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Discussion here is also still very high quality. I find it remarkable.
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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.
> A large organic hass avocado is between $2 and $4. This is pretty outrageous. In the 1990s, we would shop for avocados in Mission district Mexican grocery stores, where they would average four for a $1. People don't realize that everyone had an abundant number of avocados in every Bay Area home back then because they were so cheap and plentiful. Something happened, and by the end of the 1990s, the drug cartels had…
It 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.
Saying community is in constant decline is such an internet thing. A certain other website with a blue background and trumpets has been full of messages like this for the last 20 years, yet it's still a fun place to lurk. HN is one of the few places on the internet where you can play devil's advocate and still live to see the top of the comments page because the number of people who read half sentences and instantly…
'Attacked from within' was pretty accurate, Kuro5hin eventually went that way too even if they were acutely aware of the problem:
https://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2009_3_12_33338_3000.htm...
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Well, I love Wim Hof breathing (and it helped me when I had Covid, and helps with HRV and energy levels), and now take Vitamin D, glycine, Zinc, and other stuff that seemed to help me a lot. On top of that, if you've ever dealt with any chronic illness (GERD in my case), you'll find the wealth of anecdotal, n=1 info posted in HN comments is much, much more helpful than anything you'd find anywhere else. I'm sure I'm…
I have GERD and I’d like to see those HN discussions of it
What intrigues me is that the "Hackers", who care about state, programs, and process, haven't turned attention to the State, and set about un-jacking its programs and streamlining its process. Why haven't we got a robust git server with anonymous read-only access for everyone who pays taxes that holds all (unclassified) legislation/regulation affecting society? Commits would be possible for elected officials/appointe…
There is no better ad that the one that seems to be organically showing up in your circle of interest.
What intrigues me is that the "Hackers", who care about state, programs, and process, haven't turned attention to the State, and set about un-jacking its programs and streamlining its process. Why haven't we got a robust git server with anonymous read-only access for everyone who pays taxes that holds all (unclassified) legislation/regulation affecting society? Commits would be possible for elected officials/appointe…
If the elected officials & appointees actually cared for something like this, it would have existed already. Ultimately, the problem is that the "res publica" is not actually for the public. The whole premise that a single person can meaningfully "represent" millions is so laughable, I don't know why we keep pretending it's actually democratic.
But the res publica has NEVER been a democracy at any point.
What we have is a gnarly attempt to scale from the individual to the group, the singular to the plural, the integer to the list(integer).
Hence my comment: technically savvier people like those who visit this site badly need to give this res publica an enema.
It 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
> There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework. I know it feels this way but it was in fact a very long time ago. That was 2011-2012ish IIRC
2009-2012 was the time of post-jQuery, with a lot of discourse around better alternatives to that (e.g. underscore.js, backbone.js).
React was released in 2013, which sparked a lot of offshoots. Vue came in 2014, and Angular in 2016, which I would say is the earliest point where you could see a significant drop in the activity.
What intrigues me is that the "Hackers", who care about state, programs, and process, haven't turned attention to the State, and set about un-jacking its programs and streamlining its process. Why haven't we got a robust git server with anonymous read-only access for everyone who pays taxes that holds all (unclassified) legislation/regulation affecting society? Commits would be possible for elected officials/appointe…
If the elected officials & appointees actually cared for something like this, it would have existed already. Ultimately, the problem is that the "res publica" is not actually for the public. The whole premise that a single person can meaningfully "represent" millions is so laughable, I don't know why we keep pretending it's actually democratic.
What does "meaningfully" mean, in this context?