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I apologize. It is difficult to tell when to refute praise of evil (Saddam, NK) and when to avoid starting a political flamewar. I'll just disengage since it leads to unpleasant toxicity, you're right.

What's with astonishing praise for evil just for the sake of sticking it to the status quo?

Completely orthogonal to any US allies and their action, it is absolutely disingenius to dismiss the evils of Saddam's empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLUktJbp2Ug. There is a large body of work around Saddam's regime, this YT clip isn't provided as an evidence, but to show how misplaced it is to say "Saddam did nothing wrong".

I find this an ongoing problem on HN. There are 2 counter acting forces A and B. Objectively, B is evil. But, HN equates A and B on the same level and demands equal criticism of both just by the virtue of the fact that A and B are up for a discussion. I am sure there is a list of biases being violated. It's similar to the debate between flat earth deniers and believers. If we host a debate between them, there is a perceived notion that both parties are on the same footing. The truth couldn't be far from that.

Just shows how politics have divided us. No one seems to be thinking independently and that includes myself - I try but often the first reaction is otherwise.

You can despise someone deeply, but if they are citing facts, reason, logic, etc - have no association, they stand on their own. Doesn't matter who uttered it.

I hate these damn illustrations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_memphis

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-...

It's cliche. It is obnoxious. They serve absolutely zero purpose. Get rid of them.

I see your point, and that's a valid concern. I wonder how much damage public PR does to investors - who are supposed to be highly informed and not be pursued by public hype.

May be its just easier to pronounce Pfizer than BioNTech?

Not everything needs to be distilled down to nationalistic undertones.

I am getting sick of this kind of discussion permeating on HN - It is extremely juvenile and damaging to the spirit of HN. In this regard, Reddit seems to be a lot better. Go on any vaccine related thread and there is absolutely none of this. There is so much more global cooperation observed on Reddit than on HN.

Obviously, option A. Improves the morale instantly.

I have the complete opposite view: it’s such a naive thing to say we don’t want wars - ofcourse no one wants wars. Spending on defense and being prepared isn’t going to war, it’s preventing it in the first place.

On the other side of the fence: Your own shitty framework owns your code, it locks you into this custom frankenstine thing that is a ball of mud that also smells bad. No one wants to look at it, it brings the best developers to their knees and the docs are impossible to relate to. One dude knows how it works and the tech debt is deep.

I'll take a Django project instead, thank you very much.

This is an age old discussion about appropriate abstraction.

I wonder if the person you're replying to is correct in but in a different way.

Since text files and excel sheets are "outdated", we don't stack them up against bloated webapp that Asana is.

What if, really, excel sheet can just work? Its like we get so wound up in existing status-quo, we get narrow vision and forget the larger domain space for solving problems.

It's like the guy that ran a bunch of ETL jobs on a Macbook Air faster than a Hadoop cluster. KISS is beautiful sometimes and eye-opening. When someone brings up a ridiculous "outdated" idea, I try to keep an open mind. May be... just maybe we're wrong about all this?

I think it just takes a really powerful single AGI that can convince other humans, impersonate them, do things that is super-human level and we can't even conceive it or imagine it (think how far a chimp is from AWS load balancer documentation), think 10,000,000 times smarter than any tactic or possibility we can currently imagine and then we're in for a ride.

It is actually quite terrifying to imagine yourself as sub-human. Equally, it is terrifying to think about super-human capabilities.

Yep, I have an emotional attachment to this thing. Such a magnificent piece of software. Everytime I need to edit something, it's right there for me. Launches instantly, can handle a kitchen sink thrown at it and regexes like there is no one's business. Multiple cursors is something that even god doesn't have. Not to mention, it is absolutely blazing fast. It doesn't betray me and stab me in the back with Micro$oft telemetry.

Sublime Text is like a finely crafted precision tool in the shop. Sure, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but it is undeniably a reliable tool and does what it is supposed to do well as you said.

You're forgiven :), cheers!

I meant the pronunciation, not the spelling.

Also, learning to forgive is a rare virtue these days. Entitlement and expection creates conflict. Learn to forgive others and you'll have a better time with everyone else. No one who even spells it as Ghandi means any malice or offense. So, it is a matter of technicality. Let go.

