4 days ago • Comments on a post

It’s hard for me to not get emotional and keep my eyes clear from anger in topics like this.

But does anyone else think that Facebook is just pure evil at this point? Is there anything they won’t do? Do they have any ethics at all?

I don’t mean the line employees. I don’t mean the tons of hires who I’m sure are working to “improve” things with the side effect of better publicity.

I’m referring to the very top. Zuck and his inner circle. They’re creating a machine that is undoubtedly making society worse. They are evil and they don’t care.

4 days ago • Created a post

FB’s pixel tracking is way more invasive and nefarious than most realize

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7 days ago • Created a post

Elon Musk’s Belated Disclosure of Twitter Stake Triggers Regulators’ Probes

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9 days ago • Comments on a post

For sure, I totally get that. I'm not saying there's no value, but I can't find out where people get specific numbers from (eg. 100k per bitcoin). Where does this 100k come from? Is it just pulled out of the air because it's higher than the current price? Is there any sort of formula, or step by step quantitative analysis, that is able to arrive at a fair market value? For example if bitcoin were being traded at 5k or 100k, everything you said in your examples would still be valid.

9 days ago • Comments on a post

Can I ask where you get the 100k price point from? I am absolutely not trying to start a flame war, or have this dive into an emotional argument about the merits BTC, but am genuinely curious where somebody gets a price point from since from my eyes I can't tell how to derive any sort of "intrinsic value" from cryptocurrency. Would appreciate any sort of response or analysis!

11 days ago • Comments on a post

What if you were applying via the careers page, and there was an optional upload field for a cover letter?

11 days ago • Created a post

Ask HN: Do you still provide cover letters?

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20 days ago • Created a post

‘Unprecendented’ Drought Restrictions Enacted in Southern California

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22 days ago • Comments on a post

Oh this is a great point! I'd never realized that. I know that in Spanish (and I assume many of the romance languages) we always say the day first, eg dos de febrero (2nd of February). In American English even though the day first technically is grammatically correct, we pretty much never say it in that order (February 2nd instead of the 2nd of February)

25 days ago • Comments on a post

“Any sufficiently advanced tool eventually recreates the act of programming”

I think that quote in your last paragraph really hits the nail on the head.

I’ve become pretty adept at a few no/low-code tools and have thought after a particularly challenging project “wow, that was a doozy. There’s no way somebody new at this tool would have been able to work that out. The only reason I could is because I have months and months of daily hands on experience with the tool”… which at that point, I’ve realized the learning curve can be similar to just learning how to write all the code.

Always fun to learn new tools and methodologies though no matter what :)

26 days ago • Comments on a post

Does anyone else feel like the recent focus on gender identity/pronouns/trans is being totally driven by the extreme 5% on both sides (left and right)?

Meanwhile the remaining 90% of us are under the attitude of "equal rights for all, do and/or call yourself whatever you want as long as it brings no personal harm to others".

Personally, for every gender non-binary person I've encountered (there have been multiple), when I incorrectly use the wrong pronoun, I get gently/nicely corrected and the conversation moves on without anyone caring further.

In the article the author laments "At the time, I was exhausting so much mental energy memorizing my coworkers' pronouns and all of the new progressive dogmas out of fear that I would be fiercely condemned if I slipped up"

My question is, does this really happen as described? Or only at the extreme end? And I'm being totally non-facetious here.

Again, I've called non-binary people "her" before and you know what happened? They said "Hey actually, I prefer 'they' just FYI", I responded with "ah, sorry, got it!", and we moved on. That was it.

1 month ago • Comments on a post

I wonder if it’s the brain’s neurons offloading some functionality to other types of cells.

2 months ago • Created a post

BlocPower is turning every home into the equivalent of a Tesla

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2 months ago • Comments on a post

Upping this. If you hit a 404 page it seems a ton of your server side source code is visible.

3 months ago • Comments on a post

I’ve thought that a lot recently too. I often look into SWE jobs, companies that announce funding, or I notice a “somebody got a new job” alert on LinkedIn.

It seems 90% of the time the company involved in the above scenarios is some sort of “marketing analytics platform to grab more insight from your customers allowing you to make actionable decisions!” Again. And again, and again.

Why does it seem like there are 2 billion companies doing the exact same thing (ie tracking users, probably in the grey-ish ethical zone, and throwing a bunch of garbage buzzwords around like “synergy”)? I suppose that’s where the money is flowing but it just seems so soul sucking to me.

3 months ago • Created a post

CIA says 'Havana Syndrome' not result of sustained campaign by hostile power

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4 months ago • Created a post

Justworks IPO Postponed

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4 months ago • Comments on a post

I would love to leave T-Mobile, but they are the only carrier in the US who offers such a core piece of functionality for me: International service included out-of-the-box.

I love to travel, and nothing beats being able to land in (pretty much) any country in the world, turn on your phone and have working service just like that. No SIM cards, no different numbers, no local pre-paid cards, and no crazy international fees.

As someone who enjoys work/travel for weeks to months at a time, every other major carrier is not feasible for this (think 10$/day, which becomes unreasonable when you're out of the country for 3+ weeks).

Unless somebody else could recommend another option it seems I'm stuck with T-Mobile for now.

4 months ago • Comments on a post

I would put 7-8k into VTI with the intention of letting it ride forever(ish). Then put 2-3k into some stocks that you like

4 months ago • Comments on a post

Curious if anyone has any first hand experience taking daily NAC supplements for long periods of time? I’ve been looking into it, but there doesn’t seem to be much material out there on it