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profalseidolon A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data

The illusion of Democracy while running on Capitalism. Sooner or later this will have to change. Capitalism simply just motivates businessman to pursue profit and neglect everything else. That includes updating to a more secure Java Web Framework, funny to even think that being a priority in today's mega corps.

profalseidolon Mastodon 2.5 released

> No one would ever agree to this except employees.

Which is practically 99.999% of the world. Ever heard of the top 100 billionaires having control of most of the world?

profalseidolon Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Transfers

> I think there is a natural system of balance found in a true free market. When thinking about longer term ideas such as climate change it is ultimately up to the average desire of the population of comsumers as a whole. Even though this has shortcomings I think it is a more "fair" system because it is just a reflection of the psyche and desire of the people and not a controlling party or politburo.

Not when capital is not spread out evenly enough. And even then, larger capital will eventually eat smaller ones and then influence gov't and risk invoking a demagog like Trump (oh we already did huh). These mega corp that are controlled by groups of people called executives will do everything to influence the opinion and desire of the people into their favor. The people barely able to feed themselves will have no time to think about climate change. This is _practically_ the same as a controlling party.

The idea of owning a piece of the earth to yourself (and inherited by your descendant) is ridiculous anyway. Resources of our planet is limited. Usable land is limited. Our population grow by the day exponentially. What happens to those who don't have access to these resources and barely have a livable life? Do you expect them to care about climate change? Now you might call me some labels since this idea is not compatible with capitalism and free market, but I would appreciate a thoughtful reply to my questions in this paragraph.

profalseidolon Mastodon 2.5 released

That's just out-of-scope of the tool in question (Mastodon). Any tool is helpless against Human control. If that is the case the I think I know what you mean by "not meaningfully decentralized".

BUT, if we can at least break the monopoly of FB and Twitter into at least a hexapoly, then that has still meaning. The internet's design allowed for many to use it meaningfully decentralized for many years.

Also, BitTorrent got lots of gov't regulation, but I can still use it since I'm outside the west. And rutrackerDOTorg is so good. I think that is meaningful.

The long-term solution for this Human problem -I believe is to for employees to own corporations. Gov't is corruptible by private companies that is run by modern feudal lords called Executives. The larger the domain of these companies, the more influence it can do to the Gov't. And we have now reach a point in history that these Modern Feudal Lords has acquired all their competitions (Oracle, Disney, that rich dirty old man who owns all new corporations, Bezos, etc.) and is ready to reincarnate Hitler but with orange skin.

And by employees owning corporations. I mean 1-person-1-vote, instead of 1-share-1-vote. Managers and CEOs can still exist, but is not permanent. Employee-owners can recall them anytime, and they can agree for a quarterly or semi-annual evaluation. Employee-owners also decide how much to pay Managers and CEOs, how to use the profit. You may ask if this company can survive? This has been done in large scale by Mondragon, a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. Not perfect but it has done good progress.

profalseidolon Mastodon 2.5 released

> People don't want to moderate themselves, they want a larger power to do it for them. It's why we have representative democracy instead of direct democracy: people don't want to be involved. Governing is a pain in the ass.

People don't want to be involved? Do you have any evidence for this?

If this is true then all the stuff about Agile and autonomy I hear a lot isn't true then? Richard Hendricks should've just stayed as subordinate to Gavin Belson. Why start a startup?

Colonies should've stayed colonies and kiss the Queen's feet. Being able to decide for our own selves is a pain the ass huh?

You may genuinely don't care what Trump decides for you. But I'm pretty sure many who can barely survive cares.

profalseidolon Bye bye BetterSlack

> It is okay to be descriptive about what your product does, but we prefer that you do not include the word “Slack” in your product’s name.

How about BetterSlacker? Or some synonym of Slack.

profalseidolon For $450, a Japanese Company Will Quit Your Job for You

The company actually owes you a lot. At least the capitalist ones.

profalseidolon DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

What happens to the pension fund if DDG fails?

profalseidolon Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code

Mine will never ever. But maybe if it becomes as popular as email or excel. Ahh, the life of a giga corporate cog.

profalseidolon Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit

I think it is time to stop thinking in terms of saving money. Money is just paper printed at will anyway.

Making the driver's life better (and ours too) should be the benefit.

