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I've been using Notational Velocity + Alfred to quickly take notes for years. Recommended for anyone who wants something lightweight.

Is there any region of the world that respects SAHM besides Scandinavian countries? I feel like this is one of the most important issues we're facing today. Separating kids from their parents for most of the day after three months can't possibly be good.

The tweets didn't come from his handle. They were using the same image and name but what really caught my attention was that those accounts had a blue verified badge.

I love this thread. Personally I use Twitter to follow people who write interesting tweets about programming, but the trending sidebar tries very hard to make anybody anxious.

Yes, or rather: avoid that the blacklist becomes an individual user's fingerprints. Appreciate any suggestions on how to approach that.

No, I mean, in what way can this feature be implemented and avoid sharing any PII (assuming the list itself is not PII, since that list could potentially be the same used by other users)? What about a text file hosted somewhere, and the only identifiable information is the cookie containing the link to that file?

From a UI perspective, how would this be implemented in a privacy friendly manner?

Solar power is alive and kicking in Spain and increasingly more cost effective (removing the need of subsidies since 2018).

That's actually the reality for a lot of Mesopotamian tablets, e.g "this cow was sold to the neighbor for 2 shekels of silver".

The idea behind libs like htmx is that you get to have some of the niceties of a SPA, without writing any JS and requiring minimal computational power from the client.

Yes. Source: I'm cuban.

Tailwind has a class for almost everything, which makes it quite heavy: 1600kb minified. In my experience you end up with ≤ 15kb of minified CSS after running PurgeCSS anyway, so this is not an issue. Personally I prefer Tailwind because you practically don't have to write any CSS. With something like Blunt expect finding many edge cases where you will have to write custom CSS. I do write custom classes that wrap Tailwind classes using the @apply method.. e.g .card and .btn are typical examples (see https://tailwindcss.com/course/composing-utilities-with-appl...).

Hey - thanks. I'm also happy with the Dennis Ritchie portrait. As a "hobbyist" it took me some time to get that portrait right! I'll be adding Ken Thompson soon and most likely will add Charles Babbage to that list at some point.

Edit: I just took a look at your drawings, they are impressive. Is there any way I can get in touch with you privately?

I visited the Cité U in Paris recently where different countries have residence housing for students, each respective building designed in a particular architectural style.

Germany's Maison Heinrich Heine, constructed in Bauhaus style [1], didn't particularly impress me. It was dull and rather uninteresting. I had the opposite feeling of what one generally fells in a place like this, surrounded by trees and Greek and Roman-inspired architecture like Fondation Rosa Abreu De Grancher [2].

[1] http://www.ciup.fr/maison-heinrich-heine/en/history/

[2] http://www.ciup.fr/fondation-abreu-grancher/en/

My point is simple: If the US had not severed ties with Cuba and instead engaged with Fidel (as he initially tried to do with the US), chances are Cuba wouldn't have alienated itself with the Soviet Union, and Christians (and everybody else) would have been much better off.

Repression of the Church didn't happen until years after the revolution and the Soviet Union had become its main ally.

Cuba is worse off today than it was 60 years ago by the way, so in that sense, they aren't "stuck in the 60s".

What did the US lose? An ally and a potentially strong economy to trade with a few miles from US shore. Cuban music had quite some influence on the music of New Orleans, particularly jazz. Cuban musicians would regularly travel back and forth from Havana to New Orleans before the revolution (and the other way around).

On the contrary. I think our leaders should spend more time together. Maybe they should even vacation together.

The US severed economic ties with Cuba in the 60s and look what happened (only recently celebrating Christmas became legal, and property that belonged to the church was returned). There are countless examples like that.

Feliz Navidad from Asturias, Spain!

I learned Unreal Engine for a pet project and Google App Engine. The later (app engine) I more or less was forced to use and had lots of problems with it.

Sad truth. I feel like this is very generational though. Where I live (Spain) adults and older people are generally very sweet towards kids, they really appreciate the presence of kids. The younger generation already has a much colder/negative (noticeable) attitude towards kids.

