This is a very strange comment to make on the Y combinator link sharing site. A site started as a space for a community of founders and aspiring founders to share their inspiration, ideas and stories. And you're responding to an article written by the founder of that community.
This community’s relationship and attitudes towards its founders have varied and shifted wildly since its founding. The content shared on this site have also changed over time.
Your home page/blog is by far the cleanest, fastest, and most functional I've seen. Can I ask what you use to publish it? I can't find any reference to a platform in the HTMl source (which is amazingly clean BTW).
Edit: Sorry, I just realized you meant my blog, not the TinyPilot website. My blog is just Hugo + Netlify, and the source is public.[2]
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The web tech stack is actually one of my biggest regrets. It's a static site generator called Gridsome[0] that the maintainers abandoned about three months after I used it to launch the TinyPilot website.
At the time I made the TinyPilot site, I was very excited about Vue, so a Vue-based SSG seemed great. Since then, I've come to find SPAs and most frontend frameworks to be way too much complexity, so I've moved away from Vue, but the TinyPilot website is still stuck on Vue 2.x and bootstrap-vue (which is tied to Vue 2 and Bootstrap 4).
So, it keeps creaking along, but building the 100ish pages on the site takes about five minutes, whereas I think something like Hugo could probably do it in a few seconds. Plus, we get random runtime errors[1] that are pretty hard to debug.
I live in Brooklyn in Bed Stuy, and my neighbor who has lived here his entire life told me how he used to play football in the street everyday in the summer when he was a kid. There was always a pick up game, and when I asked he said occasionally a car would need to get past and they would finish the play, and then wave it by.
Today, I don't let my daughter step one foot into that street for fear she'll get swiped by an Ebike or an Uber driver in an Escalade doing 40.
Drivers today have an expectation of complete ownership of the streets, and kids lost one of their few play spaces.
We're living in a moment of great homogenization. The myriad of microcultures that spanned the globe, and gave rise to so many unique ideas and movements are evaporating, and the result is a type of global group think.
The results of this are evident everywhere. Fashion, music, web design, food, academic writing. In any discipline or artistic endeavor, it's like the whole world decided this is the one best way to do things and nothing outside of that norm receives the nourishment (capital, time, attention, thought, support) that it needs to develop.
The EPA was created to empower experts to make informed decisions with the goal of benefiting the public good. The science of regulating pollutants is hard, and neither our representatives nor the voters who elect them and ultimately hold them accountable should be expected to develop that expertise.
The vested interests who benefit from the fossil fuel industry control the flow of information to our representatives through lobbyists, and to the public through advertising. Panels of experts in their field are harder to influence.
I recently watched Project X, a campy Matthew Broderick movie from 1987, and I was just blown away. It was so incredible to watch real Chimpanzees interacting with real human beings in real environments.
I had that illusive sense of wonder that CGI is always striving for and failing to reach. And, as a consequence the movie almost felt like it was from a future where CGI had finally achieved its goals...the only thing is it was a campy movie from 1987.
Should Congress also pass laws regarding which vaccines are mandated for military personal serving in which areas of the world? For example, if the risk of yellow fever increases in Yemen, should Congress pass a law requiring special forces deployed in that area must acquire the vaccine? Or should that decision be left to the appointed heads of those branches of the military?
Does that mean you support a rollback of all vaccine requirements? For example the MMR, TDap, HepB, polio, chicken pox vaccines required for school children? Or the numerous vaccines required for military personal?
And would you be comfortable having a pediatrician who wasn't inoculated for diphtheria knowing that an infection could be fatal for your baby?
I wonder if an argument could be made that this would actually pay for itself. Given that productive use of search is at odds with commercial use of search, maybe a publicly funded search engine could increase GWP by 0.01% which would be about $87B a year.
