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I actually forgot that there is solid evidence now that Austronesians made contact with South America. So that's even crazier!

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8 miesięcy temudiscuss

do you know how far madagascar is from easter island? if you're talking about mediterranean and river travel, yes you're right. but the pacific ocean + indian ocean are utterly massive.

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I'm a designer=engineer, and I feel like AI has given me super powers. Design has always been easy for me--it was just the incredible grind of coding that made creating my own thing difficult.

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we need at least 8236 more job boards

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Looking for part time product design work. I have 12 years of experience in software and design. For the past 5 years, I have worked as a full time, salaried software engineer at top startup tech companies in NYC (ranked #1 on LinkedIn top startups) and the 3rd largest hedge fund in the world, where I was a hybrid developer-designer. I'm primarily looking for product design work as my brain is itching for UI/UX design work again.

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The "context" approach was the whole "Explainer" period that happened in journalism, most famously done by Vox (as another commenter mentioned)--but also many others.

What you end up getting is the approved narrative of "how things are" by the same class of people who all hobnob with each other.

Glad to see it's end. Look forward to what's next.

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We're a few narratives deep.

You're responding to the "noble savages" strawman -- the OP article never claimed such.

(Moreover, you're responding with a relatively isolated incident of Native Americans driving buffalos off cliffs, which I agree happened and Is Not Good. But it's odd to mention in the larger historical context that the American Buffalo became endangered due to industrial scale slaughter caused by European settlers--A Big Deal, relatively speaking.)

On balance, yes, Native people are often the best guardians of the forest for a mix of reasons. One is the animistic belief systems, which falls under the "Noble Savage" bucket. But the other is they more often than not don't industrial-scale commoditize their living spaces, part and parcelling out the goods as raw material inputs. Which other groups, like Asians and Whites, often have.

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I'm someone who is naturally strong at design, but studied CS/software engineering because I ultimately wanted to be able to build my own things. For years I tried to find careers hiring those unicorns -- people who could design and code -- but they were few and far between. My last gig that required both was at a hedge fund here in NYC, where they don't explicitly hire designers. These days I work exclusively as a software engineer, and I definitely miss those times when I worked as a designer. Among other things, the hours are easier and the amount of praise you get way higher :-)

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>The notion of hunter-gather societies living harmoniously in equilibrium with nature that some people seem to view as an optimal societal arrangement doesn't fit very well with this scenario.

Where is this notion? I've been involved in environmental circles and humans wiping out mammoths, giant sloths in south america, or logging easter island to bareness are pretty well known.

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It's gotten bad enough that if someone with an Indian accent is calling me and it sounds like it's from a call center, I hang up immediately.

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The highest point of the maldives is 7ft above sea level. They are migrating en masse to neighboring countries.

Bangladesh, similarly, is a very low lying nation without the capital to build seawalls and other protections (as the Netherlands can).

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I tried out nhost a few weeks ago and it was great!

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Reducing emissions to zero, scarily enough, is the minimum. We actually need to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere in order to prevent further temperature increases, which lag behind CO2 concentration by years.

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And they pulled the plug on this thread while it was hot. They'll probably put it back when it simmers down and gets off the front page.

YC has a vested interest in crypto. They also have vested interests in carbon removal.

I'm just surprised to see the censorship.

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Was this removed from hacker news' front page? I don't see it there any more even though this post is ~3 hours old and has 300 points.

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I think using managing state with an observable data service is a pretty good option w/o resorting to 3rd party libraries: https://blog.angular-university.io/how-to-build-angular2-app...

Alternatively, you could use Akita, which is built on top of this basic model, but offers a ton of additional functionality and the ability to use Redux Dev Tools.

Finally, you also have NgRX, which is based on Redux--but also adds a ton of overhead and boilerplate. I actually opted for Akita since it is way more ergonomic and offers most everything I need.

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I never used the flex layout package. That's a third party library, and I think sticking with CSS grid + flex makes more sense. (Alternatively, you can just use bootstrap or tailwind or whatever.)

RxJS is actually one of my favorite parts to Angular, but it _does_ lengthen the learning curve quite a bit. Once you get past that, you can have amazingly reactive apps. One of my beefs with ReactJS is that it doesn't play as well with RxJS. Now that I think of it, you're not actually required to use RxJS with Angular: you can convert observables to promises (`toPromise()`).

I could see how having junior/new developers could make things a lot harder. I remember first learning typescript and having to keep the TS playground open at all times to see how it compiled to ES5.

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My experience with react with different: you have to spend a large amount of time upfront in order to get the basic features of a single page app. You burn a lot of mental energy figuring out which forms library, router library, etc to use. When it's time to upgrade, you have no guarantees that your libraries will continue to play together nicely. And quality and standards between libraries can vary dramatically.

I prefer the Angular approach. The initial learning curve is steep, but once you get over that, it becomes a rapid development framework, as all the pieces work together cohesively. The Angular CLI makes creating components, services, updating, etc a breeze, and helps maintain structure as your scale your app up. The core libraries (like routing, forms) are developed and maintained by Google, so you can expect a solid level of quality. The typescript-first approach means that your IDE can help you explore APIs, auto import, and work with third party libraries just as well. And the strong foundation provided by the core framework means that third party libraries have a better starting point upon which to supplement/extend.

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6 lat temudiscuss

As far as sharing JS library code yes, but the baked in typescript support + nx CLI add a lot in terms of usability.

1. nx g @nrwl/workspace:lib data, 2. Modify the typed models/interfaces. 3. Import to backend + front end.

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