A dollar then would have given me just over half a mil in 2021! And here I thought real estate investing has been the best decision strategy of my life haha.
The moment I observe an article overzealously relying on direct quotes and anecdotes of everyone the 'reporter' was able to get their hands on, it's tab close time.
My children (one is in High School and the other in College) don't get bothered by advertisements as much as me (are they desensitized?). I would rather pay for most of these "free" services if there was an option to simply opt out of having my data harvested.
I might be a bit biased because my first car was a used M3 e36 back in the 90s. My wife just bought the M5 last year, admittedly one of the best driving experiences in recent years.
> JavaScript is analogous to Visual Basic in that it can be used by people with little or no programming experience to quickly construct complex applications.
>JavaScript scripts are designed to run on both clients and servers, with JavaScript scripts used to modify the properties and behavior of Java objects, so the range of live online applications that dynamically present information to and interact with users over enterprise networks or the Internet is virtually unlimited.
It is strange that I read every article from the domain *.substack.com with a preliminary conclusion that it was either written directly by GPT-3 or influenced by it.
You'll notice I stopped engaging with the replies once I recognized there was a texas-sharpshooter being invoked by my subconscious self through the parent comment. If we got a DUI but for using the internet, I would be top10 ;)
You're absolutely right - especially the second point. With that said, I often find the xenophobia here a bit disturbing, but (and thats a massive but) to say those are "typical American ethics" (like above) tantamounts to a sweeping generalization. One which does not represent American values at all.
HN is and has been passively aggressive towards Indians, I think anyone who browses this forum for a month would know that, it's hardly news. I also don't understand your critique and would advise you to refrain from generalizing all Americans as an extrapolation of this extremely niche forum.