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by sequoia 6y ago
Also: wow. So 1.3 million avoidable deaths worldwide (or 250k in the US if you're there) is an acceptable loss to you, but staying home for the holidays is unacceptable? Your lack of empathy for your fellow humans is staggering. A da
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by sequoia 6y ago
> And they have spiking case counts just like the US right now. What lead to this recent spike, in your opinion?
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by sequoia 6y ago
In this thread someone asks "What are HNers planning to do for the holidays?" This is a fabulous question for online social media: when you go out it can seem like everyone is flouting the rules, no one is being careful, and you
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by sequoia 6y ago
> And they have spiking case counts just like the US right now. What lead to this recent spike, in your opinion? "peaches and cream" it's a global pandemic, I don't think "peaches and cream" is on the table
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by sequoia 6y ago
Now is the time to stand on your principals & do what you know is right. It may upset your family in the short term, but you'll be able to look back & know you did the right thing. Imagine you gather, you find out you had Covid
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by sequoia 6y ago
Please consider other plans. Next year you can get together with everyone at once, but in order to do that everyone needs to survive this year, and that's not guaranteed. Do your part to reduce infection–don't mingle households fo
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by sequoia 6y ago
I've got a turkey ordered, sugar pumpkins roasted (in preparation for pie), gonna get cranberries, potatoes & all the fixins, and stay home and have thanksgiving with my household only , no relatives, no neighbors, no friends. I w
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by sequoia 6y ago
'fighting the virus harms the economy' Would you believe it if I told you that not fighting the virus has an even bigger toll on the economy? Imagine if we'd aggressively addressed this problem back in March, how much less ec
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by sequoia 6y ago
> You have to be in a high risk group. You have to be in a high risk group for what? To die? As far as I know, while some health conditions or age raise risk of covid death or morbidity, there is no group that is without risk of death,
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by sequoia 6y ago
If you borrowed my TV and later I said "you can keep it" that would make it OK, yes.
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by sequoia 6y ago
Do you imagine the VCs had to sell all their clothes and are now walking around wearing barrels held up by leather straps, before they retire for the evening to a cardboard box over a steam vent? You really think they had to cut back their
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by sequoia 6y ago
you probably aren't making 150k in Birmingham, at least most people are not (even skilled programmers)
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by sequoia 6y ago
If the article creates the impression that contacting the congressperson is an "unusually well connected person pulling strings," that's the wrong impression. Anyone in the US can contact their congressperson & this is th
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by sequoia 6y ago
This is an enhancement to video tutorials, not a replacement for documentation. Looks very cool but this is not a get-out-of-jail-free card to avoid writing documentation as the title here seems to imply.
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Practical Tips for Using Toilet (Figlet Clone) (2012)(sequoia.makes.software)
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by sequoia 6y ago
A post I wrote about toilet years ago: https://sequoia.makes.software/fun-with-toilet/
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by sequoia 6y ago
As a US voter I am very frustrated With and tired of this obsession with election forecasting. Is it going to influence whether or not you go out and vote? If not, what is the point of it? What value does something like fivethirtyeight add
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by sequoia 6y ago
Fair enough. I just don't know if it makes sense to expect tech companies operate with any values besides making money. That's why I say "don't ask or beg them to be courteous, force them to either be courteous or &#x2
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by sequoia 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20090717023402/https://zedshaw.c... The answer you're looking for this guy wrote up 10+ years ago: If you don't like the way people are using your work, release your
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by sequoia 6y ago
A note to the "I'm seeing a lot of comments here" crowd, i.e. people saying "shame on you!" to commenters who point out that the author's expectations of how consumers should use his code are at variance with t
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by sequoia 6y ago
Fantastic analogy: tipping is a vestige of a culture of patronage and servitude and a practice that doesn't exist (in the same form) in most of Europe for example, where servers rely on an explicit obligation of payment rather than &qu
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by sequoia 6y ago
The issue is wanting to have it both ways. - I don't want to use restrictive (GPL) license like those business-hating FSF folks–I want people to use my software _freely_ - Hey! A big business used my software in a way that rubs me the
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by sequoia 6y ago
> Or as they use to say, we lose money on each unit but we'll make it up in volume. I believe this is a joke, no? I.e. you can't lose money on each unit and "make it up in volume."
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by sequoia 6y ago
I'm very curious how we're going to look back on this moment in 3 or 5 years time. Is "let's try WFH" the corporate equivalent of "let's try an open marriage" for couples on the rocks, i.e. a "be
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wtf was the octopus about. This was a bunch of spooky concepts all mashed together without any clear theme. What was the main theme or central concept of season 2? Season 1 was clearly about the movements & what they did, whether they&#
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by sequoia 6y ago
Season one I loved–it was novel and very original, unraveled the plot over time, had character development & an amazing ending that tied it all up in a bow. It was a clear and beautiful beginning-middle-end arc. My complaint is that add
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by sequoia 6y ago
People like the Mandalorian because they like Star Wars and they want more Star Wars CONTENT. If you like Star Wars, and you like CONTENT, you'll like Mandalorian: bona fide Star Wars Content.
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by sequoia 6y ago
Plenty of shows can be good with just one or two seasons, and more is worse. Freaks & Geeks: 1 season, amazing. Ditto UK The Office. Fleabag: 2 short seasons, amazing. The OA: AMAZING first season with a complete coherent ending, then t
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by sequoia 6y ago
Sadly your last point is incorrect. Most interviewers will not give any feedback because there’s no upside for the company and a strong chance of pissing the candidate off, making them feel they were treated unfairly or engendering resent
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by sequoia 6y ago
> "Apolitical" is ... another way of saying, "The way things are is fine". I disagree strongly & think you're dead wrong here. Apolitical in the workplace is saying "we come to work to align on & col

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