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I will keep my future HN posts strictly ideology free!

UK voted to sell itself out to rich people with mobile capital when they decided to stop being a manufacturing country and start being a finance country. That started in the 1980s …

Yeah but it's hard to say it wasn't a waste of a beautiful location plopping down crap like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Centre_Vancouver.jp... and https://en.wikipedia…

> Seems a great waste of a beautiful location. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One might inquire what the First Nations think about white man's towers of glass and Vancouver …

Depends if you like talking to people IRL (Disclaimer: I usually don't)

Ah but I bet that the animations were beautiful and the icons all lined up perfectly

I make no assumptions, I only contrast A_fow's experience with that of the Coast Salish

> For some reason I get the feeling that adopting all of these "smart" devices actually makes me more vulnerable to risk and gives me less control over my life. Oh, of course it do…

> It feels like my home is being sold out from underneath me to the Chinese. ... But it makes me very sad to feel like I don't belong in the place where I grew up. Don't worry. If …

> There are a lot of ways to do that, and many of them involve the current team members being proactive about going out and trying to recruit someone to fill that role. Orrrr the c…

How many of the PMs you know have you contacted suggesting that they volunteer in such a capacity? What were their reactions?

How many have you suggested volunteer, and what were their thoughts after a semester?

No, I'm not actually suggesting that he should volunteer. But saying "surely someone can just volunteer" is pointless in the absence of evidence that someone actually wants to volu…

Do any students/newbies actually want to triage issues, or is it just something the old hands thought up and think might work nicely?

> Get someone to join the team who wants to fill in a PM role. That sounds simple. You're volunteering, then?

> I do not hear the "necessity is evil but we have to live with it". If people are not willing to prove their worth to the community and being scrutinized they should gracefully re…

This is completely untrue. You can't look for planning information the same way you look for code snippets. This is like looking for medical research on Youtube. StackOverflow? Try…

You can log into an @gmail.com Hangouts account through XMPP. The instructions on https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoGtalk worked for my account which is also accessed by Hangouts on An…

Honestly, I agree, and I love having my house low-tech and simple. The best solution is avoiding the problem altogether. But your argument can be advanced against electric light. I…

Eh... there's some value, it's just really badly implemented currently. A selling idea of the Nest is that it keeps your house warm when you're there, and not-frozen when you're no…

> 30-50 years of replacement time is apparently not sustainable, since most of the things we buy have 3-5 years of expected lifetime tops. In practice, yes, most things we buy are …

Eh... yes, but. The "rot" is because the environment is changing (the hardware you're running it on, other software you need to interact with) or the software is being carelessly u…