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HumanDrivenDevon After New Zealand Shooting, Founder of 8chan Expresses Regrets

Because he hasn't been charged with murder yet. Same reason why his face can't be shown in NZ at this point - not formally charged.

HumanDrivenDevon After New Zealand Shooting, Founder of 8chan Expresses Regrets

We don't avoid saying the name of ISIS, or Al-Qaeda, or the provisional IRA or any number of other terrorist groups. We don't avoid naming Stalin or Hitler just in case another one comes along.

It's not cynical to realise will find a way to profit from this, it's realistic. The crocodile tears, the head scarf, the voldemorting, the raison d'etre for making laws the government wanted to make anyway.

Don't you americans remember all of this from the 9/11 aftermath?

HumanDrivenDevon After New Zealand Shooting, Founder of 8chan Expresses Regrets

According to his manifesto he expected this wouldn't make him famous, and used the example that very few people can remember the names of the 9/11 hijackers.

What he wanted - again according to the manifesto - is exactly what he's getting: further division and a clamping down on gun laws.

She also legally has to do it I believe, as Tarrant is still the "suspect" and has not been formally found guilty. She's opportunistically trying to turn this restriction into some epic "I un-name thee!" cringe fest.

HumanDrivenDevon U.S. Firms Are Helping Build China’s Orwellian State

yeah I thought I might drop in and make a well reasoned point in good faith. the shower of down-votes shows me I shouldn't have bothered (:

HN is a bit of an echo chamber, unfortunately.

HumanDrivenDevon U.S. Firms Are Helping Build China’s Orwellian State

We've passed that sci-fi trope where corporations now wield more authority than governments.

I have a better relationship with corporations more than governments. A corporation has never harassed me at an airport when trying to leave. If I don't like MacDonalds I can... stop eating at MacDonalds. If I don't like the services the state provides I have to physically remove myself.

HumanDrivenDevon Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shooter videos

I don't know how you managed to turn a story about a gun massacre in New Zealand - a country with strict gun control laws - into a critique of Americas loose gun control laws.

HumanDrivenDevon The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

It comes from China, was developed in the republican era. It's based on a shorthand modification of seal script - though Japan was very influential on the elite of China at that time so it's possible Katakana played some role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script

HumanDrivenDevon Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)

I'm simply not interested in where laptops are going. I'm a healthy adult male, so a few hundred grams of weight is not an issue. I also find thin laptops very uncomfortable to use in certain positions where you balance it against your body.

I really should buy a 'clunky', 'heavy' laptop before they all disappear and all that's left are wafer thin machines with soldered-on everything.

HumanDrivenDevon I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement

If that were my service, I'd be pretty embarrassed by the number of unhappy users who have commented on the blog posts about cancellation[1] and refunds[2]. Doesn't seem like a good look.

And if my business was turning over $115k/Month I'm not sure I would let that keep me awake at night.

HumanDrivenDevon When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved Marriages with Beer

In 2019, it all looks terribly misogynistic.

No losing your house, no alimony... maybe they were on to something. Let wives also be able to sell their husbands and bring it back!

HumanDrivenDevon Going Solo, Successfully

The biggest impediment for me would be finding clients. IME most programmers dont meet a lot plant potential clients when they are maintaining internal software. Even if they work for a consulting company, you can't use them due to restraint of trade clauses.

So how would you get the first customers? I'm just some guy off the street, no one is going bet money on me performing a function for their business.

HumanDrivenDevon Why I hate the weekends (2017)

To deal with traffic you almost have to 'give up' on the notion of doing something quickly and resign to the reality of it, which is what happens if you have to deal with it daily.

That's the only way to treat driving IMO. If you let yourself get upset at 'delays', you will drive rashly to make up for it, and eventually you will cause an accident.

Every time you get in a car you should expect delays, and expect dangerous driving from others.

HumanDrivenDevon Whitespace killed an enterprise app

If the "UX collective" thinks that site is what user experience should be, then I think it's time for a military coup. It's really hard to read.

