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I had a 15m walk to the office when I lived in San Francisco... The culture is such that people are willing to sacrifice ridiculous things for merely being able to maintain a life style they do not like. Unfortunately, I now have 0 commute time :) But I go for walks at least twice per day. People work pretty hard in order to get themselves into very unhealthy living situations, and often seem to be unwilling to work for 5 minutes per day to get out of them. I'm not placing blame, just describing the situation.

Beware of the ol' "I have a job so I can afford a car to go to work..." or "I'm working out so I can feel good about myself so I can feel worthy of women/love" or any self-unfulfilling prophecy. A comment above about the guy's friends working out in order to get chicks... It's another thing I find quite strange. Sure, there are like 2% of girls who are only attracted to very muscular men (and they're rarely the most attractive) - but 98% of girls want a "real man". What is a real man? Well, I'm not going to say because I don't want to get my comment killed again :D However, spending so much time and concern on how you physically look is feminine, not masculine. Just inquire with some girls sometime; they'll tell you they're sick of it! Unless you're trying to cultivate beyond the body & mind, then 15m of strenuous exercise 3 times per week is all you need. Spending hours curling in front of gym mirrors is a beauty contest in fetishized insecurity.

As usual, you are merely picking views you do not like. Your participation in ideological battles is far more gratuitous than any commenter on HN because you are the censor. The front page has more politically charged articles this year than ever - and people who reply honestly are punished if they disagree with your openly one-sided argumentation. I have several email records to prove others feel the same way and have tried to reason with HN admins directly about this - to no avail.

I'm not claiming that it is arbitrary; quite the contrary. There is a very narrow range of acceptable views on HN - and your reply only underscores that fact. People call posts "political" in a political thread when they disagree - and rarely feel the need to present evidence for their own views.

And since you brought it up - in a manor so truncated - that post of mine that got me banned was 90% about how biological gender does exist. This emphasizes my point about how narrow the range of acceptable opinions are here on HN. None of the words composing the portion that you've quoted are even mean or offensive - and yes, I was implying that propaganda must be used to make someone argue so confidently without evidence against what even establishment biologists overwhelmingly believe (that biological gender exists). And furthermore, since you bring it up, another post of mine on a similarly "political" topic was met with with this supportive reply: "Speaking as a gay minority, I totally agree with your comment."

So within the code of conduct, I assume you are referring to, "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

I started off sarcastically, but you ignore the rest of my post which is substantive. The comment I replied to began with the words, "race does not exist." If you search on scholar.google.com for the terms 'race' and 'biological' you get 2,640,000 results. And is it really so radical that I met a comment dismissive of the discussion within 2,640,000 peer-reviewed search results with sarcasm?

But admins decided to cherry pick support or lack thereof for my comments, and then censored me. I don't know if this will be seen either since I am shadow banned - and the commenter who alerted me to the fact that I was shadow banned was then banned as well (for making that comment). After being banned I Googled for other people banned from HN from posting outside of the acceptable range of opinions and I found a load of them - and I don't think HN audience would appreciate that you're deciding to follow this censorship tread that we're seeing on YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and many more. HN is framed as a more open community, but my experience here reveals a safe-space of increasing proportions.

Common tactic here on HN is to call politics you disagree with "political." I was even banned for this reason: for leaving "political" comments in political threads. Why not just be honest about it being different from your politics? One way to prevent all "flamewars" is to prevent all opinions that can be deemed offensive - and doesn't a quick appraisal of history reveal the issues with this oppressive strategy?

Even in tech companies, you silence opposing opinions about how a technology should work and you potentially ruin the company. I've seen this in startups many times - the problems that we read about after a startup has failed were raised early on by certain members, often who were ignored, fired, and ridiculed for having such opinions.

Yes, I've been emailing them about it and they won't reply. They first emailed me saying that people can (have to) support you in comments - and I did receive support via comments - but they still decided to censor my view... And I didn't realize it until I had written many more comments.

By the way, I highly support your previously downvoted comment, "The only science you're allowed to be skeptical of (on HN) is science other people are also skeptical of..."

It was impossible to get most of what I was used to at a competitive price when living in Sweden. I paid, for example, about $70 USD in tariffs in order to retrieve the light bulbs I ordered online from post office. Your package is basically government property until you pay the taxes on it which are rarely specified at the time of purchase.

I missed Amazon when I lived in Sweden. The issue is not the value Amazon brought us from their excessive competition. It is the relationship with government that should be illegal. Americans pay taxes and those tax dollars go to support Amazon's workers with food stamps, welfare, etc - this is not capitalism, but the socialistic policies that have been growing for nearly a century now. Also, if the government cannot defend the people against The Washington Post's propaganda, then it is not doing its job. It is treason to support other governments and foreign entities above one's own government - which the Post and others very often do. If the US was a free market for the people, then the government would have raided Bezos' home & business a long time ago... But I don't blame him - this is the type of behavior we are promoting without enforcing separation between government & private entities.

A lot of his ideas are full of holes:

Hyperloop: See all of the problems here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk

Boring company: summary of issues here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBtL3qDvdZc

SpaceX: How will we fund the amount of rocket fuel required to get the stuff to Mars that can produce an atmosphere? If producing an atmosphere isn't required, then how will indoor atmosphere be maintained sustainably (financially)? Matt Damon's math didn't seem to work out in that movie...

