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jgmmo··on Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy
Reddit has a very bad antisemitism problem. It's a cesspool.

By no means is reddit 'the model'. In practically any sub except the explicitly Jewish ones, I will find an avalanche of antisemitism on any post that touches on Judaism/Israel/Jews.

jgmmo··on Let's Make Amazon into a Dumb Pipe
they can't; thats how you authenticate you are purchasing the right book for classes, etc.
jgmmo··on When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
Man this whole interaction really makes you guys look incompetent DHowett
jgmmo··on Am I too old to become a professional programmer?
"culture fit" is how corp america dodges people for all those racist, sexist, bigoted reasons, without having to say it.
jgmmo··on Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses
which is also, itself, inaccurate
jgmmo··on How I learned French in 12 months (2020)
I second this. Michel Thomas french CD's are awesome. I don't like the other languages they offer as much, but the french lessons by Michel himself are the BEST language program I've ever heard.
jgmmo··on How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR
bootstrap = on your own. That's it.

You had some seed funding.

jgmmo··on The genius of John von Neumann
I have had this great book for 10+ years, and still find it fascinating it's called "Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb". I try to re-read it on occasion. It's half John von Neumann biography and half subject matter history.

Call him an unhinged lunatic if you want photochemsyn; but I consider him a super genius.

Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma

jgmmo··on A former Marine was pulled over for tailgating. Police took $87,000
Was this guy trying to buy a house for cash? whys he driving with 87k? He's a sitting duck for the po-po
jgmmo··on Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres
why? that was first thing I thought when Bezos said he was giving Van Jones the prize... 'what... a CNN commentator? that's like giving Sean Hannity free money...'
jgmmo··on Launch HN: Enso (YC S21) – Visual programming and workflow automation tool
No offense intended, but I hate the name.

I was a huge fan of the Enso program launcher made by Humanized back in the day. Aza Raskin I think it was. I got so excited when I saw this said Enso, but alas..

jgmmo··on Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of nanopore DNA sequencers
Note - this is NOT about whole genome sequencing.
jgmmo··on College Students Are Pissed They Wasted Money on a Covid Semester from Hell
Count me in on this. Colleges are a joke right now. I went back to school to fill in maths for grad school, and it's a shit-show right now.

You get better education on YouTube. what do we do now that the standard professor trying to teach remote is worse than youtube?

Paying thousands a semester only to end up using all free resources to actually learn.

One of these days we'll fire 90% of them, and then we can all learn from the top 10%.

Youtube, plus Kahn academy, plus openmit

/rant

jgmmo··on What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco
This. I expected the 'Remote Hires' section would discuss why they needed a local dev, and why a virtual/home-based hire would not work. This section should have been named 'Outsourcing' - since that is what they actually discuss in that paragraph.

Indeed, hiring a fulltime offsite employee is very different from outsourcing to a 3rd party.

jgmmo··on Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
Yeah you did a very cursory, cosmetic look at the site and judged it by its subject matter and web design choices.

If you would've bothered to look under the hood, you would see that they reference tons of scientific sources and provide a level of transparency and knowledge-base to the sports supplement industry that is unrivaled.

To be clear, There is no other site nearly as good as Examine for this subject matter.

jgmmo··on Show HN: I'm building a robot that cuts hair, starting with beard trims [video]
why not just buzz it yourself?

A good buzzer is like 35 bucks in a kit, and then you get hundreds of 'free' buzzes, literally anytime you want. Plus no fear of a robot slitting your throat.

jgmmo··on Passion is self-centered crap. Find your Ikigai
I was also eager to hear out the author after that first paragraph, and was surprised to find there was no second...
jgmmo··on Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website
I agree, I use Startpage.com

That said, looks like most of the US does not feel the same way about Google. I still see 90-99% of organic traffic coming from Google for my client sites.

jgmmo··on Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website
yeah but then how do you get organic traffic?
jgmmo··on The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers
It's a big racket to give free money to accountants and TurboTax. No reason we need any of this craziness, just let me pay a flat rate and do my taxes on a postcard.
jgmmo··on The science of Destiny 2's 'uniquely complicated' netcode
The game limits multiplayer interaction big time. It's no more than 3 parties allowed in an instance at any one time, and that's where a single person can count as a party. So really how tough does the netcode be when you really just have instance based coop.

PVP is basically csgo in space. Not too many people on each team. Only 2 teams. Etc.

As an aside, as a gamer - terribly displeased with destiny 2. Huge dissappointment. Mostly because of it's multiplayer and communicated drawbacks.

jgmmo··on Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped NSA Its Tools Had Been Breached
Yes. All antiviruses do this. It's one of the major streams of malware samples, and for the company I use to work for -- the most important source -- because those are authenticated as being on real customers machines!
jgmmo··on Cloud Firestore: A New Document Database for Apps
How is this different than using datastore?
jgmmo··on Slouching Towards Biloxi: Joan Didion on Life in America's South
Should put 1970 in title. It seems to be a republishing of a work created in 1970.
jgmmo··on EasyDNS refuses to host The DailyStormer domain
When lies cause harm to others they are usually a type of fraud. Those are crimes.

Edit: I'm talking 'real' harm. The kind you could sue someone for, with real actual damages. Not simply emotional distress or inconvenience.

jgmmo··on EasyDNS refuses to host The DailyStormer domain
So because laws are not perfect, and have at times in the past illustrated issues in our society, because they are the result of a long-term evolution, they can not be trusted? Ever?

Do you not think that in the long-run that our law will make all that is universally agreed to be unethical and harmful to others also illegal?

What I'm saying is law marches in the direction of ever improving it's fit to society. You seem to throw that out the window and think of law as some unrelated and untrustable thing.

jgmmo··on EasyDNS refuses to host The DailyStormer domain
I read this whole thing, unfortunately, to try and find the 'immiment threat of harm' and found none. This article is not a good example of what you claim I see no reason this should be seen as a threat of imminent violence. Simply saying 'so-and-so should get punched' is not, to me, a credible, real threat. Just some troll mouthing off.

Edit: that's like saying all the people who say on Twitter 'trump needs a punch to the face' are committing hate speech?

jgmmo··on EasyDNS refuses to host The DailyStormer domain
"don't want to live in a world where people feel comfortable doing whatever they want as long as it's legal."

Lol why not? Sounds like freedom.

jgmmo··on Coding Boot Camps Get the Boot: Why the Industry Is Shutting Down
University education is absolutely an overcrowded space. Most colleges do not live up to their cost. Students are starting to notice and choose other options.

It's also well known theres too many law schools and too many lawyers. It's a bad market to enter into now.

jgmmo··on EasyDNS refuses to host The DailyStormer domain
You clearly don't get it.
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