kebman

You can't effectively "diversify" by buying other cryptos. To truly diversify, you have to buy completely different assets. Assets that aren't crypto, but in completely different sectors, such as - oh, IDK - the sugar industry, or car manufacturers, government bonds, even gold. Crypto is extremely high risk, especially if you venture outside Bitcoin. But to many it's far more accessible than even the stock market.

If you buy Celsius, you should already know the added risk of buying a shitcoin and act accordingly. Meanwhile when you use a bank, then you expect to always be able to access your funds. If that social contract is broken, then you can expect real consequences. In this case it was a man making legitimate use of force to get access to his own property.

Many crypto coins attempt to solve the problem of third parties confiscating your property, and first and foremost of them is Bitcoin. That's where the moniker "unconfiscatable" comes from. And let’s face it, if the guy had instead used Bitcoin, he would never have gotten into this problem (tho the value of his holdings would indeed be very volatile).

Sure, you can always act like a criminal and make threats or use torture to get it. But IMHO that's a very quaint and sad example that only serves to prove the point, because those are the lengths you have to go to in order to get it, as it's otherwise impossible to pry out of your brains. That’s why all serious "cryptobros" suggest that your highest allocation should always be Bitcoin, before you even consider any other crypto coin. Because the quainter and more experimental the alt coin is, the higher the risk of frozen accounts or worse, a coin that goes to zero such as Luna.

So many addicts in here... You guys need counselling not micro doses.

Why do you want to change your condition with a thing, when the answer is inside you?

Nope, that was actually the Postmodern Generator.^[1] But nice try! ;) [1]: https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

But Sontag suggests the use of Batailleist `powerful communication’ to modify and read consciousness. The subject is contextualised into a predialectic nationalism that includes language as a totality.

Your dream sounds very nice.

Anyone remember this? A drawing of a seven-legged spider mailed as payment for overdue utility bills. https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html

Sorry, wouldn't that simply constitute security by obscurity?

Sorry, might be a dumb question, but isn't this simply a matter of encrypting your packets or using a VPN?

Hi, Norwegian here, so English is my second language. Sorry no. If there are other-language comments, I just skip them. The reason is UX and time. If you're too lazy to run your other-language comment through Google Trans or similar, then you'll just end up having fewer readers. Meanwhile you just end up annoying those who want to fluently read the discussions without having to stop and run things through a translator every other post. This makes other-language posts bad for HN's business. I mean consider if I just switched to my own language for no reason at all. Haha, da må du kjøre greia gjennom Google Trans eller lignende, og fordi jeg skriver dialekt så er det likevel ikke sikkert at alt blir oversatt riktig lol. Actually the translation for that last sentence came out surprisingly well, but it's not like you'd know anyway.

Welcome to democracy! As a minority opinion you will naturally not be able to force the majority to accept yours. If you did, that would be authoritarian and evil... You're still allowed to voice that opinion, however (within very liberal limits). For instance you can involve yourself more directly within the parties and run for various political positions, write petitions, become a member of pressure or lobby groups, arrange demonstrations, and many other things. Hell, you can even pointlessly troll discussions here on YT with political straw man arguments! And because you live in The Land of the Free nobody will jail you for it! This is why the American system is liberal and the Chinese system is not. But good luck on making prison reform in the USA. God knows they need it!

Edit: To answer your claim that:

> “(...) the US imprisons a much higher percentage of its population than other countries. Part and parcel of the authoritarianism.”

No, it's not. Every guilty prisoner in the USA had a public trial with a lawyer before they were sent to jail. In other words they had due process which is the mark of a liberal democracy. On the other hand due process is constantly broken in authoritarian regimes. A great example is, again, China, where you can be "vanished" just for having the wrong opinion, if you're not simply sent to a re-education camp that is for all intents and purposes a modern style of concentration camp.

Before you even try, can the USA be accused of the same thing? Why yes, because it imprisons enemy combatants which are then subjected to cruel an unusual treatment, for instance at Guantanamo Bay (which is amazingly still open for business). But crucially the USA does not do this to American citizens, so while they act horribly authoritarian towards external enemies, they do not act authoritarian against their own citizens, not even towards domestic political opponents.

What has that got to do with the political system in the USA? You have every opportunity of changing how American prisons are organized by participating in the political system. Nobody will jail you for having an opinion about it, or campaigning for prison reform, or hell, even legal reforms in general. Not so in China. If you criticize the state there, you do indeed risk jail, if you don't just suddenly vanish. The main difference here is that the USA has a largely liberal system, while China has an authoritarian one. Good luck surviving (!) in China if you have a strong political opinion about any issue pertaining to their state or their leadership. One of the main differences between the American and the Chinese system is that scrutiny and criticism is welcomed as a means of making things better in the USA, while it is punished in the People's Republic.

Can you please expand upon how the American political system isn't free in any way that matters materially?

No it doesn't. Except for cancel culture (which isn't state run btw), you can say and think almost whatever you like in the USA so long as it isn't prejudiced or harassing. You are also not punished for starting other parties in the USA, since it's completely legal. Thus there are alternatives to the Democrats and Republicans. The First Past the Post system just means that that it's extremely unlikely that alternatives will ever challenge the biggest two. Other than that the American system is decidedly liberal and free.

This is correct and supported by statistical findings within Political Science.

Whatever it needs to do becomes different based on how your country is governed.

China has unelected* leaders that at least in theory holds only Communist ideals.

