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donthellbanme··on No Fixed Address Bank Account
In the USA, you don't have a right to a bank account.

In most cases, unless you bounced a check (There is a separate system banks use on checks. It not tied to credit agencies.) you can get an account by walking in with any check, or money, though.

Many of our poor are stuck with Payday, with their outrageous fees.

Some homeless shelters offer p.o. boxes. Very few sadily.

All the Covid fun money blown out of tee shirt bazokas to fraudsters, and big healthy businesses; none went to people without an address. None.

donthellbanme··on Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work
I sometimes think that some Managers, and even primary founders, have such ungratifing gratifying social lives outside of work; They need the social bonding, and drama, that goes on in certain work settings

Kinda like my last girlfriend. I honestly felt if she didn't have an office to go to, and couldn't boss around someone beneath her in the organization around, gossip, and socialize; she couldn't sleep well.

Yea, if she couldn't make someone at work miserable--what's the point of it all?

She didn't even care about the money, it was an ego thing that I will never understand. That Bad Boss attitude who get things done. That, "Dam I'm good!" attitude.

This is not about her gender. I have met more than a few guys with the same flaw. I just didn't go home with them. I've had way to many bosses that loved the office "family".

I don't know how many times I heard we are a family here. Under my breath--I mutter, ya the Manson Family.

I get the social part, but why make everone miserable by dragging them into the office, especially if things get done at home?

I usually liked all by co-workers, and even enjoyed their company outside of work. I was single though.

Covid proved many positions could could be done at home.

If I had the power, I would offer financial benefits to companies that kept employees home.

Working from home, if you can do it, should be celebrated.

And I won't even get started on the rediculious commutes we did for the past 100 plus years. I've know guys who commuted 3-4 hours a day.

If global warming is a problem wouldn't those in power want us at home instead of driving. But dude--we have electric cars? Most of us won't be able to afford one for years, and even then. Most electricity is still not carbon neutral.

donthellbanme··on Meta-Perceptual Helmets
While I will never buy another new Apple computer; I've always liked the look of most of their products unless my finances improve.

Would I rather have a ugly product, that I could repair----hell yes.

I thought some of Palm products back in the day were beautiful. I loved my Palm TX. I loved the look, and feel of the product.

donthellbanme··on Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized warehouse
You know those help wanted commercials Amazon floods media with, "We pay $15 to start, blah, blah. Start a new career."

I just assumed they were always hiring because of consistent growth.

According to the guy (forget his name. Wears a gold chain.) representing the union; Amazon fires a lot of employees. Many for no reason.

(I once read a restaurant success book. Everything he recommended made sence, except one, and it does make sence, but it's weaselly.

His recommendation to restaurants was to fire all employees every six months. Turn over the semi-skilled completely. His reasoning was a new employee didn't complain, didn't steal (this was before companies had cams everywhere, gps tracking, and wrist movment counters), and worked harder.)

I believe this is Amazon strategy.

It's usually a bit harder to fire union workers for no reason.

Fire them before they can see the inequities in the company.

donthellbanme··on Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
It's loneliness in my case.

I have no one to talk to that's close to my age,

I do use it more when I'm depressed though.

Books never did it for myself. I would read, but my mind would wander to negative thoughts, and my problems.

That is fiction though. I have my 1000 plus book library of non-fiction books I thumb through every day. A book is usually right near my computer. I fall asleep with a non-fiction book.

I also have a portable radio with me when walking, or waiting. I just need someone yacking in the background. Without it my mind wanders.

When I was younger and had friends; I was never like this.

When I'm done with the internet, around this hour; I don't want to think about the time I wasted on my devises until the next day.

Would I rather be talking to people on a friday night--hell yes, if it's not get to know you speak.

I'm tight on money, but I could go to a bar tonight, and talk to strangers.

A beer is $8 bucks plus a dollar tip.

I need a car to get to the bar.

