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The UK drug laws are, generally speaking, an absolute disgrace. I think if you wanted an example of the ways not to go about it then the UK would be a fine place to study (but not live).

The apex was the dismissing of Professor David Nutt (great name for fans of nominative determinism, by the way) for speaking truth to power.

I think the problem is that if we wish to draw attention to your excellent content then we must repost it or at least link to it. This is where those platforms we repost on will filter the repost (thus the nickname "link tax").

It's really not very clear what the outcome of this is going to be although it doesn't look good. So "internet platforms" are going to filter all the content we post? Seeing as this isn't going to work properly what is the point of setting it down as a law? Someone's going to end up in court and only then are we going to know exactly how bad it is.

The keyboards. The failure rate makes them a risky purchase. You could be just out of warranty and locked out of your machine. This is happening and driving people away. I personally am really going to miss that perfect trackpad as it's not going to be another MacBook Pro for me until this is fixed.

To be fair, most religions seem to think it's perfectly fine to kill another person, whether in war or the prison system.

ethics =/= religion

For some interesting points about how these aren't the same I'd refer you to Richard Holloway[1]. An ex-Bishop he has refered to himself as a recovering Christian and writes extensively on ethics. He realised that people could make perfectly good ethically arguments without any reference to religion when he sat on various national advisory commitees whilst Bishop of Edinburgh.

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

When I'm old(er) I want to be like Don. That's an awesome attitude he's got (and a good friend in Laird Hamilton).

There was a good article in The Guardian last week[1] about Laird Hamilton the surfer and his older pal Don who at 83 still rides his mountain bike and surfs his paddle board. Laird Hamilton is an exceptional guy but Don shows what we could all attempt with a good attitude.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17301633

Whilst macOS requires an Intel chip to run you can still create a VM easily enough, just as long as the host is Intel. The license, however, says you aren't allowed to do this.

Quite so. The article states "no robust evidence for organics being more nutritious" but that isn't really the argument many have for eating organic veg. It's the pesticides that the non-organic vegetables have been soaked in that are potentially dangerous to our health.

Although that may be true of many articles it is possible to check the author's credentials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg

His public record seems to me to suggest he really does hold these views.

Not sure which part of the UK you're in but the North of England and South of Scotland have a fair few campsites with them. They can be set up with stoves and comfortable beds so fit into the "glamping" bracket.

From the article: "Slack lets us talk and make the same decisions we would have made in meetings anyways.". So there's still IM etc.. Easier to turn off, though, no?

If physically disconnecting it is easy enough then I'd agree that is preferable. Only plug it in when required.

How about creating a firewall rule and then toggling that instead of physically disconnecting the Chromecast? I found a likely configuration: https://blog.g3rt.nl/allow-google-chromecast-host-firewall-i...

I think you must be referring to President Trump?

Perhaps someone else knows the actual ratio of inherited to earned wealth. I'm sure it varies but the majority of people, in fact almost all of them, are not going to win the lottery.

My experience of wealth has been through working in financial services where families have billions (UKP) in assets and whole firms managing that for them for many generations. Also of living in a country that's been owned in very large chunks for hundreds of years (Scotland).

Eat the Rich. Nosh! Nosh! Nosh!

Those are outliers, I think. Most wealth is family wealth and it is measured in the billions of assets under management. The land is owned. The companies are owned. The bonds and share certificates are in the bank.

It's good to have e2e crypto but the clients aren't very pretty. That's going to put folk off. Just saying.

I use Signal myself and it's nicer than Riot, IMHO, but I can't get anyone else on to it other than my other half.

It sounds like a lot of work but if you performed it from outside of the jurisdiction you'd be safe. Not your friends and family inside, though, so still better not to be identified.

If we're starting a list of possible alternatives then Tutanota is good (Germany IIRC).

Luck is always a factor although the amount you need will be diminished by the skills, experience, available time and means, as you point out.

Many young developers are in his position though. They have a modicum of skills (he admits he can only get by in PHP), they have some experience (they're in a job, at least, or they've done some travelling), they have time (they don't have kids yet) and they have the means (they are living with their parents and they don't have a mortgage to pay off). All of these were true in his case.

I don't think it's a get-rich-quick story, as he did spend years on a previous side project that didn't work out, mainly due to the limitations of his skills.

There is value in all of these stories and no one on HN, I hope, is going to believe in get-rich-quick although they just may be motivated by these ideas to get on with it. Perhaps all these little business spin-off side projects just suit me personally so that it's less that I'm optimistic and more that I enjoy them.

He has survived, that's true. I'm not sure he personally has survivorship bias though as he's quite happy to talk about all of his failed projects and how he feels he's found a recipe for succeeding now.

It's now up to the rest of the startup scene to test out his proposals. In the interview on Indie Hackers he says he stole the format of Nomad List from Product Hunt and Indie Hackers say they stole their style of app from Nomad List! There's some validation of the format going on here.

300MB is what I see trying to run the MS Teams client. So I don't bother and use a browser instead.

I have done a little with NightmareJS and really liked it. A bit of syntatic sugar over Mocha with the option to drop down when required. Very succinct, I thought, and easy to start with. I, too, prefer to avoid Selenium, though.

> it's much more awkward in the UK

Except Scotland. There's no law of trespass in Scotland. Also, a lot of it is pretty empty!

This is seriously one of the killer features. How can a company use this if everything is in the clear? How can you even have a conversation if at any time it can all be dragged up and pored over? The double ratchet of Signal, for instance, is open source so just implement it already.

Pie in the sky thinking. Where's my flying car, dude?

First time I've heard of Cage. Given the entirely reasonable reasons Mr Rabbani gave for non-compliance I hope he wins his case. He is surely in the right?

The awful treatment of non-white UK citizens at our borders is another problem again, quite possibly due in part to the institutional racism that still exists in our police forces.

Nope, not enacted and now kicked into the long grass.