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designium··on Layoffs Create a Vacuum for Fraud
It's like a shitpost from Reddit.

It alludes that fraud will happen from disgruntled employees laid off from this business cycle. But it has no proof nor examples nor numbers to prove anything.

designium··on Monodraw – a non-subscription, powerful ASCII art editor
I use it sometimes. It's good for fast drafting of diagrams.
designium··on Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
"We care about your privacy but not your rights." "Please suffer privately on your own."
designium··on Texas repeatedly raises pollution limits for Cheniere LNG plant
The best technology available is to change the standards...
designium··on “Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get discontinued (2019)
It would be interesting to see the relationship of this type of cohort with income level.
designium··on I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called
Or Toronto.
designium··on Ask HN: Dealing with Career Mistakes
Well said though I be a bit more soft in the words.
designium··on Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
I wouldn't mind calling Motherboard site to Personboard... ehhehehe

It would be interesting to call landlord as landperson.

designium··on Quantenkoffer: Quantum Physics Science Kit
Is it in production? Or just a demo?
designium··on Show HN: Algorithmic trading for everyone
Don't let these people discourage you. You are starting up and by the fact that you already got people's attention in HN, that shows that you are onto something greater. Keep the good work!
designium··on Nukemap
Terrifying
designium··on Apple Music Cover Art Rules
The guidelines help Apple to have a more uniform visual presentation of the albums, but it can be detrimental to the artists creativity. You don't want a SEO analogy of this for musician.
designium··on Google Search Is Dying
I do that all the time.
designium··on Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
I think the author is trying to compare what it takes to create an MVP web-app with all modern features versus creating it in the JS ecosystem.

Also, Rails is well known to have Convention over Configuration. That helps to set up and maintain a project since everybody has to follow the same pattern. The cons is that you lose flexibility from the architecture perspective. But in Rails, you have ways to overcome that easily.

I think Rails lost popularity when the front-end JS framework movement started. Rails didn't have a response to that; people had to create the Rails app, remove the Views and use a JS framework to create the one-page app experience.

Now, if you are already spending that much time using JS for the front-end, why not use JS for the backend? But then things got too complex in the JS due to the lack of conventions.

designium··on Show HN: What do you think of my new social app?
The "Landing: " link is not working.
designium··on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
You can use mailinabox.
designium··on Are warp drives science now?
Perhaps when we discover why the universe is expanding, then we may have or not a solution for this.

The expansion of the universe can be faster than the speed of light. Would it be possible to use that to create FTL travel?

designium··on Are warp drives science now?
No, speed of light will not move faster inside in the event horizon. It is still at the same speed.

But the spacetime is so distorted that a photon will start orbiting the singularity, thus it doesn’t get out of the event horizon.

https://phys.org/news/2014-03-orbit-black-hole.html

designium··on Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
In psychology, there is a concept linked to that: the labelling theory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeling_theory

Another way to see the points above, from philosophy, is https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sophism

designium··on PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds
Don't worry.

You won't have that money after they've implemented the inactivity fee last year: https://www.paypal.com/be/smarthelp/article/what-is-the-inac...

designium··on Burn My Windows
I need this for MacOS.
designium··on Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
I use Zotero as a bookmarking too. It saves the files and articles offline.
designium··on Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
Just use mailinabox https://mailinabox.email/
designium··on My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
I do that too in txt. I tried DayOne, AI writer, etc. but the simple text editor is perfect. Also, I don't want to be relying on someone else to save and backup my info. I know where my txt is and how I am backing it up. It's portable.
designium··on Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience
How no one goes there anymore if you are saying that is too crowded?
designium··on Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature
I made a summary of the e-signature services out there:

https://chimkan.com/e-signature-2021-pricing-for-api/

designium··on Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Refinement
Enhance 34 to 36.
designium··on The Codeless CTO (2019)
I think it depends on the maturity of the company. If we are talking about startups CTO - usually the CTO is also the first engineer of the company. So in that case, you have to code something. Now, if we are discussing about mature startups or companies with resources to hire other people to do the work; then I believe the organizational, people, and other skills will be more relevant.
designium··on Launch HN: Level (YC S21) – Flexible financing for early-stage lending startups
It’s great to see more startups in this space. I created a factoring product and now focusing on Buy Now Pay Later.
designium··on Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health
But it doesn’t mean that it couldn’t be a second order relationship. The article shows that time spent on mobile devices and mental health are not link as cause and effect, but it doesn’t disprove that they are not related.

Also, time spent may not be related so some types of mental health issues like depression, but we have many other mental health issues like anxiety, loneliness, etc.

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