ComradePhil

> "They haven't done it yet because it's hard. Really hard."

How "hard" is it though?

The following seems straightforward to me:

- Generate a pgp key pair

- protect private key with a E2E password ("if you forget your E2E password, all your DMs will be lost")

- store public key and encrypted private key in the Twitter account

- download private key to each device/browser session the user logs in to, have them enter the E2E password to decrypt it

- make public key of any user available to anyone they send message to

Why would this not work?

It seems they had a fire recently too: https://youtu.be/ER4s2LLod4s

> video quality you should expect

The video that they try to show as if out of the drone is heavily edited to make it look similar to the other camera that they have used. It is very likely that they used non-stock camera software in the drone to capture raw and post-process for this ad, which will most likely not be available to the public.

The highest number of births by one woman is 69: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most...

The British Royal family is known to have done it for a long time in the past: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389142/British-roy...

It is very likely that they still do it but because people have lot more power and influence now so they started hiding their more controversial activities. It is very likely that they have included other elites from elsewhere in the practice... which is why I believe the adrenochrome story, which we are supposed to think is a "conspiracy theory", but I think it is much more likely to be happening than it is portrayed by naysayers.

This kind of disinformation/title clickbait needs to be flagged. Use proper numbers, "population of Iceland" is not a valid unit. This tactic is used disingenously to trick people into thinking that the number is much higher than it really is.

Styrofoam is biodegradable if you think long term. 500 years is nothing and it's very manageable.

If you genuinely come up with something better and are able to get into the market, that's great... but don't try to sell "compostable" as a feature. I don't want my packaging to potentially come rotten.

I understand conservatives gaining followers. It was in the news, conservatives who would otherwise not install Twitter now installed the Twitter app and created the account.

But you're saying that the same amount of liberal users didn't just delete the app, like you expect every normal non-techie user to do. They actively went through the trouble of deleting the account hidden behind dark pattern?

Not buying that, sorry.

The US civil war?

Lots of pissed of Californians in the thread because it reduces their value... but if you think from outside, it is very reasonable argument... and this article is a service to the people who would otherwise not have thought about this.

California wants to maximize benefit to their citizens as it should... and outsiders should take that into consideration when doing business with entities in California. Also this was probably not straightforward to find out... which is why the author thought spreading the word was important. I appreciate it.

I don't pay for fake news. If I pay $20 per year to Washington Post, will they suddenly start posting news that is detrimental to Bezos and Co.? No they won't.

All news is propaganda (and that includes everything posted on Hacker News) and has no useful content to the reader. It is only useful to those who create it or are a subject of it.

I would happily pay to post news or at least comments under news articles (which all of the news websites have removed), but never to passively consume it. I will work around their paywall if I have to read something to comment on it. I would not even consider it if it was free or if they paid me (that depends on how much the payment is ofc. because I am not financially independent).

I don't mean decentralized as in run by small communities. I mean decentralized as in not run in anyone's server... like how Dapps run on Etherium.

It has little to do with Twitter and everything to do with India announcing that they will not import cars from Giga Sanghai.

The announcement of Giga Sanghai had increased Tesla's stock price by 15% in a few days, back in February. India was supposed to be one of the biggest markets that Giga Sanghai would serve... but India has decided they don't want Teslas from China... which explains the drop in stock prices now.

You know a news site is fake if it peddles obvious lies. For example, Bezos compost does reports the same lies:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/26/elon-mu...

Well, as long as it is run centrally, it can never be "global consciousness". Even if you trust Musk to run it in an open and transparent fashion, there is no guarantee that this will continue to happen after he's gone.

The same forces that control the media (corporations, states) will continue to control Twitter policing. The idea that everything that is legal will be allowed on Twitter is great in Musk's head but it will be circumvented by shadow laws in the name of "national security" or "protecting the children" or something similar... and not necessarily in a transparent way because they can be marked "confidential"... and if Twitter fails to comply, the forces will get rid of it... or worse, those who run it.

The only foolproof way to ensure free speech is to run it fully decentralized. It doesn't have to have unlimited history... one can archive important tweets if necessary.

If that becomes successful though, the forces may target those who maintain the system... so they need to remain anonymous but give control to the community as soon as possible so that the system can continue to live even if they die by suicide with two bullets on the back of their heads.

Also, if that successfully happens, the chipmakers will be targeted because the only way to fight the people will be to stop production of computers. So, that needs to be reasonably decentralized first.

Fighting the globalist cartel and truly giving voice to the people is much more difficult than Musk and his followers in the issue seem to think.

No, there aren't very many good programming languages, not very old ones anyway.

Imagine everyone was happy with C/C++, we wouldn't have Rust or Nim. Imagine everyone was happy with Java and JavaScript, we wouldn't have Dart or Go.

The most used programming languages today are JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP and C++, all of which are shit-tier. We definitely need more languages, not less.

If we have good languages, the ecosystems will develop around it... it may take 20 years... but I think it would be so much nicer to see a new much better language have a great stable libraries in 20 years... than people still having to deal with shit-tier languages like python and Java in 20 years.

What do you mean? Safari definitely doesn't support Chrome extensions.

Meh! Chromium is the standard, not what Google builds on top of it. There's Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi etc. which will continue to exist even if Google suddenly disappears.

Besides, Apple maintains Safari the way it does for no other reason than for disallowing people from building more functional open web apps so that to reach iOS users, one has to build native iOS apps.

UPX used to be great when reading from disk took way too long... and having small binaries to read from disk and unpacking in memory was faster... but now in the age of SSDs, I don't know how much sense it makes to compress binaries.

Back in the day, I used to use UPX on most apps, which would greatly improve launch times.

