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by gonehome 4y ago
If on an iPhone turn on silence unknown callers. It’s an incoming call whitelist, others go to voicemail. This makes this a non issue.
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by gonehome 4y ago
We clearly disagree and that's ok - but the example of people being generally bad at abstract mathematics, but good at playing with machines points towards making something more accessible and usable, not less. It's why haskell
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah it’s not a secret (it’s in my bio), I left to join Tlon at the start of this year but found urbit a couple of years ago. The comments here are similar to ones I’ve made on HN before (prior to working on it full time).
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by gonehome 4y ago
I like healthy skepticism, disagreement, a high level of discourse etc. - just based on the comments here I don’t think that’s what you’re likely to get.
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by gonehome 4y ago
If he thought Martian computing was actually about terraforming the literal planet mars he hasn’t been following it in any depth. My take is he has a personal history with the founder that’s influencing his judgement unfairly (it’s come up
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by gonehome 4y ago
I’ll look at GNUnet - I don’t know enough about it to comment. GPG is largely a failure imo, I think Moxie is right about this - complexity is high (even when people’s life depends on it they won’t use it) and the core issue is that it’s di
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by gonehome 4y ago
It didn’t help introduce me to Linux - I used Linux for 15yrs before I heard about urbit. I was disappointed that Linux would never be able to solve the incentive problems that lead to centralized companies handling that complexity. Urbit’s
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by gonehome 4y ago
The main application currently in use is groups which is similar to IRC. There are a few other small applications: chess, canvas - pixel art, pals - friends list, studio - which lets you run a hosted blog to the regular web and send emails
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by gonehome 4y ago
For those that haven’t checked it out the ideas behind urbit are really interesting, it’s the first attempt I’ve seen to get us out of the local maximum of centralized web services we’re trapped in where success is among the potential outco
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by gonehome 4y ago
> “ Throat mics are an improvement over a standalone wired microphone (if that’s what you are using), and have better background noise reduction” Do they? The audio sample sounds a lot worse than the high quality standalone mics. Does he
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yes - there's a difference between a company operating in a liberal democracy (the west broadly defined) with the restrictions that entails, and a company operating under control of the CCP without such restrictions or even rule of law
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah - this is also the consensus a lot of law has landed on in Europe, I think it's also reasonable (especially as a baseline compromise to prevent total bans). The vast majority (~80%) are within the first 12 weeks anyway, the later
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by gonehome 4y ago
This article doesn't seem to mention it, but this is only a half truth. There was a legal liability change around payment providers and accidental support of sex trafficking that changed the calculus around risk for supporting these se
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by gonehome 4y ago
Surreptitiously recording someone without their consent when they're engaged in a conversation they otherwise think is private is at best anti-social, but I'd probably go further and argue it's just unethical. How do I know i
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by gonehome 4y ago
+1 the reasoning is the entire point and all of these examples are good. Just telling people to make changes without telling why doesn't teach them anything - especially when sometimes what's being requested isn't actually be
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by gonehome 4y ago
> “Developers are trying to ship value to customers.” I’ve also seen this be fairly rare. Devs shipping nothing - not even aware if what they're merging will turn on. They write something they haven’t really tested, merge it, and ca
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah, but you have agency and the ability to improve these things as an adult - often you don’t as a kid. It’s still unfairly skewed of course by the initial starting point and highly dependent on IQ (or if you don’t like IQ however you con
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by gonehome 4y ago
Highly variable depending on childhood (parents, location, opportunities). There’s also just way more uncertainty about the future and future success etc. I find working adult life way less stressful and a large part of that is the autono
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by gonehome 4y ago
There’s not much to this article beyond the headline and even that I basically disagree with. Adulthood grants you freedom and autonomy over your life. Childhood is highly variable and you often have very little control. I went to a decent
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by gonehome 4y ago
There’s also a lock on that channel he can’t pick - the bowley I think? It has a wild key design.
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by gonehome 4y ago
> "you allow exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the pregnant person, thus subsuming the right of life of the fetus to the rights of the pregnant person to self-determination based on circumstance, which is wildly inconsistent&
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by gonehome 4y ago
Basically I'm drawing a distinction about what I personally think is good policy and what is actually a right granted by the constitution. I think broad access to abortion for women is important, but I think Roe finding that this prote
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by gonehome 4y ago
SCOTUS is tasked with determining if a right is constitutionally protected. There is no right to abortion in the constitution, Roe argued a path to one but it was fairly weak ( https://overcast.fm/+vpWZx2bsc ). It was overtur
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by gonehome 4y ago
This interview talked about some of this better than I can, I thought it was interesting: https://overcast.fm/+vpWZx2bsc Hopefully the arguments in there are correct and this isn't likely to expand.
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by gonehome 4y ago
They only allow it up to a certain point (12 weeks for Denmark the others are similar) and then after that only with cause. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Denmark For those that don't want to click
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by gonehome 4y ago
I think you and I are mostly in agreement. I think the position that the zygote is where the rights start is bad. I concede it is where life starts, but life is just not a very good designation for that. If anything it should be about suf
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by gonehome 4y ago
I think broad abortion rights is pragmatic policy for the reasons you suggest. I think it's better for societal reasons on net. I also think the compromise around this issue found in European law (Germany, Denmark, France) is pretty re
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by gonehome 4y ago
The critical difference is the individual rights of the fetus. If you hold that at some point the fetus has rights of its own then this becomes more difficult. I think that’s the fundamental question and what makes this issue challenging. F
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by gonehome 4y ago
While I personally have strong pro-choice views I think this was correctly decided for the reasons you state. Abortion is a case where there is genuine disagreement among the public and at its core exists a genuine moral question. Most part
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by gonehome 4y ago
Probably any price for now, but psychologically easier when it’s down. If BTC does become a real international settlement layer then it’ll be worth a lot. It’s basically an asymmetric bet on that (which is why small % is good enough). Simil

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