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by tharne 5y ago
Careful what you wish for. Just because something is flawed, doesn't mean that burning it down will replace it with something better. It's the same reason why most revolutions to overthrow dictators usually become as bad or worse
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by tharne 5y ago
I don't if it's due to actual improvements in quality, or just the fact that every other media outlet is getting worse, but it seems like the quality of the reporting in the NY Post has been getting better in recent years. My own
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by tharne 5y ago
> Why do you feel like that prevents their moderation teams from being arbiters of source quality? The same reason I don't feel like Fox News or Breitbart provides a reliable view of the news, political bias. A lot has been written
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by tharne 5y ago
> Wikipedia being unreliable does not make the Daily Mail reliable though Perhaps, but Wikipedia's unreliability means that it is not in a position to meaningfully comment on reliability of other sites.
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by tharne 5y ago
> For those who don't know, the Daily Mail is considered "generally unreliable" by Wikipedia. This is kind of like two pathological liars arguing over who's the bigger liar. Wikipedia is not all that reliable itself.
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by tharne 5y ago
> It would be like classical guitarists arguing over which brand of footstool improves performance the most. Keyboard aficionado here. Why all the fuss over keyboards?, because it's fun. In particular, it's wonderful to have a
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by tharne 5y ago
Add to that, that "personal responsibility" only helps when the fight is remotely fair. I'm a reasonably diligent parent and think fairly highly of myself, but if the fight is me against a couple of trillion dollar tech compa
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by tharne 5y ago
> Is learning emacs worth it? Yes. Especially now that you know vim. Using evil mode, in combination with leader keys (see Doom Emacs or Spacemacs) resolves the RSI issues that have caused emacs users so much trouble in the past. A lot o
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by tharne 5y ago
> Straight question: why did you misrepresent what I said? Seeing as everyone here has interpreted your comment in the more or less the same way, as an obvious lack of understanding around the realities of raising children, maybe it&#x27
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by tharne 5y ago
> Can't parents acknowledge they have some responsibility towards their own children and not give just blindly give them laptops and phones and expect someone else to clean up the mess after them. This point is academic at best and
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by tharne 5y ago
> Go is among the most high-paying technologies I like go just fine, and I'm learning it as we speak. But I think the high pay scale has more to do with *where* it's being used more than anything else. Go is very popular in SV,
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by tharne 5y ago
> I’m partial to a different interpretation, that’s more like “go doesn’t require as much thinking as Haskell, so you can use your thinking for the problem you’re trying to solve instead of the language”. I think you're being too ch
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by tharne 5y ago
> There's a large part of the industry that thinks we should limit ourselves to concepts that can be understood by a beginner I've never fully understood this weird obsession either. You'd never hear a group of master craf
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by tharne 5y ago
We understand, alright. My hope, though I'm not optimistic, is that this serves as a shot across the bow and we start the long and hard process of getting our financial house in order. But yes, you are correct. If we don't get off
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by tharne 5y ago
> Ubers are cars, just with an extremely high markup. This should be be on a billboard. You could even take it a step further, ubers are worse than just owning a car. If I drive my car somewhere, I stop driving it when I get there. Ubers
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by tharne 5y ago
Your advice is great for fairly financially savvy individuals, but most of us are not especially financially savvy. For the vast majority of people simple, albeit less than perfect, advice is much better than really good, but complex, advic
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by tharne 5y ago
Sure, if you compare it to some of the worst decades on record. But I don't think our standard of success for public safety should be, "Well, it could be worse".
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by tharne 5y ago
It's worse on the West coast, for sure, but crime is way up in NYC and other East Coast cities too. It know it's somewhat gauche to point out the obvious, but cities and locations that have taken anti-police measures are tending t
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by tharne 5y ago
> I know your example is exaggerated but even so making decisions about where to live and work like that is on a parallel with making poor decisions about your finances. Except for the fact that non-terrible housing in U.S. cities comes
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by tharne 5y ago
> That's the world's biggest caveat. Exactly. Not having a car is only a money saver if you place next to zero value on your time and what you can do with it. If I switched to taking public transit to work, the additional child
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by tharne 5y ago
> NYC, DC, SF have mostly decent transit, and I'm willing to bet there are more Americans here on HN who live around there than outside of around there. I'd take that bet. America is a big place and unlike Europe, our populatio
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by tharne 5y ago
Lol, you clearly don't live in the U.S. With the exception of Manhattan, and some parts of D.C. and SF, no car = no job.
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by tharne 5y ago
This is excellent advice. The number one thing you can to do to improve your financial resiliency is to avoid debt.
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by tharne 5y ago
> How the WHO can report these numbers with a straight face is beyond me. I think the WHO understands that they've already lost any credibility they once had and have strategically pivoted to being more of a political organization.
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by tharne 5y ago
It's not just the oral fixation and act of smoking. Cigarettes genuinely suppress appetite. As an added bonus, after you smoke for a while (not that long), your taste buds don't work very well and eating becomes less pleasurable.
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by tharne 5y ago
If weight loss is your only concern, then a pot of black coffee and a pack of Marlboro Reds daily will do wonders, seriously.
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by tharne 5y ago
> the elites have a plan in place to "Trigger the economic, financial and stock market collapse, the bankruptcy of the banks." I haven't read that, what's the motivation? It seems like things are pretty good right now
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by tharne 5y ago
Not high. Russia is a military and nuclear power, not an economic one. Their economy is surprisingly small. As others have pointed out, nothing they make outside of the energy sector is unique - it could all be replaced by other countries.
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by tharne 5y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by tharne 5y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think deepfakes could be a very good thing for society. Imagine if we got to the point where it was completely impossible to distinguish fake images and videos from real ones. It would be a huge blow

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