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I bring a bottle of Malôrt to all holiday gatherings so everyone can have a shot together. I actually like it, but it’s always fun seeing a new person’s Malört face. Recently someone described it as tasting like boat cleaner.

It sounds like the article is mostly advocating for a “one parent to many children” scenario, where the first organizations/users example you gave would be “many to many”, and your second view example is “one child to many parents”.

If anything, a lot of these sites are more readable and toned down than many of that era, considering they’re not using a blue bubble pattern background with bright red Comic Sans text and spinning gifs everywhere. It taps into the nostalgia but of course it’s never going to feel exactly the same.

As someone who doesn’t know much about it, I appreciated the previous comment.

What are you on about?

I get the exact same joys from work. Taking an old but functional and profitable codebase and cleaning it up, bringing it up to conventions and standards, refactoring. At my current job, feature work is always a thing, but I make refactoring boards and get people on board with bringing in refactor tickets every sprint, etc.

So while not 100% of my job is refactoring, a large portion is. And sometimes I convince them it’s time to rewrite one entire section or another, so a couple of sprints at a time might be dedicated to just that.

I guess I’ve gotten lucky, probably a combination of that and being outspoken about what needs to be fixed.

Perhaps you were more curious and interested. You certainly weren’t more knowledgeable.

What does it mean to be Czech or Slovak? At one point, those countries were combined into the nation of Czechoslovakia. Was a person born in Czechoslovakia Czech, Slovak, or Czechoslovakian? If we’re going to take ethnicity or language into account, then what does it mean to be American?

Many of those Eastern European languages are more of a sliding scale than divided by country borders. Moldovan and Romanian are basically the same thing.

I met someone on my travels from Italy who was Italian, but only spoke German, as they do in parts of Northern Italy.

Nationalities are a social construct, a bit of a shared delusion we all believe in. If we all stopped believing in them at the same time, they would cease to exist. That’s how they can not be “true”. Whether or not it’s useful or relevant to think that way depends on the situation. And that doesn’t mean they don’t have real consequences.

As for philosophies, he’s referring to living your life by any particular philosophy, whether or not it’s “objectively” the best way to live.

It’s literally life - a living thing - inside a drop of water. What is the problem here? The title doesn’t imply anything about how curated it is or isn’t.

> I think the truly happy people don't go around and tell others how to be happy. They just are happy.

On the other hand, people who are happy/content see a lot of pain and suffering in other people and might wish to impart some of their own wisdom into the world. At least that’s how I feel sometimes. But if someone is trying to make a profit from the information or advice then it’s probably not coming from a good place and less likely to be legitimately useful.

I remember walking around nicer areas of Porto and Lisbon and seeing a perfectly regular house right next to a row of dilapidated, caved in buildings. Peering inside the cracked windows, I saw trees growing right in the middle of the home’s living area. It would commonly be one regular home for every 3-4 of those abandoned shacks.

I feel like Lobste.rs is just HN Jr. It’s still tech-based.

I have the same issue. I have been impersonated on weird sites where you can hire a developer for cheap. I’ve seen my own name advertised. It’s kind of creepy. Mostly it’s been positive though.