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by yunesj 9mo ago
I'd prefer to write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media. I imagine I'd also want to get an overview of - or make an ad-hoc post from - one of several accounts on one of several platforms. I came acr
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by yunesj 11mo ago
No, I mean they did things like privatized state businesses, allowed entrepreneurs to start their own businesses, and created special economic zones.
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by yunesj 11mo ago
China liberalized their economy to compete with Western economies, showing their leaders don’t really believe in communism. And the US and Europe are moving towards command economies to keep up with China, showing their politicians don’t re
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by yunesj 1y ago
If Valve limited credit card purchases to PG games, but let customers purchase other games via crypto, then payment processors couldn’t complain about alleged high chargeback rates or association with adult content. I imagine payment proces
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by yunesj 1y ago
Wow, thanks for the warning that Couchers bans naturists. I am aware of many unique and beautiful experiences by naturists hosts. It’s disappointing that Couchers would want to eliminate them.
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by yunesj 1y ago
I’ve been having trouble with Pocket’s offline mode and TTS feature for a while, and just migrated (yesterday!) to Obsidian via Obsidian Web Clipper (automated using Pupeteer). Obsidian doesn’t have all the features necessary for a read-it-
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by yunesj 2y ago
I was talking about market accountability. Companies that don’t get anything done fail.
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by yunesj 2y ago
> I wish there were better ways to align incentives here. I have a crazy idea that might work to hold organizations accountable if they never get anything done.
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by yunesj 2y ago
Fake privacy experts like Caro Robson need to be held accountable.
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by yunesj 2y ago
I check for an RSS feed, and if it does not exist, subscribe via KTN. It would be awesome if KTN provided an easy way to upgrade/redirect at KTN feed to an original feed, if one exists. I'm not sure how conveniently redirects woul
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by yunesj 2y ago
A lot of communities use Discourse ( https://discourse.org ). LPSF ( https://forum.lpsf.org ) migrated to it when Yahoo Groups was discontinued. Some of the advantages are that it's open source, self-hostable, and c
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by yunesj 3y ago
"an employee disrupted a coworker who was giving a presentation — interfering with an official company-sponsored event"
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by yunesj 3y ago
It should be up to the employer. If one company thinks that a past conviction is irrelevant while other companies think a past conviction is disqualifying, then the former may get the employee at a better rate, the company will thrive depen
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by yunesj 3y ago
From the court docs: > As alleged, Brody left a few "taunts" in the code that he unleashed on FRB. In particular, he is alleged to have used the word "grok," which the government explains is a misspelling of "gro
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by yunesj 5y ago
Wow, that's not an encouraging paper! It doesn't just say that "efficacy of the vaccines dwindles over time," but that the 2-dose vaccine effectiveness against omicron is significantly negative in the 91-150 day bucket
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by yunesj 5y ago
Of 288,072 people aged 16-39, only 6 people who had only 2 doses were hospitalized, compared to 1 person who had 3 doses [1]. This study was published before Omicron in October, for which the vaccine is even less effective and the disease i
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by yunesj 5y ago
I recently described an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29567729
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by yunesj 5y ago
Ian Freemen is a controversial political activist whose pro-liberty, pro-bitcoin radio station was raided by the FBI in 2016 and had their equipment confiscated. It was widely covered in the news, he was kicked out of at least one community
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by yunesj 5y ago
Increasing land use rights on a property can only increase the value of that property. However, increasing land use rights on a neighboring property can decrease the value of the original property. For example, a neighbor might want to us
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by yunesj 5y ago
HN readers are wrong to think this will be fixed when the government creates a CBDC or regulates payment providers like a utility. In addition to the government currently blocking transactions from semi-legal industries that should be lega
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by yunesj 5y ago
I have regular small donations set up to some devs that also host their projects.
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by yunesj 5y ago
IIRC from the last time I read it, the article only provides evidence for Intuit not wanting taxpayers (including themselves) to fund a competitor to their product, which is very reasonable. I also don't want the government to get in t
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by yunesj 5y ago
You ask for examples a few times. Here’s one. Computers confiscated from a liberty activist and his radio station. No CP-related charges pressed in the 5 years since they confiscated his computers. I’m guessing most times this happens, the
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by yunesj 5y ago
> the chance of attack is small Is it? I would be surprised if attacking 1Password wasn’t a priority for governments and hackers. If the encryption used on vaults is ever broken, compromised, or buggy, users are screwed.
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by yunesj 5y ago
I intend to move out of their ecosystem. First, they limited my phone to comply with their community standards. Then, they blocked anti-censorship apps. And now, they are deploying on-device surveillance. No, thank you! I don't have a
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by yunesj 5y ago
Thanks for starting this discussion! I’m starting a small research foundation for studying the biology of aging. I’d be happy to keep in touch!
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by yunesj 5y ago
Then, after a short while, we’d probably have little violent crime, police misconduct, and wasteful spending.
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by yunesj 5y ago
> Private citizens are not under the same legal scrutiny officers are Government police have qualified immunity and are not subject to market oversight. As you might expect, this fundamental lack of accountability results in abuses, part
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by yunesj 5y ago
Mining BTC is as much like counterfeiting USD as mining gold is like counterfeiting USD, which is to say, not alike at all.
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by yunesj 5y ago
Is it really your experience that the market fails to cater to the interests of the people, and politicians are uniquely capable of it? Politicians can’t print a dollar without abusing it to promote religion (“In God We Trust”), funding war

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