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vizzieron Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

The 90s were a demographic golden age for Canada but people get old. This is a problem true of most of the western world and is upstream from almost any other issue.

vizzieron Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion

You're right, harassment might not be the right term when applied to a corporate entity. Either way these were both defamation suits.

vizzieron Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion

Not OP, but Fox Settled the dominion lawsuit for $725M [1]. So this type of harassment means big judgments against you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox...

vizzieron Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion

Honestly I don't see how this theoretical framework is much different from corporate leveraged buyouts.

vizzieron UK lawmakers vote in support of assisted dying

> That prompted MacAulay to order an internal investigation, which has now uncovered a total of four cases where veterans were allegedly offered MAID — all apparently by the same caseworker.

Rogue employees suggesting bad treatment doesn't seem too much a cause for concern so long as they're caught before it goes further.

After all, people like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman exist prior to this ruling.

vizzieron We can mine asteroids for space food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg

vizzieron 100-MW solar farm just broke ground in Wisconsin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVO1IyfA9M Video linked earlier in the thread that gives a visual on what exactly this looks like.

vizzieron Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

FancyZones does exist to help with some of this if you're on windows:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon...

vizzieron Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?

Every book is unique, but they all share his unique philosophy and wit. Highly recommend any of his works. The more you read of discworld the more of a world it will build, but none are so highly coupled that they can't be read independently.

vizzieron Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay

Not just starting, the AI gets significant overall resource multipliers as you increase the difficulty. [1]

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Difficulty_level_(Civ6)

vizzieron Bots, so many bots

I read this comment as a bit tongue in cheek, but to be clear, the aim of the bots isn't generally to advocate for as specific viewpoint but to flood the information landscape with bad information making it challenging for normal people to discern what is real and useful.

vizzieron Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

> vehicle, flying a plane, operating weapons in the military, or even owning a personal weapon?

3 of these require significant training or at least licensing and the last one is banned in the majority of western nations.

I'm with you that personal responsibility and freedom should be the norm, but active predators (Drug dealers, bookies, social media companies) should probably have limits put on what they're allowed to do.

vizzieron Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...

Probably the most up to date we'd get. I think your numbers are about right at around 1 million for temporary workers and students combined.

vizzieron Madrid bans hired e-scooters over safety concerns

Ordinary things did a good (slightly comedic) brief history of the scooters a couple of years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9aeMccUPY0

vizzieron UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns

(speaking as a person who isn't blind) The biggest omission seems to be that there is nothing to tell you what floor you've arrived at. This is probably fine for an empty elevator but as soon as it gets busy and there are 10s of floors I'd imagine it gets hard to navigate.

vizzieron The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

Unsure on the specific phrases, but it has been happening for a while. Subscribe highlights with certain phrases too.

vizzieron Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn Pretty much.

vizzieron More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland

To be fair, London is one of the most cosmopolitan and international cities in the world. The rest of the UK isn't quite so much like that.

vizzieron Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon

For my own part, this wasn't a huge team. We had the knowledge of if the issue was application/software based but would pass back to ops if it was hardware/OS related.

One possible bonus, being on call operating your own software also gives you a solid incentive to not wake yourself up in the morning by writing bad code, and fixing those issues that do arise quickly.

vizzieron Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon

My experience being "on call" as an engineer has mostly not been that you need to write code at 3am. It usually comes down to restarting a machine, deploying a new machine or copy, or informing the rest of the company that some 3rd party API that you rely on is currently down.

vizzieron Copying is the way design works (2020)

Counterpoint to that though, guilds existed as a different form of control for many hundreds or thousands of years. Instead of controlling what people can make, just control who can make it.

vizzieron Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg-J2TS13GA

vizzieron Ask HN: Why does no one seem to care that AI gives wrong answers?

If the marginal utility AI is less than the costs of the energy needed to use it then presumably capitalism will solve this problem?

vizzieron One Million Checkboxes

Agreed.

vizzieron Crypto-failure Terraform Labs to cough up $4.5B, liquidate self

It sounds a lot like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday basically use short positions to trade against the real value of the currency while selling at the "pegged" price pocket the difference. If a G7 currency can't guard against this type of attack then can a crypto service expect to compete?

vizzieron Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

I just did that switch having been on iphone since the 6s. It is amazing how much choice there is on the Android platform. Having switched to Samsung immediately I get two software stores for a start. I'm not beholden to a single file service; Apps will integrate with multiple different options not just iCloud. I can download multiple browsers, with adblockers. I can download torrent clients without having to jailbreak.

Meanwhile I can't receive text chat integrated video above about 240p from iphone friends because Apple won't integrate with them. They're a shit company and I'll never buy their products again.

vizzieron Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

https://www.amazon.ca/Beelink-Computer-Desktop-Display-2-5Gb...

I mean, you're basically describing the mini-pc form factor. I'm not sure exactly where the steamdeck lies but the last couple of years these laptop CPU based systems have been pretty amazing for what they pack.

vizzieron The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

By what mechanism was this intended to work? Any known fields would surely have stronger local effects outside of direct sunlight...

vizzieron Dr Pepper is now as popular as Pepsi. It's still shrouded in mystery

I'll follow up with John Green's blind tasting. Which is just one of my favourite videos related to Dr Pepper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcOM3H06KI4

vizzieron One RaspBerry to replace my K8s cluster

Nice write up. Mirrors some of my own experiences over the last year. Additional small note. You can run certbot from inside a container [0] if you want to, but as noted might require some additional effort (play books to move certs around and restart services mostly).

Have fun on the self hosted journey :D

[0] https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/install.html#al...