headShrinker

What is right, and moral is I and we should have the ability to delete something I wrote 13 years ago. Not allowing users to delete past comments because the website fears they will lose value, is taking advantage of unpaid labor. I own my words, that's my value to give or take. What is right is offering a delete link to posts and accounts. Even Facebook does this. Facebook.

That’s not compensation. That’s companionship. There’s a difference.

(Look Dang, no name calling)

Delete my content! Just as Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Google, reddit or any other big tech firm would do.

Irrelevant to our concerns here. What other people do with other information is not my concern. What HN does with my information is of direct concern and legal consequence.

Then that’s a problem. If my content is worth something then I should be paid or is should have a delete button. This isn’t trivial. I’m well versed in copyright. I have copyrights and receive in software, and from record labels. Compensation or deletion, there is no middle ground. Period

My job is not to facilitate someone else’s needs and wants. The problem here is a lack of a delete button. That is primus here. I don’t have to answer your question. You have to answer mine.

No. No it’s not a dupe. Just as if FB still hadn’t changed one of their boneheaded policies a year after it was raised as a concern the first time.

You aren’t missing anything. Everything is public and I am an open book about this situation. I’m a privacy advocate, I delete accounts on social media from time to time, just not on HN, thus the posts. I have chatted with dang, posted, and emailed HN.

If my comments are not handy, delete them. If they are handy then I deserve compensation. If I created it I can destroy it. If I created it and was not compensated then I maintain ownership and copyright control. Delete them now! This has been fought in courts and won.

Bad solution to a bad problem caused by bad reasoning from bad administration.

I did ask. They won’t.

Dang, you may remember I asked you to wipe out and delete my account months ago. [1] You didn't and wouldn't. Needless to say it left me disappointed in HN and you personally. You insist that a full deletion of my account would ruin the readability of HN, therefore you will not comply. This is my writing that you are reading. I should have the right to remove my creations if I so chose, or at least edit them one by one, including but not exclusive to name calling. I have no tolerance for garbage reasoning by some of the users you allow to exist here. I have no time for them either. My recent candor reflects that.

I have lost faith in NH because of your administration choices. My rhetoric reflects that lost of faith. If you ban me, fine. I sleep well at night, but I demand you delete my comments as well. I demand it! Once you delete my comment and account, ban me, please.

My words are mine. My comments are mine. If I chose to be forgotten and deleted, that should be and is my choice. My personal freedoms, my writing and my copyright are more important that your HN readability.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23622865

The problem started in the 80s when Jack welsh was CEO. He thought it would be fun to invest in all sorts of specialized debt. At the time it made GE‘s balance sheets look great. Then the debt obligations started to show up, that’s when things got bad. But not before Jack Welch retired with one of the biggest golden parachutes of all time.

https://moneyinc.com/largest-golden-parachutes-ever/

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Sorry. I glossed over reading your whiny complaints.

> Why does Jobs command such rabid adulation?

Why? Because he was interesting and strange. He tapped in to the zeitgeist and ran circles around all other tech hardware companies. He pushed his teams, other companies and society to bend to his influence. His company did things people didn’t think was possible. In fact, with the iPhone, the culmination of all of his projects, he made every other tech CEO look like complete assholes. All cellphones, all telcos, and everyone that didn’t have an iPhone all of the sudden looked slightly lame.

Your comment has ‘woke’ undertones, and I am So Over It

Not every historically significant person is nice or fair. Some of them were truly mean spirited, some did things in their past we now consider wrong. That doesn’t mean you get to cancel them from history. Stop trying to control everyone’s objectivity. I decide what is interesting, fascinating and bizarre for myself. Steve Jobs was interesting.

There is something truly awful in everyone’s past. It’s just a matter of if we found out about it before we decide to cancel you, too.

Good technology is transparent. If advancements are done right, you would notice much difference.

