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russianbandit

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russianbandit··on USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
TBH I don’t even want the government knowing my address.
russianbandit··on Ask HN: Is Express still "de-facto" for building Node back ends?
Isn’t v5 of Express expecting to drop soon (albeit, that has been the promise for a while now)?
russianbandit··on Milk alternatives produce up to 4.5x less greenhouse gas emissions as milk
And yet coffee shops that claim to be organic, eco conscious and fair trade still penalize you for opting for a milk alternative (by charging extra, like up to $1).
russianbandit··on In defense of flat earthers (2020)
No, but does that make you question the mainstream narrative at all?
russianbandit··on Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history
Probably that there’s a real person named Satoshi Nakamoto out there, who’s an autistic savant that authored BitCoin v0.1.
russianbandit··on Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history
Unless they really left… RIP.
russianbandit··on Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history
You mostly sleep between 9pm and 4am?
russianbandit··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
Nice try, Satoshi...
russianbandit··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
Were seashells a Ponzi? What about glass beads? These were used as “currency” in our history, but nobody uses them as such anymore.

Let’s say Bitcoin is a Ponzi. What or who will do the inevitable rug pull that comes with those scams? What if the rug pull never comes (or does 1000 years from now)? Is it still a Ponzi? Was it a Ponzi for those people who benefited from it in that 1000 years?

russianbandit··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
In post-apocalyptic crunch we are likely to go back to food, water and ammo. You and I will likely be long dead before society reverts to something like gold, so I doubt gold as post-apocalyptic hedge.
russianbandit··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
You are not wrong, but neither is MLM in and of itself.
russianbandit··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
To be fair, the article does address your questions.
russianbandit··on Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address
But if someone just moves into your property why can’t police just kick them out? That’s an illegal action. If someone came into your house and started stealing your things and you call the cops on them you don’t go to court to prove those things are really yours.
russianbandit··on Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address
Still, doesn’t seem like the best use of Europol catching squatters.
russianbandit··on A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing
Great! This is how giant, greedy corporations die.
russianbandit··on Ask HN: Is There an F-Droid for iOS?
Best thing I know is side-loading apps via something like AltStore.
russianbandit··on Why Russians do not smile (2002)
That reverse psychology!
russianbandit··on Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
We’ll solve that problem in 50 years, don’t you think? BTC and ETH are just pioneers in the future of financial systems.
russianbandit··on Cuomo Aides Spent Months Hiding Nursing Home Death Toll
Was Trump right about CNN…?
russianbandit··on Man fined for sharing a Facebook link ruled as defamation in Singapore
> imagine a society where people are actually held accountable for spreading bullshit disinformation, wouldn't that be a net good?

Who decides that it’s bullshit though? The government? Or maybe interested-party-backed “fact checkers”?

russianbandit··on Wkhtmltopdf: Command line tools to render HTML into PDF
There’s also pdfreactor.com which we use to get full support of CSS.
russianbandit··on 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
It’s not just one person’s brain, right? Everyone who was there would see the same thing. Surely, that means our brains are pretty much wired the same. But I wonder if some people would see the “correct” thing.

What’s also mind blowing is that the camera captures the same thing your brain is interpreting!

russianbandit··on 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
I bet it was “just a conspiracy theory” back then...
russianbandit··on The Duct Tape Programmer (2009)
> ... otherwise they’d have to admit that they just don’t feel smart enough to use what would otherwise be a perfectly good programming technique FOR SPOCK.

Is how I feel about Haskell.

russianbandit··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
They could’ve easily organized on Signal. What would HN say if Google banned Signal?
russianbandit··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
Evil genius! Move to ban in person communication, control all the virtual communication mediums.
russianbandit··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
We did this to ourselves by integrating Google/Apple products into our every day life. 20-15 years ago we didn’t have any of it and still led mighty fine lives. Yes, private companies are free to do this stuff to us, but we only have ourselves to blame.
russianbandit··on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
I don’t see how this is a sensible decision for YouTube. Nearly half the voters voted for Trump. YouTube is gambling with those folks boycotting leaving the platform (BitChute?). It’s just not sensible and quite risky from business perspective.
russianbandit··on Section 230 is Good, Actually
It’s baffling to me. In the article they provide the entire Section 230 text, and it does not mention curated content. So, how is it justified that curating content is protected by Section 230? Is curating users content protected be First Amendment somehow?
russianbandit··on Plants can grow quickly or accurately, but not both
So, the pea grew faster towards a thinner support, but why does that mean it grew less accurate?
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