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I voted for Biden, but I can easily find thousands of examples of "threats" on Twitter coming from far left leaning accounts. Some even from verified accounts. I still love the fact that Twitter banned Anna Kachiyan of the Red Scare podcast, assuming it wasn't a mistake?

Companies bowing to play nice with the state is troubling regardless of your politics.

Good on Al Jazeera for publishing this. I'll never understand why US Media believes that censoring this kind of thing will satiate and calm down those who would've been "radicalized" by it - when usually the exact opposite occurs. As a democrat myself I have to question how this is "inciting a inquisition of government" but Chuck Schumer or Pelosi suggesting harassment of political opponents or CNN saying "protests aren't supposed to be peaceful" is fair game?

Citizen - we already told you China had nothing to do with the covid virus! Stop using your small civ brain and submit to our government sanctioned news outlets already! /s

Until evidence is substantiated, we should assume the parties that be will try to continue to blow this out of proportion. It shouldn't be surprising that one of Pelosi's aides is going to try to make the breach of the capital sound like something bigger than it really was - you know... to come up with more excuses to expand the surveillance of innocent citizens. As a Biden voter who also went to BLM protests (can't believe I have to lead with this on HN nowadays...) I can honestly say that many of those events were more violent and destructive than what happened Wednesday. Yes - I believe the people who stormed the capital were morons and will all likely end up in federal "pound me in the ass" prison [0].

The pictures of staffers "cleaning up after the destruction" that show them just putting plastic cups into trash bags are hilarious. If only we could get both sides who disagree with the govt to cooperate and compromise - without a need to rely on gov to facilitate compromise maybe we could start to see light at the end of the tunnel? It's now clearer than ever that the government and even trump don't support what the people want. There's more than enough common ground to stop sending huge sums of money to other countries, to support small business (minority or otherwise) and be reasonable, the only thing standing in the way is division. Calling the other side inhuman or unworthy is walking into the same trap that gave us trump...

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBzvMLW0ii4

Unfortunately I basically accept this as the current state of all electron apps?

This is cool, but this year also brings with it record breaking inflation of the US dollar and the toughest regulatory hurdles yet when it comes to transacting in BTC, especially turning BTC into USD.

Covid has completely warped my window of "productive" work. Generally, I now get most of my work done between 2pm and 10pm. Fortunately, the rest of my team has a similar cadence which is why I pinned 9pm as my boundary :)

I previously thought it was complete and utter pseudo science but I've recently started using a near infrared LED light in the morning and evenings and it's immensely helped reinforce a healthy circadian rythm.

I agree, it's curious how in recent times a foundational aspect of modern democrats is a belief that not being aware or able to see something really solves an issue or corrects a perceived ethical wrong.

For instance, don't like what your opponents have to say? Just make it so their supporters have to go to their own platform. The insidious angle of this is how this kind of thinking starts to bleed into payments processing / CC companies.

This is a dying legacy news company trying to shit on what is and will be the future of long form real journalism - plain and simple.

Ironically, platforms like SubStack strike a fantastic balance. They're generally populated by journalists who can actually write or have huge notoriety (Glenn Greenwald and the like) who are writing substantive news and not JS tutorials. I think "freedom of speech" in time will be promulgated as metered and well thought out arguments that don't seek to slander or directly attack any singular person. This is how real adults talk, not how activists talk.

To be fair, Medium is shit. It's already started to become susceptible to similar "creator negatives" that have emerged on YouTube in the last 5 years (Casey Neistat personified this trend). People now just write clickbait / click-driven sharticles that sell ads. Granted, it's still better than what the NYT generally publishes.

Moreover - the boomer concept of physical newspaper delivery is equivalent to how millennials perceive well structured html / css emails that contain "news" or "journalism". It's a place I expect to see longer-ish form content and it's not in an app or platform that wants me to look at ads, boobs or something else they want to glue my eyeballs to.

Boundaries are messy. Even in startups it's hard to say "this is my time" and this is "company time" especially with remote work becoming more common.

I've always taken the approach of not apologizing when I'm "not available" on days I requested off or when it's late at night. If I have significant equity, I'll care. But if I'm just salaried or at a BigCorp you can fuck off if it's after 10pm. I never understood why I knew co-workers at Amazon who would pull all nighters on weekends to "fix issues". Basically, I don't want to work for a company that rewards that kind of thing - time is worth too much. Hustle is worth it when you know how much skin you have in the game and can benefit from it more than your employer.

First off - job well done! Plenty of people don't even make it to an exit, let alone have equity worth selling or options worth buying. Spend a bit to celebrate but definitely make the rest of that money work for you.

I'm from the U.S. but don't live in the U.K. , get a good attorney and don't cheap out. Seeking council both in the U.S. and the U.K. is likely best to ease the tax situation and understand what stands between you and your freshly minted moolah ($).

YouTube is now a hostile space for creators of any political or social creed that create "edge" worthy content. Plain and simple.

If you're a trans or LGBTQ creator your content is not safe. If you produce "hacking" or firearms videos your content is not safe.

Maybe some day the millennial generation will end the boomer era mantra of passing legislation federally or adopting policies that censoring content for the children TM.

If only we could conduct a similar study to understand why criminals (yes - individuals with intent to commit violent acts or felonies) overwhelmingly prefer stolen serialized firearms to 80% "ghost guns"?

