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by caeril 6y ago
Priorities are important. Completely preventable medical errors kill TEN TIMES as many Americans as firearms do, even including suicide-by-gun as a firearm death (which, incidentally, far oustrips firearm-related homicide or accidents). I&#
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by caeril 6y ago
Similar experience, here. I wonder what it's like for those born after 1990 or so. Is the opportunity for this type of magic still available? How do the younger generations develop our level of love and passion for computing without th
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by caeril 6y ago
The "private company" argument, while fully and technically correct, is such a ridiculous canard to trot out at a time when we slide rapidly into public-private authoritarianism. Someone (probably), in 1934 Hacker News: "BASF
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by caeril 6y ago
I mean, sure. We need more research. But shouldn't the null hypothesis be that children born of a novel and extraordinarily unnatural process be less healthy than those born of the usual process? There's no reason to believe that
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by caeril 6y ago
> because each one requires a working phone number to create This isn't true. I have an email-only apple account that works fine. My lock screen constantly carries a "Verify your phone number" badge that's rather anno
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by caeril 6y ago
They offer the option to transact in cash and avoid the panopticon nightmare that is the modern Visa network and banking system.
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by caeril 6y ago
I see what you're getting at here. On one hand, yes, obviously China's numbers cannot be trusted, at all. On the other hand, most of their neighbors, whose numbers are substantially more trustworthy, also managed to get it under s
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by caeril 6y ago
edit: disregard
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by caeril 6y ago
Social technologies like monogamy, marriage, church, community, family, and even things we think of as "negative", like shame, were developed to combat much of this. Now we're running around tearing down Chesterton's fen
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by caeril 6y ago
Why use a third party social platform at all? They have a website. There are 3489502983450896 open source forum/groups software packages for every platform, every language, every database. Same with authentication. Hell, they could eve
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by caeril 6y ago
Indeed. They revealed themselves for the snakes they are when they advocated for red-flag laws and didn't bother fighting back against the bump-stock reclassification. You're much better off supporting GOA or FPC.
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by caeril 6y ago
> (e.g. white people in the US for instance), but not racist towards them. Huh. So, what if we revisit this concept with the actual balance of ethnic power in the United States, as revealed by actual income and status statistics, rat
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by caeril 6y ago
This looks great, thanks!
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by caeril 6y ago
No. Just stop using their services/products and block all their prefixes at the network edge. They've had ample opportunity to not be evil, and they've chosen precisely the opposite, every time.
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by caeril 6y ago
You're living about ten years in the past. Kicking contributors out of open source projects, or dis-inviting speakers from technical conferences due to their purely personal opinions has been going on for a while now. You don't
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by caeril 6y ago
Why are Ubiquiti switches "garbage"?
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by caeril 6y ago
It's admirable that you're trying to give HN a glimpse into the actual mind of a MAGApede, rather than the media-constructed caricature. But you'll find that the people here largely don't want to actually understand .
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by caeril 6y ago
That's not really true. The early-ish internet saw plenty of, say, communists peering with Hayek libertarians inside Exodus cages, and other such unexpected arrangements. You also had LUGs, lan parties, BBSs and IRC channels that had v
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by caeril 6y ago
There are some regions for which storage requirements are relatively small, and would be perfect for 100% solar rollout targets. Phoenix and Las Vegas come to mind - places where incident solar flux and electricity demand (due to heavy ai
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by caeril 6y ago
Right, but I'm specifically referring to legal , but repressed transactions.
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by caeril 6y ago
It definitely has a killer app. Probably not a big enough app to justify these prices, but one nonetheless. As Stripe, PayPal, Visa, Gofundme, Patreon, et. al. shut down avenues of payments for legal, but unpopular purchases, BTC is the obv
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by caeril 6y ago
Everyone who works there is extremely talented. Fabien, Sean, Allen, etc. Jeff has a very keen eye for it. He's funny, too. Highly recommend The Jeff and Casey Show for podcast content.
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by caeril 6y ago
PiHole or a service like NextDNS works very well for this use-case.
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Because tribal affiliation is completely unassailable by logic. We are all still tribal, barely evolved monkeys, and our manifold cerebral cortex is merely a tool to invent rationalizations for the tribal emotions that well up from our limb
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by caeril 6y ago
If you have a huge firehose of opposing opinions, and you choose to censor 1% of the opinions of one side versus the other, you have effectively become a newspaper with an editorial board. The only way to avoid this is to permit ALL content
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by caeril 6y ago
> Cancel culture is not a "medieval mob" - because there is no physical enforcement The specific tactics of cancel culture are a DDoS. Oftentimes, when an individual is targeted by the mob, their employer doesn't particula
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by caeril 6y ago
> especially among people who have money, because inflation erodes the value of savings. What? Wealthy people don't buy CDs. They tend to invest heavily in assets. Often, these are leveraged assets like real estate or equities in a
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by caeril 6y ago
This. August 15th of this year will be FIFTIETH anniversary of Nixon telling the rest of the world that their dollars held in reserve are redeemable for precisely one bag of dicks. If the world was ever going to de-dollarize, they would h
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by caeril 6y ago
Raising sheep and bees, brewing mead, making Manchego, and writing software/building hardware to automate some aspects of the homestead. I'd probably still sell my wool, mead, and cheese, even if I didn't need the money - at
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by caeril 6y ago
Well, we definitely don't vaccinate all children. US compliance rate for the seven-series is only 70%, and only 82% for the three-series (DTaP, Polio, MMR). So the culture of noncompliance even for fifty-year-old vaccine designs is sti

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