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by relax88 5y ago
I agree regarding the average person but I’ve forwarded the EFF article to friends who are surgeons, electricians, firefighters, etc. Who wouldn’t know what HN is and the reaction has been a universal “wtf Apple is scanning all my photos?”.
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by relax88 5y ago
If you’ve never logged into a Linux machine without nano installed, then you probably haven’t logged into that many flavours of Linux machine. I agree this is pretty much a non issue for the average developer, but those of us who work on ne
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by relax88 5y ago
It’s not really gatekeeping or snobbery to say that knowing vim is more useful simply because I can log into any Linux machine on the planet and edit a text file without having to install an editor.
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by relax88 5y ago
Yes, you should have seen how much complaining it generated!
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by relax88 5y ago
The “corporate paper” backing the now nearly $100 BILLION of issued stablecoins relies largely on crypto exchanges to continue making money in order to have any value whatsoever. This is basically a giant distributed Ponzi scheme resemblin
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by relax88 5y ago
It’s actually not very complicated how all of this works: * Crypto exchanges have the problem of collecting fees in crypto, and wanting to make a profit in USD. * Stablecoin operator receives commercial paper (IOUs) from businesses, usually
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by relax88 5y ago
This is like saying most people who snort cocaine also buy coffee and so why not just do both?
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by relax88 5y ago
The difference between the orgs is massive, but the practical functioning of these stablecoins isn’t. If you can’t see how stablecoins backed by “commercial paper” (Mostly IOUs from crypto exchanges) is a bad idea I’m not sure what to tell
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by relax88 5y ago
“Commercial paper” (aka IOUs from crypto exchanges)
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by relax88 5y ago
I have a lot more confidence in the US Federal Reserve, and the power of the US government in general than I do in a crypto company and their “commercial paper”.
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by relax88 5y ago
Steven Keating is another incredible example of what the human brain is capable of. He was very successful doing research at MIT even did a few TED talks after having nearly half his brain removed. Unfortunately he is no longer with us. ht
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by relax88 5y ago
> Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards Metrics almost as bad as “butts in chairs”, “physically in the office” and my all time favourite “spending 4hrs a day responding to emails”. I mean it’s possible that these 150 peop
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by relax88 5y ago
This is a great post and you can immediately see where they are going with this as soon as he quotes Dr. Tom Frieden. It makes tons of sense that those who are vaccinated and get infected are more likely to die, simply because it would indi
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by relax88 5y ago
I just got an iPhone 12 a couple months ago because “Hey it’s definitely more private than google”, better control of app permissions, and nice hardware. Seems unclear what the alternative is now. The Linux phones I’ve looked at have a lot
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by relax88 5y ago
Why not? Corporations are more powerful than ever. We have a vast technological surveillance and propaganda machine ready to go. All that’s missing is a weakening of the state and a few private drone armies.
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by relax88 5y ago
Who do we attribute the emissions to when Canadian metallurgical coal is used to make steel in China for a wind turbine base being constructed in Germany? You’ll notice that per-capita emissions are highly correlated with the list of countr
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by relax88 5y ago
My comment was directed at the people who would say “don’t use apple” as if Android or any number of FOSS phone alternatives with 5 people maintaining them are more secure than IOS.
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by relax88 5y ago
I didn’t bookmark any unfortunately but the tl;dr: conclusion I came to is that the amount of mRNA LNPs injected is so small, and so little of it will make it to your brain that it’s unlikely to cause any problems. To my knowledge there hav
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by relax88 5y ago
Yeah. I’ve actually had moments of skepticism. I’m fully vaccinated (as is my entire family) but had a family member get hospitalized by myocarditis after their 2nd Pfizer dose. When I did the math of COVID-19 prevalence in our area (cases
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by relax88 5y ago
I’ll have to remember this one for my next anti-vax encounter. It’s not even really a conspiracy theory either, isn’t there plenty of evidence of Russian troll farms spreading anti-vaccine sentiment?
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by relax88 5y ago
Apple spends a hell of a lot more time and money verifying that my iPhone is secure than say… the developers of any number of the mobile Linux ports. Plus the hardware is nice and actually works. I agree with what you say in principle but h
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by relax88 5y ago
You could run Mobian or similar on a phone from Purism/Pine/etc. Problem is you end up with a vastly inferior hardware device that costs nearly as much as an iPhone. I’m still waiting for my Librem 5 preorder. Would love to hear i
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by relax88 5y ago
Read the links. Wage growth has barely moved when adjusted for inflation and this year is hardly different.
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by relax88 5y ago
https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/
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by relax88 5y ago
Not if you use the prison population and lobby Congress to import more cheap foreign labour so that you don’t have to increase wages. Which is entirely my point.
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by relax88 5y ago
The idea that there can be a labour shortage in an industry that does not require specialized skills, at a time in history where capital has more power than ever is a total joke.
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by relax88 5y ago
It seems to be that in order to support sustainable farming one must decidedly be OK with supporting a less efficient and more expensive system. Would it be better for the environment if this guy just went out of business and the goods were
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by relax88 5y ago
The one thing I like about it is that it is generally a decent proxy for “we didn’t spray this with questionable pesticides”. I’m grateful to have that option but otherwise I agree. The other part that drives me nuts is the hate for GMOs.
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by relax88 5y ago
Would if I could. HN doesn’t let me edit after so many hours.
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by relax88 5y ago
Yes I’m talking international. The impact varies depending on land use, so the forestry piece is vastly different depending on where you look. https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/wood-products#.VxfvaJMrJZ1 On paper recycl

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