A curious compromise could be agreeing to defund and dissolve both the ATF and ICE. Constitutionally, both are "unnecessary" and infringe on the rights of citizens.

For The Children TM

But we're supposed to prolong the temporary overreach of government power! /s

Yeah, it's a messy problem all together. This is a bit of a different tangent, but as someone who worked for one of the first Bitcoin / Ethereum transaction tracing startups a few years back - I think many of the people pointing to "privacy" in digital currencies are misguided. Right now, there are private companies already getting in on the consumer tx tracing business in crypto. The real clever ones charge the government and exchanges as "compliance" providers. Ironically, many of these new companies are directly related to or bankrolled by existing data-broker giants.

Seems like they've figured out the best political trick to "winning" in international geo-politics and war? Anyone who's honest with the nature of humanity knows that complete nuclear proliferation will never work to bring peace on earth, because basic game theory tells us at least one side will just cheat and keep some hidden nukes ;)

I can't agree enough! Although, I should say it's crazy how good the best readers from Zebra are and especially crazy how good vision api's from Dynamsoft are! They can read up to eight PDF417 codes simultaneously!!

Tbh, barcode thermal printers need an open source print driver other than Cups. I've been working on a project that both involves printing custom labels with Data-matrix qr codes and scanning them. Unless you pony up $400+ for a Zebra printer that has a "direct print" api that allows you to bypass common print drivers - using Cups is a huge pain. In many cases (at least on macs) it's nearly impossible to use a web passthrough to your local cups driver and commonly submitting a sequence of jobs incurs a 3-5 second delay between jobs. I now realize why there are entire companies built on top of proprietary print drivers and RPC channels to talk to printers. It's not that surprising though, since most of this problem space has been dominated and solved by Point of Sale companies. I'd definitely be open to any suggestions as to how I could better integrate printing to a rollo and scanning from a scanner or mobile device in a react app!

Walk away or get a lawyer.

I was talking to a guy I rented one from and he pretty much said "yeah, you used to be able to buy these at sears pretty much up until the year 2000". He mentioned that in order to rent them in the state of Texas you actually need a heavy machinery license (the same necessary for excavators, bobcats and bulldozers).

This guy was great though, he also helped out with my 30th birthday where my friends and I went out to a friend's ranch and just "played" with heavy machinery for a weekend.

1) Turkish Kebab / street food like I could find in Melbourne OZ

2) "chips" or "wedges" like I could find in Melbourne OZ

3) Effective (real) chipper-shredders for lawn care. The number of times I've tried to rent one and had to hire someone for $200-300 to turn trees on my property into mulch is beyond frustrating. Heck, even if I needed to get training and take a test for a license I would do it. I think the US took a bit of a harsh stance on these devices for common consumers after it was widely publicized that Saddam Hussein used these devices to turn his political dissidents into "fodder".

I think the reason this happens is largely because the "common" (non developer, non technical, non engineer etc) user demographic, because of services like FaceBook, Insta, TikTok etc, don't see a reason to pay for software. Therefore, if a developer wants to make money (especially if they're a solo developer) they tend to sometimes walk the less-ethical side of software dev and hoard / share data do make their effort a bit more worthwhile in terms of generating revenue.

It's also troubling to me that large companies like apple want to make large scale "anonymized" health data collection common place and "normal". Citing "huge leaps in medical science" as a reason to start mass data reporting on their users.

I can only imagine... "pleasure to meet you, I peddle petabytes of digital tits and ass"

edit - petabytes

Cypress is attractive, except for the fact they are the first nation to have "tried" a "bail-in" of sorts where the gov't pillages the bank accounts of its citizens for monetary relief in 2013.

I have a relatively scant understanding of the recent Dodd Frank legislation in the U.S. that has outlined how this could happen in the U.S. - fortunately it outlines that only non FDIC insured assets can be seized by banks.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2013/05/03/the-cypr...

I second this! Please prioritize TOTP / U2F over social logins.

I might be off base here, but does anyone really leverage social logins anymore? Seems like it's the worst case scenario for auth in the case that a customer can no longer access the associated social account? Basically in every case you'd have to provide an antiquated flow for them to "re" sign-up with an email. I'm genuinely curious of the value add here, outside of using Sign In With Apple (since it parlays nicely into Apple Pay integrations).

Talk to them. It's not going to be clear in the code as it will be with how they talk to co-workers / sort out issues.

I'm 26 and like my co-workers, but I sure as hell don't spend my personal fuck around time with them. Remote "activities" are such a sore use of my time.

Sure, but they don't promote buying crypto as an "investment". Tbh, I don't really have the patience to argue over this.

Hate to say it, but if you can identify the right niche, a basic e-commerce store and minimal ad spend is a solid route.

This is also my go-to. It's dead simple and just works. Tbh, the last thing I want to spend my time doing is tinkering with my personal "network architecture". I'm sure I'd manage to fuck it up at some point when I just want to reach my plex server and watch a movie.

Fortunately for me, I've never really been able to see the value in long term permanent relationships. Granted, I'm borderline autistic, which doesn't help, but I'm also very selfish with my time and like to have options open. The one thing I dread the most is chaining myself to another person.

Some people like this, I dread it. I've had a number of them, never to the point of getting married. But as likely it is I'll never accomplish Bezos wealth, I'm just as likely to not deal with a 50/50 divorce of all my assets to some woman.