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throwaway483284on It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

Around 10 years ago when I was telling everyone what will happen soon (floods, wild fires, heat waves etc) people looked at me like I'm some kind of lunatic. These days the same people ask me what I think about the future. Few years ago I believed we can still win with climate change but now I'm certain that we will not. Problem is in the fundamentals of our current economic model that is based on infinite growth, which keeps society stable. General population social hierarchy of values is also a huge obstacle, what's going on Instagram is a huge indicator of that. Most people care but not enough to justify lifestyle change. I was very unhappy and worried a lot about what future will bring and that we are not doing enough to stop it, but now I'm relieved and happy, because I've accepted that this will happen either way and I can't do anything about it more than what I'm doing already. This will be controversial advice on HN but here it goes.. if you are miserable because of climate change and you constantly fear of future just let it go, you can't control the future. Not everyone needs to be a hero, live you life, spend time with your love ones, do what makes you happy, be kind to others, try to not consume too much so you don't contribute to climate change and plan accordingly.

throwaway483284on Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware?

> informational filing requirement if you are a foreign owned US Single Member LLC (Form 5472/1120).

Lets say hypothetically someone operating IT consultancy service didn't know about that requirement, is running company 5+ years, has EIN, paid LLC Delaware annual tax but never filled those forms.

1. What in that kind of hypothetical scenario should that person do?

2. Does the penalty for not filling it would affect that person LLC only (as disregarded entity)? so basically he would not be personally liable ?

3. Does your site offer filling those forms as a service?

throwaway483284on CapRover: Build your own PaaS

Maybe I am just an exception but I have 100% availability on one dedicated server for the last 2 years.

throwaway483284on Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event

> This is incorrect. They don't offer end-to-end encryption

It's all about end-to-end encryption, so it's correct. If they decrypt it anywhere on the way then three letter agencies can always listen to what you say with a proper letter.

> and they have promised

Are you serious?

throwaway483284on GitLab 13.0

Updated without any issues, thanks.

throwaway483284on GitLab 13.0

I am running Gitlab in Docker (using official images), how would you go with upgrading from version 12.10 without losing any data? I am using volumes for Gitlab data.

throwaway483284on Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown

If you are running a torrent site with "links" (.torrent files available) it's illegal. Torrent site is not hosting any videos, just links to them. This is exactly the same with popcorn time because they have providers in their code base. In case of the torrent site interface is a website, in case of popcorn time it's an desktop application. If they would remove providers (torrent sites/trackers with illegal content) from their code then DMCA would be invalid.

throwaway483284on Show HN: Caddy 2

I've started using caddy 2 couple of days ago, I am using Caddyfile because json based configuration looks really awful and is hard to maintain (quick changes take a lot of time). The only problem I've encountered is that you can't turn off TLS for a route using Caddyfile. Why is that?

throwaway483284on Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification

> But when you look closer

If you have US based LLC there is no looking closer. The only thing public will be your registered agent and company name, nothing else.

throwaway483284on What a one line change did to the Chrome sandbox

I don't think SIMD support will help here, a lot of encoder/decoder code base is hand written ASM.

throwaway483284on Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Australian media

There would be no political suicide there. It's so easy to make Google/Facebook look evil in this case if they don't comply. Just say they are not paying taxes and getting our money abroad etc.

But there is 0% chance of Google/Facebook not complying.

> I think Google and Facebook have more power in this relationship

Not even close.

throwaway483284on Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averaging $1.7M

In both cases there is 1.7 mil dollars less in public budget, I don't see how this is different.

throwaway483284on Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support

> that's the tax we're paying (and some of that is being paid by the rest of the world

This is one of the biggest benefit of being a world hegemony, print money and then make the rest of the world pay the bill.

throwaway483284on Client IP address disclosure in smtp.gmail.com

Disclosure Timeline
March 9, 2020 – Reported to Google security
March 10-19, 2020 – Assisted with steps to reproduce
March 20, 2020 – Resolved by Google as “Won’t Fix (Intended Behavior)”
March 20-31, 2020 – Worked to confirm that there were no future plans to fix

April 2, 2020 – Got confirmation that the team was aware of the issue and has no plans to fix

Sorry but this is just embarrassing. He wasted so much of his time and time of others while doing 15 sec of googling[1] would solve this.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Does-sending-email-from-Gmail-expose-y...