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mrcartmenez··on AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare
Agreed. I really struggled to find the actually useful info here. But that’s it. Have leverage and use it in some unspecified way
mrcartmenez··on To Ease Housing Crisis, California Lawmakers Vote to Open Suburbs to Development
Higher density is more economically efficient for local authorities, does less harm to the environment per resident and encourages greener behaviour from individuals, for example discouraging car use.

Spars suburbs do no one any good other than those fortunate enough to be wealthy enough to live in places that end up being subsidised by high-density neighbourhoods, often home to poorer residents.

mrcartmenez··on Ask HN: Does your job make the world a better place?
I just quit a job with an oil company. Couldn’t do it. Felt wayyyy too shitty
mrcartmenez··on [dead]
Are women’s rights worth killing for?
mrcartmenez··on Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
Yes. We can replace a large embedded monopoly /s
mrcartmenez··on Released from a gag order regarding a federal investigation into a silly comment
Agreed. It may not have been a direct threat but it was threatening.
mrcartmenez··on Released from a gag order regarding a federal investigation into a silly comment
I would be surprised if instead of going through discovery they... wait, no, no no no no no no no no
mrcartmenez··on Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19
Most likely the lack of oxygen to the brain
mrcartmenez··on Ask HN: How are salaries for senior devs in Berlin at the moment?
False.

There are over 6500 properties with at least two bedrooms listed for rent on Zoopla for less than £1500per month.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/property/london/?beds_min=2...

If you don’t have kids, get one of the several thousand one bedroom places listed for less than 1k per month.

mrcartmenez··on Schopenhauer's 38 Stratagems, or 38 Ways to Win an Argument
My ex wife was clearly a student of his work
mrcartmenez··on Extremely burnt out at 25. Considering quitting job and taking an extended break
You’re suffering from depression. It’s a form of brain damage caused by stress or trauma. Take a break for as long as you want. Have a one time dose of mushrooms or Ketamine and make sure you get a social life and engage with your community. A good life is the best revenge.
mrcartmenez··on Fears arise that Lambda Covid-19 variant from Peru may be resistant to vaccines
Fuck
mrcartmenez··on Ask HN: Anyone built a business with no-code tools?
I see you too are familiar with Microsoft AD/B2C
mrcartmenez··on Shell ordered to cut CO2 emissions by 45% in landmark climate case
Either most of your car journeys are to IKEA or your statement is an example of the Weak Man fallacy.

Sure, some people with disabilities who live outside of the delivery radius of an ikea will need to drive there. Is that the majority of car use? No.

mrcartmenez··on Paperlike 253: The First 25.3 inch E-ink Monitor
My sister worked on high-def colour e-ink screens in the early 2000s. Patents suck
mrcartmenez··on The Economist's excess deaths model
In the long run we’ll all be dead.

So if you killed everyone on earth the mortality rate for the next eternity would be 0.

Please don’t tell the singularity

mrcartmenez··on Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'
Does America have a concept of walking distance?
mrcartmenez··on I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
Why is this person calling post mail? So confused
mrcartmenez··on Royal Marines Testing Out Jet Suits [video]
I remember watching a similar video of Royal Marines demonstrating jet packs in the 1980s. What’s old is new again.
mrcartmenez··on Australia proposes teaching cyber-security to five-year-old kids
not the onion
mrcartmenez··on Observable Plot
Mike I just wanted to say I really enjoyed using D3 and I was also very impressed when reading the source code. It’s an excellent model for good programming in JavaScript that served as a great example for a younger me.

Thank you to you and your team for D3 and for this library. I’m sure I’ll get lots of use (and freelance gigs) out of it.

Has been a pleasure working with your work.

mrcartmenez··on Ask HN: How did you transition from FTE to self-employed/sole proprietor?
I’m an Angular/full stack dev consultant in the UK. I quit my job and took a contracting role. That was it.
mrcartmenez··on Lambda School lays off 65 employees
There’s decent science on why this isn’t possible. Basically you need to space things out to give the brain time to work out what to put into long term memory
mrcartmenez··on New Chia coin crypto with Proof of Space may create shortage of storage device
What a giant waste of human effort and natural resources.

Humanity is fucked

mrcartmenez··on The NoPhone
These are all fair points reasonably made.
mrcartmenez··on Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
It’s not human nature it’s management consultancy culture. Fuck agile
mrcartmenez··on Click
It’s also because it’s good practice to use the lowest power loop possible.

A for loop can implement a reduce, a reduce can implement a map, a map can implement a forEach, but not the inverse.

mrcartmenez··on Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?
No. Scrum is a horrible way of working that disempowers developers, silos them away from stakeholders and customers, and prioritises middle management over product designers. Its only selling point is the juxtaposition against the straw man “Waterfall”.

Scrum is incompatible with Agile principles.

mrcartmenez··on Rent controls have split housing in Berlin into two distinct markets
I’m amazed that the writer can spin this as bad. Low housing-costs are both fantastic for residents and fantastic for the economy due to increased disposable income. Only a Rentier Capitalist would want the opposite.
mrcartmenez··on Training Makes Runners More Efficient, but Not Cyclists (2018)
Participants were measured on a fixed bike in a lab wearing running shoes.

Sorry guys but this is junk science

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