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by beckman466 5y ago
> Or is that what Pegasus/NSO basically already provide, as a feature? considering shell are mainly used for deeply corrupt ends, this isn't a far stretch. similarly, things that seem like duopolies today might well be reveal
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by beckman466 5y ago
> My feeling is that this behavior should be illegal for purchased products. Welcome to the Right to Repair movement!
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by beckman466 5y ago
> 7-series BMW models can be leased for ~800€ a month €800 a month? i have an income of €1100 per month. so after rent and bills (€500), i have €600 per month for all my other costs. no BMW for me. although (like you(?)) i do live in a E
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by beckman466 5y ago
> Matt Might has a solution for this that I love: Don't clean & organize! Release it under the CRAPL[0] > "Generally, academic software is stapled together on a tight deadline; an expert user has to coerce it into runnin
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by beckman466 5y ago
“Welcome to Pedoland!”
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by beckman466 5y ago
yeah no but i appreciated your take. no need for forgiveness. thanks for sharing your perspective. > skilled labor tangent: i'm curious what you think about this: https://twitter.com/arne__ness/status/14788
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by beckman466 5y ago
> I think looking at devs contracting as "gigifying" is abusing that word and cheapening it for actual gig jobs which is an actual issue. author is not a dev. > Upwork provides a platform to get contracts but it's not q
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by beckman466 5y ago
> I do wonder why the author is still on Upwork, their rating & exposure on there must be worth more to them than working several weeks for free why should they have to walk away? why even suggest such a strategy? UpWork already has
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by beckman466 5y ago
> I was also using my friend's paypal but then they blocked that particular account can i ask why you were using a friend's account?
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by beckman466 5y ago
> the funds a contributor pays to mint are distributed to all previous artists (visualizing this financial structure would resemble something similar to a pyramid shape)
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by beckman466 5y ago
> I’ve heard that middle-class people with respectable jobs have fewer kids than people who don’t work as hard. how can someone in good consciousness write this? really blows my mind.
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by beckman466 5y ago
> My theory about celebrity culture is that it is deliberately attempting to replace normal human interactions have you heard of the term 'parasocial relationship'? https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/parasoci
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by beckman466 5y ago
"The problem with western civilization is the oedipal complex [...] Very briefly, the Oedipal complex shows up in the way people orally fixate to external sources of authority, suckling on their (president's/sports team&#x27
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by beckman466 5y ago
awesome. i would be keen to get a little status report in a week if you could? others will then possibly be convinced to support the development and growth of Framework if they are searching HN through Algolia
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by beckman466 5y ago
> Even if it's green, wouldn't it be better if that produced energy goes somewhere to replace non-green energy, rather than to calculate hashes that are mostly thrown away? yep, that's my argument above. and i personally w
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by beckman466 5y ago
> Containers or a warehouse of miners also has far less effect on anything local. uhm what? the presence of miners mean energy prices rise as well as more environmental destruction to produce energy, especially if it's a place witho
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by beckman466 5y ago
> A BTC mine fits into a few shipping containers, needs no in-out logistics, and can easily be transported around as needed ...yet creates absolutely zero actual value. it is one of the greatest and most destructive speculative pyramid
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by beckman466 5y ago
> One of the surprising features of the crypto boom is the discovery of places where the price of energy is directly subsidized, or otherwise broken are you really arguing that letting the market work on energy instead of having somewhat
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by beckman466 5y ago
yep it's always a bunch of movie subscription sites instead of the torrent. it's almost like Google's search engine is predominantly focused on collecting advertising dollars...?
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by beckman466 5y ago
wish i could upvote this a hundred times. i love the work of Million Belay with The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) ( https://afsafrica.org ) as well as with the Stockholm Resilience Agency. this video of his and ot
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by beckman466 5y ago
> The ADHD community is a parody of the HN crowd in that regard, people share new "super effective" tricks and routines enthusiastically all the time. Finally we found the solution! sounds a bit like https://reddit.c
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by beckman466 5y ago
> “Real Africans” probably cringe when they see the referenced articles & books this author references. i didn't see any references, which articles and books are you referring to?
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by beckman466 5y ago
damn, just read that the author has passed away. rip Binyavanga. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/22/binyavanga-wai...
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by beckman466 5y ago
this seems great, thanks for posting it.
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Fast Food Education(kernelmag.io)
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by beckman466 5y ago
spoken like a true 'property investor'? if you are trying to tell me that you don't recommend your closest friends and family to buy their own houses, you've really not convinced me.
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by beckman466 5y ago
> Understand your house is a leveraged investment and you'll do well. ugh there's truth to this but it just feels so fucking dystopic. within the current systems we're playing games of musical chairs and the people who do
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by beckman466 5y ago
> distinguish between House and a Home -- the former is a physical thing, an investment so a 'house' is 'someone else's Home that you happen to profit from heavily'?
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by beckman466 5y ago
what strategies are people here using to disarm Sinophobia, and the unwarranted cold war -like escalations the US elite is pushing in the media, in your communities?
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by beckman466 5y ago
> as American football is football . the second 'football' here being American 'soccer' right?

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