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Re:Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk fr... on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:29AM (#50209700)
Dark mode?
Re:Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk fr... on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:26AM (#50209636)
Very cool
Re:Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked ... on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @08:22PM (#25854193)
https://www.sundayy.app/users/sign_up
Re:Ask HN: How would you convince your friends and family to switch fr... on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:04PM (#25676556)
Could a competitor with a subscription based business model sneak in and grab market share?
Re:Ask HN: How do you handle recurring payments in 2021? on Saturday January 02, 2021 @09:12AM (#25612934)
Stripe all the way! They have the best infrastructure and security, you can build out any payments system with their APIs and now they even have treasury-as-a-service to build your own bank. Elon and Peter Thiel were early investors, I can't imagine any company catching up at this point.
Re:Billionaires Build on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:43PM (#25307644)
>Can you imagine a better way to destroy social mobility than by telling poor kids that the way to get rich is by exploiting people, while the rich kids know, from having watched the preceding generation do it, how it's really done?

I'm so glad someone finally said this, I wasn't sure if I was the only one with the same theory about inequality and it is articulated well here. It's "cultural inequality", inequality of cultural capital.

Re:How to Think for Yourself on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:15AM (#25245211)
It does appear that YC is no longer relevant the way they were 10 years ago.
Re:Coronavirus emerged in Italy earlier than thought, study shows on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:32PM (#25126623)
First confirmed case in Wuhan was on November 17th, and there were cases in Italy two months earlier? Any good explanations for this?
Re:SARS-CoV-2 in Italy Since September 2019 (Milan National Cancer Ins... on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:28PM (#25126561)
So China has first confirmed case in Wuhan on November 17, but there were cases in Italy two months earlier? How would anybody explain this?
Re:Make Your Back End Layer as Thin as Possible on Sunday November 15, 2020 @06:26PM (#25105995)
All very easy to implement with no backend using Firebase.
Re:Make Your Back End Layer as Thin as Possible on Sunday November 15, 2020 @06:22PM (#25105963)
Firebase was recommended in the post, which has built in security rules and auth.
Re:Ask HN: When will skin color be as uninteresting to talk about as h... on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:52AM (#25071116)
I can't believe we're at a point where I have to defend the right, but its actually the opposite. Most Republicans couldn't care less about race, but after constantly hearing how racist they are because of skin color(which is actual racism), they are put in this position to defend being colorblind, which the far left sees as the proof of their racism. Also, what incentive do white people have to be racist? it doesn't make sense.
Re:Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring at Silicon Valley Tech Firms ... on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:15AM (#25070723)
Yes, fashionable in that suggesting we live in a deeply unequal society(not true) shows that you're one of the "good guys". Its just a social signal and at this point people have been hearing/saying it for so long that most probably believe people should be judged by the color of their skin, rather than your personality.

Ask HN: What would be a good sense making apparatus for the 21st century?

Posted by tdevito on Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Which medium or source of information is the most crucial for you to make sense of current events and the world around you? I feel that the NY Times, CNN, and similar institutions are a shell of their formal selves, simultaneously destroyed by themselves and Trump. So what is the solution going forward? Everyone is talking about echo chambers distorting the views of people on the other side,...

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Re:The surprising psychology behind being rich on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:50AM (#24978766)
I'm assuming that you're comfortable incomes come from high skilled work, or at least work that is highly valuable. You may no longer be working as much now to earn the same, but you had to put years of hard work in to get there, most likely.
Re:The surprising psychology behind being rich on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:47AM (#24978742)
People are not stupid. No one working a low-skilled, low-wage job is confused about why they don't have more money.
Re:The surprising psychology behind being rich on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:19PM (#24974145)
In first world countries yes, the harder you work the more money you make. Especially true over longer periods of time because of the compounding value of hard work.
Re:The surprising psychology behind being rich on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:53AM (#24969415)
Once I saw the title of that video I knew they were all nonsense. What an inhumane thing to say, as if how hard you work has anything to do with what kind of person you are. Is there a certain net worth where you cross a line and no longer have a heart? The problem is not inequality, it's poverty.

Ask HN: Do wealthy Americans discuss inequality to make themselves feel better?

Posted by tdevito on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:17AM
from the ask-hn dept.

My social circle mostly consists of affluent, upper middle class individuals with comfortable incomes. I can't speak for the 1%, but for my friends and colleagues from the 10%, discussing income inequality has become a sort of social signal to show that you yourself are too smart to be poor, but you still feel bad for all the unfortunate people that were left behind by capitalism. Does...

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Ask HN: What will happen to recreational driving?

Posted by tdevito on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

What will happen to car companies like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Aston Martin? What will happen to cars like the Audi R8, Corvette, Tesla Roadster?What will be the value of sports cars in a future where all cars on the road have level 5+ self driving capabilities and is illegal for people to drive. This is just one possible future and it's still decades away, but it is a distinct...

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020) on Thursday April 02, 2020 @08:55AM (#22758376)
Location: New York City

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Node.js, Express.js, TensorFlow.js, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Git, GitHub, React, Angular, Ionic, Ruby on Rails, SQL, NoSQL, Database Modeling, Web API Integration, Postgres, Firebase, and NPM.

Résumé/CV: Request via email

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tdevito/

GitHub: https://github.com/tommyd2377

Website: https://tomdevito.org/

Email: tdevito [at] icloud [dot] com

I am an experienced and creative full-stack software engineer that is looking to join a mission driven company with interesting technical challenges. I have built complex web apps, designed algorithms, built a deep neural network using TensorFlow and can pick up new languages and frameworks in a short period of time.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020) on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @09:17AM (#22483921)
Location: New York City

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Node.js, Express.js, TensorFlow.js, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Git, GitHub, React, Angular, Ionic, Ruby on Rails, SQL, NoSQL, Database Modeling, Web API Integration, Postgres, Firebase, and NPM.

Résumé/CV: Request via email

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tdevito/

GitHub: https://github.com/tommyd2377

Website: https://tomdevito.org/

Email: tdevito [at] icloud [dot] com

I am an experienced and creative full-stack software engineer that is looking to join a mission driven company with interesting technical challenges. I have built complex web apps, designed algorithms, built a deep neural network using TensorFlow and can pick up new languages and frameworks in a short period of time.

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