melindajb

It’s like no one’s seen “Alien.”

(Humor!)

As you know the most brutally totalitarian regimes suppress speech that contradicts the views of those in power(edit). The Comparison of the American government’s decision to tamp down on the algorithmic reach of misinformation during a pandemic to a totalitarian regime is neither fair not an accurate; and frankly is hyperbolic.

I get to say what I observe. When I read the comment history of the angriest folks on this thread, it’s never anger on anyone else’s behalf but their own.

I find it fascinating how angry people on HN get about this particular issue; but rarely seem as concerned about the fundamental human rights violation of banning medications and medical procedures for one half the population.

Yes, this is relevant; and I say this as a former life long libertarian: I wanted the government out of my life in most ways; and that included laws on abortion, marijuana and others.

What I learned with life experience was that I benefitted from being part of a society, and I have to both give as well as take.

sometimes, I get less...a lot less to be honest. and sometimes i get more. and hopefully the balance works out over a lifetime.

Watching the foaming rage about words; but remaining silent when actual people are dying due to the actually tyrannical governments in the southern united states, belies the real motivation of a great many people.

It's sad that you're being downvoted only because you disagreed with the prevailing pov here.

for all its talk of being an open exchange of ideas, HN often devolves into exactly the opposite.

what should they be based on?

One way in america we've always defined free speech is this:

"your right to swing your fist ends when it lands on my face."

I don't think people have a right to free speech when that speech is purposely, and I do mean purposely because it was done on purpose, designed to spread misinformation in such a way that others are harmed by it.

There are limits to free speech, and the conversation ends with Popper's paradox.

There’s no way silicon valley would have realized the importance of the content in the equation. The talent is absolutely a huge part of the success. There are multiple huge facebook and ig groups for some of the most popular instructors. It’s a moat.

I started out with a different bike but eventually bought a peloton because the community and integration was so much better than bike + tablet.

Plus I love stretching, yoga, pilates, meditation.

During cancer I couldn’t ride. But those chair and standing yoga classes made an enormous difference in my state of mind and health.

I wish it wasn’t so hard for a few folks here to see that passion and emotion for a brand has value.

That said, there are enormous opportunities in front of Peloton. It’s time to get some Silicon Valley leadership in there to apply product led growth initiatives.

It’s fascinating to see on hacker news of all places, the negativity towards a founder with a very successful exit.

The irony was not lost on me either. but I really did agree with a lot of the piece. :) To his point, again.

"It’s puzzling that there isn’t a stronger tradition of “user testing” for writing. Occasionally I’ll give a friend something I’ve written and implore them, “Please circle anything that makes you feel even slightly unhappy for any reason whatsoever.” Then I’ll ask them what they were thinking at each point. There are always “bugs” everywhere: Belaboring of obvious points, ambiguous phrases, unnecessary antagonistic language, tangential arguments about controversial things that don’t matter, etc."

This is called an editor. They're invaluable!

Clickup does this very well-lets you decide if you want to create a new instance no matter what, or whether you want to create a relative recurrence when the task is complete.

So in the case of furnace filters: create quarterly, then push next one out x days once marked complete.

In the case of rent, it's always due the 1st of the month regardless of whether I pay on the 2nd or the 31st.

cleaning up unicorn poop has been an excellent business. Nice to see it will continue for awhile.