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I truly don't understand the content of that video, perhaps I'm ignorant of the way the US system works.

I see the donation/lobbying system as something wealthy individuals/groups can use to amplify their voices in political discussion. Equating limiting the amplification factor with censorship seems like a real stretch.

If policy makers are incentivised to make policy which benefits certain groups for reasons other than what best serves their constituents (i.e. to secure party donations) that to me is the essence of corruption.

I think (hope) the downvoters have missed the sarcasm in this comment

Do you think it sounds less serious than MongoDB?

There was similar marketing in the UK too.

http://www.just-drinks.com/news/ovaltine-reinvents-itself-wi...

Had to double check but seems so!

(link to image of ovaltine jar) https://www.catchthedeal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2...

There is an extremely similar drink in the UK (and probably elsewhere) called Ovaltine which is marketed as an energy drink.

I always thought it was odd that two such similar drinks were marketed in such contrary ways. Horlicks to make your sleep and Ovaltine to give you energy. Perhaps that was the point at which I realised marketeers weren't always scientific in their advice :(

I really can't understand that first quote. Even if you believe you're doing something "highbrow and personally enriching", that doesn't make you a snob.

I find the difference between r/golang and r/node quite marked.

I think alt clicking on the maximise button "maximises"

I think saying they're "nonsense" is saying they're untrue.

I mean we as a society.

> Shouldn't taxi drivers be free to define how much they want to sell their time?

The problem with this is that, in my (perhaps naive) mind, the logical conclusion is a race to the bottom fuelled by greed (of the business) and desperation (of the employee) which helps nobody. In my view there should be a regulation to prevent how far this can go.

By the way, I don't think we'll agree on any of these points, but it's refreshing to have a discussion that doesn't descend into name-calling and personal criticism :)

>Enforcing a higher minimum wage just put people out of jobs...

Maybe increasing the amount taxi drivers are paid would drive up the cost of taxis and thus drive down demand for taxis. This seems reasonable to me. We're defining a minimum amount somebody's time is worth, which means the cost of things that use peoples time go up.

The root "problem" taxi drivers solve still exists - people still need to get around, but taxis aren't the only way to solve that problem. Train and bus services could be expanded or improved.

The other thing to consider is that the extra money the taxi drivers earn will most likely provide other economic opportunities.

I accept your comment about 'supporting the poor' was probably flippant but still, I find the idea that the best way to support the poor is to make taxis cheaper, rather than increasing the/enforcing a minimum wage absolutely bizarre.

I also wonder whether having these artificially low prices for things like Uber, reduces the incentive to improve more efficient modes of transportation like trains/buses.

I am leaving my current team, in part for this very reason. Senior technical people in the organisation don't value readable, understandable code, favouring 150 character one-liners instead. It's proven to be a very effective way of increasing the time taken for anybody except the author to debug issues. In my view, this has increased the perceived value of those responsible.

I'm sure that wasn't their ultimate intention but there's certainly no incentive to change!

This is effectively Raskolnikov's justification for committing murder in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Sorry for the spoiler, but you've had 150 years to read it.

Was trying to remember where I saw that. Thanks!

aha! I was missing the requirement for a project/viewport combination for two way sync.

Many thanks for the above information and the initial recommendation. This setup seems to be exactly what I've been looking for for quite some time.

Your comment inspired me to try all 3 tools in combination, and at first glance it seems like a very nice solution; certainly more effective than my current manual method. A quick question for you though, if you don't mind: do you use taskwarrior just as a backend for taskwiki or do you use it in its own right aswell?

I like the idea of just being able to add todo items quickly from a shell without opening the task list but I imagine those items would not be reflected in my taskwiki list without some kind of taskwarrior hook.

This is something I'm considering. I'm interested to hear more about your switch. Did you have any major problems? Is there anything you're particularly missing about your MB? I wonder whether there are a whole load of solid integration things I take for granted with Apple products (simple stuff like the machine actually going to sleep when you close the lid etc)

Could you please direct me to the latter deal? I didn't find anything like that when I came to renew my plan.

I don't know whether the title has changed since your comment but I fail to see how "Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of Dollars" could ever be a negative story.

The author after that quote:

"He wanted to give my my cards back but I tried for years to get rid of them so I say he can sell them and give me the BTC. Which he did and our deal was finally forfilled."

I too could find absolutely no trace of anything even approaching offensive in the comments I understand were the cause for outrage (based on this article [1] posted to HN yesterday 5/9).

[1][https://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockfor...]

Yeah, interested to hear opinions.

I pretty much came to the comments to post something similar. I'm sure there was a long comment thread here on HN discussing the perils of NIH this week. This seems like the end point of the alternative.