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> "The idea of an unlimited travle, and/or allowing players to catch up on previous games is something I'd like to add"

Maybe that and also switch to "capitals" mode to use the capitals of the countries instead of the country names. I used to use another "popular map guessing site" almost daily to practice world capitals until one of their pop-up adverts hijacked the page's onload and redirected me to another site. Travle seems much more effective than rote memorization, as it's practical.

"Security" would be a useful benefit/section to add to this post:

A.) If maintainers of your dependencies edited an existing/previous version, or

B.) If your dependencies did not pin their dependencies.

For instance, if you installed vue-cli in May of last year from NPM with --prefer-offline (using the cache / basically the same as checking in your node_modules), you were fine. But because vue-cli doesn't pin its dependencies ("node-ipc"), installing fresh/online would create WITH-LOVE-FROM-AMERICA.txt on your desktop [1], which was at the very least a scare, but for some, incredibly problematic.

[1] https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/issues/7054

Not sure of OP's reasoning, but...

If you're trying to start an actual business, it's very very difficult to get people to pay for your solution when a large incumbent can just pay people to use their competitive (potentially sub-standard) product by burning through mountains of, (sometimes not even their own), money. Or once you start to gain some traction, deplatform you from social/search, or bury you in frivolous lawsuits. It can be done, it's just not very straightforward (unless you also already have your own mountains of cash, or are very well connected). But, business is business, so sink or swim?

Otherwise, it's much easier to ride someone else's huge marketing budget (Apple App Store, WordPress plugins, ChatGPT etc.), which doesn't change the competitive landscape and gives those incumbents even more power (merchants/developers/creators touched by the platform's Midas finger become dependent on the platform because it's their income, then their users buy further into the parent system, etc.).

It doesn't usually take you 1-3 months to master eating food from the other store, whereas a language/platform is a major investment of your time. And you become a part of a community that helps each other, so making sure the community thrives is a worthwhile investment (hopefully greater than whatever you're paying monthly / what you spend comes back to you in opportunities).

You were approached to participate in a coup and therefore had it squashed? Or a CEO was almost removed during their vacation?

Definitely agree with that. And it's media vs. media, so they both have to sell a narrative since the stronger story, not who's actually right, will win.

The reason for the lawsuit [1] seems to contradict itself; it's against spreading misinformation on X, while invoking the principle of allowing misinformation on X?

> "But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable. We believe that everyone has the right to make up their own minds about what to read..."

So... "Let [Media Matters] say what you [consider objectionable], and [let us make up our own minds about what to read]."

I do get that that shouldn't preclude lawsuits for slander/libel... but suing people out of existence with "thermonuclear" lawsuits seems to be roughly the same type of tyranny as the censoring he's taking a stand against.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725771191644758037

This example seems to be survivorship bias. Personally, if someone approached me to suggest backstabbing someone else, I wouldn't trust that they wouldn't eventually backstab me as well. @bear141 said "People should oppose openly or leave." [1] and I agree completely. That said, don't take vacations! (when Elon Musk was ousted from PayPal in the parent example, etc.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38326443

In this case, yes (although, their light does eventually turn red while time remains for pedestrians, yet drivers continue their flow into RoR).

Yep! Same. In that circumstance, at least, I'm able to point to the "Walk" and it's clear who's in the wrong. With a flashing "Don't walk" it's not immediately as obvious.

How apropos... this just happened to me today. "Walk" displays for 3 seconds, then "Don't walk" flashes for 36 seconds. Multiple drivers, completely ignoring the pedestrians, were turning right. One driver yelled out "that means don't walk" while a few of us were patiently waiting in the middle of the crosswalk (since we can't teleport).

Clearly just bad UX, since this would be solved by having "Walk" flash instead.

Avoiding sugar and fat is evidence-based, but wayyy too broadly applied. Depends on the person, the condition, and the rest of the diet. Some people who shouldn't be eating broccoli are... some people who should be eating fats are avoiding them... some people who should be eating sucrose are avoiding it because they think it's the same as taking in glucose and fructose independently. Lots of people replaced butter with margarine, which was worse.

Another comment claims: "I recall andrej walking around the office at this time (tesla), bad-mouthing all the sugar products that came into his view, claiming they are weaponized; and very pleased if he saw any nuts." [1]

This advice would actually kill me fairly quickly if I didn't know any better.

The internet is full of prescriptions without qualifiers, and desperate people, (feeling very ill without answers from their doctors, or no access), willing to believe whatever opinions they find because it fits their current perspective without deviating too much. It might be better to just give people the tools they need to understand what's happening [2], and let them listen to their own symptoms to make changes, if they're willing and capable...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110001

[2] https://www.roche.com/about/philanthropy/science-education/b...

"But looking more closely at the increased deaths, they were mostly from autoimmune diseases that couldn’t plausibly be related to their donations."

Kidneys make calcitriol. One kidney means you'll make less, and if you don't supplement, you'll become deficient. Deficiency would (possibly) lead to autoimmune diseases.

Also EPO (erythropoietin). One kidney means less, and less (possibly) means fewer new red blood cells, then (possibly) anemia. Anemia wreaks havoc.

And bicarbonate.

To be clear, if you want to donate a kidney, then do it if it's the right choice. It's very kind. Just know what to pay attention to to keep yourself in good health.

Not enough people realize how high CAC (customer acquisition cost) really is, even for established businesses selling proven products (took a pic of a display board outside of AT&T: free iPhone and $800 to new customers). I think they see people finding overnight success on a weekend project, like these popups on ProductHunt, not realizing that they're ultimately piggybacking / riding the wave of someone else's huge CAC / marketing budget (in this case, OpenAI). Same happened with blockchain, etc.

Thanks! I thought those who hadn't heard about Bowerbirds yet might find their habits interesting :) There are a few good documentaries as well.

> But it's also perfectly expected for a male, if he's aware ... looking for more important things ...

I wonder if any Bowerbirds have shared your revelation.

> Maybe we need some kind of non-profit media aggregator that gives you just the small drip you need and that’s it.

I think you'd like news.ycombinator.com (also called Hacker News or HN). What's nice is that the news titles on the home page give you the exact slow drip you're looking for. If you want to participate in a discussion, then there's a comment section, but if you just want to read more, you can click directly through to the article without seeing any comments at all.

Someone probably forgot to .gitignore node_modules

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> Exactly, tool vs hammer. Sometimes you made the wrong choice in tool, and then you switch tools.. Nothing wrong with that. A craftsman just knows its tools better. There is no magic bullet here.

Rational take, but I see the debate similar to Roman vs Arabic numerals.

Keeping a tally? Roman. Need to use operators? Arabic. Sometimes you can keep a tally in Arabic (not ideal), and sometimes you can do basic operations on Roman numerals (not ideal).

However, when you want to start using variables, only one tool enables this easily.

I can't architect the types of redundant and properly separated interoperable systems with a monolith that microservices otherwise enable.

So the desire to move forward isn't the need to find a magic bullet, but the next evolution of an existing ability that unlocks new capabilities...

(I don't think calculus would have been discovered using Roman numerals)