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Example: my life. My sister is woke: I can't really say what I think around her. Lots of my "friends" are woke: can't really talk to them.

And mind you, my opinions aren't like of that guy who worked at Google and wrote "if women weren't bad at math, wouldn't they be working with computers?" or whatever that guy wrote. That's not my style of thinking.

But my style of thinking is definitely not "woke" and therefore many of my thoughts would easily be categorized as hate speech or something by woke people.

My vibe is the people who keep saying free speech these days isn't a problem are the same people who demand you only speak their orthodoxy. Always has, always will be.

I wish someone would challenge the premise that a "basic income," a basic standard of life is something that can even be identified. I challenge the idea that people can point to some standard of living and say, "that is the basic standard of living that people, and we should provide people with that standard of living."

The problem is that Americans, and most societies in the West in general, have totally lost touch with basic human existence. For example, in New York right now, people are delivering pre-cooked, packaged food in single-use containers to poor people[0]. If you can't provide food for yourself, are we to assume that this is the standard level of living that you are entitled to? I wouldn't be surprised if many people say: "Yes, this is what people who can't provide for themselves need."

My opinion, however, is that sustaining people in this way is completely unsustainable, a form of terrorism on the environment. You can't just give people free endless takeout and say that that is the basic standard of living they need to advance in life. But that is how this is being done right now, because the people who think UBI makes sense, I find, are by and large the same people who consume prepared, plastic-packaged foods all the time. These people, largely, live unsustainable, intensely capitalism-based lifestyles, and think for some reason that it makes sense to bring the rest of the world into their divorced for nature-reality existence.

Giving people a "universal basic income" so they can live the destructive Western capitalist lifestyle is a plague on our species, human culture, and worst of all, on the environment.

[0] https://nypost.com/2020/07/29/free-city-meals-meant-for-need...

If you're going to swap the drive, why not swap in a 4tb, or a 2tb, or a 500mb?

Reads a lot like https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

Accessibility is super important, but gosh your comment here is downright horrible.

It's neither not constructive, nor friendly. Nothing about the contents of the page itself. You're basically, rude and borderline hostile with italics emphasizing something the author /should not/ do. Horrible.

Where's your #1 Hacker News site? Where's your awesome collection of awesome sites that you shared with people. I don't see one.

I don't understand how SpaceX is "commercial." As I understand it, they exist because the US Government wants to have a space program. Yes, they can launch satellites, but how many for-profit non-state entities can use these things? It seems like SpaceX is possible because there are governments out there with money to burn.

Still waiting for them to tackle the Ayatollah: https://twitter.com/Khamenei_tv/status/1264541220006739968.

Yet somehow Ayatollah Khomeini tweets for the Nth time that Israel must be eliminated (verbatim): https://twitter.com/Khamenei_tv/status/1264541220006739968.

How do you go about "eliminating" a country and its inhabitants without killing them all?

How can Twitter apply these rules inconsistently and be taken seriously?

https://twitter.com/worldonalert/status/1258084801636184065

I don’t have many beliefs in common with the person who said this, but I do believe the following to be true:

“Liberty means prohibiting biometric data bases or any other type of human designation. There is no difference in principle between sophisticated biological marking and tattooing an ID number; both turn our identities into the property of a third party. In both, we lose our freedom. Simply put: We have one God above us, and we should not be enslaved to another person or mechanism.”

Was anyone about to glean from this whether Beto is 1337?

This is exactly what I'm talking about! Thank you!

There is /nothing/ "dangerous" about rebasing. You just don't rebase branches that are publicly shared without coordinating with the other users, so for some cases (like "master" of an open source project) you don't rebase.

But for your internal workflow, rebase is a KEY TOOL. It's how you write your story of commits. You can't just perfectly nail your commit history the first time you code, unless you are a genius. And what if you're working on a feature, but then you want to commit a certain series chunk of changes to master, so that other features can use that change. Rebase is how you do anything like this. It's core to using and enjoying the beauty of git.

Not to mention reset...

You start with microservices when you realize that including the Elasticsearch API in your jar causes dependency conflicts that are not easy to resolve.

What makes it hard is that it’s taught wrong. All this pull/checkout/commit/push whereas for me it took a long time to discover that fetch/rebase/show-branch/reset/checkout —amend, and especially the interactive -p variants, are the core tools that really make it a pleasure to use. They give you flexibility and let you write and rewrite your story, whereas the commands you’re introduced with provide no control to the user. It’s remarkable the number of users who think you can’t rewrite a Git branch.

What do you think of Kafka Streams?

What’s the documentary?

First, they don’t know if it’s governmental or otherwise

There is no otherwise.

The government is concerned

You can't just use this—or safety—to justify anything.

This would just normalize and turn surveillance capitalism into a casino. It would create the illusion that ordinary people win, except the house actually always wins, and in this case the house would always win by a lot.

Tech people don’t resonate with the electorate. WWE resonates with the electorate.

Your comment should have been the article.

But regarding:

The remedy according to some sources is to avoid imagining success or even the end state of your project.

Is it really the remedy? I agree the problem you state is real, but how does this, or all other possible ways to keep your eyes on the prize, the “remedy”?

Growing up I was on a competitive swim team, and one of the exercises we did before meets was imagining the whole race, imagining how we would execute our performance from start to finish. You would imagine the start, how you feel fresh and easy, and then the middle, as you begin to feel yourself tire, and then the end, when you’re exhausted but then the reward of finishing. It’s about the whole race, I think, and day dreaming about the end doesn’t have to be so bad.

This piece and its ilk are the real click bait of HN. Nothing new or interesting said here, just another “fail fast and early” piece that misses the bigger picture: namely, that unless you just want to make money—which is cool—failing fast and early is not what everyone is about. Finding a markov chain to a product is definitely a way to get there, if you just want to find some product, any product, that will sell to somebody somewhere. But okay, I’ve read this piece a hundred times. I get it. Please stop writing it, or at least please stop upvoting it.

I saw someone blowing snow in New York with a leaf blower the other day...

Lawmakers are elected so yeah good luck.

Don't use your team to work on a project/product. Use the project to work on your team. They're not there to build the product. They're there to gain some personal fulfillment. Use the development of the product to grow them.

This is extremely well said and something I’ve been dancing around in my head and couldn’t quite articulate. THANK YOU.

Thank you!

Thank you! I’ve never actually implemented push notifications. Will soon so I was wondering...

Right but as the article shows, there are many "push technologies"... what is this project about? Someone subscribed for notifications and then this server sends them?

I really like groovy with all its groovy idioms and its extended library. It’s really fun to Google for how to write something in Groovy you usually get something really ice. I just didn’t like the lack of typing for non test code. And spotty IDE support even in IntelliJ. It seems to be perfect for tests because your code still compiles and you can fix the tests when you’re ready. Also Spock is beautiful...

Oh! Thought it did. Forget Kotlin, then :)!!

Is there a standard understanding of what are push notifications? Are they the same for android and iOS? I’m not sure what this project is about!