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My hardware store is locally own and carries phone mounts. I realize this is an outlier though.

Damn this hit me hard. If I ever hear this I know it's time to retire.

You forgot about the part where the virus mutates and jumps to humans.

The people you mention are too egotistic to even think that is a possibility. You don't get to be the people they are by thinking you have blindspots and aren't the greatest human to ever live.

His idea is eugenics but for chickens. Just let it spread it through all the birds and the ones that get infected will die and the ones that are immune will survive and breed and the chicken race will be stronger for it.

If I recall the problem with approval voting is that it is much easier to tamper with than RCV. Filling in an empty bubble is a lot easier than changing the order of ranking on a ballot

Way to miss the point. They said box product is well understood but it isn't these days.

Lot of young people don't know what a box product is. You're showing your age.

Enough people know about it that it has been put on ballots in several states and has had strong pushes in other states while STAR hasn't at all. If you want to get outside and start informing people about STAR then please do but RCV has a decade long head start and is the path of least resistance.

It absolutely makes sense. You need buy in from the public. RCV is the most known alternative and it has taken a decade to get it that far. If you want to start the work of informing people about STAR voting then be my guess but RCV is a tremendous improvement from what we have and an acceptable alternative.

It is important to contextualize that a lot of things this article is mourning have not come to pass.

> OBBBA sets the stage for the proposed cuts in the upcoming Presidential 2026 budget request, which aims to destroy federal research.

While it may seem hopeless and that "call your representatives" is pointless, there are several provisions that were stricken from this bill that are clear losses for the Trump admin. Trump's plan to sell off federal land was taken out of the bill due to huge backlash from Republican states for example. We are also heading in a midterm year so putting pressure on your representatives will be your best move. In the eyes of politicians, people who bother to call are people who bother to vote.

Anything is better than what we have and ranked choice voting is the most popular alternative.

Trump himself said he would like to deport citizens.

It's not though. Democrats have a lot of successes and are bad at communicating them while Republicans are great are spreading lies and propaganda. Obama once said he wishes he focused more on messaging like Republicans do. You're free to disagree and explain why you disagree if you want room for discussion and we can go from there.

The answer is to vote out politicians. Getting ranked choice voting on your states ballot would go a long way to fixing this. They would not have Mamdani on the ballot for NY mayor if it wasn't for ranked choice voting. Certain politicans know this and have made RCV illegal in their state. Get RCV on the ballot for your state.

I think editorializing the title is fine in this case. The original headline is not descriptive and buries the part that would be relevant to HN.

Look for a new job but be amendable to your current one. If they want you to "vibe code" then do it and look for another job on the side. Get in touch with your network and see if anyone is hiring with reasonable coding practices. My company bought everyone a Claude subscription but they trust us to use it where reasonable.

I've been using Phind lately and I think they do a really good job avoiding this problem. I don't think I've ever run into a fake URL using it. As a search engine, I think I still prefer Kagi but Phind is a great if you want a free option.

This is what I mean. Thanks for giving an example. There are very normal not sexy companies that need engineers.

People begging YC to "do the right thing" don't understand that this is the exact behavior that VCs love and reward.

The title is a bit clickbait because it's not really about leaving tech, it's about leaving the bullshit behind. If you don't want to work for FAANG actively ruining the world then you have options. In addition to what is posted here, the best advice I can give is to work at a company that isn't a tech company. More regular companies than you think employ software engineers.

Fathom if I recall correctly.

I'm going to buck the trend I see in this thread and say that the AI notetaker we've used has been helpful. After the meeting it sends a list of action items and meeting highlights that links to the timestamp in the meeting where we were talking about it in case we need to refer back. I've found it nice to have.

It is and isn't. Tesla's downward spiral gets more media traction than other companies but that doesn't change the fact it is in a downward spiral. I may be one of the few people that read Tesla's recent financials and they are completely propped up by two things: Tesla holds a lot of Bitcoin which increased in value and other companies buy carbon credits from Tesla which is a large source of revenue for them. If either of these two things were to change, Tesla would be in a very bad situation. Rumor is that Trump is trying to kill the entire carbon credit thing. This would be a disaster for Tesla.

You're right but this would require caring about the poorest in society which the US seems to have a problem with.

Spend some time in the less fortunate areas of your city. You'll learn very quickly how things work when it comes to the police.

You don't need to go south of the border. You can get pulled over for no reason in the US and have drugs planted on you by a cop simply having a bad day. I'm not interpreting least corrupt as no corruption. I think least corrupt is still a ridiculous statement.

LA Police are a literal gang. There are places with police that are corrupt in more obvious ways such as places in Africa but to say US cops are some of the least corrupt is ridiculous.

You are missing the point if you think it is about shaping someones' emotions towards police. The point is that there are plenty of valid reasons to just want to avoid interactions with or areas with police.

I've called cops as a victim. They were less than helpful to say the least. If anything, they were annoyed that I even bothered to ask for help.