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by caeril 5y ago
I generally agree, but in the specific case of Session, the crypto scam is a feature. The crypto scam provides for the thousand or so independent nodes that makes a ProtonMail-style law enforcement order useless. Any centralized service lik
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by caeril 5y ago
It's a scam, but only in the sense that it's become completely controlled by central banks. Since 2008, any 10% drawdown, regardless of how stretched actual valuations are, is met by panic at the Eccles Building, followed by anyth
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by caeril 5y ago
Sure, lots of internet people who don't want to be tracked (license plate readers notwithstanding). But also plenty of IRL people complaining about how, for example, they miss their $10k pickup with no power anything that worked grea
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by caeril 5y ago
What I'll never understand is why carmakers don't take advantage of this situation and address a market that's been literally BEGGING for decades for a new product: A simple, basic car, with the ONLY electronic control being
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by caeril 5y ago
> You get blocked from mainstream registrars by spreading hate Not really. The internet appears to have a two-caste system: 1. Facebook, Twitter, etc. Twitter hosts plenty of hate, but because they have a "policy" (regardless
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by caeril 5y ago
> because morale is low because of people leaving. A broader point, here: Maybe in specific instances people are leaving for legitimate or systemic reasons, but it's still sad that humans still operate on the flawed basis of social
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by caeril 5y ago
Rogan is not spreading misinformation. The top two comorbidities, BY FAR, are old age and obesity. The CFR for normal-weight people under 65 is vanishingly small. This is an established fact. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/vo
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by caeril 5y ago
> These people are perpetrating evil with intent, that makes them qualitatively separate from everyone else. Yeah, so HN rules of civility go out the window when you start talking like a tinpot little Hitler. "Qualitatively separate
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by caeril 5y ago
> What they offered me was almost $300,000 per year. That was a shitload of money in Tennessee. You can’t really say no, right? If more and/or better medical coverage was on offer from AMZN, it would have been mentioned. Note that h
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by caeril 5y ago
6th paragraph, he was already fully insured at his previous job.
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by caeril 5y ago
Ha, of course it's Mother Jones. I don't even know what to say. 1. You had stable employment, with an employer that you knew would be understanding. By your own admission, you knew the Amazon horror stories. But your greed won any
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by caeril 5y ago
I'm pressing 'X' to doubt, right now: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/nation... edit: Maybe I should have said Great Plains, which overlaps, but is not precisely the same as, t
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by caeril 5y ago
> all wire meant to be sold in the EU must be ROHS complaint Just an aside, this is a personal gripe. I grew up on lead solder, making Heathkit projects with my dad. I tried re-engaging with the electronics hobby as an adult, decades lat
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by caeril 5y ago
Maricopa and Pinal counties have lots of agricultural water that either comes directly off the Colorado river via canal, or is pumped from shallow alfalfa field runoff groundwater that is too full of nitrates to be even remotely potable. We
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by caeril 5y ago
Let me be a little more specific, with one pretty obvious red flag. I see a lot of 1-on-1s, which is fine, but: 1. 30 minutes for a weekly 1 on 1 is pretty long, almost certainly a waste of time. 2. There's nothing after these 1 on 1s
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by caeril 5y ago
So, a lot of talking and meeting. No doing. Color me unsurprised. A good manager leads the team, finagles resources from upper tiers, un-sticks stuck processes, settles disputes, and then gets the hell out of the way. This manager sucks.
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by caeril 5y ago
Most people don't even possess jerry cans, let alone keep them filled and stabilized. Allocating time and resources to common-sense supply chain shock preparedness gets in the way of important things like football, porn, and social med
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by caeril 5y ago
This isn't really the primary issue with Signal, as the protocol is pretty well audited, tested, and cryptanalyzed. THE issue with Signal is using real phone numbers as identifiers. I know this point has been made repeatedly, but it&
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by caeril 5y ago
This is obviously unconscionable, but I did find this part of the article absurd and poorly researched: > the Trump Justice Department had secretly subpoenaed their email account data in an effort to identify the source of classified lea
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by caeril 5y ago
Right, except very frequently, the scapegoat isn't a single figure, but rather a group. The Bourgeoise, the Jews, the QAnons, the Blacks, the Whites, the Immigrants, the Rich, the Anti-Vaxxers, the Catholics, the Muslims, the Kulaks, t
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by caeril 5y ago
> I certainly don't. Reminder that Apple isn't the problem. Their customers are. I know movie quotes are seriously lowbrow for this audience, but somewhat relevant here, and correct: "That system is our enemy. But when you
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by caeril 5y ago
I would slightly amend this: Eat meat, but only meat that is sustainably raised. Depending on the size of your lawn, you probably can raise a couple meat or egg chickens on the natural flora/fauna in your yard and table scraps. There a
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by caeril 5y ago
That's kind of the point, though. There's approximately as much evidence for Russian election fraud as there was for the 2020 US election: that is to say, some numerical anomalies, and poll workers acting strangely, with a few unl
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by caeril 5y ago
2004 was the year of the Linux Desktop. Fedora Core gave you everything you needed for the typical desktop use case: a browser, an office suite, and an email client, with a modern, sensible GUI. Anybody still denying the usability of deskto
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by caeril 5y ago
> What is the incentive for anyone to do this? What is the incentive for anyone to run a Tor/i2p/IPFS/Torrent seed node? This is difficult for normies to understand, but money isn't the only thing that incentivizes pe
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by caeril 5y ago
I like to see the world through a similar lens, one that turned me from an atheist into a theist: I believe this universe is a quantized simulation. The evidence for various forms of Planck quanta make this abundantly clear. Simulation impl
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by caeril 5y ago
Yes, I also find it infuriating that Indians are using Tinder to seek out conscientious partners. This is definitely worse than the American use-case of Tinder, which focuses on factors of critical importance, such as a great ass and kinky
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by caeril 5y ago
> to think that a detached single family home is the only way to live This isn't purely marketing. A lot of it is lived experience. Americans are generally just straight up terrible neighbors, and neither building owners nor police
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by caeril 5y ago
> 1. moving somewhere super rural Why is this such a deal-killer for so many people? That's literally where most of the land is . And a good chunk of it has decent internet, even if you have to mount a 5 GHz airMAX dish on your hou
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by caeril 5y ago
> One takes a couple minutes and the other is something requiring an hour or more of dedicated time per day 1. No it doesn't. It only requires eating less. 2. One of these is invasive, the other is not. > There's a lot of in

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