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psyfi··on ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire
> Respectfully, would you have made the same comment about 'finding a place in your heart for the humanity of the other' if we lived during the holocaust, where 'one side' was being maimed and killed by the other, more powerful side?

Yes..

> Should we _always_ be looking to find the humanity in the other side, or is there something fundamentally different here?

Yes..

psyfi··on Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse
> The article's claim that AI is responsible for a shrinking job market is tenuous at best.

It serves its purpose as a clickbait

psyfi··on Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone?
Why not email groups? (also known as mailing lists)

Email groups are still actively used, provides pretty much same user experience usenet provides, can be decentralized (federated), easier to filter spam, can apply moderation (approve contributions before publishing) and all of us already use email for a reason or another.

psyfi··on No salary wastes everyone's time
I like the rogue idea.
psyfi··on No salary wastes everyone's time
I tend to focus on what I can control:

I cannot make the job market makers play fair(?) game, but I can reach to current and past employees on linkedin and get the salary range myself, and discard interviews where it is hard to negotiate to an acceptable salary.

Also, some keywords in job ads shows more probabilty of lower than market salary, no company is really looking for someone who is looking for new challenges or who can wear many hats, they are just looking for affordable candidates

psyfi··on No salary wastes everyone's time
It is quite the opposite.

As a junior, you are more desperate for work to get experience, have less liabilities and would accept anything anyway, so the salary won't make much difference.

As a senior, your time worth more and you should not waste it on companies you are out of their league, you are less likely to accept a low salary as your liabilites need to be covered.

Yes, you can negotiate but your prespective assumes most companies would give you what you want eventually, which isn't true.

psyfi··on Ask HN: Could Usenet get revived, to replace the soon to be unusable Reddit?
Sounds like you are talking about lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/)
psyfi··on Ask HN: Could Usenet get revived, to replace the soon to be unusable Reddit?
Usenet would be perfect

Thunderbird still supports NNTP.

psyfi··on Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns
Not allowing your children to own a phone ≠ Force social isolation.
psyfi··on HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals
Boycott HP
psyfi··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
Most Muslim majority countries give one or more day before/after the expected day just in case
psyfi··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
وَلِتُكۡمِلُوا۟ ٱلۡعِدَّةَ وَلِتُكَبِّرُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ مَا هَدَىٰكُمۡ وَلَعَلَّكُمۡ تَشۡكُرُونَ :)
psyfi··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
Not unhealthy, unless you don't drink enough before dawn
psyfi··on Banning words won’t make the world more just
> If you break your legs and spend a few months in a wheelchair, you might not feel legitimate to use the term "disabled" in comparison to someone who has never been able to walk and suffers more from it.

I would say "I am hungry" even if I have food in the fridge, I do not need to compare myself to poor starving people and decide to say "I am currently hungry" or "I am in a situation of hunger"

> Not letting that disabilty define you as a person. I am not disabled, I am Sunderw, a complicated person with many different aspects.

also I am still a complicated person and hungry does not define my personality.

> Including more person means reducing stigma and reducing the gap between abled/disabled.

Actually, taking too many steps to think of how to describe a person with a certain medical situation already increases the stigma, I would feel more bad if people try to avoid calling me "sick" so I don't feel bad about being sick, this is even worse.

Imagine calling a midget "A person with less height" or some nonsense like that.

psyfi··on Banning words won’t make the world more just
Even worse, some people will use "people of determination" despite being more vague and non-descriptive
psyfi··on The US Air Force may have shot down an amateur radio pico balloon over Canada
Next: cracking down on mail pigeon carrying microfilms
psyfi··on HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card expires [video]
stop giving them ideas..
psyfi··on Pakistani gov degrades Wikipedia connections due to blasphemy
Because the law of a country (a very populated country) prohibits it.

In the same sense they supposedly would remove whatever violates hate speech laws or copyright laws in some other countries that the ones they operate in.

psyfi··on Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service
We need more seggregated colleges.
psyfi··on OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic
> Employers don't pay $5 per hour because they wouldn't make a profit either.

Nope, they might be able to make profit at $5 or $10/hr, but there it doesn't make sense to pay more than you have to, that's why Chinese devices are significantly cheaper than their western counterparts, they can still compete if they raise the prices but they can allocate cheap labor in china that allows them to become a strong competitor

psyfi··on Ask HN: Why do people still use Stripe?
downvoting this comment was a good way to prove it
psyfi··on Ask HN: Why do people still use Stripe?
How does this justify holding the whole business balance for months and provide no explaination or support to account owner?
psyfi··on Ask HN: Why do people still use Stripe?
Adding to that, Stripe can suspend service for a user without holding money for months with no communication.

Bad communication + holding all money for long time, is not fraud prevention, it is a horrible service, and this has been mentioned by dozens of business owners so far and is not a specific case.

psyfi··on Ask HN: Why do people still use Stripe?
> Any lessons that can be learned and shared here? Don't consider stripe reliable
psyfi··on OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium
I asked GPT if truth is relative or absolute, it told me that it is a complex subject and that different people see it differently, which implies that truth is relative, lol
psyfi··on Breaking RSA with a quantum computer?
Schnorr's "This distroyes the RSA cryptosystem"?
psyfi··on Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world
There is nothing wrong about having male dominated roles and female dominated roles, pushing equity down everyone's throat only profits corporation exploiting the less fortuned.

It is well known in healthcare that women are better nurses and males are better surgeons, in general.

psyfi··on Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
Gitlab CI
psyfi··on Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
Fail2ban might help

Even with IP rotation, a proxy website would probably generate more traffic than normal from these few IPs, tweak fail2ban vars so you to make it less likely to trigger on false positives (larger number of requests / larger amount of time) but block the violating IPs for long period, few days for example.

I hope it helps

psyfi··on It’s Time to Reaffirm Our First Amendment Right to Boycott
So what you are saying that it is okay to restrict freedoms based on guesses of people intentions?

> and it's no one

Which means they don't boycott other jews owned business, which invalidates your mental gymnastics.

> when you start asking them detailed questions about what's going on in Israel and they have no clue

So it is okay to outlaw boycotting if X country if some of the boycotters deny to share their intent?

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