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If you're being serious, my honest answer is yes. But, then, I'm the kind of person who refuses to part with my college texts and graphing calculator because of nostalgia.

I'll save my "Minecraft had it right all along" headline for a other day.

I think I can guess what his proposed solution will be.

Cash out, destroy evidence, and feign innocence and ignorance.

I think the dichotomy is false.

You could run a marathon because you love running and want to do it with other people who love running. Similarly, you could share code-based projects with a community because you love it and want to do it with people.

The ideas you mention aren't separate from community or from each other. You can have friendly competition within a community that pushes all parties to improve and be their best.

I take the parent comment's meaning to be that disentangling the journey from the destination isn't so easy in practice, especially if you're robbed of the community that was journeying alongside you.

If you were running a marathon and, halfway through, everybody just hopped in a cab and drove to the finish line, you'd be disappointed.

Thanks for this comment. The links were very helpful to understand the argument here.

It does seem that this is an unforgivable offense for many HN commenters, which makes me wonder what kind of Home automation those folks are running. Google Home? Amazon Alexa? Samsung SmartThings? Apple Homekit?

Nothing and no one is perfect, but Home Assistant is orders of magnitude better than any other home automation suite. The fact that there's enough transparency for this to be discovered, for this conversation to happen, and for the maintainer to publicly apologize is evidence of that.

As Captain Planet said, the power is yours!

I had not heard of quadlet-nix. How interesting and tidy!

Why not have your cake and eat it too with quadlets?

Thanks for this. I'd never heard of Michael Dowd, but I've landed on a secular version of this. It's nice to know there are others who share this view.

I'm glad I quickly skipped to the last paragraph, which explicitly confirmed that I'm not the target demographic of this post.

This would only be true for very short time periods (minutes) that cause the compressor to power up more times than it would have otherwise as compressor startup incurs transiently high power consumption, but a thermostat will usually do this many times a day, so the period of time that this has any practical implication is very short (<1 hour). At longer time periods, it is always more energy efficient to disable cooling and restart it only when temperature control is again desired.

Even among people who service AC units I've encountered the misconception that it is more energy efficient to keep a space at the desired temperature than it is to let it heat up and then cool it back down again, but thermodynamics say it is not so. It could conceivably be more cost efficient if your energy costs are variable.

I encourage parents that I meet to do something like what the author of this post has done. These days, photos are ubiquitous. Curated memories in your voice are a rarified treasure.

My father encouraged me to journal, but I only really started when my kids were born. For many years now I have kept a private blog that tells the stories of their childhood. They're still young but have already read through it many times. Now, when we are on an adventure, they often remind me to jot something down in my notes to be added to the next entry.

The last decade makes me think he needs to modernize his workflow.

Half of the article discusses the whole concept of "biological age", and that discussion describes how that term may not be as refined and specific a scientific idea as a layperson might assume. That part of the article might be served by the title, "Weight loss drugs may help scientists to assess potential surrogates for biological age."

I also quickly thought of bias when I read this, and that concern was reinforced by the bit about substance abuse rates in male-predominant fields of work. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that has been the case for a very long time.

Another way to interpret the data might be, "When interviewed by researchers, men talked more openly about their feelings than they did a decade ago."

The non-zero-sum game is a concept that cuts both ways. If wealth can be created, it can also be destroyed.

It is unfortunately a complicated situation that often doesn't have a perfect solution. Without trying to cover every possibl nuance, I'll just say that many end-stage patients have pain so refractory that sufficient doses of pain medication are effectively lethal. This is usually offered, but obviously not everyone accepts.

The truly sad cases are those in which the patient no longer has decision-making capacity and it falls on a family member to make such decisions. When you aren't the one experiencing the pain, it's much harder to weigh that decision rationally. This is why so many providers push patients to establish legal documentation of their end-of-life wishes.

It depends on mechanism, but many cancer patients do deal with a great deal of pain, especially near the end of the disease process. I am sorry for your experience. It is not uncommon.

Ladies and gentlemen of the court, I present exhibit A.

When I just want to make something work and there isn't a nix package that can instantly give me what I want with `nix-shell -p $PACKAGE` then I use containers. That's what I've done when playing around with llama.

Some of us may never adjust to a world without sweat equity.

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I disagree with you in the other thread, so I want to balance that by saying that I strongly agree with you here.

This is a false dichotomy. Laborers could just as easily invest in job-creating endeavors as passive income earners. All taxes cause economic drag, not _just_ business and investment income taxes. The economy includes every participant, and laborers are not an externality.

I had the same reaction. It also seems easy to pull apart. What about disabled people who are unable to work?

I think something more like "investment income should be taxed at a higher rate than income earned through labor," accomplishes similar goals but is more intuitive and less problematic.

+1 for restic.

ZFS snapshots + restic backups to backblaze for my homeserver. My secret sauce is a healtchecks.io instance that blows up my phone if ZFS scrubs throw any errors, when local snapshots fail, or when restic checks or backups fail.