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Jsebast24··on Elon Musk does not grasp EU fears about disinformation on X, official says
An EU politician wants to regulate freedom of speech, so you are free to say whatever you want as long as she is cool with it. Think about it - "regulated freedom of speech." That's an oxymoron. You either have freedom of speech or you don't.
Jsebast24··on Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?
folklore.org - Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it (123 stories), A. Hertzfeld
Jsebast24··on iPadOS Identified as Digital 'Gatekeeper' Under New EU Tech Rules
IpadOS anti-virus - Soon on the App Store!
Jsebast24··on Ask HN: How do you store your knowledge?
1) I don't organize. I just collect things. I hoard.

2) Every day. Whenever I find something worth copy/pasting.

3) Only once in a while. But when I read back on my saved stuff, I have a lot of fun.

4) Copy and Paste to a rtf file, or anywhere I can paste text and images and add some formatting. Has to be simple, quick and easy to access. MS Wordpad is the best ever, and I'm not a MS Windows fan. Make sure to put a good title and include tag words that can be searched later.

5) That I can't find anything better than MS Wordpad. It has an I-don't-know-what kind of simplicity that makes it a pleasure to use. And I'm not a MS Windows fan.

Jsebast24··on U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades
Only people who's last name start with an A can relate. The rest, I have found, just don't care. It's a curse you have to carry from 1st grade and all through school and college.
Jsebast24··on Fast food is already automated
Automation is expensive to acquire, operate and maintain. It is better to hire employees...unless employees become much more expensive.
Jsebast24··on Copenhagen's 400-yr-old exchange burns down
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence....
Jsebast24··on Why vaccine misinformation is winning the information war
And who gets to decide what is misinformation and what is not?
Jsebast24··on Trump is ineligible for office under 14th Amendment's
"We're gonna give you a fair trial, followed by a first class hanging."
Jsebast24··on Eradicate malaria by modifying mosquito DNA To only produce male mosquitoes
"Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but, you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun."
Jsebast24··on The evidence refuting the false claim that vaccines cause autism
The evidence refuting the "false" claim that vaccines cause autism.

There. The title already trying to manipulate the reader's opinion.

Jsebast24··on Extraordinary Popular Delusions (1852)
Read The Crusades chapter if you really want to understand what the crusades were about.
Jsebast24··on Covid's damage lingers in the heart
But...the vaccinated can still get Covid just the same. So, it's not a "have one OR have the other" situation. When you take the vaccine, it's a "have one PLUS have the other" situation.
Jsebast24··on Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
I've had tinnitus since a few years ago. It went away since maybe 9 months ago. It came back this morning in the same second I read the title of this post.
Jsebast24··on Ask HN: How do you organize the files on your computer?
- Folder and file names as short as necessary. File names length, including the path, have a limit of 255 characters, after which they can give you trouble.

- File names that start with dates need to use yyyymmdd format.

- Avoid having too many subfolder branchings.

- Multiple pdf files are sometimes better to be combined into a single document.

- Have a TEMP folder to put all the stuff you are working with and that you will not mind erasing later. You should be confident to empty away this folder every few days without having to revise what's in it.

- Reorganize regularly (housekeeping) to maintain optimum file organization.

- Organize files as if to make it easy to find anything for a person who doesn't know where anything is. That person will be you in a couple of weeks.

Jsebast24··on How ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Reached the Top of the Charts
Your first sentence is logically false.
Jsebast24··on 2024 Defense Bill Threatens Future of 3D-Printed Firearms and Basic Gun Rights
"Well-regulated in the 18th century tended to be something like well-organized, well-armed, well-disciplined...It didn't mean 'regulation' in the sense that we use it now...It means the militia was in an effective shape to fight...In other words, it didn't mean the state was controlling the militia in a certain way, but rather that the militia was prepared to do its duty."

This is from https://constitutioncenter.org/images/uploads/news/CNN_Aug_1...

Jsebast24··on Scotland chops down 16M trees to develop wind farms
In the 1990's the environmentalist's most prominent message was "save the trees". That message quietly dissappeared without explanation. Now you know why: you have to destroy a lot of trees to plant wind farms and solar panels.
Jsebast24··on How Professors Are Now Calling for Biden to Simply Defy the Supreme Court
Did Trump ordered the counting to be stopped for no reason at 5 swing states his opponent was winning by a huge margin, and that all election observers be kicked out of the building so the counting could continue behind closed doors?
Jsebast24··on Cleaner accidentally ruins decades of research by turning off freezer
“People’s behavior and negligence caused all this,” Michael Ginsberg, an attorney for RPI, told the Times Union. “Unfortunately, they wiped out 25 years of research.”

I agree. It was people's negligence: the researcher's. They weren't serious about protecting their stuff. They keept important samples in a broken freezer, without lab UPS equipment. They did not rush to get someone to repair the freezer immediately. Did not transfer to another freezer...did not have a backup freezer.

Blaming the janitor is the proffesional researcher equivalent of "the dog ate my homework".

Jsebast24··on Cleaner accidentally ruins decades of research by turning off freezer
"Lakshmi also installed a lock box on the freezer’s outlet and socket to stop anyone unplugging it." But he forgot that the outlet is disconnected at the electrical panel. The janitor was not even close to the freezer.
Jsebast24··on Janitor accidentally destroys 20 years of research while cleaning lab
Leave 20 years worth of delicate research in an old freezer. If the freezer breaks and everything inside starts heating up, don't worry... there's no need to rush to get someone who can repair it immediately. No need either to have a backup freezer to transfer the samples; or to leave someone guarding the lab until the freezer is fixed. Just paste a note in the door and go home. Don't worry about leaving the alarm blaring all day, you're not the one who has to listen to it. And if the samples get spoiled, blame the janitor.
Jsebast24··on Ask HN: What are some life optimization tricks you have discovered?
Talk to people. Practice it every day to get good at it. Everything gets a lot easier when you talk to people. You'll be amazed as how easily things get resolved when you call someone and talk issues over (email and messaging don't count as talking).
Jsebast24··on Dear “Successful People”
Luck happens to everybody all the time. It's what you do with that luck what makes the difference.
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