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aurelius83··on RoR Debugbar
This seems pretty similar to https://github.com/dejan/rails_panel. Was that your inspiration?
aurelius83··on Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?
Isn’t that fraud?
aurelius83··on Gren – an Elm fork
I mean the last commit for Elm core was in 2021. Changes require sign off that doesn’t seem likely from who is currently maintaining it. Why not fork it if you are interested in evolving ELM?
aurelius83··on Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going to Get Rid of the Block Feature
Jack responded back to Elon and agreed.

And on the surface it seems ok. Basically if you block me then fine I can’t reply to you r posts but if you’re posting publicly why should I not be able to see what you post?

aurelius83··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
So the big question I think is who to trust here.

Here is his mother denying it: https://twitter.com/mayemusk/status/1654983542336520192

Here is Elon's story: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1654971702571331584

Here's a video of Elon back in the day on CNN talking about sleeping on the floor and buying his first expensive car with the money he was making from x.com and Justine Musk saying she fears they will become spoiled brats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9mczdODqzo

So who to believe?

aurelius83··on ChatGPT can pick stocks better than your fund manager
Crazy considering it only knows about the world up until 2021
aurelius83··on I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky
I’d love for you to validate the users against the list of verified twitter 1.0 users and see what percentage migrated over.
aurelius83··on Musk backpedals after mocking disabled Twitter worker in tweet ‘storm’
Now that Elon apologized is it ok to ask why Twitter paid a design firm at least 100 million for an acquisition when presumably they already had a design department and team that was internal to Twitter?
aurelius83··on I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture from the Inside
This is a pretty clever PR ad for her nonprofit.
aurelius83··on Grokking big unfamiliar codebases
One of the best pieces of writing I've come across that I still come back to about grokking complex codebases was written by Mitchell Hashimoto.

https://mitchellh.com/writing/contributing-to-complex-projec...

aurelius83··on Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
Does anyone know if Twitter was losing money for letting these third party clients have access to the firehouse?

Are these third party clients paying for the API or sharing revenue with twitter?

aurelius83··on Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay
Because they are not paying for the research with their taxes and their governments are not reciprocating the openness.
aurelius83··on Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay
I’m not sure how I feel about this. On one hand this is great for transparency and progress but this is also paid for by US taxpayers so why should scientist/people outside of the US benefit?
aurelius83··on DataRobot employee resigns over stock sales
I’m a bit ignorant to RSU’s and secondary markets. Why were the executives able to sell but not regular employees? What stopped regular employees from selling ?
aurelius83··on TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
Is Google an American company?
aurelius83··on Things I learned from building a production database
Can you explain more what you mean by the kill-it phase? Why is everyone trying to kill it?
aurelius83··on After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'
There is literally no proof that John Ehrlichman said this to Dan Baum in 1994 and when Dan Baum made this statement John Ehrlichman was already dead and could not refute it. Note that his estate has denied this statement.

It also is not accurate that the Nixon administration increased incarceration of drug use. That occurred under Reagan and Clinton.

However, Nixon was the first president to coin the term "war on drugs" but this was a rhetorical flourish. The Nixon Administration repealed the federal 2–10-year mandatory minimum sentences for possession of marijuana and started federal demand reduction programs and drug-treatment programs.

aurelius83··on Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms
I'm also sad this passed. It's actually not universal at first. It starts in 2021 offering seats to black, brown, illegal immigrant, teen parents and other traditionally "disadvantaged" groups first when it kicks off in 2021 and doesn't ramp up to full universal service until 2030. There's an additional tax increase that will take effect in 2026, that takes the marginal tax rate from 1.5 percent to 2.3 percent for single people making over 125k and joint filers making 200k. On top of all that, the measure would over-pay teachers 77k above the market rate, which is 33K. There's also the additional rider that they will prohibit suspensions. If you ask me, this bill only passed since it pushed the responsibility for paying for it to someone other than the majority of people in Multnomah county. It would have been more fair if there was a sense of shared sacrifice and skin in the game with everyone contributing to it. I imagine there will be more tax increases to help pay for all of the increase cost of a) people moving into the county for this free perk and b) people moving out of the county to not have to deal with this additional tax.
aurelius83··on Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms
I'm actually really sad this passed. This takes money that was earmarked for schools from the Marijuana tax fund and puts it in unproven addiction treatments.

It also takes away the only real leverage of consequence that legal authorities had at compelling people into a treatment programs and replaces it with a 150 dollar fine, which won't be paid anyways.

aurelius83··on Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
Apple also recently pulled the app of the American news organization Quartz from the App Store in China. Quartz has been covering the Hong Kong protests.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1182153976873148416

aurelius83··on Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
Sure, I mean all you're doing is basically loading up static content. In which case SSR HTML will perform just fine, but you do happen to use client side logic for your comments section which also makes sense to me. A SPA for your site isn't really the use case for SPA.
aurelius83··on Told U.S. security at risk, Chinese firm seeks to sell Grindr dating app
This is the sixth attempt in the past 24 hours to post this exact story. I wonder what it was about this attempt that caused it to spike up in points vs the other 5 attempts, which only maxed out at like 2 or 3 points?
aurelius83··on Launch HN: Upsolve (YC Nonprofit W19) – TurboTax for Bankruptcy
Cool idea. There's a little error on the where you agree to terms. The 3rd bullet point is not broken out into it's own line item.
aurelius83··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript?
JavaScript allows you to develop better UX for the user. Allowing for near-instantaneous feedback to the user.
aurelius83··on Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
also, makes it easier to figure out who to kidnap and also who to blackmail.
aurelius83··on Scott Adams: How to Be Successful
Whoops, yes. I was replying to someone off of my phone.
aurelius83··on Scott Adams: How to Be Successful
What exactly does "system-oriented" mean? The article seems sort of contradictory to me. On one hand he is saying having goals is for losers and you need to be system-oriented instead, but on the other he is saying that his goal was to make it rich and he just tried a bunch of stuff until he reached that goal.

The example of the person constantly looking for a better job is also confusing. Isn't the goal of that person to have a better job and he is just repeating the same goal over and over?

aurelius83··on Scott Adams: How to Be Successful
I disagree. I think that you have to take ownership of your own career and advancement. Until you reach a level, where you can really take ownership within a company.

Employers these days will not raise your salary at market rate without you jumping from company to company.

For example, person A stays at one company for 5 years and person B jumps from company to company every 1 to 2 years. At the end of the 5 years, person B will be making a lot more than person A.

aurelius83··on In Currency the U.S. is Dominant, Europe is Fading, China Is Irrelevant For Now
Makes perfect sense to me. As none of these currencies are actually backed by an asset, the US dollar is probably the most stable and most likely to be accepted as a means for payment by more people around the world.
aurelius83··on Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens
The other day several american muslims strapped a bomb onto themselves and killed themselves and many innocent people in a suicide attack in Kenya.

If there were actual legal mechanisms built into the US constitution or laws created that dealt with fighting an asymmetrical war with people like this then I really doubt the President would go through this process, but that's not the case.

I'm not really sure how we should handle this but this isn't some evil plan to grab more power by the Obama administration, it's an ad hoc solution to a really difficult problem.

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