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poisonborz commented on South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity   worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/barry-cotter
koakuma-chan · 3 days ago
> Career-motherhood conflict

Anyone tried to move away from this model where there is two people of opposite gender, living together as a family, working, and raising child(ren) at the same time? Why not have dedicated facilities that handle raising children professionally?

poisonborz · 3 days ago
This is the main topic of Brave New World.
poisonborz commented on How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy   economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/skx001
poisonborz · 4 days ago
Stock market crash? I believe less and less a 1929 style crash is possible. Tesla, Uber, hell, look at GameStop still... The market is rigged. The US and the upper class needs numbers go up, the numbers will go up.

The only way an adjustment to such stock prices would come is if US power and dollar vanes. There is a chance now this will happen, but I guess it will still take a long time.

poisonborz commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain   repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6
poisonborz · 5 days ago
Huh, I think this is a problem that almost every HN reader solved in their life one way or other.

(Not speaking of the usability of this: if voice works for you, this can still be great for you, however)

poisonborz commented on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State   paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
jmclnx · 5 days ago
100% true, as I type this on a social media platform :)

But at least this site does perform moderation and so far it has not been toxic like most others. Plus if someone disagrees with you, just about all of the time, that person comes across as respectful.

poisonborz · 5 days ago
This is a forum. Were BBSes social media platforms? We need better wording.
poisonborz commented on Richard Stallman on ChatGPT   stallman.org/chatgpt.html... · Posted by u/colesantiago
dkyc · 5 days ago
Absolutely hilarious that he has a "What's bad about" section as a main navigation, very self-aware.
poisonborz · 5 days ago
"Posting on Reddit requires running nonfree JavaScript code."

I have much respect for him but this is at the level of old-man-shouting-at. Criticism should be more targeted and not just rehashing the same arguments, even if true.

poisonborz commented on Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds   bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/petermcneeley
squigz · 7 days ago
So many comments and sentiments in this thread are really not worthy of HN.
poisonborz · 7 days ago
What is the HN ethos anyway? The "common thought" and average HNer was different in 2007, 2015, 2025, and will be again rather different in 2035.

One could say the "hacker ethics", love of freedom, tinkering goes beyond time, but this falls apart at any topic beyond that.

poisonborz commented on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera   varlogsimon.leaflet.pub/3... · Posted by u/TimDotC
poisonborz · 12 days ago
The problem is genuinely the misleading nature of the phrase "end to end" and the lack of a better alternative. HTTPS is "end to end". There should be some new word for "decryptable only by the user".
poisonborz commented on Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years   sherwood.news/tech/apple-... · Posted by u/avonmach
poisonborz · 12 days ago
They were solid top in quality for 15 years for Android. DeX, pen features, camera software was solid. OneUI became very customizeable. But it was stably boring at best, and atrocious at worst, and they couldn't ship any other standout feature that wasn't scrapped soon after.

Now they shipped the same camera on their most sold flagship phone 3 years in a row, same battery size for 5 years. Flip-flopping between Qualcomm CPUs as their own couldn't compete after years of trying. They don't deserve the spot they have for quite some time now.

poisonborz commented on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe   tuta.com/blog/whatsapp-in... · Posted by u/marvinborner
prmph · 13 days ago
What would be far more useful is easy export/import functionality not tied to iOS/Android backups. i lose some messages every time I switch phones; it's a mess
poisonborz · 13 days ago
Android: You can get the message db with root. You can export individual chats in text version right from the interface. The message media is stored in the user folders.

Still bad, sure, but there are worse offenders.

u/poisonborz

KarmaCake day3119February 28, 2017View Original