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yomkippur··on Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity
We just take 3 meals a day for granted without asking where this movement really came out of. Hint: agriculture/produce won't do well if people only eat 1 meal a day.

Eating one/two meals a day is something that nobody talks about as much as this other food conscious movements like gluten, carbs, now keto. All of this seems driven at pushing demand towards certain sector.

yomkippur··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
was just gonna ask how you would handle DKIM and SPF stuff. Hetzner? Digitalocean?
yomkippur··on Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called Cloudflare (2020)
nope there are definitely moderators on HN
yomkippur··on Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called Cloudflare (2020)
he means the burner account that submitted this article is doing so to downplay KF's boot from Cloudflare by invoking the sentiments of an old article that really doesn't justify its decision.

phantom_of_cato had all of his replies flagged and removed in today's thread.

yomkippur··on Blocking Kiwifarms
You mean after they ruin people's lives?

Obviously they posed enough of a threat to human lives that a publicly traded company would distance them immediately.

Doesn't take much to figure this out. This is not some censorship or content moderation.

It appears people have trouble distinguishing between platforms that promote terrorism/violence vs free speech.

This weird extreme idealistic version of freedom of speech doesn't include harming humans or threatening peace.

yomkippur··on Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final
Somebody made millions of dollars by rigging the olympics like this. Sports betting on dozens of off-shore locations.

Really crazy how much influence some people have.

yomkippur··on HashiCorp’s multi-product strategy
think a lot of saas/developer tools/open source in corporate clothing are manipulating opinions, flagging, censoring criticisms. you can buy HN votes/aged accounts like Reddit.

noticed this especially when a YC company is in the submission. its funny because all they are doing is selling to the same buyers (many who are also YC companies) creating a sorta ponzi scheme where you constantly have a supply of "IPO ready" to take advnatage of the bubble which is now bursting and you have increased astroturfing

HN used to be above this. I feel increasingly that many submissions are just purely marketing hidden under a FREE sign.

yomkippur··on HashiCorp’s multi-product strategy
not a very useful comment. if you got any rebuttal please fell free to share but the second half of what i wrote probably effects your future if you are in YC or a VC.

enjoy the ever costly capital as rates go to the moon!

yomkippur··on HashiCorp’s multi-product strategy
you are describing different scenarios here with different scope and i did not say to use web console only
yomkippur··on HashiCorp’s multi-product strategy
I never use terraform. I use web console first and then if something really needs to be automated I use bash script to string together aws cli. If anything gets more complex than that I do not automate it, instead I use CDK to essentially write infrastructure just like any code.

There is a lot of time wasted in learning a DSL and than wrestling with the limits of what it can do. For most infrastructure scaffolding you can get away with just CLI and anything longer should require something as natural as CDK.

I also will never use Azure or Google! Why should I waste time learning DSL and it's syntaxes when I am using the best Infrastructure as Code provided by AWS? The UI is familiar and I can always reach into CLI to quickly experiment and web console for learning what each parameter does.

Sure there is value in using Terraform but I think all it does is just another Kubernetes type of busywork. 20% gain for 80% investment. Not really a good way to spend your hours, sort of like writing tests before you write code from scratch.

We will disagree but I trust my experience than what I'm told to do exactly because I realize these standards are largely just dog whistling junior developers eager to please their managers to get them on a "free" solution that ultimately bubbles up to the C-suite with some McKinsey or Forrester branded market analysis pdf attached with setting up next steps.

Not only has big corporate interests invaded consumer interest, they've hijacked the open source movement, into just series of raising money and hoping for a large IPO payout or acquisition by other corporate whales. This is why these days avoid popular opinions/standards, especially when large number of people push for them on social media.

TLDR; HashiCorp is a good example of how to use open source offering as a trojan horse to boost the personal wealth of it's investors and founders and I am increasingly wary of "standards" or generating voluntary champions within companies to parrot and becomes salesman for a bit of glory and recognition. THIS NEEDS TO STOP. Very few end up surviving the test of time. Relational database and Java is stronger than ever. Javascript took a good decade to become recognized but it's still treated as a different class than boring technology. Boring and straight forward is resilient, novelty and complex is not.

yomkippur··on Show HN: EthicalAds – Privacy-first ad network for developers
i like your attitude and i will consider putting your ads
yomkippur··on Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator
I wonder if this will happen to frontend and backend developers with the exact same principle: Have the bulk of the lifting done by some stable diffusion for CRUD api/frontend and test/modify edge cases.

I think your last point on salaries: This will increase salaries for those with a lot of experience but you are correct, for vast majority of digital art degrees graduating will suffer from demand plummet.

I really fear for the young Z generation, it appears the bar to entry is increasing as these AI tools automate bulk of their requirement.

It's akin to how github copilot generates a ton of boilerplate work, something that used to be delegated to junior devs.

yomkippur··on The Big [Censored] Theory
I have to wonder, if your government is so threatened by what's discussed or shown in entertainment/art content, you are the opposite of anti-fragility.

What good can they even accomplish if they get triggered by a disney character or a specific flag?

