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This comment was very informative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999791

Could you elaborate on why it doesn't work? That first example looks like a lovely place to live, at least compared to most urban landscapes... As long as it isn't far away from more lively areas.

Uh, yeah, that's worrisome. I'm guessing ad networks themselves could also go to Brave, if Brave gets enough users...

You're right that this is "problematic", but your initial description of "Brave replacing ads with their own", while technically correct, leaves out any subtlety. They might me misguided, but this doesn't looks as malicious...

I've used it briefly on desktop, and use it daily on my phone. Can you please share more info on this? Are you refering to this https://brave.com/about_ad_replacement.html? Are they already doing this, or are these just plans?

It's my understanding that they replace them with ads from their own network, but revenue still goes to the publisher.

> Idea finds evidence in its favor[...] Shouldn't conclusions be drawn from all evidence?

Actually, idea finds new evidence. It was already drawn from evidence (I don't know how solid), and now it has more evidence.

> working hours have no significant upward trend. [...] More people simply don't work.

Just curious: Do those graphics take into account the people that don't work as 0h? or has the working hours not gone up among those who do work?

> Looks like that protestant work ethic/capitalism/etc is working pretty well for us.

Judging by economic growth and consumption, may be. And those might be good metrics.

But are you happier for it? Are you enjoying the rewards of your hard work?

Not trying to imply you aren't, by the way. And I say "you" because I'm a westerner, but not from the anglosaxon sphere and I don't see quite the same work ethic around me, although not too different either.

I'm not a great fan of The School of Life, but I like the mind behind it, Alain de Botton. Care to elaborate on what kind of undertone you see in their videos?

Isn't it also true that in Scandinavia religion started losing ground earlier and faster than in the rest of the West? As far as I know, religion is barely relevant for most scandinavians (apart from the influence it has had on all western culture, of course), whereas it still greatly influences the worldview of most americans.

May be protestantism is the origin of this kind of work ethics, probably exacerbated by american history (colonising a new world, carving a new place for themselves in a barely-known land...).

Also catholic-raised, but from my understanding Calvino very strongly defended discipline and hard work over faith. In contrast, catholicism places a greater emphasis on... well, not sinning.

> "Exhibiting homeostasis of some sort" is not a very high bar for evidence of life, otherwise every corporation is biologically alive

But that doesn't disqualify homeostasis as evidence of life, as corporations don't emerge except when living creatures create them.

Anyway, as I understood it, homeostasis is by definition a quality of living beings. Many things have a tendency towards an equilibrium, and of course that doesn't have to have anything to do with life.

Am I misunderstanding the claim?

These are the most salient differences in my experience with both:

- Apart from saving the parsed, "readable" version of an article, it can also save the web as-it-is. This is very useful for those times when the formatting is important (as it is in articles that include code; you loose syntax-highlighting with the readable view. Pocket can be set to try and choose the best view for each article.

- It does a great job with videos.

- It uses tags instead of folders.

- Instapaper has been less reliable for me (specially the android app), although in fairness I've used it more, so I'd notice it's unreliability more often.

I'm not that interested in recommendations, but I gotta admit that the few times I've looked at them, Pocket's recommendations were fairly good.

I've been using Instapaper for around two years now, keeping Pocket as a bag of less-important links, not-really-reading-material, and very often video. I was thinking of going back to Pocket as my main read-it-later service, specially for the first feature I mentioned.

It being Mozilla-owned and some day also OSS will surely be a further advantage in my mind.

I've played a bit with terminals on Android, but I only had real success using ssh. This seems very convenient, I'll play around with termux, thanks!

BTW, I'm unable to access /storage/emulated/0, it seems Termux doesnt have permission (and the app doesnt list it in its permissions). Is your phone rooted?

They are there. At least CTRL+{A,E,U} are.

Sadly, that isn't as powerful as what our comment-ancestors do with Karabiner. Such an accessible and prominent key as Caps Lock is, IMHO, wasted if only used for ESC; using it both for Control when in combinations and ESC when alone makes the most sense.

I use Caps Lock for Cmd or Ctrl, depending on which keyboard I'm using, and <Leader><Leader> for Escape on Vim.

I don't know where I got this idea from, but I also use <Leader>w to exit to normal mode and save. It's so ingrained in me, that when I use other editors very often I have "Unexpected token" errors because of a ",w" in the middle of the code.

What tech sites would you consider to be still good, or the least bad?

I'm very curious: Don't you miss Vim? After using it for years, doesn't editing code in anything else feel wrong?