The truth is, not that much was different between 2000 and 2010 or 1990 and 2000. But 2010 and 2020? This last decade has marked such massive improvements in ways we aren't noticing, and in things we aren't using. Everything from cameras with resolutions and ISOs that are off the charts, OLED, LiPo Battery density, robotics with walking and flight, guidance, wireless transmission and encoding/decoding, Machine learning in everything including your phone, and our phones... they are amazing pieces of kit. Oh, reusable rockets that land themselves! Cars that literally drive themselves. Spot, the robot dog? Right in my office right now, ultra-thin laptops, compact high quality microphones, headphones with unbelievable noise-canceling, 3-axis gimbals, 10-bit n-log external recorders, wireless solar powered remote security cameras, drones with amazing stabilized video quality that you used to need a helicopter to shoot, and on and on and on. The last decade has been insane, turning future dream tech in to Walmart black-friday super sale items. You may not appreciate or even notice the tech advancements in the last 10 years but they have been monstrous compared to any other decade.

Actually humans have cannabinoid receptors. They are components of the hormone transmission in all animals, sans-(insects and Protozoa). Ironically, aspirin interacts with the human cannabinoid system to produce most of its medical benefits.

> “ Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are COX-2 inhibitors that work, in part, by reducing the enzymatic degradation of the endocannabinoid anandamide ”

The human endocannabinoid system has vast and far-reaching implications regarding pain, inflammatory system and metobolic regulation.

> “ Studies at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Maryland cloned the G-coupled protein receptor (GPCR) in 1990, which is the target for endogenous cannabinoid ligands, and named it, “Cannabinoid Receptor 1 (CB1 or CBR1). This receptor belongs to the Class A rhodopsin-like family of GPCRs [3]. A few years later, the second GPCR: “Cannabinoid Receptor 2” (CB2 or CBR2) was cloned [4]. The CB1 and the CB2 receptors participate in numerous essential biological processes [5]. Some of these are: Neuronal plasticity [6], pain [7], anxiety [8], inflammation [9], neuro-inflammation [10], immune function [11], metabolic regulation [12], and bone growth [13].”

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6770351/

This isn’t royalties, IP, or trolls. This is licensing and if you don’t like it you can take a hike cause licensing keeps people fair. Without it everyone could and would take everything and anything protected under copyright.

I have a right to control the works that I have made. I don’t care who you are, if you blatantly steal my work and claim it as your own you better lawyer up cause I’m coming after you! Just as any software developer would, open-source or not.

Hopefully, the US will be willing and hungry to allow, and even prioritize, US tech companies to develop completing technology. DJI's Digital transmission and decoding, range, as well as their controllers, apps, and UI are superior to any of our consumer tech.

Meanwhile, all the local soccer moms have bent the ear of local politicians and parks & rec directors, marking public shared spaces with "No Drone" signs.

This is going to be tech that is needed and wanted for our beautiful futuristic future, or only other countries will have it... and with it they will have a major tech lead. Which is where we are now... :(

Firing in FAANGs is very thorough process as others have comments. The activist likely broke company protocol at some point, otherwise the company would be inviting a wrongful termination suit.

Something that is mostly unstated but widely understood is MeToo started as a good worthy and needed movement. Then people were dragged to the courts of public opinion never having been accused of any criminal misconduct, where the only apparent wrong doing was hurt feelings or making some feel uncomfortable. This turned MeToo from activist protest group in to a rogue militia twitter posse who is seeking out its next targets to drag through the muck. Unconfirmed and baseless accusations are deemed an acceptable part of their MO. If there was a self proclaimed MeToo activist leader in a company they would likely attract a lot of attention, both positive and negative.

Just as they have targeted others and they themselves have targets.

> You didn't refute any of his points

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" OP provided no evidence, so I dismissed without evidence.

> it's one of the most blatant examples of debasing a currency I can imagine

No. QE is. look it up. Actually minting a coin is smart.

There is no difference. There is no difference whether you are alive or dead. If you are dead you wouldn't know it. See, fatalism and moral ambiguity works in all different ways. Fun!

The difference between is smart argument and a straw man is nuance. You have none.

Peter Schiff is a broken clock that was right once in the last 20 years. Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

> It would also destroy the confidence in US Dollar worldwide,

No it wouldn't

> provide further proof that Biden is indeed an idiot,

Idiot or not, the coin is actually a solid move.

