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dragonbonheur··on A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025
https://qb64.com/
dragonbonheur··on Mark Sibly died at the beginning of December after struggling with health issues
Here is what he was known for https://github.com/blitz-research
dragonbonheur··on Don't Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AI
https://web.archive.org/web/20240607130943/https://www.wired...
dragonbonheur··on Microsoft Future Vision [video]
The Recall feature was planned long ago.
dragonbonheur··on [dead]
Because the right wing uses messaging that encourages people to think by analogy instead of thinking by first principles.

They pre digest and select information and feed those to the reptilian layers of their audiences' brains rather than present detailed information so that people can make decisions by themselves.

That's why most of their messaging is driven by fear: fear of other countries, fear of other people with different skin colour, fear of being replaced, fear of their women marrying or mating with minorities, fear of their jobs going away to other people.

Still with all their fear, right wingers prefer to listen to someone who pre-digests information for them rather than thinking by themselve, as long as that person's messaging is in sync with their fears, as long as their brains confirms the thoughts that are analoguous to their fears.

That is why the right wing has such an assortment of people with vastly different abilities. The range goes from Donald Trump (self-proclaimed stable genius, also Emperor-with-no clothes), Dave Rubin (Stokes fear for Koch money), Kellyanne Conway (everything for money), Fox "News" hosts (money money money and white like me or trying to be), Candace Owens (black but gimme da money and I'll say anything against my people), Alex Jones (just plain crazy but gets his money selling bone broth), to Jordan Peterson (education is evil but I'm an intellectual) or Steve Bannon (Schemes like Codfix).

These people appeal to right wing audiences because they think they are a diverse group and thus have concensus amongst a broad swath of society while the only thing that they really have in common is hate.

In reality the USA has always been right wing to some degree, but now that part of American culture just like the rest is spreading to other countries because of measures such as the spread of poverty, cuts to government services, cuts to education, offshoring and their governments just having zero plans for the benefit of local populations in the near of far future.

dragonbonheur··on 习近平同意大利总统举行会谈
Cooperation works better than antagonism. I think Italy will gain more from cooperating with China and the Belt and Road initiative than if they listened to the Trump Administration simply because the USA as no plan whatsoever for the future and neither does the European Union in some way.
dragonbonheur··on The C-- Language Specification (2005) [pdf]
The other project named C-- http://c--sphinx.narod.ru/indexe.htm
dragonbonheur··on Ask HN: How can I learn how to paint?
Bob Ross and Porfirio Jimenez videos on Youtube.
dragonbonheur··on America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
Donkey.bas was most likely written as an educational exercise, although IBM ordered it. Microseft needed to show people how to code with their interpreters and compulers too, so Donkey.bas is not that sophisticated.

Gates was responsible for writing the first Altair Microsoft BASIC interpreter, except the bootloader, the software for the Kyotronic clones (designed in collaboration with Kay Nishi and licenced to Kyocera, Tandy and others).

Gates also had ample experience in programming minicomputers such as DEC PDP series together with Paul Allen.

You can read all about it in all the Bill Gates biographies out there.

dragonbonheur··on Apple nukes Facebook app cert after Zuck's crew abused it to slurp private data
I've had to edit the title in El'Reg style because the original title was too long "Furious Apple revokes Facebook's enty app cert after Zuck's crew abused it to slurp private data"

There's really no need to destroy anyone over it. There are worse things in the world to get mad about.

dragonbonheur··on People Renting Out Their Facebook Accounts for Cash and Free Laptops
As an option for everyone, not just a select few influencers. You're more likely to buy a Lenovo Carbon laptop if one of your friends post an ad about it than if Kylie Jenner posted about it.
dragonbonheur··on People Renting Out Their Facebook Accounts for Cash and Free Laptops
It's cool that such opportunities exist - basic capitalism. I always thought that Facebook should ether hare revenue for great content with its users (who they like to call their "community" but apparently their door swings only one way) or that companies should emerge that pay users to share ads to their followers as predicted by Bill Gates in "The Road Ahead" and "Business at the Speed of Thought".
dragonbonheur··on Being collateral damage in the culture wars of the West
If you have an opinion on two comparable things, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY ENTITLED TO KEEP SAID OPINION TO YOURSELF AND NOT PARADE IT IN PUBLIC FORUMS. Else if you choose to make allegations using words like "his person likes to stir up attention with baseless accusations when her profit-seeking machinations" "she was whining" "cooter-shower miniskirt" "combination of her greed and manipulativeness" "sjw" then I am at liberty to think nothing more of you beside a hate-filled entitled scoundrel of the same type as the orange ersatz of a coprolith that currently occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and would deem any opinion that you may have or may have had as utterly worthless and repulsive as the semi-solid waste output that emerges from the rear end of the bovine species.
dragonbonheur··on Being collateral damage in the culture wars of the West
And where have you seen that she was not born female? Where did that come from? Please, please, please give PROOF for your statement, because if you fail to do so, your entire comment falls apart.
dragonbonheur··on Being collateral damage in the culture wars of the West
And where are your Show HN's to justify you being so high-and-mighty?
dragonbonheur··on Being collateral damage in the culture wars of the West
You're speculating too much here. Calm down a little. Your last two paragraphs are basically unsubstantiated. And if she's "attention seeking" What are the other millions of Youtubers doing, scratching and sniffing? Also, did you have to create another Greenhorn account just to write that nonsense?
dragonbonheur··on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich and Americans Agree
From https://investinganswers.com/ --