I need to white knuckle driving home because I have an old car, and cops love to pull over poor people. Cops know they are easy pickings. Plus--they think we all drink to excess like they do. If they can't nail you on a marginal DUI; they can find something wrong with your car. (If you are ever in Marin County after 10 pm, expect a pullover. 99% are for no reason other than profiling. Even you rich boys who look like Elon Musk sometimes get pulled over too.

It's just easier to pull out the ipad in the end. If you work the internet right, you can avoid the negativity. Here, or on FB, I never come back to a post I commented on.

I do use social sites, like this webpage, as a journal. I say what's on my mind, and it feels good some days. I never get into arguments because I never return to a discussion.

donthellbanme··on The Case for Higher Rates
I just heard a msnbc guest say, "Once inflation rears it's ugly head, in my experience (very old guy) only a severe recession brings down prices. (I hope that's not the case.)

Then I heard Kathy Woods say she predicts deflation in about a year.

I my world of the poor, and low middle class we didn't get much out of the low interest party. I guess there's more jobs? We can't afford to speculate on stocks, and those high interest rate cd's were nice 20 years ago.

We can't afford a home, so we didn't get those low interest rate mortgages.

We can't afford new cars, and used car loans always seem high.

Did you guys know the Homeless got 0 government money through the pandemic. (Off topic, but it just bothered me.)

I just heard a big wig business guru say that Jerome Powell should be looking for another job. I think he did an ok job for what he was handed.

What I will never understand about Jerome Powell is why had government buy the mortgage backed securities, and treasury securities for so so so long, especially since realeste and the stock market flourished during the pandemic?

(Yes--I'm no expert obviously.)

donthellbanme··on Master’s Degree in Computer Science
I did flunk Kindergarden. In the early 70's (during the later parts of the Vietnam war.), they had something called Early Primary in Corte Madera, Ca.

I remember all the children had to go up to the calendar on the blackboard once a month and put the day, date, and year The teacher would whisper in our ears where to put the plackard on the black board. If you failed--you had to do it the next day.

I just couldn't remember what she whispered in my ear while walking up to the calendar on the chalk board. Looking back it was nerves. We just had to move the pre printed plackard to the right spot.

The children used to yell "right--left. I would go to 30-31 places until they clapped. (The kids were on my side. They wanted me to succeed.

I was frozen with embarrassment though.

I think I had some learning disability, or emotional problem.

I just remember I had a hard time learning. In all honestly, I just wanted hide in the playhouse from the other children. I was basically very shy, and nervious.

That's when they put me in Early Primary.

It didn't bother me because 1/3 of the class was with me.

My family moved two years later to San Anselmo.

I was happy. My father, and mother were happy. My dad bought a four bedroom home. We all had our bedrooms. I love life, but my family more.

When I entered 2nd grade, I became worried. These new kids had no problem answering questions the teacher would ask.

I------would just cower in fear hoping she would ask me anything. Well--she didn't overlook me, and I would just freeze in fear when she would ask me to repeat what she just said. (Looking back it was basically nerves, but maybe a learning problem? 99.99% of me now feels it was just nerves.

Ok--it's the 70's, and teacher, and my mom, had an unusually long conference.

They held me back again. They put me in this worthless Speech class. I was a studder. "A, E, I, O, U, any Y." Repeated in a route manner. It made no sence to my young self.

I did have a younger sister whom would remind Everone that we were three years apart in age, but 1 year apart in school. There was always a silence from intelligent adults, or an uncomfortable silence from the rest.

By the time I got to the 3rd grade, I knew I just could be held back again.

By the time I was in 7th grade, I was a B to A student. Everything just clicked in.

High school seemed easy, but it was only until my last year I took it serious.

Most blue collar kids knew nothing about good/bad colleges. My sister, and myself, knew nothing of the SAT. It probally didn't help that my Electrican father thought "College boys were tax dodgers." (It was a different time in America. If you didn't go to college, it didn't matter. A union job was a test away.

OK, Iloved my father, but didn't want his life, including the drinking, and Archie Bunker mentality.

