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Tell HN: The Twitter acquisition is a mask off moment for this site
4 points by vdnkh 4y ago|1 comments
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by vdnkh 4y ago
> I know it is fairly popular on HN to say that any party that is coded ring-wing is terrible No it's not, HN is definitely biased conservative.
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Twitch is explicitly not a free speech platform: https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/twitch-isnt-a-free-spe... "Twitch prioritizes minimizing harm to our users over freedom of expression, and we will limit
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by vdnkh 4y ago
This, and HN in aggregate is pretty right wing, so anything "woke" is bound to trigger a lot of people. I suppose there's always been a libertarian bend here in line tech workers in general, but ever since Trump (and especial
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Sorry Elon, no refunds
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by vdnkh 4y ago
ITT: non-web developers whining about JavaScript (a favorite pasttime of HN)
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by vdnkh 4y ago
I completed a 500 mile hike wearing AirPod pros and they're still kicking
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Let's get the usual HN comments out of the way: * Android has had this for N years * My {cheap phone} is indistinguishable from the new iPhone * ${X}? * Walled garden * iPhones wouldn't be popular without the iMessage lock-in * Th
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by vdnkh 4y ago
HN Libertarians: The Marketplace of Ideas is essential to discourse HN Libertarians when the free market acts: No, not like that!
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Lol
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Over the past few years I've noticed that HN has swung very far to the right. Any politically-adjacent topic tends to feature more than a few upvoted right-wing grievance posts. I still like HN for the articles but it's honestly i
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by vdnkh 4y ago
You're ignoring the fact that there are several philosophies behind constitutional interpretation, and that the dominant philosophy which you list here ("sole job is to interpret laws through the lens of the Constitution"), a
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by vdnkh 4y ago
> The second hand smoke you’d encounter on a sidewalk is completely harmless. A Fine, I don't want to smell it because I find the smell gross. Same concept.
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by vdnkh 4y ago
I never want to breathe in cigarette smoke on the sidewalk because of the damage to my health. Why does the individual freedom to do whatever you want overrule my individual freedom not to be affected by the externalities of your choices? T
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by vdnkh 4y ago
> One could imagine a world where strong standards have been established w And yet this didn't happen and Electron did. The "free market" of FOSS development settled on Electron as the winner for cross-platform development
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Twitch latency in low-latency mode is ~2s (you can check for yourself in the settings cog menu -> advanced -> video stats) because of "prefetch segments", which are delivered via HTTP 1.1 streaming body responses. The client
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by vdnkh 4y ago
The HN hivemind hates JavaScript, mostly because they believe that complexity on the web is a problem self-inflicted by eager "framework devs" continuously chasing the "new shiny", which in their mind invalidates any leg
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by vdnkh 4y ago
> Silicon Valley and its satellites seem to disproportionately favor code interviews compared to the rest of the US market, for some ungodly reason. I work at a well known SV tech company with about 3k ppl and we got over 50,000 job appl
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by vdnkh 4y ago
We have a left, it's just overshadowed and punished by the Democrat centrist majority, and the right wing political majority. Plenty of politicians in the progressive caucus have been pushing for reform for years, but the sad reality o
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by vdnkh 4y ago
"Without RSS Twitter will never succeed"
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by vdnkh 4y ago
> This would drive down costs to the point even the poor can get some decent medical treatment Or we could just offer free healthcare without relying on unfettered capitalism to "work". >unnecessary work With capitalism as t
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by vdnkh 4y ago
> Personally, I’d like to see some states ban healthcare outright. Others have full coverage and everything in between. Then wait 10 years and we can see the results. I strongly suspect there would be states willing to do this. This is t
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Trump's tax cuts certainly didn't help either. Or let's just blame it on "handouts" again.
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Case in point
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Look around, HN has swung very right in the past two years. The comments in any thread related to hot button issues turn into right-wing grievance fests (such as this one).
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by vdnkh 5y ago
Why do you think the best engineers are hard to work with?
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by vdnkh 5y ago
This is a hilarious/sad generalization of a country of ~330 million people masquerading as an investigation into stress. I get the impression that you started with the point you wanted to make - "never trust an American" - an
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by vdnkh 5y ago
Job losses? Unemployment has been consistently decreasing: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm Edit: american jobs
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by vdnkh 5y ago
Bitcoin is not crucial to build more sustainable societies.
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by vdnkh 5y ago
Getting a browser vendor to fix something takes a lot of effort, and doesn't immediately alleviate any impact on users. "if (browser.name === 'safari' && browser.version < 14)" does.

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