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I don't know if that would be qualified as an unbiased source. The author seems to have an agenda going by the footer...

The fact that he puts the word "Celtic" in quotation marks while suggesting there was no such culture is interesting.

The footer of the site:

Ad Fontes is a quarterly publication of The Davenant Institute.

The Davenant Institute seeks to retrieve the riches of classical Protestantism in order to renew and build up the contemporary church.

There is also a significant distrust of Google (and other large tech companies) growing in Europe, and probably most other places outside of the US. Tie that with the fact that they are now charging people for using photos/email etc, there has never been a better time to cut ties with the company where possible. I'm sure Chrome will remain the most popular browser for now but the younger generations might be more inclined to use products with less "baggage".

I find that a pretty strange take.. Shouldn't data like this open up conversations around inheritance laws etc? Seems crazy that so much of todays wealth has been created a long time ago by horrendous people. The British Royal Family are celebrated around the world yet they made an absolute genuine fortune from the slave trade. Are we not being hypocritical to our own modern standards by accepting that they deserve that wealth? And it is a typical story all throughout the western world and beyond.

I am seeing this sentiment so often online at the minute that it seems as though nobody has learned anything about DRM over the past 20 years. So many threads on reddit calling Italy "backwards" for protecting citizens data, and now people on HN expecting companies to give everything away for free because of the outcome is "inevitable"!

There are a bunch of for-profit American AI companies. Why on Earth would another for-profit company, especially one based in another country, be ok with other people making money from their content. They can either look at developing their own AI platform, or build deals with the existing AI companies. It would be just plain stupid to give it all away for free, or any price that isn't determined by themselves.

I really like this idea. Is it possible for other users to install this (or something similar)? On mac preferably.

I absolutely hate when people respond to these kind of articles with "Why are people surprised". The truth is that no one is surprised. People are more disappointed, and frustrated, that this is allowed to happen, not just from a legal sense, but in a technical sense also.

I hate that the general conversation around !important is simply: "Important is bad. You should never use it".

Its more of a belief rather than knowledge at this point.

I'd be interested to hearing a good answer as to why one wouldn't use !important on a modifier class such as ".padding-20" or even something like ".full-width".

Surely the problem lies with your html composition if either of these classes are being used on an element that does not need them?

Surprised not see Brave listed as an alternative to Google Chrome. Its a fantastic browser

Slighlty off topic but has anyone else noticed the following trend on HN recently?

Post == Article Critical of Google

Top Comment === Plays down the severity of said criticism

The upvotes don't seem to have much correlation between the post title and the comments. I wonder is such behavior caused by certain UI features on this site/app, or are comments graded differently?

The idea of a fairly distributed world coin is fascinating, and something I would absolutely love to see.

Unfortunately, from reading that webpage, I don't think "Worldcoin" sounds like a very promising application of the concept.

he shared a link to buy colman's on amazon. It was in a plastic squeezy container!!

The guy is not fit to write about mustard.

You should monetise this with amazon affiliate links that are relevant to each search. And then use that money to keep this project going. Google is fantastic, but it has become something different from what it was, the company and the product. It is so refreshing to see a modern tool that encourages exploration of the actual world wide web.

yep, I always find surveys to be a very lazy way of "doing science" but that is probably for another thread. The results of this survey do create an interesting (and in my opinion, believable) talking point, and maybe can lead to a better researched paper on the subject. I personally think that PhD students are more likely going to be cautious of anything they don't have a good understanding of. They would (imo) be inclined to do better research into the pros/cons of vaccination, which is not easy to do right now with all the noise online.

The post title doesn't suggest anything otherwise.. This is a paper about hesitancy.

Its frustrating that it often costs the same price as its alcoholic counterpart. In many countries the tax on alcoholic drinks is taken as a acceptable reason for the high prices in bars. But when the non-alcoholic versions are just as expensive, it feels like robbery. There seems to be huge interest from customers but bars and govts haven't pulled the right strings to enable a change that would benefit society in general.

So, i get the sense that the political shape of the US has led to a kind of proxy war in the media. I see it as a powder keg and I really can't see it ever changing without exploding into something more real, like a succesful foreign invasion, an actual civil war, or a dictator taking power etc. Obviously some kind of regulation would be a much better approach but in my pessimism, I don't think that will ever happen in the current political climate.

Just to clarify, I don't think any of the events listed above will ever happen in our lifetime. I am just using them as a way to reinforce my expression of non-expectation on any real change to this in our new found normality.

