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by tharne 5y ago
Articles like this misunderstand both innovation and capitalism. Progress isn't typically made by some unusually smart person or enterprise gazing into the future and creating the perfect thing. It happens by lots of individuals and co
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by tharne 5y ago
The sins of the U.S. are many, but I don't think anyone can credibly say, in the modern era, that the treatment of minorities in the U.S. is in any way, shape, or form comparable to what's happening in China right now. Say what yo
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by tharne 5y ago
This is a bad faith article that would have ended the same either way. Right now western countries are getting taken to task for not approving the vaccine quick enough. Had they approved it quickly in spite of the blood clot concerns, the h
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by tharne 5y ago
> "Facebook is changing the world!" Zuck wasn't wrong when he said this, I just don't think the change he had in mind was giving a platform to anti-vax conspiracy theorists and helping Russian troll farms influence U.
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by tharne 5y ago
Right on. I quit Facebook about 2 years ago for the exact same reason and never looked back. I think you're on to something here. Network effects work both ways. If each new user on a platform compounds it's utility and desirabili
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by tharne 5y ago
> What do you do all day that is so different? I read (paper books) more, exercise more, started doing yoga more frequently. I've made it a point to call friends more too. At this stage in my life, time is at premium so I think we&#
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by tharne 5y ago
When something involves a small percentage of the population, it's typically an individual issue/failure. When it becomes the vast majority of people, like in the case of obesity, you have to seriously consider that the issue is i
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by tharne 5y ago
I used the SE for a long time too, for the exact same reason, the small screen. It's a fantastic phone. I have a fairly addictive personality when it comes to tech so I had to end up taking more extreme measures.
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by tharne 5y ago
> How much time do you spend on HN? Too much :)
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by tharne 5y ago
Perhaps we run in different circles. I constantly notice compulsive smart phone use. At work it's very common to see 8 people load into an elevator and like clockwork 6 or 7 of them will instantly pull out their phones. Any little piec
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by tharne 5y ago
I'd classify it as "not bad, but not nearly as good as your iPhone"
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by tharne 5y ago
The Sunbeam F1 Orchid: https://sunbeamwireless.com/ It's WAY more basic than most people are willing to live with, but it's been working surprisingly well for me. Like I said in my original comment, there are defi
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by tharne 5y ago
I'm starting to get annoyed with these articles. Most people cannot use things like smartphones and Facebook "responsibly". To think you can compete with companies that have virtually unlimited financial resources available t
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by tharne 5y ago
Never. People with a scarcity mindset tend to be resentful of anyone who's achieved any level of success greater than their own.
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by tharne 5y ago
I remember Hillary Clinton doing that in 2016 with a single sabre-rattling tweet about the pharma industry.
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by tharne 5y ago
I guess what surprises me is how nakedly unethical it is. I'm not shocked that people in positions of significant power would use that power to enrich themselves unfairly. I am shocked at how little effort they make to hide it.
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by tharne 5y ago
I've often wondered about this. It's mind boggling that this is allowed. A congressman can short oil stocks and the very next day propose a large tax on oil producers then promptly cash out, and be completely within the bounds of
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by tharne 5y ago
> The whole thing reads as being rushed and superficial. Journalism tends to reward this. I used to work in a much more public-facing field where we would regularly get calls from local journalists about projects we were involved in. The
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by tharne 5y ago
Why is this guy so surprised? This is exactly what everyone was worried about when Wikipedia launched. Namely, that an encyclopedia that anyone could edit would inevitably run into serious issues.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Such an arrogant comment. It's not an arrogant comment, it's common sense. It's much better not to do dumb things than to do dumb things and then try to fix it. Yes, it's good to fix one's mistakes, but that do
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by tharne 5y ago
This is incredibly naïve. Social norms change, often quite quickly and in unexpected ways. You could have a near future where posting nudes is 100% normal, then 10 years after that it becomes quite taboo again. The problem is that the inter
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by tharne 5y ago
Don't be too hard on yourself, it's next to impossible to guess which things are going to be transformational and which aren't. Look at some of the early early emails from Linus Torvalds on linux. In his mind the original lin
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by tharne 5y ago
Vim and neovim do not have support for multiple cursors. The vis editor, is a vim-like editor that does support multiple cursors (and also structural regular expressions, if that's your thing).
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by tharne 5y ago
> Can you list examples of antisemitism on the left? There are videos online of Jews in New York and other cities getting assaulted by large groups in recent weeks. Watch them for yourself, listen to the language being used and decide wh
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by tharne 5y ago
This needs to be brought up more. The "emacs + evil" crowd tends to see vim as a set of ergonomic keybindings, but it's so much more. It's the "seamless interoperability with other terminal tools" alongside the
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by tharne 5y ago
I'm sure there will be. People will say practically anything you ask them to if their six or seven-figure job depends on it.
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by tharne 5y ago
I think the parent commenter is referring to the growing anti-Semitism on the left. Traditionally, anti-Semitism in the United States has come from the far right. However, recently, anti-Semitism has been rising on the left and has been inc
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by tharne 5y ago
> The issue as described in the article is holding himself out as a “professional engineer” because that implies licensure. I will guarantee you that is not how that vast majority of the population would interpret it. Very few people eve
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by tharne 5y ago
You can pretty easily get around this by downloading the neovim appimage to your home directory and either putting it somewhere in your path or just creating a simple alias.
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by tharne 5y ago
> I don't like how the nvim community seems to be throwing themselves wholeheartedly into lua and lua-only plugins The transition to lua can't come soon enough, imho. The biggest downside to vim is vimscript. Lua is a delightf

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