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* Except when the 3.5% is entirely geriatric women.

Immigration was a pretty big topic during the election. People knew what they were voting for. I find it sad that you find it hard to believe people have civic pride they want to defend.

Who can resist a little schadenfreude.

They literally voted for it.

“weak men create hard times” never fails

Because most people are happy to see immigration laws enforced.

I can't remember a bigger HN blackpill than this getting downvoted.

468 comments.... guys, guys, this is a Blue Sky post! Have we not learned that anyone who self-exiled to Blue Sky is wearing a "don't take me seriously" badge for our convenience?

birdsong? are you talking about coqui frogs?

I was interested until I got to the "fascist" line where the author reveals his motives for avoiding AI. Bummer, I was hoping for a level headed technical argument. This post doesn't belong on the front page.

reminds me of the classic 80's "Take on Me" music video

Time for Selig to build some original ideas instead of yet another wrapper around a popular service.

I thought this article was going to talk about async IO's potential to cause insidious bugs that you don't notice until they're crashing jet planes. That's definitely a topic worth of a blog post.

Cheers to the author for finishing this brilliant essay even if he can't finish his software projects!

Daniel Swain is a major climate alarmist. Read with a grain of salt.

Hawaii's "fragile native ecosystems" exist only in your fantasies of the past, or way up in the mountains where nobody lives or farms. If Medinilla wants to invade an Albizia grove, who cares?

Another preservation technique I've seen is burying the fruit in ash.

My finger was hovering over the upvote button but I think the downvotes were required to validate the comment.

Sounds like you don't know the difference between right and alt-right.

No pictures. Drives me crazy when an article about an archaeological discovery provides not a single image of the object.

Thanks for stating the obvious, Sherlock. My point is: the WORRY about climate change is mostly focused on urbanism. The loudest voices come from the city. These people have a weak connection to nature aside from the occasional hike and holiday. The mostly worry about their cities going underwater. Country folks are used to dealing with the unpredictability of nature and are more likely to find a way to adapt.

All the worry about saving the environment is really a worry about preserving the viability of urban/suburban lifestyles.

Hawaii is not very expensive unless you want to live in a country club neighborhood and survive on imported products.

You left off Puerto Rico.

I know many Americans who have moved to Central/South American countries without much trouble. Costa Rica is so popular they're worried about gentrification. Ecuador is up and coming for expats.

There was a period in my life (almost a decade ago) when I was sleeping poorly due to unhealthy work habits and excess caffeine. I was in my 20s and early 30s during this time and felt invincible, but the effects on my body were profound. The damage became so tangible I had no choice but to make a change, and have for the last 5+ years been sleeping normally. I miss those days of nonstop work, I was more productive then, but it would have killed me if I had continued.

I wonder why so many people wishing to live in rural locations pick places with brutally cold winters, rather than the tropics. If you want to live off the land you'll have a much harder time of it in cold places.

I used to maintain a bunch of open source libs but stopped because I felt the expectations from users were unrealistic for something that was not my full time job. Open source is great but I wouldn't do it again unless maintenance was my top focus.

Would you be shocked to hear that I do stop to consider what the conversations meant to her? They mean she gets to vent about all the problems in her life she's had decades to fix, but has chosen not to, because it feels so much better to just complain about them to anyone who will listen. If you want to let your parents bring you down out of some sense of cultural obligation, good for you. I don't regret my choice to stop their cascade of misery before it reaches me.

If my comment implies I only think of my mother once a month, then I certain failed in writing it. I think of her constantly - I spent decades trying and failing to be a positive influence on her life, at great emotional cost to myself. It reached a point where I concluded I could not help her, and trying was self-destructive, so now I keep her at a distance. I've seen far too many people failing to thrive because they are chained to an obligation of selflessness. Given the spiteful tone of your comment, I sense you have probably left a lot of happiness on the table and wish to guilt others into doing the same. Sounds like my mother!

Likewise, I'm scared of people, for their laziness in accepting the consequences of annihilating our culture for a few extra points of risk reduction.

How can you reduce all of the freedoms we've lost in the lockdown to "go stand in stores." That's life to you? Standing in stores? It will not be possible to have a rational argument about the cost/benefits of lockdown if people aren't going to acknowledge how many features of our lives have been sacrificed.