I just mean for news that comes directly from US sources. I find things like the Wuhan lab theory to be fascinating, worrying and plausable. But I struggle to find any reliable information about it because (not just, but mainly) US publications have saturated the media with politically driven articles instead of just trying to get to the bottom of it.

I get the impression that most Americans see the rest of the world like some form of a cartoon. They are weirdly detached from the reality of it all. I even get that impression when speaking to regular Americans about other countries and I think the media feeds on, and feeds, this incredibly strange outlook.

If there is any truth to the Wuhan lab leak story, it is an incredibly important thing for every single human on the planet. The idea of a country purposfully, or accidentally, releasing a lab made virus is such a massive threat to every society in the world, even worse than chernobyl, that we need the story to be scrutinised and and reported on with perfect accuracy. Instead, it has somehow become a fuel left/right wing driven click-bait. The articles I have come across on this subject have been pretty much baseless nonsense, or incredibly untrustworthy, and that is just scary.

Europe has problems of course, but it is definitely better. They are partisan but they are less at taking digs at the opposition. America seems to be going through a media war. In the UK it is pretty rotten too, but the writing is usually more accurate and one can find well researched articles.

The most striking thing for me during covid was when it started to make daily news in the US. Up until that point, I felt like I had a really good understanding of what was going on. I found there to be a lot of scientific reporting making it to the mainstream etc.. As soon as it reached America though, it was game over. I was lost. I genuinely just couldn't follow what was going on because of all the noise generated by US media, which inevitably spills over, and intertwines, with all other media.

I probably can't explain it very well, but the amount of noise in American news just seems to drown out anything that can actually help regular people get a grasp on what is actually happening.

I'm at the point where I instantly dismiss any "world" news that comes from the US. I'll simply wait for an independent source from another country to report on any such story.

I also hold the opinion on US political news that it is beyond the stage of a possible recovery without some dramatic changes to the fabric of the country itself. Every argument is wedged into an imaginary Team A vs Team B battle and it seems that to remain relevant as a publisher, you have to play that game. People feel personally attacked/validated by every article now because those are the most engaging and publishers will omit certain contexts and facts in any story to facilitate that emotional trigger.

Given that the journalism industry is energised by advertising and political propaganda, it has reached a point where it has become nothing more than an itchy wound that the public keep scratching.

The 24 hour news cycle isn't an issue in itself, but the power games combined with a dangerous economic model and all of the mass media manipulation on sites like reddit, are the core of the issues imo. Having the 24hr cycle (online, and on cable) just amplifies it all and makes it so omnipresent to the fact that despite the great efforts of dictators who put their picture in every place they can, I can bet that Trump managed to become a part of everyones daily life, and in a much more direct fashion, than any dictator could ever dream of, in the anglosphere during his term.

You serious? The guy/girl is taking on the task of trying to help with understanding of one of the most complex, and well known, books we have as a species! And he/she is trying to do so using technology that most here are familiar with. How in hell (pardon the pun) is this not relevant? Its a super interesting challenge

I would think that early adaptors would look to take X% of their profits through crypto. If they can afford to continue operating even if they lose X, then it is an attractive opportunity, given the fact that it can rise in value so much (likely to be partly driven by their adoption if they are big and important enough). Eventually, a coin will inevitably become the default, and balance out. So, I personally don't see the instability factor as an issue right now.

same.

regardless of being "religious" or not, the bible is fascinating!

A lot of this guy's points are pure nonsense. We can't have a four day week because we need people to work 5 days to serve us coffee? I don't even want to waste my time typing the problems with that statement, there are just so many..

Its very possible. They could change it on their side, rewrite the history, and claim I never owned anything. I have no defence in that case

And what if some engineer at github changes the original one to say that all my money has been sent to his account?

>what? no, the original repo is the real repo. my point is, is that the transparency makes it impossible for you to not trust me/GitHub.

So we are back to trusting you again. transparency is not certain from github or from you

Doge is picking up steam in that regard. It has so many problems though

well one reason is that you (or github) would be the owner of that ledger. And we would have to put all of our trust in you

I'd imagine the default world currency will have a dog on it by then

ETH is so cool. But only really if you are into that kind of thing.

Smart contracts, and all the other buzz words turn regular folk away. I'm hedging my bets on the coin with a dog on it for mass adoption. Even the word "Ethereum" (and "Eth") is less user-friendly to "Doge".

For me, all this ETH stuff is just hype (very few ETH owners actually care about the currency side of things and its already gone too far into pyramid scheme territory to ever recover imo). The dog coin works just great as it is right now for the amount of users it has. Any upgrades should be manageable before they are ever necessary.