Tesla: So far so good, but what about battery recycling? “We are at the very beginning in energy storage in general,” says Phil Hermann, chief energy engineer at Panasonic Eco Solutions. “Most of the projects currently going on are either demo projects or learning experiences for the utilities. There is very little direct commercial stuff going on. “Elon Musk is out there saying you can do things now that the rest of us are hearing and going, ‘really?’ We wish we could but it’s not really possible yet.” https://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/jun/10/tesla-ba...

SolarCity: Just look at the customer reviews so far: https://news.energysage.com/solarcity-complaints-what-homeow...

I would urge Mr Musk to focus on Batteries & long-term Tesla ownership. It would be a shame for that not to work out!

I hope this comment lasts for 5 years :)

If we could get Adobe and a few other companies to port their software to Linux - even if it costs as much - then I think there would be a cascade effect that decreases the cost desktops & laptops, while increasing the quality. You wouldn't need much more than a great windows manager after a main proaudio & provideo app is ported. I highly doubt they would be that difficult to port. Maybe +2 engineers per program per year max. And that extra bread would be more than enough to cover their salaries! It feels like were further off from ideal workstations these days, but we're not really... It's just that Apple & Microsoft have been pushing various types of "power users" away from what they've been asking for all along. Finally let some group of us move to Linux comfortably. Linux has browsers, productivity & office, music & video players, communication, utilities, and even games to some degree - covered. But we need pro-audio & pro-video areas covered!

We need Adobe and just a few apps to support Linux and we'll create a cascading effect that will lower the cost and increase the power and freedom of many users laptop and desktop choices!

What would it take for hackintosh users to move to Linux? You'd think we'd get enough Linux users asking for Adobe products these days... And with Apple's hardware choices lately creatives could be killing it on Linux + whatever HW they can afford. I think one company - like Adobe - migrating over would create a huge domino effect.

I'm guilty of being obnoxious? It sounds like you could push that slippery slope until "obnoxious" is simply "any opinion I don't agree with." My comment quite effectively brings up the issue of majority of Americans not wanting to pay taxes for most of the things that taxes are actually going to - we are not being represented effectively. You're the one making this a partisan issue. Just look at some of the polls - or just how many Americans are using other country's infrastructures to avoid excessive US taxes. On topic with this article is the fact that US is collecting taxes worldwide on earnings not even being made in the US - by people who are merely US citizens and not residents! If my comment were so contentless, then you wouldn't have the authoritarian reply that I'm merely whistling for my underclass of "dogs."

That's also equality of opportunity - which we have. Do you have evidence that we have no equality of opportunity, or that I am simply trying to pass-off equal opportunity with equal outcome? Acting like we don't have equality of opportunity, and then promoting equality of outcome is intellectually disingenuous.

Did you purposefully parse my words incorrectly? It is very common to confabulate equal outcome with equal opportunity. Do you understand the difference? I was certainly talking about equal outcomes.

Who brainwashed you bro? Are you trying to say ethnicity doesn't exist? There won't be genetic differences (and physical non-genetic differences) between different groups? This is how far leftist propaganda has gone :( EDIT: and typical that I get downvoted without reason for merely suggesting that it is silly to claim that ethnicity doesn't exist (which is how the parent is using the word 'race').

Why do we have to take for granted that equality is even a worthy goal? Raising quality of life for everyone would be... Like if someone making 80K today has the quality of life of a millionaire from a few hundred years ago, then isn't that notable? Why would it even be reasonable to try to get the same outcome for everyone? It's like a function that concatenates diversity - what leftists claim to love - but their principles, like equality, don't produce it!

Exactly! And then spend barely any of that tax money on what real Americans want!

This article is supporting me informationally and not emotionally. Hypocrites!

And I felt the same about your comment, but I still tried my best to explain where I think you're delusional.

But rewriting from scratch will be a good test to see if software engineering really is in as much if a better state in 2018 as people assume.

Looks like circleci wants people more defined by their sexuality than the technology they want to create. This is a potential indicator circleci's software will take a turn for the worse.

Everyone who has a computer has the same level of understanding about what a computer is? Mental.

Or just test out their fisher-price ideas on the separate MacBook line before pushing them on the pro users!

So many have suggested these things... But Apple prefers to only listen to customers it believes are "right customers."

Everyone without much direct experience of what consciousness is will continuously become the "old guard."

Yes people are putting all of their eggs in one basket when practicing intellectualization for such long stretches of time.

Maybe you should be all consumed by not having enough money to eat, if you don't... What's the implication here... That we need to supply these underpowered brains with government money by means of redistribution? :P

Yet I get down-voted to oblivion without reason or evidence :P

Everyone whose speech you don't like in 2018 is "literally" Trump, says the left and its proponents. What's your point, that his paranoia should be treated and he should hand his company over to the government? Either he is too careful in his speech or he is too paranoid - you can't have it both ways.

Do a review of literature mr silver platter.

There already is an emphasis on the experience of one's lifetime during one's life time! It's a way better way to get context on Bach by starting with something familiar - instead of forcing them to "imagine a time long long ago..." Besides, it teaches one to be superstitious - like big bang theorists :)