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yeah I did a ton of late night walks in Oakland and nothing ever happened, but I figured it was only a matter of time :/
Why is every top comment on HN a personal anecdote?
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> the thesis being that JFK was really no different to any other president at that time

Unless you see his efforts at arresting Israel's nuclear program as the reason for why he was assassinated.

Which dovetails nicely with the "short shrift" he gave 9/11 conspiracy theorists, who largely implicate Israel in that attack.

All gleefully lapped up by hungry chicks with mouths wide open and not an ounce of critical-thinking skills they can call their own.
> yes, in that they make up their own minds rather than be open to influence by those with most money.

The entire point of profiling is to spend less money, or spend their money more efficiently, by only advertising to a smaller part of the population.

If you have tons of money, you can just carpet bomb the entire population with your message.
Switch to edibles and gradually reduce the dosage, (which is hard or impossible with smoking). You'll start to crave it less and prefer the more moderate (and different) high from edibles than being stoned from smoking. From this stage, you'll be in a better position to stop altogether if you want too.
Yep, you can't do fast anything in software without parallelism in the modern world, as single thread performance improvements have stalled even harder than networking speed improvements. I guess my observation might be a symptom of parts of the software world staying behind at the single core performance level and only specialized applications bothering to do the major sw surgery that 10x or 100x parallellism requires.
> In my opinion blackmailing the devs

I don’t know what you think the verb ‘to blackmail’ means, but nobody has been blackmailed or anything like it in this situation.
Adding some context that came from living with a person who suffered from depression. I am not sure if they see the world more realistically or more negatively. They are generally stuck in a cycle and need to get out of the cycle of feelings influencing actions and reverse this cycle by CBT. The negative cycle creates delusion which is exactly the opposite of reality. They view the world in a very cynical way and won't let go of past.
This is sadly likely to be the case but the sample size is too small to say for certain.
This actually worked for me. I was a habitual marijuana user for several years and it had very adverse effects on my productivity and motivation, but I couldn't seem to quit. Then I did mushrooms with some friends and when I woke up I simply did not have the desire to smoke anymore. It has been around 12 years and I haven't ever picked it back up.
Why do you think this? It's a pretty bold statement.
It's partially on fdroid.

It's not always trivial to submit new apps and ensure it compiles correctly on their build servers. Same goes for updates, which can be silently dropped due to any number of tool issues.

If you are a front or backend developer please consider investing a weekend or two helping fdroid improve their systems.
Not a fan of most of these:

- They are all extremely inconsistent

- Checkbox is the only one with 2pt outline

- Padding is all over the place between color/time/date

- What is a button? A grey rectangle with an outline? A black glyph? A blue text without outline or underline?

- Up/Down to switch months does not make intuitive sense. Time could go either way.

- The color picker looks seriously unfinished. It's like somebody threw some controls on a dialog in a RAD and let them where they first landed.
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German people use the dot notation for example
I've found a lot of correlation between this sort of sense of humour and the type of place I enjoy working at.

Me and straight laced folk just don't get on. It doesn't work. There's an impedance mismatch whereby there are all of these invisible lines that I cross without even realising.

Like yeah, dude, your job is bullshit. So is mine. Life is, and then you die. If you're not fucking around and having (harmless) fun, what are you doing?

Those sorts of people need to exist - society would fall apart if everyone were so freewheeling - but I definitely seem to self select out of those groups.
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Nothing in that video should change anyone's mind on the issue on anything except whether or not the casters were also involved. I don't see how any of it changes anything important about the issue - Blizzard is censoring political speech for their own financial gain.

Why would it matter if three people were involved in the political speech rather than just one?

There's no guarantee in life that everything is shades of gray. Sometimes people really are evil. They're not Hollywood villains - Hollywood can't sell the level of evil some people actually are. Go read about the Falun Gong and organ harvesting.
I'd love it if you could find that comic!
I agree — I prefer the old colour picker, too. Not only is it more functional, but it's the standard colour picker! If you've used any other Windows program that uses it, even if it was Paint in Windows 95, you already know how it works.

