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Proven··on OK Boomer, Who’s Going to Buy Your 21M Homes?
The Biden government using newly printed money. Or they'll just make them take flatmates.

See, it's an emergency. New tenants are streaming in every month.

Proven··on Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
Worst shitsite on the web. It contains nothing useful, original or unique. I'd like to know what's Google's excuse for blacklisting that domain into oblivion.

I have a greasemonkey script that blocks domains from being shown in GSE results. Works well, but I don't have it on all of my browsers.

Proven··on Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
> Brave Search is currently not displaying ads, but the free version of Brave Search will soon be ad-supported.

Well, there's that. I assume they won't implement ad blocking for that one.

Proven··on G7 finance officials endorse principles for central bank digital currencies
Principles? Here we go:

- Retain the full ability to print as much funny money as necessary, same as now

- Track every user and every transaction

- Tax the shit out of everyone, fix the "cash problem"

- Cancel wallets of "terrorists" such as people who had Covid-19 and don't want to get vaccinated

Proven··on Financial Secrecy Index
It's best for financial privacy. Good for them.

And equally so for anyone who escapes globalist & socialist busybodies like AOC and takes their money to a safe place.

Proven··on Financial Secrecy Index
That site is bullshit. Tax justice my ass. Globalist thugs.

Is there such a thing as Literal Secrecy? You know, when you share personal info with a provider and they aren't supposed to leak it? No, that's called privacy.

I live in one of the high ranked countries and I think the more financial privacy is available, the better. That's how it's supposed to be and if someone oppressed (financially or otherwise) from abroad uses local services to escape that oppression, good for them.

If you have a high tax or reckless spending problem that makes your people take their money out of YOUR country, spend less.

Proven··on World food prices hit 10-year peak – FAO
Excellent news - just like our esteemed central bankers wanted!

We've been rescued from the evils of deflation!

Proven··on Canada's 'gamble' on delaying, mixing and matching Covid-19 vaccines paid off
For now. Six months from now you'll need another booster.
Proven··on Brazil's tragic ivermectin frenzy is a warning to the US, experts say
What a shit article, lol.

Since it's all anecdotal, why didn't they contrast the experience from Brazil with ivermectin in Goa (India)?

Proven··on Virtually no one left to vaccinate in Portugal: 98% of those eligible vaccinated
> I was in Portugal last week and was surprised by how safe it felt.

That may be because you didn't know how many of those around you got their 2nd shot before last spring, and that masks don't significantly help. But it's important how you "feel", I get that.

"Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine antibodies gone by 7 months for many" - https://news.trust.org/item/20211001194329-xkwip

You may sometime want to consider the cost of government policies that has to be borne by other, unwilling participants in those schemes.

Proven··on People who ‘can’t fit into jeans they wore aged 21’ risk developing diabetes
More alarmist nonsense from the Guardian... Their links should be banned from HN.

Presumed takeaways:

1) All Taliban members are at risk!

2) Sure, everyone is "at risk". I won't click on the stupid link but I bet that the risk is small enough not to be worth the time required to read the article.

Proven··on China’s Corporate Social Credit System: How Businesses Can Prepare
How to prepare: do yourself a favor and stop ducking doing business in there.

And give a lower priority to any supplier or buyer with a good CCP's corporate social credit score.

Can't wait for first WTO lawsuits to hit CCP.

Proven··on Starve the Beast: Monopoly Power and Political Corruption
> I can even run GPT-J in my home lab and it's much better than Google assistant , but I can't buy that as a product.

And how much you would pay for that service? $5/mo? How many people need it? Almost nobody? Now you see where the problem is.

From TFA:

> Profits are power. Concentration is power. Concentration is profitable. Profits let merging companies run roughshod over the FTC and become more concentrated.

Poor Cory, he just doesn't get it, no matter how easy and obvious it is...

Does anyone think we'd have free market if there were no profits to be made? Of course not, it'd be even worse! The problem is the FTC (concentrated power of the State), not profits.

Proven··on China limits under 18s to 3 hours of gaming per week
I can't imagine anything more harmful to minors than being exposed to even more communist propaganda, which is what this new restrictions aims to do.
Proven··on Unvaccinated teacher infected half her students with Covid, CDC finds
What will they write about when the same happens to a mask-wearing vaccinated teacher?
Proven··on Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro: flagship features at half the price
1) Ability to run ungoogled OS

I hardly give a crap about any other "feature" these days. I barely use any app except Phone, Web browser and messenger.

iOS meets the requirement automatically and without hassle, but I'm curious about Librem.

