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Re:The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967) on Saturday January 24, 2026 @11:30PM (#46750728)
I think it includes anyone who cares to read it.
Very interesting to read people’s belief in English as an unambiguous and testable language.

One comment claims it’s not necessary to read code when there is documentation (generated by an LLM)

Language varies with geography and with time. British, Americans, and Canadians speak “similar” English, but not identical.

And read a book from 70-80 years ago to see that many words appear to be used for their “secondary meaning.” Of course, what we consider their secondary meaning today was the primary meaning back then.

What git stats do you have that show “impact”?

The OP was right to assume it was lines of code. Another assumption could be number of commits, which also doesn’t measure impact.

Re:Anthropic Economic Index economic primitives on Friday January 23, 2026 @01:53AM (#46729322)
Unfortunately, in this context travel planning means planning a vacation. And not the travel route of a traveling salesman.
Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:24AM (#46542098)
That’s exactly what an oppressive government would have their citizens say, fellow Bavarian!

/s

Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:23PM (#46531196)
Did they send you an email or call you? I doubt it.

You found their homepage. You found that they didn’t ask for money, and allowed you to use their product for free. You decided to use it.

And now, they’re liars. How dare they try to make money?

Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:19PM (#46531138)
Once you give it for free, you must work for free forever!

/s

So you don’t talk politics with strangers but they approach you and say “hello fellow comrade, we are communists.”

Or you just decide someone is a communist without talking to them. And your evidence is observing them murder or steal from or starve someone?

You should report these crimes you witness to authorities from time to time.

And being a communist today makes you inherit their crimes?
Ok.

If we are to assume communists do not out themselves, how do these people find those communists?

I talk politics with people and very openly describe myself as a leftist. I think it’s safe to say they would tell me they’re communists.
Where are these communists you speak of?

I haven’t met a single communist. And I am 40+ and I talk politics with everyone.

I’m 40+. Lived in 2 countries, Southern California, Northern California. Visited all the major cities on the West Coast, did a road trip through Nevada, NYC, Miami, Denver, Boulder. I talk politics pretty much with everyone.

I haven’t met a single communist in my life. These delusions people have truly scare me.

Edit: Forgot to mention I’ve also been to Mexico, Jamaica, 2 different states in Brazil, Netherlands, France, England, and Canada. I must repel communists.

Re:Everything as Code: How We Manage Our Company in One Monorepo on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @04:33AM (#46442701)
I’m not sure how seemingly most of us forgot about the context window being a finite _window_.

“It’s all there Claude just read it.”

Ok…

Re:Everything as Code: How We Manage Our Company in One Monorepo on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @04:29AM (#46442679)
Their dev branch is _the_ development branch.

They don’t do code reviews or any sort of parallel development.

They’re under the impression that “releases are complex and this is how they avoid it” but they just moved the complexity and sacrificed things like parallel work, code reviews, reverts of whole features.

Re:Loneliness at 19, How to Cope? on Monday December 29, 2025 @06:56PM (#46427641)
I am guessing everyday you are getting a chance to make a friend, but somehow it doesn’t work out.

So let’s invert it: what prevents/kills friendships?

- lying (for whatever reason) - talking too much about yourself - not asking people about their lives - being too private - being too judgmental - not empathizing - e.g. someone tells you about something hard they’re experiencing and you change the subject - not caring to help (also showing you don’t care about others that aren’t in your friend-zone) - not offering help - not being kind - not smiling (more like makes it hard for people to approach you)

Most of us want/need friends. Most of us want/need to talk to others about our lives. Someone just moved to where you live. They need a friend. They will strike a conversation w anyone.

Even people in your past probably wanted to be your friend (either coz they thought you were cool or they just needed a friend) - you can still be friends with them. I’ve become friends w people I met long after meeting them.

Asking someone how they are is not so much about the other person. It’s mostly a social ritual. But if no one is asking you how you are, they might also be intimidated by you.

As Aaron Burr would say: talk less, smile more - jk, do more of both.

Re:How I Left YouTube on Thursday December 25, 2025 @12:54PM (#46385936)
Do you have a book recommendation for learning the most important that is politics?
Re:Cecot – 60 Minutes on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:51PM (#46370429)
And some of them are nonviolent legal immigrants.
Re:Cecot – 60 Minutes on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:48PM (#46370403)
Sigh… there is no such thing as forfeiting your human rights by committing a crime. You only forfeit your freedom temporarily.

And why mention that inmates have forfeited their human rights if you see no evidence of abuse? Weird thing to pre-argue.

Re:Cecot – 60 Minutes on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:45PM (#46370385)
Surprised to see that you are unaware of the literal shit ton of rich immigrants in the US. A majority of them escaping their home countries after robbing and destroying them. This is so common that it’s an easy and repetitive plot in 2nd/3rd tier action/drama series.

And that the US populous not only despises these people, but people from both sides of the political spectrum actually want the opposite types as immigrants.

Re:Cecot – 60 Minutes on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:40PM (#46370324)
You heard of outlawing? It works so well. People immediately stop doing things that are outlawed.

(You are talking about deterring from legal immigration as you have explained in a sibling comment as well, and I am recommending outlawing legal immigration)

I am not against immigration. Though I am not for illegal immigration, nor do I see the need to spend so much money and energy on deportations, while destroying innocent lives, where a standard border many countries maintain every day would suffice.

Re:Cecot – 60 Minutes on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:35PM (#46370286)
You disagree in a “none of us are innocent” kind of way?

I struggle to see how you might know so much about these people - whose names we don’t even know - that you can have an opinion about their innocence.

No need to respond if you don’t think you need information to form an opinion. I will assume that.

Re:Cecot – 60 Minutes on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:30PM (#46370239)
Right leaning Cato Institute’s report states that many had entered legally and had no criminal records in US or in their home countries.

In fact, some were granted asylum.

They both have B in the middle - obvious irrefutable link between them. If you can’t figure out how that makes sense, OP doesn’t have anything to say!

/s

Re:Cecot – 60 Minutes on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:18PM (#46370131)
I was gonna comment a minute before I read your edit. Thanks for the heads up.
Re:Cecot – 60 Minutes on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:05PM (#46370029)
I’d bet $40 that no conservative will agree with that, and $60 that very few conservatives will agree with that.
Re:How getting richer made teenagers less free on Saturday December 20, 2025 @02:26AM (#46334246)
One of the testimonies mentions a 4 year old cooking dinner (pancakes, eggs and sausages).

That takes an unbelievable a level of dexterity for a 4 year old. Reminds me of those social media posts of 4 year olds saying things that are way beyond the wisdom they may possess.

I call BS.

Re:How getting richer made teenagers less free on Saturday December 20, 2025 @02:17AM (#46334218)
62-65% of all bankruptcies in the US are tied to medical expenses.

Your comment is a textbook example of survivorship bias.

Re:Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest on Friday December 19, 2025 @09:11PM (#46333106)
You really don’t know adherents of which political stance are constantly complaining about “lack of a sense of humor”? Or who has been complaining about the “tech bias”? I am glad if you were somehow not exposed. I don’t find it partisan. I come across a lot of criticism of Democrats. And the current administration. Also, if you’re claiming subreddits are partisan in the way mods want it to be, we can’t conclude Reddit as a whole is partisan, can we?

Edit:

The sibling comment offers a more concise explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329213

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