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bogota··on We’re winding down Google Talk
You are not alone in feeling this way. Hangouts was awesome and for a while my friend group tried to keep up with whatever googles newly pitched chat app was. We all just use WhatsApp now.
bogota··on The state finally letting teens sleep in
People who have different sleep schedules make the world a fucked up place?
bogota··on Colombia shares unprecedented images of treasure-laden wreck
From the article it’s believed a large portion of the 200t is gold. In the 150t range.
bogota··on Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters
Wow just keep moving the goalposts. Leftist now means communist. You saw it here first people.
bogota··on The Depegging of UST
Im sure this has been said about all early technologies at some point. If you are right or wrong only time will tell though.
bogota··on Meet developers 1:1 every week and team up on projects
Yeah it’s something that has burned me out after 15 years of development. Work then go hang out with some people from work and they just talk about work or side projects. When you are younger I kinda of understood and was also one of the people doing it but now that I’m older im amazed at how many people never find anything outside of work.

Im strictly 9-5 and done now and don’t do any work events if I can avoid it. I was thinking about joining a decent sized startup recently 150+ and when I was meeting some of the team one of the first things I was asked was “so what side projects are you working on right now”. I was already a little worried about startup culture but after that was said I just told them I wasn’t interested after.

bogota··on “I think the vast majority of developers still debug using print() statements”
… because it works and its faster most of the time.
bogota··on Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
There is somewhat of a middle ground. My cart looks very close to yours but I really don’t want to spend the 60 to 90 minutes most good meals take more than once or twice a week.

However you can make lots of good food ahead of time and freeze it. I spend a few hours every Sunday and it makes for quick 30 minute no effort meals for about two weeks.

bogota··on Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture
Do you think it’s cheap to immigrate to the US? Even married US citizens can’t bring someone over unless they are middle class. Poor people are treated like shit in the US and no one cares.

Buts it’s funny when we start to care about a tiny portion of the poor people.

bogota··on Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less
How does ranked choice become hard on paper? At the end of the day the tally all is input into a computer anyway. Im sure different sums of yes and no answers could be reduced to a single number if you are arguing that tallying votes would be harder in the system
bogota··on .01% of Bitcoin holders hold 27% of all Bitcoin
Not to mention how to determine what coins are lost forever. I know of several addresses that are mine but the keys are unfortunately lost forever.

And additionally you might have coins that haven’t moved in 8 years that is considered lost but i just haven’t had a reason to move them. Im sure someone could come up with a decent methodology for figuring this out but this isn’t it.

bogota··on The Great Crypto Grift May Be Unwinding
Yep that is it. It’s certainly not massively easier to do cross country transactions with it and much cheaper…

Its massively telling how much this and other forums completely neglect that a world outside the west exists.

bogota··on Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick
I always want to do this but health insurance always keeps me from never going a day without being employed. Im fortunate to be able to have that kind of job stability but the anxiety of being out of a job and then needing any kind of medical care is real.
bogota··on U.S. takes unprecedented steps to replenish Colorado River's Lake Powell
Please send me some data on how water that is able to be treated and re used is causing issues for society.
bogota··on U.S. takes unprecedented steps to replenish Colorado River's Lake Powell
It’s becoming unbearable that every issue facing society is the consumers fault. I take a ten minute shower and I’m destroying the world but the farmer growing crops that wouldn’t exist in the region without imported water is fine.

I realize we can fix more than one thing but the arguments i am always seeing is stating the consumer is the biggest issue and it’s infuriating.

bogota··on Dubai real estate data leak – Exposes criminals, officials, and politicians
I don’t understand what they expect Dubai to be doing around transactions. Their is only so much you can check when someone is buying a property and the money is being sent from abroad.

