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caradine | 1 year ago | on: Has the decline of knowledge work begun?

Nonsensical take. Quick question: What scarce resource is it that knowledge workers hoard? If a knowledge worker acquires knowledge does that mean they've reduced the pool of knowledge available to others? It's not at all the same as hoarding capital or property, is it? Anyway, all labor is knowledge work. The plumber has specialized knowledge that the software engineer does not, and we all sell our bodies and minds.

caradine | 3 years ago | on: The Roof Always Caves In: Why there is nothing wrong with being doomed

As a non-religious person descended from Mennonites, I felt something strong when she said:

> I have always believed that one of the great arguments for being part of a collectivist Christian tradition is their willingness to do voluntary, gruelling manual labour and call it love.

However, I was disappointed that the piece concluded in an evangelical call to action, littered with evangelical buzzwords I've heard a hundred times:

> ... tremendous opportunity ... foster community ... in the midst of this fear of our own vulnerability ... Our neighbours ... needing language for the pain ... searching for meaning ... tell them the truth

As a transgender person, I know that the community they want to foster comes with way too many conditions.

caradine | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do HN feel so negatively about Musk?

Tesla and the electric car industry is a scam. More car-dependency won't save our environment. Instead, we are just digging giant holes in the ground for lithium using slave labor.

Space X is just the privatization of NASA, and the promise of a Mars colony is nothing more than a marketing tactic, or possibly an unrealistic backup plan for a small number of billionaires (probably not you) when our planet fully combusts.

caradine | 3 years ago | on: DFlex – JavaScript framework for drag and drop apps

It's true that the HTML drag and drop API is pretty limited for more complex interactions. I recently did a lot of searching for a drag and drop library for a board game I'm working on and almost went with DFlex. I decided to go with DnD Kit because of its powerful React API. However, I'm very glad there's a vanilla JS solution as well with DFlex.

caradine | 3 years ago | on: Can the American mall survive?

Yeah, exactly. There aren't many places to just enjoy existing and walking around in public in most U.S. cities because we've built most of our cities around automobiles. U.S. cities consist of islands to hop between in a sea of traffic, instead of places to just be. Malls satisfy that very human need. Dense, walkable, neighborhoods also satisfy that need.

caradine | 3 years ago | on: Can the American mall survive?

I hope not. Malls exist to satisfy people's need to walk around in their environment in our otherwise un-walkable cities. Maybe without malls, we will start to demand more walkable areas in our cities and towns.

caradine | 3 years ago | on: Remotely Controlled Lawn Tractor

No mention of how it handles obstacles; sticks, rocks, holes, small animals, etc. I mowed lawns for several years as a teenager using riding mowers similar to this. I can't count the number of times I had to stop, get off, move a stick so it doesn't jam the blades, move a rock so it doesn't get flung into a nearby window...or even just slow down because the grass was too thick for the mower to handle. It strikes me as having some of the same issues my robot vacuum has. When I have to constantly get it unstuck from a lamp cord or a loose rug, it starts to become more trouble than it's worth.

caradine | 3 years ago | on: The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger

The "meaner" look isn't just about aesthetics, but about physical size, which is increasing. The MacBook analogy seems flawed because the change in the design of the MacBook doesn't actually make it harder for me to avoid killing pedestrians while using it.

caradine | 3 years ago | on: Flânerie: The Art of Aimless Strolling

> The flâneur is traditionally depicted as male and is a figure of urban affluence and modernity since he has the free time and ability to wander detached from society, with no other purpose than to observe contemporary society with keen interest.

I used to walk around a lot on the weekends with no destination in mind. However, after my transition from male to female, I realized the truth of this quote from the article. This sort of aimless strolling is mostly available to men. Although I still enjoy walking around, and prefer to live in a walkable city, I usually have a destination in mind. Invisibility in public space is no longer afforded to me. Now I am a target for eyes and unsolicited comments, and occasionally aggressive behavior. The heightened awareness of risks to my safety has somewhat diminished the joy of flânerie for me.

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