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throwaway519··on My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?
Wasn't Vizio the company that sold a box letting you skip ads? What happened?
throwaway519··on Hostinger Account Suspension and Data Loss Cost Us $200k
Phishing is social not technical. If someone persuades me to give overmy password, I can't blame the email provider I never setup 2FA with forletting them log in.
throwaway519··on Plain – a web framework for building products with Python
Django dying the Drpal death of becoming a generalised case of nothing but itself?

Try Flask.

throwaway519··on A passenger lost a phone midflight. The plane turned around
> Air France did not say where on the plane the phone was lost — or where it was ultimately located. “After checks by the maintenance teams, the device was found and the aircraft was able to take off again quickly,”

The toilet. It fell into the toilet, toilets slowly explode. https://www.salon.com/2002/10/03/askthepilot13/

throwaway519··on I built a UK Trueflation chart that shows how inflation links to money printing
But.. M4 is not money printing. M4 is the counterpart to M4L which is the driver ofmoney creation. Money in the UK is primarily created by commercial banks [1].

Inflation is indeed amonetary phenomenon, to re-hash Friedman. Unfortunately for this quote the world has more nuance:

The quantity of M2L excluding OFCs can work as a forward indicator to inflation, especially as it's more timely than CPI data. Sometimes. It depends what's happening to velocity too.

The 1980s showed the breakdown in causality between broader forms of money and inflation. To return to that policy would be a disaster.

But why would you compare it to a stock index? Stock is didcounted by interest rates. When rates change so does the discounting factor. That's only one problem with this apples to grapes comparison.

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

throwaway519··on Is Product Search Broken? Why Are We Still Stuck with Ads and Fake Reviews?
By labelling some reviews as paid reviews, readers are fooled to believe other reviews are not paid.
throwaway519··on Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate
Markov Chain system doesn't like Markov Chain input.
throwaway519··on The 2008 coal ash disaster in Kingston, Tennessee
The UK had the Aberfan disaster that led to better awareness and enforcement of above-ground tip management be it mine or combusted slag or ash.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster

throwaway519··on Why Go's Error Handling Is Awesome
Prive has a specific meaning. Are you seeking proveble code like box logic and Haskell?

Or do you seek someone to, rather than prove one screwdriver is less error prone than another, to demonstrate it is?

If so, that would depend on context of screws, wood, lefthandedness. A proof in a special case is especially limited. So a demonstration.

Can you demonstrate Go's method of error hanling for a specific context is superior? Yes, you can.

throwaway519··on The Reason Zelenskyy Doesn't Wear a Suit
Russia is not winning.

This is enturely the point the FUD is in overtime. Russia does not have 1 year of equipment losses left.

throwaway519··on The Reason Zelenskyy Doesn't Wear a Suit
Your version of your truth did not exist more than a month ago. Yet you speak it like commonly long understood gospel.
throwaway519··on [dead]
Through dare or drip, tabloids sometimes break news others don't. Including being asked to, The Express a prime torytestbed example.
throwaway519··on Do people still think crypto is a scam in 2025?
Who do you think benefits from each transaction having a unique ID? Most cryptos are so brazen they even make traceability of funds unavoidable.

Crypto solves lots of agency problems and makes those that promote it rich.

throwaway519··on Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time and Money? [Mar 2025]
There would be no more problem.
throwaway519··on Half-Life
> purchasing a PC today for $5k, and it being unusable for games in 3-4 years.

A time when technology changed that fast, too.

throwaway519··on I'm broke and non-technical, trying to develop tech startup
With more urgency comes haste. And with haste comes waste. Slow down to speed up. Make reasonable goals with milestones to checkin progress.

Of these goals, learn to program. Choose a backend, it doesn't matter much which one. Flask to Rails. Build a web app (HTML template stuff) and an API with that. Then choose a front end, from HTMX jazzing up that HTML template to React.

Spend 3 months on the back end part time 2 hours per week. Spend 3 months on the front end.

During this, delve into stuff like basic keeping a VPS/Linux secure. CSS. Database should take care of itself so long as you use something like SQLAlchemy (Flask) or similar but by all means figure out 'why' and 'how' indexing etc work.

Be patient. Six months later you'll be 22½.

throwaway519··on Elon Musk Biographer: No Evidence Billionaire Has Any Intellectual Achievements
What's a 'progressive'?
throwaway519··on Elon Musk Biographer: No Evidence Billionaire Has Any Intellectual Achievements
He is but a statistical chance.

The probability there would be a musk i.e. someone born to money that doesn't lose it all, has one success, then believes they're not a statistical certainty, is very high.

It's not that he's stupid but that he's not really that smart.

But nor are most people. Hence his unknowing fan club.

throwaway519··on American Democracy Is Doomed (2015)
RTFA before commenting is also welcomed before commenting.

> Some day — not tomorrow, not next year, but probably sometime before runaway climate change...

And the article does compare perspectives.

Certainly not dated.

throwaway519··on Ask HN: What browser do y'all use?
Computer: Firefox and occasional Ungoogled Chromium. Firefox for the plugins and standards.

Mobile: Fennec, IronFox (Mull discontinued), Bromite, Ungoogled Chromium. I much prefer tab management in Fennec/Firefox variants.

throwaway519··on The art of calling out room dynamics (2024)
Why do you seek to paint poisonous lines?
throwaway519··on Ask HN: Solo Founders: How Do You Stay Organized?
I'm not now, but was.

Getting up on time was the hardest thing. No jest.

I solved this by ensuring I had to get up for some exercise. More exercise later in the day guaranteed by night come I was tired enough to get to sleep easily enough, get regular sleep, and complete the virtuous cycle.

The rest took care of itself.

throwaway519··on Ask HN: How to stop taking on too many projects getting burned out?
Even better, I can send it to my colleagues in Poland to fix.
throwaway519··on The largest sofa you can move around a corner
Made the sofa modular. Duh!
throwaway519··on The hardest working font in Manhattan
On the RTFA theme:

Gorton sold machines that solved problems.

Typography today is a celebration of self.

Nice article though, an interesting anthropological dive and perhaps the starting point for some research.

throwaway519··on Ask HN: How to stop taking on too many projects getting burned out?
Redefine the 20% so it's out of scope.
throwaway519··on Ask HN: What did you bookmark recently?
Intranet sites including shared spreadsheets with impossile URLs.
throwaway519··on Parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages
Yesterday was Wednesday. Different day. It was raining last night. Nothing can be inferred from which direction the sun will rise.
throwaway519··on Farmers on the Subway. 6 AM, China [video]
What a wonderful piece of storytelling.
throwaway519··on JPMorgan CEO Dimon derides in-office work pushback, demands efficiency
Many HNers have the same problem as Karl Marx and can't fathom most people are not high functioning high agency people working out their self actualisation through a job of their choosing.
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