> and basically pushed the US to the slippery slope,

Nope.

> that ends with the US economy being in the same condition as Venezuelan.

TF?! Not at all. You do not belong in this conversation. You have no clue what you are talking about.

> Even when countries were on the gold standard, they still had fractional reserve banking. If a troy ounce of gold was $100 , the bank had one ounce of gold and three separate people had a $100 bill, any one of them could go to the bank and get the gold, as long as not all of them did.

Fractional Reserve is easier to understand as debt than as an asset. A bank is given $1000 from a central bank. The bank can now loan that $1000 with interest for a total of $1100. The bank is allowed to loan that debt promise at a fraction reserve rate of 7-1 or 5-1 as loans to other customers. The $1100 promise can be loaned as $800 plus interest for the total loan value of $880. That can then be loaned out as $660 including interest. Then $440 can be loaned out. Then $220.

So the original $1000 from the central bank was used to create $3300 worth of debt.

Money is created using debt promises.

“ The giant sequoia is the fastest growing conifer on earth given the right conditions. We expect 4 feet of upward growth in the third year for trees in large pots and one-inch plus growth rings. They have the potential to grow faster every year. Giant sequoias grow rapidly tall and less dense when the rising and setting sun is blocked. They quit growing tall rapidly once they reach full sun. Once they reach full sun they begin to grow a thick trunk, dense foliage, and rapidly put on weight.”

https://www.giant-sequoia.com/faqs/giant-sequoia-landscape-q...

Supplements are an unregulated market so doses can vary wildly, even with melatonin.

‘A study published in 2017 tested 31 different melatonin supplements purchased from pharmacies and grocery stores. For most of the supplements tested, the amount of melatonin in the product did not match what was listed on the label.”’

Melatonin Natural Health Products and Supplements: Presence of Serotonin and Significant Variability of Melatonin Content https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5263083/

Just curious where all the Apple CSAM defenders are when information like this comes to light. All the "I have nothing to hide people", don't understand they don't control when or how the information is used or if the information is even accurate. Your information is power given to an invisible fist, that you will need to defend yourself against.

> NBC News reported last year how one Gainesville, Fla. resident whose information was given by Google to police investigating a burglary was able to prove his innocence thanks to an app on his phone that tracked his fitness activity.

He was forced to prove his innocence because a tech company gave incorrect information as incontrovertible 'evidence'. Everyone let that sink in as your spyPhone scans all your photos looking for 'evidence'.

You don't have access to all the information they collected and they don't share it with you even if it will prove your innocence. All prosecutors want is a persecution and they don't care if they have the wrong person. Giving them information is equivalent to slowly closing the steel door of the jail cell you didn't realize you were standing in.

You’re splitting hairs. Feinstein was mostly alone in her convictions but not completely.

Again: > In the United States, there is effectively nobody in this position. The committee hearings on anti-trust and encryption have little overlap between interested parties or ideology.

> there is effectively nobody in this position.

Wrong. There are people and Feinstein is a great example of someone who worked quite hard to kill encryption while also being on various committees handling anti-trust.

If her anti-encryption bill passed or if she was able to push through some anti-trust through the Judiciary committee she would brag about it in her reelection campaign.

Feinstein is perfect model for someone who would gladly tout her legacy while on the judiciary committee and equally her accomplishments on a national security subcommittee.

You are wrong sir, now tuck your tail and go away. I’m done wasting my time with you. But now I know you quite well, you are a narcissist and you have to have the final word. So go ahead and prove me right…

Just off the top of my head there are a few people that come to mind.

“After the 2016 FBI–Apple encryption dispute, Feinstein and Richard Burr sponsored a bill that would be likely to criminalize all forms of strong encryption in electronic communication between citizens”

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein

She was on senate subcommittees that handles all sorts of legality for technology companies.

* Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism * Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Refugees

* Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law

* Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law (Chair, 117th Congress)

From her gov CV page: “The Judiciary Committee has one of the broadest jurisdictions in the Senate, ranging from criminal justice and immigration issues to antitrust and intellectual property law.“

Source: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/thejudicia...