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236devon Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store

It also use to be legal to deny people based on their skin color. Just because something is legal doesn't make it right.

236devon The anti-porn religious lobby just destroyed the livelihoods of pornographers

> with little to no negative externalities

Porn is extremely toxic to the mind and soul. In my mind a drug dealer and a pornographer are in the same category. You're selling vices that destroy a person's life and mind. I'm sure I'm going to get coomers telling me pornography isn't that bad but a simple google search of "negative consequences of pornography" will show that there are many negatives to pornography. A heroin addict is willing to pay for heroin but that doesn't mean that they should be able to freely. They should be put in a treatment center, same with people who buy pornography.

236devon Voat Is Shutting Down

I think they would be kicked off whatever fund raising platform they use pretty quickly.

236devon Show HN: MP3 to Text

reminds me of descript

236devon [dead]

when I disable my VPN it works. Then when I enable it the site doesn't work. It appears to be only North America/East Coast

236devon Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice

Why not? Autistic people have a certain way of doing things, so it seems like a valid comparison to me

236devon Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice

Maybe I'm not autistically analyzing this like other people in this thread. I just wanted to point out that the article mentioned taking young people's and putting it in old mice for better living. Currently the poor are exploited for cheap blood because many have no other option.

236devon Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice

I don't see how? The article talks about taking young mice blood and putting it in old ones. Young poor people will be much more exploited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16EL-ZexH5A&feature=youtu.be...

You should watch part of this documentary to see what I'm talking about.

236devon Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice

The vast majority of blood comes from poor people with no other choice selling it. If you don't see something wrong with that, I don't know what to tell you. The poor should not have to literally sell their blood to survive. The article literally says that they take blood from young mice and put it in old ones.

236devon Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/sunday-review/blood-plasm...

Somewhat related, but blood made up 2% of total US exports in 2016. We are the only developed country that allows people to sell their blood. It's depressing to know that the rich will literally be living off the poor's blood.

236devon What Alternate Reality Games Can Teach Us About QAnon

The more a podcast or news station talks about something, the more their listeners know about it.

236devon What Alternate Reality Games Can Teach Us About QAnon

Interestingly enough liberals are more likely to know about QAnon than conservatives. I listen to both right wing and left wing podcasts+news and the times I hear about QAnon are on left wing ones. I'm not sure what to make of this.

Edit: genuinely curious why I'm being downvoted, I found this pretty interesting

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/30/qanons-cons...

236devon Child sexual abuse material could be going undetected because of ‘false reports’

I had to see for my social media website (similar to tumblr) (tiblar.com) if it was legal or not. At least in Delaware lolicon/shotacon and cartoon child porn is illegal. It varies on which state it is, some states it is legal, others it is not. Federally it is legal.

236devon Study finds learning music won’t make children smart

how is putting an emphasis on general intelligence a talking point for racists?

236devon Intel Plunges as It Weighs Exit from Manufacturing Chips

In terms of security, Intel has been bad for a while. The last good chip was the Intel Core 2 Duo. Everything since then has had basically spyware on the processor via the Intel Management Engine. It doesn't matter if it was manufactured/designed in the US or not when you have exploitable proprietary software running on your processor. The only way to truly be free and have a decent insurance of security is with a fully open source, free system which includes your processor and bios.

236devon Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities

Unfortunately less and less of Scandinavia and all of Europe is looking like this. It's a shame what has happened to architecture in my opinion.

236devon Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”

The only ones I can think of are The Daily Stormer and 8chan

236devon How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah

More diverse areas have less unionization which is good for capitalism.

https://observer.com/2020/04/amazon-whole-foods-anti-union-t...

236devon Google to Invest $10B in India

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I feel the same way about h1b visas. I wish instead of importing cheap labor we spent extra money and trained people in the African American community that don't have as many opportunities.

236devon How the design of a WWII plane led to the concept of user friendliness (2019)

>Fortress rolled off the drawing board and onto the runway in a mere 12 months

Now that's something you don't see these days! I wonder what has slowed development so much, is it more complexity? It seems like a B-17 would be considered extremely complex in 1940.

236devon Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

I haven't ever used it. Why don't you like it? Is it buggy or lacking features

236devon Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing

Perhaps so they can check your social media/criminal history. Someone might not want to rent to someone who has a history of criminality or posts lots of pictures of them partying on their social media. Not saying it's the right thing to do, but one of the things I first thought of. Also it might add more personality to the site and make it not as 'sketchy'. Just my opinion

236devon Portals API

I suspect that this will significantly cut down on the JavaScript needed to make websites feel more like a mobile app. I've had to add more complexity to the social network I'm building to make the web experience feel fluid. I'm also implementing a no-JavaScript subdomain of the website for people who hate bloat also.

236devon Coronavirus Brings American Decline Out in the Open

Sure:

Healthcare: - In the US it is expensive but you get decent care. If you are not making enough you get medicaid or subsidized healthcare that actually works (even in most rural areas). - In for example Ukraine, technically there is socialized healthcare, but you still have to pay due to corruption. For the average Ukrainian, it's not an unsubstantial amount. They don't have the newest drugs, technology, or that sorts. I'm using Ukraine as an example but also applies to other developing countries generally.

Infrastructure: - US has bad infrastructure compared to Japan. But the roads are generally paved (even in most rural areas), there is normally some sort of government that fixes the infrastructure. Sure there are cases of the dam breaking, but there are many, many examples of the government building parks, dams, paving new roads, fixing things, etc. - In developing or even worse in an ldc, the rural roads are not normally paved except for 'main' roads. Outside major cities the road quality, building construction rapidly deteriorates. China is an exception to this, but I could talk a bit about China and how it is unique.

Water: - In the US water is generally safe. You are able to point to Flint, Michigan which has a population of less than 100k, and a few others. - In developing countries the water is bad. For instance when I first went to Moldova I got a very itchy and weird rash. When I started drinking bottled water, it went away. In other countries you can get parasites or diarrhea from drinking the water. This is not normally an issue in the US.

Corruption: - In the US you can go to the government and not worry about bribing or corruption in general. The police will not stop you and ask for money. The opposite is true in many developing nations.

Internet: - In the US, even in rural America, you can get Internet that is somewhat acceptable. Most Americans can visit Google and watch YouTube without major connection issues or that sort. Many places in rural areas of developing countries have bad connections at best.

Banking: - In the US you have FDIC, many banking regulations, solid legal framework, trusted institutions. It's a bit sketchy in other countries, though might be because I'm a foreigner. Banking fees are much higher from what I have seen, especially in Argentina+Chile. I was blown away when I was there.

These are just some of the things I could think of from the top of my head. There are many more things and experience I could talk about, but this is a good start. There is a reason why millions of people try and immigrate to the US each year, that's not just random. I'm sure you could point of exceptions to what I laid out, but those are just exceptions.

236devon Coronavirus Brings American Decline Out in the Open

If people think that America is a 3rd world country, or anywhere near a 3rd world country, then they haven't been to a 3rd world country. The US has major problems, undoubtedly, but we have a long way to fall till we hit the position of 3rd world. We are even leagues better than developing nations. I can say this as I have spent a long time living in both.