borepop

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by borepop 5y ago
>No one should just go sit with zero context and no support. C'mon now. It's not hang-gliding or dropping acid, it's sitting quietly in a room. Not everything in life should be treated as if it's horrendously risky o
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State Bar of California addresses breach of confidential data(calbar.ca.gov)
209 points by borepop 5y ago|96 comments
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by borepop 5y ago
I too thought this was an important issue that seemed to be missing from the article. That and the risk of burns.
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by borepop 5y ago
There's nowhere left near me at all that sells the New York Times, which was the paper I liked to read in physical form. Used to be a fun weekend ritual to pick up the Sunday edition from the coffee shop down the street and sit around
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by borepop 5y ago
Sometimes I find these kinds of link submissions pretty baffling. "Here's a nearly 30 year old article about a dead comedian!" Thanks, I guess. But also: why? Why this arbitrary New Yorker article, as opposed to any other a
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by borepop 5y ago
Nothing that Christopher Hitchens ever said struck me as remotely insightful. Characterizing one of his reductive proclamations as a "razor" does not make it more useful or accurate.
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by borepop 5y ago
Also Francis Fukuyama: history ended in 1992.
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by borepop 5y ago
As opposed to CEOs and upper management, who are all lovely people and want nothing but the best for their employees, and are definitely not motivated by short-term gains.
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by borepop 5y ago
Don't Look Up, currently out on Netflix, seems to owe a fair amount to Idiocracy. And/or to the ways in which American culture morphed into Idiocracy over the last several years.
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by borepop 5y ago
Right but the ostensible hook for the reader's interest is the moderately banal design of the corkscrew. Which, to anyone with any sense of perspective, is not a particularly compelling problem. Indeed, I would rather have a banal cork
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by borepop 5y ago
Or just https://vcvrack.com/ ? I don't understand the impulse on HN to make everything as technical as possible.
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by borepop 5y ago
>Why is there even a counter? Yes! It makes no frickin' sense in an age of internet booking, and this is why I, too, use Hertz Gold. As much as Hertz was raked over the coals in that recent Twitter post (seemingly justifiably), I ha
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by borepop 5y ago
My stepfather (a retired professor) is endlessly fascinated by these kinds of questions. If you ever ask him at dinner "so what are you working on?" the result is often a half-hour-long explanation of how many polygons could conc
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by borepop 5y ago
That's interesting, thank you. Funny how ugly the product is, I almost prefer the goofy kid car phone.
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by borepop 5y ago
Holy shit, I have wanted exactly this product (minus the "child" styling) for years for my actual office, as a productivity tool. I just want to be able to take and make calls on my phone without being dragged into a vortex of ta
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by borepop 5y ago
Agreed. The tone of the HN comments section is occasionally somewhat more contentious now than a few years ago, but it has not generally devolved into the sort of partisan pissing match/bad-faith clusterfuck seen elsewhere in the inter
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by borepop 5y ago
This is the second HN thread I'm reading today where somebody's response to an article is "this is not a solution for me personally, so therefore it's not a good idea." Seems like a strange way to interpret informat
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by borepop 5y ago
I responded to the parent comment so I won't belabor it, but I think this take on the article is faulting the author for a claim she never made. The article never even mentions schizoaffective disorder and makes no attempt to propose a
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by borepop 5y ago
It seems like you're suggesting that if the "lifestyle"-type techniques described in the article aren't a solution to your specific situation, then it's condescending and useless to describe those techniques. I don
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by borepop 5y ago
Agreed. I've tried several times to use Discord and find the entire experience to be a clunky, spammy mess. The interface is awful.
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by borepop 5y ago
It feels like the author has a notably loose idea of what the "this" is that she's been through before. She's applying lessons she feels she learned through personal trauma involving her son's autism to the analysi
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by borepop 5y ago
Personally, I've always found the underlying structure of Crime and Punishment extremely tedious, never mind how any particular line or paragraph is translated. Obviously that makes me a philistine, etc., but there is some classic lite
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by borepop 5y ago
I enjoy some self-help books because they seem to articulate an underlying gameplan for pursuing whatever one considers "success," which are ideas my parents and school only taught me implicitly or inaccurately. My parents' a
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by borepop 5y ago
Unhappy humans have been speaking to other humans for thousands of years without anybody setting up arbitrary "trainings" about it and meaningless certifications that allow us to pretend that we can stave off the psychological cha
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by borepop 5y ago
See also Anne Lamott's theory of Shitty First Drafts.
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by borepop 5y ago
There are many ways this can occur. Think of intimidating, racist language being used to discourage minorities from voting, for example. Or a public official whose expression of obnoxious views about women prevents female employees from f
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by borepop 5y ago
>The slider interface on the second prototype is very appealing as a UX Man, particularly for drums that seems so cool. Obviously you can nudge things off the grid in Ableton or whatever DAW, but just to be able to move the sliders as i
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by borepop 5y ago
Fumpster Dire seems like it would be a good band name.
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by borepop 5y ago
Sounds about right to me. I can't stand this guy.
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by borepop 5y ago
Normally, yes, and as was mentioned higher in the thread this initial figure is referred to as an "anchor," meaning that it has the psychological effect of implying that anything higher than that number is somehow a real concessio

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