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by sequoia 6y ago
The embedded glitch things all over the place are unwelcome on this page. This is demonstrating features of HTML and CSS within a webpage ffs, do you really need to embed another system a half dozen times? Doesn’t work well at all on my i
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by sequoia 6y ago
That’s the point, and the intended effect. They don’t want you to look overseas for the manual UI tester or whatever, they’re saying “that’s not skilled enough to warrant granting a visa based on a claim you can’t find someone in the US t
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by sequoia 6y ago
Maybe you've answered this but how is running powerful indoor grow lights which use lots of electricity rather than relying on sunlight "sustainable"?
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by sequoia 6y ago
The radio mixing feature seems similar to what this guy "Radio Wonderland" does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr2wK3jvUhc I've seen his performances at HOPE conferences and it's pretty cool. See a full
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by sequoia 6y ago
I wrote that summary title rather than the original title ("The New Helicopter Parents Are on Zoom") because I think the original title is very unfair to parents. They aren't choosing to "helicopter," they are bein
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Screen school forces parents to micromanage their children(nytimes.com)
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by sequoia 6y ago
Totally agree–eliminate the rhetorical hiding places ("I work here but I object strongly... ) and let people either be honest about the fact that the money is worth the compromise (i.e. stop performing outrage) or actually be outrag
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by sequoia 6y ago
Employees were mad specifically because he wouldn't take down the president's post threatening a violent crackdown on rioting & looting. Is it your perception that the main objection of employees was to explicitly counterfactu
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by sequoia 6y ago
> He declined to say he wouldn't do the same thing again. Was he presented with a loyalty oath that he refused to sign? What do you mean he "declined to say"? Was he asked to say "I won't do this again" or d
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by sequoia 6y ago
To be honest I wish Zuckerberg would say "We're not censoring political posts, and if you don't like it, --> there's the door. Who's leaving first?" Facebook engineers may love to beat their chests about soc
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by sequoia 6y ago
Eich expressed "sorrow at having caused pain" which is not the same as acknowledging having "hurt people." This is pedantic but if we're going to talk about what someone else said , we should be precise. I don&#x27
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by sequoia 6y ago
> But as it was he could have simply apologized and hunkered down Apologize for what? Exercising his right to political speech? His views represented the views of 52% of the Californian voters, i.e. the majority of voters . He's su
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by sequoia 6y ago
I'm guessing here but the Canadian gov't often subsidizes tech & other engineering companies, so the strategy may be "have the company avail itself of as many subsidies as possible" with subsidies that commit the com
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by sequoia 6y ago
Let's go back even further https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZNoEVycOc&feature=youtu.be... (Ur-Quan Dreadnought from Star Control II)
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by sequoia 6y ago
Agreed that people shouldn't have twisted his words, and agreed that his comments were, at least from a very technical read, not inappropriate. To be honest you've changed my mind a bit here & I'm a bit more on RMS's
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by sequoia 6y ago
Fair enough regarding the word twisting. So you figure 73 year old Minsky was on this plane or whatever, a highschooler offers to have sex with him and he just figured, what, she was caught up in the heat of passion? Maybe high schoolers of
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by sequoia 6y ago
I'm an RMS fan overall & think he's been fairly prophetic over the years even and respect him for sticking to his Free Software guns even when his views were unpopular, but these comments of his regarding the Epstein case were
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by sequoia 6y ago
This is a rude and unkind way to refer another person in this conversation (the poster two comments up from you in the thread and the author of the letter in question). Reconsider your approach.
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by sequoia 6y ago
> a deal the Palestinians called a "treacherous stab in the back". This direct quote they later attribute to Hamas, not multiple Palestinian groups. What do you think the purpose of framing it in this way is? It seems to me to
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by sequoia 6y ago
If that Al Jazeera article were on Wikipedia it'd (hopefully) get hit with Weasel Words[0] complaints, at least in the lede. > ...a deal slammed by the Palestinians who called it a "treacherous stab in the back". Which Pal
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by sequoia 6y ago
> Their target market should be "people who want a first class internet experience, but dont have the time or understanding to research the litany of tools they would need to employ to get it. Why wouldn't these people just use
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by sequoia 6y ago
Pardon my french but fuuuuuck. I switched to chrome back in the early 2010s after years of Firefox use because it was faster, and I stuck with it because the the devtools were better than firebug and later built-in FF tools. But always I to
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by sequoia 6y ago
> The Clean Network program is the Trump Administration’s comprehensive approach to safeguarding the nation’s assets including citizens’ privacy and companies’ most sensitive information from aggressive intrusions by malign actors, such
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by sequoia 6y ago
Note to website/blog authors: please don't include twitter embeds in articles as the only way to read/view/hear the content!! - I use an ebook reader (Kobo) with Pocket to read saved articles and it can't load the
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by sequoia 6y ago
Can you expand on this? I'm curious what you mean.
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by sequoia 6y ago
> Every large server-rendered app I've worked on ends up devolving to a mess ... that is a big pain to work on. I can honestly say the same about every large SPA style app I've worked on and I've worked on several. Rewrite
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by sequoia 6y ago
A joke about "ports" or "drops" in the bathroom is trying to form itself in my mind, but I am actively suppressing it to protect myself and the community.
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by sequoia 6y ago
This is a fair question and it is a complicated situation. Personally, I do not think democracies & theocracies (for example, not saying Hungary is a theocracy by any means) are morally equal and the only differences being cultural rela
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by sequoia 6y ago
Web components to me represent the architecture I’d like to have. I think a good arch could be: 1. Build a rails/django type site, make everything work vanilla http+html etc. 2. Create standalone web components for the places you nee
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by sequoia 6y ago
I downvoted this because these are (in my opinion) entirely theoretical and not practical answers. This reminds me of the "React is better than Angular(js) because look how compact and clean the API is compared to Angular!" type a

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