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Yaa101··on The Failed War on Drugs
Something what is almost never told in this discussion about drugs in the US is the root cause of drug use and it's epdemics is simply this: Live for a lot of people in the US is shitty, that is why they use drugs. The circomstances that cause these shitty lives is of course debatable but never addressed by the rulers of the US.
Yaa101··on 40 Highest Fiber foods ranked by Fiber density per calorie
According their list, Beet Green is a very versatile fiber holding vegetable... lol. Coming in 3rd place with 34 grams and in 13th place with 21 grams.
Yaa101··on Europe still burns witches – if they’re named Monsanto
Guess who is paid by Monsanto...
Yaa101··on The Jobs You're Most Likely to Inherit from Your Mother and Father
Mostly these are jobs that have the bias more to who you know vs what you know. It is much harder to become a doctor when your parents are because the many years of education you need. The article has the example of a teacher to become a politician and fill the job of her father where he fell away, using the network of her father for her success.
Yaa101··on Google Public NTP – free, global time service
Free with google? I wonder what tracking costs are involved this time?
Yaa101··on MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality Check
My reality check was called Postgres some years ago...
Yaa101··on Ask HN: What's your daily-driver headphone model?
I use the Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO for heavy duty stuff like my Bach or other music with a large dynamic range. For my other music and mobile sessions I use Beyerdynamic DT 231 PRO.
Yaa101··on Ask HN: What is your current Linux distro and why did you choose it?
With my desktop I have been on the Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia bus for years, while solid and easy ( I do not like to solve puzzles with my desktop OS ) It became more and more appearant that they can't keep up, so parts of their distro are hopelessly outdated. Now I use an Arch based distro that is somewhat, but not very unstable, called Manjaro. It is not as suave as the Mageia distro but it does have a really massive Arch knowledge base, if you google problems with some part of linux then 9 out of ten times you see Arch based problem solving as top links.
Yaa101··on Ask HN: Why does YouTube not offer a download button?
And licenses, and lawsuits, and headaches and...
Yaa101··on Mark Zuckerberg: The idea that Facebook influenced the election is ‘crazy'
Facebook did influence the election, it's the fallout due to their business model. Their business model is locking people into their own echo chamber, to be able to serve them adverts. Bad for Facebook that somehow Trump got into most people's echo chamber. Welcome to the land of unintended consequenses Mark!!
Yaa101··on “DRM is Used to Lock in, Control and Spy on Users”
I disagree. The economy works as follows, the seller asks the price that the seller gets away with and the buyer pays the price that the buyer gets away with. Anything else added to that is protectionism. So if the seller gets a good payment then kudos for the seller. Similar if the buyer is able to get it for free then kudos for the buyer. Also there are many motivations that enable creators to create, narrowing it down to only money is a very shallow view of creation.
Yaa101··on Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3
Which is not the worst outcome since customers too will benefit from the security...
Yaa101··on There isn’t anything magical about it: Why more millennials are avoiding sex
Why are you trying to play it on the man? you must know better than that, my generation heard and made many great tunes...
Yaa101··on There isn’t anything magical about it: Why more millennials are avoiding sex
First of all do not take this personal, I am trying to react in general on a whole generation and not blaming them as each generation deals with life they get confronted with. As a generation X person I think that the millennial generation is quite risk averse. You can see this in many fields, from political correctness going over the top, to risk aversion in music and culture, and even when it comes to building relations of which sex is a part. I do not know or try to point why this is but it does stand out from what I see around me. I feel very fortunate to have lived through punk music, squat housing, crazy ass parties and taking risks in my life, it made me stronger minded against what other people think of me and more confident in life.
Yaa101··on Europe Isn't Quite Ready for the Sharing Economy
Not if Sharing Economy means that the ones doing the least work get the biggest share.
Yaa101··on Alphabet's Eric Schmidt admits he's an iPhone user, but says Samsung is better
I think that a lot of people use an iPhone for status, not because it is the best out there.
Yaa101··on Why is Haskell seldom used, despite being considered a wonderful language?
A lot of computational problems are not math but interfacing, I think Haskell excels in the math related world and not in the interfacing one. This besides the steep learning curve, for myself personally a programming language is also a tool to help getting a mental picture of the problems to be solved. I loose much of the mental picture when using a functional language, but also when using a deep OO language. A functional language is too compact for me and a deep OO language too fragmented. Must be my deficiency, I cannot speak for others.
Yaa101··on Americans have stopped using the Internet the way they used to
+- 120.000 people is hardly representative of 320 million people... Is it?
Yaa101··on Responsibility Without Authority: How to Drive Employees Crazy
We call that "Setup to fail"...
Yaa101··on “Sweden must change quickly”: Spotify threatens to leave the country
Let Spotify go, they only are interested in taking out money from the common welfare and put it into their pockets. They are just the nth carrier of the neo-liberal virus that is destructing our world by stealing the common welfare.

b.t.w. I am a businessman, not a socialist.

Yaa101··on Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
If we do, then it's a very advanced one.

But does it really matter? does REAL free will really exist?

Yaa101··on Turkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian for insulting Erdogan
Sad that German prosecutors are serious about investigating if they can prosecute satire. This tells so much about lack of humor (even if the satire is in bad taste) by authoritarians.
Yaa101··on Campuses are places for open minds – not where debate is closed down
A few generations ago people were much more resilient and capable to handle the real world and pain. Now with many more people on this globe where more and more people need to downright fight to get their share it is rather unwise to overprotect groups of people that might be our future leaders. We will have a future generation that already tries to use political correctness as weapon, this will lead to damning wars. We can only hope that the next generation will react into correcting and balancing this current generation, because their badass great grandparents are not anymore here to correct them.
Yaa101··on Analyzing the names of almost every Chinese restaurant in the U.S.
Funny story, but here in The Netherlands they are named after the owner, as far as I know...
Yaa101··on Ask HN: How do open source apps like ghost blog run their multi tenant version?
What you need is minimal 1 machine with a webserver that can host many virtual hosts under 1 or more IP numbers. On that host you run a database server of some kind, most used is MySQL (which can run many concurrent databases). Then each blog will run in a virtual host with a database connection to it's own database. If you use hppts, you need a wildcard ssl certificate that can accommodate all virtual hosts.

This model can be up-scaled to separate machines for the webserver and database server, or even N number of machines running the webserver and N machines running the database server all behind a loadbalancer. All this even under different IP addresses, or usage of CDN services.

In theory you can upscale this the size of Google services if you have deep pockets.

Short answer, it's not the open source package but the infrastructure behind it, that defines the scale (of course efficient source code will help run things smoother).

Yaa101··on Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)
19th century schooling (which is still our current schooling system) is about preparing for conscription.
Yaa101··on The car century was a mistake. It’s time to move on
Nonsense, new levels of tech will not be reached without current levels of tech. The automobile was needed to deliver new levels of tech in a flexible form. Railroad and boat would never be able to do that. Funny how people always think that tech is in some kind of vacuum, probably same way how people think that creation of things can be done without standing on the shoulders of our forefathers (see whole copyright debate).
Yaa101··on Finland: “Steve Jobs took our jobs”
Hmm, no, it was the monoculture in businessland that made Finnish economy weak... You know, the betting on 2 horses (1 horse) thing...
Yaa101··on Ask HN: Feels like my brain doesn't want to work anymore
I can advise the same, but without all the fuck words... ;-)
Yaa101··on SCO ORDER Granting IBM'S Motion for Partial Summary Judgment [pdf]
I see this is a new document. I miss Pamela and her interesting point of view though.
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