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LinkLink··on Nodebox: A Node.js runtime that runs in any browser
You know what? Fuck it. Just let any program run in the browser, but only if it could rune natively too. The new type of hardware acceleration. Play league of legends in a chrome tab. Just ship it.
LinkLink··on $500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments with a Guaranteed Income
What needs redistribution incentive is assets not income. Anyone can get income, even disability is income. However assets are increasingly out of reach.
LinkLink··on Ask HN: Will humans ever willingly stagnate?
Related to this is the idea of the tragedy of the commons, which if you consider the utilization of human and natural/capital resources, It almost seems like we are approaching the point at which everything needed for society, basic needs, and health is becoming over-utilized and under-optimized.
LinkLink··on EU Parliament confirms 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars
In all except rural Europe which will likely hurt tremendously because of this, most people likely will not care too much. Unlike America a car is not a requirement in most of Europe due to public transportation being allowed to develop instead of it being neutered and made just good enough to exist.
LinkLink··on Ask HN: Will Microsoft be liable for defamatory Bing statements?
Sure man it can say what it wants its just BingChat, anyone who's opinion I actually respect can't have their worldview altered by a collection of tensor GPU's.

increasingly as influence and MKultra esque government and social media programs continue to rollout, it is becoming blatantly obvious who is easily influenced and who is not. Which is exhausting, it shows just how few people really have any autonomy at all.

LinkLink··on Ask HN: Will Microsoft be liable for defamatory Bing statements?
">disparaging comments about the amish" >How much happier he is than you
LinkLink··on Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse
I'm curious, what lead you to write such a thought and post it? In all genuine honesty I want to understand what you thought calling people worried about AI anti vaxxers and implying that because it will not cause nuclear holocaust, it must be safe would contribute to this discussion?

dead serious btw

LinkLink··on Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse
This is just screaming into the void, but I have an ego so I must.

If you believe AI will bring innovation, you believe in it's capability.

If you believe in its capability, you must also understand it is capable of wrongdoing as well as good deeds.

Most of the comments here are just arguing about this basic stream of logic bringing in things like "PHD" "Fallacies" or "Blind faith"

If you feel the need to argue, know that there exist people who would walk toward the sun until it burned them, and there exist people who will shut themselves indoors the day somebody explains light to them.

Both of them are extremely outspoken about their views.

LinkLink··on Ask HN: Will Microsoft be liable for defamatory Bing statements?
The end of capitalism and the beginning of fascism is when an invention hasn't even been released to the public yet and people are asking "What if somebody doesn't like it?"

Fuck AI though ask an amish farmer how to update your antiquated jquery to angular and just realize how much happier than you he is.

LinkLink··on Better without AI
Researchers and private interests are already, even in the public eye, on the precipice of seriously respectable non general intelligence AI.

I wish AI would be banned for its net negative effect, but humans are designed for growth, and the masses, like those who will downvote this comment, cannot perceive the harm of a flame until it has burned them.

LinkLink··on Tell HN: Please let me just buy stuff without having to “Contact Sales”
Nobody is obligated or even likely to profit from giving you their software because you as a complete unqualified and unaffiliated stranger "just want to try it out"
LinkLink··on Tell HN: Please let me just buy stuff without having to “Contact Sales”
How to ruin a SaaS company

> Sell "one size fits all" usage scaled billing

> Don't hire a sales team

> Large companies won't do business with you since they cant negotiate or engage with a sales team to make sure the product fits for them

> A thousand small users sign up and pay 1$ per month before credit card and merchant fees, misuse the product and want a refund, and throw tens of thousands of support requests at you

You now have a less than worthless sales model.

LinkLink··on I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me
Okay so 4 ferns would do it in 250 +- 100 hours then. I'm not saying one home garden will solve global co2 buildup I'm saying its significantly cheaper and potentially more rewarding as a hobby than trying to play god with air quality and a 1k budget. You're also not accounting for gaseous exchange rates related as a function to current air quality. Yes a terrible PPM is 2000 but your body produces less co2 as a result of reduced function in such an environment, therefore increasing the effect of any filtration.
LinkLink··on I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me
For a trip to your local garden center and 20-30$ at your local home depot/general store you too can achieve the hidden aeons old solution to co2 buildup.

https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Plant-Indoor-Plants-Spectrum/d...

https://urbanplants.co.in/blogs/news/most-effective-co2-abso...

