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> Under current law, Big Tech platforms have the final word on their services. They have the right to decide which thinkers, politicians, and businesses are allowed onto their platform and which they will expel. This seems reasonable until you consider Big Tech’s scale and how fundamental the internet is to modern-day life.

I think that's the heart of the matter. I've thought about this quite a bit, but when we say break them down, how does that work ?

Could there be legal thresholds such as what already exists with regards to ( actual ) hate speech and encouraging violence, based on publicly agreed upon standards ?

Platforms being legally accountable for enforcing arbitrary or biased deplatforming or shadowbanning ? They are a special kind of service ...

I guess you'd need a watchdog with teeth. Does anyone have a link to something that covers all this in depth ? Could well be a HN thread ( maybe this one .. )

I am considering offering my services for Bitcoin, at a custom rate, subject to regular review, for a part of my salary to be discussed. The main point is building an economy around that damn thing. Many people "believe" in it, but not many people put their Bitcoins where their mouth is. A bi-weekly salary is actually a good use case for the shitty transaction rate. I still have some details to iron-out, but it makes sense to me at this point. Anyone here who has experience in working / hiring for Bitcoin ? I do mean in the surface economy. Any authoritative resources on tax policies / issues and what not ? I haven't fully thought this through just yet, but I'm gonna.

Same here, as previously learned on HN :)

Personally, I find that this [0] doesn't break many sites at all, but messes with cookies to an appreciable extent. Combine this to an extensive use of that [1] and clearing your cache and cookies every day, and I think you're in decent shape while some heavy and heavily lobbied government body inches towards doing something about it.

[0] uBlock Origin

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

[1] Firefox Multi-Account Containers

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

I was looking at this just a few days ago ;

"Careful writing about traumatic or uncertain events, past, present or future, appears to produce a variety of benefits, physiological and psychological. Written accounts of trauma positively influence health. Recent investigations have shown that the explicit written description of an ideal future produces similar results. A large body of research conducted in the industrial and business domains also demonstrates that future authoring or goal-setting results in improved productivity and performance." [0]

[0] https://www.selfauthoring.com/ -> "Writing Benefits" =

https://selfauthoring.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/Pd... (PDF)

Have you managed to verify this or you're just assuming it ? I'm just assuming it, that's why I'm asking. Like have you made a request for your data from Facebook / data brokers and it looks straight ? I trust Mozilla to the fullest and have made no effort to investigate.

Related thread ;

Bitcoin now uses more electricity than Argentina [0]

751 points - 1292 comments and trending

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26088455

[0] https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons

This (here) article is also very interesting.

> And the results are revealing: Sichuan, second only in the hashpower rankings to Xinjiang, is a province characterized by a massive overbuild of hydroelectric power in the last decade. Sichuan’s installed hydro capacity is double what its power grid can support, leading to lots of “curtailment” (or waste). Dams can only store so much potential energy in the form of water before they must let it out. It’s an open secret that this otherwise-wasted energy has been put to use mining Bitcoin. If your local energy cost is effectively zero but you cannot sell your energy anywhere, the existence of a global buyer for energy is a godsend.

> But to ambitious data scientists like Pocovi, who has worked with major political parties in Latin America in recent elections, Cambridge Analytica, which shut down in May, was behind the curve. Where it gauged people’s receptiveness to campaign messages by analyzing data they typed into Facebook, today’s “neuropolitical” consultants say they can peg voters’ feelings by observing their spontaneous responses: an electrical impulse from a key brain region, a split-­second grimace, or a moment’s hesitation as they ponder a question.

> "Proof of work" is just a synonym for "having wasted tons of energy." This is my main beef with these systems. Gaining fundamental value from the act of wasting energy [...] is not a sensible basis for a 21st century technology.

This is my main beef with the system we live in already.

See ; Bullshit Jobs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_jobs

"Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that argues for the existence and societal harm of meaningless jobs. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless, which becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth."

I am not contesting the Bitcoin situation is ... interesting.

