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by pembrook 9mo ago
OP writes a thoughtful, evidence-based comment. The mob responds with a 1-sentence emotional meme. Classic moral panic 101. It's impossible to fight feelings with logic unfortunately, which is why many western countries are going to fa
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by pembrook 9mo ago
The fact that you're the only one calling this out is quite frankly alarming. It's one of the most authoritarian statements I've ever heard from a western government. And just because its the trendy moral panic of the day, ev
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Do you not see the irony of posting this on a social media site (hacker news), given you're one of the users? I guess self-hatred is one of the motivating vectors of authoritarianism. Would you also secretly like it if daddy government
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Watching people cheer this on uncritically without thinking through what this actually means in practice (the end of privacy on the internet, forever)...just because of some silly moral panic and people being too lazy to parent their kids..
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by pembrook 9mo ago
No, because your pessimistic feelings only serve to strengthen my claim. I find it amusing that, even when directly calling attention to the overwhelming pessimism that is the default-state on HN, I'm met with a pessimistic comment wit
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Some advice for those who are young: If every idiot (I'm including myself in this) on HN/Reddit/Youtube/Tiktok/mainstream news/etc. thinks we're in a bubble and is crazy pessimistic and thinks economic col
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by pembrook 9mo ago
I really wish this existed so that HN could go back to being a tech community of nerds and builders. Somehow HN has become overrun with more and more urban monoculture euro-fetishists and actual Europeans in the last few years. I haven&#x27
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by pembrook 9mo ago
This 'website' is a pile of steaming vibecoded garbage that doesn't even work or do what it claims. It remaining alive on the frontpage here only serves to underline how politically irrational the userbase of HN has gotten.
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by pembrook 9mo ago
I think we can boil down the sentiment in this article to roughly this pattern: - Person learns how to do desirable hard thing - Person forms identity around their ability to do hard thing - Hard thing is so desired that people work to make
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Native radios are notoriously hard to style consistently across browsers. You can do it with appearance: none, pseudo-elements, etc., but: - You re-implement focus rings, checked states, hover, disabled, error states. - You end up bloating
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by pembrook 9mo ago
It has to be this way because we (the collective we) refuse to agree on adding proper UI primitives to the web. We’re like 20+ years into web apps being a big thing and there’s still nothing like what’s offered in OS-native frameworks like
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Obviously this was always going to be the case. But here’s the hard truth: the US has needed to raise taxes for decades given its inability to reduce spending. Hence they massively inflating runaway deficit. If this is the only way American
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by pembrook 9mo ago
I think you might be post-hoc rationalizing an emotional feeling, as clearly this meme is emotionally triggering to everyones nostalgia/pessimism nerve (hence why it went viral). I'm 100% positive more people would guess the far l
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Exactly. Anyone who thinks an intricate illustration of a quill and ink communicates to the user "Hey this app is our Microsoft Word"...is not thinking about what function an icon is supposed to serve. It's like comparing a r
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Then we'll finally be getting the world we deserve. Decades of VC cash has trained developers to never pay for anything that powers their entire career like dev tools. The assumption is you can always squeeze some rich business custome
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by pembrook 9mo ago
While I don't agree with the haphazard and seemingly random policy changes coming from the US lately -- this is a bad take. You do realize that discrimination by citizenship is conducted by basically every government on earth in the co
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by pembrook 9mo ago
As someone who actively avoided cancel culture hysteria in the 2010s, can we have some context here? What did the guy say that has everyone stumbling over themselves to vaguely allude to it?
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by pembrook 10mo ago
Reading this comment thread it’s now clear to me that HN is beyond any repair and is officially dead. It’s fully transitioned to a political reactionary Reddit board devoid of any interesting discussion or insight. Did it get too popular fo
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by pembrook 10mo ago
Again, pulling Microsoft Office from the EU would be an extremely minor nuisance (libre office can open the same formats) at the expense of the US's national champion ever being used by any country outside the US ever again. This is ne
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by pembrook 10mo ago
It'd be a shame if an asteroid struck earth tomorrow as well. But given limited resources, we tend not to devote a ton of resources to every possible tail risk since there's millions of them. Europe should focus on building domest
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by pembrook 10mo ago
You're talking past my criticism and haven't addressed the core logic flaw in your argument. If government is competent enough to build its own software solutions (and these creations would be valuable enough that open sourcing th
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by pembrook 10mo ago
I'm confused with the disconnect here, so you simultaneously believe that: - government decision making is corrupt/inefficient (they would not pick the best product, only the company that bribed them the most) AND - government dir
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by pembrook 10mo ago
> unite them without raising a new (local) software-dictator If you're afraid that one country might create a better software product/company and win the market and this would become 'unfair,' you've already lo
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by pembrook 10mo ago
The problem with putting on band-aids over core structural issues is the government projects are going to run into the same fragmentation issues that private sector ones have. Open source is not a magic wand you can wave to fix that. You
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by pembrook 10mo ago
I find it endlessly fascinating how governments always get lost in the symptoms of the problems at hand instead of addressing the underlying problem itself. The EU has no viable software industry because there's no real single market t
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by pembrook 10mo ago
I love tailwind, but I think it’s disingenuous for Adam to claim that “AI” killed the tailwind UI kit business. Ultimately it was Radix/Shadcn (which uses tailwind for styling of course) that killed the need to buy Tailwind’s UI kits b
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by pembrook 10mo ago
So you created a policy that takes money from the lower/working classes and those on welfare (restricting rental supply for those who rent) and transfers it as a tax subsidy to the middle class (who own) and are offering this up as &qu
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by pembrook 10mo ago
How ironic that your response, "Good art says something about the world" is also just repeating a meme you've heard, a no-true-scotsman fallacy wrapped in an old cliche. It's a meaningless, religious statement. Good a
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by pembrook 10mo ago
> 99% of the “creativity” is done by the AI…it's taken from other people's (creative) work. Yes, and prior to AI, 99% of creativity was also taken from other peoples work. This is how creativity works. Man has no ideas in a v
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by pembrook 10mo ago
What positive effects? More suburban strip malls, more fluorescent lighting, more people working mindless do nothing retail jobs for minimum wage, higher prices due to zero economies of scale, inefficiency from every local store reinventing

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