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My opinion is the opinion I hold right now. Even the facts I believe I know, might be wrong. Correct me politely and I'll look it up and grow from our interaction.. As far as I can tell no one person knows everything, and I am no exception. However, if you are rude I'll try to get past it to see what you're saying, but in general, I'll just move on.

I will try to respect everyone I meet, as best I know how. Please let me know if I don't do so, I'll try to get better at it.

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bargl··on Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
I'm going to start spreading this around. It's a comment by someone else who points to an interview of the WeBull CEO and why they had issues. It's pretty clear that this is a process issue, not necessarily a RobinHood is evil issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25950191

bargl··on Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
I'm going to start spreading this around. It's a comment by someone else who points to an interview of the WeBull CEO and why they had issues. It's pretty clear that this is a process issue, not necessarily a RobinHood is evil issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25950191

Edit: I didn't know before listening to this how much was going on behind the scenes for every stock trade. It reminds me of what it takes to buy a house.

bargl··on .NET GC Internals mini-series
While actually a good question, I am reading a bit of snark here.

Don't spend your time on anything you don't want to, but if you want to learn about .NET GC then either research the author or research other deep dives into .NET GC.

To research the author you could.

Go to the About page on their blog...

You could also look them up in Stack Overflow. https://stackoverflow.com/users/2894974/konrad-kokosa

You could watch the first 10 minutes where he addresses this.

bargl··on React created roadblocks in our enterprise app
This was my biggest take away from this article too.

When you have a big project, you have to keep a consistent architecture. You need to keep using the same tools and patterns so that you have cohesion in your code base.

The worst thing about new architects on long lived projects is you typically get 2-4 ways of doing the same thing. If you're going to do that it needs to be so good that you don't mix and match.

If you are going to mix and match, you need to have a solid approach to splitting your dependencies, one way I'd have looked at doing this is by splitting this into multiple sub SPA applications and each mini project would be able to conform to it's own standard as long as it could interface with the glue application, this is by no means foolproof, but it gets you a lot closer to a maintainable situation from my experience.

Why I like this approach is that I saw a comment from someone saying they'd hate to be on a team with a uniform style. I completely get that, innovation is super important, but you have to build boundary layers between the different styles so you don't end up building such a hodgepodge of dependencies that you can't get things to work anymore. It also keeps your build times down and reduces time to get started working on your module.

Again same comment you made, I've made mistakes, trying to learn from them, maybe my current approach is bad too and there's a better way.

bargl··on Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously thought
I agree it's not the only thing contributing, but this would be a great place to experiment with those kinds of changes.
bargl··on DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
I've been using DDG for a while now as my primary search. I've found it does a much more literal searches, but doesn't always interpret the intent of my sentence as well as Google does.

I find myself using the !g at times when I can tell that the search didn't work as well as what I've seen on Google, but it's become much less frequent.

bargl··on Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously thought
I come to HN for fairly civil conversation on difficult topics. If we can't do it here, I honestly don't know where else I can do that.

I agree that it's become a flame war, and IMO part of the issue is that at times people promote (up/down) vote based on agreement, and at other times people vote based on promoting a good conversation.

I really want to see two voting mechanisms, an I agree woot, and another button that indicates is a well constructed argument that I think deserves conversation and views because it will promote healthy conversation. I'm not convinced people would use these appropriately, maybe they sit behind a "vote" count or you only get 5 votes a day or something, IDK.

We've gamified agreement on these platforms, and I see things swing based on who shows up. I've seen my votes swing wildly based on what I'm interpreting as someone of a particular ideology come through.

Either way we need to gamify conversation and not agreement, I don't know how to do that, but I think HN would be a great place to experiment with that idea.

bargl··on Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously thought
middleclick - Your original comment was fairly clearly against HN guidelines for posting. Your comment about votes is also against their guidelines (I feel for you I've broken this from time to time myself).

If you'd commented on the substance of the person's argument instead of attacking them personally based on ideology, I think your comment would have done much better. You could have even presented evidence from the persons twitter feed on this topic and used that to further clarify their opinion and how you felt their opinion in more context was wrong.

bargl··on Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill
I'm guessing it would be more practical to make a method by which dang could easily reinstate a users' messages/account after receiving the required legal documentation. I also assume it only applies to Polish citizens, filing the complaints with their courts.
bargl··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
I fully agree with you on this.
bargl··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
And the laws changed. Hopefully we'll see that. We can't expect companies to be our moral compass.
bargl··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
Agreed. And these companies are following what they believe is morally correct.

Also, this isn't going to be effective Parler is a website, people can just browse to it in Chrome/Safari...

We should be promoting apps that encourage and promote healthy discourse between people not echo chambers, but that's what I think is morally correct.

bargl··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
It's legal for entities outside the government to censor things. IANAL so if I'm wrong let me know. But my understanding is that censorship is perfectly fine for any company.
bargl··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
Good point.

