craftyguy

Won't someone please think of the, uh, smartphone wallpaper startups‽

This article seems like clickbait.

> When I moved, the meetings I encountered were extremely hostile to atheists.

That's unfortunate, and mostly in line with other experiences I've heard from friends, etc. AA seems like just another bullshit Christian recruitment/retention facility, that sometimes accidentally helps people who buy into it recover from addiction. Too bad.

To be fair, that is the 'official' communication channel from the president of the US to its citizens.

I'm guessing you have no basis for this comment, and are just trolling age discrimination.

I know that comparing "hacker" "news" to reddit is "boring" (as dang would put it), but these types of "when this post is X <time units> old <some mundane thing> will happen" are low quality, but highly upvoted garbage that is super common on reddit. And now it's here.

Care to explain what "on the ball" would realistically look like for this specific situation we are in right now? Because everyone else seems to be avoiding the question.

The HN crowd likes to share anecdotes and bikeshed on off-topic topics like this one.

> The concern is people have not been taking this seriously for the past two months. This has resulted in the US being on the back foot and only acting in a reactive manner. The CDC has fallen flat on its face and now state public health departments need to try to pick up the slack. I hope they do.

Oh please. There's likely absolutely nothing the CDC could have done to prevent it from entering and spreading within the US, given the nature of the virus. What would have been an ideal situation in your mind, have the CDC order a complete halt to domestic/international travel early January?

Most likely a lot of people have the mexican beer virus, but very few have severe enough symptoms to go to the hospital to get tested. I mean, do you go to the hospital every single time you cough or sneeze?

You just have to look at the front page of 'hacker' 'news' for the last few weeks, it's completely dominated by the mexican beer virus. no technology is being discussed here.

20% of all US adults (hint: still millions of people) is quite a few.

I encourage you to share less anecdotes on 'hacker' 'news' that are clearly extreme corner cases.

> but refuse to verify well known but “problematic” public figures...

I'm not sure what you are talking about, they verified/allow at least one very problematic public figure (donald trump)

> Was it really necessary to use the word "shitcoins"?

Yes.

> but resorting to such childish naming only ends up hurting your point.

Well, I'm not wrong.

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Fuck that.

..and "hacker" "news" continues to march towards conflating anecdotes with general trends/statistics.

You are 1 American, not all Americans. Just because you don't know anyone doesn't mean there isn't anyone.

> Brave's business-model experiments to support a tracker-free internet – like the crypto-tokens & user-agent-controlled ad-replacement – are opt-in.

Shitcoins require public, and trackable, ledgers, so you literally cannot say 'uses shitcoin' and 'tracker-free internet' in the same sentence.

That's absolutely not true, e.g.:

https://insinuator.net/2020/02/critical-bluetooth-vulnerabil...

There was another one regarding the wifi chip used in many popular phones a few months ago.

Modeling our election campaign laws after NASCAR is probably not the best idea.

These 'XYZ has died' posts should nearly include a short description of who the person was in the title.

The answer is in the article.

Well then pointing out you are a 'high skill' worker doesn't really add to the discussion, at all. Your original comment would have been much better if you had explained why (like you just did here).

I mean, did anyone really expect the UK to stop being xenophobic after they left the EU?

You're a UK citizen, you don't need a visa. This policy has practically 0 impact on you.

They aren't running FreeCAD from 2002, they are running FreeCAD from 2020. I bet you couldn't run 2020's Firefox on a system from 2002, even though Firefox existed in 2002.

Don't assume everything you see is financially motivated. Some people extract greater value in tinkering than the extra pennies they save by having someone do the tinkering for them.

No, it's not smart. It's clickbait, and "hacker" "news" eats it up, every time.

lol. the risk of it becoming public has increased now that it's accessible by more people. NDAs are a deterrent, but it doesn't deter everyone.

It was a simple (to implement) system that worked for decades. Not everyone wants to run uber spyware on their phones.

Nope. Author made a big leap from "it doesn't work for some folks" to "omg we're being actively blocked by an ISP! get out your pitchforks everyone!"