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warrenm··on Ask HN: How to Verify for Fraud
2 and maybe 3 oughta be relatively solvable (though ... prepaid card does not inherently mean fraud (nor does using a VoIP number))

but ... how could you possibly verify the age of an email address?

warrenm··on Mushrooms Underwater
>A recently discovered species of mushroom, Psathyrella aquatica, has been described as the only aquatic gilled fungus
warrenm··on Ask HN: Am I the only one the has their iPhone apps always logging out?
I have not seen that on any of my i[Pad]OS devices

See it with Firefox sometimes on my desktop, though

warrenm··on Is GDPR Saving 2,920 Lives per Year?
GDPR is not a bad idea .... but, as with so many things, it is never the idea that matters - it is the implementation.

As implemented, GDPR is a massive waste of time, energy, and money (unless, of course, you are an audit and compliance firm - it has, I suspect, been GREAT for you!)

Do we - as individuals, regional societies, and society at large need better data protection?

Absolutely, YES!

Is GDPR a step in a better direction than no rules?

... maybe?

But when it drives masses of people away from your economy, it is certainly not good for those who have remained in your economy

warrenm··on Bird Flu Is Spreading. Why Aren't More People Getting Tested?
Personally, I think a lot of people are in "test fatigue"

And that is whether or not they think Covid was planned, leaked, or totally random

Relatively high false-positive rates[0] with the PCR test for Covid, imo, factor into that

That, and not wanting to get stuck in some kind of lockdowns again (the negative benefits of which are still being discussed and debated) ... especially for something which, odds are, you have practically no chance of being exposed to ... and most people are going to say, "why test?"

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[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7934325/#:~:tex....

warrenm··on Ask HN: What are some wicked problems left to solve in OS development?
which itself links to https://www.imedpub.com//articles/evolution-of-operating-sys... ... a not especially interesting article (imo) :)
warrenm··on Nashville, Illinois, residents being evacuated as dam failure deemed imminent [video]
Additional info: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/homes-in-nashville-i...
warrenm··on First ever App, how do we find good users?
Definitely going to need to show how you are different/better than all the other apps in what you have described as a "heavily saturated" space
warrenm··on Ask HN: Anyway to appeal for replacement of MacBook Pro display?
I had a crack develop less than a month after getting my first M1 MBP

While the tech was looking at it at my local Apple Store, getting ready to replace the screen under AppleCare, two more cracks appeared

They had it fixed and back to me in a couple days

warrenm··on UK Bank offering £25K-£30K/yr job in Greater London
That ... sounds abysmal!

Even given pay band and benefit differences between the UK and the US ... geez!

warrenm··on Ask HN: What are major things you miss after switching from Linux to Mac?
zsh has been the default shell for quite a while on macOS
warrenm··on Ask HN: How do you know people will like your work?
I expect 0 interest - and am happy if there is any

If I am doing a project for me, I do not care if others get value out of it :)

warrenm··on Is there ever a good reason to disable swap?
Have not - personally - run into a situation (other than rescue disks (like old Live Linux CDs)) where there was no disk at all in the consumer space

Only seen it for ESXi hosts in the enterprise space (and even there ... there was still a [small] local storage for each host)

warrenm··on Ask HN: What AI disclaimers do you use on your personal blogs?
I do not - not directly, at least

The About page I have had up there for ... not even sure how many years now covers it quite simply

If you do not want to believe my blog posts are written by me, there is nothing I can do to stop you

warrenm··on Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time
I would agree with a few entries

Heartily DISagree with others

...And wonder why so many good ones were left out!

warrenm··on Ask HN: Would you try an app to consolidate and search your digital footprint?
I have one ... it's called IFTTT.com

heck! I have a couple different accounts on it for different purposes :)

warrenm··on CentOS Linux 7 End of Life
I thought it hit EOL 5+ years ago
warrenm··on Could preventing the human overpopulation solve anything?
>Why will it decrease tho? Our medicine is only advancing and we are (compared to middle ages) living in peace.

Simple - replacement births are simply not happening

Human life span is approaching its [medically-enhanced] limit

And women, quite frankly, are - in gestalt - not having enough babies to keep population rates growing ad infinitum

There are exceptions to the rule ... but - globally - birth rates are below replacement level.

Birth rates are a tailing indicator, but they are still there.

warrenm··on Could preventing the human overpopulation solve anything?
"human overpopulation"?

What "overpopulation"?

Humanity has creted-over, and will be dramatically smaller (globally) in population in the next ~50 years.

China, for example, is projected to drop by ~50% before 2060.

Population shrinkage could be a huge socio-economic problem worldwide, if measures are not taken soon to address it! Countries that employ pyramid schemes to handle older generations' care (a la the US' Social Security) are going to have som major rethinking to do if they plan to keep programs running that were built on the presumption of steady population growth!

warrenm··on Klondike Big Inch Land Promotion
If this does not explain why property taxes are the Devil's own handiwork ... nothing does
warrenm··on Ask HN: Offline / Airgappable Alternatives to Postman?
I am not familiar with Insomnia - I have exclusively used Postman for years, and am looking for alternatives that work sans cloud/internet access :)
warrenm··on Ask HN: is HN so random?
I flat-out block Medium, Wired, and a handful of other domains via uBlock Origin

Cannot stand the experience on their sites, so I do not go there

warrenm··on Dear HN person who ask for my help
Sounds like - maybe - it was a send-only address they used?
warrenm··on What are some of the ways to overwhelm powerful computer?
In what way(s) do you want to "overwhelm" this "powerful computer"?

- Network?

- CPU?

- RAM?

- Storage IO?

- Specific app(s) on the system?

- Something else?

What OS is it running?

- To "overwhelm" Windows is not always the same as to how to "overwhelm" Linux

- To "overwhelm" via virtualization (or containers) is rarely the same as with a whole device with a single dedicated OS

warrenm··on Show HN: AstrologyVeda (Astrology and Horoscope Website)
Which 'version' of astrology does it follow?

There are multiple options, so knowing which one it uses could be helpful :)

warrenm··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for the Internet in 2-5 years?
There is already [effectively] no "free" true content

And it is not "due to ai consumption" - it is due to fewer people being willing to self-sponsor their efforts, and instead relying on aggregation platforms (all of which are for-pay or ad-supported (or both)) to 'get the message out'

warrenm··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for the Internet in 2-5 years?
If by "information" you mean "text" ... I can agree with you

If by "information" you mean "something that might be real" ... I might agree with you

If by "information" you mean "something real that you should pay attention to" ... I MUST disagree

warrenm··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for the Internet in 2-5 years?
There is no "original content" - even human-created material is just fancy happenstance, mindwalking, and Markov-chain-like endeavours
warrenm··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for the Internet in 2-5 years?
This is an interesting idea .. but then you are left with "how much do you trust the [human] vs how much do you trust the [algorithm]"
warrenm··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for the Internet in 2-5 years?
It will suck as much - but in different ways
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