I ended up working my junior year in highschool, and going to College of Marin. Back then it was called the Little Berkeley. It was a great school for many years. Those two years were with the cost!

I wanted to become a doctor for all the wrong reasons, basically I could memorize visually all those biology charts, and organic reactions. It just came so easily.

I needed a 4 year degree though. I went to --- ------- state for the four year degree, and graduated. I also had a very aggressive girlfriend at the time, and I knew she would hold it against me if I graduate from that joke of a school.

I had a panic attack while I was in graduate school on december 24th. It was probally comming. I was very much a hypochondriac at the time, and actually believed I has a brain tumor. I tried to go back to school every month for a year, but was just a neurotic mess. I went from being the most capable guy in the room to not being able to drive a car.

I was so neurotic. My girlfriend was a saint though. I had this period where I though sex was making my head pain worse.

We are talking about a 19 blond virgin until we became a couple. She believed my bullshit until she saw a Woody Allen movie with her mother. I belive it was Hanna, and her Sisters.

All I knew was I had this head pain, and life seemed to short. I had a hard time repressing my sexual desires. I had a hard time sitting in school--delaying gratification. I did know that the worst day in college was better than any job blue collar jobs though.

(Why did I write this? I use HN as. journal. My respect for this site has dwindled. When Dang isn't hellbanning me for no reason------I will write. It's not for anyone's benefit except myself, unless it comes to real subjects. I am not going to edit this, especially after a bottle of wine.)

donthellbanme··on Master’s Degree in Computer Science
The problem is when you have paid the tuition, and finished the degree, it's so hard to objectively rate it.

I have a Bachelor's degree from a decent state school in California.

At the time, I felt the courses were too easy, and my four years were a bit of a waste of time.

I remember going to a graduation party, and you would think we graduated from med school. The graduates were carrying on like it was so rigrigrous. (I have a very, very average intellect too. I actually flunked kindergarten.)

To this day I will not denigrate the school in any way.

donthellbanme··on $35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII
My Goodwill in San Rafael takes all the good stuff that comes in the back, and it goes to the San Francisco store to put on ebay. The junk stays in the stores. Every once in awhile something of value does not automatically go to their internet store because it was missed by a back room staffer.

A few years ago my Goodwill went through three store managers in a row for stealing over a period of 10 years. One manager was pilfering the jewelry from the safe regularity, and loading up her van after everyone left.

I find it ironic they have cameras everywhere, and signs worning about shoplifting, when it was the employees stealing for years.

You can still get lucky on books, but you need to show up early. The professional resellers are there with their bar code readers at opening. Every once in a while a decent business suit can be found, but those days are kinda gone too. None of the clothing is cleaned before being put out.

Another manager had multiple antique dealers that he was selling to. He was so out in the open about it, the employees didn't batman eye. Good stuff would never leave the back room. He basically had everything sold within hours to his cronies.

There's a good book out their on how Goodwill is run.

It's eye opening. Supposedly the only employees making a real living wage were the Regional managers. 20 years ago they were getting $250,000/yr., and a car.

Don't get me completely wrong, I don't dislike Goodwill. They hire felons for a year.

They are a bit better than most of our 501c3. That's still a low bar though where so many, especially the nonprofits who incorporate in Deleware, are basically formed to reward the founders.

I won't even get started on In Defence for Animals because the founder died a few years ago.

donthellbanme··on Mechanical Watch
To those interested in becomming a Watchmaker I can offer this:

1. The school route is great, but after the two year program you still won't get a parts account from anyone. You will have no problem finding a job though.

2. Self-taught. It will take awhile, but it's a rewarding hobby/career.

Every budding Watchmaker should have books. Books by DeCarle, Fried, and Daniels are great.

There are old correspondence courses that are good to. Try to get Chicago School of Watch Repair, and Bulova School of Watch Repair. Hunt around for the best price.

The quality of internet videos on the internet are spectacular. You are lucky to have them. When I started their was only one guy who taught Watch Repair.