Proven··on Arm China Has Gone Rogue
Of course it was sold for a paltry sum.

Does anyone think they were not nudged to sell to local state-designated champ and had one serious candidate (with the CCP pulling the strings behind the scene)?

Proven··on Why America keeps building corrupt client states
And which state is not corrupt?

It's easy to solve this problem: use real money and the ability to destroy by waging wars disappears.

The UK and EU are also corrupt client states - or kingdoms or unions, as the case may be - whose elites benefit from that corruption. That's why it continues to go on.

Proven··on Human Rights Are Not a Bug
The title is fine, but you have no new "rights" just because there's the Internet or CDNs.

Your rights are still the same: the right to own property. Nothing more, nothing less.

You can't invent an obligation for someone out there (to build a better CDN, or provide healthcare for you, for example) to satisfy your needs. They may want to do it - if they want - but that's as far as it goes.

Proven··on The EU Wants a Universal Mobile Charger, but Apple Doesn’t
The EU = bunch of incompetent, lifer bureaucrats

Apple = manufacturer who has consistently offered what customers are willing to pay for

Proven··on We need a free software license for distributed systems
If a user writes own startup scripts or config files, that's even looser linkage than using open source libraries from proprietary apps.

How can you possibly compell them to open-source those?

That not only doesn't make sense, but also raises red flags and makes one think what other crazy rules will be introduced in the next license update. Any enterprise user should abandon such software as soon as possible.

Proven··on Catalytic converter thefts in California
I was poor and didn't even think to steal other people's shit
Proven··on Impersonating the brave.com website to deliver malware
Ransomware shops with plenty of affiliates should rank well on it
Proven··on I Am Parting with My Crypto Library
Thought he decided to step down as the maintainer of his crypto.lib ...
Proven··on Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Crystal and Lucky [video]
For me it's very simple - when I see GPL 3, I move on - even for personal uses.

I can't imagine why I'd want anything to do with this license either. It's an unnecessary burden. Just stay away from it.

Proven··on Sweden is being shot up
Who could have known.
Proven··on S.F. is considering downtown 'congestion pricing'
> By charging a fee to drivers who can afford it and providing discounts and exemptions for those who can't, we can get traffic moving and improve transit, bike and pedestrian options.

Why should only those who "can afford it" (in whose opinion?) pay?

Are you running a congestion management program or racket on the very people who paid for the roads (middle class and above)?

> And by prioritizing travel, safety, and clean air improvements for the people who need them the most, we can advance equity in our transportation system.

If you charge low income people less or nothing, you subsidize pollution and don't "prioritize clean air improvements".

Just looking at the list of busybodies who took part in devising that nonsense plan makes me sick. You don't even have to see the details to know it's going to be another gem.

Proven··on CO₂ Coin: Decentralized Carbon Capture Blockchains (2021)
Nice effort, but why?

1) There's no need to capture CO2

2) There's no need to record that on a blockchain or use crypto - you could use Github or Gitlab or IPFS with PGP-signed notary statements. Or push commits to all three.

3) Most enterprises are already forced to capture (or pay for outsourced capture, buy CO2 credits and other nonsense), so in order to make CO2 Coin viable in terms of (voluntary) market demand, you'd have to stop the government climate racket first. Good luck getting your friendly government department to give up on the millions of dollars they collect.

4) Considering how expensive global warming racket has become, I can't believe enterprises or individuals can be incentivized to use such a coin. It's much better to just ignore the schema - once the government is out of it (necessary condition for a CO2 Coin), damage from not participating in the racket would be negligible. Nobody wants to pay for it - if they did, we wouldn't have CO2 taxes and excises and no meaningful voluntary contributions.

Proven··on Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021
Their sourcing and labor practices possibly save a dollar or two

https://knowthechain.org/wp-content/uploads/2020_KTC_ICT_Sco...

Proven··on European Citizen's Initiative for UBI
That's exactly what it is. Privileges and handouts in exchange for obedience and votes (at least nationally - the EU has gone full CCP with their irreplaceable bureaucrats).

> through taxes and inflation, which is the worst kind of tax.

100% correct. Most EU members have official debt that equals GDP (some are worse) and they probably figure they have another 50% of GDP to borrow.

Now is also a great opportunity to transition from Covid 19 handouts to UBI (first experimentally and then - after EU-funded scientists discover it works really well - on an ever growing scale).

If they spend 5% of GDP per year on UBI, that can go on for a decade or longer before everything collapses.

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