I don't mind people trying to re-invent the wheel, but I'm getting tired of having to use a dozen different interfaces for the same task.
This is my current setup (Expert Mouse + numpad(-) keyboard). However, it was kind of hard to find a good keyboard without the numpad. Lucky for me, I'm one of those people who kind of likes the Mac wireless keyboards, so that's what I've got going now. (I also had a similar cheap wired chicklet keyboard, but the 'a' stopped working reliably).

What keyboard did you settle on?
Neither social institution could adhere to any rigid ideology. A social institution, which does not correct basic assumptions and axioms lying in its foundation according to new knowledge and data, is doomed.

Any widespread movement or social institution exists under the pressure of new facts, new social norms, hence any social institution is a flexible moving target.

Only the heterodox, marginal movements can adhere to a rigid ideology. Mainstream science can't have one, only marginal branches can.

Modern economics is not a "neoliberal" plot, of course, there is a strong scientific discussion, various competing theories within it, which are constantly being validated using statistics, and omitted, if proved wrong. Economics today, 25 years ago and 50 years ago vastly differs even in methodology, it's a very vigorous field.

To say that this edifice is grounded in some ideology, one needs to omit all that constant scientific discussion, render empirically proved parts as ideological, axioms as "truths" etc.

This kind of intellectual dishonesty could come only from a ideology-loaded follower of some heterodox (and usually pseudoscientific) theory, most likely grounded in some ideology (guessing from value judgments of op like "neoliberal" -- left one) rather than verified by empiric data.
I remember in high school I used to say "I believe I speak for the class when I say..." And if folks didn't disagree it was consent by silence. Not the same thing but an allegory, when "fake news" parrots an absurd line, if we don't step it, it stands.
Slight nit: when you open source something, you're not even volunteering to write code. There is no obligation on your part to continue supporting it at that point. You're simply giving out something that cost you some time (no materials).

Which may explain why people can feel entitled to getting paid for their efforts; we tend to feel that if we give something to others they owe us something back (this is why we have a bunch of laws against giving and accepting gifts in certain situations, because of the societal pressure to make it an equitable exchange), and it sometimes takes intentional reminding of ourselves that that's not how giving works, and that there is no actual quid pro quo obligation.
This is not clickbait. This is just a catchy title. Clickbait is when you write a title, to infer something, and that something is not part of the content.
I've never used f-droid, but decide to try it on my (original) Pixel XL. I clicked "Download" and the file saved. I pulled down the top drawer and opened the file with "files". I clicked the APK and got a security warning with a link to the exact "settings" page where I change it. I clicked the security option off. I returned to files and clicked the APK again and it installed.

This is very wordy and sounds a bit complicated, but it was simply a few extra taps and it installed. A pretty good balance of not too easy that a novice might do it by accident and still accessable.
What’s wrong with that? They’re paying to host and review the app and create the platform it runs on.
Which then introduces some doubt that this is truly anonymous. In other words, if the respondents feel that there's a chance that their answers could be linked back to themselves as employees, they're probably more likely to toe the company line.
I think I am not really well-adapted for async communication.

I can't really do "fire and forget" messaging. When I ask something I want the reply to arrive as quickly as possible because I don't want to lose the context that I have in my mind right now and load it again later when I receive a reply. On an async channel this results in compulsive checking for replies which of course kills productivity. Almost-sync channels like Slack are the worst - who didn't experience the frustration of their chat partner suddenly disappearing without a word in the middle of a discussion?

On a related note I very much prefer a focused half-hour meeting to a whole day of async back-and-forths.

Inbound messages are problematic too because they provide the same kind of addictive random gratification that social media is infamous for.

Any tips for dealing with these problems?
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For cases like New Haven Style pizza and some of the original NYC pizza places like lombardi's, they use coal ovens which get really really hot but don't really have a flame like wood oven. So you end up cooking them longer than in a wood oven, which makes them crispier but also a little charred around the edges.

Given that these places served a lot of immigrants when they opened, I also wouldn't be surprised if it helped having a sturdier pizza that you could take to work with you.
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While an unpopular position, I place the blame for this on the uneducated voters. Intelligence and research trump marketing and campaign finance.
The sherlocking story is as gross as, say, systemd implementing systemd.timer so that users don’t need a crappy, third-party, paid version of cron anymore (okay, the analogy breaks down since it’s pretty hard to find something less gross). Not that I’m a big fan of systemd, or stopped using cron.
Thank god, all of those IE quirks can go die in a fire. I can't remember ever being so gleeful that something was going extinct.
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> When last did you take the curvature of the Earth into account when arranging your furniture?