> But he didn't succeed were others tried and failed.

You do realize companies have been trying to make EVs even before there were fossil fuel powered ones, right?

There has never been a time in the last 150 years when some company wasn't making EVs.

> Musk's personality and actions turn off many of these people.

Huh? You do realize the parent comment is not talking about Amy Schumer, right?

> It will much harder for Musk to get these people back than it would be for a publicly traded company.

So, you're saying that comedians who are on social media to gather following to promote their content... and were banned while doing that will not come back to Twitter if unbanned because Musk? Do you think they gave two shits about who the CEO or board members or majority investors were when they joined?

Meh! Those "revolutions" by a single person are way too overrated. Oftentimes, things happen in science because other things that happen make it possible to happen. As long as enough people are working on these things, they are inevitable.

Same is true for enterpreneurship... however, I believe Musk is one of the few who has built companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Boring etc. which nobody else would even want to get into because they thought they were not worth doing for making money. In fact, people like Bill Gates are still shorting Tesla because they don't believe it has value.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_priority_...

> An example of this transactional behavior is calling out Saudi Arabia for lack of free speech while owning twitter which is interesting because he didn't have much problem with SA when they held 4.x percent of Tesla a few years back.

Tesla is a public company and anyone can buy stock. What did you expect Elon Musk to do if Saudi billionaires buy stock?

Public companies are subject to attacks by billionaires using shorting and disinformation. No sensible company should go public in today's world.

Nice try Microsoft.

I started on this path when I was trying to nurish myself back to health over a decade ago when I suddenly got fat. I thought science was the way to go... but was robbed of that notion a couple of years into it when I discovered that the path to health was in the opposite direction of what the science tells us.

Turns out the food industry fully controls the science of food and nutrition. You can start by reading Unsavory Truth or Food Politics by Marion Nestle for better understanding of why that is the way it is.

Having said that, Marion Nestle doesn't really explore one side of it... which is that because of ethical reasons, we'll never have proper human experiments, thus nutrition science will always be limited and incomplete, which leaves a lot of room for manipulation, which the industry is happy to do for profits. This has been covered very well by the YouTube channel What I've Learned: https://youtu.be/xRAw7yeDO-c

The same channel has several other videos on food and nutrition, one of the most important ones imo being the one on seed oils: https://youtu.be/rQmqVVmMB3k

Nutrition and Physical Degenaration by Weston A. Price as described in this thread is one of the best works in support of indigenous foods.

The Hidden Life of Trees is a great book on plant intelligence.

Other than those resources, we have to piece these things together, take long term views... like should we trust a diet that kept a culture of people alive and well for 100s of years over several generations or do we trust studies with couple of dozen subjects done over a few weeks funded by the food industry?

True. Fruits and berries.

No, not a fan of the carnivore diet (except for short term use for medical purposes). Getting rid of grains puts us in very high risk, grains are essential because they are easy to store long-term... Even though they are plant seeds, the most toxic part of a plant, we have mastered indegenous preparation of grains... and while the food industry has tried to ruin it, it hasn't succeeded by much... mostly because grains are perfect, even for the food industry.

I believe that indigenous vegetarian diets, such as the traditional Indian vegetarian diet, before ghee was replaced by industrially produced seed oil, is one good option... as is foods like Sushi, where you combine fish/meat with grains.

Definitely not trolling. If you don't know how to prepare vegetables in indegenous culture that you got it from, you are better off not eating it.

Also, even if you did follow indegenous preparation methods, the food industry may have changed the plant by artificial selection or genetic modification such that the indegenous preparation is not as effective, so you're better off ditching them anyway.

Vegetables have significant phytotoxin content without significant nutrient content, specially in forms bioavailable to us (eg. a lot of carotinoids in carrots, except we are terrible at converting that to Vitamin A... we need the retinol form, readily available in milk, eggs, fish, meat etc.).

Plants are living beings and don't want to be eaten. They can't fight or flight so their defense is toxins. We have domesticated some of the plants and learnt how to remove those toxins over thousands of years... but if you don't know how to do that effectively, you're better off not eating them.

One doesn't have to ditch all "western food". Just being sensible with it is good enough:

- ditch plant fat for animal fat

- avoid excessive sugar

- eat real food (no fake milk, meat etc.)

- stop eating vegetables, specially raw vegetables

Food is one of those things I take an ultra conservative stance on. The food industry has made eating literal poison (plant seeds, plant oils, spinach, brussel sprouts etc.) seem healthy with corrupt research and marketing.

You can't just take a food ingredient from one culture, throw away the indegenous preparation techniques and eat it completely different way and expect it to work. Take spinach for example. It comes from ancient Persia where it was added to a meat stew... you can't eat that raw. Spinach has high oxalate content... which gets reduced when you cook it for a long time. The remaining oxalate binds with high calcium in the meat stew and the resulting dish has no oxalate content at all.

Oxalates are one of the anti-nutrients, which are phytotoxins that plants use to avoid being eaten... Anti-nutrients in particular attack animals by affecting essential nutrient absorption. Indegenous preparation, which has evolved with the cultures, has ways to manage these toxins or counter them with some other ingredient which makes it edible. You can't do away with those preparation techniques.

I completely do not understand snap hate. Imo, snap is one of the best things Canonical have done. I'm trying to read comments here to find what everyone who hates it is talking about but I can't seem to find anything except for generic nothing.

I searched for a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439326. The linked article is nonsense... and most of the comments are either just as nonsensical or they actually like snap. The one criticism I find is that it is slow. The other seems to be around the idea that Canonical controls it too much for some people to feel comfortable... but other than that, I don't get it.