<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: AshleyGrant</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AshleyGrant</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:09:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=AshleyGrant" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AshleyGrant in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Folks have been conditioned to consider the deserts of West Texas, especially the Permian Basin, to be wastelands with no redeeming value.<p>Personally, while it isn't my favorite landscape or even my favorite desert landscape, I still think it is a landscape with intrinsic value and beauty.</p>
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<p>There are schools on military bases all over the world. Here's one at Joint Base Andrews: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/iMm4QSZJYAaLLSLh9" rel="nofollow">https://maps.app.goo.gl/iMm4QSZJYAaLLSLh9</a><p>Are the children in that school a legitimate military target? Is putting that school on Joint Base Andrews "recklessly stupid?"<p>Why is it perfectly fine for the United States to do this but "recklessly stupid" for Iran to do it?</p>
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<p>Maybe they should consider using it.</p>
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<p>> there is literally no comparison<p>There absolutely is a comparison. Both acts are evil. Just because Iran's regime has a history of even more heinous evil acts doesn't absolve the United States and Israel of their own evil acts.</p>
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<p>Both you and the other person who responded to me completely avoided the question I posed and hid behind "The Founding Fathers said it should be this way, so it is that way."<p>I didn't ask why it is the way that it is or if it is operating to the plan presented by the Founding Fathers.<p>I asked in what universe is it remotely fair or democratic. Care to try and come up with an answer to that question?</p>
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<p>You completely avoided my question and just gave a lecture on why it is the way it is.<p>I am well versed in why the Senate is structured the way that it is. That is beside the point. The simple fact is we have a legislative structure that does not properly give voice to voters in larger states while over-representing people who choose to live in small states. It is patently unfair and should be fixed.<p>There is no universe in which the vast swaths of unpopulated land in Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, or the Dakotas deserve the same amount of legislative power as the densely populated states of California, New York, Texas, and Florida.<p>But here we are, and this country has borne the painful lessons of a Constitution that over-represents residents of these lightly populated states through the tyranny of minority rule.</p>
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<p>The desert is not a "barren wasteland." It is a valuable, vibrant ecosystem no different than any other.</p>
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<p>Yes, but it only has two senators. The 39.5 million people in California have the same Senatorial representation as the less than 600 thousand people in Wyoming.<p>In what world is that fair or remotely democratic?</p>
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<p><a href="https://investor.capitalone.com/news-releases/news-release-details/capital-one-completes-acquisition-discover" rel="nofollow">https://investor.capitalone.com/news-releases/news-release-d...</a><p>They didn't just switch. They purchased Discover.<p>edit: added the "just"</p>
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<p>> Please read the rules.<p>You made a low effort post, and I pointed out how if you had put in the effort to read the article prior to commenting you would have gotten the answer to your question.<p>Would you like me to be more patronizing to you and say, "The article clearly states which of the font changes was the performative one and which was meaningful."?<p>But sure, buddy, run off to hide behind a site rule the moment you get called out for a low effort post you made that is breaking at least two rules itself:<p>- Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.<p>- Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.<p>> Is screen readability the only value to consider?<p>Whether it is "the only value to consider" or not is beside the point, and you know it.  The Trump Administration's only value they considered is "Biden did it, so we're going to undo it." They considered nothing else. You know. I know it. Everyone knows it. Why do we know it? Because they have made it abundantly clear that they have no idea what "DEI" actually is, so they just slap that label on anything the previous administration did, put out an order rolling it back, and use it as a wedge issue.<p>If he was actually worried about whether a san-serif typeface was worse for printed documents, he could have simply ordered that all printed documents must use TNR or any of the other better options that exist. But he isn't. He's simply concerned with killing "DEI," where "DEI" just means whatever they decide it means today.</p>
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<p>If you had read the article, you would know the answer to this question.<p>Calibri is a font designed to be easier to read on screens, which is where documents are primarily read in 2025. Switching to using Calibri as the default was a meaningful change that provided improved accessibility at literally no cost to anyone.<p>Switching back to Times New Roman, a serif font that is provably more difficult to read on screens is yet another act of performative cruelty by this administration who seemingly operates with "the cruelty is the point" as one of its core tenets.</p>
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<p>> In 2010... the majority of video playback devices were already smartphones<p>I find this extremely difficult to believe. In 2010 the only widely used smartphone would have been the iPhone. The Motorola Droid was the first widely marketed Android device in the US and was only launched in late 2009.</p>
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<p>I've been using em-dashes for at least two decades now.. At least I have in Word, where it's been autocorrecting regular dashes to em-dashes since at least Word 2007.</p>
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<p>I used that to build my XM Radio Online plugin!</p>
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<p>We're planning on using Blazor, so any Blazor UI components that you recommend?</p>
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<p>Why is that? Do you speak from real-world experience?<p>Not trying to push back. We're planning to use it for some new projects we have coming up on our team of .NET devs who can't seem to grok Angular or React and the entire ecosystem of tooling required, so I'm looking for reasons we shouldn't use it aside from Blazor being rather unpopular compared to Angular/React/other JS libs</p>
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<p>This is an absolutely insane take. By your comment, everyone who has a net worth of less than a billion dollars should just sit down, shut up, and let the rich people talk.<p>We should all have the equal right and ability to have our voice heard ESPECIALLY when it comes to political speech. Allowing billionaires and massive corporations the right to use their wealth to drown out the voices of the absolute vast majority of the population is already destroying the public discourse in this country, and it will likely be looked at by historians in 100+ years as one of the biggest issues that led to the downfall of the United States of America.<p>Money should not equal speech. Full stop.</p>
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<p>Any recommendation of good alternatives to Telerik? We've been using it for years, but I'm open to considering alternatives even though it doesn't cost me anything to pay for the license.</p>
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<p>We use Telerik components at my current job. They're a solid library, IMO. I'm sure there's better out there, but we've been using them for nearly 15 years at this point and I feel like we get decent value for the money, and their developers get to draw a salary.</p>
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<p>Because it means that someone with more money has a Constitutional right to be louder than those with less money.</p>
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