Have you thought of why people who have kids create groups? I'm starting to think that it's much like a defensive mechanism, a form of protection.

I believe the low birth rates among higher earners has to do with the simple fact that high earners are more carrier oriented (for various reasons). It's hard to educate yourself and bring up children at the same time (my wife is currently there). Anecdotally, a friend just recently failed her (unpaid) PhD because in France (where she lives) in her field you have 4 years to finish. She is Middle-eastern, and she decided to have two children during that period.

Some countries (take Cuba for instance) have little consumerism but their birthrate remains low (dysfunctional economy + educated population).

I get your point but Stalin was not an intellectual and has never been considered one, not even by the Intelligentsia and much less by western intellectuals. It's not a case of good or bad, the man simply wasn't very bright. I welcome you to read any of his writings, he was a historicist and a refuter of science (Lysenkoism) much like his peers.

To understand Stalin's "success", you must first understand Russia and its history.

The idea that we can just profile Stalin/Hitler and what not, then try to find people that fit that profile to keep them away from power is at best naive and at worst dangerous.

I wish people stopped using throwaway accounts for every unpopular opinion on HN.

I wouldn't talk about the evidently poor quality of this article. What I truly don't understand is how repulsive and intellectually poor topics like Stalin get to be #1 on the front-page. Surely people wouldn't have upvoted this if the name happened to be Hitler. Surely we have plenty of Western literature on negotiation that doesn't involve a turd and pagan mass murder like Stalin whose negotiation skills are at best a result of accidents and lucky coincidences. Why is Stalin less repulsive for the HN crowd? What exactly makes Stalin intellectually interesting?

Are Americans so poorly knowledgeable of Western literature they find this well versed but empty writing interesting?

First, you write 11% of adults smoke, then go on to write that ~525,000 of the population smokes. 11% of the adult population makes a much smaller number than that. The number of people who smoke daily among 16-24y olds is 3% and 15% for the age group 55-64y [1]. Of those who used to smoke, 80% don't use any nicotine products anymore [2]. The reduction the last years in the numbers of smokers was so large everybody knew at least one close family member in the process of quitting. According to the numbers, most smokers have low education and earn less [3]. As this article points out:

> Samtidig er det vist at relativ fattigdom øker kronisk stress, som igjen fører til mer røyking.

Translation: At the same time, it is shown that relative poverty increases chronic stress, which in turn leads to more smoking. (I thought this was a pretty well-known fact).

[1] https://www.ssb.no/statbank/table/05307/chartViewLine/

[2] https://www.ssb.no/helse/artikler-og-publikasjoner/fire-av-f...

[3] https://www.fhi.no/ml/royking/hvorfor-har-roykevanene-endret...

I saw an entire country (Norway) quit smoking in a couple of years, family members, friends, and myself. It became culturally unacceptable. Today only people at the bottom of society smoke. Troubled teenagers started using something called "snus" instead because they think it's cool.

Nicotine withdrawal symptoms aren't that extreme though (I've been there). And yes, more people than you imagine have mental issues, not necessarily of such character that they have high life-altering consequences. Humans are strong and small mental issues mostly go unnoticed because they aren't evident unless you're a careful observer.

"Willpower" and the "ability to stoically suffer" through illness is a product of exactly mental health.

I do believe most smokers today are troubled by something, yes. In the past, it was culturally acceptable but not so much anymore (especially in Northern Europe, I can't really talk for the US). Most people who are bothered by something have a sort obsessive habit, e.g shaking one leg or a finger, touching his hair, smoking, chewing something, eating salty or sugary things. Just an observation.

It's the process of leaving childhood, "the only utopia" as Hayao Miyazaki once said and entering adulthood which usually implies having responsibility/taking care of others.

Sure, but any mentally healthy person can quit without too much trouble if they decide to. The problem is when the person isn't mentally healthy, in such case nicotine might even alleviate the suffering so quitting becomes really hard.