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Let's be real. Developers and investors know what the community objections will be before they propose a project. They could overcome those objections by making strong contractual …

You know, when the alternatives are to put money in the pockets of a sociopathic compulsive liar, ketamine fiend and nazi, put money in the pockets of a sociopathic compulsive liar…

My dad took me here a couple times as a kid, it's such a lovely place. Highly recommend checking it out, it's well worth the drive.

The ability of Texas to adhere so intensely to the idea of radical individualism while also being wholly committed to fascism at a policy level has always confused me. When I studi…

I had to go take a two-hour walk to calm down after my boss sent me a project proposal that was just ChatGPT gobbledygook.

Gasoline degrades more quickly than propane. When I looked at options for keeping a couple days worth of fuel around (with no gas-powered yard tools to necessitate fuel turnover), …

The irony

>Kurt Cobain ended up dying by suicide as a result of complications from his use of the drug. Oof... you skipped right over the Heroin part of that equation.

Just the usual caution that Melatonin can be effective, but it's also really easy to overdose a kid. Consult your doctor first if you decide to go that route. https://ukhealthcare.…

I went down the music track around that age, and it was the gateway into daily routine, meditation, delayed gratification and a community similar to software (at least back in the …

I can't recommend this video enough. I wish this research and understanding was available when I was a kid. I figured out systems and tools to succeed in school and work (I was lar…

https://proton.me/mail - Custom domain setup was easy, security-conscious with gold-standard credentials, I'm not the product, etc.

This. The replies, and then the rest of the logged-out feed almost exclusively filled with Elon being unhinged just reminded me of why I deleted Twitter. Good riddance.

Yay, more useless hot takes from Twitter. So glad they're on my HN feed.

The team at ruffle.rs has done a really good clean-room implementation of Flash. The hard part with Flash (beyond having two virtual machines, a JIT compiler, pixel shader support,…

If you wanted to piss off the legal team at my large multinational employer and create strong headwinds for any future renewal conversations or more broad adoption for the rest of …

As the interviewee, you can pretty much ask anything you want. You may also talk yourself out of the job in the process. I haven't seen companies offer to pay off loans before (the…

Nestle's mission to privatize the basic human right to clean, safe drinking water should be prosecuted as a crime against humanity. What else is new?

Very similar career trajectory and move -- just approaching the 1-year mark. In hindsight, I wish I would have: - Listened more and Talked less in general - Consistently started wi…

As an aside, I stumbled across these guys earlier today. They seem like they're trying to make global HR practices more accessible to smaller companies. https://remote.com/

How did this work out for you? Super curious about how your experience went in practice.

I've spent a good chunk of my career as a hiring eng. manager at Fortune 500 companies. IANAL, and I don't work in HR, but I'm getting old, am American, and have managed a lot of i…