Tools:

#2, #5 Dumont tweezers. (any tweezers will do, even the cheap ones.)

Watch back removal tools. You will need various types, including Rolex, and universal tools.

small ultrasonic bath to clean parts. A mason jar filled with cleaning fluid, and rinse will suffice to hobbiests though.

oils. Moebius are recommended, but expensive. Personally I think they are overpriced.

Presto #1,#2 hand removers.

some Radico.

A mainspring tool. These can get pricy. Look for a old set of Marshall mainspring removal tools.

Decide if you want to work with a loupe, or a 10-40x stereoscope.

a band remover.

A staking set. (Look around. No need to spend more than $250.00

A jewelers lathe, mill, etc. come way later. The biggest mistake newbies make is buying every tool they thing they might need. Then again you wealthy boys can go crazy.

Too tired to go on, but I'm in the Bay Area under "I buy Watchmaker, jeweler, amd some Machinist's estates. I'm gearing up to do repairs. I hope to have a website soon. I'm thinking about teaching, but not sure if there's a market for it.

donthellbanme··on Mechanical Watch
Parts rarely fail on watches from the 50's on, especially the better made watches that are sealed. Even those that arn't sealed very well, the parts seem to last.

If a part does fail, it's usually the old blue steel mainsprings.

They can be replaced with modern White-Alloy springs. (That is just a brand name.)

Watches are my thing. I don't know why I like them so much, but do.

Servicing does take awhile to learn though. That whole 10,000 hrs probally. Servicing a watch does not take that long to learn. I'm talking about making parts with a Jeweler's lathe. And getting to the point where you know those parts well enough to visualize exactly what's wrong with a timepiece by looking at it.

If you did learn to clean/oil your mechanical watch, it's something that will be passed down to loved ones.

Oh yea, Service a mechanical watch when it stops keeping good time. That is unless you take it in the water.

I know a watchmaker who told his father he needed to Service his gifted wristwatch. His father got it 30 years ago as a present, and just wore it daily. The watchmaker was expecting dried up oil, but to his astonishment, the oil was still there. It was hermetically sealed. Oils do breakdown, but he couldn't find any damage to parts using a 40x stereoscope.

donthellbanme··on Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people
Housing like they have in Ukraine. Big hugh apartment buildings would help. (I don't know the water is suspose to come from though? Especially in the Bay Area.)
donthellbanme··on Kaketsugi – A technique for repairing holes or tears in fabric (2021) [video]
I can add this to those that gained a bit of weight, and have a sewing machine, or just a needle and thread.

Most pants, even the cheap pants at Costco, have about a 1" to 2" at the back seam of excess fabric.

Be it cheap, or expensive, most brands have a bit of material to make the waist bigger.

Use a razor, or sewing thread cutter (I don't know the name, but you guys have seen the tool before. They are everywhere, including Safeaway).

You carefully cut the fabric from the backside of the trousers.

Use a magnifying glass, or I use a stereoscope, in order to not tear the delicate fabric, cut the thread.

Then sew the elongated pieces together. You don't need to worry about serging the material in most cases.

In the end, if you are a 38w you can go to a 40w in an hour.

(This does not work with most jeans though. Just slacks. I'm very interested in the technique this family uses to repair fabric. I kinda know what they are doing in their repairs, but I would like to know more. If anyone knows more about this technique, I'd appreciate any instruction, or further information on this technique of weaving. I need extra income, and I'm in the Bay Area.)

donthellbanme··on 100-year-old Brazilian breaks record after 84 years at same company
1st picture there's a typewriter.

And why not.

(I sometimes think we threw the baby out with the bath water.)

He needs to make a shipping label. No problem. No computer. No printer. No special labels.

donthellbanme··on How I Arrived at Sun as Employee #8
$60 a year is great. She dosen't print much.

My mother's HP stops printing completely if one color is down.

She only prints B/W.

