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Humans don't live by the clock. People in Spain and Poland aren't awake at the same time, merely because they live in the same timezone.

> Mercator is the most-widely used projection (Google Maps uses it, for one), but it was created in 1569 during the age of exploration. It's mostly good for sea navigation. Any straight line drawn on the map represents a constant compass bearing.

It's also good for knowing how much daylight you get somewhere or whether someone there is likely to be awake right now.

It's hard to think of a name worse then "spotify" itself, but fast "fastpotify" may be it.

> Almost nobody objected to my characterization of Google and Bing search results, but people told me that I was wrong about Kagi.

Paying for a product makes you defensive, especially if there are free alternatives.

> This seems to have happened in history; ideas proposed by lower status folks were less accepted until higher status folks reintroduced them

> For example, Richard Stallman’s software concept wasn’t accepted until rebranded as “open source”.

Richard Stallman graduated from Harvard and worked at MIT. If it was necessary to rebrand his ideas, it's certainly not because he wasn't elite enough.

> Semmelweis’s hand-washing was rejected until Pasteur and Lister’s reintroduction

Semmelweis’s results were already treated as obvious in britain during his lifetime, and Lister worked in that tradition.

The most important thing I remember from Impro is that we all have habits we adopted as children that we still use as adults, even though they no longer work.

As far as I understand, the US taxes its citizens whereever they live (the third alternative I mentioned).

> My first company, Freshflow, is valuable enough that walking out of Germany would trigger a massive six-figure exit tax, on gains I have not even realised, purely for the privilege of leaving.

Without this "exit tax", every founder of a successful business would have a huge incentive to leave and to realize the gains elsewhere. It's not a tax for the privilige of leaving, but for the privilege of building a company. I can see only three alternatives to this:

- Abolish the capital gains tax entirely.

- Make defering it impossible. Force people to pay immidiately. No "exit tax", but people have to pay for unrealized gains.

- Tax people when they realize their gains in a foreign country.

A summary is always an expression of distrust: I don't trust the author not to waste my time so I need a summary. It's strange that a website would offer an AI generated summary of a text that it paid someone to write.

That's not a problem with the squiggles as a user interface, but with the software assuming that you speak only one language.

> The approval of draft rules by the economic committee of the European Parliament comes after three years of wrangling between the ECB and banks, which have been concerned about deposit outflows and lost revenues and sought to limit the scope of the project.

This kind of thing is why I'm optimistic both about Bitcoin and fiat currencies in third world countries like Brazil and India.

Could these things be turned interactive? Like a parallax effect when you move your mouse?

> Sadly, I don't know anymore what kind of web service that was.

I don't know that either, but I remember there were websites specifically for that purpose, where you could look up a file extension and what program to open it with.

I didn't know that but now I did it.

You're right to point this out, but it's still more annoying because you now have to remember that consciously, rather then seeing and feeling that you can just move your mouse to the edge.

This scratches the same itch as same.energy and pinterest, but looks better, with everything cut out, with unique shapes. Truly, every page is its own image.

I love wikipedia, but I don't see why this idea should be limited to it. Why it shouldn't scrap the entire web for images and descriptions, like same.energy?

I'd also prefer it if the description showed next to the pointer, rather then at the bottom right corner.

Blaming immigration for not finding an apartment is very different from blaming immigration for not finding a job. Jobs appear almost automatically (if some basic economic conditions are met), apartments have to be built and permitted.

Blaming immigration for not finding an apartment is also different from blaming immigrants. Blame has a moral connotation, and certainly no individual deserves blame because he lives in an apartment that you'd like to live in, whether he moved from another country, another place in the same country or another district of the same city, or whether he was born in that apartment. But that doesn't mean that immigration can't make it more difficult to find an apartment if not enough apartments are built.

The map in which the entirety of germany is yellow and the legend says that yellow means "exercise a high degree of caution" while the surrounding countries are gray, is awfully misleading. The map for france looks the same[1], with germany gray. The logic seems to be: This is the page for germany, the image only shows data about germany. In that case, other countries shouldn't be shown at all, rather then in gray.

[1]: https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/france

> Like the author is making a big deal that they think scope is more important than type. I may tend to agree, but I think the difference between "fix(compiler)" and "compiler fix" is not exactly a hill I'd be willing to die on.

The big deal is not that scope is more important then type, the big deal is that natural language allows you to formulate things to emphasize whatever you consider important, and by forcing everything into a specific format this information is lost. There's a reason we have formats like markdown and plaintext, not just JSON.

I walked 20 minutes to a brick and mortar toy store to buy some bouncy balls recently. It was a chain store though. That's not sad to me, because I'm not emotional about whether chain or independent businesses do any better in a given industry.

When I think of companies that make cheapness cool I think of IKEA, Primark, Ryanair and Fiat, not Apple and Porsche. The Macbook Neo and the Porsche 968 are cheap only compared to other products by the same brand and they are designed not to cannibalize those other products.

A distro making your project the default doesn't give you any responsibility.

Life is about habits. The pandemic interrupted many good habits people had--going outside, doing sports, meeting people--and many people haven't restarted these habits, in part due to a collective cold start problem.

Finland doesn't have compulsory military service to help people feel connected to their society. Feeling connected to one's society is not an end in itself, people should be free to choose how connected they want to feel. Finland has compulsory military service because it's a small country that borders Russia. The US is a big country that borders Canada and Mexico.

Interesting idea, but you need to improve readability. Try black text on pastel backgrounds.

This misses the point. Websites are allowed to replace default keyboard shortcuts for a reason. There are only a few exceptions to this, like Ctrl+W. In other words, you can design your website however you want, except to make it more difficult to leave. This is an implementation of the same philosophy.

> Study and follow HTML/CSS idioms whenever possible. For example, a link should be underlined, colorful, pointer on mouseover, and written as an <a> tag.

Moreover, if you change the color, you should also change the color of visited links, otherwise they will be the same color. And ideally, you should use a shade of blue for links, and purple for visited links.

> The truth is, there has been no successful CMS for static-site generators because the only people that give a fuck about creating static sites would much prefer to use a (free and local) IDE and a terminal.

I'm not sure how successful they are, but pinegrow[1] is a thing. It's not worth it to me to pay $99 per year for a personal website (the only static site I want), but there are many people who have static websites that are an essential part of a profitable business and these people don't necessarily want to use the terminal.

[1]: https://pinegrow.com/

I see someone accusing someone else of misunderstanding an author who disavowed any allegorical meaning of his novels and said that their only purpose was to create the kind of world that made the language he invented seem real ...

All statistics of this type are based on substracting debt. If a headline like "Elon Musk is -100 times as wealthy as Jérôme Kerviel"[1] would strike you as absurd, these headlines are no less so.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/meet-th...