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intarga··on Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure
I ask that question, not because I haven’t been screwed by the banking system, but because everyone I see in the crypto space is out to screw people even harder.

Your comment presupposes that crypto solves the problem of perverse incentives. Really, it just worsens them.

intarga··on Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion in one
As for (1), one of my decks has ~10,000 mature cards currently gives me ~3-5 reviews per day.

If you plan on sustaining dozens of new cards per day indefinitely, you’ll bury yourself in reviews, but spaced repetition does ensure that if your recall rate is high, review count degrades over time, and eventually becomes negligible. I go through periods of daily new cards when I’m focused on learning something, and periods of review and consolidation. If my daily reviews get over 200, it’s time to let the new cards rest for a while.

intarga··on The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
I’m in Norway, and I tried the first search “rema 1000” without getting any spam results on the first two pages…

That doesn’t entirely eliminate the other possibilities though, google search isn’t deterministic, and the domain could have been reported since the article went up.

intarga··on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home
Something doesn’t add up about that story. I’ve lived in the UK, council housing and unemployment benefits are meagre.
intarga··on Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
Hey, author here.

I hope it does age poorly. I tried to make it clear that I’m a prolific user of decentralised applications, and that I really want them to succeed. I just pointed out my feelings on why they usually don’t, in the hope we can do something about it.

intarga··on What nobody says about startup moms
What is unacceptable to me is why this question is never asked of Fathers. I don’t think anyone would blink at hearing that a dad only sees his kids on weekends, but is it not just as harmful?

Ultimately though, I fail to understand why anyone without the proper time to devote to a child would chose to have one.

intarga··on How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)
Also made mostly redundant by shopt autocd
intarga··on Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again
Monogamy can also be considered a source of risk depending on circumstances.

People who want to have lots of sex, will still feel those desires in a monogamous relationship. Monogamy might make them less likely to act on those feelings, but it will make them less likely to test regularly, and stop them from being open with their partners about risks, and prevents clear communication about establishing safe sex practices.

If my partner has sex with someone else, I want them to feel safe enough to tell me. That way I can make decisions such as using protection with them that I might not otherwise, or getting tested myself, which I would not be able to otherwise.

intarga··on The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
You can do all of those things in all four of the editors discussed.
intarga··on Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients
> The D3 produced in your body because of sun exposure doesn't have to go through the liver.

Most people don’t have access to that much sunlight, whether it’s because they have to spend most of the day working indoors, or, like me, they live in a polar region where you literally can’t get sun most of the year.

While it may be better for your liver not to have more to process, I highly doubt taking vitamin supplements is worse than living with a deficiency.

Also, in polar cultures, eating large amounts of vitamin D rich foods is exactly what people have been doing for thousands of years, without it causing health problems. And I can tell you from experience, that failing to get that vitamin D WILL cause health problems.

intarga··on Body by Victoria (2009)
The parent comment is not talking about the model’s actual appearance, but rather what is done to them artificially above that. The correct analogy in athletes would be doping.
intarga··on After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
You don't avoid them, you ignore them, and being able to ignore them is a political privilege. A child in an ICE internment camp does not have that privilege.
intarga··on After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
"Concentration camp" as a term pre-dates the Nazis, and has a specific meaning, which does apply here.

>A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group the government has identified as suspect.

I would also note that the term does not apply to places where people in Nazi Germany were gassed or cremated, those have a separate term: death camps.

intarga··on Running Linux on My MacBook
About sway, if you don’t mind using Firefox, that works natively under Wayland. On another note though, the reason I don’t use sway, is that I couldn’t figure out how to get inertial scrolling working... Did you manage this, or just not bother with inertial scrolling?
intarga··on Principles and priorities
You misunderstood that line, they're saying the command line utilities are cumbersome
intarga··on Ubuntu Deepin Desktop Environment
I’m one of them and we do. Why do you think we wouldn’t? They’re not lacking any capability, and we generally create them because they’re more efficient for our workflows.
intarga··on Using Anki to remember what you read
I don't see that there's any difference in responding "Again" to an expired card vs reclassing that card as new. When I'm catching back up on an old deck I just turn new card off and limit my reviews until I've worked through the backlog this way.
intarga··on “We Don't Need a Project Manager”
The means of production for a programmer is not always as simple as just a computer.

