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Post by froh »

sonotmyname wrote: post #451
acd wrote: post #401

That all parents must attend parenting classes. We have drivings licenses to drive a car. Yet there’s no such skill requirements for parents on how to raise children. Cost of dealing with miss raised children is very high.

If you start mandatory parenting classes, you have to start mandating the ‘correct’ way to raise children. There are HUGE cultural, religious, financial, and educational barriers to implementing a one-size-fits-all parenting regime. Good luck with that!

Why not a menu of different approaches to chose from?

I don't get the jump from parenting classes to "the correct approach".

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Post by nrr »

yor1001 wrote: post #576

Google Wave. Basically integrated information transmitting and collaboration in an easy to digest manner. Google failed miserable with their invite requirement.

Google's marketing around Wave was extremely disappointing to me. The invitation system was only a small part of their problem.

I know I was incredibly excited about it because I immediately understood it to be a way to kill email and the things that surround it. To think that Microsoft's Bedlam DL3 incident could have been a bitter memory.

Oh well. I guess we're stuck with email as it continues to exist today.

Reply all. "Remove me from this thread please." Send mail.

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Post by tomjen3 »

dpeck wrote: post #570
dkulchenko wrote: post #495

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Why is there no Tinder/online dating equivalent for making new friends locally? Instead of dating-specific qualifiers, it'd ask for your interests, hobbies, values, age and other demos, then match you based on overlap. Not Meetup - it's not quite solving the same problem, and so it solves things differently (focusing on shared interests and on discrete meetup events).

Because every time someone builds this it turns into a dating (charitably) app. If there is a way to find sexual partners in a medium, people will do so.

Now I wonder how many people have hooked up via HN.

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Post by rainpain »

baron816 wrote: post #243

In-person social organizations. Social isolation is probably the biggest cause of unhappiness in advanced countries. Having a strong social network has lots of advantages including providing better romantic and career opportunities, as well as improving physical and psychological health. Humans have a long history of dishing out lots of money to be parts of strong communities too--country clubs and fraternities have…

I've been living in the USA for a year and I don't think I will ever get over this odd 'spaced out' way of living. I see 3 lane roads that would work so much better as a mixed tram/bicycle lane. Crossing roads is also terrifying.

Nix the thought of walking to do the following activities: - fetching a missing ingredient from a local shop/store that would take 25min round trip and benefit you with additional exercise. - spending an evening going between bars being mildly intoxicated but not requiring a taxi.

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Post by pfranz »

rilut wrote: post #661
Klonoar wrote: post #379

Premium-feeling laptops that aren't Apple machines. Yes yes, I get the economical barriers. I'm past caring. It is so incredibly frustrating to look outside the Apple ecosystem and feel like the entire PC industry is content to sell the bare minimum of quality (outside of Gamer hardware, which looks obscene - but I get that it's subjective). It's a horrible business idea on the numbers and nobody would do this, but i…

Razer Blade Stealth 13 & Razer Book 13 fill this gap I use Stealth 13 and impressed with its metal body and touchpad, also no shiny RGB logo

I have notes from when I was researching around 2018. I had the Razer Blade Stealth in the running, but I was reading about support and longevity issues with them. Maybe they've been better recently? It's difficult to build a track record of longevity.

I've had stellar longevity out of Apple hardware. I'm usually able to use it for a handful of years and sell it on ebay to put a good chunk towards something new. I have noticed certain models/runs have specific issues, laptop keyboards are probably the most recent and obvious, but for the most part you know what you're getting. Screen lamination problems or pinched monitor cable being a few others.

When looking at alternatives saving only around 20% on the cost made it difficult when not being confident about longevity or resale. Sadly, other aspects weren't appreciably better (soldered on RAM, camera quality, performance, battery).

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Post by ISL »

diarrhea wrote: post #52

LaTeX. We have Microsoft Office. Then we have its lacking competitors. There's also InDesign for professional creatives. There's a huge gap for LaTeX to fill, or to potentially fill, but it's not happening. The other day I saw it described as "a neckbeard knitting circle, not viable software". As a LaTeX "fan", that hurt but it's the truth. Over the past months, I had to collaborate with various different people acro…

Give LyX a try.

A hybridization of Overleaf and LyX could be pretty incredible.

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Post by tomjen3 »

Klonoar wrote: post #403
acd wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Lenovo would ship Coreboot Linux laptops that would fit the bill as premium and good laptop with open boot loader.

This comes close, but I don't find the build to be as nice as a MacBook, and trackpad is the same issue. I do often look at a ThinkPad and wonder, though.

I don't want to say that if you are wondering about the trackpad on a Thinkpad you are doing it wrong, but the big benefit of a thinkpad is the knob. I would prefer buying a thinkpad that didn't have a trackpad at all, at least on an ultra book - my first one back in 03 didn't have a Trackpad but I found that I rarely used the external mouse I had attached to it.

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Post by onecommentman »

Klonoar wrote: post #379

Premium-feeling laptops that aren't Apple machines. Yes yes, I get the economical barriers. I'm past caring. It is so incredibly frustrating to look outside the Apple ecosystem and feel like the entire PC industry is content to sell the bare minimum of quality (outside of Gamer hardware, which looks obscene - but I get that it's subjective). It's a horrible business idea on the numbers and nobody would do this, but i…

When I was looking around a few months ago, the revitalized VAIO looked like it might be the ticket

https://us.vaio.com/

Made in Japan and oodles of legacy ports...

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