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Re:The End of the Computer Age on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:13PM (#21590844)
"...the iPhones that distract us from our environment also distract us from how strangely old and unchanging our environment is, how you're riding a subway that's 100 years old. And I think sort of a healthier sort of progress would happen on many different fronts."

This quote stood out to me. It seems like we silently concluded that the physical world has evolved enough, developed enough, even though there's a ton of inefficiencies to fix.

I often lament that the built environment of the average American city looks stuck in the 80s, and this quote made me think of that.

Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:33PM (#20628062)
Can someone help me understand why this is a big deal? Safari has had this change for a while and I haven't felt like I'm missing anything. Where's the slippery slope? Does have to do with AMP?
This program has existed for over a year.

Can I build enough of a technical foundation in 3 months for YC?

I've been learning how to design and code over the last couple weeks and was wondering if I can pick up enough coding knowledge in 3 months to call myself technical from YC's standards/perspective or if that's super unreasonable.My background: -Worked with a brilliant developer in 2015 to build video search/clip tech for my YouTube channel, proven understanding of business/technical logic when...

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