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It is just a draft copy and hasn't been voted on yet. No idea who leaked it, might be a hoax. Everyone is getting upset over it for no good reason. It just makes abortions legal or illegal at the state level if voted yes.

cable2600on Ask HN: Do you find it challenging to talk to your users?

If I talk regular it is over their heads, I have to dumb it down and do some hand holding when things break. In the company I worked, I visited the users and asked them what they wanted in a wish list when I fixed their PC problems working with the help desk. Most wanted a faster program with fewer errors.

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Uh, did you know that is a cognitive bias?

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The liberals have moved further left into progressives. The Conservatives have moved a little bit right. I used to be liberal like everyone else until they moved left and made me a moderate relatively speaking.

I know former liberals who left the USA because of how far the Liberals have moved to the left. Rather live in China or Japan than the USA. Many tried for Canada but had a hard time getting an immigrant visa. In Japan you can start a business and sponsor yourself by hiring a business to do your paperwork.

cable2600on Is Elon Musk That Bad?

Bad personality, good businessman.

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Hillary Clinton said it takes a village to raise a child.

cable2600on Apple Just Issued $12B blow to Facebook

Apple has a good privacy policy, compared to other tech companies. Tracking can be turned off if you want.

cable2600on Ask HN: Anyone else is tired of all the corporate bs?

It keeps upper management busy and out of your hair micromanaging you.

cable2600on What the Hell Happened to Netflix?

Mismanagement, raising prices, shit shows, leaving Russia, turning shows political. It just turns people off Netflix. I used to subscribe to Netflix a decade or so ago. Played Netflix on a PS3 on a TV for my mother and father to watch movies. The PS3 crapped out and I called technical help, which told me to use my PC instead. PC was not hooked up to the TV only the PS3 was. My father had a bad time missing movies and when he died I felt like Netflix betrayed me with bad PS3 software.

cable2600on Ask HN: How can my P2P software download faster than what my 56K should allow?

Data Compression. The P2P program compressed the file to a smaller size and recompressed it on your end. It did go faster but it is an illusion.

cable2600on Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

Math programs in C and Python that I use like a calculator.

cable2600on Which is least unethical – buying a Mac or buying a PC?

Right to repair trumps the Mac, get an ATX standard PC and run BSD or Linux on it. Upgrade cards and RAM as you go along and replace them when they go bad. Also cheaper than a Mac. Apple makes Macs and iPhones using child slave labor in China with suicide nets.

cable2600on Can Silicon Valley still dominate global innovation?

Not since a company in France bought out Lucent the old Bell Labs. Due to Visa quotas being filled a lot of talent in foreign students go back to their own nations to invent new tech. Big Tech like Google, Amazon, IBM, Apple have their factories in China for the new technology that China makes their own. Make tech in the USA and we will dominate global innovation.

cable2600on Ask HN: Tips on finding mentors?

Used websites like:

https://findamentor.com/

Find one that is a good fit for you. Don't just contact people randomly find one willing to mentor you.

cable2600on Ask HN: Burger King's app won't send orders to BK stores, who can fix it?

Burger King's app has always sucked. They refuse to fix it. McDonald's works better because they have better quality IT than BK. Don't go to BK anymore, boycott them until they fix their app.

cable2600on Why do you use this site?

For tech news and product reviews. Discussions on the like as well. Sometimes nothing relevant to my interests but I learn about new things.

cable2600on Just because you know how to code, doesn't mean you should code your own website

Use a FOSS template or use WordPress with a theme. Why should you code your own website when using a template or WP is faster?

cable2600on Ask HN: What Happened to Snowden?

I am certain Russia is having Snowden write spyware for them. We might see it soon enough as Russia uses it to spy on the USA and EU.

cable2600on Ask HN: Why do people work at evil megacorps?

The evil megacorps tend to pay more and have good benefits. But they will downsize in a hurry when they lose profits. I had a friend who worked at Microsoft for 10 years and they laid him off. I have friends who went to California Silicon Valley and it ate them up and they burned out. Just a job they see.

cable2600on AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat (2002)

Doesn't IBM already own Red Hat? Will AOL make Red Hat and Fedora Linux easier to use?

cable2600on His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent

This is why you need more than one copy of the source code. Stored on a backup, or servers, in case the original code goes away.

The man was talented, and nobody can replace him. Even a disassembled code would not be as good as having the knowledge to use it.

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Fear is the mindkiller. Remember that. Worry is fear. They are out of your control. Just keep your vax for COVID-19, and don't visit any Russian sites.