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k33n

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Just a guy who has been around the block and back in tech.

- 2x acquisitions - Amateur anthropologist

https://github.com/mkeen

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medium.com 7y ago

I made a RxJs based streaming HTTP client.

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blog.acolyer.org 10y ago

Slacker – Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker Containers

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keen.svbtle.com 12y ago

Success Pollution

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sports.espn.go.com 13y ago

OTL: The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis

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keen.posterous.com 14y ago

I created a digital clock that runs in a terminal for fun

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lap.umd.edu 14y ago

Reported acts of rage against computers... we've all been there.

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keen.posterous.com 14y ago

A request for the language gods

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www.kickstarter.com 15y ago

Awesome Indie Game on Kickstarter - People like this need our support

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www.15seconds.me 15y ago

Been iterating on a realtime social video app. Does HN approve?

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keen.posterous.com 15y ago

Show HN: This weird bug is probably present in your Nginx configuration.

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blog.15seconds.me 15y ago

We quit our programming jobs to found a startup. What do you think?

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www.famouscam.com 15y ago

My startup is group Chatroulette. What do you think?

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blog.famouscam.com 15y ago

Show HN: We quit our jobs to do a social video startup

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blog.outernet.io 15y ago

I'm the guy who went flat broke and this is what I'm doing about it.

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blog.outernet.io 15y ago

This is what happens when you work yourself almost to death.

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blog.outernet.io 15y ago

I'm a nearly broke developer/entrepreneur and felt like venting

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: How to get important people to talk to me?

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www.outernet.io 16y ago

You're Lucky Your Boss Doesn't Use Flash Dev Edition

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Many months to a year for an MRI? Wow, in the USA, we can get MRI's the same day or at worst case, week. It's been that way for a decade or more.

It’s not a religious argument.

It’s a subjective experience argument. As a conscious person, if someone tells me they don’t believe in consciousness, then I’m inclined to believe they have a reason for saying that. They must not be experiencing consciousness the same way I am.

Interestingly, a non-trivial number of people have no internal monologue (https://www.iflscience.com/people-with-no-internal-monologue...). It would be reasonable to assume the experiential side of consciousness is on a spectrum, with extreme edge cases on both ends. It’s not unreasonable to assume that some people are barely experiencing it, and some not at all. It would certainly explain to me (someone who experiences it quite intensely) why some would claim it doesn’t exist. Because for them, it might not.

It’s a little more complicated than that, because ultimately I control whether you see that I viewed your profile or not, even if you’re a Premium member. If I don’t want other users to see that I viewed their profile, then I don’t get to see who viewed my profile. It’s a setting.

You’re not saying anything I haven’t heard 100 times in the media. How many more “Trump bad” slanderous narratives that wind up debunked will you believe before you ask yourself if you were wrong?

I’m a really good judge of character. When folks don’t think for themselves, and instead join in on unfounded slander campaigns, it usually doesn’t speak well of their character.

I won’t join in. I don’t mind being insulted for it by random strangers on the internet. It’s a small price to pay for advocating for clear thinking and decent morals. If just one person questions their assumptions, then I’ve done my part.

In reality, Trump stopped associating with Epstein when employees of his club complained about Epstein’s behavior. He also expelled him from his club.

My standards for human behavior are high. So high that I’m disappointed when people join in on slandering a person that doesn’t deserve it.

I’m sure it’s nice to imagine yourself as a brave person who would punish Epstein more than Trump did, but I guess we’ll never know if that’s true or not. I’d wager you’d probably just go along with whatever provided you the most social affirmation.

There is evidence that Trump informed the FBI and local law enforcement about Epstein. You may not find it convincing, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive.

History is an ordered list. Yes, Trump was friends with Epstein for a number of years. But then what happened?

Yes, Trump knew Epstein was a creep. The documentation indicates that he did do something about it.

You can yell at me and be rude all you’d like though. This is the internet after all.

Which of my elected officials “had sex” with children? In my Republican-led state of Florida, we give the death penalty to people who do that. Why don’t they do that in California?

As for human trafficking in general, Trump has objectively enabled ICE, the FBI and others to aggressively target that sort of behavior.

As for slavery, the US is one of the countries that fought a war to end that thousands of years old practice.

Anyway, I like Trump, and by all accounts, that goes against the grain. You’re going expressly WITH the grain. That doesn’t indicate that had you been born in the 1600’s you’d have spoken out about slavery. You’re a with the grain guy. And with the grain guys will go along with whatever the moral consensus of the times are.

What’s your contention? If the per capita incidences of either rich or poor people ruining families is a worse number, then what’s the implication?

That whatever group has a worse impact should be “gotten rid of”? What if poor people are worse? You’d abandon that line of thinking entirely, I imagine.

What’s next? If people with red cars are statistically more likely to commit crimes we should round them up as long as you don’t personally have a red car?

What did I say that made you think I’m outraged? If a product isn’t suiting you, just use a different product. Personally, I switched to Firefox years ago.

I’m a bit confused about the activist mindset being applied to a web browser, as if there’s some kind of human right that entitles you to dictate what will or won’t be bundled inside Chrome.

If the internet was like this in 2015, there would have been riots over Chrome implementing DRM for video. Widevine?! Not on our watch!

None of that is really very damning at all. I was excited to support Trump from day one. When people claimed he supported white supremacy, and it turned out that he condemned it out loud in press conferences countless times, I stopped taking the criticism too seriously. The Russian agent allegations increased my skepticism. Then when his opposition claimed he instructed the nation to inject bleach I just tuned it out for good. None of it is real. Egg prices were the big issue until they drastically decreased. It will be the same with gas prices.

It’s terrible that Epstein did that. And Thiel is a really odd duck, that’s for sure.

Do you have any evidence that files related to Trump were held back? I don’t believe that’s the case.

He’s mentioned in many of the files. I found it particularly interesting that Trump was an FBI informant that worked with the government to get Epstein convicted.

Have you done more than Trump has done to stop human trafficking? If so, please be specific.

And thank you. I’m really happy that Trump was elected. I found this year’s tax credits for social security income, overtime, and car payments on American vehicles to be especially great. Most favored nation drug pricing was also a really impressive achievement!