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> scarily accurate

As the saying goes, Zerohedge has predicted 28 of the last 4 recessions. They have a consistently bearish bias (which rarely seems to play out), and ties to the Russian state, which brings into question the motivations behind their criticisms of the US (not that I'm the biggest fan myself).

All of that said, ZH introduced me to a lot of economic literature and concepts I likely wouldn't have been exposed to otherwise. They touch on niche subjects constantly, and I have to give them credit for broadening my understanding of economics in general.

> I did some mod where you remove some foam inside the earcups which effectively makes them like the next model up

555 to 595, I bought the headphones for the exact same reason. I'm very sad they don't manufacture them anymore, I love this pair.

I've generally regarded these digital USB headphones to be lower quality (for the price) than analog headphones. That said, I've been using my current pair of HD555s for nearly a decade now, and want to upgrade. Has the tech improved significantly since then? I'm also skeptical of wireless headphones...

One major benefit of going analog is the near-universal hardware support, no need to worry about Linux compatibility for the vast majority of the cases. Is the switch worth the drawbacks?

> Mixing is a foundation of cryptocirrency, cryptocirrencies don't make any sense without mixing.

I'm going to need a citation on this one. Many people who are still stuck on Bitcoin maximalism these days seem to have gone the "nothing to hide" route, and actively denigrate the idea that privacy tech should be implemented at all.

> Who wants their entire transactions history to be public?

Use Monero.

I guess I shouldn't use a VPN, because that might look like I have something to hide. Using cash? No way! If I use cash I might look like a criminal. Leave my cell phone at home? No way, I wouldn't want to be suspicious, would I? I need the government to surveil me every second of every day, because if they don't, maybe I'm a criminal.

At what point do you say enough is enough, and embrace the idea that you should minimize your digital footprint whenever possible?

So is using cash. Lots of things could be 'indicative of possible criminal conduct'. Thankfully, the US operates under presumed innocence until proven guilty. This attitude of people claiming you shouldn't seek privacy lest you 'look like a criminal' is disappointing. I expect better from HN.

Lock you up for what? Using Monero doesn't mean you're a criminal. Am I misunderstanding, or are you implying that caring about my privacy is a criminal act, and that paying taxes on perfectly legitimate income is (or would become) illegal?

I think many of us have the whole 'blackhat SEO' topic on our minds given that there's a thread about it on the front page right now. That said, popularity ranking algorithms often heavily weight votes early in their life cycle, so this kind of behavior isn't necessarily suspicious.

Downvoting is also restricted to accounts who exceed a point threshold. I think that particular feature (ensuring people who can downvote at least have some level of trust within the site) has been critical to prevent hive mind-style downvoting. I rarely see downvoted comments where I don't understand why they were downvoted.

Don't you offload the authentication to the postal service in this case?

In terms of weight, gold is a bit more valuable than twenty dollar bills, pound for pound. And its density is much higher. In no sense would the average person be 'lugging around' a bunch of gold coins for day to day activities.

There are many (better) arguments against the readoption of a gold standard. This one doesn't hold its weight (heh).

Where are you getting your information? Tricyclic antidepressants are generally SNRIs, which definitely do effect the brain. It is true that the gut also has serotonin receptors, so there can definitely be side effects there, but to say that it's the only place where TCAs have an effect contradicts decades of medical research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricyclic_antidepressant

$250k annually per person just for downloading apps and using them is excessive to the point of unbelievable - That's a high tier developer salary, not app review pay. I would be surprised if these reviewers broke $50k, especially since the article mentions they're opening offices in other countries (with lower COL).

There was a recent major hack/leak of data from Nintendo. The Mario 64 source code was included.

http://www.pcgamer.com/amp/gigaleak-of-alleged-nintendo-sour...

Communities grow - I think this kind of strategy only works on a small scale. If it was adopted en masse, it becomes self defeating. Suggesting everyone change groups the moment their current group reaches a certain size ignores the greater point, which is that these large groups are going to exist/emerge regardless.

Since you're the new maintainer, I assume you're unaware of Worms Armageddon's old "official" page, that currently has a broken certificate. A lot of the old playerbase think it's dead because the old site isn't up - any chance you could fix the cert and update it?

wa.team17.com

> If a human decision is needed before pushing the button then there may be some risk in making it too easy since the human will just push any lit up button.

Pilots receive training before they fly a plane, these are not laypeople.

I saw a proposal recently that suggested the government mandate that existing loans (mortgages and business loans primarily) add the deferred period to the back of the loan, interest free. So if the lockdown is 3 months long, then your 72 month loan becomes a 75 month loan with an internal interest free 3-month period. This feels like a reasonable compromise to just nullifying the debts altogether, considering what an accounting nightmare that would be.

In the absense of capital punishment for corporations, fines can and will be seen as merely the cost of doing business. It feels like the only way to address this is by holding the decision makers (executives) responsible, but that would require piercing the corporate veil[1], which has disappointingly low precedent in the US

[1]Edit: piercing the veil refers to holding shareholders responsible, which is a different (but related) way of keeping companies accountable. Thanks for the clarification wnoise.

Is it really paranoia if the evidence of mass surveillance and abuse of power is right in front of our eyes? It isn't 2012 anymore, Snowden kind of made it quite clear what's actually going on behind the curtain.

California cases are plateaued due to a lack of testing capacity, I would be hesitant to suggest that the growth has stopped.

I imagine the plan is to engineer it to increase its potency. It's clearly not at a dangerous/critical point in its current form.

Is anyone else concerned about the effects this could have if it managed to get out of containment and into the wild? A self-replicating bacteria that eats plastics sounds like a potentially catastrophic event, considering how much we use them in day to day life.

Localbitcoins requires KYC these days.

I wasn't intending to single out a particular condition, just labelled a few large-scale areas of active research and development.

The big issue I see here is the proper allocation of this earmarked funding. Would all of it go to aids research? Maybe half to aids, half to schizophrenia treatments? But then what about [insert condition here]?

The 'free' market may have a lot of perverse incentives in this environment, but I'm not sure how else you could prioritize which drug research has the most impact (without it turning into a capital sink that has severely diminishing returns due to limitations of the skilled humans necessary to do the job)

Monero is the largest privacy-focused cryptocurrency in existence right now, by pretty much every measurable metric. It's also the only (in the top 250 by market cap) cryptocurrency that enforces privacy at the protocol level, by default. You can read more about it at the website below.

https://web.getmonero.org/resources/about/

Only if you consider $0.002-$0.006 per transaction high. The protocol has been significantly streamlined over the years.

It's perfectly on topic here. I would hardly call this shilling.

Monero (getmonero.org) has many of the properties of cash on the internet. Definitely more so than Bitcoin. It's surprising how few cryptocurrencies take privacy by default seriously.