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Good look on your surgery, and thank you for your insights.

Supporting authoritarianism to protect financial interests harms society in the long run - and you can't eat money nor buy a society pleasant to live in.

berlincounton Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career?

I'd likely become an EMT, or some kind of craftsman.

Always wanted to learn carpentry. Demand will be soaring one way or another.

berlincounton Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

Yeah I've had police ring with a search warrant for the same reason.

Yay. Fun.

berlincounton Using Lidar to map tree shadows

Awesome project!

What about hosting the data in an S3 bucket with "Requestor Pays"? You'd only have the storage cost.

Disables anonymous access (so would a Dropbox share) but reduces your cost massively.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Reques...

You wouldn't necessarily need an SQL frontend as it's readonly anyway, and there are multiple ways of letting SQLite access databases in S3 buckets, e.g. https://github.com/michalc/sqlite-s3-query

berlincounton Ask HN: How much info should founders share with early stage employees?

Confidentiality should be agreed on in a sane manner.

That said - full strategic insight into the vision and what‘s done to achieve it and welcoming input will engage employees in a very productive way, but requires free flow of information.

Usually, the benefits outweight the problems _by far_.

berlincounton Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features?

https://swedx.se has Digital Sinage products without Smart features - or tuner. Add what you need only. Also comes with touch.

berlincounton Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way

The first geothermal wells in Germany have exhausted their heat gradient; after less than 30 years … so, unless you’re actually in Iceland or the Canaries or something similar, this might not even sustainable for even one full generation …

berlincounton A 16th-century engineer whose work almost defeated the Ottomans

For people who love alternative history stories, the "Ring of Fire" series (starting with "1632", which you can get for free at http://www.baen.com/1632.html) is highly recommended.

The Suleyman portrait there (in http://ericflint.wikia.com/wiki/Ottoman_Empire) is also rather astute.

berlincounton What's the difference between the com and exe extensions? (2008)

My favorite .COM-file still:

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

(yes, you can just copy-paste it into a .COM-file and it will execute and just show a text - unless you've got a correctly working virus scanner)

This is a Virus Scanner test signature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file), so the fact alone that you can read this comment might be meaningful ;)