HumanDrivenDev
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Comment · 7 years ago
Because he hasn't been charged with murder yet. Same reason why his face can't be shown in NZ at this point - not formally charged.
Comment · 7 years ago
We don't avoid saying the name of ISIS, or Al-Qaeda, or the provisional IRA or any number of other terrorist groups. We don't avoid naming Stalin or Hitler just in case another one comes along.
It's not cynical to realise will find a way to profit from this, it's realistic. The crocodile tears, the head scarf, the voldemorting, the raison d'etre for making laws the government wanted to make anyway.
Don't you americans remember all of this from the 9/11 aftermath?
Comment · 7 years ago
According to his manifesto he expected this wouldn't make him famous, and used the example that very few people can remember the names of the 9/11 hijackers.
What he wanted - again according to the manifesto - is exactly what he's getting: further division and a clamping down on gun laws.
She also legally has to do it I believe, as Tarrant is still the "suspect" and has not been formally found guilty. She's opportunistically trying to turn this restriction into some epic "I un-name thee!" cringe fest.
Comment · 7 years ago
yeah I thought I might drop in and make a well reasoned point in good faith. the shower of down-votes shows me I shouldn't have bothered (:
HN is a bit of an echo chamber, unfortunately.
Comment · 7 years ago
We've passed that sci-fi trope where corporations now wield more authority than governments.
I have a better relationship with corporations more than governments. A corporation has never harassed me at an airport when trying to leave. If I don't like MacDonalds I can... stop eating at MacDonalds. If I don't like the services the state provides I have to physically remove myself.
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't know how you managed to turn a story about a gun massacre in New Zealand - a country with strict gun control laws - into a critique of Americas loose gun control laws.
Comment · 7 years ago
It comes from China, was developed in the republican era. It's based on a shorthand modification of seal script - though Japan was very influential on the elite of China at that time so it's possible Katakana played some role.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm simply not interested in where laptops are going. I'm a healthy adult male, so a few hundred grams of weight is not an issue. I also find thin laptops very uncomfortable to use in certain positions where you balance it against your body.
I really should buy a 'clunky', 'heavy' laptop before they all disappear and all that's left are wafer thin machines with soldered-on everything.
Comment · 7 years ago
If that were my service, I'd be pretty embarrassed by the number of unhappy users who have commented on the blog posts about cancellation[1] and refunds[2]. Doesn't seem like a good look.
And if my business was turning over $115k/Month I'm not sure I would let that keep me awake at night.
Comment · 7 years ago
In 2019, it all looks terribly misogynistic.
No losing your house, no alimony... maybe they were on to something. Let wives also be able to sell their husbands and bring it back!
Comment · 7 years ago
The biggest impediment for me would be finding clients. IME most programmers dont meet a lot plant potential clients when they are maintaining internal software. Even if they work for a consulting company, you can't use them due to restraint of trade clauses.
So how would you get the first customers? I'm just some guy off the street, no one is going bet money on me performing a function for their business.
Comment · 7 years ago
To deal with traffic you almost have to 'give up' on the notion of doing something quickly and resign to the reality of it, which is what happens if you have to deal with it daily.
That's the only way to treat driving IMO. If you let yourself get upset at 'delays', you will drive rashly to make up for it, and eventually you will cause an accident.
Every time you get in a car you should expect delays, and expect dangerous driving from others.