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Speaking of PIA, I've noticed I get a 403 from Hacker News if I try to connect from my usual endpoint. Does HN have a no-VPN policy? Or they just block abusive domains?

What a great idea.

You're absolutely right, but the marketing for these is misleading. Many people think it's okay since they're advertised as being flushable.

I read Dan's website in Firefox Reader View. It's great. I love the plaintext web but I agree some better default styling wouldn't hurt.

Nothing like the "home base" toilet.

It's "who moved my cheese". People will violently resist changing their routines.

You may already know about Hatsune Miku[0]. I imagine it's only a matter of time before we see this kind of thing in film too.

[0]: https://ec.crypton.co.jp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01_us

Important info. But Stallman's writing style is so idiosyncratic that I can't help but read it in his voice, which I find hilarious.

Software from the 80's tends not to.

Wow, just last night I was thinking about how Thunderbird is getting so long in the tooth. It's still my favorite email client. Happy to see this update!

Sounds like that could be a possibility. I found a Stack Exchange answer with a great explanation of the reason that might happen[0].

[0]:https://security.stackexchange.com/a/70696/106972

What level of specificity would you no longer be comfortable with? If it had been 500 or 50 people, would that still have been okay? How you can be sure that this data is inocuous? You can't predict the intentions of every stalker or bad actor that might have access to this data or be able find a use for it.

Listening habits can make a good forecast for other lifestyle habits; i.e, he listens to a lot of jazz, maybe I can find him at Maxwell's drum shop. She streamed a song by Purity Ring 25 times, I bet she'll be at their show in Brooklyn this weekend.

I encourage you to check out https://hdtracks.com. As far as the expense goes, yes you're right it's a drag. One thing I like to do is buy used CD's on ebay or Amazon (usually about half price from a reseller, or even cheaper from private sellers) and rip them to flac.

In this example, you're absolutely right, and if all they had was my name and my listening history, that wouldn't be so bad. But some of the ads do reference specific individuals. Spotify in particular have made it clear that 1.) listening behavior profiles may be "anonymized" in the sense that they have had the names sanitized from them, but there is a myriad of other potentially identifiable data, such as location, that has not been sanitized, and 2.) they are willing and able to comb through this data to find anomalies.

> For all we know, these claims could as well be made up.

The companies have confirmed that is not the case.

> They didn't actually violate these peoples privacy by dropping their names.

The articles mentions a Spotify ad that said “To the person in NoLiTa who started listening to holiday music way back in June, you really jingle all the way, huh?" I mean, how much more specific can you get? Nolita is five square blocks[0]. If you think I'm making a fool out of myself by being concerned with this, I don't know what to tell you.

[0]: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nolita,+New+York,+NY/@40.7...

Cute? No. These ads are smug and tone-deaf. Complete disregard for privacy has become the rule rather than the exception on the internet, and these ads practically celebrate that. I don't care if the data is anonymized.

I've never had a Netflix account and I've already started building my .flac library back up and will be cancelling my spotify subscription. The convenience of these services is not worth their disrespect to me as a customer.

Then I hope the mods change the title to something like "Much of what you hear about Tulip Fever is exaggerated".

Thanks, I should have googled before replying.

Oops, that was supposed to be a a footnote (just my acknowledgement that there had been some changes to cmd for Windows 10), but I decided to put it inline. Can't edit with the HN app I'm using currently.

I know all about the alternative terminals for Windows and none of them are much better. ConEmu feels so hacky and way out of scope for what it's supposed to be doing. Does it still require Administrator, and hook directly into the framebuffer?

That comment was supposedly put in the code for an intern who was still learning about the system. "You are not expected to understand this", as in, "this will not be on the test".

I'm interested how well the client works under cmd.exe. Last I tried to use ssh via cygwin, I remember having a lot of issues with escape codes not working, to the point that I had to go ahead and install puTTY anyway, just because it was a much better terminal emulator. Microsoft has neglected their terminal emulator for 20 years now[0]. I hope they improve it soon. I'm aware that some cosmetic features were added in Windows 10 but frankly it still sucks compared to even the most basic Unix terminals. Making the terminal a first class citizen in Windows would do a lot to win developer market share.

Markets are a reflection of human action. Political science is concerned with quantifying and influencing human action, thus markets are a fundamental feature of all political schools of thought.

I'll check it out. Thank you.

It can't prove it any better than than anything else can bridge the is-ought gap. I agree that markets can't exist without money, but I think historical evidence suggests that they will create money in order to exist. Almost every society in human history has developed a monetary system; either one based around a commodity as simple as camels, bullion or sea shells, or backed by fiat.

Money is an emergent phenomenon of markets, and it has nothing to do with libertarians.

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

Wow, I've been using Android since 2012 and I had no idea about that. Thanks!

That wouldn't have anything to do with the reindeer, would it?

Not if it really is responsible for keeping billions of dollars flowing.

I'm in the southeast. 24, self-taught, no degree (I was able to make it through Triplebyte, though I'm not persuaded that actually means anything). 2009-2015 IT/helpdesk/sysadmin, and 2015-2017 more dev/devops, all with a local medium (~350 employee) retail-ish business that grosses about $30m annually if I had to guess. I quit this year for a number of reasons (depression), but I mainly worked on automation. A collection of scripts I wrote (and documented!) saves about 30 days' worth of the team's time annually. I made $22.50/hour. The numbers in this post are unfathomable to me.