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roymckenzie··on Lime Scooters Will Now Shut Down If Driven over Pride Flag Crosswalk
Fascinating. Is “the future of transportation” shutting down access if you don’t conform to en vogue cultural shibboleths?
roymckenzie··on Show HN: Biblos – Semantic Bible Embedded Vector Search and Claude LLM
Nice work!
roymckenzie··on Thanks Economist, You Really Know What Has Gone Wrong with the Internet
I think it's pretty clear that, in addition to the very hard sell, it's a design nightmare.
roymckenzie··on Is capitalism a threat to democracy?
A good book that demonstrates how hyper-capitalism is inconsistent with Democratic rule is The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
roymckenzie··on Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books (2017)
They could be augmented with datacenters for a distributed search index that is based on open source software.
roymckenzie··on The Psychology of Russiagate
God bless Jacobin. And bless Glenn for being one of the few rational voices in the media making sense of actual findings in this investigation.
roymckenzie··on Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities
"Corporations are people, my friend."
roymckenzie··on Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
The next social network I join will be decentralized with a heavy focus on design and usability. Gtfo
roymckenzie··on Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
I just made a very basic one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icibkhaehdofmcbfjf...

Code here: https://github.com/roymckenzie/detect-zero-width-characters-...

Submit a PR! I know it could be better!

Needed features:

* right-click selected text and "Sanitize and Copy" * toggle off and on ...

roymckenzie··on Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Development
Oh heck ya! I will search the net for Hellgate Venture. I don't know if there is any PMing here.
roymckenzie··on Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Development
I wouldn't say Missoula is far off into the woods, but maybe that's just where you want to be; sorry if I misunderstood you.

I think about remote work drying up often, but I think if remote work dried up for me it would mean there was a major shift in the industry, so I don't think anyone would be safe from that.

Being near an urban center would mean that you could possibly pound the pavement for a new job in a major city a lot easier. If the industry changes massively, will being near an urban center mean there will still be a lot of jobs there? Maybe? Maybe not.

roymckenzie··on Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Development
It is a great town. Very friendly people. Beautiful valley. Really looking forward to summer! :)
roymckenzie··on Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Development
There's avocados in them thar hills!
roymckenzie··on Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Development
I lived in San Francisco for the past seven years, but moved to Missoula, Montana because living in the city and even surrounding places like Oakland, South Bay was increasingly way too expensive. I count myself lucky that I am self-employed and work in an industry that I can easily do remote work as the job prospects in Missoula mostly center around low-wage service work.

At the end of the day, I moved to Missoula so I can do my part as a millennial and start buying diamonds again.

roymckenzie··on Human Skulls Mounted on Stakes Found at 8,000-Year-Old Burial Site in Sweden
I can appreciate how European Mesolithic cultures dealt with the corrupt CEOs of their big banks.
roymckenzie··on Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive
Lol
roymckenzie··on Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive
Lol
roymckenzie··on Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive
Lol America. Where walkable streets are justified by economics and not humanities.
roymckenzie··on The smug style in American liberalism
Ironic. Vox exemplifies this.
roymckenzie··on The Economic Expansion Is Finally Helping the Middle Class
Could have fooled me
roymckenzie··on I Hope Twitter Goes Away
sanctimonious bloviating

He is criticizing Twitter for being something it isn't.

It's a shame this made it to the front page of ycombinator news.

roymckenzie··on [dead]
Troll bait. Missing the point.
roymckenzie··on Whatever goes up, that’s what we do
While it does flex, I won't be spending that kind of money on something like that until it folds up in my pocket.
roymckenzie··on [dead]
"ripped the phone out of her hand, saying "App/OS UI integration is the future of mobile!" & then ran to get an Uber"
roymckenzie··on Contact Us
Best captcha everrrr
roymckenzie··on Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013?
Of all the books I read (or listened to) The Trauma of Everyday Life: A Guide to Inner Peace by Mark Epstein was the most life changing in that it made me more conscious of myself and my emotions, both of which I find difficult to understand.

Some other great ones:

The Neurobiology of We - Daniel Siegel (lots of stuff on interdependence here)

Zealot - Reza Aslan (a great book detailing the life of the man, Jesus of Nazareth)

1984 - George Orwell (I think very topical)

The Field - Lynne McTaggert (some "woo" but thought provoking)

roymckenzie··on Robert Scoble and Jaron Lanier on wearable technology [video]
This was the most awkward interview I've seen in a while...
roymckenzie··on How do you learn new programming languages?
I really like codeschool.com