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funemployedon Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died

The books were incredibly influential on me as a teenager, twenty years later on re-reading the cantos I found some of the specific language around intergenerational romance to be troubling and the focus on it to be a major distraction from the rest of the excellent story.

Praying for his friends and family. RIP

funemployedon Show HN: Extra-steps.dev – AI hype mapped to CS primitives

Exactly

funemployedon Rocketships and Slingshots

based on the title I really was hoping for an article about kinetic launch strategies not another business metaphor

funemployedon Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

You know how I know that the desktop market is no longer the primary consumer market? Because Linux has a 3% market share.

funemployedon Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983

what happened in 1980?

funemployedon Show HN: I made a puzzle game with Three.js

a simple idea executed very well makes for an all around satisfying experience

funemployedon Ask HN: What are some surprising ways to gain social status?

A surprising way to gain social status is to develop an independent sense of morals and treat people according to your ethical code.

funemployedon Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory

Kuai Liang welcomes his German comrades in the fight to destroy the corrupt Lin Kuei

funemployedon Notion Is Down

https://twitter.com/kvlly/status/1360238746109640716

appears they had the kind of trouble that made them publicly reach out for support from Name.com and then delete their tweet.

funemployedon HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry

Totally agree, and I also generally find the article poorly written. I would reduce it to the following statements: 1. HBO is not showing the entire Tom and Jerry collection, which is bad because even though some episodes contain offensive stereotypes the show is culturally significant and unavailable elsewhere. 2. HBO streaming has bad UX.

Most of the article seems devoted to 1 and focused on the 'cancel culture' reasons why HBO might not be showing the full catalog while also admitting that there is also a large amount of the catalog not on HBO that is not plausibly part of the several episodes that would be targeted for being cancelled. Seems like the premise of the article kind of falls apart at that point, a little self-refuting.

Having the Jetsons and Flintstones on streaming has been a blast for me as well.

funemployedon New York Fed Again Upsizes Liquidity Plans for Turn of the Year

> The daily amount borrowed, by itself, understates the significance.

If someone tells me that the NY Fed is looking to significantly (>25%) increase its overnight and short-term liquidity operations and the necessary increases are in the range of tens of billions of dollars then that already sounds pretty important. I don't see how anything you said is an argument that cumulative liquidity is an appropriate measure here. Instead we both seem to agree that if someone had said - the loans are only $150 billion (because that seems to be the one day aggregate limit) then that person would also be misleading.

My point is not that this isn't an important issue but rather that it is an important issue and as such it deserves serious coverage and the linked article is not it.

funemployedon New York Fed Again Upsizes Liquidity Plans for Turn of the Year

If I lend my friend $10 every day for lunch and he pays me back the next day and this happens 5 days in a row in what context would it make sense to say I have lent him $50 dollars? The linked discussion about cumulative liquidity seems completely full of FUD and designed to obfuscate rather than illuminate its readers. Less of this and more links to Matt Levine please.

funemployedon System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020

~2020~ 2021 will be the year of Linux on the desktop

funemployedon Show HN: A Simple LocalStorage Hook in React

browser compatibility/other edge case handling would be one decent reason to utilize a package for otherwise straightforward implementations. The MDN docs have a helpful walkthrough for feature detecting localStorage that would make a useful addition to your library. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage...

funemployedon Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says

When firefighters damage someone's property to create a fire break (like say after an earthquake) should they also compensate that person after the fact?

funemployedon Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says

Came here to say this. Regardless of the specific facts of this case, the purpose of private insurance is to compensate individuals who suffer low-probability events like this through no fault of their own by spreading risk over a large population. If the police/government are responding to a legitimate public safety emergency I don't want them picking and choosing which property to damage based on their potential liability.

funemployedon Let's Hear It. The truth about how hard you've worked to get your startup going

Not very.

funemployedon The sum of all the positive integers is not -1/12

For the love of math, this!

funemployedon Mystery Rock 'Appears' in Front of Mars Rover

A wild ROCK appears?

funemployedon US planes challenge China air zone

keeping up foreign relations, you know?