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by ronnier 4y ago
Naturally more men are born (slightly) plus immigration. Used to balance off by me facing early deaths from dangerous work and fighting wars, but that’s largely not happening anymore in the west.
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by ronnier 4y ago
Not under 50. Under 50 there’s more men regardless, but it’s more imbalanced on the west coast.
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by ronnier 4y ago
You are including over 50s. Every single major city in the USA has more men than women under 50. It’s specifically imbalanced in the west coast tech areas.
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by ronnier 4y ago
Naturally more males are born, something like 5%. Combined with India having a history of aborting female babies
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by ronnier 4y ago
One thing at play is there’s likely a large imbalance with the male/female ratios — lots more single men than women under 50. Same in the US, specifically on the west coast cities.
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by ronnier 4y ago
I mainly use only signal now. I feel very uncomfortable using other messaging platforms that keep the text sitting in a database that is either plain text or encrypted with keys they have. I mean private messaging apps, not things like twit
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by ronnier 4y ago
It’s debt. When you can’t add new features quickly because you have nightmarish tests to fix and you spend more time on the tests than the product, I’d say it’s debt. Especially with the insane mocking setups.
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by ronnier 4y ago
I’ve come to the conclusion that none of this matters for most parts of a system. I worked in the most horrendous code and systems you can imagine but it turned into a multi billion dollar company. Then everyone starts talking about code qu
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by ronnier 4y ago
Reddit. Reddit is by far the worst and has the most impact.
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by ronnier 4y ago
Blown away by this. I copy text from a CNN article and the questions were spot on. So good that it seemed human generated.
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by ronnier 4y ago
> Professor Kathleen Booth, one of the last of the early British computing pioneers, has died. She was 100. Wow long life. I didn’t know you until now, RIP.
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by ronnier 4y ago
Dynamic dns domains are used heavily by spammers as a free way to get new domains to spread links on social media sites (to evade domain bans). Typically these are fake dating site scams targeted at men. I’m dealing with this now at at one
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by ronnier 4y ago
It’s probably a lot different than you think because of romance scams targeting men.
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by ronnier 4y ago
Amazon was hurt deeply by TikTok. TikTok pushed Shein which is now the top shopping app. shein is direct from china sales and is now insanely popular for cheap fashionable clothes. TikTok is eating many. https://techcrunch.com&#x
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by ronnier 4y ago
> I ended up volunteering You are a good person.
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by ronnier 4y ago
Yeah that's if you want stuff like spotify to work and all the streaming sites. You can block those from your router and keep it all local and play MP3s if you like (or air play)
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by ronnier 4y ago
It's not Sonos, but I use a few of these and they are amazing - https://www.amazon.com/Up2stream-amp-Bluetooth-2-0-Speaker-A... Low latency, linkplay, HTTP API, you can join multiple of them together for whole home aud
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by ronnier 4y ago
Why does spur treat MTN mobile service in Nigeria as a proxy? https://www.mtn.ng/
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by ronnier 4y ago
I haven’t looked at any data but I imagine Japanese and German police don’t get attacked and killed and shot at the rates seen America. A lot of American police officers die each year so that probably plays into the officers using more forc
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by ronnier 4y ago
We can but asia won’t. We can stop and let Asian tech giants eat us alive.
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by ronnier 4y ago
I've come to the conclusion that nothing is simple. Nothing. It's only "simple" because thousands of years of work were applied to get us to where we are today and we are building on top of that. It's arrogant to th
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by ronnier 4y ago
Sounds like you got caught up in their spam & abuse systems, if I had to guess. Spam/scams are at extremely high levels right now across every platform (Oddly somehow, HN keeps things under control) -- so companies are getting aggr
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by ronnier 4y ago
Because the people with power, the leaders, big tech, advertisers, people with influence, and the media do not like musk. They’ll just start some new trendy site and go there.
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by ronnier 5y ago
google collects all your information and device info. They can also tie together all of your devices and accounts. They then share that info with the state and law enforcement.
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by ronnier 5y ago
My comment wasn't clear. I updated it. Close them all. Use adblock and make sure they don't track you from social logins etc. Take every action you can to not feed that monster. Be anti-facebook and make your friends and family aw
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by ronnier 5y ago
Close your facebook (and whatsapp, insta, etc) account and move on and encourage others to do the same.
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by ronnier 5y ago
Interesting. Please let me know if you have a better alternative. Ideally I'd like to just run chromium but then I have to build it myself or use some build by some untrusted person so I've decided I'll trust Brave for now...
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by ronnier 5y ago
I don't care about being anon, but I don't want all my info sitting in databases, so I've made done the following and trying to evolve over time and fix gaps that I currently have. This is things I've done... * Use Brave
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by ronnier 5y ago
I've switched to Brave, plus DNS level blocking with pihole.
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by ronnier 5y ago
I run adblockers on the browser and block tracking/ad networks at the DNS level. My kids really notice when they use internet elsewhere.

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