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Any openly available tool can be used by anyone for any purpose. The idea that we can pick and choose is ridiculous, and with the exception of rare cases, avoidance of building generally useful tools for the chance that bad actors will also use them is a losing proposition.


Any openly available tool can be used by anyone for any purpose. The idea that we can pick and choose is ridiculous

And yet there are hundreds of laws, conventions, and treaties regulating all kinds of weapons. The idea that humans can pick and choose what exists in their society is ridiculous.


Building a tool is an ethical choice. Technology has no inherent right to exist. This is a bad project.


Technology has no rights; it is a logical abstraction describing the works of humans.

I like to think that humans have an inherint right to engage in creative work that pleases them.


Police sure seem pleased thumping skulls.

Anything we can do to make it easier for them.


Maybe your country should worry less about the technology and more about the people using it. You clearly have a personelle problem.


Maybe we should police each other more, and technology less?

But who is making the technology?

Circles. Circles everywhere.

Perhaps you should not anthropomorphize technology.


I am explicitly _not_ anthropromorphizing technology; I argued it is a logical abstraction with no rights.


Anyone who has capacity to harm you, luke governments, alreafy has tools and a fat budget.


This is invalid thinking.

Bad actors can make such tool themselves (if they can't, they are not really that good) and have incentive to do that, so non existence will only slow them down. I don't care about analyzing other people for any purpose so I don't. Having this tool readily available lets me analyze myself and people I care about to protect them from bad actors and educate them in the process.


This is invalid thinking.

I'm not familiar with the phrase "invalid thinking." Can you elaborate on how a person's thoughts can be invalid?


It’s a hamfisted attempt to assert the correctness of one’s argument by fiat. It’s the grown-up “are not / am too!”


Please keep in mind that some HNers are modeling their behavior after buggy machines and bad code and that this influences their thinking and language.


logical coherence and fallacies far pre-date computers and code


You are being overly literal I guess, there is nothing to explain.

Invalid line of thought sounds good ?

Try DDG next time.


The sentence was unnecessary to both your point and any argument in general. Why did you include it? Why are you defending it's inclusion? Why are you now saying "google it"?



I've seen that around. Doesn't yummly require you to install their app to see the actual steps? That was a deal breaker for me. I hate websites that have a page then arbitrarily block content unless you get their app.


It's been years since I've used it. Was a pretty technically sophisticated startup back in the day. Has been since acquired so not surprised it has decayed.


https://github.com/zx2c4

I love Michael Fogleman for graphics: https://github.com/fogleman/Craft


I don't use Github much. My code is mostly on https://git.zx2c4.com


If you don't want to go through thousand page textbooks on financial accounting, managerial accounting, and corporate finance, I recommend the following two short books to everyone:

1. Financial Statements, Thomas Ittelson - https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Statements-Rev-Thomas-Ittel...

2. Financial Intelligence, Karen Berman - https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Intelligence-Revised-Manage...

I've also found this website useful: https://www.accountingcoach.com/


I assume you came to this conclusion after thoroughly reviewing their internal metrics and financial statements?


Totally agree. The one with Jon Rubinstein [0] was illuminating in a way none of the biographies have been.

[0] Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJxElfc0N9E Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47bNpIbCaL8


Also if you want to learn about the NeXT days (which live on in many ways!) check out the ones with Blaine Garst and Steve Naroff.


I've been playing with hyperfiddle (clojure): http://www.hyperfiddle.net/


+1 for Hyperfiddle. Solid, powerful, visionary product.


Thanks for sharing.

Also, PSA: Get tested for any sleep disorders and hormone issues. Affects every aspect of your health and is massively under-diagnosed (80-90%)


This sounds interesting, could you share any more of your project? I want to get back into c/c++ dev, the modern libraries look great!


This has always been a shit argument. Injustice has to be fixed across the board, otherwise it's a tax on just the honest/moral people.


I am talking about the choice of word and testing wether he means it or not.

If he said that the would not mind paying more for taxes, that is ok.

Saying "it is not fair" is just populist BS - would you keep money that you honestly thought was given unfairly to you?


You are being pedantic.

Think: a sincere declaration of a willingness to cooperatively sacrifice to solve a group problem, if others do too.

Don't think: an offer to individually self-immolate, which would not solve the problem. That is a straw man test of whether someone "means" business.


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