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benevol··on Banking in uncertain times
Basically, we "simply" need the "Next-gen Bitcoin" - userfriendly, fast, lean in resources.
benevol··on EU lawmakers approve effective 2035 ban on new fossil fuel cars
There are several new energy sources about to "come online". It's just that mainstream does suppress the information about those.
benevol··on Tell HN: Tweets no longer seem to be properly indexed by Google
Google has become a major force of censorship. Twitter (under Elon Musk) is now opposed to that. That should explain what you experience.
benevol··on Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU
By that logic, we'd need to make knives illegal, because people get stabbed to death every day somewhere.
benevol··on Exposure to Air Pollutants and Association with Incident Depression and Anxiety
Conclusions and Relevance:

Study results suggest that estimates of long-term exposure to multiple air pollutants was associated with increased risk of depression and anxiety. [...]

benevol··on Stripe increases fees for EU and UK-based businesses in April
It's the usual "bait-and-switch" strategy, isn't it.

Make something good. Dominate the market. Increase economic pressure.

Only 1 way for to counter: Leave and let others know what you're using instead, and why.

benevol··on 'We Are Being Levelled Down’: Why the UK’s Wealth Gap Is Widening
No it does not. I'm saying the problem is much bigger than one country. And it's horrifying to observe how people don't realize what it means for them, for everything actually.
benevol··on Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?
Might it be time to introduce financial bounties?
benevol··on 'We Are Being Levelled Down’: Why the UK’s Wealth Gap Is Widening
The wealth gap is continually being increased all over the world, though.
benevol··on Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
Energy with magnetics: https://www.KryonEngine.org
benevol··on Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but serverless
It's not only about hosting across multiple providers for the sake of diversifying that risk.

It's an unhealthy situation to be fully dependent on 1 single provider. It creates monopolies (instead of diversity and choice) which means less freedom, and/or more corruption and unhealthy conditions for all involved.

benevol··on Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but serverless
It looks like Ruby on Jets makes you 100% dependent on 1 company: AWS/Amazon; not an evolution I'd welcome.
benevol··on Rails authentication from scratch
And for reference, the gold standard, Devise: https://github.com/heartcombo/devise
benevol··on A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
Well, nice work. But poor authors...
benevol··on Is anyone else getting cold/sick much more often these days?
Yes, immune systems all over the world have been weakened recently (you may or may not want to "speculate" as to the source of this), which is what explains what you perceive.
benevol··on Ask HN: How to overcome stage fear / social anxiety
Ever tried Elles-Dee?
benevol··on The great Covid and smoking cover-up?
There's another "hack": Skip the injections, which saves your immune system.
benevol··on Britain is sleepwalking into censorship?
> Worse, this isn’t even intentional.

Of course it is intentional. It's about manipulating the population. It's simply about the control of the people.

benevol··on Britain is sleepwalking into censorship?
Britain? All major media outlets and social network platforms worldwide now have established censorship as "the new normal".

The only mainstream platform now setting itself up to become the exception to this is the one platform that since a few weeks gets consistently attacked by the establishment: Twitter.

benevol··on Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products
Another approach is to simply go with a donation system. Lower purchasing power automatically leads to lower contribution.

Bonus: You don't need to worry about/collect/pay VAT in God-knows-how-many-different-countries around the world.

benevol··on Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox
There's no need to insult others.

You'll understand over time.

benevol··on Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox
For those of you who want to know what's currently going on, here are the names of the main publicly known contactees (people on Earth who publicly report that/how they maintain some form of contact to extra-terrestrials):

- Alex Collier

- Elena Danaan

- Marina Jacobi

- Dr. Michael Salla (no known direct contact, but excellent analyzing/reporting)

You'll want to check out their YT/rumble channels, websites, books (especially Elena Danaan's last 2-3).

benevol··on Most people on antidepressants don’t need them
The first question has always been the same:

What does the pharmaceutical industry need?

benevol··on Alien Truth
> If there were intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe

Wow some people still think we're alone. Wow. Just, wow.

benevol··on Swiss evoting system – IsProbablePrime is incorrect for input 19
> Switzerland doesn't have evoting.

And given what they show off, they should abstain from it for the next 1000 years.

benevol··on Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
I second the non-Amazon approach. We should make it a point to put our money where our mouth is.
benevol··on Tell HN: Twitter suspends arrested Iranian tech blogger’s account
This makes no sense. When governments go after their targets, they gather all they can as soon as they define them as targets.

Twitter, on the other hand, is known to be a massive censor, just like Youtube/Google.

benevol··on LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip
This sounds like "Nutella - without the chocolate flavor".

But making big pharma insanely rich - once again.

benevol··on Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?
> Also, respect the team. Maybe they aren't doing what you would, but they are keeping this beast alive, and probably have invaluable knowledge of how to do so. Don't come in pushing for change...

Yes, 3 people creating a revenue of $20 million/year is impressive.

But what if 1, let alone 2 of them quit and/or fall ill? That's way too much risk for this type of revenue.

If a new team member needs a year to just understand how the code is organized, then a well structured and documented rewrite certainly is necessary.

benevol··on FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
Literally all my social contacts have left FB for quite a while already, myself included. I'm surprised people still talk about this.
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