The air was “smoggy” driving through Texas? Uh huh... I’m going to go ahead and put that on the same level as your claim about Texas being lax on litter penalties.

By the way, Texas has more acres of forest land than every state you mentioned as being nature-y and forest-y and having more incentive to care about the environment. The only state with more forest than Texas is Alaska.

Like someone else said, Texas is too big to make generalizations.

It's the same way in chemical plants that handle H2S or other dangerous chemicals. I've always had a beard, but I'd have to shave it when installing or servicing our equipment in those plants.

The Drug Enforcement Agency and Food and Drug Administration set the drug schedules, and the Surgeon General is under the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

Lyft and traditional taxi service are a couple that come to mind... not that Lyft is necessarily lower quality.

That's what I mean. Taxi services are lower quality but much higher cost (including to the drivers). Lyft (in the markets I travel) is more expensive and higher quality. So I'm struggling to ascertain who is this mythical Wal-Mart to Uber's supposed Target?

It’s extremely insulting to refer to Escobar as the Colombian Steve Jobs, if that is the connection you are making.

Escobar conservatively killed thousands of people. I wouldn't worry too much about insulting him.

It’s insulting to Colombians.

Maybe it's insulting to Steve Jobs.

Or maybe they genuinely believe that their products are safer than cigarettes and believe that they are helping people by giving them an alternative.

Given that cigarettes literally cause cancer, it's very hard to create a product that is not safer than that.

I don’t see that quote in the article at all, and it doesn’t appear that the author claims any kind of trickery or sneakiness to trick his team into using Racket. It seems like the team built the tool together.

Yes, I agree with you.

For context, the original title was:

> “This is “how I tricked my co-workers” into using Racket.”

But has now been changed to:

> Taming OpenAPI using Racket to create a DSL

Which is the original sub-title of the article. The real title is actually:

> Making OpenAPI / Swagger Bearable With Your Own DSL

Yes, I don't see any mention of trickery in the article. For the record, capital-R Racketeers do not condone trickery.

That's a surprise! It sounds like the first in its line. As Wikipedia says:

> Scheme was originally called "Schemer", in the tradition of other Lisp-derived languages such as Planner or Conniver.

If there's any programming language family which condones trickery, I would think this would be it.

Whatever the goals of all the Scheming, it doesn't seem to have involved monetary wealth. :)

I interpret the "double "scare quotes"" in the title as suggesting cheeky sarcasm.

(In case future readers are confused, the original HN title had odd nested double-quotes, and the innermost quoted part was something like "how I tricked my employer into using Racket". Which seemed like terrible PR, giving the impression that this is something for irresponsible fringe fanatics.)

Wow. I had the same thing happen in back in '08, but our insurance company pulled record of lightning strikes in the area to determine if lightning could actually have been the cause. Luckily, they determined that it was the likely cause - all in all, I had almost $20,000 in damages.

It’s definitely not unique to you. Something that helped me was to not try quiet the voice but to counter all of its automatic negativity with realistic, positive counter-thoughts. It took about six months of intense practice, but now the voice is mostly supportive.

For what it's worth, you'll find people in San Francisco who like to shoot guns and, presumably, go off-roading. I was surprised to be invited to a gun range last time I was there for work.