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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:06PM (#42759607)
Nice move. Regulating competitors away while screaming about free markets. Not a meme country at all..
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:46AM (#42712292)
This move shouts “you win China, your products are superior than ours”. We hate losing at our own game don’t we?
Re:Should Sports Betting Be Banned? on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:28AM (#41666258)
Yes, the math understanding is not here at scale. It's strip mining a vulnerable populace. Of course it should be banned.
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake on Thursday September 26, 2024 @01:06PM (#41660759)
Who is fighting against this veritable scourge? I'd love to join in!
Re:Tetris Game Shows Promise in Reducing PTSD Symptoms on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @06:55PM (#41641859)
I respect that. If you change your mind, feel free to comment here. Am infantry vet studying psychology and super interested in the topic!
Re:Tetris Game Shows Promise in Reducing PTSD Symptoms on Sunday September 22, 2024 @01:02AM (#41614744)
Hey, any chance you would be into connecting and talking about healing trough playing games?
It's been tough finding a role as a UX designer who is self-taught and has experience despite a lack of degree. Most of what I can find is hourly or small fee gigs that are devoid of any real value (You cannot hire a 1099 to whip up your UX in a week, sorry.)

It's disheartening, and I'm about to stop looking for work for 4yrs while I use my education benefits to go to school. I can get paid $2k/mo to study, so I think I'll put together a team and spend 4yrs building micro-SaaS products while studying art history, instead of siphoning my energy and soul applying to tinder-algorithm-powered-job-onboardings.

A goddamn waste if you ask me.

A product/UX designer who has worked almost 100% remotely as of yet.

Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:43PM (#40350333)
Replicants/AI systems, they are everywhere.
You should check out the Bitcoin whitepaper.
"Don't you guys have laptops". Maybe it's about your customers and the devices they use!
They split the students to take away their power. They kicked people off Slack, wiping the incriminating message history, and then re-adding students (woopsie), they allowed rampant racism to be posted in the channels. They did so many shady things with arbitration, it was absolutely harmful.
Good to see some justice
Re:Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:04AM (#39765319)
For some reason, 2 of my "*" symbols were truncated.
Re:Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @12:58PM (#39757801)
Their collective seems to be thriving: https://kaleidos.net/

But I don't have the expertise to know for sure.

Re:Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @12:29PM (#39757463)
Penpot is great, free, and doesn't rat** you. Oh and it's made by a kickass collective. That is where I went when I binned Figma.
Hey maybe (Definitely.), you aren't and idiot and the UX of these products is sub-par/unacceptably bad. Just my 2c.
Re:Mustard on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @08:31AM (#39603123)
It kind of blows my mind that most people around me eat steak without a good Maille or Grey Poupon mustard. Thanks for this list, I'm gonna explore!
It's bewildering to me that you're the weird, odd one for doing this.
I'm a slow thinker who's quick witted. Odd question bud.
Re:Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007) on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:57AM (#39142606)
Canibus had a cool web player! You could make your own version of his music (Mentioned in https://theoutline.com/post/6977/canibus-internet-mic-club)

Doja Cat has a programmable music video: https://dojacode.com/

I'm seeing a bunch of techies use terms normally utilized for TikTok dances, and I'm just saying maybe we should stop. What deeper meaning do you need?

Bombing of Palestinian children is what I'm being critical of.

Maybe I'm just a jaded combat infantryman, but I think we should value children's lives more than bullshit superstitions or team-based angry baby spats. We are god damn monkeys, first and foremost in our behavior. Viral content? Fuck this.
Re:Topo magazine uses comics to tell the news to French teens on Saturday November 25, 2023 @01:11PM (#38415227)
Yes, why don't we continue letting them watch Fox News/CNN instead, right? Or some cartoon that will teach them to consume.
Re:How many people on Hacker News live in rural areas? on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:16AM (#38342603)
Loving life in the woods, 1 acre in the sticks, with gigabit fiber and squirrels. It’s peaceful and productive.
This was 5yrs ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY

We should start caring about stuff.

Just looking for ways to break things, so that i can help rebuild them stronger. And no, i ate them.
Re:Switzerland has lost 10% of its glaciers in the last two years on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:09PM (#37693374)
Lots of VC cash stored there?
Re:How many medical studies are faked or flawed? on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @09:02PM (#37579186)
I wholeheartedly agree.
Re:How many medical studies are faked or flawed? on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:53PM (#37577373)
Too easy. Define "valid" though.
"Pretty sure" is not gonna cut it here. White supremacy is nothing but a threat.

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