To kind of latch onto what you said, I'd say that there is 60% of those 74 million who would have benefited from a Twitter ban which was well justified. They are more on the fence and can be persuaded by the tides of big business and what seems like an over reaction on their part. The 40% are probably hopelessly convinced of anything that Republicans say.

bargl··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
I feel like after the twin towers were blown up.

It was less than 100 individuals that were the impetuous for one of the worst pieces of legislation I know of. The Patriot Act. Which was voted on in a complete state of fear. Creating an extra judicial process for people who fit into a given category.

I fear the reaction to this, which I'd argue is why Twitter needed a great press release to justify banning Trump (which they can and should do as a private corporation).

EDIT: I feel like we're in a reactionary state of shock where lawmakers may try to push laws that sound good to people who are in shock and fear.

bargl··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
I agree with the action and disagree with their justification.

Because of the weakness of their justification, this could be further gasoline on the fire for his 74 million supporters. I frequently find myself having to argue with said supporters, and I can't argue that this justification makes sense other than to say... well they should have banned him before hand.

It feels like they were looking for almost anything remotely shitty that Trump said to ban him. More specifically, they are looking for a reason to ban him based on saying anything not in support of the next administration, because of his supporters storming the capital. I can see the chain of logic here, I just think it's a little weak and being selectively enforced.

Edited: to make more sense hopefully.

bargl··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
I know Trump supporters, and even they (the ones I know) don't justify his tweets. If Twitter had used numerous previous tweets, I could personally go and argue with those supporters and feel like I was making headway.

I don't argue with them to change their mind, I argue with them for the crowd of 5-6 people listening who are on the fence. All of them were just pushed off that fence.

bargl··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
This is gasoline on the fire.

When banning someone like donald trump you need to have a great press release for justification. You need to point to something that people who are in the middle will read and think, yeah that makes sense, I'm surprised you didn't do that earlier.

Instead, they have this PR that I honestly disagree with, even in the current climate, I don't see it.

I can only think, they wanted to ban him before he left office in order to set a precedent that they could ban him before he left office, and use that for some sort of future legal justification. I could see this as a use to ban future presidents before the 4 years are over. Or if he became president again they wouldn't have to re-instate his account.

bargl··on Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
Restricting peoples access to an app in the app store that is also a website is... an exercise in futility.

What it does do is further back the extremists idea that they are being marginalized by big tech while others aren't. It is another step of divisiveness that leads to MORE of what just happened on Wednesday.

I'm not saying the content of Parler is at all appropriate or that people should be able to call for violence and not be punished. Violence is not the answer, but neither is further disenfranchising people and pushing us further apart.

bargl··on Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
No shit something got stolen.

You can't have that kind of insanity inside of a workplace and expect to secure every device. There are multiple layers of security for the congress people, and many of them were exploited. They don't practice putting on masks and running their asses out of a building. I'm sure every staffer was thinking, "Did I get everything that needs to be secured?". No they were thinking, "I'm getting the hell out of here." Especially if they weren't part of the tribe storming the castle, (aka a Democrat).

bargl··on SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet
I don't typically trust an article that breaks complex issues into blaming ONE thing. However, this one does have some really useful historical information in it and is worth a read.

My issue with the "this is a problem because of this one thing thinking" is that we then solve for that one thing, thinking. HEY THIS WILL FIX IT, and then someone else comes and games the system after we've changed it.

This is such a complex issue, the article addresses some but not all of the issues. One is that the quality of your search is dependent on using the right keywords. Not many google users think about it like that. We think about search as if we're talking to a person, and search isn't quite there yet. The article is expecting Google to translate "can eat" to "poisonous". I swapped the word and boom.

https://pets.thenest.com/blueberries-safe-cats-8730.html

First paragraph, easy to read and understand, I didn't go any further down.

The problem is that searching by a sentence and extracting the intent of the user when using language is F-ing hard. Then you want to build something that isn't gameable with optimizations you didn't intend and when you find them you need to fix them without degrading the quality of your product.

I also want to point out that this user wants a diversity of ideas to appear on Google, while there is active pressure to sensor people who do not have the authority to speak on certain topics, or who are quoting these mom and pop blogs.

If we compare this to the real world, and take restaurants/stores. There's a McDonalds(lowes, walmart, etc) every 10 feet, but if you dive deeper you'll find the locally owned restaurant on the corner that is delicious. Can we use law to fix these issues? Yeah, we can make McDonalds every 100 miles, every 20 miles, tax them, etc. What are the side effects of our fixes and will the outcome be less desirable? I did a fair amount of driving across the country in my younger days, and what I can tell you about McDonalds is it's never amazing, but it's also never awful. I've eaten at some awful small town restaurants and I've also had some great ones.

