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FrancoDiazon How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations

oh brother/sister...your experience mirrors mine completely. 6-7 years old and wandering around woods, the pool, etc..

FrancoDiazon How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations

I have a 4 year old, in my mid 40s, and think about this a lot for some reason.

In the 70s during the summer, when I was around 7, we would wake up, eat breakfast, go out and about wherever we wanted, come back for lunch, out again, come back for dinner, and then out again past dark to play flashlight tag.

I think I would be charged with child endangerment these days if my kid (3 years in the future) was doing stuff like that. And frankly, I think I've been conditioned to think that I would be a negligent parent if I did this.

The media is part of the problem. 24/7 news, social media, and channels like ID (real life murder 24/7) scare the bejeezus out of people. But besides that, we have an acceptance of nanny-state government - that the government should be a much closer "partner" in child rearing than 40 years ago.

I always say, there's a consequence for everything, including seemingly innocuous laws to protect people.

But as a parent of a 4-year old in 2017 (and a 7 year old in 2020), I know I would be gnashing my teeth if my kid was roaming the streets and woods all day long...even if I did it.

FrancoDiazon LG 5K display must be kept at least 2 meters away from Wi-Fi routers

I'm starting to agree with you and Bryanlarsen that 32" 4k seems to be a sweet spot.

FrancoDiazon Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy

the question is how much reward is needed

Who decides that?

FrancoDiazon LG 5K display must be kept at least 2 meters away from Wi-Fi routers

I've had a couple 27" 1440p monitors since those cheap Korean (QNX and the like) came on the market a few years ago.

The natural upgrade path for me would be to ditch those and get a big-ass 5k monitor eventually, but I don't see the market really moving in that direction in an affordable way.

One 4k isn't going to cut it and I'm worried two 4k monitors is going to be to much from a field of vision perspective....maybe I'm wrong there.

Has anybody upgraded from a couple 1440p monitors to a couple 4k monitors, and what's your experience been?

FrancoDiazon Zig Programming Language Blurs the Line Between Compile-Time and Run-Time

I'm the last person to talk about type theory, but on the max function example:

fn max(comptime T: type, a: T, b: T) -> T { if (a > b) a else b } fn letsTryToPassARuntimeType(condition: bool) { const result = max( if (condition) f32 else u64, 1234, 5678); } Then we get this result from the compiler:

./test.zig:6:9: error: unable to evaluate constant expression if (condition) f32 else u64, ^

Couldn't the compiler infer some kind of union type. You don't know the type at runtime, but f32 or u64 is a legit comparision type.

FrancoDiazon Zig Programming Language Blurs the Line Between Compile-Time and Run-Time

I like what I'm seeing, but a suggesting regarding shortened keywords. Just go ahead and change compTime to compileTime. I don't see 3 extra characters saving much and makes it less readable. Most modern editors will autocomplete anyway.

FrancoDiazon Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order

Also the problem isn't the "amount of power", the problem is using that power badly.

That's disturbing, but not surprising. I guess unchecked power is ok with you as long as it's policies that you're OK with being implemented.

FrancoDiazon France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

Yeah, I remember that too. When the waiter put the gun to my head, I hurried up and slammed the soda, so he could refill it.

FrancoDiazon France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

I applaud your very 1984-like spin on the law.

FrancoDiazon France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

Yes, nanny-state, authoritarianism is part of the socialist ideological grouping.

Socialists have always advocated the state making little, "lifestyle" decisions like this. The state "knows better", and you have lots of people agreeing.

Look at the top comment and its children comments on this story. You have people applauding this law and saying that people are too stupid to know when to not get a refill.

These are the same people that wring their hands about Trump being an authoritarian, but applaud stupid, nanny state laws like this.

FrancoDiazon France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

So suddenly people became incapable of making meaningful decisions? We're perfectly capable of making "meaningful" decisions, but nanny-state, authoritarians know that they can get away with it now, rather than 30 year ago, when they would've been "run out of town" with stupid laws like this.

We're not sacrificing freedom. Places like France and NY are.

FrancoDiazon Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick

It's the NYT. They had to find a way.

FrancoDiazon Ask HN: Engineer Salaries in New York Compared to San Francisco Currently

That's horrible. Senior software engineers can easily get those salaries in the midwest where the cost of living is much, much less.

