cmroanirgo
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Comment · 4 years ago
What is valuable to one person may not be to another. Does that make it a scam? Most people are adamant that gold is a fundamental unit of value, and yet it's paper value (by volume) is 10x the real thing¹. Does that make gold a scam?
Personally, I'm much more interested in the value inherent in the Human Spirit, but others place almost no value on human life. Insurance companies place a dollar value on human life. I look at words like human resources and see how it collectivises individuals and turns them into cattle, putting a dollar value on something I think is priceless.
People addicted to power are really interested in how many people they can control. Using this metric, managers, ceo's, etc are all buying into the scam that people have value but they're worth less than themselves. Using this metric any job is a scam, & it rides on the back of the notion that a piece of paper with $100 marked on it, formerly backed by gold, is actually worth anything.
¹ https://intelligent-partnership.com/paper-gold-volumes-vs-ph...
Comment · 4 years ago
"Obsidian is not FOSS"
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/publish-the-android-mobile-app-a...
Comment · 4 years ago
Compare the 'Performance' model (i7-1260P, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) $2269AUD with a similar StarBook with Linux and choice of firmware (Am' Megatrends vs Coreboot) at $1831AUD, and the StarBook has plenty of ports too. The 400nit display is also very enticing to me.
https://au.starlabs.systems/products/starbook?variant=429313...
Every day I consider getting one... or an M2. But the deal breaker for an M1/M2 is the soldered SSD.
edited: typo in price
Comment · 4 years ago
Although I agree heartily with the idea of a push model for search engines, I can't help but notice that it seems to provide more centralisation to the search engines out there.
Here on HN we've been seeing posts of alternate search engines. How will those small bespoke engines make use of IndexNow unless the website participates?
The way I see IndexNow, I'll still get crawled relentlessly by the bots I don't want crawling my site (because robots.txt never seems to apply to them unless there's a special listing explicitly for them)
So, unless you're a participating search engine, a website will still be getting crawled by low hanging fruit, not alleviating the problem.
A good compromise would be something like an RSS feed, which a site can publish, and crawlers can hit for updated changes. It would also allow easier management for those domains that have many moving parts: individual search engines can be pinged, but the search engine just grabs the changes.xml file... Or something.
Comment · 4 years ago
It definitely gets a bit murky when dealing with mbcs, when you want characters spanning multiple bytes rather than individual bytes.
I understand the topic is strXxx() funcs which are ascii only, but it does need to be said that size!=len for wide and multi char sets.
Comment · 4 years ago
Why should people have to buy extra services for a non free piece of hardware just to remain ad free on that hardware? Apple is double dipping here (probably triple dipping if you also include AppStore fees and charges).
People want to be able to own the things they buy, without further nonsense.
Comment · 4 years ago
> there is no ...reliable way to verify the identity of a creator's SSH key
GitHub exposes your public key via it's API. (Why? I have no idea. I call it a privacy violation) So, you need to create new github identity for every SSH identity that you wish to remain anonymous for, otherwise they just get tied together & one aspect of anonymity is lost.
Comment · 4 years ago
Perhaps rather than assuming that the other should lower their weapons first, it might be more prudent to lower your own first.
Comment · 4 years ago
The author explains why it's on GH.
> I’ve worked with this code as a researcher and I use it to teach my classes, so it’s important to me that it stays easily-accessible on a major site like GitHub. (This is not the only copy, in fact it’s a fork of someone else’s.)
Comment · 4 years ago
DNS support is no where near Unicode. At best we get local language support for non-ASCII domains, but everyone else will see it as punycode. Of course, phishing is one good reason why it's this.
> Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain Name System (DNS) as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription.
Comment · 4 years ago
I wish everyone knew about Edward Bernays, nephew of Freud, and father of modern propaganda, aka public relations, aka marketing.¹²
It's a real eye opener to be able to notice when you're being manipulated (often emotionally) by the others, including family and friends. The media and ad industries have been playing us for years. It lets you reevaluate where you stand as opposed to where you think you stand. I went through a period of outrage, violation & hate while learning this, but came out with a lot more calm & acceptance as a result. I haven't had a TV in 10 years & find it really irritating to watch bc of the way you're unnaturally enticed to resonate for or against whatever is being presented (note, I still do watch some movies). I think it's in everyone's best interests to learn to be in control ones own mind, free of manipulation.
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
² https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american...
Comment · 4 years ago
As much as I'd like torrents to be more tolerated, there is a difference in that the torrent sites contain the .torrent files which contains all the necessary info to download files. ie, They're supplying more than just a link.
Comment · 4 years ago
You can buy visa gift cards for cash
Comment · 4 years ago
Looking at the maps, the worst levels are in the city centre, not in the suburbs, which is a weird result because it hints at pollution being a cause, but there would be less chickens being raised there than in the suburbs.
semi retired (only code for things I love to do for the improvement of humanity, rather than games or ponzi scheme financial markets)