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Related ( user-side ) :

Facebook Container

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

It applies to the process of taking the decision (to execute), not the executing itself. After the seventh breath, you don't go back to pondering on yes / no, you just proceed as decided.

I suppose one can figure out exactly how you're supposed to handle what you decided you were going to handle afterward.

Disclaimer : I am not a Samurai.

I recently realized and talked about how HN has been my third place for a while ( young account but ( relatively ) old soul ). Thought I should submit the thing itself.

Turns out those are really important, and their destruction is one of the serious side-effects of the sanitary measures that is almost completely ignored, or at least not part of the equation of all the downsides to this non-sense ( referring mostly to lockdowns ). Anyway, I'm not in the mood for a Covid debate, just find it useful to delineate this concept.

tl;dr

> You may have heard of the Pomodoro Method. It is a tried-and-true practice among productivity nerds like me. My twist? I like to bring my team on board for coworking Pomodoro sessions rather than doing them myself. For someone with ADD—as I’m sure some of you reading this can relate to—that added accountability factor is exactly what we need to make the magic happen.

You might want to check that thread from 1 week ago or so ;

"Me and ADHD"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992390

I'm not diagnosing you or anything but that thread put me on to the fact I might have that type of wiring too ... it would explain a lot ( for me ) and possibly some of that ^ ?

[ EDIT ] Anxiety is hands down my primary problem, but sometimes some issues can obfuscate others, and cause deductive fallacies by encouraging you to explain everything away under the umbrella of that first cause.

“In the words of the ancients, one should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths. Lord Takandobu said, “If discrimination is long, it will spoil.” Lord Naoshige said, “When matters are done leisurely, seven out of ten will turn out badly. A warrior is a person who does things quickly.

When your mind is going hither and thither, discrimination will never be brought to a conclusion. With an intense, fresh and undelaying spirit, one will make his judgments within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break right through to the other side.”

Initially from ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagakure

But taken from a site [0] I just found in the process that apparently has nothing to do with the OS and informs us that ;

"Ubuntu is a concept that we have in our Bantu languages at home. Ubuntu is the essence of being a person. It means that we are people through other people. We cannot be fully human alone. We are made for interdependence, we are made for family. When you have ubuntu, you embrace others. You are generous, compassionate. If the world had more ubuntu, we would not have war. We would not have this huge gap between the rich and the poor. You are rich so that you can make up what is lacking for others. You are powerful so that you can help the weak, just as a mother or father helps their children. This is God's dream.”

- Ubuntu, as explained by Bishop Desmond Tutu

[0] https://ubuntutheory.blogspot.com/2008/08/7-breaths.html

How about this on day 2 ;

Google Acquires YouTube For $1.6B

with : 12 points - 0 comments ...

Think about that when in the early days of a new project.

Yes. That was your submission from yesterday and that's how I found out about it ! See my other comment ^ in which I reposted about it. Thanks for that. Did you know about this ;

https://hnrss.github.io/ ?

That's pretty cool too and I just found out about it this week ( this account is young but my soul is old ... )

This was posted yesterday ;

HN homepage on the day it launched (Oct 9, 2006)

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-9

I've been a power lurker for years and had a few accounts. I can't imagine my life without HN. I'm here almost everyday, at least once a day. What I'm getting at is this ; picture coming here and finding literally 0 submissions [0] ... This was a somewhat surreal and shocking experience, like seeing the completely deserted downtown at the beginning of the pandemic. If the site just went away it wouldn't be as bad as this. Picture showing up to the bar, work, or whatever and no one else is there. Like they're all dead or something. I don't usually feel lonely, but I would on that day. I could quite possibly cry or have a panic attack or something.

I came to realize HN is my third place [1] and it has become possibly even more important to me during this goddamn pandemic. Thank you all for coming here. I love you guys.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-11-10

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place

Day 2 has this as one of 9 submissions on it ;

Google Acquires YouTube For $1.6B : 12 points - no comments

Right below ;

MySpace: Not a purely viral start : 9 points - no comments

Apparently the same ^ could be said of HN.

