bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Does this bother anyone else?
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bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: We need to talk about your GitHub addiction
I love reading articles that approach my convictions in bizarre ways. Helps me hone my arguments.
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Yes, Lab-Grown Meat Is Vegan
I look forward to lab grown human meat but I imagine the impending legal battles over it put it many years off
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Dancing is stupid
Tbh I love when people drag me into something I’m reluctant to get involved in
When it’s time to dance sometimes I feign disinterest or shyness, just for the attention
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: When2meet.com helps you find the best time for a group to meet
Misleading name: sounds like dating site.
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: You can’t bribe, threaten, or feed people to get them back in the office
Was the soap dispenser sensor built in zoom meetings? Otherwise maybe this doesn’t demonstrate diversity’s essential utility, eg in discussion of remote work’s merits, but merely its application to certain cases
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Commuting is a ‘liminal space’ where you can ‘psychologically recover’ from work
If we can psychologically recover from work does that not mean work causes psychological injury?
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: The language of labouring reveals its tortured roots (2013)
Excerpted from the book ‘Did You Know “Nice” Used to Mean “Stupid” and Other Ways Etymologists Will Waste Your Time’
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: MN University President, "Muslim students supersede academic freedom”
Kinda clickbaity
They walked back that statement
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Calling all web developers: here’s why you should be using Firefox
From 2018
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: A DIY Coder Created a Virtual AI 'Wife' Using ChatGPT
The article never explains what makes a coder a “DIY coder”
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Liu Cixin's Technologies of the Future
Too good
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Would it be immoral to “use” a job as a cash cow for your own startup?
What do you mean by only purpose? Your room and board are covered? No debts? Nothing regular like prescriptions to pay for?
If you have no other need for the money, I don’t think it’s an issue of morality but rather efficiency. Don’t take the job - better to spend time improving the startup and finding investors.
And if you do have non-startup expenses well then this conversation is a non-starter. You need money to live. Doesn’t matter if you treat the job as only temporary.
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What’s your way to get rid of a hangover?
A walk outside in the cold fresh air followed by a big bowl of miso soup. Won’t cure it but facilitates the recovery process, especially if you’re a puker, like I am.
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Dark Sky users can use the Apple Weather app
Still no historical weather data.
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to start a public identity from scratch in late 2022?
Think about it this way. Most ideas are garbage. But people are always looking for good ideas. If your ideas can’t hack it in the local scene, that’s to everyone’s benefit that only a small local audience has to deal with your rubbish. But if you rush your ideas to the global audience, you’re adding to a huge trash pile. Even if your ideas are good at this point, you are still going to need boosters in order for them to be found - and when they’re not you’re contributing to the burying of good ideas. That’s why you should start in the local community.
On a more personal note. If you think you community sucks, change it. Easier said than done, I know, but the alternative, resignation such as you have displayed, is repulsive.
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: I can't paste a password into the form
Pasting works on mobile. Also rather inconvenient, but…
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Realization: A web without brackets is the better web – folding all brackets
On mobile, perhaps? I’m guessing the website is not accessible.
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Digital currencies may be fundamentally unsound
Not a very good title for the article which doesn’t do much but summarize the hypothetical use cases and the risks.
Does OP derive revenue from all the ads in that article?
bananarchist | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to start a public identity from scratch in late 2022?
Go to your city council meetings and volunteer with your local homeless services providers. Write regularly to your local newspapers if there are any, and be active on Nextdoor. Go to local events like parades, markets and festivals and make sure you introduce yourself to local business owners and other community leaders. In each of these venues, present the you that you want known.
If the necessary events and such are lacking in your community, start organizing the types of events you would want to attend.
Oh wait do you mean by “public identity” that you’re looking to get internet famous?
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Not to say I enjoy retyping a complex 15-character password for having answered a phone call or refilled my mug.