attila-lendvai

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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
there's a disappointing amount of firm conviction here by people who are clueless about NixOS and/or the xz attack...
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
? the article demonstrates how to imorove NixOS (or Guix) to automatically catch any such discrepancy in the future.
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
a slightly improved version of NixOS (or Guix) would have automatically caught this backdoor once it reached their repos. they are relevant.
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
i have 35yo programmer friends who can hardly stand from back pain. i don't want to diminish the risk of injuries, but in big part it's also a question of lifestyle. every once in a while even programmers need to lift something be
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
sometimes my Thinkpad Carbon X1 gen6 refuses to turn on until i disassemble it and disconnect the battery... about once a year. it's rare enough to scare me for a moment each time that it has died on me...
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
if you think that there are too many parens in lisp then you should fix your editor. the parens are just a textual representation of a tree. once you have a proper editor, then the eliminated parens actually become an obstacle.
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
hence the two words/concepts: currency and money. and they both can share the same unit of account. The Unadulterated Gold Standard articles have a more detailed discussion of this.
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
don't forget that when you use fiat you are also charged inflation, and your economic activity is kept inside their zoo for all kinds of benefits to the zoo keepers beside inflation. this should all be added to that 3% card fees.
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
and USD senselessly burns up entire countries... e.g. most recently that giant, and very destructive money loundering operation in ukraine... somehow everyone forgets that wars don't make sense and shouldn't really be financeable.
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
no amount of funding can compensate for inappropriately aligned incentives. the ability to spend other people's money will always be the breeding ground of corruption (which includes not doing your job while accepting the salary).
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
yeah, and child labor was not banned, but made mandatory and pointless.
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
the mandatory part of mandatory education is the very source that rots this society. what's happening in schools run by the "western enlightened democratic" powers that be is outrageous. liberating education would be a major
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
except when they go over a bump, or a hill. or when they break and give gas, or when the car is loaded, or when they hit something and it's permanently bent, etc... and then there's the internal adjustment knob that most people ar
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
peak dark age: i can't decide whether this is sarcasm or not...
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
looks like we still haven't learned the lesson...
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
if only it was about selling stuff...! although, if you mean it broadly; i.e. selling wars, selling the idea of fiat money, or taxation, or national debt, or the plandemonium... then i hear you.
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
it's fine to discriminate agains actions and behavior or self-proclaimed or observed values. but it's dumb to discriminate against coincidental attributes.
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
...and no one talks about a toxic effect of comousory education in this context: your child is locked together with children whose parents you would never be friends with because of conflicting values. maybe the peer pressure for phones iss
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by attila-lendvai 2y ago
Proper title: Australia intoduces digital ID to access the internet