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menomatter··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
Curious how do you know that? Going by the traditional popular vote I'd say it's technically the minority.
menomatter··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
I'm undecided on abortion when it's not early (X weeks) and/or for medical reasons. As for the rights: Do we have the right to not carry another humanbeing even if it meant their "death"?
menomatter··on Chrome 0day is being exploited now for CVE-2022-1096; update immediately
From those commits, would you say this is RCE vulnerability taking advantage of memory/stack callbacks? Does this mean an attacker may exploit this vulnerability to compromise an entire system?
menomatter··on Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems
what about having an extra in house level of security? Something that does not require the overhead and maintenance of Identity Management System? Not sure what that would look like though.
menomatter··on Prediction that Kyiv falls to Russian forces by April 2022 goes from 90% to 26%
You mean Alleppo. Idlib still under opposition/Turkish proxies.
menomatter··on We’re a Suburban Nation. We Need to Get Used to It
Is the main point here that America will always grow in the same direction? That it will never change? Homeostasis is a boring prediction. I have 2 points: Mining unlimited lithium will not be carbon neutral, and suburban development has a geometry problem. Traffic and long term maintenance issues will lead to its demise.
menomatter··on Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
Technically true. But I do consulting and some agencies put me on w2 with no FT benefits at all. https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/what-is-a-w-2-contr...
menomatter··on We’re a Suburban Nation. We Need to Get Used to It
A large number of people in urban center are coming from suburban places. So I think they know the drill.
menomatter··on We’re a Suburban Nation. We Need to Get Used to It
I wonder if this has to do with they way taxes are spend. Does NYC generated taxes get spent on NYC? Or at least a decent percentage of it?
menomatter··on Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
Those apps are becoming like phone numbers. Can, say Verizon, no allow you to message a friend on at&t?
menomatter··on Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
A lot of companies now do consulting in W2. Is it still the same in terms of favorable taxes as c2c or 1099?
menomatter··on India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman
But isnt all a self correcting system? If there isn't enough care for older folks then they'll just die off and life expectancy would go down. We see this in countries with civil wars and major catastrophes. At least that's what happened/happening in Syria.
menomatter··on The pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness
How do they define loneliness? A lot of people are alone but content. Also the older I get the harder it becomes to maintain friendships. People move on socially, financially and geographically.
menomatter··on Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors
Big pharma CTO mandated the use of a certain software while everyone knew they were coming from the company and sits on their board. I'm certain the kickbacks are still happening but in different forms: job, advisory role ...so on and so forth.
menomatter··on Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors
What if you are a majority shareholder for a company? Say mark Zuckerberg asking for shares in companies providing service to Facebook? Is that legal? I'm guessing if it's part of the deal then it's legal.
menomatter··on Help Us Find the Apps That Sell Your Location
Adblocks seem to have found a definition .. let's start with that.
menomatter··on Private Israeli malware 'Pegasus' used to spy on journalists, activists
What methods are available to normal folks to ensure they don't have these malware? Does factory reset help? Or would this malware reinstall itself? How do I know or check if I'm a target? Do I need to Wireshark and inspect the entire network payloads to find offending packets?
menomatter··on Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-vax lies
Yeah - I got the vaccine and my sides effect after the 2nd dose were too much .. lasted about a week. I am not anti vaxer but I'm going to think hard before I take it again. As for the heart issues being investigated, for the young and healthy, which carried more risk, covid or the vaccine?
menomatter··on The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins
I think the article mentione one of the reasons:

" When Trump himself floated the lab-leak hypothesis last April, his divisiveness and lack of credibility made things more, not less, challenging for those seeking the truth."

menomatter··on The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
So for development in various ecosystems, would you say the M based is superior to Intel based in terms of efficiency and performance?
menomatter··on The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
Generally speaking, what is better if you value performance and energy efficient hardware? M or Intel based MacBook pro? Price wise Intel based machines seems to be more expensive.
menomatter··on Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’
Thank God for living and growing up in Syria. We are expert at living with scarcity
menomatter··on Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
Is it possible to see how much has each member of congress profited/lost doing trading over time? We can build a tool like this right? As all the data in public?
menomatter··on Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
Are these the rules when you work for a bank to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest? How come congress members don't have similar rules
menomatter··on 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
For many reasons, good or bad, the idea of mandated federal ID or national ID isn't quite accepted in the US.
menomatter··on Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry
Interesting I just find it ironic that israel have the law of return that allowed my friend Dan who has basically 0 material tie to that many to emigrate to israel but banished my friend Ahmed who still have the photos and records of their house and farm land. I'm not saying this right or wrong but to me it's so extremely unfair especially coming from the people who experienced the holocaust.
menomatter··on Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry
Just curious since you seem knowledgeable on the topic. 1) who allowed Jews to migrate into british mandate before the creation of the state?

2) since the british did not opposed jewish state, why did they allow it to form?

3) what's your take on the right to return?

menomatter··on Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen
I do believe I have a form of ADHD. How does one get a confirmed diagnosis. I don't think mine is bad in such a way that interfere with my duties. But often at work, if I'm assigned a project or a task that isn't clear, I find myself spinning and ignoring other duties untill I have built enough momentum and clarity for the new task. Is this a symptom of ADHD?
menomatter··on Launch HN: SST (YC W21) – A live development environment for AWS Lambda
Forgive my ignorance but is this similar to SAM, from their docs: > 'Use SAM CLI to step-through and debug your code. It provides a Lambda-like execution environment locally and helps you catch issues upfront. '
menomatter··on Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
Thank you for your service
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