I don't do that, but neither do I assume that the entire earth is flat just because my living room is. Saying that all theories are born equal is nonsense, some things are more correct than others.
The more pressing question: Can we actually still do such projects in western democracies? How long would it take until the last judge has dismissed the plea to save the nearly extinct Californian Pink Stink Beetle that by circumstance breeds in that area? How much more expensive would the project become over its ever longer runtime? What will happen when the seemingly inevitable corruption scandals are brought to daylight?
“Anything you post on the internet will be there as long as it's embarrassing and gone as soon as it would be useful”
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This is a good thing. You shouldn't have to answer for every little thing about your past, especially if you have already owned it and moved on. the issue is that most people love drama and continue to bring things up and demand a response when it has already been responded to. Just go onto Youtube or Twitch and you'll see what I mean.
>Anyone can go install F-Droid or Amazon or whatever on their Android phone.

F-Droid/Amazon/whatever can't automatically update installed apps unless the phone is rooted. It's not an even playing field - Google has a de facto monopoly on Android.
But what is the need for Tor outside of illegal activity?
I've been looking at the innergie chargers. They use GaN.

I've been looking at this once since its so small.

http://www.myinnergie.com/sg/product/136
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Seems to have happened to AndOTP:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269542

This is ridiculous. May as well only publish open source apps on F-Droid and similar.
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It's not burned, its charred. And that is New Haven style. It's pretty good.
That's like saying pickles and preserves and fermented foods are a "culinary regression" because they were created to prevent fresh food from going bad.

Something can be both practical and not a "regression."
Sometimes a single session can work. Always have an experienced guide and don’t do it if there is disposition to schizophrenia.
There could be some east west divide. But is seems to be widely used, for instance Germany seems to prefer dots. Someone has compiled a table here https://gist.github.com/mlconnor/1887156 not sure about it's accuracy.
I think this is the key. I'm not sure "forced interaction" is the answer for everyone. I work remotely and spent yesterday morning for 2 hours just chatting with some folks at a coffee shop I regularly work out of over some common interests. That filled my "meaningful interaction" bucket more than 2 or 3 days of office work in my previous office'd life. My 2 cents as well.
Fun fact, the seaport district regularly floods in storms, and the flood waters are salty.
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Unless your work output is very easy to measure, demanding you show up to work in one of the only ways to ensure you're at least putting in an effort for your employer.

Of course, one of the hardest professions to measure output for is software engineers.

I once worked with a guy who, it was discovered after a long time, actually had two Silicon Valley jobs. That he actually showed up at! He walked/drove between them a few times a day, and managed to keep the illusion up for quite a while.

I'm guessing he has 4 "remote" jobs now :)
I already suffer an extortionist on Yelp who contacted me and demanded $500 in order to NOT post a really bad review on Yelp about my company. I refused, he slammed my business which until then had all great reviews.

This nefarious activity is exploding on Amazon, Yelp, You Tube, etc., anywhere you have customer reviews (in fact, fake reviews).
Inconsistency seems to be the name of the game here: depending on which webserver the loadbalancer sends me to (I can only speculate that this is the case?), I get a different favicon for this webpage! [0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/GdAmNUt.png
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A quick peruse of Google scholar’s highly cited journal articles suggests it’s not as clear cut as you suggest:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...
^ This, 100%. It's all about decoupling physical presence from notions of "working" or "interruptible".

I find async comm tools like Slack invaluable for allowing ppl to display their status (eg "DND"), as well as the ability to control notifications -- and to catch up on topics when unable to participate in realtime. These things have immense value, whether you're remote or not.

I'll never forget the experience, some 20 years ago, being on the critical path for an imminent major release, heads-down, working furiously to deliver a mission-critical feature, and enduring a steady stream of shoulder-taps (despite headphones and body language) that made it ~impossible to do my job. Silver lining was, it made it crystal clear to me that I needed to carve out time for "deep work", and empowered me to push for and receive permission to work remotely at a time and in an org where that was a nearly unique exception. I chose to spend about half my working days remote, and across various jobs and companies and industries since, have sought and pushed for and mostly maintained this balance. I'm convinced we'd all be happier and more effective if such a balance were available more broadly.
Pesto is very rare on pizzas in Italy, as is chicken and many of the other things that are found in the US.

