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debacle commented on A small violin part highlights bigger problems for the global economy   nytimes.com/2025/04/02/bu... · Posted by u/perihelions
ceejayoz · 5 months ago
Citation?

It sounds like this debunked claim: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trumps-misleading-claim-on...

debacle · 5 months ago
Your linked source is a completely different issue, which is that there are other tariffs designed to artificially limit trade. These are de facto quotas on trade.
debacle commented on A small violin part highlights bigger problems for the global economy   nytimes.com/2025/04/02/bu... · Posted by u/perihelions
debacle · 5 months ago
Before these new tariffs, Canadian tariffs on US goods were more than double US tariffs on Canadian goods, as a percentage. If we want to eliminate tariffs, the proper outcome would be for Canada to lower its preexisting tariffs. I don't think anyone in the Canadian government has proposed that solution.
debacle commented on Ask HN: Are Squarespace and Wix sites worth it?    · Posted by u/LouisLazaris
debacle · 5 months ago
Squarespace is a great balance between having no website at all and WordPress.

Wix is overly complicated bloat, and you are better off just using WordPress if you need the bells and whistles or Squarespace if you don't.

debacle commented on Ask HN: Should I leave the company I co-founded?    · Posted by u/throwaway03902
tptacek · 5 months ago
Yes, I have.

I don't know how old you are, but I know how old I am, and something I have learned at great cost is that the most precious thing you have is your time. Generally, if you have to ask whether you should take steps or make sacrifices to protect your time (or, almost equivalently, your future opportunities), you already know the answer.

debacle · 5 months ago
Thank you for commenting here. Your opinion weighs a lot for many of us.
debacle commented on Ask HN: Should I leave the company I co-founded?    · Posted by u/throwaway03902
debacle · 5 months ago
I am working through something like this right now. Rev growth is starting to slow, our headcount is growing too quickly, and the current CEO seems hyper focused on a raise but doesn't understand the current funding market (or how poor our financials look).

I have decided to "quiet quit" and start hunting for something better. Who knows, something might change, but I doubt it.

debacle commented on You should know this before choosing Next.js   eduardoboucas.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/tobr
nonethewiser · 5 months ago
> Yes, a lot of the react-router changes are a PITA especially since some of the breaking changes are non-obvious. But most of the changes have been syntactical, and seemingly logical.

"Syntactical" seems to reinforce his point, no? As opposed to functional.

debacle · 5 months ago
The intent I think is "Lets refactor the syntax of the router so we can add more functionality without creating a boondoggle." At least from what I have seen.
debacle commented on You should know this before choosing Next.js   eduardoboucas.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/tobr
diggan · 5 months ago
> next.js when they switched from the pages router to app router

It is react-router all over again. For those who weren't around, react-router appeared early in React's life, and lots of people were using it. But, for every major version they released, they completely changed the way of doing the routes/routing, so if you wanted to use a maintained release, you'd have to constantly refactor, often without any real gains except "now we're on the latest version". I, just like parent with next.js, eventually stopped using it because it was too much.

It's kind of weird to me how programmers (especially of libraries like that) aren't more careful about introducing breaking changes, since the work needed to be done afterwards multiplies really quickly. I'd wish people just split their new stuff into new libraries instead of changing the interface of existing ones.

debacle · 5 months ago
I disagree with this a little bit. Yes, a lot of the react-router changes are a PITA especially since some of the breaking changes are non-obvious. But most of the changes have been syntactical, and seemingly logical.

A bigger gripe with react is that everything is so interdependent that things like react-dom and react-router might as well just be part of react - if you update one, you need to update the other anyway.

debacle commented on Researchers search for more precise ways to measure pain   washingtonpost.com/scienc... · Posted by u/Petiver
taneq · 5 months ago
I'm unsure how to interpret this statement. Are you saying that the amount of pain experienced depends on the patient's prior exposure and some 'tolerance' stat? And that we should ignore their actual statements about, and reactions to, stimulus when assessing the effect of that stimulus on them?
debacle · 5 months ago
My son had a testicular torsion. Normally, this is 10/10 pain and vomiting and fever and shock. All sorts of awfulness. If you didn't know it, you would have assumed his pain was no more than 4/10. It took an insistent pediatric nurse to convince us that something very serious was going on and that he needed to go to the ER right away.
debacle commented on Researchers search for more precise ways to measure pain   washingtonpost.com/scienc... · Posted by u/Petiver
odyssey7 · 5 months ago
Maybe this explanation is intentionally simplified, but what it’s telling me is that medical science is just lost.
debacle · 5 months ago
The problem is that, despite medical science making advances abound, doctoring as a profession changes exceptionally slowly, and most doctors (especially male doctors IME) take an adversarial approach to patients who have questions.

I have a relatively common autoimmune disease. I have had much better experiences with NPs than doctors in explaining that certain medications are contraindicated for people with my disease.

Ego has always been a massive issue in medicine. I wonder if this is exclusive to the US, or if we see it everywhere.

debacle commented on Nonprofit's Leader Convicted of Siphoning Off $240M in Federal Food Aid   nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us... · Posted by u/2OEH8eoCRo0
Willingham · 5 months ago
That’s a good start! 199.75 billion more to go before we recapture the full amount stolen during the pandemic. I wonder if this is on the list for DOGE to audit? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/new-federal-estimate-fi...
debacle · 5 months ago
I have seen some local suits for smaller PPP loans.

u/debacle

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