Think about that when starting a new venture. Puts things into perspective.

There might be only one way to find out ;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_mushrooms

My brain just threw an error.

I'm curious about what the combination of skills was ?

The scary-ier part is how many life-critical processes might end up ( or already are ) like this. That being said ; balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to. But if you don't have access to that kind of technology, i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0]

[0] https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/06/19/fa...

Most of the very real dynamics that affect all of our lives at a policy-making / systemic level are never official. If you think the official stuff is a reflection of reality ... I don't know how to finish this sentence. Safe from it being "official", it is very much the job of a prosecutor in the US to convict someone at all costs. This is common knowledge.

From the link you provided ;

> In each of these cases, the researchers have followed a link on Twitter to a write-up hosted on blog.br0vvnn[.]io, and shortly thereafter, a malicious service was installed on the researcher’s system and an in-memory backdoor would begin beaconing to an actor-owned command and control server. At the time of these visits, the victim systems were running fully patched and up-to-date Windows 10 and Chrome browser versions.

Like seriously ? Security researchers run Windows 10 and Chrome ? I mean if that's their testing environment I get it, but this sounds like they legit use that in the wild and click funny links sent to them from people claiming to be fellow hackers ? Outsider here, but is that really how it is ? I would think they use hardened OSes and !Chrome ...

On a large number of high value targets.

Like this : http://dirk-loss.de/ssh-port-forwarding.htm

In the "A visual guide to SSH tunnels" thread. Not saying it's compromised, but why would fully security conscious people, experts even, not have https:// enabled ? Sounds sketchy as f** to me.

> If this page started getting popular ...

HN frontpage is about as good as it gets I think.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywh... -> will save you from a lazy click on a non-https link.

Isn't it the case though that many malicious sites have https:// enabled ?

In Montreal

1) Would be a supper-club

2) Close enough to what we would call an after hours ; opens towards midnight closes at noon. Little to no alcohol, drugs readily available on premises, or pop yours before getting in. Typically has a techno area and a hip-hop area.

3 ) Club / Night Club here would be as @scraft describes in his reply.

4 ) @scraft > "Places you sit down at tables and drink are typically pubs or bars. These days the two are pretty similar, at a push the more traditional feeling places are more likely to being pubs." Same over here. Note the price discrepency with what OP describes in 1) and what this quote refers to ; beer, shooters, 100$ bottle of non-descript "booze".

[Edit] I might as well add 5 ) our world renowned strip-clubs. High-end no touching - down to sex on premises available. Stuff in between and probably ways to leave with a girl at any joint if you're nice, polite and pack $.

Disclaimer ; Intel valid as of 10-15 years ago ... probably much the same.

That's a high quality comment. If you're interested / amazed by that kind of stuff, do yourself a favor ;

Joe Rogan Experience #1080 - David Goggins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSTk1083VY

Perhaps the ultimate iteration of "Kevin who was not naturally good at anything except perseverance. He worked his ass off all the time."

This is "the toughest man on earth" ... legit. Highly inspirational story.

> The panel examined products made by Nurture Inc, Hain Celestial Group Inc, Beech-Nut Nutrition and Gerber, a unit of Nestle, it said, adding that it was “greatly concerned” that Walmart Inc, Campbell Soup Co and Sprout Organic Foods refused to cooperate with the investigation. The U.S. baby food market was worth an estimated $8 billion in 2020, according to Euromonitor.

The report said internal company standards “permit dangerously high levels of toxic heavy metals, and documents revealed that the manufacturers have often sold foods that exceeded those levels.”

In a press release, an E-Corp spokesperson noted that toxic heavy metals are good for your baby.

> Imported labor (as well as automation) drives down labor costs and affects unskilled and semi skilled workers the most.

The impacts of automation are massive, I really recommend this Andrew Yang interview [0]. It's a real eye-opener.

I had not realized the scale of this mess before watching that episode. Interesting numbers and insights in that 17 minute segment.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAtyv8NpbFQ