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dannyphantom··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
Perhaps not the answer you're looking for but 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' has remained a top-tier cookbook.
dannyphantom··on The Invisible Scars Adult Children of Workaholics Bring to Their Careers
Hah, ouch. My brother and I both grew up with a nanny as Mom and Dad commited 100% of their time to work. We hardly saw them.
dannyphantom··on DeFi and the “digital asset” felony hidden in the infrastructure bill
This Twitter is pretty fun to read through every few weeks: https://twitter.com/CrimeADay

Same person wrote a book with this as the description:

>Have you ever clogged a toilet in a national forest? That could get you six months in federal prison. Written a letter to a pirate? You might be looking at three years in the slammer. Leaving the country with too many nickels, drinking a beer on a bicycle in a national park, or importing a pregnant polar bear are all very real crimes, and this riotously funny, ridiculously entertaining, and fully illustrated book shows how just about anyone can become—or may already be—a federal criminal.

dannyphantom··on United States issues its first passport with 'X' gender marker
Along the same thought, this could cause more problems than it's worth unless this becomes a more universally accepted way to treat the passport going forward. Imagine being held up in customs for 3 hours due to mismatched documents (ID & passport)
dannyphantom··on Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022
It sounds more like they are appreciative that Amazon is setting a precedent to have employees back by '22 which other companies will theoretically have to match.
dannyphantom··on The undiscovered country: Can suicide be predicted?
It's always interesting to find clinical observations for something you struggle with; you somewhat have to remove yourself from your own mind when learning why your brain is manifesting these types of thoughts and feelings.

"IS PATH WARM" really personifies the feelings.

dannyphantom··on Ask HN: How do you inform an organization of exposed sensitive data?
Thank you
dannyphantom··on Lachlan Morton completes 5,510km Alt Tour, beating peloton to Paris by five days
Wow.

"...he had climbed the Alps and the double pass of Mont Ventoux, explaining how he had subsisted on cider, melon and prosciutto..."

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/lachlan-morton-completes-alt-....

dannyphantom··on Google turned me into a serial killer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27477797

17:19 Quick search shows your image has been removed from the right side panel.

dannyphantom··on Aaron Swartz, Vindicated
A Crime a Day on Twitter is fun to casually scroll through.

https://twitter.com/CrimeADay

dannyphantom··on Amazon Nears Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM
It seems like a vertical merger; not confident that an antitrust issue would meet the bar in this transaction.
dannyphantom··on The future of war is bizarre and terrifying
A global industry dedicated to manufacturing a superior weapons arsenal and the largest threat will be cyberwarfare.
dannyphantom··on Waiters Reject Signing Bonuses, Hobbling an $860B Industry
An article about Milwaukee! Woah. As a former sever of 7 (?) years throughout high-school and college it seems these articles are missing the elephant in the room:

Restaurant life is hard, thankless and can very much a toxic lifestyle. I worked at 5 restaurants in the city and all of them had their unique workplace culture than ranged from fairly nice to down right exploitation and abuse [1].

Drug use, alcoholism, and often times undercutting your peers so you are scheduled shifts during prime hours just drives morale down. There is high turnover because of these things. Now that you have trouble hiring is more indicative of not wanting to be treated like crap than "restaurant staff won't come back because lazy". It's baffling to me how out of touch these restaurant owners can be when it comes to the question of not being able to retain staff.

This comment comes across as resentful; but it's important to highlight the less understood aspects of restaurant culture. Generally, it was fulfilling and left me with valuable skills. But, I'd never dare to go back to that lifestyle.

[1]: https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2017/07/14/wat...

dannyphantom··on Tip Jar
https://xkcd.com/1053/
dannyphantom··on Tip Jar
This is pretty dissuading from using the tip feature. Ultimately, Twitter had to make a choice of which processor to go with and PayPal was clearly the winner here. Perhaps in a year or so they may move to Stripe.

What would (maybe) be a good move is to process the transactions through Twitter itself?

dannyphantom··on Crazy New Ideas
Could perhaps the idea of a thin client inside a thin client not be an idea that could be further developed to be of use one day?
dannyphantom··on What's Salesforce? (2019)
As someone who has spent the past several months using Trailhead to learn Salesforce - even picking up some badges for things that seem practical this thread is making me reconsider my choices.

Have I wasted my time in learning Salesforce?

I know that there is what is effectively a cult following of Salesforce evangelists but I was hoping this would be valuable in the long term.

dannyphantom··on Apple packaging like you’ve never seen it before
Awesome links. Here is a contrast to that exhibit. It's a video since I can't for the life of me find a catalog of the exhibit. https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/madison/human-interest/2020/02/...
dannyphantom··on iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
With the frustration of the past year in iPhone not unlocking due to your face mask it seems like a proof of concept that iPhone should bring back TouchID.
dannyphantom··on iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
I thought that AI could identify someone even if they were wearing a mask and our iPhone's were being silly. I've seen a few videos of Chinese grocery shoppers paying with their face with a mask on.
dannyphantom··on iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ios-14-5-makes-using-the-iphones...

> ...and the ability to unlock your iPhone using Face ID while wearing a face mask.

Unlocking the iPhone with Face ID during the pandemic has been an exercise in frustration...

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dannyphantom··on A second Bitcoin exchange collapses in Turkey amid crackdown on cryptocurrencies
Your comment made me question why crypto would ever be declared illegal. People can do what they want with their money; whether they should is debatable. This article highlights some interesting things. There is a link in the article to a more thorough article.

https://law.stanford.edu/press/is-bitcoin-protected-as-speec...

dannyphantom··on Tinnitus reports grow amid Covid-19 vaccinations
Interesting article. Reminded me of the Texas Roadhouse CEO.

> After surviving a bout with covid-19, Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor’s post-infection symptoms grew increasingly painful. Taylor was beset in particular with a severe case of tinnitus — a loud buzzing or ringing in the ears that can be debilitating.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/22/texas-roadh...

dannyphantom··on Get better at Googling
I saw this a few days ago on the front page of HN. Thought it was pretty good. https://www.gwern.net/Search
dannyphantom··on Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
> In the end, Microsoft and Mike Rowe came to an agreement. In exchange for transferring control of his domain name, the software maker has promised to help Rowe set up a new Web site; pay for a Microsoft certification course and subscription to the Microsoft Developer Network Web site; and pay for his family to visit Microsoft Research Tech Fest in Redmond, Wash., in March. To top it all off, he will get an Xbox with some games.

From cnet: https://www.cnet.com/news/mikerowesoft-settles-for-an-xbox/

He did an AMA on reddit 11 years ago; he's apparently a full time poker player now. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ajsih/i_am_the_guy_wh...

dannyphantom··on Reddit unveils its Clubhouse clone: Reddit Talk
This doesn't seem surprising. Curious to see how this works out; hosts moderate their own Talk so I'm anticipating a lot of problems to arise out of that.
dannyphantom··on I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
Love this! I'm happy to see this having actually been brought to life - congrats! Would love to have the ability to look at what you've swiped right on somehow.
dannyphantom··on Renaming Coq
In case anyone wants to check out their Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq
dannyphantom··on Renaming Coq
This would be great in all honesty
dannyphantom··on Police say they found mafia fugitive on YouTube, posting cooking tutorials
That's incredible - yet unsurprising
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