Huawei isn’t a threat to national security. Consumer computer software is not a threat to national security. This is a justification for a trade war the president and his advisors want to engage in.
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Are you sure it's not your reading habits that have changed? For example, I wake up and check my RSS reader (feedbin) where I subscribe to hundreds of individual blogs (many powered by WordPress). Actually this article was in my feed because I subscribe to HN RSS with a "Blog" keyword filter!
I don't have numbers but my anecdotal experience is that more blog articles I read are on WP blogs than not. Ghost is probably the other major platform I see along with static site generators.
Combine that with the fact that most of the software industry does not care about correctness or stable software and generally lacks professionalism. "Just ship this half-assed software as soon as possible" is the attitude at the majority of software companies.
Let’s divide the things that earn money from the things that cost money. Some of those things you can own. If they are a thing you own but cost money and you plan to consume it (house, car, food) it’s a liability. If they are thing you own that earns money or you plan on selling for profit it’s an asset.
A home could be an asset, but they usually aren’t. People don’t buy homes to sell them at a profit or rent them out, they buy them to consume/live in them (like a car). Thus they’re a liability. Most people buy a mortgage not a home, so no the house they live in is definitely not their asset. It’s the banks asset, and their mortgage is a huge liability.
An asset it something that makes you money, like rental income from rental properties, profit from a business or investment, stocks, or bonds.
A liability is something that costs you money. A house to live in, apartment, a car, healthcare, food, etc.
The idea that spending money to buy a home is “building wealth” is incredibly stupid. It’s bad advice for everyone but a real estate agent.
Pretty sad that providing an excellent service that customers love is seen as a bad thing, especially on HN. Sad bitter people celebrating the thought of Google being punished for being at the top of their game... get a life.
Don’t listen to most of the comments here, they’ve been brainwashed into fear and subservience to their employer.
Why the fuck should I help the owner get rich by identifying how to grow their business by increasing conversion, retention, etc.? I don’t benefit at all.
At my current company we have weekly meetings where the owners tell us all the business metrics we should be driving and ask for ideas on how to increase them. I’ve learned to say “I don’t have any specific ideas right now.” because it’s insulting they expect me to do their work and get nothing for it.
Both Paul and Matthew would be more helpful by providing advice to effectively deal with one’s situation in order to found a company. That would be valuable, instead of engaging in adversity olympics which is what most of Twitter seems to be nowadays.
Eating soy every day has no effect on sexual health or testosterone either.
It’s easy to sit on the sidelines and complain other people are making too much money. Remember that CEOs making less wont result in employees making more.
Maybe it’s just me, but HN lately seems dominated by whiny/complaining articles that don’t really contribute any knowledge or enhance our lives.
Wouldn’t it be better to focus on how one could become a CEO rather than knee jerk reactions to people making lots of money?
Very interesting how much the author focuses on this one weekend retreat of sitting around, and not on his admitted long term use of experimental mind altering antipsychotic drugs.
This sounds like commonly reported withdrawal symptoms (aka freaking the fuck out) from long term use of very very powerful poorly understood drugs.
I’m not trying to prove a point except this: People who have no regard to dietary DHA and consume no fish don’t exhibit any of the problems claimed in articles and by nutritionists. I’ve been vegan for 20 years for example and my skin is fine, I don’t supplement DHA, I don’t have dementia or other health problems.
This contrasts pretty strongly with homocysteine/B12 deficiency or iron deficiency. There’s no good evidence that a clinical syndrome of DHA deficiency even exists. Whenever I dig into studies serum levels are all over the place.
There’s quite a lot to be suspect of here. The conclusions drawn from our limited understanding of fatty acid metabolism just doesn’t match reality.
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Humans survive on quite a wide range of dietary fat sources and composition. I stopped supplementing with fish oil after realizing there’s lots of “science” and few facts.
The only thing you should have done was tell your boss to fuck himself and get another job. That’s it. No need for a 2000 word blog post. No need for a “protest”.
Censoring will just draw more attention and traffic. What’s really unsettling is that GitHub is playing politics with its users, without even informing them or communicating with them. You would think they would have the courtesy to tell the owner.
I think the reason you see this in SaaS is that it’s a marketing tactic. There’s an overlap between their customers and software developers or online marketers.
It’s clearly off topic according to HN guidelines:
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I really wouldn’t worry about one of the most obese countries in the entire world lacking for calories and protein.