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troughway

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About troughway

Alternate account. Don't read too much into the commentary.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #25359393

    > We welcome ongoing debate and discussion and will keep engaging with experts, researchers and organizations to ensure that our policies and products are meeting that goal. And as…

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    Comment #25341956

    It's not intended to be helpful and, quite frankly, the people who silence those who try to raise an issue with Han supremacist deserve every last bit that is coming to them. You d…

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    Comment #25341762

    Whenever I read statements like these I am torn because it's difficult to decide whether to cast it aside as "feel good rhetoric, but rhetoric nonetheless" or take it as it is. Do …

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    Comment #25341163

    > this is not the tone we want here. It’s the tone you deserve. If you want to live in a better world you have to learn that bending over and taking it in the ass from China won’t …

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    Comment #25341117

    Oh no, anything but that.

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    Comment #25340920

    [flagged]

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    Comment #25327924

    Well I guess it was only a matter of time before people started making posts proclaiming that pg’s lack of conformism is problematic.

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    Comment #25321853

    The thing I like about this post is that it isn’t dependant on VC backed ventures. It’s good, sane advice regardless.

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    Comment #25321674

    Not to trout a cliche around since plenty of HN has heard of this already, but David Sinclair’s book Lifespan talks about caloric reduction. Nothing crazy, skipping a meal here and…

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    Comment #25320553

    Running isn’t the only way to get cardio in. Tabata/HIIT, while making you feel like you’re on the verge of dying, are wonderful and most important safe for your knee joints. Long …

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    Comment #25316118

    >The author eventually puts some thought into it and subsequently adopts a public stance matching what was privately true all along—revealing how little they value the things they …

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    Comment #25310438

    Is this Active Focus?

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    Comment #25306854

    To be fair this is another article/essay in a very, very long string of his that can be filed under some kind of a "Fundamentals of Business" type category. If you talk to owners, …

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    Comment #25306292

    For those too lazy to hunt, SAFE stands for Saturn Azure App Service Fable Elmish Slightly off topic but it’s good to see that F# is finally getting some proper web love.

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    Comment #25306087

    >I feel the bitterness Elaborate on it then.

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    Comment #25304859

    People have already minced words over "exploitation" and where to exactly draw the boundary between acceptable/tolerable and not. It strikes me personally as flimsy reasoning to ha…

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    Comment #25304470

    This is certainly a newer-ish theme. I am not sure where the bitterness comes, and to be honest, I would like to know. We are reading the same essays. More and more I am starting t…

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    Comment #25303942

    Can someone pin point what is objectively wrong or out of touch with this article? Genuinely asking because the past three+ posts from pg have been met with negativity saying pg is…

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    Comment #25302942

    More and more I feel like some submissions are here to nerd-snipe the HN crowd into a furor.

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    Comment #25302492

    >What does that even mean? Is the EU also going to come out with the "Right to breathe" and the "Right to go to the bathroom when you need to"? Have you seen amazon's warehouse wor…

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    Comment #25292257

    Read it some 15 years ago.

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    Comment #25292020

    I faintly recall an interview with one of the developers not too long ago, maybe a few years ago or so, where they said Sweeney still touches some 80% of the code base. Also, there…

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    Comment #25291730

    I find it a curiosity that John Carmack is perpetually touted as the whiz kid even though Tim Sweeney has done far, far more from both a technological standpoint and a business sta…

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    Comment #25285434

    I'll bite, what's wrong with Naval? He's got decent content.