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ngold··on LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison
Is there a reason stealing 20 years is realistic for a victimless crime? Poisoning someone actually has serious criminal consequences.
ngold··on Social Bonds Are Fraying Fast in America’s Cities
The funny part is some of wish we could visit super shady new york in the 70's. But now I hear it's basically disneyland.
ngold··on Aristotle's Lost Book on Magic (2018)
I sometimes wonder if humanity will veer off into scientific priesthood that will control humanity.

That eventually forget why they are worshipping a language they no longer understand.

ngold··on Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away
That's the only image stuck in my head since reading the headline. Glad to see they are in fact reality. Such a great movie, except the ten minutes of ruby rod screaming.
ngold··on Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
Dude seems to devoted to his workaholic persona to leave much time for dick pics.
ngold··on The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (2016)
Apparently his only punishment was investing in theranos.
ngold··on Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design
Leave a room and a swarm of tiny flying droids come out of the ceiling?
ngold··on Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
The nut industry around Sacramento is a true tragedy of the commons.

Billions of wallstreet speculative dollars to pump water out of the ground as fast as possible.

No one wins, but a percentage gain on a balance sheet.

ngold··on Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’
It was the whole read write access that was a massive violation of apple and googles store policy.

It can upload and download whatever to your phone.

No other app is even close to allowed that.

ngold··on Web Dark Ages
Our privacy is their serfdom to profit off of.
ngold··on Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack
Good stuff. Tell us more googly stories of interest. This is super fascinating.
ngold··on Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
Gotta respect the iron fist of /r/askhistorians. Probably the best sub on reddit.
ngold··on India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
I don't see a problem with banning Spyware regardless of the country of origin.
ngold··on Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination
As a unity developer I'm drooling at godot. I can't wait to jump ship to open source. Don't get me wrong unity is great, but godot is super compelling.
ngold··on Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
Police should solve crime. Instead they are put in charge of everything that is not their job since there is no funding for mental health services, homeless, etc. etc.
ngold··on An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
That is an often overlooked part of the equation. If I remember correctly, Japan was a week or two away from being split in two like germany.

And Japan and the Soviet Union had been at each others throats since before there was a Soviet Union and Japan thumped the tsar.

I am sure Japan did not want to surrender under a Soviet flag that was looking for 50 years of retribution.

In a strange way it was an American coup to get peace signed before Russia started stripping the place down to the bone.

ngold··on A new licensing program to support the news industry
No one forced all news organizations to dump their in house advertising for easily ad blocked versions.

They all had perfectly good reasons to not have to deal with the headache of losing money.

But that would require keeping the ad sales team they had on board and making a similiar product online.

But everyone got scared and lazy and saw a one quarter jump by dumping a bunch of staff.

ngold··on iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
Why is this still on their store? I assume it breaks their walled garden approach. It seems Apple is putting kids at risk, in fact it looks like kids are having their privacy actively abused.
ngold··on An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
It's very simple. The powers that be just want to break encryption, but only for law enforcement use.

Simple.

Uggg.

ngold··on Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
And the reason they probably want to stay an ad company is so they don't get stuck with IBM sized workforce.

Their lack of customer support is border line criminal.

ngold··on Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser
I still play source. I could never get into go. Not sure what modding scene go has, but there are a ton of great mod servers in source. Zombie escape gets ridiculous.
ngold··on Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
Public domain media, is the best kind. Looks like a great art resource.
ngold··on Forced social isolation causes neural craving similar to hunger
I enjoyed a non personal specific event. Thank you.
ngold··on Why I don’t usually meet startups in person (2019)
So she could have ripped everyone off including kissinenger with acting ridiculous? She should have saved the act.
ngold··on How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines (2015)
This does look like a nice place to start learning with FFMPEG and SDL.
ngold··on More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May
There is also 32 trillion sitting outside the US that needs to come home a be burned.
ngold··on Stockton extends its monthly $500 UBI payment experiment
Of all places in the United States, Stockton California. Well if any city could use some love, Stockton is one. It may infect the capital next door in Sacramento. Which would infect the 9th largest economy in the world. That would be great. Trickle up economics for the win.
ngold··on Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
We the people of the united states grant a monopoly to an individual for a certain amount of time. I personally believe it should have stayed with the original time period. How much time do you need a monopoly?

>The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal copyright act to be instituted in the United States, though most of the states had passed various legislation securing copyrights in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War. The stated object of the act was the "encouragement of learning," and it achieved this by securing authors the "sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending" the copies of their "maps, charts, and books" for a term of 14 years, with the right to renew for one additional 14-year term should the copyright holder still be alive.

ngold··on Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”
If there is unrest it is easy to stoke from anywhere. You have Marx living in london, lenin hanging out in germany.

The point is. An under served population can be insighted with ideas from anywhere. But the root cause is still there in that community.

ngold··on Black hole paradoxes reveal a fundamental link between energy and order
I had fun.
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