On top of that, now I've got a kid who's got an allergy, I can tell you exactly what he can have at any fast food chain because they have an allergen menu. Not all restaurants know that information.

bargl··on SARS-CoV-2 concentrations and virus-laden aerosol distributions in outdoor air
> "The freedom to swing your arm stops at my face."

Err not really, if you go full swing on someone and you "intended" to stop but they block your arm and punch you in the face, arguably it's your fault. If they kill you with that punch then they would be at fault. The law around freedom is really complex. Freedom in the US isn't limited, it's complicated.

When American's use the word freedom most of them are being dumb. You do have freedoms that are protected, but that doesn't mean what you think is a freedom actually is a freedom.

I'm also going to pick on your example of the restaurant. The staff at a restaurant does get to choose to be there or not, that's a free economy. If the government shuts down restaurants, like they have in some states, then the staff can no longer choose to take on that risk. Everyone gets to choose, but there is also an obligation/responsibility with freedom that people in the USA don't seem to "get".

You are FREE to get a gun, you are then responsible for using it wisely. Lock it up, get trained with it, be safe, and learn when to pull it out. The jerks on CNN who had the rifle and were pointing it at the crowd are a great example of irresponsibility with freedom. They should have never, EVER pointed a gun at someone who did not pose an imminent threat to their person. Back to the punching example, everyone who sees a fake punch can judge HOW fake it was. Did they stop at the nose, did they just jerk their arm, did they go Suuuppppeeerrrrr slow. Those judgements matter in court to show that the person who fought back was being reasonable. The burden of reasonable action is even higher with a knife/gun.

Take free speech for example, you can actually sign away your right to free speech in a contract. There is a commedian who talks about things that are illegal to say. Free speech applies to the press, not to individuals being ass hats.

Anyway, all of that is me saying, freedom in the USA is a slogan, which is dumb. Meme's do not present great arguments, but the freedoms we do have are as well defined under the law as most place. People just don't know them.

bargl··on SARS-CoV-2 concentrations and virus-laden aerosol distributions in outdoor air
We don't have a free market, or we wouldn't have fire departments, police departments, schools, military, funding for crops, or any government budgets.

The idea that we are a pure free market is as absurd as saying that china is pure communism. There is no pure government out there that meets the academic definition of the market they espouse. It's just not possible, never has been, never will be (I usually don't speak in absolutes but feel pretty 99.999% comfortable with this statement). There will always be gray outside the academic setting.

bargl··on SARS-CoV-2 concentrations and virus-laden aerosol distributions in outdoor air
It's still a valid concern. The government has mandated these businesses shut their doors it should also mandate that they get the assistance needed (which I'm hoping will come next year).

Small businesses can't afford a lot of the overhead of shuttering their doors and still paying mortgages etc. The employees there can't afford it either. I'm not saying it's a bad/good call by leaders. I'm just saying if you are mandated to shut your business, you should be able to "turn off" the economic issues associated with that. Mortgage gets extended, taxes get deferred, etc.

This is definitely a weakness of pure capitalism in a regulation environment like today. We cant shut down a businesses income and expect their expenses to remain the same.

bargl··on YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
Of course not. That's why they said 90%. You could argue it's 50% or 23.2832%. But there is a percentage of HN which has seen the movie if the OP has seen it.

Obviously there's a percentage that hasn't seen/read it if you haven't either.

bargl··on Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
Suggestion: To me this would be much more useful if it was available where I purchase my items. Like in Amazon, I see this as a web extension that could be super useful like honey. I wouldn't use honey nearly as much if it didn't integrate with Amazon, but it does so I don't have to worry about it.

I know that's a ton of work, not a minor suggestion but it would be super cool.

bargl··on Dual-flush toilets 'wasting more water than they save'
This is, I believe the best solution.
bargl··on Dual-flush toilets 'wasting more water than they save'
It's the law of unintended consequences. I used cloth bags thinking I was doing awesome. Then I found an article saying I had to use them 1000 times to equal the same carbon footprint of a plastic bag. (Not the article I'm linking below, can't find it.)

I've also been to countries where these bags make it into the ocean and become micro plastics. As with all things there are pros and cons. Most of our civilization has cons for the environment, but from what I can tell the best situation for most people who's garbage makes it to a landfill is to use mult-reuse recycled plastic bags.

Being as I've already made the commitment to the cloth bags I just have to keep using them until they hit their 131st use, then keep going.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/paper-plastic-or-reusable

bargl··on SEC charges former Amazon finance manager and family with insider trading
Yeah, saw that after writing the comment. This was a doh moment. The tone of the first half of the article and the second half don't reconcile for me. I thought based on the first part that it was still ongoing. Missed the conviction part.
bargl··on SEC charges former Amazon finance manager and family with insider trading
This is one of those situations where I read the article but not in its entirety and have to eat my words.

I would have assumed an press release wouldn't use the word alleged unless this was an ongoing case.

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