(Personally I think printing companies shot themselfs in the foot with chipped cartridges. Instead of printing out willynilly; we, most of America, only prints out what's absolutely necessary. It's a business move on their part I will never understand. They tried to amend there blunder with Eco, but it's a bit too late. We got used to not printing. "Here's a picture of Billy Sue riding her brother's bike." Of course, we don't print it out like the 2000's and hang it on the frig.)

donthellbanme··on The strange business of hole-in-one insurance
Yes you can.

And I it's great for the wealthy.

Forcing insurance on poor people is not right.

The poor have a tough enough time just keeping their head above homelessness.

I have been required to pay for automotive insurance in California for approximately 20 years. (In CA mandatory insurance was required, but not mandatory forever. There is a weird legal difference. I white knuckled my college years while driving. I got lucky except onetime. A wealthy women slammed into me, and the minute she, or actually her lawyer husband, found out I didn't have insurance, I was putty in their hands. I paid $1000 for an 1982 Volvo bumper. It was the last of my student loan, but they had me. A call to DMV and I wouldn't be able to commute to my school.)

Every year if I want to drive my old truck I needed to come up with $600.00 plus. Even with a perfect record since 15.5 years of age.

I only can afford the minimum. I never made much money even as college graduate. I believe it's 15-30-5. (this means if slam into you and you are a vegetable; you will get $15,000 for injuries, and $5,000 for your Tesla. Great payday? If you have money you can go after my assets.).

My point is it's not enough if we are being honest.

The insurance industry loves these minimum mandates because they make billions off the poor, and middleclass.

It's no wonder the insurance industry is always the number #1 Lobby group on every political fund.

It's a racket, and I believe the bigger boys are colluding on rates, but can't prove it.

"Buy the per mile insurance dude--you low income loser!"

(1. Work out the low income insurance on a yearly basis, and it's not copasetic. Plus my old Toyota does not have a computer other than a rudimentary computer that was suspose to control the main plunger in the naturally aspirated carb that never really worked. Meaning there's no computer to plug a mileage indication in. So there's no per mile insurance I can get.)

My point is mandated insurance is kind of a racket like this two year mandated Smog check, especially on vechicles that that we only use a few times per year, or under 1000 miles/per year.

Rant Over.

donthellbanme··on Racket v8.5
You have a book in you.
donthellbanme··on My experience getting a tech job with no degree or relevant work experience
What I have never understood is why don't FANG companies hires local American Programmers/Engineers for trial periods.

Hire them for a few weeks, and fire if necessary. It doesn't take more than a few days to weed out the fakers, and identify the diamond.

I say local because it's cruel to hire a guy from across the country just to be let go.

We all know most degrees, and designations are dubious at best.

Why not try out a bunch of local Americans whom live near the worksite, and keep the best person? (I guess some companies do that with interns, but what I'm proposing is a bit different. The prospective hires will be tested throughly at what they claim they know.

It seems like most younger job applicants would jump at the chance to work for a good company?

I'm not saying don't test them throughly before a temporary hire. Make the test difficult. Testing doesn't cost much with Zoom, and this welcoming technology.

In every job I had the best employee was mainly self-taught, and didn't have a great resume.

It seemed like they worked harder because they didn't have all the spinish behind their name, especially in this relatively new industry.

donthellbanme··on Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain
I guess being called an "old man" has been around forever.

When I was younger my version of an old man was anyone over 30. I kept upping it the older I got.

I used to throw around the "Don't trust anyone over 30."

Now that I'm much older, I still don't trust most old adults, and I'm one now.

Looking back my definition of old is more akin to being wealthy, sneaky, money grubbing, shifty dude. The kind of guy who uses lawyers, instead of a handshake.

It's crazy but in my mind the "old man" is the guy running this crypto company.

donthellbanme··on The confounding politics of camping in America
Gavin Nuesome actually had good intentions with streamlining ADU's in California.

It turns out only the wealthy are taking advantage of the gift though.

In my county, I believe 6 guys took advantage of the streamlined process. It's still very expensive.