While flawed, in a republic at least you get to vote for your leaders, and thus choose what ideals you like the best.

Of course republicanism or democracy does not preclude a country from committing horrible acts, but they are cleaned up much sooner, and those who are responsible for it are thrown out of office (and sometimes even into jail). Not so in authoritarian countries like China.

* You can technically vote in China, but due to its authoritarian nature only one party is allowed and you're expected to uphold the party line.

I once spoofed my buddies with a pop-up that asked: "Are you an idiot?" Then they are prompted to answer "Yes" or "No." Whenever the mouse pointer hovers over "No," it immediately switched to "Yes." I've also seen variations on this where the mouse pointer will push the "No" away like a magnet, making it impossible to click. Great fun.

They will come and eat your cookie!

Crucially the tree is in Sweden and not Norway xD

Just to be clear, the tree is found in Dalarna in Sweden, though this is indeed East of Trysil in Norway. Since Sciencenorway.no (!) is a Norwegian outlet, they need to at least attempt to make their articles relevant for Norway.

The outlet is the English version of Forskning.no. Forskning means research in Norwegian, but in this instance it really means science. Their focus is to bring news about what Norwegian scientists are up to with popular science articles for the masses. That's why some of their articles seem a tad tabloid at times.

The tradition in Norway is that the most tabloid articles are published during the main summer vacation, when newspapers employ interns and temp journalists. We even have a word for such articles: Agurknytt. It means cucumber news, and implies that the article is desperately trying to make news out of something that isn't.

Ok I get the point!1

Copyright shouldn't be a consideration for the press. Not when dealing with newsworthy items, anyway. When it comes to public resources and government, I see no reason to not just link the real thing. Instead I see outlets like Vox post articles titled, "Biden's executive order on abortion, briefly explained" and so on, where we'll just have to trust that what they say is indeed true. It most likely is, of course, or they'd make fools of themselves. But when it comes from Vox, or Fox, it almost always comes with a slant.

It's perhaps a bit on the side but still part of the topic of search.

Have you noticed how newspapers systematically do not supply a clear source for their articles? It's especially prevalent on political cases where there are easy-to-link paper trails. This makes it a lot harder to find the source for their article, so you end up just taking their word for their angle on the story.

A great recent example is Biden's Executive Order on the protection of women. When the newspapers writes about his EO, they're never doing it form a neutral standpoint. In this case they're either pro or anti abortion. But if you want to know the contents of Biden's EO for yourself, then you're forced to search for it. And depending on the search engine, that might also be hard because also search engines are politically biased.

Just so we're clear, this post isn't pro or anti abortion. Instead it's an example on how newspapers systematically force you to take their word for their angle on any given news story. So if you want to know source material, then you're forced to search for it. And when you do search for it, you're then at the mercy of the political bias of the search engine.

For that reason I'm not so sure a non-profit search engine will make political biases go away, especially when you consider what happened to Wikipedia. While not a search engine, it is a non-profit and communal project that set out with the ideal of being truly neutral, but in the end it failed at that, and some would say spectacularly. And the main reason is exactly bullshit, or rather the BS that comes with political bias.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a great source for information, but when you search for any topic that is in any shape or form politically sensitive, then you have to know about Wikipedia's clear political bias beforehand, or else you might take their angle as gospel.

This is especially insidious when it comes to search engines and also social networks, because most people assume that what is shown to them there is neutral, or at least coming from a friendly party. But then it turns out, that's not always the case.

When you systematically get biased information, then it's a democratic problem, because it prevents people from making up their own mind about political topics. Thus when people finally vote, the risk is that we get a society that does not reflect peoples actual opinions.

I think most people in here has been on the receiving end of that, no matter which side of the aisle you're on. And the result is always resentment and bitterness which in turn does not make for a healthy democratic environment.

Instead the political bias should be more clearly visible and out in the open on both newspapers, encyclopaedias and search engines alike. And while a non-profit search engine would certainly save you from corporate interests, it still won't save you from political ones, though it might be a good trade-off to save privacy.

Slightly reminiscent of old school demo scene stuff. Or perhaps like a static version of WinAMP? I want more scrollers to greet peeps in trippy space tunnels! xD

Digression about the Atari demo scene: Amazingly they still keep cranking them out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QginSr9V7A

As far as I know there's a lot of cooperation between the Nordic weather institutes to make their predictions work better. Certainly one example are the weather radars which seem to be standardized and connected in the Nordics.

I prefer the weather radar for that. Actual clouds and the live direction they're going in is a great predictor of rain. In fact I'd love to improve lightning detection by making a script that also takes into account wind direction, since lightning tends to travel with clouds. It could be as easy as using an ellipsis directed as a kind of weather vane, perhaps stretching out with wind speed. Currently I use a simple circular distance calculation to detect proximity.

My four year old cousin speaks English fluently. It's even a little eery to listen to, since she's got an all-Norwegian family and they've never lived abroad. It's of course due to screen time with various English series and games.

> a country where English is not the language

You'd be surprised if you ever visit. ;) In any case, Google Translate works reasonably well our written language, but you'll probably struggle with what's spoken.

They have a lot of cool stuff. For instance I made this small script to instantly detect nearby lightning strikes without having to look at their map.[1]

I use it to alert me when I need to turn off sensitive equipment. Caveat: It only works in the Nordics. Or, well, it'll probably work outside the Nordics as well, but it's kinda pointless if you don't live there lol.

1: https://gist.github.com/kebman/0d624a9d22c754658b6eee53eab95...