Revolution calling!

profalseidolon Evolving the Firefox Brand

Worked for Adidas. Toyota too?

profalseidolon Evolving the Firefox Brand

So what is Mozilla vs Firefox? I think I saw a Mozilla browser when I was playing around linux distros.

profalseidolon Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one

I've enjoyed watching long streams of MP Hearts of Iron 4. At least before I mastered the mechanics of that game.

profalseidolon Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized

I agree. It's the users that pay up for gas.

profalseidolon People are recycling too much garbage, and it's threatening the industry

You must remember that most of these Soy are not for us, but for beef.

> Soybean meal is the largest source of protein feed in the world, and is generally used in animal feed. Therefore, most of the world's soybeans are consumed indirectly by humans through products like meat (chicken, pork and beef), dairy, eggs and farmed fish.

http://wwf.panda.org/our_work/food/agriculture/soy/consumers...

profalseidolon Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry

Good for you. But for most of people in the world. 9-5 is a dream come true.

Farming technology has advanced so much that you don't need much manpower to grow food. Yet most of humanity doesn't have access to these technology nor the lands to use. Yet there's so many idle lands and idle factories. So many wasted food and unoccupied houses. Yet many are dying from hunger and homeless. One must wonder why.

profalseidolon Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money?

Do you think so?

profalseidolon Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized

> or at the very least provide peer-reviewed scientific analysis on how it will be fixed

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1011

There you go. Read it then make your arguments against it. If not, then shut-up.

profalseidolon Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized

Yet Vitalik also noted that Ethereum is not yet production ready. The roadmap is clear from the start. Proof of Stake and Sharding is in the plans. PoS has release version 0.1. Imo, the most significant work so far is proving that Smart Contracts do work, people are abusing it, but nevertheless, it works as designed.

> He also said Ethereum's "code is law", until he changed his mind and forked the network due to a hack.

It is ultimately a decision of the miners. They have the power to choose to upgrade or not. As for the decision to fork, it was done via voting. The decision was for the interest of the Ethereum project's success. Being a maximalist and losing sight of the goals is not desirable. But as a miner, you have the choice to not upgrade the Ethereum client you are using. And those who did not now became 'Etherem Classic'. Sure everyone should be a skeptic and hold accountable, but not to the degree of being unreasonable. One should understand why they desired to fork before making conclusions.

profalseidolon Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money?

Why do you deserve the privilege to control our lives?

profalseidolon Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry

Unless you can afford to retire now. We are all in varying degrees subjected to Forced Labor. We've made many advances in making everything efficient and more abundant. Yet we still work to the death.

profalseidolon People are recycling too much garbage, and it's threatening the industry

Animal Agriculture Industrial Complex I believe is the worse offender of our planet anyway. Then there's the threat of another H1N1, Avian Flu, Food and Mouth, etc. only a matter of time before they rapidly evolve and overcome anti-biotics and cause a worldwide pandemic.

So may I suggest we simply do what we can to reduce our consumption of meat. As it is simply not sustainable right now.

Instead, try this, Cauliflower that looks like Chicken! Taste is close too!

http://sweetpotatosoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Vegan-...

Or burger pattie that is made from Banana flower (i'm from the tropics).

profalseidolon Turkey's 'Mathematics Village': Changing education one equation at a time

Very nice website relative to the websites of corporate owned news sites.

profalseidolon Bootstrapping an Online Fabric Shop and Growing to $20k per month

This to me is almost not a hacker news.

profalseidolon Qt for WebAssembly

Ah The Wheel of Time. It turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again.

profalseidolon No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (2010)

"political economy"

Marx used this a lot 200 years ago.

profalseidolon No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (2010)

Wonder what kinds of software we have now if we didn't have Copyright Law for source code too?

profalseidolon JSON-Based Universal Messaging Format (2017)

https://github.com/edn-format/edn

edn is an extensible data notation. A superset of edn is used by Clojure to represent programs, and it is used by Datomic and other applications as a data transfer format. This spec describes edn in isolation from those and other specific use cases, to help facilitate implementation of readers and writers in other languages, and for other uses.

profalseidolon Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?

Clojure and Datomic.

profalseidolon GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme

Same with mobile phones. I can remember the time when I can send a text message with phone in my pocket using just my thumb. You can type send SMS in like 5 seconds.

Today, you swipe, etc etc. takes 3 seconds til you start typing.