sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned
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sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: More Americans report near-constant cannabis use
Tell the neighbors.
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: This is a new (to me) scam
My onanism? I'd pay out just for the vocabulary...
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: More Americans report near-constant cannabis use
Cross-generation, too--it will take a long time to know. (Usage isn't new, but it will increase.)
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Most Americans Continue to Have Privacy and Security Concerns, Survey Finds
"However, the 2017 survey showed a decline in households reporting concerns and avoiding certain online activities compared with the 2015 survey, which first asked these questions. The proportion of online households reporting privacy or security concerns fell from 84 percent to 73 percent during this period. Similarly, the proportion of online households that said privacy concerns stopped them from doing certain online activities dropped from 45 percent to 33 percent."
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: On Loneliness and Solitude
Don't drive, you'll die on the road.
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Why There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America
Smart plan, and works on many levels--both product and service industries included (in terms of creating demand), but of course cultural and diplomatic ones as well, with network effects.
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
I think sheer practice can help here--when I haven't interviewed for a while, I'm rusty at telling "my story," but once back in the process, it begins to flow again. (rusty flow?)
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
Interesting. More stories!
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: On Loneliness and Solitude
It's an unpopular notion in these times, but it might even be said that this arises from a deep-seated awareness that one is separated from one's true source or even (gasp) "God."
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Bumper Sticker Computer Science (1985) [pdf]
Healthcare is an abomination. If the will existed, the situation could be radically different, but it never seems to change. "Obamacare" was just another (effective) tax increase in disguise, like adding the fees for a new thing, but never actually changing the thing itself. Sheeple one and all.
Backwards paper systems serving the moneyed interests.
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative
Is this criterion keeping you from using the framework right now?
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much of your career has been building vs. maintaining?
I'm stuck inheriting other people's messes (when I far prefer making my own).
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: The Ugly Truth of Ugly Produce
No.
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Where even Walmart won't go: how Dollar General took over rural America
>If you think getting minimum wage for doing retail work in an 80deg store is a particularly bad deal then you're probably living in a little bit of a bubble.
Is this a joke?
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Google Chrome's autotranslate feature a huge vulnerability?
1) It's encrypted, but most of everything has a vulnerability somewhere
2) This is a great question, of the kind more people should regularly be asking
3) Don't stop!
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Google tracks your movements, like it or not
Wish there were a viable alternative to the duopoly--for now, Apple remains the lesser evil.
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Frink
It makes you laugh, it makes you think, and then the thing...with the function?
Frinky's not loading so good right now, HN.
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Solitude appears to have an image problem in Japan
Too much "we" and "our" in these things. The author may speak only for himself (or herself).
The people who "choose" to spend time alone, do so because they have that choice available to them--it's a kind of "social privilege" or prerogative, available to those whose time and attention is in most demand.
It's reminiscent of an attitude that doesn't understand why "all those poor people just don't get normal jobs."
sonofblah | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
What's the significance of Poland in the output? A tracking thing?
I noticed problems with Reddit earlier, too.
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Imagine buying your dream house (a figurative one only coincidentally related to the article), turning the doorknob and it comes off in your hand. You flick the light switch but no lights, and it collapses into the panel. Touch the wall, and your finger pokes through. Completely broken, disintegrated, nested with termites and other creepy crawlers. The "inspectors" told you everything was fine.
That is our world, and this life.