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spelledwrong··on Norway Shrugged (2024)
> I have to either get money from somewhere

Take out another (slightly larger) loan against the stock. As long as the stock grows faster than the interest rate, you should be able to chain loans together forever. You need to only borrow a portion of the value of the collateral to provide a buffer from volatility, but that should also mean the loan is very safe and thus at a low interest rate.

To close the loophole you would need to be able to tax borrowed money which creates its own set of dangers.

spelledwrong··on We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
You said “named after” when you meant “named after an idea popularized by”.

If you type one thing and expect people to understand that you meant something else then I will have to assume that by this:

>>people who do post grads tend to be well rounded enough to have read a bit of philosophy, or at least, they did in my day.

you meant you once visited a university but never enrolled in any classes?

You can complain that people on the internet misunderstand on purpose (and I agree it is far to common), but that complaint is only valid if you communicate clearly yourself.

spelledwrong··on We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
>>that guy is no longer with the project and does brave now iirc

Foucault is dead.

>>(it's super interesting to us that two different people took such a wild leap btw)

It's super interesting to me that you expected people to make the wild leap from “named after a pedophile” to a project that wasn't even named after a person.

You chose to communicate poorly to make a point and are now complaining when the point turned out to not even be true.

You could have said 'Panopticlick' and people would have known what you were talking about. Instead, you left the name out and instead pointed out the rename and the “fact” that it was previously named after a pedophile. The obvious implication is that it was renamed to cover this up.

The smug tone of your follow-up leads met to the conclusion that you had some “fun” trivia from a class you took one time, and you prioritised showing that off over clear communication (while falsely implying some kind of cover-up of wrongdoing by the EFF).

spelledwrong··on We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
Funny you mention Wikipedia

You said it was “named after a pedophile”, that is wrong

>>The word panopticon derives from the Greek word for "all seeing" – panoptes.

The concept was invented by Jeremy Bentham, who died before Foucault was born.

Interesting that you named your HN account after a famous homophobe.

spelledwrong··on We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
>We are aware that EFF has a project that used to be named after a pedophile on this subject

You bring this up like it's a well known incident, but my googling can find no evidence of it? The only reason not say the name of the project would be if it's common knowledge, but it's not?

ChatGPT research reckons you're making it up, and I'd be curious if you have evidence to the contrary?

spelledwrong··on Bing Search API Pricing Update
ahrefs is mostly SEO but has a search engine at https://yep.com
spelledwrong··on OsmAnd 4.3 for Android devices
Non-blockchain open review aggregator:https://mangrove.reviews/ still no import though.
spelledwrong··on Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
https://mangrove.reviews/ exists but has almost no users. As far as I know, there's currently only the main instance, but the software is open source and they provide regular database dumps.
spelledwrong··on Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs
yep.com is remarkably similar to fairsearch.com, another search engine built by ahrefs which advertises a revenue share. In fact, “Read the story behind Fairsearch” and “Story behind Yep" on their respective home pages both link to the same blog post. Also, both websites have identical 'bot' pages (https://fairsearch.com/fairbot and https://yep.com/yepbot).