At my last job I wrote a driver for a proprietary framework to talk to closed hardware units, which made lots of money. I could not have done this without the company's license as a developer for the framework, or without the protocol specification for the hardware units. In this case, the company I worked for owned the means of production, not me, so it's perhaps unsurprising that I got a very tiny cut of the fruits of my labour.

intarga··on Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings
Just wanted to point out that Valentines day is originally a European tradition.
intarga··on Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
And the only difference with mushrooms is that you're more open minded. Caffeine also has withdrawal symptoms which psilocybin doesn't, and the LD50 (overdose threshold) is orders of magnitude lower for coffee than mushrooms.
intarga··on How housing became the world’s biggest asset class
> nobody is "making it appreciate"

> political/policy constraints

You just found exactly who is making it appreciate

intarga··on Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'
I don't think raegis was suggesting there are only two options, but simply had qualms with the way it was compared to slavery.
intarga··on Mozilla lays off 70
We're not talking about "anyone with differing opinions", we're talking about a specific person who publicly denounced their coworkers based on their gender and sexuality.
intarga··on How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance
I think the comment you're replying to was sarcasm
intarga··on Dealing with Loneliness
I used to do road biking, but I imagine the same will apply to mountainbiking. Find a group ride in your area and start going on it consistently. On the calm stretches there's plenty of chance to pull up alongside people and have a conversation. Push conversations beyond mountainbiking, learn about these people and teach them about yourself. When you find someone you like, who seems to also like you, invite them to hang out outside the group and take it from there.

The hard part is getting the first 1-3 friends to bootstrap your social network. Once you're at that point your friends will introduce you to others, and your network will blossom organically.

intarga··on Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
Assuming 2% inflation for 4 years, the inflation adjusted price of the 6S is $702. The 11 is actually cheaper.
intarga··on New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality
Your reaction is totally normal. I think it's because the discussion comes from a male perspective, as given to an audience that is assumed to be male.

>Bonus points if you can tell me how the hell you cope with seeing stuff like this.

I think the solution is simply not to engage with it. The topic is indeed worth discussing, but only when women are given an equal part in the conversation. As you can see by the fact that I'm commenting here though, I've failed to take my own advice...

>but I don't want to bet on myself being even MORE of an outlier than the men who achieve what I want to

FWIW I don't think you need to worry, I've yet to see any evidence that women in tech are any less capable than men. Most of the discussion seems to revolve around men trying to justify why we're underrepresented.

intarga··on Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality
> We have general relativity. Newtonian gravity is kept around for legacy's sakes and ease of calculation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_general_relati...

> This is why climate change advocates are so disappointing. The complete lack of understanding of science and yet that ignorance makes them pretend they are an authority on science.

And are you an authority? I'll concur that I'm not, my field is cosmology. However, all my contemporaries in climate science seem to support the consensus, and here's a source that 97% of publishing climate scientists do [0]. They are an authority, and I think I'll believe them over an armchair intellectual trying to sow doubt on the internet.

[0] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ERL....11d8002C/abstra...

intarga··on Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality
>If climate change was a developed science and we understood climate change adequately, we wouldn't have so many climate change models. We would have ONE.

In physics we have a dozen different models of gravity, yet we're still pretty sure that if you jump out of a building you're going to fall downward.

intarga··on Google’s fires four organizers after hiring union-busting firm
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm...

If it's not, consider this: If an employer really is fair and unexploitative to their employees, the employees have nothing to gain by unionising.

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