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by welanes 10y ago
> There should be a way for us to navigate different bubbles, to inhabit different, neutral profiles to explore other niches of population Twitter is the app for that. Set up lists of different individuals so you can switch between diffe
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by welanes 10y ago
Yes, in that case I have been deceived. The equivalent of this concept of 'fake news'. That raises more questions still: - were those donuts in the health aisle or the bakery? - was I able to easily test the vitamin C content by c
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by welanes 10y ago
> They are asserting themselves only as a business and not emotional influencers...The emotional influences that facebook brings in people is very powerful. The same could be said of TV networks, Spotify, Twitter, Google photos. We are t
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by welanes 10y ago
Perhaps. But when you consider the platform each targets (Denny's on Tumblr - younger, values visual content. Merriam-Webster on Twitter - older, values witty shortform word) this is excusable.
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by welanes 10y ago
What makes Merriam-Webster stand apart from others is that it doesn't feel overly contrived. The Denny blog - http://blog.dennys.com/ - is similar. A hilarious blend of surrealism and non-sequitur. I've never eate
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by welanes 10y ago
True. I miss the days when people made a quick buck from sharing funny pictures of cats instead of appealing to tribal instincts. As vacuous as fake news but a lot less divisive.* * Well, unless you're not a cat person that is.
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by welanes 10y ago
So The Washington Post article on fake news is lying to its readers. This perfectly illuminates the problem with trust, truth, and the Internet. Two good rules of thumb - and this goes for established media outlets - when reading an article
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by welanes 10y ago
An alternative definition: > Stoicism means never having to say, "Gee, I really lost my sh*t back there."
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by welanes 10y ago
I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
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by welanes 10y ago
Pff, couldn't even recognize bread: http://i.imgur.com/kSdiWeP.png
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by welanes 10y ago
'They' being the media in that sentence.
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by welanes 10y ago
Began as a simple Pomodoro timer but is gradually becoming a full task manager - https://lanes.io . Less proud of making it than I am of the fact that thousands of people use it to accomplish their goals every day, which is neat.
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by welanes 10y ago
But that was never the conversation. It was always about how only bigots and deplorables could support him. The concerns powering Trump's rise were shooed away as small-minded. Well, Brexit and Trump are two black eyes. I really hope
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by welanes 10y ago
Will the people who denigrated his supporters so vehemently here and on Twitter pause to ask themselves why Trump won so convincingly, and whether their reflexes to publicly shame his supporters may have played a role in the outcome? I&#x27
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by welanes 10y ago
> It gets depressing....It just feels empty....it consumes you. Maybe try treating it as an aesthetic preference rather than a fundamentalist religion and you'll be happier. Over the weekend the FT published an interview with the fa
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by welanes 10y ago
Useful to know. Cheers.
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by welanes 10y ago
I'm not versed in React but I think this achieves the same thing - 1. Create your custom component: var btnComp = { props: ['text'], template: '<div>I am a button <button v-html="text">&
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by welanes 10y ago
So here's what he/she said: > "Why some places are corrupt and others aren't is poorly understood magic of some sort. One fairly decent guess is something like "cultural factors" - Danish bureaucrats aren&#x
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by welanes 10y ago
I don't see it. I think you may be projecting your own interpretation on to the parent comment.
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by welanes 10y ago
As someone who originated from a developing country and now resides in a developed one, there's much truth and not a lot of racism in that sentence. It's not about race, it's about values, i.e. culture. Speak to an immigrant,
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by welanes 10y ago
Nice no-nonsense shutdown post. I kinda miss the nonsense though. Like why are they shutting down, are they keeping their static-hosting service Pubstorm, and if so, how - at $5 per month - can that be more economical?
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by welanes 10y ago
Some auxiliary watching for those who want a peek inside the life of a Japanese temporary employee is 'Japan A Story of Love and Hate' ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-kNnq7mFM ). It's a documentary on hope
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by welanes 10y ago
> BTW, anyone know a good word for this attitude? Got you, brah - Dilettantism: a person having a superficial interest in an art or field of knowledge without investing the usually required effort. See also: dabbler .
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by welanes 10y ago
Knowledge-wise: Github. When I began learning Javascript I'd read through the source code of any libraries that appeared to do magic and figure out what the trick was. Very helpful in making things 'click'. Tool-wise: Vue.js
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by welanes 10y ago
Personally, it's the lack of pain when getting started. React has an unfamiliar syntax and the cognitive load to "get it" while not huge, was going to take time. Angular seemed fine but a little verbose and a new version was
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by welanes 10y ago
Really like the light touch to the website design and copy. But it may be too light as I've clicked on two links to find out how it adds value to my life and I still don't know. Some first impressions: * I want to enter something
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by welanes 10y ago
Are you trolling? You have to be trolling. > I'm angry that people like him are constantly getting a platform to complain about about how terrible their great lives are. Well this is your platform, and look what you choose to do wit
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by welanes 10y ago
I've noticed this too. Not only on HN, but below the line on many publications - The Economist, Politico, even at The Guardian, long a liberal bastion. I don't think the reason is that 'reasonable' people have jumped shi
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by welanes 10y ago
> Thiel's support for Trump exceeds the norms of our politics and of civil debate. Thiel is not a typical Trump supporter. But is this really so? That Thiel has the means to donate one million dollars while others must settle for l
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by welanes 10y ago
So Paul Graham has disavowed Trump. Thiel supports Trump. Paul Graham hasn't disavowed Thiel's support of Trump. That seems an absurd expectation, to ditch someone for exercising their own agency legally and within the parameters

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