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OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Airbnb and security camera disclosure

I can't imagine a company not mining the info from support for exactly these kind of improvements as a standard operating procedure; it's a gold mine of information, anyone ignoring it doesn't really care about the quality of their product.

OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?

If you want to bring complex applications to market quickly then use .net Core for the backend, Vue for the front end, Postgres for the db server.

We researched this to death recently and unless you have prior affinity or are saddled with technical debt the time has come to ditch React, Angular and Node for new from scratch development.

OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Western lifestyle may cause blood pressure to rise with age

Yup, good science shows that potassium is far more important than people seem to generally realize but people have been so busy demonizing salt for so long that it's sunk into the collective consciousness of all those people who don't care to keep up on the good quality science being done in the area of nutrition lately. (There's a lot of crappy "studies" being done in this area which are unfortunately diluting the facts). Potassium is also the link between high vegetable intake and proven health benefits, not necessarily the vegetables themselves and you can get that potassium in other ways without having to eat like a cow every day.

OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Western lifestyle may cause blood pressure to rise with age

Because there isn't any proof of such a link? High blood pressure goes hand in hand with low potassium intake and many people don't eat enough potassium rich foods.

People keep trying to push their anti meat morality by finding all sorts of made up reasons why its an issue but good science is firmly unable to prove all those myriad of made up fear mongering links.

OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker

I think you're vastly underestimating the enormous pressures that will be put to bear on solving literally every other problem if it means even the possibility of eliminating a majority of the drivers entirely and their huge cost to the bottom line which in modern days is placed almost literally above all other aspects of the business even to the detriment of the fundamental service being provided as long as it's bearable by the market.

OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Young people don’t want construction jobs

The end game used to be wealthy retirement because it paid extremely well. And on a side note people's bodies can and do handle that kind of manual labour for 40+ years. Not all of course, some get hurt, some are not cut out for it, but go to any manual work site and you will see older people in their 50's and 60's still in excellent physical shape doing it and younger people doing the really hard shitty jobs since time immemorial.

OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Young people don’t want construction jobs

I think companies have enjoyed historically high profits for a long time now and are simply loath to give that up. What is a reasonable, sustainable level of profit that benefits everyone? It's certainly not what we've seen for the last decade at least. Profits are sky high and wages are deeply stagnant. I've run my own company for decades and I can tell you there isn't a business person alive who will willingly say in public "we're making excellent profits" no matter the situation it's always doom and gloom and the taxes are too high and the wages are too high and there aren't enough qualified candidates etc.
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