(It's not bad, it's just that if you were looking for tomato-less pizza in Italy, you wouldn't find pesto.)
The most interesting thing I found out about the DNA:

-In the past people found it "morally upsetting" that no matter how smart you are or no matter how hard you work, that doesn't matter to the DNA you pass down to your kids.

But if you think about inheritance not about DNA as a whole, but rather as the frequency of expression of individual genes, you see that you can affect the future gene pool throughout your life that can affect the expression of "your" genes in the gene pool as a whole.

Example: You are shakespeare, you pass down the inheritance of your genes NOT through procreation, but through the creation of artistic work which affects the genetic expression of genes in the gene pool to give certain genes just a little bit of an advantage over others. This tiny change in frequency has an enormous affect over hundreds of generations.

How do you affect the genetic expression of genes in the gene pool by a book? -Think about all the people that read that book, and how it affected them and their procreation, and you get the idea.
> On the downside, I suffer from being far from where decisions are taken

And your employer suffers from your lack of input in those decisions.
And Marxists would tell you that socialism is inherently Marxian, and Xi Jinping would tell you that the PRC is socialist (with Chinese characteristics!), and Americans will tell you that universal healthcare and Sweden are socialist.
Are the ad silly? Yes.

Do they make me want to try whatever your product is or even go to your website? No.

The meme based ads make your product look like a joke. It is also not clear that what your product is or does. "Power up your retrospectives" means nothing to me.
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My personal experience with lying down to work is that it feels good in the short term, but causes problems in the long term (increased pain).

I have no data to back this claim, but I can provide this single data point.

I completely agree with both your other points about trust/discipline and important decisions though.
People will always wanna have drugs. They will find ways, so legalize it.
Yes, but there is a social element:

People who see the world realistically while living in a "positive thinking" society often feel like there something wrong in them.
Worst pizza I've ever had was from a shop just off the Metro at the foot of Montmartre in Paris. Just a normal pizza, no weird toppings. I managed two bites (I was very hungry or bite two would not have been attempted).

Second worst was when I first had Imo's without knowing what provel was. I think I got through almost half a slice on that one. You must have to grow up eating it to find it edible.

The next few rankings after that, moving up the list, would be very cheap frozen pizzas. Like, the dollar or two a pie (on sale) kind.
Copenhagen is a brand of dip, not his location, if that is what you are referring to.
I would recommend Michael Pollan’s “How to change your mind”. One of the theories is that addiction is a disease of mental rigidity and psychedelics loosens that rigidity.
Shocking they can ban an app that has a voluntary donations link.
Fun fact: the old colour picker is literally unchanged since Windows 95 (https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/interface/dialogs/colo...), complete with the really awkward use of a pipe character as separator between "color" and "solid" (which was used for the closest non-dithered colour match back when we had 4- and 8-bit displays)

And to this day, 24 years later, adding custom colours is bugged. It does not "add" colours, it overwrites the first colour in the list.

EDIT: to clarify, the above is only true if you exit the dialog and then return to it. It has no concept of previously defined custom colors, it just overwrites whatever you had before, instead of appending to the list.

All that having been said, yes, it does appear to be better and more functional than the new proposal.
Given the other story this morning[1], does that mean Google's cracking down on donation links?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268389
> they make up a second word, cromulent, and the meaning can be entirely inferred from context.

There's nothing unusual about this. That's how people learn the meaning of every word. You're born knowing zero words; there's no alternative.
What about voters who are uneducated by design?
How am I missing that? Does that information somehow magically make it not a legal matter?

If there are procedural violations it does not have any bearing on whether TPB broke the law or not. It only means that TPB owners can revert that particular decision if they are right.

Assange - yeah, I'm amazed how people can still revere him. His personality aside, his blocking of information related to Russia or China to be published on Wikileaks is atrocious and pretty telling.

But again, that's beside the point. It's kind of weird to me, this whole "sturstruck" angle. When that happened he was no way near a celebrity. Also, why do you have to whitewash it like that? The "it's not rape, he's just an asshole" defense sounds pretty whitewashy to me.