LinkLink··on I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me
I know right all this talk about fancy tech and filters how about a sun lamp and a fern lol
LinkLink··on A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code (2020)
The year is 2030, after developing unrest the world government has decided the best way to subdue the population is to make taxes even more complicated. Entire family units are formed around starting on the years taxes 13 months before the next tax season, any attempt to simplify tax is killed by the turbotax lobbyists, who boast a legendary 11 month taxes turnaround. Paper supply is at an all time low due to economic returns, and most crime is centered around illegal paper trade in order to file a paper return, and avoid the automatic audit on any virtual returns submitted.
LinkLink··on Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade
There really does need to be a limit on bill length https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7776... For anyone who was riding their high horse on this, the bill is a majority a defense spending bill which includes appropriations of sea territory and military operations. About 3000 pages of spending, and oh but dont kill sharks.
LinkLink··on The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle
Wordle, like many things, was acquired not because of any actual utility or value add to the company which bought it, but bought and killed slowly to comply with anti-trust laws, and to prevent anyone outside the big club from getting an atom of public power.
LinkLink··on Tldraw's $2.7M Seed – A new collaborative infinite canvas for the web
Is everyone just selling their college senior projects to vc's for millions now
LinkLink··on Tldraw's $2.7M Seed – A new collaborative infinite canvas for the web
The way this is worded made it sound like a revolutionary MMORPG geo-based canvas which was a rip of the whole world or something.

Its just a half decent drawing tool written in webjs library of of the week#52 why would anyone pay 2.7mil to seed this????? I have a scratch game to sell them????

LinkLink··on New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston
These companies make a lot of enemies, you're likely on a list at this point just in case those enemies should ever need some temporary leverage. If your friend has integrity to his company and self you will likely not survive such an encounter. Good luck.
LinkLink··on New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston
Disclosing this was a terrible idea, especially since your profile doxxes you, deleting your account immediately is probably advisable.
LinkLink··on San Francisco supervisors vote to allow police to use robots to kill
The tools needed to rob a bank just went from a gun, to a baseball bat, an old tv remote, a landline wireless phone, five feet of 5 gauge copper, and a CD (preferably smash mouth).
LinkLink··on Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public services online
hahahahaahahahahahahhaahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

10 years ago people would have called you paranoid now you're already too late

LinkLink··on Ask HN: Is there a hardest type of engineering or is it all easy?
There definitely is, and not all engineering is hard. Maybe creating react is hard, but using it after reading the docs and practicing is not, though it is a developmental process.

There's this weird idea in America that using your brain at all to learn something is "hard work". Yes if you go into deep research you will work hard thankless hours, but up until recently and still in some cases there are many handsomely paid front end and back end devs who are little more than number changers.

LinkLink··on New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston
http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA Same shit different country
LinkLink··on New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston
It's hilarious how nobody is pointing out the extreme irony of microsoft and google calling anyone elses software spyware. I'd rather have my bank password leaked by some brazillian than my web browser, purchase, location, social connections, interests, and work activities leaked by big tech and stored in perpetuity.
LinkLink··on AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes
True, but invalidated by burner and jailbroken phones which are widespread in China. They can definitely catch somebody with a concerted effort but I'd be surprised if the average Chinese teenager couldnt figure out how to make a burner email
LinkLink··on Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore so how do they connect to the internet?
It is easier to convince a group of geniuses of a grand idea, than to convince an average person of changing one thing.
LinkLink··on Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year
This is because data isn't taxed, Alexa is prob one of the most successful data gathering operations since social networks and the patriot act. Amazon will write off a fat chunk of its taxes, and keep the millions of voice recordings and customer datapoints. Win win.
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