insane_dreamer

so she should ... post on HN about it instead?

that's how you get people's attention to something, bring about public discourse, which can lead to political action

maybe study the history of the civil rights movement, then we can talk

I was a heavy Twitter user since its early years. 6-7 years ago I started trying to cut back on it because it was just consuming too much of my time, which was impacting me negatively, but found it really hard--it's addictive.

When Elon took it over I decided to go cold turkey and delete my account altogether so I couldn't go back. Best decision ever. I have twinges where I miss it, but I'm much better off without it.

I had already deleted my FB account about 12 years ago when I realized it wasn't making me happy. I still have IG which was great years ago (see your feed and then it stops when you've caught up), but I dislike what it's become (ad/promoted accounts infested). I still use it to share pics with friends/family and see but I use Screen Time (iPhone) to limit it to 20 min a day, and I had someone else set the screen time code so I can't just extend it. Works well and keeps me in check.

Thankfully HN doesn't have the same social media hooks so it's easier to keep in check. A couple of years ago I made some comment that dang didn't like and got my posts limited (max 5 within 12 hours, I think). It bothered me for a while, but now I'm actually happy because it acts as a limiting factor, so I wouldn't even ask for it to be lifted.

g-shock is also an excellent first watch for kids/teens ; indestructible and runs forever (like the '90s Toyota or Honda Civic)

> I also became interested in the concept of local world knowledge apps. In principle, the data size of meaningful packs of information about the whole world is not that large. Compressed English wikipedia (without media) is only 27 GB. OpenStreetMap's planet.asm is 2.2 TB, though you can doubtlessly prune that down to 1-10% of its size and have everything you might conceivably need.

We need more of these types of apps; the challenge is keeping it updated and synced with new information.

not a good time to be a PaSS or SaSS ...

rewriting code is the easy part

it's the testing in real world usage to shake out all the edge cases and bugs that's hard and that you can't just write unit tests for

which is why - sadly - there's not really any point to crypto anymore (other than as a speculative instrument driven mostly by fomo)

It was publicly known that Mitterrand had a mistress

if I remember correctly, Howard Zinn covers this pretty well in his A People's History of the Unites States: racism was promoted by the wealthy in order to keep the poor divided and weak (the fear of poor whites and blacks uniting was real)

> Processed meat

what counts as "processed meat"? any processes? specific ones?

in the US, yes. I experience it personally. Can't speak for other countries.

because other manufacturers aren't promoting their FSD software as "safe"

> Every new wave of tech has sizable opposition.

I disagree with "sizable". We haven't seen near this level of opposition in the past (I'm old enough to know), mostly because moving from say landlines to mobile phones, or postal mail to email, or radio to TV, didn't threaten the jobs of large segments of the population. Past opposition tended to be more rooted in culture or even religion (TV as a vehicle for "ungodly" programming, etc.)

hospitals still use faxes not email due to the latter's inherent insecurity