I bought property recently in another (less expensive) place and they ask about where you work and so on but say I just have money saved up they really have nothing to check. Say im retired can i not buy something now? No that would be pretty stupid. Journalists these days are beyond stupid.

bogota··on My experience getting a tech job with no degree or relevant work experience
This entire thread is a disgusting look at the elitism people see themselves with.
bogota··on $34M permanently locked into AkuDreams contract forever due to bad code
Not to mention when doing large wires with countries that have to do exchanges through a national bank your third party can just forget to accept it. Then you get a wire reversed for a large amount in some cases and the bank freezes your assets because you just got a huge amount of money from some random place. The thin vail of freedom is quickly lifted whenever you want to do anything international from sending money to getting married.

This happened to me when purchasing a house in another country.

bogota··on Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage
This is awesome my work computer has a stupid 5 minute setting until it sleeps that is locked.
bogota··on 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
Would this be helpful for someone who has chronic allergies and can’t breathe out of one nostril about 95% of the time?
bogota··on Insider Trading at Coinbase
What does this even mean? I’m a crypto fan but I dont want to deregulate finance completely. So maybe i’m not a crypto fan. Or maybe the crypto fan online isn’t really representative of reality like most online communities that are largely based off what reddit is spouting.

Im not close to being alone on this. I don’t know anyone in my life who is a “crypto fan” and doesn’t think rules should exist around exchanges.

It’s easy to fight the boogeyman and the HN boogeyman is one of the silliest ones I have seen.

bogota··on Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
They may be louder but do you have a dump truck waking you up at 4am several times a week? I really don’t know what to do anymore. Obviously they need to pick up trash that early to beat the traffic and save a few bucks /s. But the city doesn’t care and I’m constantly told that condos/apartments are a more sustainable way of living. Thats great but I’m about done with this nonsense and about to move out to the burbs so I can sleep through the night.
bogota··on Atlassian products have been down for 4 days
Yeah I hear this often enough that maybe its just too hard to setup correctly… but no it’s the users who are wrong.
bogota··on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
What do you mean by the level of immigration is over 1%? (Genuine question) and why does that matter?
bogota··on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
How about we just make it easier to build more houses on the vast amount of land we have in the US?

Do you have data that makes you think banning foreign buyers would actually make a significant impact? I haven’t seen any indications that this is the case in the city I live in.

bogota··on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
Pleased refrain from personal attacks and instead focus on debating what was actually written.

I have downvoted you because this goes against the general spirit of discussion on HN.

bogota··on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
Or we could have seen this coming a mile away and built more houses and reduced the idiocy of city zoning.

But yeah it’s the immigrants fault. Lets reduce immigration while we are facing a labor shortage.

bogota··on Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions
I am in this process now. Only looking for companies without offices and who will put in my contract that I never have to come in even if they do buy one.

I am beyond sick of my current company pretending like everything is going to go back to normal one day. We have 75% of people working from home although not labeled remote and maybe 25% back in some offices. The CEO pushing that we are an office company has destroyed communication and meant that over the last two years instead of adjusting how we work just pretending like nothing every happened. So now we have terrible communication even within teams and no one who wants to fix it because that would be a waste of time since soon everyone will be in the office. This has been going on for over a year.

Maybe they will fix this but it’s completely destroyed my desire to work for what was once a great company. They have over 1k employees. It’s unbelievable how much time and energy have been wasted because management has refused to accept the current situation. If i had taken this same approach when things changed at this current job or others I would be fired. I need to switch to management.

bogota··on Unresponsive Air France Boeing 777 Aborts Landing in Paris
I know the chances are still tiny but I really don’t feel at ease flying any boeing aircraft anymore.

I have been switching to companies that primarily use airbus when available just for the peace of mind. Yes i know it’s irrational and im more likely to die driving to the airport but my anxiety doesn’t seem to follow logic.

bogota··on Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
Yeah. From a developer standpoint my terminal is the one sacred thing i have still. Im unfortunately not using something that is going to randomly break or make external calls every time I open it.

Looks cool but I will never even give this a try.

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