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New comment by aft42 in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

aft42 — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 05:01:06 +0000

I'm not epileptic or anything, but the background graphic was making me nauseous, not figuratively nauseous, but actually, physically nauseous. I couldn't make it past the nausea!

(I've never had a response like this before! Out of curiosity, I opened it up again after writing the first paragraph, and yep - waves of nausea with some not so subtle vertigo thrown in the mix!)

New comment by aft42 in "I’m a black man – What happened when I booked an Airbnb"

aft42 — Fri, 27 May 2016 22:04:27 +0000

My point is just that there are a lot of people who reward known racists - so putting a label such as "I'm an anti-gay bigot" would reinforce people who think this is appropriate, which can result in even scarier things - things like having a person who is "overwhelmingly perceived as a con artist" being nominated as the Republican party's presidential nominee.

New comment by aft42 in "I’m a black man – What happened when I booked an Airbnb"

aft42 — Fri, 27 May 2016 20:23:04 +0000

>need public exposure for the full consequences of their beliefs to be realized

Yeah, Trump is certainly realizing the full consequence of his beliefs.

New comment by aft42 in "Today is Towel Day"

aft42 — Wed, 25 May 2016 17:11:48 +0000

aft42 checkin' in - towel in hand :-)

New comment by aft42 in "TSA's Head of Security 'Removed' from Office"

aft42 — Tue, 24 May 2016 13:09:39 +0000

Or being a scary looking academic type:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11648758

- http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/16/southwest-air...

New comment by aft42 in "A week in Cuba was the most educational trip of my life"

aft42 — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 01:38:36 +0000

Would love to hear more!

New comment by aft42 in "Modular CSS for Web Components ‒ the VCL Is Here"

aft42 — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:24:34 +0000

>No shadow DOM support detected.

>The documentation client needs shadow DOM to render the examples. Please use a browser that supports shadow DOM to view this.

On Firefox 45.0.1

There is an option to try a polyfil version, which seems to be working.

New comment by aft42 in "[dead]"

aft42 — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:47:22 +0000

Producers are not necessarily consumers.

One of the most narcissistic people I know writes quite prolifically, but can't be bothered to read more than a paragraph or so of somebody else's writing.

New comment by aft42 in "Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system"

aft42 — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:21:11 +0000

Yes, the "with a part-time job and being frugal" was a critical part of my post that @adventured clearly missed. Thank you for highlighting it.

New comment by aft42 in "Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system"

aft42 — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:01:51 +0000

> completely prohibitive for eg. raising a family

But if it's an unconditional guaranteed income, i.e. each member of the family is making it, then it shouldn't be a problem. For example, a single mother with two kids would get her 500 EUR/month plus 500 EUR/month for each kid, bringing in a total of 1500/month for the family. While this certainly isn't massive, with a part-time job and being frugal, it should enable her to pay the bills.

New comment by aft42 in "Bonsai: Bulletproof contracts, simple e-signing, escrow for freelancers"

aft42 — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:11:05 +0000

In fact, I have yet to find an actual Amazon[1] on amazon.com, although I have found books about them [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons

[2] http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

New comment by aft42 in "Surviving an Alcoholic"

aft42 — Thu, 28 May 2015 05:16:59 +0000

> I will leave my email in my profile at between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., seven days from now.

I'm not sure how this actually helps keep your anonymity. I would suggest setting up a temporary email address (there are many services for this purpose - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=temporary+email)

New comment by aft42 in "George Soros May Face a $6.7B Tax Bill"

aft42 — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:58:14 +0000

> "At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, we need a progressive tax system in this country which is based on ability to pay," Sanders said last month in Washington. "It is not acceptable that a number of major profitable corporations have paid zero in federal income taxes in recent years, and that millionaire hedge fund managers often enjoy an effective tax rate which is lower than the truck drivers or nurses." - http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/29/politics/bernie-sanders-announ...

In other news GM CEO earned $16.2M in 2014 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9468108

New comment by aft42 in "Twelve Tips to Master Programming Faster"

aft42 — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:44:14 +0000

>The saying that it takes 10,000 hours to master something may or may not be true but is indisputably popular (which is often an attribute of true ideas).

The 10,000 hours comes from empirical research on expertise, spearheaded by Anders Ericsson - http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=anders+e...