This is an unreasonable expectation. People should try but if they don't, there is no malice here.

There are many languages around the world and it is impossible to remember every nuance of how to pronounce things. Ghandi is common pronounciation even in Germany. The Japanese might pronounce it something else.

I urge you all to go back and look at how people discussed things on HN, perhaps 8 years ago and see how civil, well behaved, critical, funny and deeply interesting HN discussions were. Now-a-days, HN is extremely polarized. Go against the grain or mainstream narrative despite of deeply logical, rational post with sources? People will downvote you into submission.

We need to show some restraint towards extremely bright fully saturated colors, especially for text. Observe contrast and don't just go around cranking up the saturation slider. It's the HDR of website design, stop doing this please.

It’s like looking at the binary file and saying “that’s pretty simple” while ignoring the massive amount of machinery that allows us to run that file and use it (CPUs, Motherboards, computers, etc).

I presume a whole bunch goes into making vaccine and this is just the top of the iceberg.

I think Gen X are the finest, most practical, the most insightful generation of engineers. Sure, its is a generalization - of course it is - but it is worth noting how exceptional both the circumstances and the incentives were for them to lead us into the technological prowess.

From semiconductors to the internet, thanks folks. I have many mentors from this generation and I find a common thread of extreme discipline and rigor in their work - this is largely lost in my own generation (millenial).

Transfer of knowledge needs to be from prev to next gen. Unlike tutorials on YT teaching horrible practices, which is exactly the opposite. Experienced people from Gen X doesn't have the time, motivation, etc to go on YT with full blast click bait tutorials and compete with user engagement tactics. They write books. They're better than edu-entertainment IMO.

I know this is supposed to be retro but I use NPR text mode always. No pics, just text, its glorious.

https://text.npr.org/

Far easier to read since the length of the line is absolutely perfect. Pro tip: https://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html

That said - something is wrong with NPR, a bunch of Lorem Ipsum links :)

Let's put it this way. Just because we have zoos doesn't make those animals native. There is probably some threshold of self sustainance and propagation in the region to call it native, after many centuries I would presume.

More to read here :)

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

> A lot of it is just garden-variety right-wing freemarketism, with all due respect;

I have no horse in this race but can exactly the same thing can be said about your own response? Garden-variety of ineffective left-wing agenda that hasn’t worked, with all due respect, of-course.

When arguing, I recommend not using sweeping statements like this, even when you mean no harm. It is a shallow dismissal.

Why a snarky response to a harmless question? The person asking the question didn’t say anything about US expertise or Egyptian expertise.

It’s considered condescending to send help in dire situations?

Damn, everyone is on the edge these days.

You shouldn't be interrupting people unless they go to unreasonable lengths without providing a pause for others to chime in.

It needs to go in the reverse direction to correct. We need less opinions than ever.

These are not common enough words to lean into. Corporate speak will just incorporate them into the new normal and we're going to have to pivot to something else. How about we streamline to just basic english words that encourage open communication?

I was mostly mocking how fast JS ecosystem moves. Evidently, HN didn't find it funny. Just about the time we have a matured React framework, we've got another framework to jump to.

Ridiculous Arm-chair Concept:

- What if we make a 1 meter wall thick lead / steel container and seal the waste in and leave it? Surely nothing can break it, not even an earthquake. Just make a giant tennis court sized containers and dump stuff in there. We know how to build bridges, surely we can build large containers.

Just want to learn, I am sure this is proposed and would love to know why its a stupid idea.

Ah yes, Svelte. What we're witnessing is a mass migration from an established society with great infrastructure, education, governance and stability moving to a barren uninhabitable land of opportunity and unlimited possibilities albeit full of traps, broken pipes, dangerous bugs and vicious wildlife. Troves-full are jumping on these new bandwagons, cramming themselves in, clueless but hopeful from the allure of a far promised land of the wild wild west.

More than gov, I am bothered by HOAssholes in our community. These people are the worst, the most empty people on the planet. Being part of the HOA leadership doesn't mean you're an emperor of this land that I paid for.

I would kill to get out in the country side and buy my own piece of land without HOA.

Makes me angry just thinking about this.