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escaper | 2 years ago | on: Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US

What are you even talking about? EV's require far less ongoing maintenance than ICE cars and if you have charging at home, you're not stopping for gas all the time in the middle of errands etc. There are almost never "bugs" and if there are, most are taken care of by over-the-air updates whereas any problem in an ICE car requires you to go to a dealership.

My experience has been that 99% of EV owners I've talked to say they'll never buy another ICE vehicle.

escaper | 2 years ago | on: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

My man what is your beef with Paris? Now it's evil?!

escaper | 2 years ago | on: Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer

Can we stop calling companies with 1,500+ employees and millions in revenue "startups". At what point does the shine wear off and they just become medium-sized companies like any other?

escaper | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Prettiest Free Domain

Just buy a domain and register it for like 10 years you cheapskate...

escaper | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Duffel (YC S18) – A faster way to sell flights

So in your effort to "break down barriers in the travel industry" you've effectively created new, higher financial barriers for travel customers?

escaper | 3 years ago | on: Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation

What specific communities have gotten more fun for you since Elon took over and what is making them more fun? Genuinely curious.

escaper | 3 years ago | on: Narcissistic Collapse

Worst take on this possible but okay.

escaper | 3 years ago | on: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

God how can I downvote this. Did you even read what the OP said? So in this case the "dissidents" are people that appreciate incremental change, like their opinions to be valued in their respective field of expertise, and possibly appreciate being able to work from home?

escaper | 3 years ago | on: Coinbase and Google Cloud

It's honestly stunning things like this are still being announced.

escaper | 3 years ago | on: Crypto lending company Babel Finance halts redemptions and withdrawals

What's one "defi" project that is both doing fine and providing consumers any type of actual value?

escaper | 4 years ago | on: Intel unveils BonanzaMine, a Bitcoin accelerator ASIC

Good god did someone drink the kool-aid... please explain succinctly what "problem" is being solved by a handful of wealthy individuals using all of the world's GPU power to mine numbers for mostly unusable currency...

escaper | 4 years ago | on: The single best interview question you can ask (2021)

I love this response. If someone asked me that I'd feel like it was a "sir, this is a Wendy's" moment.

escaper | 4 years ago | on: Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

So what's the answer then. I see a lot of "this doesn't work because x or y" but no one has any answers. The fact is, it's a lot better to police thousands of pieces of dangerous misinformation than to hide a few legitimate pieces. Like everything else, it's a trade-off.

escaper | 6 years ago | on: Cocoon – A New Social Network

Exactly what I was looking for- these days you can't claim anything is "private" without backing it up technically.

escaper | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

I get that it's probably "trendy" to say you don't have or need a website but with it being so easy to create a static page, I'm failing to understand why you wouldn't just do that, which is already the bare minimum, if you care about your project and want to sell it?

escaper | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How is there not a full-featured open-source PDF editor/viewer?

Yeah that's sort of the article that lead me to post here- like I tried to say in my title, there's not really a true "full featured" PDF editor/viewer that does everything.

There doesn't seem to be a GIMP to Photoshop type of product for PDF as far as I've seen.

escaper | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How is there not a full-featured open-source PDF editor/viewer?

Ha, if only! Perhaps my post will inspire a few brilliant programmers here!

escaper | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How is there not a full-featured open-source PDF editor/viewer?

I'm not even asking for that much really- split, merge, compress, convert from various formats, rearrange pages, work decent with e-signatures, and have options to create interactive fields. I've used quite a few of the "free trial" software from the big names and it's astonishing to me that there isn't an open source project that can accomplish all of this.

escaper | 7 years ago | on: InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

100% not MS Paint or Paint.net...

Tell her to download Adobe XD, it's free right now and that's the standard in the industry.

#3, I wouldn't call that dragdrop but at this point, it'd make more sense for her to learn a vector program for the things that Adobe XD can't do. That would require Illustrator and would be a better use of her time.

For #4 you will have to have a good understanding of HTML to be able to do anything with CSS- that has to be the foundation before she learns CSS.

escaper | 7 years ago | on: CSS Micro Reset

You don't need to reset things you won't use... then proceeds to reset tables, table properties, and iframe borders? This is the most nonsensical thing I've seen on here. Also resetting all h elements to weight normal when they're the most likely elements to have non-normal weights.