HumanDrivenDevon The heroes of the Thai cave rescue

They can't stop being European - because Britain is in Europe.

It's a bit like saying Japan doesn't want to be Asian.

HumanDrivenDevon Why I use old hardware

At a guess - the various popular test runners are slow and bloaty.

HumanDrivenDevon Why I use old hardware

Bundling + dev servers are place a heavy load. I'm actually looking into a way I can avoid using bundling for production but still get some kind of "hot javascript file reload" in the browser.

HumanDrivenDevon The Tech Revolt

That argument goes both ways. If your family was impacted by violence, corruption, and poverty wouldn't you pack up and look for a better life?

Absolutely, and I would never deny it.

HumanDrivenDevon The Tech Revolt

You're right. It's also because we live in 1st world conditions, and once your basic needs are met, we strive to address the higher ones, like fulfillment and meaning.

I live in the first world, in a city of about 100,000. According to numbeo it's a bit cheaper to live here than Seattle, but much more expensive than Dallas. I earn just under $60,000 USD as a developer, which is considered a good salary here.

I think you drastically over estimate the first world as a whole.

HumanDrivenDevon The Tech Revolt

I happen to think that immigration and customs enforcement is a net positive.

I guarantee those people would be as well if they were effected by it personally. If you're not personally doing the kind of jobs an illegal immigrant can do for less, then you can only benefit - it lowers the cost to you for many things in your life. As a bonus, you get to pretend that makes you a good person.

An episode of South Park addresses this brilliantly, though people conveniently only remember the first part. Time travellers from the future come into South Park and take all the menial jobs. The blue collar americans yell "they took our jerbs!" Randy - a geologist - admonishes them as racists, until he finds out his own white collar positionhas been given to an alien, and then he too is complaining about how they took his job.

The day the wealthy Californian tech companies start hiring illegal immigrant developers at a lower cost is the day the echo chamber changes its tune.

HumanDrivenDevon Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commissions will fail (2012)

If you think 8% is insane, then sell it yourself.

HumanDrivenDevon President Signs Government-Wide Open Data Bill

Lobbyists are probably fighting laws you don't like as well.

HumanDrivenDevon It will become easier to buy a house

Buying a home isn't universally difficult across the entire country.

This article wasn't about housing in the US, it was about housing in the UK.

I believe the US is one of the few OECD countries where housing is actually affordable, 3-4 times median income across the whole country IIRC.

HumanDrivenDevon German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany

Let's take it further - should an any person on earth be able to sleep in your bed?

HumanDrivenDevon German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany

Under your model people would just end up building huge gated-communities anyway - it would all be private property, so wouldn't violate any of your laws.

People will find a way to keep people they don't want near by away from them.

HumanDrivenDevon German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany

The same way town officials currently plan for the number of school places needed in their town in 2 years.

With increased revenue from where, exactly?

HumanDrivenDevon German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany

Do you seriously think the quality of life wouldn't deteriorate rapidly if this was the case? Or is that not your concern? Or would it not effect your area, so you don't care?

I think it's utopian to believe that this would lead to anything but slums and shanty towns. People with no wealth will all flock to areas with wealth, which won't have the infrastructure to support them. They'd camp out wherever they could with whatever they could - possibly right outside your house. Probably in your back yard actually - local law enforcement would be too overwhelmed to go around persecuting squatting or trespassing.

Travel to a large city in India to see what happens when free movement is coupled with massive inequality.

HumanDrivenDevon German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany

Are you not then essentially arguing that states have no sovereignty? If so, how far do you take it - do individuals? Can any migrant - legal or not - rock up to your house and start camping on your lawn?

HumanDrivenDevon China’s Economy Slows Sharply

The US also had slavery.

Are you under the impression that China didn't?

HumanDrivenDevon Photographs: Removed

Oh yes let's all remember 2005 when no one ever looked in the mirror and everyone in big city public transport held hands and sung folk songs on their morning commute.