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glomph··on Show HN: Zoom Redirector
Do you have a recommended alternative?
glomph··on Show HN: Zoom Redirector
Whereby charges you if you have more than 4 participants.
glomph··on In U.K. Vote, Online Disinformation Is the New Normal
There have been cuts to services. That is not the same as claiming there have been cuts to funding.

What is true is that the NHS has been severely underfunded (if they want to continue to provide the same services) and that services have been cut as a result. https://fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/

glomph··on Ask HN: Starting an Anonymous Blog in 2019?
One route you could go down is sharing with a newspaper. Several newspapers have projects where they want to be able to accept stories anonymously.

E.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/help/ng-interactive/2017/mar/17/...

glomph··on Greta Thunberg: 'How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood'
People are dying right now as a result of climate change.
glomph··on Autism research on single neurons suggests signaling problems in brain circuits
Unless evidence becomes available to make such distinctions becomes available it is confusing and misleading to define autism differently than the standard way.

It is really dangerous to claim that autism can't be a serious condition unless it is alongside low IQ or physiological symptoms. It is also entirely unnecessary to stigmatise autism by calling it a disease, when it is so often inextricably linked to a persons personality.

Those with autism absolutely can be high functioning in the sense that they don't have the kind of co-occurring conditions that you describe. This does not always mean they do not need what most would see as drastic interventions and care.

People with autism often have a high ability to function on some social axis but are dangerously unaware of social conventions in others. Those with autism that lack the proper support can hurt themselves, they can hurt others, they can cause massive social disruption and they can end up with serious mental health problems. A diagnosis of autism can help society to provide much needed support.

We owe it to everyone in society to think about how we can help people without considering their states of existence defective.

glomph··on Making $300k in San Francisco can still mean living paycheck-to-paycheck
Eating out 5 times a month is a luxury though. Buying coffee out *every day" is also a luxury lifestyle choice. It seems pretty callous to describe that as living paycheck to paycheck; especially given the kind of budgeting some people do.
glomph··on Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties
If it was a duplicate they would be able to show how the hash of the duplicate report was already in the tree. For more information you might want to read about Merkel proofs. For example here: https://www.quora.com/Cryptography-How-does-a-Merkle-proof-a...
glomph··on Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties
They wouldn't have to by the nature of how a Merkel tree works.
glomph··on Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties
They could publish a hash of the whole existing tree regularly.
glomph··on WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable
I think they mean literally stuck tape across the connection and signed that.
glomph··on Top 8 Awesome Reasons to Join a Rock Climbing Gym
>This is usually your right half because setters are usually right handed and will set routes that lead to you working your right half more.

This is not my experience and not something I have ever heard more advanced climbers talk about. Strong climbers climb outside which isn't set for any style and then go on to set inside based on that strength. If you are overworking one side it is generally a technique issue which can be overcome with practice.

glomph··on GitHub after Microsoft: How it has changed
Frogs say the same thing.
glomph··on Internet Search Tips
I think they might mean chatting online.
glomph··on Tether (USDT) Account Snapshot Statement [pdf]
But haven't tether explicitly promised to keep the USD reserves as cash?
glomph··on Is It Time to Give Up on a Single Diagnostic Label for Autism?
I found this article slightly frustrating in the way it described high-functioning autism. The term is normally not used to describe higher than average IQ in the general population but higher than the average amongst people with autism. If that is made explicit then the usefulness of the term seems more obvious.

What the article also didn't consider a widely used definition of the term high-functioning autism. It is often defined in terms of capacity to live autonomously at a level close to someone without autism with minimal support.

If we think of the condition in these terms I believe it's usefulness as a diagnosis becomes far more apparent. It would also allow for explicit recognition that the way people experience autism can significantly change when they are given support that nurtures independence and effective strategies to live.

I personally think that the people coming up with diagnostic frameworks could learn a lot from the The Capability Approach to well-being that has gained some prominence in recent philosophical discussions of the topic. Reading articles on diagnostics that do not seem to take into account the existence of such positions is frustrating because they seem to be missing an obvious way of being more effective in helping people as well as more descriptive.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/capability-approach/

glomph··on Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?
Isn't that exactly what cold calling is?
glomph··on Netflix plans to spend $8B to make its library 50 percent original by 2018
Unless more people in total subscribe at the lower price points. Not everyone had cable.
glomph··on How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)
A method I was taught at school for philosophy is very similar. DICE:

Define - Introduce and explain the concept

Illustrate - Give examples

Contrast - Give contrasting examples or alternative points of view.

Explain - Cover why the concept is interesting or significant or why we should care about it or why it is preferable to alternatives.

glomph··on Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship
Because no one was talking about the United States or the Constitution. Freedom of speech is a broader concept than just what is set out in US law. In fact the conversation was quite specifically not about the US and not about that formulation of freedom of speech.
glomph··on Autism's drug problem
Autism and ADHD are often both diagnosed in the same person. Becoming very upset over failing to master something is a classic feature of autism as is struggling to understand when/how to speak and listen.
glomph··on Ask HN: What laptop do you use?
On windows I use autohotkey to give middle click with three fingers. Main thing that was missing when I bought it.

    #^+F22::
        Send {Click Middle}  
    Return
glomph··on Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start
They literally specified that they were talking about TCP.
glomph··on New Sci-Hub domain
.uk does belong to the uk though.
glomph··on WhatsApp is rolling out its own version of Snapchat (and Instagram) Stories
Eh. Bloat is a real consideration especially for apps that I already have to give permission to run in the background (such as messaging apps).
glomph··on Britain’s delusions about the green belt cause untold misery
It is difficult to read past the potential for bias here though.
glomph··on Britain’s delusions about the green belt cause untold misery
Exactly. What we need is for money to be put into affordable housing on brownfield sites in and around the cities. People don't want to live miles away from anything. Why ruin undeveloped land when there is an abundance of land (and buildings) that sits unused. The reason is because the real estate companies don't want to lose out on profit by building affordable homes on high value land. If the government actually enforced affordable housing requirements (or heaven forbid actually invested in housing directly) then that would be worth something. Instead they are pushing 'garden towns', which whatever the hell it means will probably result in facility deserts and degenerating estates as well as the unnecessary destruction of the countryside.
glomph··on Proof of negation and proof by contradiction (2010)
This was a lot more informative / interesting to me! I didn't really get the motivation at all reading just the blog post.
glomph··on React Tetris
Very frustrating!
glomph··on Welcome, ACLU
This comment is increadable.
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