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_red··on Amazon warehouse injuries '80% higher' than competitors, report claims
The solution is simple then: Amazon should allow Walmart employees to vote on Union issues...
_red··on [dead]
The government could crush bitcoin in an instant. No laws are needed nor are any direct enforcement actions necessary. Its quite simple: Quit printing so much money, quit living with perpetual deficits, and enact strict financial policies.

We all understand thats not possible, hence the rise of bitcoin (and other hedges). Bitcoin is a response to a failing financial system, not the cause of its collapse. In a sane world with sane money, the project would've never gotten off the ground.

_red··on It’s Going to Be Weird, but We Need to Learn to Live with Germs Again
We've never stopped living with germs. The paper face-napkins you wear are filled with bacteria and viruses...
_red··on [dead]
The chilling effects are so great half of HN is probably scared to comment...

2+2=5.

_red··on The Ponzi Career
>ponzi

It's become increasingly common to see the word "ponzi" applied to what is just really a "speculative investment".

Its a shame this is continually being done, because its a real destruction of language meaning. A "ponzi scheme" is an intentional act to defraud...using a portion of investor funds to pay other investors in hopes of attracting more and more investors. The conman then times his exit appropriately once some critical mass of investors rush in.

A risky or speculative investment is just that. There is no intent to defraud. The continual lazy use of "ponzi" does lots of harm since it unfairly implies 'an intentional act to defraud'.

_red··on NFT Canon
Well, they are pushing them because in general traditional VC's completely missed out on the initial crypto boom.

NFT's are their manufactured attempt to build a Crypto V2 market they think they can control. 90% of the stories you read about in the press about NFT's are placed there by these same VC investors. They are desperately trying to viral market fomo response for their useless tokens....sorry their authentic original JPG's....

Its really quite sad.

_red··on Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting of ballots in union vote
Maybe WP will run an article stating that workers from Walmart should be allowed to vote in their election...
_red··on Bitcoin Has Zero Intrinsic Value. Some People Are OK with That
There is no such thing as "intrinsic value" all value is subjective.

A glass of water would be priced differently in the middle of the desert as opposed to next to the ocean.

_red··on When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?
If we assume that newspapers goal is to sell papers to the maximum number of potential readers, this indicates a decline in general literacy / IQ of reading populace.

Compare and contrast the average newspaper article written in say 1921 compared to now. The difference in comprehension level is pretty glaring.

_red··on Every $1 of BTC value responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in US
Not by printing...
_red··on Every $1 of BTC value responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in US
As opposed to fiat, which funds war and enormous waste via unrestrained printing....
_red··on Talking to Postgres Through Java 16 Unix-Domain Socket Channels
There are other benefits.

UDS can be permissioned using standard unix USER/GROUP which adds more flexible security structure (more so when you combine UDS with SE Linux).

This is opposed to localhost which is much harder to firewall from-localhost->to-localhost

_red··on Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Consider That Free Speech’
Good thing they were shut down. Lots and lots of wrongthink being expressed on that network.

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

_red··on Ron Paul blocked from posting on Facebook
The corporate party (ie mainstream D's and R's + MSM + BigTech) seems completely desperate.

Perhaps its just the quality of blackmail the CCP has on them....

_red··on 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
Its also complete accident that there is now a 20000 page "Patriot Act 2.0" being pushed as a solution.
_red··on Bitcoin is a disaster
>Bitcoin, though, mainly seems to solve problems for speculators and people engaging in light financial crime. Is there a niche I'm missing?

Do you have a source for that?

_red··on Docker Is Object Oriented Programming (OOP) for Systems
A couple of months ago I started transitioning some of my oft-used scripts into podman builds (eg. convert picture.png picture.jpg)
_red··on I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
Brave currently offers all the benefits of Chrome with few of the downsides.

They are one of the few companies actually trying to change the spyware model of the web into something much more in line with its original principals (p2p ethos)

_red··on [dead]
Over his rather milquetoast opinions?

YouTube's collapse is rather spectacular to watch.

_red··on Forensic Audit Dominion Voting System – Antrim County, Michigan [pdf]
I think its reasonable to conclude that paper ballots should be mandated until open-sourced peer-reviewed code can be produced.

If even 10% of the claims here are valid then it calls all the results into question where these machines were used.

_red··on Brave Complies With Apple iOS Guidelines
Compared to how google treats you?
_red··on A Brief Goodbye to CentOS
Rumor is RH was planning this from before merger. Supposedly they wanted to do it before C8 release.

It was handled in a very hamfisted way. Permitting entities to rebase from C7 -> C8 and then pulling the plug has caused tremendous ill will.

_red··on Pennsylvania Election Officially Contested
Mail-in ballots with no return address, driven across state lines from NY to PA in trucks, with unverified signatures on forms pre-printed in China.

Hopefully you are not in charge of IT security?

_red··on Pennsylvania Election Officially Contested
>It's best to just dismiss every case regardless of the merits.

That sounds like someone thats pretty scared and knows they are guilty. Sad.

_red··on Pennsylvania Election Officially Contested
Interesting that the Harvard statistician they used as an expert witness says:

"the probability of Joe Biden winning the popular vote in the four states independently given President Trump’s early lead in those States as of 3 a.m. on November 4, 2020, is less than one in a quadrillion."

This seems to indicate fraud.

_red··on Does anyone still use multi-seat Linux installations?
The entire OS depends on having different users. Services like apache, chrony, avahi, dbus, etc don't run as root because of the security implications.
_red··on Elon Musk Moved to Texas
The problem with this will be his employees voting habits. This is 'locust politics'. Now that they have destroyed the old host they are in search of a new host to destroy.
_red··on [dead]
The largest investigation into electronic voting and its perils is ongoing right now in realtime, yet Hacker News is largely silent on it. I wonder why?
_red··on As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever
I think voting is the problem. The gamification attracts a certain type of person who for various reasons is willing to spend absurd amounts of time / effort to "acquire more points". This in turn warps the community as a result.

I understand it was an attempt to police spam. However I still think that slashdot perhaps struck the right balance (the old slashdot I mean, I don't know how they do it now). Randomly a small percentage of users get mod ability when they read the threads which enables them to vote / classify / tag spam.

_red··on Getting Started with Ansible
This past year I committed myself to learn ansible and fully script my full desktop setup as a series of ansible roles. This included not just package management but also things like gsettings gnome configuration, gnome extension installs, python virtualenv environments, email / chat client setup, etc.

As it happens, a few months after I did that my hard drive failed on my Centos desktop. I was able to install a new drive, install base OS, and run my ansible role(s). Within ~45 mins I was back to my exact desktop with all local files restored from backup.

Since then I've kept up any small changes by keeping my roles in sync with my setup. The result is a self-documenting setup. I started this as an excuse to learn ansible but I now realize I've relieved lots of mental burdens from myself. Its so nice to go thru life now confident that I can go from complete bare-metal to "my setup" over lunch.

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