I'm all day switching between VSCode and Vim. VSCode's support for my toolset (nodejs, es6, jsx, flowtype, mustachejs...) is fantastic, but even with the (fairly good) Vim plugin, I miss Vim. Whenever something doesn't work in Vimified-VSCode as I expect, it breaks my brain and my focus a bit.

What's so great in VSCode that you abandoned something that, I imagine, was embedded in your head already?

I'm usually on the apple-defending side of this discusion, but: "MBP wins in disk speed and battery" doesn't match "there is no alternative in any price bracket".

For the same price, other laptops seem to offer more power, in exchange for less battery and a few other niceties.

I'm writing this from a MBP (magsafe-and-escape-key mbp) that I love. To me, it makes no sense to say "Macbooks are just like these windows pcs but way more expensive", but neither does saying "there is no alternative to a MBP".

A lot of laptops are competing. Some of them are premium, expensive machines, with high price tags and nice features and quality. The macbook is one of them, with its own set of unique advantages, but also compromises. Some people think they are the best. That's it.

I would actually say that, to an extent, the masses are wise. Often they care more than we do about experience and reliabity. What good does it make to me if my phone has a micro-kernel architecture?

Of course, on the other hand, the "masses" should care a tad more about security.

I don't think they are. I think "Aboriginal helpless in Manhattan" means that any skill you may have is dependant on environment, is an specialization, and you shouldn't judge a fish by its cycle-riding skills.

> put a new screen on my laptop

What laptop do you have where the screen is upgradeable? Or are you talking about doing it with a standard laptop, opening it up and replacing the panel? Is that usually viable with laptops?

The main reason I prefer my current MBP to my previous Toshiba Portege is, tbh, that the screen is not a shitty 1360x768. I never even thought about replacing it.

Some companies will require you to use a signature with an image and particular formatting. Also, tackiness is in the eye of the beholder.

If you think they are so nefarious a company, why do you trust them with your files?

I don't think so. I'm a somewhat-novice react dev, and for me, even in my first projects, setting stuff up was about a day. It's true though that during the next few weeks you'll have to tweak things while yo start to work on "real code".

I imagine your parent didn't literally spend two whole weeks just on that, but I might be wrong if he's very thorough.

In any case, the configuration of all the parts of the "canonical react stack" (let's not forget, react could be used without all of this junk too) is a pain, but I hope once you get the hang of it you can just reuse and don't think about it so much.

Thanks, I knew it wasn't new but didn't think it was so old.

He only mentions Clojure in passing. At some point I decided that, were I to learn a functional language, it would be Clojure. How would you say Clojure fits in this comparison? Is it only relevant or interesting for concurrency?

It is not only true of women, but it's specially true for them.

If a work mate is a member of the Jewish/Mormon/atheist minority, I may not even know. And if I know, it's easier to forget. If I am a man (and I am), I am not gonna forget that the person next to me is a woman.

It may be also true of, for instance, rate. There was no black people, and very few Asian and Latin American, where I studied and in most companies I've worked for.

I, of course, don't consider myself a bigot (who does), but I guess I'm as likely to hold that kind of bias against black people than woman. Or significantly more, since I have worked with several women, and I have never worked with a black person (obviously not American).

Worked as a .net dev for ~3 years, and I loved VS, but it had its share of random problems too. I remember it flipping out and suddenly consuming a shitload of CPU and RAM for no apparent reason, even working on fairly small projects. It was nearly impossible to work with it until I switched to a more powerful PC.

Is it really fair to say xCode is not a successful tool? A lot of people use it, and I don't hear enough complains about it.

And what is the most common tool for Android development? I assumed it'd be Android Studio by now, is everyone still on Eclipse?

Beauty comes in very different forms. Not all beautiful paintings are pleasing and peaceful fields for flowers; IMHO, something can be dark, strange, even scary, and still beautiful. E.g.: The Garden of Earthly Delights[1], or It Follows[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights [2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/

(Somewhat off-topic, sorry)

This book does an interesting thing:

> For each chapter (and occasionally for individual sections), I indicate the experience level. The chapters progress through levels A1, L1, A2, L2, A3, L3.

The number is the expertise level, from junior to expert; A stands for Application developer, L for Library developer.

I often find myself unsure about wheter a book or text is intended for the kind of user I am for whatever the topic is. Skimming through a book trying to identify what parts you should focus is not always easy.

Do you know of other books that do this kind of thing?

IANAL, but national origin and citizenship are two different things.