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jaydoukenon Dead Startup Toys (2021)

Some of these are obviously stupid and deserve to be ridiculed, but I don’t think this site needs to be as hard on the “one laptop per child” one as they are. That seemed like a well-intentioned product designed to do good in the world, not everything ends up working out.

jaydoukenon The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, styled like a newspaper

This is awesome! Love the idea, do you intend to make this a bigger project?

jaydoukenon On Resigning from Google

That same argument justifies slavery because it was legal, since slavery makes profits. Your argument is also subject to the ad-hominem logical fallacy [1], and does not actually counter the idea that Google is harming society and that employees should contribute their efforts elsewhere. Additionally, this appears to be the author's attempt to change society, to the greatest extent they can do that is unique to them. They do however, volunteer extensively, in their "Beyond Google" section, weakening a significant part of your ad-hominem argument.

Overall, the author is right in trying to promote people to leave Google, as remaining quiet weakens the whole point of them leaving.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

jaydoukenon Social perception bias might be an emergent property of our social networks

A related an interesting resource: https://ncase.me/crowds/

jaydoukenon The Plain Text Project

Wow, this might actually be what I need! Thanks!

jaydoukenon The Plain Text Project

Is it possible to use VIM as a text editor in the terminal with SN? Or are users required to use a text editors supported by SN? This seems like an application I'm looking for but I can't ditch my vimrc and plugins

jaydoukenon iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

How's the SE treating you in 2019? Trying to switch from Pixel to iPhone, but don't want to drop significant money until USB-C, which is rumored in 2020. Figured an SE might be good for me until then

jaydoukenon Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control

This looks really cool, might have to start using it!

jaydoukenon Librem One – A growing bundle of ethical services

This is something that I've noticed too. I really want to like this but they are claiming to charge people for apps that they don't own and are already free. If they said that they simply take care of all complicated hosting or simplified the process I'd be more optimistic about this.

jaydoukenon Disney heir calls on company to give 50% of exec bonus to lowest-paid employees

IIRC, there was an article on HN a few months back about how she's given away tons and tons of money, more than anyone into her family. She seemed to be a good person in her interview, but I can't find the link.

jaydoukenon Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

Thank you so much for posting that list, somehow it slipped under my radar. Great suggestions!