 2007 and it just became a pain. It was never unusable -- lots of people do it -- it was just never truly seamless for what I saw as decreasing value for the minor frustration. The experience of using this ki
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by montagg 13y ago
I've seen more than one poorly designed, poorly executed product go to market with lots of user testing. I'd love to have someone from Apple comment on their design process, because it's really just conjecture that they do or
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by montagg 13y ago
> Apple is widely acknowledged in the industry as having amateurish design and an utter lack of anything resembling perfectionism or attention to detail. I would love to see your source on this one, because I never stop hearing the oppos
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by montagg 13y ago
I think the takeaway here is not that it's easy. It's that you should find a niche. A weather app is not it.
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by montagg 13y ago
That's a great point, and it points to a weakness that most privacy advocates don't really address very well: knowing more about you allows some companies to do things better for you. They have to answer the question, how do we pr
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by montagg 13y ago
> What we don't have(yet) is something so easy that the general public can do it. Companies are starting to realize that providing a good experience is the most important thing your company can do to stay relevant. Dreams often die
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by montagg 13y ago
Considering the context, the name of the company is very, very interesting. > A palantir is a dangerous tool, Sarumon. ... We do not know who else may be watching.
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by montagg 13y ago
It's just the difference between someone who wants a swiss army knife and someone who wants a santoku knife. They're just two different philosophies of experience design. Calling it "spin" ignores the actual benefits (and tradeoffs) inheren

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