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by cbeach 3y ago
Selling pickaxes during a gold rush https://cdixon.org/2011/02/05/selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold... > There is a saying in the startup world that “you can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes.” This is o
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First post on x.com created with a Neuralink implant(twitter.com)
3 points by cbeach 3y ago|5 comments
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by cbeach 3y ago
You’re right. So those conversations would have to happen elsewhere. meta.ycombinator.com or whatever.
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by cbeach 3y ago
I recognise the huge amounts of effort involved in this and I applaud the moderators for keeping HN an interesting place to be. That said, I think it's reasonable for us to have visibility on their manual interventions, and this could
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by cbeach 3y ago
I've also tried reverse engineering the algorithm recently to plot a scattergraph of story ranks vs age-adjusted score. I'm looking for outliers in order to work out where HN moderators have intervened. https://docs.goo
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by cbeach 3y ago
The ambiguity of this legislation is one of the biggest problems with it. This ambiguity leads to companies implementing cookie warning popups based on a risk-averse interpretation of the law
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by cbeach 3y ago
Certainly one aspect of GDPR is about how you share data with third-parties. But self-hosted analytics are still subject to GDPR and/or ePrivacy restrictions if you process full (unredacted) IP addresses, any user-identifying tokens, o
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by cbeach 3y ago
Show me the section of the ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC) or GDPR that implies the "Do Not Track" browser setting can override the need for consent banners / popups.
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by cbeach 3y ago
You can track the number of visits without using cookies, but its practically impossible to track the number of unique visitors without using cookies. The number of unique visitors is a very useful metric (both in itself, and combined with
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by cbeach 3y ago
Exactly this. The law could have been written in such a way that we could use a browser setting and avoid incessent popups which irritate users and desensitise them to genuinely useful warnings. Whatever the good intentions of EU lawmakers,
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by cbeach 3y ago
Having the government direct funds and choose winners and losers seems a lot more dangerous than leaving it to free market forces. It's easier to corrupt one or two government officials than it is the entire international capital marke
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by cbeach 3y ago
Doctor John Campbell is a good place to start: This video focusses on the aspiration technique, and the consequences of inadvertantly giving an mRNA injection intravenously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBaIRm4610o&t=
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by cbeach 3y ago
Scary to see this censorship still goes on, even now, at this latter stage, where the studies on myocarditis are numerous and no longer debunked. The censorship was even worse during the initial rollout of mRNA technology, blocking fair scr
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by cbeach 3y ago
Well yes, NK cells do that when we're infected with a malignant infection. For the last hundred years, or so, vaccines have been non-malignant, so we've never had to question such things. However, mRNA vaccines are an entirely nov
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by cbeach 3y ago
It's a shame mRNA vaccines don't work like traditional vaccines. The problem with mRNA vaccines is that they cause the immune system to attack healthy cells throughout the body, when the injected mRNA causes those cells to emit fo
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by cbeach 3y ago
I've seen conversations like this before, regarding the heavy cost that Big Pharma levies on treatments for major diseases. And US companies frequently come up in these discussions. But the alternative, without the massive cashflows, i
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by cbeach 3y ago
On the subject of correlation/causation, I once took a drug called Accutane to cure my teenage acne. Listed side effects included: "Mental health issues depression, psychosis, aggressive behaviour and suicide ideation and attempts
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by cbeach 3y ago
Are you surprised that a majority of people would favour having the freedom to work in the environment that best suits them and their team? RTO mandates are simply a way to curtail freedoms that we’ve established; freedoms that we demonstra
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by cbeach 3y ago
#MuskDerangementSyndrome strikes again. How about we focus on the tech rather than signalling our tribal political affiliation at every opportunity?
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by cbeach 3y ago
Peronism is relevant, but its an unhelpful term, as its meaning has mutated over the year with different "Peronist" leaders. But fundamentally (if you look at the twenty tenets of Peronism) it is a populist leftwing ideology that
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by cbeach 3y ago
Actually the Government has been Peronist (which many consider to be equivalent to socialist) in Argentina from WW2 to 1970, and then from 1989 onwards. A large government spending lots of money. Add in wage and price controls (classic auth
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by cbeach 3y ago
Sergei and Yulia Skripal would disagree with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_...
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by cbeach 3y ago
Alexander Litvinenko would disagree with you. https://news.sky.com/story/the-polonium-trail-how-did-the-po...
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by cbeach 3y ago
Interesting that this submission acheived a HN rank of #75 within minutes, but then suddenly vanished from the Hacker News list altogether. This submission is 26 mins old, and has 10 points. A submission that's 42 mins old, with 6 poin
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by cbeach 3y ago
Hypothetically speaking, would you choose to allow Musk to be above the law in order to allow him to defend freedom of speech? I would. But I don't think it would be a universally popular idea.
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by cbeach 3y ago
The problem is that if Putin demands Yulia's account is shut down globally then Musk has to comply, or Putin will pull the plug on x.com for all Russians (including Yulia). Whether or not Putin /should/ have global jurisdicti
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by cbeach 3y ago
People will inevitably comment regarding the X.com suspension of Yulia Navalnaya (Alexei Navalny's wife): “X does not have a choice but to obey local governments. If we don't obey local government laws, we will get shut down. We d
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Elon Musk nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for defending free speech(dailymail.co.uk)
15 points by cbeach 3y ago|24 comments
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by cbeach 3y ago
The protest group (Insulate Britain) were blocking major motorways like the M25, which is dangerous and disruptive to everyday people trying to get on with their lives and support their families. That’s why there had to be a clampdown. Prot
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by cbeach 3y ago
Try to picture how you would respond if I (a white man) attended an event in a majority-black country and expressed my disdain that it was a "total black boys club" You'd call out the racism in my (hypothetical) statement, ri

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