kev_da_dev's comments

How is disabling purchases and broker-wide outages not bolstering hedge funds?

It's government intervention no matter how you look at it. Just because it's not a direct capital infusion does not make it any less bad

mate why didn't Mueller arrest him then

"Russiagate", as I perceive it, refers to the four-year narrative pushed by the collective media that Donald Trump himself colluded with Russians in order to steal the 2016 election, among other things.

Taxpayers funded a multi-month, multi-millionaire special counsel to investigate these claims. Nothing came of it.

The entire western world is getting blasted by the 2nd wave of the pandemic. Germany, France, the UK, Spain, Italy. The list goes on & on.

Please explain to me how this is "not normal"

People want to complain about the polarization of middle america, but it's mostly BS. What you see online or on the news is not at all indicative of these areas. By that, I mean, these areas are not swarming with people who "refused the fruits of the lessons" of NYC and other places. And I've met VERY few, if any, who thought that NY et. al somehow deserved the pandemic spread.

Where are you getting this information from, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm not sure where you're getting your facts from, but I've been travelling all throughout the MidWest and the South for work this past year. Most people are plenty concerned about Covid, wear masks, etc. It's a highly contagious disease that no country, except for a very select few, have gotten under control in any way.

Once again, I think the country would be a lot better if we just stopped pointing fingers like this.

Interesting take on "avoidance behavior".

I've always viewed it as something as simple as background noise, but I know TONS of people who do this (myself included), so I imagine there's probably a much deeper phenomena at play

When are we going to stop playing the blame game in regards to COVID? When it's cases in middle America surging, observers are "not surprised". How can this comment be taken as anything but scorn and disdain for rural Americans? It's repugnant.

Where was this same sentiment when places like NYC were getting swamped with Covid? Anyone?

I'm so damn tired of this holier-than-thou approach to COVID, and life in general. It gets nobody anywhere, except for making the person casting aspersions feel better than the ones they're looking down on.

If anything, this pandemic sure has made people show their true colors. Always a good thing, I suppose

Go look at all the comments being downvoted. It's insane how many reasonable, common-sense arguments are being downvoted into oblivion.

HN has a serious astroturfing problem and I can only imagine who's behind it.

You are far too late on this one, sir. It's been thoroughly adopted by both sides of the aisle.

"victimhood"?

I find it hard to believe this comment is anything but gaslighting.

Did you actually read his resignation? The editors are refusing to publish a story unless he removes all sections critical of Joe Biden. How in the world is this playing the victim card?

The conversation regarding censorship is getting disgusting at this point. Censorship should be the main focus of ANY and EVERY journalist, full stop. The profession cannot coexist in a world with censorship. It undermines every single thing about honest, transparent reporting.

RSS was a perfect example of the tail wagging the dog.

it never caught on because it was a protocol. not a product. and yet stubborn users for years insisted otherwise.

it's like if the internet did not have a browser; only a textfield to input urls. who would use that?

I think history has shown us that there's no use in hoping from change on the browser or OS side. Unless new competitors come in, it seems the majority of people are stuck with Chrome / Firefox / Safari.

On top of that, a big problem with they are walled gardens as well. Some support exporting easy enough, but we've seen firsthand what happens when big readers (google reader, etc) go down.

That being said, I think our best hope is to create an open-source, web-based reader.

raw feeds are one of the last bastions of freedom on the internet, and we can't afford to keep building them on bad foundations.

If I had to imagine it from the ground up, I'm picturing a desktop-esque environment running straight from the browser. almost like google's environment, to be honest. There could be full-blown search, email, news, etc; but they are all intertwined by the ability to 'subscribe' to any of these results, and have them piped right into your homepage.

Sort of like smichel said above, a true front page of the internet, but your front page.

nailed it on the head with that reddit analogy.

unfortunately, I think browsers will continue to be locked down for the foreseeable future. given the locked-down nature of the app store as well, I think our best bet is building an open source, web-based RSS feed.

I completely agree genmon! RSS / web feeds are a bit hard to grok for the average user.

My belief is that, in order for RSS / ATOM to really catch on, we need to completely abstract those concepts for the end-user.

In my opinion, getting people to care about RSS / ATOM is like getting them to care about HTTP. They do not care about the actual mechanisms - only the end result. That being said, I think all we're missing is GREAT product design. Too many pipes are still exposed and it scares away the average user.

Make webfeeds as intuitive as social media giants and we have a revolution on our hands :p

PS: would love to build this with someone if there's any takers :)