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antonkm commented on Sweden to shut bars and restaurants that ignore coronavirus restrictions   uk.reuters.com/article/uk... · Posted by u/samizdis
davidw · 6 years ago
COVID-19 is now the leading cause of death in the US. It is a very lethal disease however you want to look at it.
antonkm · 6 years ago
Yes, I'm not saying the opposite. What I'm saying is that Sweden's strategy is broad and long-term. We're isolating the old and fragile as of now.
antonkm commented on Sweden to shut bars and restaurants that ignore coronavirus restrictions   uk.reuters.com/article/uk... · Posted by u/samizdis
ashtonkem · 6 years ago
Winter is its own natural social distancing of sorts.

This of course is unsurprising. Even random street violence drops during winter, as cold temperatures drives everyone inside and away from each other.

antonkm · 6 years ago
Sweden's strategy isn't only about deaths by Covid-19. It's about preventing total number of deaths including deaths caused by the things we do to prevent the spread of the virus. The line is to keep things as open as possible. Quarantine is problematic if you take things such as suicide, alcohol and substance abuse, child and spouse abuse and depression into account. The list goes on.

And yeah, people are idiots for going to bars.

antonkm commented on Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation   axios.com/stripe-fundrais... · Posted by u/hhs
adambyrtek · 6 years ago
I used to live in Poland (so just across the border from Germany) and now I'm a UK resident, and your question is really baffling, since in both of these countries people use (contactless) card payments for pretty much everything. Germany is definitely an outlier and your comment doesn't really explain why. Is this a cultural thing, regulatory issue, or maybe banks colluding to protect their interests?
antonkm · 6 years ago
Swede here. Really baffling for me too. My kids have pretty much never even seen cash. I use the nationwide app Swish to send money to people using their phone number (almost every Swede is connected since it's pushed by all big banks) and only use contactless credit card.

How come Germany is so cash positive? Personally I think Sweden has gone a bit far, where some old people have been put in a weird spot where they can't pay because they're technologically illiterate.

antonkm commented on Show HN: A front-end visual development tool for React applications   github.com/webcodesk/webc... · Posted by u/ipselon
karatestomp · 6 years ago
Confession time: if I'm doing something quick and disposable in raw HTML I still just throw in a <center> tag, because I can't be bothered to screw with CSS centering when I need something to just work, and right now.
antonkm · 6 years ago
Why not: .center { display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; } ?
antonkm commented on Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy   vice.com/en_us/article/pa... · Posted by u/rmbryan
say_it_as_it_is · 6 years ago
It's easy to give up what you don't have. A web dev in Sweden has a social safety net to maintain a quality of life that is unobtainable in the U.S. without earning as much as possible. It is never at someone else's loss but at the discretion of managers based on the value each gives to the organization.
antonkm · 6 years ago
I'm sorry, I don't really follow your comment.

> It is never at someone else's loss but at the discretion of managers based on the value each gives to the organization

Can you expand on this?

antonkm commented on Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy   vice.com/en_us/article/pa... · Posted by u/rmbryan
say_it_as_it_is · 6 years ago
Don't forget what happened to Walnut when it priced its moving services for fairness and equity: https://medium.com/@nickbkim/why-were-closing-walnut-a452225...

Everyone wants fairness and equity until the time comes for each to pay for it.

I'm saying this in a disappointed tone as I really would like platform cooperatives to work but they're going to fail to compete in a relatively open market of a capitalist society. Also, everyone working in IT for these platforms becomes the exploited. It's inverted exploitation. Programmer: you're being paid less than what you'd make in a free market. If you're not getting your flat cleaned twice a week as a member of this cooperative, you're doing it wrong. You, my friend, are being taken to the proverbial cleaners.

antonkm · 6 years ago
There's more to life then money. Being able to provide others with a fair and better platform would make me accept a paycut.
antonkm commented on Ionic React   ionicframework.com/blog/a... · Posted by u/asaddhamani
JoshMnem · 6 years ago
Google's browsers don't automatically load your websites with Google's visual branding and Apple's browsers don't load your websites with Apple's visual branding.

There's a battle between some of the large tech companies for appification of the Web at the moment, and that way of thinking is a trap.

antonkm · 6 years ago
You do realize that Ionic is mainly used for App Store and Google Play right? You're free to not use it. It's a correct decision for Ionic to go with iOS and Android standards, from my point of view, and the implementation is superb as always with Ionic components.
antonkm commented on Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun   wobaka.com... · Posted by u/drikerf
paggle · 6 years ago
It’s not that - it’s that as a 6-person team who is a target customer, I don’t want to get a bunch of my data locked in to a system that’s not priced to sustain the company.
antonkm · 6 years ago
I mean Basecamp is $99/mo. And it has a bunch more features. I don't know about you but I'd say they run a sustainable business.

CRMs are usually ridiculously overpriced.

antonkm commented on Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible   guzey.com/productivity/... · Posted by u/less_penguiny
antonkm · 6 years ago
> "provides me with 625 minutes of work, interspersed with 275 minutes of breaks (provided my workday is 15 hours)."

Why would you work for 15 hours? I aim for 6. No way that you can be productive for 15 hours.

And, do you really want to spend pretty much all your time working? I followed along and agreed with lots of the stuff, then a comment like this throws me off. I totally understand that you're having trouble focusing if that's a normal day.

antonkm commented on Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS   tailwind.run... · Posted by u/utkarshkukreti
yoz-y · 7 years ago
Yeah at a first glance this looks like putting style in html except by using classes rather than `style` attribute. Cool for prototyping I guess.
antonkm · 7 years ago
I've found that since using Tailwind I've got a deeper understanding of CSS, got a greater understanding of UI design (Adam Wathan's tutorials are great) and produce and replicate designs quicker and easier.

It's a design system with constraints, which automatically gives me fewer and better options.

Using something like Bootstrap is probably easier and quicker if you're unfamiliar with writing CSS though.

All in all, quite far from styling with inline `style` (but it takes a bit of learning on the thought process behind it).

u/antonkm

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