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vayeate | 4 years ago | on: Gab.com’s Response to Congress

Modern equivalent: don't text or email when you can call, don't call when you can speak face to face, don't speak face to face if you can wink

you see powerful people following this advice all the time, like with Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch’s tarmac meeting. He flew in a plane to talk face to face just to ensure it wouldn't get recorded.

vayeate | 4 years ago | on: Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says

Satellites aren't pollution. They have a 10 year service life then fall back down to Earth.

Do you also complain about buildings ruining your french nights? Or billboards? Or traffic noise? Should we ban all automobiles and buildings and outdoor lighting? Should we ban all combustion engines to ensure there's no amount of smog in the air as well?

Satellites are extremely far down on the list of public nuisances and don't serve any threat to our health unlike smog and carbon emissions.

vayeate | 4 years ago | on: I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple

I'm not sure I've encountered a single bug in the half year or more I've had this. I don't ask a lot of it, to be fair. I guess Firefox as my main browser really drains the hell out of the battery, which is annoying. Not really a bug.

vayeate | 4 years ago | on: I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple

I've been really happy with my M1 and it's my first Macbook ever, I've been a diehard Windows guy my entire life. So, so, so tired of loud and failing fans on my Windows machines, terrible trackpads, terrible displays, constant hardware issues, Windows update forcing shutdowns in the middle of meetings, malware-level upgrade prompts, etc etc.

vayeate | 5 years ago | on: Jackie Chan's Best Advice

I can think of multiple examples of rushed games that are good, or became good - though Miyamoto's quote here may have been before the era of internet updates.

vayeate | 5 years ago | on: Tell HN: Happy International Men’s Day

I think part of the issue is that all the things that men fare worse in that you listed out are the results of a society that is controlled by men. Men are doing this to themselves.

The problem for women is that the negative societal aspects of their lives are not controlled by women - it's still largely controlled by men. Same for people of color in the US - their lives are largely controlled by white people (and specifically white men).

I think even for the wildest of misogynists out there (I am in no way implying this is you or anyone on HN) it's hard to argue that the world would not be drastically different if it was mostly controlled by women.

vayeate | 5 years ago | on: Privacy is the most important concept of our time

On the other side of the coin: maybe he didn't see you wave because he's on a video call and looking at the caller's face. Maybe he didn't want to step onto your property or disturb your day because that is often seen as aggressive behavior. Maybe he didn't actually stop for the reason you think he did and just happened to notice the chickens and pointed to take a photo.

Calling the cops is a ridiculous reaction to just about anything these days other than someone has been shot.

vayeate | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)

I was biking around downtown Seattle area a couple days ago and came across your office by chance. Nice location! I was curious what the inside looked like, it looks like it was maybe converted from residential or hotel space.
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