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New comment by dandare in "Adobe Animate will be discontinued"

dandare — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:03:46 +0000

I would love my kids to have access to Flash and learn to build games the way I did. Unfortunately, £32.98/month for Animate is just too expensive.

As far as I know, there is nothing comparable to the Flash experience on the market.

New comment by dandare in "Made to discriminate: UN's Gender Inequality Index always finds women worse off"

dandare — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:50:32 +0000

Made to discriminate: UN's Gender Inequality Index always finds women worse off

dandare — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:11:06 +0000

Article URL: https://socialsommentary.substack.com/p/designed-to-discriminate-how-the

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46777889

Points: 7

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How UN falsifies its Gender Development Index

dandare — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:35:48 +0000

Article URL: https://socialsommentary.substack.com/p/how-un-falsifies-its-gender-development

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310243

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dandare in "'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them"

dandare — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:32:19 +0000

I am not sure if more regulation is a solution, but the lack of respect for job seekers is a real problem.

And not just with ghost jobs. My recent experience as a job seeker was harrowing - even with large, proud companies. I would pass multiple rounds of interviews with senior/director-level interviewers only to never hear back from the company - even after a direct request for an update or feedback. Just total ignorance. Again, this happened with a FAANG+ company.

New comment by dandare in "Don't Guess My Language"

dandare — Mon, 19 May 2025 14:18:44 +0000

Spotify is the worst.

EDIT: not any longer?

New comment by dandare in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

dandare — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:38:16 +0000

I keep saying this: A company is a legal person, and you should not try to be loyal to a legal person because legal person can not be loyal to you,

You can, however, be loyal to your boss, and your boss can be loyal to you, as long as this does not conflicts with his duties to the company.

New comment by dandare in "Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch"

dandare — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:56:57 +0000

People underestimate the economic side. This person probably earns 6 figures (if not, he should). Fixing this himself probably costed more than $1697 in his time.

Now imagine a service doing this, with a manager and all the overhead.

New comment by dandare in "Birmingham council's 'equal pay' bankruptcy provided cover for Oracle disaster"

dandare — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 08:53:14 +0000

Frustratingly the article makes no effort to explain what they mean by equal pay liability.

The same goes for something called "savings delivery rate" that supposedly dropped form 91% to 70%.

And the mentioned "£131 million" for the Oracle finance and human resources system, is that annual or lifetime?

New comment by dandare in "Permutation City (1994)"

dandare — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:55:34 +0000

Just came here to say that Diaspora by Gregg Egan is my #1 book ever :)

New comment by dandare in "'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant"

dandare — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 10:35:34 +0000

This is a campaign website done very well! I wish more websites were this informative.

New comment by dandare in "Robotic "Companions" Are Testing the Scope of Privacy and Sexual Freedom"

dandare — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:36:31 +0000

>Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

What does it mean to be a Shapiro Professor?

New comment by dandare in "The Mating Psychology of Incels – The Journal of Sex Research"

dandare — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:27:07 +0000

To me, the biggest issue is the hostility of certain crowds that prevents us from discussing and exploring these phenomenons. There is this whole "women don't owe you sex" overreaction that is very quick to silence any discussion.

At the same time sexual satisfaction is strongly correlated with happiness (or depression) and both genders experience very different phenomena here.

New comment by dandare in "The Mating Psychology of Incels – The Journal of Sex Research"

dandare — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:09:26 +0000

Overestimate compared to what? Compared to women's self reported preferences?

I ma going to read the study to find out :D

New comment by dandare in "What seven hours in London teaches me about surveillance capitalism"

dandare — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:54:52 +0000

And who is the source? Capitalism, the economic and political system? BS.

On Wikipedia, you can find that:

>Economic pressures of capitalism are driving the intensification of connection and monitoring [...]

Which is partly truism and partly straw-man. Truism because "Economic pressures" are "driving the intensification" of everything, yet we don't use terms [something]-capitalism anywhere else. And straw-man because capitalism is only one of many possible sources of economic pressure.

If all you want to is distinguish the source from state-actor surveillance then "for-profit surveillance" or even "surveillance marketing" are much more fitting terms.

New comment by dandare in "What seven hours in London teaches me about surveillance capitalism"

dandare — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:35:15 +0000

The term "surveillance capitalism" is needlessly loaded - it has nothing to do with capitalism, neither as economic nor as political system.

All it tells me is that whoever started it had a left bias and whoever is using it does not know any better.

New comment by dandare in "How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like"

dandare — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:42:02 +0000

Because it almost never works.

New comment by dandare in "How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like"

dandare — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:36:51 +0000

>and it usually is a he

My toxic boss (she) was a diversity hire (women in tech) with limited experience (fast tracked for management) but unlimited support from the top (diversity quotas). I ended up bullied out of the company with damaged mental health (anxiety attacks).

New comment by dandare in "Is Math Real?"

dandare — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:41:06 +0000

>Math is a model of the universe

And I would dare to disagree right here. Math contains many structures that we don't know from our universe and that probably do not exist in our universe. If math is a model of universe, why is there a Mandelbrot set?

New comment by dandare in "Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf]"

dandare — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:33:39 +0000

Reminds me of how google moved maps.google.com to google.com/maps so that they can ask for location permission in your browser for the whole google domain.