They used building the ADU as an excuse to build a bigger house, and that variance is hard to get, but if you have money and kiss ass, you can get it.

I believe almost all the 6 used an ADA unit to increase the size of their home. They all had to get variances from the town, and 5 got it. One homeowner refused to kiss the town council's ass, write begging letters to his neighbors, and attent countless meetings while paying for an architect, and a Builder's time.

They are all asked a bunch of questions.

The one that got me is "Are you going to rent the unit out to low income individuals. (Low income in my town is like "$90, 000. Yea--really. $110,00 if married.". All basically lied, and said yes they will rent it to a Nun. They wanted a bigger home, and the ADU will be used as----an Art studio, or for Lupe' the cheap help that will wipe them in later life?

My point putting in an ADU is fine, and I'm glad Neusome streamlined the process. People aren't taking advantage of it besides the wealthy though. The people whom didn't need any help.

I would rather see something different.

1. If a person (not a corporation, rich foreigner, etc.) of modest means buys a small piece of land they can put a trailer, tent, small cabin, etc. on the land. And of course live there. I'd even be ok with no foundations until you build properly, and no renting unless you offer it for free. I'd even be ok with time limits that are reviewed every ten years for free. So basically a guy would have to go in front of some official and sign a declaration that they still don't have the money to build a proper unit.

2. CA counties, and towns are going to be told to build more housing in the future if Neusome is still around. They only way I see it happening is if we start building huge blocks of housing, like I see being demolished in Ukraine. (I've seen pictures of Russia. It does look like everyone is in a reasonably priced apartment. I guess it's a leftover from evil Socialism.

Personally, I'd be happy with 1. I just don't think the powers at be really want to help the very poor.

Marin County, San Anselmo. This is basically the town I'm writing about. Newsome has a mansion here where Jenny wanders room to room trying to find something "important" in life to do. Be careful Gavin. She reminds me of an Amber Heard. I honestly like the guy. He was voted most fashionable in my high school.)

donthellbanme··on The confounding politics of camping in America
In most counties in California you are free to buy land.

After that, just expect to pay property taxes unless you have money to build exactly the home they sign off on.

I once was ready to buy a reasonable small piece of land in Bolinas after graduating from college. I should have known the price was too good.

When I called the seller he took pity on me when I told him I wanted to just use it to pitch a tent on until I saved more money.

He said, "Son---you can't even put an blanket on "your" land and take a nap."

donthellbanme··on 1974 Sinclair Scientific Calculator Repair and Restoration
Early electronics were designed to be repaired, or many.

My father wouldn't buy anything he didn't think could be reasonably repaired. Hell--it was a selling point most people took for granted.

From tv sets to most calculators, and even early computers, most had schematics available from the company, and the boards were laid out with repair in mind.

My old HP 454a Oscilloscope was designed to be repaired.

I look at these old circuits and they are art.

I once heard an old Electrician say, "The art of our trade died when we stopped sweating wires."

donthellbanme··on Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships
" If crews can’t use new types of paint, If crews are restricted from using OSPHO (a mild acid used to clean up rust stains) in port or bosuns chairs over the side if we don’t have enough supply ships or crew on those supply ships if crews are committing suicide and arson because of conditions at shipyards tasked with painting old ships if the Navy doesn’t seek out the advice of commercial professionals at companies that have solved the problem like Shell if the Army and Air Force continue to get all the attention in Ukraine despite the heaviest fighting taking place in the littorals and ports – I could go on – how can individual sailors “stand up and be ready” to combat rust?"

1. I hope I'm reading this wrong. I can guarantee Sailors arn't committing suicide, or arson, because of a fugly rusty ship.

2. If their is any real problem it's the way our Navy treats Sailors, and lies to them upon signing that contract, and tries to renig on any lofty promises upon signing.

I once heard the Navy will send you to school upon enlisting. Navy, "Become a Lawyer. We pay for it.". This commercial was around that movie with Tom Cruise playing the spiffy lawyer in his whites going up against Jack Nicholson. "You can't handle the truth!". Forget the name.

