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vcavallo··on I'm giving up on open source
Yes! Make money!
vcavallo··on Blinded by Scientism
https://blog.vinneycavallo.com/posts/2019/12/05/optimistic-n...
vcavallo··on Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created
So if I declare you to be an idiot nobody ever has to listen to anything you have to say in the future?

Aside from the obvious problems of how to determine “established oneself as an idiot”, what implications does this have for the concept of redemption?

vcavallo··on Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created
What's your point?

I'm saying that SirensOfTitan's comment adds nothing that isn't already present in the linked video (and he freely admits that he didn't watch it) and therefore really serves no purpose (other than to boast, "I know things about this topic already _and_ I don't even need to watch the video".)

Your defense of SirensOfTitan's comment's supposed utility is to make your own tangential point which does nothing to argue that the original comment is valuable.

So I maintain: What was the point of SiresOfTitan's comment?

vcavallo··on Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created
You make a lot of good points, but the conclusion is, depressingly, as always, that power and influence necessarily win out over truth every time.

There’s no reason to expect truth to prevail in an environment where it doesn’t have an adaptive advantage.

vcavallo··on Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created
Why are you commenting if you didn’t take in the content of the link?

The little fact you drop here for some reason is right there in the video description.

vcavallo··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
I haven't looked into any automation options, but I doubt it. Seems like Working Copy takes a specified folder in the "Files" app and treats it as a git repo (in this case, the Obsidian/YourVaultHere folder). When you launch Working Copy you're basically sitting at a (very nice) git UI, so all the standard git workflows are present.

I'm used to using a variety of editing software and then manually pushing my notes repo, so the lack of automatic syncing doesn't bother me. In fact, I prefer it. I've been burned by auto-syncing before and it makes me nervous.

vcavallo··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
Confirming: Working Copy is _itself_ amazing, and solves the syncing-obsidian-to-github-on-ios problem.
vcavallo··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
I just found this: https://workingcopyapp.com/
vcavallo··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
> Did you use some plugin that helped with the committing and pushing?

No, it's just a folder of markdown files that I keep in version control and access through a variety of software, including (usually) Obsidian.

vcavallo··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
So, bad news for me if I’m using GitHub?

Edit: looking in to https://workingcopyapp.com/ now. an iOS git client.

vcavallo··on High conspiracy belief is associated with low critical thinking ability
Is there a non-paywalled version somewhere?
vcavallo··on High conspiracy belief is associated with low critical thinking ability
That’s what THEY want you to think!
vcavallo··on The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
It had this quality seemingly out of the gate, not after a period of selection. that’s part of the problem.
vcavallo··on 150 people fatally shot in more than 400 shootings over the 4th of July weekend
aren’t the weapons a bit different? or do you think rural americans are stockpiling rocket launchers and AK47s?
vcavallo··on Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps
We just need new disruptors.

A little tougher now that the current companies have the government on their side.

vcavallo··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
I set up a newsletters email folder with automatic filtering. When I feel like reading newsletters, I go there. Otherwise, I don’t see them. Sort of the same behavior loop of opening up my RSS feed (which, incidentally, is how I’m seeing this post).
vcavallo··on Google reports soaring attrition among Black women
I’d be interested in reading your hard-to-represent analysis. You can find various ways to contact me, including email, at vinneycavallo.com. Send it over!
vcavallo··on Millions Choose Simple Privacy Protection with DuckDuckGo
Two (plus a space) for me. if you’re on iOS - and I think Android - if you hold the “123” modifier and then _slide_ to the “!” and release, it inputs the character and then switches the keyboard back to alpha. one touch.
vcavallo··on Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform
What’s up with all the black flags and raised fists?
vcavallo··on The 4:6 method for coffee-brewing (2017) [video]
what about grinding?
vcavallo··on Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said
this is a great summary: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/politics-industry/
vcavallo··on Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said
It's interesting to consider how those primary candidates got there and to what extent it would be possible to change who shows up in that position.

Check out "Hate, Inc." by Matt Taibbi. He details the process by which party bosses essentially determine the primary field (and have done so for decades), and the media complex reinforces these choices using terms like "electable" or "wise choice" or "stubborn" or "off reservation".

Yes, this is only about the single off of the President (the Vice President choice is even less available to the people), but there is something to be said about the most visible and paid-attention-to office being the one that is categorically the least in the hands of the people. ...yet nobody seems to mention it.

vcavallo··on Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said
There is a political duopoly in this country that has a democracy-murdering stranglehold and barely anyone is aware of it.
vcavallo··on Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said
even if people cared a lot, you think they’d get presidential primary candidates that they want? or a vice president that they want? these things are faze choices.
vcavallo··on I’m trying to understand hedonic adjustments
Sort of an interesting detail on the safety standards. Even though these mostly impact/protect the eventual owner _only_, they are forced into the car design such that a prospective buyer’s choices (and prices) are constrained. Oddly enough, both these mandated price-increases and the inflation-hiding hedonic adjustments that benefit from them are coming from the same general vicinity..
vcavallo··on I’m trying to understand hedonic adjustments
That critical detail whooshed over the head of the comment to which you’re replying.
vcavallo··on Collabarate on bringing about the end of crypto currencies like Bitcoin
No, thanks!
vcavallo··on Collabarate on bringing about the end of crypto currencies like Bitcoin
not to be a dick, but, i don’t think you understand that the problem with recklessly printing money is not whether you’re using paper or plastic.

read up on inflation a little.

vcavallo··on How Basecamp Blew Up
> It strikes me as very odd that you would suddenly so fundamentally distrust your co-workers with whom you share so much. But I'm also not in the US and maybe this is just the current climate over there.

Yes, it absolutely is the climate here. it’s awful. tribalism, division, distrust and eagerness to demonize anyone who doesn’t tow your line.

we’re doomed

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