FrancoDiazon Felony Charges for 6 Reporters at Inauguration Protests

You would've thought that the two journalists questioned by the NYT would have defended themselves by saying that they were there working a professional capacity. But they didn't.

I'm not buying just because NYT says they were "covering" the protests.

FrancoDiazon Felony Charges for 6 Reporters at Inauguration Protests

The NYT or the charged journalists never claimed that they were actually acting in a journalistic professional role during the riots.

FrancoDiazon ISIS Drone Dropping Bomblet on Abrams Tank Is a Sign of What’s to Come

So you're worried about the genocide of ISIS?...only on HN.

FrancoDiazon ISIS Drone Dropping Bomblet on Abrams Tank Is a Sign of What’s to Come

Hah, I'm sure those M-80s that ISIS is dropping really messed up that Abrams.

FrancoDiazon Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy

Not only that, but even a little shift in the weights can cause problems with your lifts. Warmups (135 or so) I'll leave them off, but anything over 200 I'll put them on.

FrancoDiazon Making the move from Scala to Go

Any language can be written without a good IDE. This argument is always given when a language doesn't have a good IDE.

FrancoDiazon Making the move from Scala to Go

When I read comments like this I wonder if the person posting is trying to justify their own development decisions or seriously trying to "enlighten" the person they're responding to.

FrancoDiazon US should get rid of cash and move to a digital currency says Nobel prize Stiglitz

Another big brother, academic, statist who thinks that every transaction should be tracked by the government. Just horrible people.

FrancoDiazon I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional Trial

Whether or not you are a fan of traffic cameras, traffic violations are in fact serious and should not be brushed off. The problem is, one day you make it easy for people to think it's ok to do 30 in a 25, then the next day they're doing 35, then 45 the next.

People don't think that way. The general thinking is 10-over is OK.

FrancoDiazon Giant Middle East dust storm caused by a changing climate, not human conflict

I was just thinkng of the butterfly effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

So the question isn't whether anthropogenic climate change is a thing. The questions are to what extent are the effects? What are the costs and efficacy of combating climate change?

FrancoDiazon Giant Middle East dust storm caused by a changing climate, not human conflict

I thought I made my position pretty clear on the last post. When someone is presented with a theory, do you expect them to think it's a thing or not? I don't believe it's a binary option. Effects of global warming aren't even close to consensus even among believers.

I wasn't upset, but was pointing out that there's many things that you believe in that other people don't. I'm not sure what's so hard to understand.

For example, I believe that there's a huge political motivation on the left to believe in global warming that is separate from the science. I'm assuming you disagree. That's fine. You won't change my mind, and I won't change yours.

There is no consensus of agreement, so I'm not sure why you would assume that there would be on HN

FrancoDiazon StumpWM 1.0 Released

I wonder if you could configure StumpWM to use vim-like leaders? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1764263/what-is-the-leade...

I'd love to be able to "right-windows o f" right windows is the leader key, o would be open, and f is for firefox. "right-windows o c" to open chrome

FrancoDiazon Lasers activate killer instinct in mice

That's awesome. Laser-activated, killer mice (along with sharks with lasers) need to be in the next Austin Powers movie.

FrancoDiazon Giant Middle East dust storm caused by a changing climate, not human conflict

I'm not absolute in saying that there isn't anthropogenic climate change. I'm saying politics are a big factor in the whole debate.

FrancoDiazon Giant Middle East dust storm caused by a changing climate, not human conflict

You didn't me understand correctly.

FrancoDiazon Giant Middle East dust storm caused by a changing climate, not human conflict

I am what you would call a "denier". By the way, when you people use that term, it makes you sound very cultish, especially the calls from leftists for the death penalty for deniers.

I actually don't "deny" that there could be anthropogenic climate change, but until the left wants to have an honest debate on the costs (economic, freedom), and also when the left stops "denying" that it fits conveniently into their ideological economic model, then there can be no honest conversation.

There are plenty of things to discuss within the broad camp of "accepts that climate change is real and a potential problem." For example, the severity, the cause of individual events, the best responses, the potential dangers in the future, etc.

So you really don't want to discuss it? It's either your reality or the highway, as your other respondent alluded to.