The marginal tax rate is the percentage of tax applied to your income for each tax bracket in which you qualify. In essence, the marginal tax rate is the percentage taken from your next dollar of taxable income above a pre-defined income threshold.

The marginal tax rate includes federal, state and local income taxes, as well as federal payroll and self-employment taxes. This differs from the average tax rate, which is the total tax paid as a percentage of total income earned.

dragonbonheur··on Elon Musk's layoff letter to Tesla employees
Basic incompetence + complete inhumanity + a completely corrupt political system that can be purchased by corporate interest at the expense of the common folk.

In my country (and most others outside of the US I'm sure (even China does employment law better the the US https://www.chinalawblog.com/2017/02/china-employee-terminat...) ) there's legal precedent and legislation to prevent employers from firing people without sufficient reasons and also to penalize employers who break a promise of employment.

The USA however is too corrupt to care for its citizens (HN usually DEMANDS the 'sauce' so here's the 'sauce' https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli....

dragonbonheur··on Ask HN: What should I offer to my 2 years old to teach him logic?
Let him be a 2 year old BABY and give him some big colourful blocks that he won't choke on.

The kid is just a BABY and won't turn into an engineer for at least 10 more revolutions around this star.

dragonbonheur··on 'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe
Looks like the rest of the world is about to catch up with Jean-Pierre Petit's theories about negative masses surrounding positive mass objects like galaxies and holding them together... Even the proposal for the modification of Einstein's theories... Times are a'changin.

It took almost ten years (2007-2017) from JPP being shunned by the scientific community (and the highly politicised French Wikipedia) to others "discovering" the same things he had been saying all along. https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0067

http://jp-petit.org/papers/cosmo/2018-AstrophysSpaceSci.pdf

You may give yourselves the smallest pat on the back in the universes.

dragonbonheur··on [dead]
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, apparently... And David P. Barash wants to become Satan.

No, it's NOT time to breed humanzees or Chimphumans and vindicate Alex Jones. It IS time to give legal protections to species that live in their own society and pass on culture and language through teaching and observation - sentient species like corvids, dolphins, apes and whales.

Stop trying to hide madness by cloaking it with the false pretense of intellectualism. David P. Barash should retire STAT.

dragonbonheur··on Ask HN: What is the source of Evil?
Read "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins.
dragonbonheur··on Ask HN: Do you know any framework to write content with a clear structure?
Use FreePlane and make a mind map of how you define your information. Then change the layout of the mind map https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyMXjA_6yvI
dragonbonheur··on Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away
Except that I never said taking a pay cut or working part time were tax avoidance. Also, normal people don't usually set up tax-exempt foundations that hire them as "board members" to "give their money away".
dragonbonheur··on Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away
Avoiding taxes does not lead to less military spending. Amazon and GE usually pay less federal taxes than the average US citizen but have plenty of lobbyists shoving money into politicians' pockets, just like most defense contractors.

You're better off fighting the influence of money in politics if you want your taxes to be well spent

www.wolf-pac.com

dragonbonheur··on Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away
For a long time he withheld taxation money that could have gone to education and infrastructure. The fact that he gave money away when it was most convenient to him WHILE NORMAL PEOPLE HAD TO PAY EVERY TIME, ON TIME, does not excuse his despicable behavior.
dragonbonheur··on Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away
Basis one, served: https://www.economist.com/node/9903943

Bases N, served. https://www.google.com/search?q=chuck+feeney+tax+evasion

Peruse at leisure.

dragonbonheur··on Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away
Yup. Still not impressed.

Him having to go to the Bahamas to sign everything away means he profited a lot from tax "optimization".

Clear enough?

dragonbonheur··on Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away
Not impressed. Foundations are just another way to avoid taxes for some people, especially when their finances are managed from offshore accounts in countries like the Bahamas. Often, the foundations pay their "benefactors" a salary and "donate" just enough property and resources for the "benefactors" to get by, lavishly. [1]

If you want to do good, donate your company to your employees.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC9jTqhJBh4

dragonbonheur··on Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
It's the reduction of uncertainty.
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