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Really disappointed to see this comment. If you think you're a victim of racism and you say so, that's "casual racism"? Think again.

I wonder what women think of this. Will they feel safe enough to try it?

Thanks for the suggestion. I agree with you! I've started working on something similar to what you've described, but it's going to take me some time -- it's an enormous undertaking.

In the meantime, you might want to check out this tool: http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2

Thanks! I've merged it.

Native New Mexican here. Rainwater collection is more nuanced than this article suggests. Water that runs off a roof of a building isn't "wasted." It typically drains into an aquifer or a river. This is well-known in Tucson, a city that pumped so much groundwater that the Santa Cruz river dried up decades ago. [1]

There are also legal ramifications. In New Mexico, it's not clear whether rainwater collection is legal. [2] The water falling on your property could be somebody else's water under the doctrine of prior appropriation.

[1] https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/a-river-ran-through-it/C...

[2] http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/2011/07/rainwater-harvesting-i...

Maybe this site?

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

I understand what you're saying and agree for the most part. I guess the big question here is whether or not parents can or should teach their children self-control. As a parent, should I just give my child access to everything and hope for the best? Or should I restrict access and hope they don't become bitter hermits? :)

> That has nothing to do with technology and absolutely everything to do with how they deal with their life in general.

With all due respect, accessing the internet today is nothing like what it was in 1990. It's like comparing apples to oranges. There's a huge difference between accessing a BBS with a modem and pulling an iPhone out your pocket and pulling up Facebook's newsfeed with a couple taps of your finger. These applications are designed to be addictive, and people's unfettered ability to access them anywhere enables their addictions. The physical and technical barriers that limited your access in 1990 are long gone.

This doesn't invalidate the article, but I feel the need to point out that the author lives in a $63 million house with $80,000 worth of TV screens lining the walls. "Anyone in the house can change the screens’ displays to their favorite painting or photograph, in effect personalizing the room (via lighting, temperature, and even decor) to the guest’s own flavor." [0]

They certainly didn't do themselves any favors when they built their house.

[0] http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/12-unbelieva...

One of my favorite tech writing tips came from an email exchange with Owen Linzmayer, the author of Apple Confidential (No Starch Press):

"The most important thing to remember about technical writing is that the goal is not necessarily to be understood, but rather to avoid misunderstanding. As such, consistency and clarity are paramount, and you should never assume your reader has the knowledge you possess.

"I try to make sure to tell readers not only how to do something, but why. That way they are not just following instructions and learning by rote, but rather, they're building their understanding of the system you're explaining, and perhaps can devise solutions to problems you haven't covered."

According to Forbes [0]:

- Name

- Street address

- Party affiliation

- Elections in which you did (or did not) vote

- Phone number

- Email address

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/metabrown/2015/12/28/voter-data...

No. The Chicago Tribune [0] reported on the type of data exposed:

> The files included names, addresses, dates of birth, the last four digits of many voters' Social Security numbers, driver's license and state ID numbers for the 1.8 million who are registered to vote in Chicago.

[0] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-chicago...

Nah, the tweet is about Twilio, not Trello

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6422393

What makes you think they didn't? They were critical of the Obama administration too. Example: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveill...

This is very similar to another article that recently hit the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14811054

I made an API that allows you to programmatically monitoring the status pages of hundreds of web-based applications: https://statusbot.io/

Hoping to add a bunch more services and webhooks soon.

Site seems to be down. Here's the cached article: http://archive.is/p5ZLR

I think in this instance it means not accepting venture capital, which gives them greater flexibility to travel.

> I worked all my young life, in Iowa, on a farm.

I'm sorry, but did you just compare working on a farm in Iowa to being a child slave in a war zone? What's happening in the Congo is globalization at it's worst. Millions have been slaughtered in that nation in recent years and you say it's "a hard world." That takes a lot of nerve, man.

I'm also a stutterer. I wish I could share with you the overwhelming shame, humiliation, and ostracism I experienced as a child in my classroom environments. As a result I feel tremendous compassion for others with physical and mental limitations. Speech therapy really helped me help myself, but I still sometimes stutter.

> This article exploits it, and commensurate skepticism is warranted.

Sure, but empirical evidence tells me that my children are much happier after having played outside with their friends for an hour than they are after watching videos on YouTube. I can't just ignore that.

Most people in this thread seem to be downplaying the seriousness of these problems, but as a parent I can tell you that the problems are very real. Paul Graham wrote about them several years ago in his essay "The Acceleration of Addictiveness" [0]:

"I've avoided most addictions, but the Internet got me because it became addictive while I was using it. Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. We're all trying to figure out our own customs for getting free of it. That's why I don't have an iPhone, for example; the last thing I want is for the Internet to follow me out into the world."

[0] http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html

No Cloudflare?

Negotiation is a huge part of it. Patio11 wrote a great blog post on this several years ago: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

Something to note is that 93 percent of soy grown in the United States is genetically modified [0].

[0]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetical...

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170711212818/http://thesunmaga...

> Most of the companies I've interviewed with will only consider remote workers who have prior experience working remotely.

I also ran into this. What helped me was being able to point to side projects that I had successfully completed. From what I can tell, what employers really want to know is that you can work on your own, from your own house. Side projects help with that. It also helps if you can work from home 1-2 days a week at your current job. Then you can point to that as proof that you work from home 20% of the time.

To find my remote job two years ago, I went down the list of companies in the Awesome Remote Job list [0] and checked every single one of their career pages. You can sometimes also find remote jobs on Indeed by putting "remote" in the location field.

[0] https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/

> They absolutely would not have.

Perhaps not. But Apple absolutely benefited from the overwhelmingly positive press coverage it received as a result of their decision to oppose the FBI. And when the FBI withdrew their request, Apple looked like the winner. So yes, I do believe they opposed the FBI in that instance to strengthen their brand.