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It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's maybe fifty cents a slice if you make it yourself
A large organic hass avocado is between $2 and $4. You need at least half of one to make good avocado toast. If the loaf of bread cost you $5, and makes 20 slices, that's a base cost of $2.25.
Those prices seem overly dramatic. Avocados (certainly not native to the "few acres of snow" that is Canada) is 5 for ~$6 at the moment. Bread is sometimes $4 for a crunchy loaf I like, or maybe $1 in flour when I make my own.
I don't eat avocado toast, but it costs a lot less than what most people spend on decent coffee in a morning.
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#153I think it may be time for a userbase fork. All the politics, policy and economic, and general business news to one side, all the hardware, software, science, startup, and tech business news to the other.
I don't want to read about startups and I do want to read technology-related political news (I have other sources for non-technology political news). I'd rather skim past the things I'm not interested in on a single site than two.
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#154I think as reddit continued to decline, more people here became interested in debating politics, societal stuff since there was no other "serious" place for it. I wish some of that stuff wasn't here, since it takes away from discussions in other threads. But (and I hope dang sees this) occasionally when HN "strays" away from tech it's absolutely brilliant. There's tons of discussion here on some health issues, diets,…
>But (and I hope dang sees this) occasionally when HN "strays" away from tech it's absolutely brilliant. There's tons of discussion here on some health issues, diets, stuff like that I've found the opposite. While there is enough knowledge about computing to keep the discussion informed and aligned with reality, outside that field we're mostly laymen. See the various UFO threads, the peculiar support for Wim Hof, the…
I'm open to new info, but, has the Wim Hof method not been confirmed in dozens of ways; from scientific studies to visceral demonstrations?
N of 1, WHM helped me with a number of issues that I had thought were just going to be part of life. I don't think it deserves to be lumped in with "various UFO threads", or implied to be "unaligned with reality".
As for "contentious COVID discussion"; do you not remember when the lab leak theory was banned from Facebook and Twitter, for over a year, with millions of posts removed? This was one of the few places with morsels of quality discussion. The topic has much to be "contentious" about, that's not HN's fault.
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#155funny how you see "How Google is protecting our privacy" posts eveyr now and then that makes it to the front page
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#156It is obvious to anyone who has been here for a while that this community is in decline, in the sense that it has less depth, less quirkiness, and less 'real' diversity of opinion (although dang does a good job of stemming the tide). The 'hivemind' has emerged here to squash contrasting positions. The funny thing is, no one thinks they are a part of this emergent 'hivemind' but the end result is the same.
I’m guessing the hive mind largely lurks and doesn’t post or comment.
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#157You have to know what the businesses are doing so you can emulate their success. Also adjust your stock portfolio.
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#158"Hacker" isn't an absolute term. This site is what it is (a community). I think it's bizarre to make an appeal to a dictionary definition in order to shift the culture of said community. If you want to see more of X, Y, or Z, submit it. That's it.
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#159"Hacker" isn't an absolute term. This site is what it is (a community). I think it's bizarre to make an appeal to a dictionary definition in order to shift the culture of said community. If you want to see more of X, Y, or Z, submit it. That's it.
to;dr: no assholes.
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#160It ebbs and flows. There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework.
I'd much rather read about a startup's postmortem than about some monads-as-a-service library releasing version 14.374.299