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"People" and their "wants" or "enjoyments" are manufactured by culture (which is in turn now dominated by corporate propaganda). They are not fixed by nature. Any examination of th…

> maybe they don't make great decorations Some of ours are decorative enough, eg this orb weaver I exchange greetings with most mornings: https://www.pasteboard.co/07o5TWpFLUY8.png…

> They're saying all the right things here .. No. "Commitment" in corporate speak is a synonym for "absolute lack of intention". That's why corps 'commit' to reducing emissions, tr…

Kobo + Koreader ( https://koreader.rocks/ ) works pretty sweetly with Calibre.

> What change was the person who shot him hoping to elicit? This would be a relevant question in many nations, but it's a bit beside the point in the US. Violence is a deeply respe…

Or to put it another way: a Pebble would cover more uses with a GPS. They're clearly not expensive nor necessarily profligate with battery. My now 5 year old Amazfit bip, which was…

Quite. Phones & watches are mutually exclusive from my pov. The whole point of the watch (especially when running) is not to have to carry a phone.

We agree on the empirical fact that many people generate suffering for themselves by encouraging an inner narrative of complaint about others' behavour. If there's disagreement, it…

> What purpose is served by being judgemental .. It reinforces ego. It's a common malady. An optional one (which isn't to say it's always easy to ditch given constant and insistent…

Do you think those who optionally exercise the mental activity of making judgements of those behaviours are likely to suffer more or less burnout than those who choose not to? How …

> But a lot of it is showing up to help yet another person .. It must be an distressing burden to carry that weight of judgement, regardless of what job you do.

Ycombinator has one legitimate function: dissipating excess looted wealth.

It's the barstool economist argument style, on long-expired loan from medieval theology. Responding to clear empirical evidence that X occurs: "X can't happen because [insert 'rati…

You're quite capable of seeing that a serious of ludicrously generalised ideological statements, entirely abstracted from reality, are as close to meaningless as human statements g…

Someone once said something to the effect: "I'm not concerned that computers will become more like people, I am that people will learn to 'think' like computers". A fortiori humans…

Your malevolent childs-ego-inflated-to-national 'winners vs losers' notion will inevitably, if not expunged, make losers of us all. My 'us' is of course unimaginable to your minusc…

> Turns out that the person who originally created the language doesn't like them either. But it also turns out the very same isn't as neurotically attached to his 'likes' as most …

I think what you have to bear in mind is, with all sorts of caveats and exceptions, the HN crowd is at the centre of the current ecocidal empire, with most participants personally …

Unmet needs are legion.

Does anyone other than Fastmail use it?

> how techbros ruin the perception of legitimately useful technology Well said - that really is key. Fortunately or not (depending on your values), it's just a given that if there'…

Unfortunately your satire is mainstream thinking amongst much of the SV/HN set. Business/economic/tech "hardheadedness" is just millennial Protestantism in another guise. So many o…

"But Malthus!" might be persuasive to people unfamiliar with science and/or history, but (being neither), it just makes me sigh. Another pointless repeated diversionary trope. And …