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nopenopenopeno··on Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot
A lot of people seem to think changing the variable names makes it new code.
nopenopenopeno··on Ask HN: My political party knows I haven't voted yet. How?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8u9ZbCJgQ
nopenopenopeno··on Programmers should plan for lower pay (2019)
Be careful. You’re approaching communist thought crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_value

nopenopenopeno··on Techniques which allow the sharing of data whilst keeping it secure
>The article doesn't need to make the presumption of innocence

Nor does the article have any business making the presumption of guilt, but it does exactly that.

I am criticizing what the article actually does, not expecting it to do something more.

All it takes is a person registering a name then receiving notification that others have registered the same name, then conflating that with evidence of guilt in the same exact manner the articles does.

If the article didn’t set such a good example of how to ruin an innocent person’s life, I wouldn’t be concerned.

nopenopenopeno··on Techniques which allow the sharing of data whilst keeping it secure
It’s very simple. Person registers a name then receives notification that others have registered the same name, then conflates that with evidence of guilt in the same exact manner the articles does.
nopenopenopeno··on Musk’s inner circle worked through weekend to cement Twitter layoff plans
Correct. In the US, all working people serve and exist under authoritarian regimes as a matter of life or death.
nopenopenopeno··on Techniques which allow the sharing of data whilst keeping it secure
The article’s claim is simply nonsense. As I quoted, the article literally says “they can discover if their abuser is a repeat offender” but in-fact they can only discover if any anonymous accusations have been registered.
nopenopenopeno··on Techniques which allow the sharing of data whilst keeping it secure
>they can discover if their abuser is a repeat offender without identifying themselves to the authorities

Nonsense. An anonymous accusation is all but meaningless, and is in no way similar to a conviction. This is some truly garbage journalism.

nopenopenopeno··on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
This is commonplace for decentralized protocols. Torrents are probably the most obvious example.
nopenopenopeno··on Downtown San Francisco is in trouble
The entire rust belt while you’re at it.
nopenopenopeno··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
HN is US-based. Most people on HN are from the US.
nopenopenopeno··on San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet
All government entities in the US are ultimately controlled by private corporations.
nopenopenopeno··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
In the US, we pretend to have a “democracy” when in fact a handful of competing and colluding corporations control everything. Is that any better?
nopenopenopeno··on San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet
>not enough laborers

Not enough wages. If the free market is good enough for everything else, why not for labor?

nopenopenopeno··on GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion
AI copyright drama is my favorite gossip these days because it can’t be reconciled until we accept that intelligence is created and held by societies, not individuals. Recent AI is a new way to exercise that intelligence, but it presents a major conflict with capitalism.
nopenopenopeno··on Ask HN: What's wrong with working on two remote jobs if you can perform?
And what is measured is not what becomes law, hence why I don’t care. The fact is the laws are direct results of hard fought labor battles, not productivity data or theories.
nopenopenopeno··on Ask HN: What's wrong with working on two remote jobs if you can perform?
I’m not taking any position on that. It’s irrelevant to my point.
nopenopenopeno··on Ask HN: What's wrong with working on two remote jobs if you can perform?
>But everyone believes that 40 hours is the peak

False. The 40 hour work week in the US was won on the backs of a militant labor movement in the earlier 21st century. Plenty of bosses and company owners around the world believe more working hours would increase productivity, and laws around the world vary quite a bit too.

nopenopenopeno··on I *detest* the crazy industry politics that made ECC memory so “special”
“In the 21st century, Karl Marx is probably the most famous critic of political economy, with his three volume magnum opus Capital: A Critique of Political Economy as one of his most famous books.”

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_political_economy

nopenopenopeno··on Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on
That too!
nopenopenopeno··on I *detest* the crazy industry politics that made ECC memory so “special”
The market is always downstream from politics. Karl Marx famously used the term political economy to reference both political and economic forces, because neither is coherent without the other.
nopenopenopeno··on Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on
>HSR fails cost/benefit analysis

It only fails the cost/profit analysis. The benefits are priceless when we consider the environmental impact.

nopenopenopeno··on In Canada it's illegal to call yourself software engineer
Is there any evidence that it is enforced at all?
nopenopenopeno··on How much have tech layoffs affected engineers vs. other departments?
It sounds like you are either being dishonest or you haven’t actually thought about this.
nopenopenopeno··on Oracle lays off more than 200 California-based workers
IIRC Oracle is also in the process of opening new offices in Guadalajara, Mexico.
nopenopenopeno··on Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
Equifax doesn’t care about that lol.
nopenopenopeno··on [dead]
Where on earth does this number come from?
nopenopenopeno··on For Best Results, Forget the Bonus
Bonuses that can be clawed back will never keep me around. I do generally appreciate my bosses, but I know better than to assume my hard work will be recognized. I work hard because I like being valuable. I stick around for a reliable income.

Also, I generally have low opinions of coworkers who do anything else. Those desperate for recognition usually sacrifice something else in the process.

nopenopenopeno··on Diesel engines can be converted to run on 90% hydrogen
Here’s the entire article:

The authors of this development say that the CO2 emissions were reduced by more than 85% compared to a regular unmodified diesel engine. Furthermore, hydrogen fuel recently became less expensive than diesel, which could mean that hybrid diesel-hydrogen engines could appear on the mass market, too.

“We have shown that we can take those existing diesel engines and convert them into cleaner engines that burn hydrogen fuel,” said Prof. Kook, one of the authors of the paper describing the results of this engineering study.

In order to make diesel engines run on hydrogen, the original fuel injection system remains in place. However, it is necessary to install an additional injector for hydrogen to deliver it directly into the cylinder.

The direct hydrogen injection must have the proper timing to achieve the best fuel mixture burning conditions, while also minimizing the residual emissions of toxic nitrogen oxide typical to all diesel engines.

Scientists say that they managed to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions below the levels of a regular diesel engine. The efficiency gains were also significant: in the diesel-hydrogen hybrid, the fuel efficiency was improved by more than 26%.

nopenopenopeno··on “Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run over (1900)
Clarks third law or whatever just reminds me of how “progress” is a religion in the liberal west. It’s not an observation but a declaration of some silly standards which are nonsensical to any mind not indoctrinated to the delusions of elite western liberalism. On top of that, it’s also outright pompous.
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