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ohithereyou commented on Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (1991)   dreamsongs.com/WIB.html... · Posted by u/simonpure
DonHopkins · 5 years ago
It's Battle of the Manifestos day on HN! Compare and contrast this with "Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto [pdf]":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22585258

ohithereyou · 5 years ago
Shitposting and its consequences have been a disaster for Intenet discourse.
ohithereyou commented on U.S. Labor Department allows unemployment benefits for coronavirus   reuters.com/article/usa-e... · Posted by u/djsumdog
ohithereyou · 5 years ago
If COVID-19 digs in deep in the US then there is going to be a transformational change in how US citizens think about work, travel, entertainment, security, and the relationship between US citizens and their government. All of these aspects are intertwined:

Work: More people will work more time from home and many firms will switch to virtually full time remote with limited physical gathering. This will decrease the cost of office rents and alter the work/life balance. It will affect wages because people can live outside of city centers and still work so companies will pay less. We may be on the cusp of US government guaranteed sick leave.

Travel: People will, for the short term, do less travel for pleasure, but the big impact, long term, business trips will decrease. More and more business meetings will be replaced with voice and video conferencing. There was no big driver other than some cost reduction here, but now safety and security will be the big drivers here. Global pandemic concerns (prevention, containment) will complicate travel to varying degrees, and in a way that most US citizens aren't used to - it will affect interstate travel, not just trans-national travel.

Entertainment: Many of the sports that have been deferred or canceled will likely be replaced with other forms of entertainment that can be viewed on television or the Internet. Fewer people will go to live performances, both because they can't (cancelled by the government) and reluctant to after COVID clears. This will affect service workers - where most of the lesser skilled jobs have been created in the last three decades.

Security: Security will no longer be seen as just a physical access control concern. Business has been preparing over the last two decades for the eventuality of global pandemic - now they can put those plans into action, and the impacts of them will cascade into personal lives. US citizens will be demanding more from their government in disaster preparedness on pandemics - it will affect travel.

All of these tie into how US citizens see their relationship with their government, and what they demand from it.

ohithereyou commented on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says   npr.org/sections/goatsand... · Posted by u/tmlee
rabidrat · 6 years ago
It would be great if we had some kind of global institution with distributed local branches whose aim was to feed the hungry, tend to the sick, and commune with the destitute.
ohithereyou · 6 years ago
Isn't it the aspirational goal for several churches/religious orders to do just this?
_mdpn commented on Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation   hanshq.net/zip.html... · Posted by u/Breadmaker
bogomipz · 6 years ago
I understand that Milwaukee has long been a center of brewing in the US but you're saying it also has a big binge drinking culture as well? Is that a historic relic of the big breweries were a substantial employer in the city?
_mdpn · 6 years ago
It really does. There are two things that fit together for me:

First, access - I can think of twelve bars within walking distance of my apartment, four of which are on the same block, and a total of eight of which are within two blocks of my apartment. Almost every grocery store has a liquor store as a part (not separate store, just separate section with a register), and some stores, like WalMart, sell booze in the normal aisles. It's everywhere.

Second, culture - in Wisconsin, if you're under 21 but a parent, guardian, or spouse then you are allowed to be served, possess, or consume alcohol, so teenagers drinking at home as part of a party is completely legal in the state. Bars are so close to the house, and every area has their own, so social drinking, especially when the winter is cold and dark (in parts of the state in parts of the winter, the sun is set by 4:30 in the afternoon), is very popular. Many of the locals, if they're religious, come from a history of Catholic, Lutheran, and similar religions that were typically not parts of the temperance movement, and many of the cultures that settled the land - Scandinavian and German most commonly - are also known for their relationship to alcohol.

Third, recent developments - the part of Milwaukee I'm in was decimated when the manufacturing base was systematically hollowed out in the late 1980s through the current day. Desperation and escape are two motivators to drink, and there are parts of the community that I'm in that have been hit hard by that.

Lewis Black has a bit about drinking in Wisconsin. It is exaggerated, but only slightly so, in a way that I didn't quite understand before I moved here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WlwumGkSec

ohithereyou commented on The PS2’s Backwards Compatibility from the Engineer Who Built It   medium.com/@freelansation... · Posted by u/xd1936
theandrewbailey · 6 years ago
Since the next Xbox and Playstation will have the same architecture as the current generation (AMD CPU + AMD GPU), not having backwards compatibility would be a surprise.
ohithereyou · 6 years ago
Why would they add that when they can just sell you a remaster for the price of a new game?
_mdpn commented on Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation   hanshq.net/zip.html... · Posted by u/Breadmaker
okareaman · 6 years ago
As a recovering alcoholic, I've always looked at the story of Phil Katz as a cautionary tale. He made enough money from people registering PKZip for discs and manuals that he was able to succumb to his tendency to socially isolate and drink to excess. He drank himself to death.
_mdpn · 6 years ago
Speaking from experience (856 days sober, had my last drink a year after moving to Milwaukee), Milwaukee is a hell of a town for an alcoholic.

One of my favorite coffee shops is right near the PKWARE building off Pittsburgh Ave.

ohithereyou commented on Purge site data when site identified via old tracking cookies   bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/cryogenic_soul
throwsprtsdy · 6 years ago
I was thinking more about investigative reporters and news outlets than buggy-whip makers.
ohithereyou · 6 years ago
If you're going to treat investigative reporting and news gathering as a profit making venture then you can only charge what the market is willing to pay, and for the vast majority of people, that's nothing.
ohithereyou commented on Purge site data when site identified via old tracking cookies   bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/cryogenic_soul
throwsprtsdy · 6 years ago
> Thing is, nobody ever said ad supported sites have to be viable.

That's true, but if a site is not ad-supported, and "paywall" is almost an epithet (and circumvented to boot), how is any site supposed to remain viable?

ohithereyou · 6 years ago
Think of the poor buggy whip makers!

Not every desirable activity in life is profitable. If your business plan is "make website -> get money" then perhaps you're in the wrong business.

ohithereyou commented on Purge site data when site identified via old tracking cookies   bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/cryogenic_soul
ghostpepper · 6 years ago
I run a similar sort of policy but I would say the number of sites I visit that display nothing but a blank page without javascript is more than half.

Sites that function without it are the exception, not the rule.

ohithereyou · 6 years ago
A site that renders completely blank without JavaScript is a site that I don't enable JavaScript for. They don't want me to view it, and nine times out of ten I can find the information elsewhere.

u/ohithereyou

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