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Gabriel_Martinon Doctor advises only using soap on your hands and nowhere else

More information about that rat, which adds some unfortunate context to it. https://twitter.com/JanFreedman/status/958325784401375232

Gabriel_Martinon Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

very clever :)

Gabriel_Martinon Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

Thank you for taking the time to expand!

Gabriel_Martinon Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

Well if you're waiting for an invitation, it sounds very interesting!

Gabriel_Martinon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)

You'd rather do a whiteboard? If the project isn't related to their product I don't see a problem.

Gabriel_Martinon Tiny magnetically powered implant may be future of deep brain stimulation

I've been holding my tongue lately since Dang had to chide me for a bunch of angry comments and calling out an account I felt was astroturfing. Just so you know, it turns out comments like that are actually against the rules. Just passing on what I learned not long ago.

Gabriel_Martinon De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer

I'll read them today. Apologies for making the forum worse, I'll try to change. I've been struggling with a lot of anger surrounding this issue lately. Maybe it'd be best if I took a break from HN for a while.

Gabriel_Martinon Facebook News is filled with stories too mainstream to do well on the rest of FB

Certainly not, it's that if one follows your tenuous logic down it's path it falls apart badly without you being willing to clarify the things I asked. My guess is just that you're so deeply anti-communist and pro-capitalism, that even anti-fascism is offensive to you. Just looks like indoctrination to me, but again I do welcome you to point me to wherever the capitalized Antifa violent communist group is posting. That would clear everything up.

Gabriel_Martinon Facebook News is filled with stories too mainstream to do well on the rest of FB

So only the people who "have an actual goal" is who Antifa consists of? Or just Antifa "leadership" I'm just not totally understanding why anti-X necessarily has to shoot past center to pro-Y.

Gabriel_Martinon Facebook News is filled with stories too mainstream to do well on the rest of FB

Also: Here is an account of anti-communist anti-authoritarians singing The Internationale in 1989 when in police custody. Odd they would sing that when you characterized the song as a singularly communist anthem. One possibility is that every anti-authoritarian member of Capitalized Antifa isn't a communist after all.

https://books.google.com/books?id=so474D6P9LsC&pg=PA22&lpg=P...

Gabriel_Martinon Facebook News is filled with stories too mainstream to do well on the rest of FB

Can you point out where this purported capitalized Antifa posts their updates? Because right now it seems like you have so many "understandings" about capitalized Antifa that it would be easiest to just get the fundamental things like exactly who you're speaking of instead of asking you to necessarily have to explain it all here.

Gabriel_Martinon Facebook News is filled with stories too mainstream to do well on the rest of FB

Not a terribly strong argument against why hosting and platforming reactionary rightwing rags can lead to more radicalization. To quote: "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'."

Gabriel_Martinon Facebook News is filled with stories too mainstream to do well on the rest of FB

In what way does anti-fascism imply anything other than anti-authoritarian, least of all pro-communism? This guy I linked below when trying to understand your comment even questions if it can be considered a "group" at all ( "I also question whether antifa can be considered to constitute a “group” at this point in time"), and I agree. Either way, equating far-right violence (which was responsible for every extremist death in 2018) and violence associated with antifa, for example against people like those at Charlottesville, Neo-Nazis, Neo-fascists, and white supremacists, just seems deeply disingenuous to the point of trolling.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-018-0246-x

Gabriel_Martinon Facebook News is filled with stories too mainstream to do well on the rest of FB

Seems pretty clear to me. Breitbart is an official Facebook news partner last time I checked, what have you seen that contradicts what OP said?

Gabriel_Martinon Kinetic Bombardment

Curious what made you share this

Gabriel_Martinon De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer

Gotta love a three-hour old account trying to convince people that police racism and violence isn't real. Are we twitter now @dang? The astroturfing hasn't been subtle lately.

Gabriel_Martinon Did the Italians Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?

I like to rub the garlic on the inside of the bowl, and added a little dijon can't be skipped IMO

Gabriel_Martinon US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis

Honestly, I only wish I could generally associate the people outraged rioting in the streets with the average Minnesotans, that would probably have prevented the culture that lead to where we are today. Maybe, for example if there were countless examples of Minnesotans standing up to racism and police brutality?

Gabriel_Martinon Ask HN: Why is life worth living?

You can spend your time bringing happiness to yourself. Seems good.

Gabriel_Martinon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

Learning more After Effects for Lottie UX animation

Gabriel_Martinon It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen

Odd that you hyperfocus on the racism piece, when he said racist and classist. Honestly, if you have an argument that fundamentally accepting race and class injustices lead to the damaging reality we're living now, I'm not seeing it. I feel like the only argument I'm really seeing is "surely it can't be as simple as systemic injustices", which just seems like a silly caveat to me. Of course it could be, and likely is.

Gabriel_Martinon The Baymard Institute: An evidence-based trove of UX best practices

If you're hooking up interested parties, I'm volunteering :)

Gabriel_Martinon Ask HN: What are you learning?

Making art with After Effects. If I really get motivated I'll move my experience into doing Interaction design with Lottie and bodymovin, but for now it's just a nice way to blow off steam during this difficult time.

Gabriel_Martinon Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in loans since 9 a.m

You can believe that hyperinflation spirals are a possibility or a forgone reality of magic modern monetary debt creation, and people like Ben Bernanke can believe they can fund debt from thin air which is impossible to default on (his words), and you'd both be right, in part. But just because historically there have been monetary policies which lead to hyperinflation, doesn't mean modern monetary policy for the largest economy in the world is poised to relegate said currency to that of anything less than a central fixture of global monetary significance.

Gabriel_Martinon Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

Yeah I finally moved from contracting roles to a fulltime salary, and this hits, and I'm laid off. Feels terrible.

Gabriel_Martinon Show HN: CloudWright – Build apps in your own cloud

I'll probably give it a shot, interesting project.

Gabriel_Martinon Coronavirus outbreak makes lobsters so cheap that sellers face a fatal blow

I mean you can slather just about anything in melted butter, salt and pepper, and put it on a toasted buttered bun, and find it tastes pretty good

Gabriel_Martinon Show HN: NestDrop – realtime VJ engine using Milkdrop

Wow this is awesome. A real throwback for me in some ways, and super in line with my current interests as well! Though it does occur to me how inexpensive you're pricing it at, you sure the pricing model is what's best for you financially? If not, it's well within the community etiquette to reshare this tomorrow and solicit pricing tier feedback. If so, I'm happy for your success and thanks for sharing this!

Gabriel_Martinon Ask HN: How do you manage your financials?

this is terrible advice. They should put it all on red.

Gabriel_Martinon Ask HN: Not resting fully because can't sleep long enough

Putting aside the mechanics of sleep, it's important for you to realize that this isn't a valuable trade, between sleep and work. Sustainably growing your business means keeping balance in your life, meaning pure volume of work won't actually get you to the goal.