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armandososa commented on More people are getting tattoos removed   gq.com/story/why-is-every... · Posted by u/speckx
guywithahat · 4 months ago
That only applies to non-citizens, like Garcia, and I don't think his MS-13 tattoos were the reason for his removal, he was sent home because he was here illegally and had prior charges (such as beating his wife)
armandososa · 4 months ago
Of course it has nothing to do with his tattoos.
armandososa commented on More people are getting tattoos removed   gq.com/story/why-is-every... · Posted by u/speckx
armandososa · 4 months ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned how these days having a tattoo, no matter which, is a potential one-way ticket to a prison in El Salvador. That's a very good reason to having them removed.
armandososa commented on Careless People   pluralistic.net/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/Aldipower
erikpukinskis · 4 months ago
> why would a good person stay at the company after all she has witnessed?

Wait, is the angle of the book that she’s a good person? That can’t possibly be right… it’s a book about all the horrible things she tried to help Facebook do.

The title of the book doesn’t suggest she was disappointed in their morals. It suggests she was disappointed in their ability to do their jobs.

armandososa · 4 months ago
> Wait, is the angle of the book that she’s a good person? That can’t possibly be right…

Well, she paints herself as an idealist who believes Facebook can be an agent of [presumably positive] change, so at least she thinks of herself as good in some sense of the word. That’s what I found intriguing about that shark attack prologue. If it had been written by a third person or if this were a novelization, it would feel like a character-revealing moment, telling the audience that she’s actually selfish and self-absorbed, and setting expectations for her behavior before getting into the story.

armandososa commented on Careless People   pluralistic.net/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/Aldipower
matthewdgreen · 4 months ago
I’m only part of the way through the book, so have nothing to spoil here. But it’s entertaining. And shocking. The author will relate a scene that’s so absurd that you think “ah, this can’t be true, this is made up for dramatic effect, nobody would act like that” and then you Google it and you realize the absurd thing is totally true and was fully documented at the time. All the author is adding is a perspective from the inside.

I understand why Facebook people might have wanted the book to go away. That their attempt to do so comically backfired and resulted in entirely the opposite effect, well, that’s also pretty much what you’d expect from this crew after reading the book.

armandososa · 4 months ago
Did you find the author/narrator very unlikable?

[mild spoilers ahead]

I was tempted to stop reading after the shark attack story when she wakes up in the hospital and declares "I saved myself". Ugh. But I think it makes narrative sense: why would a good person stay at the company after all she has witnessed? It also makes the company leaders seem so much worse in comparison.

One more thing: Is it credible that she had such a high profile job for so long and still be worried about money?

armandososa commented on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon   twitter.com/Free_Ross/sta... · Posted by u/Ozarkian
azinman2 · 7 months ago
Not going to comment on the murder part as that’s well discussed here.

I would take issue with assuming that it was net positive with ratings. Given the anonymous nature handling bots spamming fake reviews would be even harder to catch here, and you ultimately don’t know who ended up addicted/hooked/DUI’s etc from the easy availability this provided. I’m not sure the total effects could ever be qualified, but it’s not like unadulterated drugs are automatically safe. Just look at how many lives pharma-grade opioids ruined, even though they were “safe”.

That’s also not to mention guns and all kinds of other dangerous & illegal parts of it.

I do not understand why he pardoned this guy when he’s supposedly anti-drug and anti-cartel.

armandososa · 7 months ago
he is just anti-mexico.
armandososa commented on Jazz – Apps with Distributed State   jazz.tools/... · Posted by u/gjvc
softfalcon · a year ago
I'm more than a little worried about the following all being `Coming Soon`:

- Cursors & carets

- Two way sync to your DB

- Video presence & calls

    - both the Group and BinaryCoStreams
All of these are the key reasons I would be evaluating this framework to handle my data. All of these are not fully implemented yet.

It is these key topics of live reloading/updating data that make or break an app. In my opinion, if you haven't concretely solved these problems, you haven't really built a viable state framework for 2024.

I really like the patterns they've implemented though, looks a lot like the same framework I just built on top of MobX, websockets, and React for a recent project. They're headed in the right direction, but I'm not sure they realize how much more work they have to go before this is fully fleshed out.

armandososa · a year ago
As a MobX user, now I'm curious about your Mobx + websockets framework.
armandososa commented on CSS @property and the new style   ryanmulligan.dev/blog/css... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
ARCarr · a year ago
Good news! You can with the Web Animations API.
armandososa · a year ago
Just recently I had to code a little but complex animation and I ended up using the web animations API. It's nice, it was a lot less code than the css counterpart.

But, if I* have to write this same animation in two years and @property is widely available, I'll reach up for that first.

*To be honest, it will be 100% an LLM that writes it for me.

armandososa commented on World's most popular painter sent his followers after me because of my review   news.artnet.com/opinion/d... · Posted by u/throw0101a
gizajob · 2 years ago
“World’s Most Popular” - nevertheless, I’m fairly aesthetically inclined and this is the first time I’ve ever heard of the guy.

It’s also the case that the popular mainstream has become conservative to the point of fascism where it comes to critique. Positivity denying its opposite. The responses from the artist were also strange and overlooked their own contradiction, as in “you’re just one person with one opinion” (but my followers are also single people with single opinions, all of which must be positive at all times).

armandososa · 2 years ago
Well, one could be faily musically inclined and never have listened to "despacito" on the height of its fame.

And I think that in this case,the critic was kind of a dick in his critic. In a very knowledgeable and eloquent manner he implies that if (from his perspective) the painter is not very good nor the art he produces, then the only explanation is that all the people who enjoys his art are gullible simpletons who don't know art. He has every right to have this opinion, of course, but he shouldn't be surprised if the gullible simpletons in question loudly disagree.

armandososa commented on Show HN: WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected   wikibinge.com/... · Posted by u/jamez
armandososa · 2 years ago
This is funny, pressed the dice icon and I got "Milk" and "Cookie" and I thought it was going to be a short connection. It isn't. https://www.wikibinge.com/#Milk/Cookie

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