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Awesome! Well done. What about resizing?

Multiple comments like this, I'll try that out!

I'll give those another look, thanks!

OP here, did not know of the existence of “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences”! I agree, that's a whole other level.

Have you tried templates?

As another commenter mentions, the mmdc tool takes care of this. I should have mentioned that in the blog post.

Cool, I'll check it out.

This video from the author is probably the best explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTUafAwrunE

Yeah, this resonated with me. It's strange we need real-world equivalent stories to get a real sense for how strange some of this conduct is. One problem I see is that the invasion…

Partially down for me

Hey HN, I've been getting very positive responses on this short essay / thought experiment on privacy. Very curious what the HN crowd thinks. I'm Dutch and in The Netherlands Whats…

Hey HN, I've been trying to convince my friends to use Signal and in the process I've done some writing to figure out exactly what I believe. This analogy has been the result.

Completely agree, and I haven't thought about that angle enough.

Valid point, but this doesn't amount to a very convincing promise to many users imo. You're relying on the service provider to not abuse their power. If that were sufficient I don'…

> This part had me scratching my head. Most established non-privacy-preserving products have been slowly killing interoperability because data lock-in provides a moat against users…

Hey, OP here. Thanks for taking the time to read and respond. > The Figma example that's given seems to completely undercut the "Productivity vs Privacy" argument. Figma didn't dis…

Hi HN, I published some thoughts here about a trade-off I see playing out between productivity and privacy. It's unfortunate, but it seems that a service provider's choice for pres…

Interesting! Can you share an example?

Love this one, heard a version before where the fisherman was a Greek and the businessman was a German.

I've been tracking all my productive hours since November 2018. I can highly recommend it. I also know some others that do the same. nateliason.com comes to mind. It's not as insig…