In Amsterdam 1850 the municipality kept track of people's names, address, age, gender and religion (bevolkingsregister). It meant nothing at this time, but 90 years later the Nazi used these lists to murder jewish people going house by house. Thanks for the partisans setting this archive ablaze, life were saved.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, you tell me, I just want to point at this random timeline.

I shudder when I think of how effective the Stasi would have been in the digital age. The only thing checking them was the labour demands of surveillance.

When Trump came into power a second time, and the ICE-nazification became apparent, I reached out to my government and asked them what they were doing to make it harder for "Trumpism" to happen here. No reply. Just crickets.

Hoovering up less data would be a really fucking good start. There's something about babies and bathwater, but by god this has proven to be very dangerous bathwater time and time again.

Sir this hackernews please provide sources

n=5, success rate 60%, not blinded; but it does appear that they already had reason to test the treatment, so it's not a green jellybeans situation.

You're absolutely right, that isn't just good writing — that's poetry! Do you need further assistance?

As the other guy said, it's like having a drug dealer wait outside your house and try to push you some smack. This must be illegal, the fact that it's not illegal must be illegal.

This reversed cta thing is what I've been evolved to do. Always look for the opposite of a cta button and click it. This reconciles with the fact the incentives have been off for the past few years or decades.

Yesterday I thought the same thing about web app UI - solved problem, why GCP has to re-invent it and do it worse? Same thinking applies here - is it due to a fight between developers and products?

Can you please write more about it? What was the goal? Also I love the Angela Merkel method - thinking what you can do in a day or a week is fruitless as the productivity might vary. Thinking in years is too long. Think about what you can achieve in 100 days.

> Thinking in years is too long. Think about what you can achieve in 100 days.

You are right that 100 days can mean a lot.

But if you are always thinking "What is the most important thing I could ever do, if I just did one thing?", sooner or later you may find something where time isn't an organizational issue, because your North Star has become so clear.

I don't try to guess how long anything will take in any serious way. I set targets, but those are to push myself, visualize success, not schedule anything.

“Don’t weigh yourself every day, do weigh yourself every week.”

"can you please run inside a vm?"

This alone doesn't give you gmail UX - threads, inboxes, tagging, etc.

Did Kemal Ataturk really have a full menagerie all named abdul?