I looked it up. The military at the time was picking up tuition for 8 enlisted men to go to law school.

The guys are angry because once they enlisted, it wasen't the opportunity they thought it would be. Period.

donthellbanme··on Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave
We need to make public transportation so alluring people want/need to use it.

For starters, I think public transportation should be free for the poor, and low middle class.

All air travel that uses fossil fuel would would be taxed if you are above middle class. Outlaw the private jets. (It just bothers me to see the Elon, or Saturday Night Fever types jetting off to Ibesa. (Too disenfranchised to check the spelling of the party port.)

Give companies federal income tax credits if they can keep their employees at home, and not commuting.

Encourage solar with incentives. Yes--we have been doing that, but in my state (CA) PG&E seems to balk at paying customers for the energy produced.

And more Nuclear power plants, but not on faults.

Bring companies back home if their product is in a county that dosen't care about Carbon. More than just a tariff.

(In the end I'm afraid Global Warming measures will be paid for by the poor, and middleclass. Their will be more taxes on gas. Their will be more effort to keep older cars off the roads. (poor can't afford electric vechicles right now. Those two year smog checks are really getting stringent, and don't make sense. I put 500 miles on my vechicle a year. Why am I paying every two years for a smog check. DMV has our mileage. Same gripe goes for mandatory insurance.)

donthellbanme··on Ask HN: It's 2022. Where should I direct the youths to learn about programming?
But what do they do when they are at friends homes, or at school all crowded around a iphone in the bathroom.

I don't have kids, but there's a part of me that would want them to see the bowels of the internet, and hopefully Never want to see that crap again. I know there are pictures I wish I never saw. I'm so glad I didn't see the toddler whom was raped by a Russian soldier. Putin arrested that soldier I head.

If I had children, I don't think I would let them use the internet either.

I wonder if their are any good studies on letting children have free access to restricted. Maybe the study couldn't even be legally carried out?

donthellbanme··on Ask HN: It's 2022. Where should I direct the youths to learn about programming?
I agree with getting him here. Then again maybe not?

I have developed an addiction to this site. I don't even like the site that much anymore, nor care for the moderator, but it has become a habit. (Don't like too many rules that are arbitrarily enforced. Don't like the upper middleclass echo chamber discussions we have here when we discuss other subjects than computing.

That's not my point though.

I can't imagine someone interested in any aspect of the computer industry not getting valuable information here.

donthellbanme··on You can now ask Google to remove your phone number, email or address from search
"We generally aim to preserve information access if the content is determined to be of public interest. This includes but isn't limited to:

Content on or from government and other official sources Newsworthy content Professionally-relevant content"

1. This removal process does not remove those public information aggregator sites, like "Who lives here.whatever", "Didthispersoneverappearincourt.com". The problem with the court aggregator sites is they are wrong some times. I imagine Google makes a ton of money off them though?

2. Google should remove all personal details, unless a person was in the news.

3. I'm on the fence whether you should even index sites like Yelp.com?

donthellbanme··on Bits of advice I wish I had known
I get what you are saying completely, and completely agree.

I have noticed male children, especially the first born male, who's father is a Psychiatrist end up--well--what's the right phrase? Some seem very angry. It's just something I noticed in my small circle.

I'm probally wrong, but it's something I have noticed.

donthellbanme··on Snap launches its first drone
We all know who this is marketed to.

My hope is the females of the world decide selfies are narcisstic, predictable, and shallow.

They refuse to watch programs like the Kardashians, and selfies will just die out like disco.

(I guess there's nothing wrong with getting ahead with your physical looks. I watched my sister pretty much write her ticket in life do to how photogenic she is.)

donthellbanme··on North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden media
Could you name the company? We need strong anti-monitoring laws. The only profession I think needs constant monotoring is the average cop, and not so average cop, like the FBI.

It's ironic many cops are required to wear cams now, but they can still cover that lens.

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