Sounds like HN is a waste of time for you and your goals.
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Your post lack humanity and nuance. Perhaps you’re jaded by your experiences which is fair but not representative.
Consistent access to sufficient money is life changing for people who grew up without. The change isn’t immediate. You don’t just suddenly adapt. You don’t unlearn the coping mechanisms you develop to survive while your poor. It takes time.
Poverty fucks you up.
This is a great little line, thanks.
On the subject matter, all of the thinking around this stuff is very all-or-nothing. I know it’s popular to say that you need to be balanced in your considerations too but I find the idea of balance to suggest a stillness and inaction, set and forget.
I think you need to hold the different conflicting ideas in your head, at the same time and push them into conflict with each other to find a pragmatic mix of them.
Broadly yes, but it would be hubris to claim you can tell the correctness of all code from merely looking at it.
Code style is fine to keep consistent but sometimes concepts just aren’t battle tested enough to warrant their own abstractions yet and committing to one to please a cyclomatic complexity / line count score is actually just creating more work for some future engineer who is tasked with the job of re-engineering the solution.
What do you mean?
> I'd guess that site is leveraging the effort which webmail providers spend to weed out bots and sock-puppets. And perhaps they use the address for adtech purposes. But I don't know for sure.
It’s a lot like having a physical address which is used as a core part of meatspace identity management.
> I'd love to hear from such sites about how they use customer email. If it's not primarily for communication, it may not make sense to accommodate it in TMTP.
A shared unique identifier (value for user is that it is consistent across services).
A means of authentication when primary auth (password) cant be used (company sends links etc).
1-1 channel of communication (notifications of activity or changes in a service).
Obviously, it’s just my opinion, but making a new messaging protocol won’t fix email. My hunch is that is because email’s primary purpose (to the end user) is not to provide a messaging channel but to provide an identity.
The reason I first got an email address was to get a Runescape account. Email's killer feature on the modern internet is identity management. On most sites it's impossible to create an identity without one.
Couple of things / questions.
1. Can I schedule a todo more than once? Some stuff requires multiple rounds if work.
2. My back button doesnt work from the login page. I press back expecting to go to index but instead refresh login.
I don’t know tbh. Feels wrong though.
Firstly, bus factor. Then robustness. How do you train new teachers? How do they get experience? Then theres diversity of thought, where do you get that from if everyone has the same progenitor of thoughts?
Then what happens politically when you give such a few number of people such power. Would fundamentally change politics.
What abuses of power? Let the wrong person into those few teachers and give them lots of control over millions of children's day to day lives? Thats a lot of children to screw up if you get it wrong.
That aside, it goes against my personal belief about how the world and humans work so I can’t get down with it.
When they have enough customers (C) such that X/C < Y, the price (Y) for all customers drops so that Y = X/C.
Obviously, as they gain more customers they may need to increase X to pay for resources or staff which would increase the price.
Agree to do thing, get distracted by far more engaging thing, don't do agreed upon thing.
> You just draw it yourself.
This is disingenuous. It might be ok in Games not to have decent interop with the OS but for productivity tools, it is a requirement.
Which means you need to implement OS native interop (for multiple DE's in linux perhaps), accessibility for screen readers and you need to be smart with your rendering because having a function called 60+ times a second is a surprisingly big foot gun. All this across 2-3 very different (and currently diverging) operating systems.
I think the author is trying to get to a wonderful future but their heading in totally the wrong direction.
As humans, do the politics.
No, I think that many are arguing for companies not to take a stance in cultural as well as legislative power balances. (I would argue that legislative power structures and cultural power structure are not so easily separated, as they inform each other).
Both concepts are covered by the term “politics”. The colloquial “office politics” is just such an example of that.
To sum up, I appreciate the direction you took to uncover the crux of disagreements that ate going on but I feel that your analysis is flawed because you assert that the issue is cut down a particular line (which I believe it is not) and then invalidate the opposing half through a projected misuse of the term “political” (when it is in-fact mot a misuse of the term “politial”).
To your aside: I would hesitate to say that this is a uniquely US thing. Womens rights would appear, to my relatively lay self, to still be a prevalent source of cultural and legislative power imbalance in many countries and blocs across the world.