I'm glad that the CCP will disappear in our life time. Question is, how petty will the next Han Chinese led government be? They've always sucked badly at maintaining large bureaucracy.

yomkippur··on Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
Because their soon-to-be-had wealth is tied to serving ads and the rest of us don't want it.
yomkippur··on Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
> iPad

there's your problem right there.

yomkippur··on Fissure: The RF and Reverse Engineering Framework for Everyone
It's sad that I have to even spell out for you the consequences of people being able to open any car's doors and how the law and security apparatus will react to such news.
yomkippur··on JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs
gonna be tough to prove damages
yomkippur··on Fissure: The RF and Reverse Engineering Framework for Everyone
ELI5? what can a user do potentially with this framework? detect drones?

edit: wow i just saw the lecture video and this seems like a tool that lets you detect/analyze radio frequencies emitted from almost any device (?) and lets you emulate the packets (?) or wave patterns to manipulate the data it sends out?

this seems like a really powerful tool. I wonder if you can open car doors with this. Also wouldn't this mean that this tool could become illegal as a result?

yomkippur··on Long Covid, Cognitive Impairment, and the Stalled Decline in Disability Rates
No the data clearly shows this is independent of substance use.
yomkippur··on Finnish as a world language?
Not anymore. Certainly never to the extent Japanese relies on it on a daily use case basis. Go ahead and downvote me for this

Up until 90s, early 2000s it was common to read Hanja in newspapers. Starting around 10 years ago they all disappeared. English words have largely replaced complicated Chinese characters and young Koreans no longer learn it.

Instead English loan words are now used so much that most Koreans can't go a few paragraph without using it. Downside it leads to confusion as to what the original Korean words meant. But for sure it is not comparable to Japanese which absolutely requires you to memorize a few thousand Chinese characters, their strokes, pronounciation and meaning.

yomkippur··on Finnish as a world language?
yeah but it sounds so horrible
yomkippur··on Finnish as a world language?
> Kanji are fun to learn,

huge nuance here. it is not fun memorizing hyroglyphics

yomkippur··on Finnish as a world language?
I think Korean is being learned at far greater pace, zoomers think Korea is cool and want to live that ideal kpop world. No need to learn kanji which means its a lot more approacheable.

I would say hebrew is also another interesting alphabet system

yomkippur··on Finnish as a world language?
Exactly this and soft power is the best. Lot of young Western women moving to Korea to find Korean men. Such is the power of pop culture and unfortunately this means the West's anti-asian posture in films and exclusion of asians in pop American culture is clearly out in the open. We are heavily influenced by media.

nobody is learning Finnish before Korean or Japanese.

yomkippur··on Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate
> decades of treating women basically as second class citizens or worse with no outlet "created" this environment.

you mean like japan? what about US where women have unfair advantages?

so your solution is for those women to marry you right?

where do you get this idea that a culture "treats women like shit"? if anything telling women to whore themselves to rich men inject drugs and kill their fetuses seem to me like that definition if we are gonna play stereotypes.

yomkippur··on Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate
WOW. that is a huge jump. what is going on? twins are generally not favored in Korean culture I believe, not sure what the attitude is outside of it.
yomkippur··on Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate
so soy protein, dried or boiled soybeans, tofu, tempeh, and meatless soy products....but Koreans have been eating it forever. perhaps the processing in mass industrial scale has impact?

yeah I heard of the plastic theory and I think the air pollution in Korea is an overlooked factor. The fine dust particulates must have some impact on the reproduction system.

maybe even Ramen? Koreans consume a ton of instant ramen. High rate of alcohol?

I am interested to hear more about the impact of plastic. It is unavoidable and its widely used in Asia.

...what I really think is contraceptives is having an impact and that we are politically blocked from discussing it. What happened in Korea since 2010s? Huge amount of contraceptive pills were sold as society adopted a more laissez faire attitude towards sex. 10 years later those women are not trying to have babies and cannot. Is this too far fetched?

We are seeing the same issue in most western countries that correlate with high contraceptive usage. There is just less children being born but not an issue where contraception is tough.

yomkippur··on Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate
but japan has largely been successful at flattening the curve while Korea is in a serious crisis here. if I have to guess, when there are more older people than young, the society destabilizes.

immigration is going to happen regardless of koreans want it or not and I finally understand why the Korean governments has been pushing soft power for so long, they were planning for this scenario.

I don't think the outcome is going to be as bad as some nationalists make it out to be, for sure most immigrants are going to come from other Asian countries but I do not see it say reaching the dysfunctional state of Western Europe with mostly muslim/african migrants. This is not to say that Southeast Asians won't be pushed to the fringes and experience discrimination that puts them on the same anti-host country culture like in France for example.

yomkippur··on Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate
yeah this is a bad take that people on r/korea are pushing which consist drum roll please....mostly white men/women who keep this echo chamber narrative going...so that they think that korean women are going to flock to westerners more (?) its bizarre to me as somebody who has many Korean friends who just crack up when I translate that subreddit for them.

first feminism in korea is toxic. they are female version of incel culture. very few things translate well to western audiences who unfortunately do not read past headlines on reddit. one example is this left/right equating to US left/right wing. this Korean feminist is also similar, it is not an counterpart to the US feminist movement. there are very few moderate feminists in the mainstream. it is of the radical variety calling for violence against men. for example, they caused controversy for instance streaming sexually assaulting underaged boys and poisoning patrons at a restaurant and uploading it in their community groups. In fact many Japanese feminists point out how toxic the feminist in Korea are, they are not about equality, they are about usurping. Most just live with their parents.

now thats out of the way, sex crimes are treated differently in korea due to the complex judicial system that is the result of multiple period of colonialism. its not as rampant as reddit has you believe but the punishment is also too lenient and should be stronger.

more women are entering the workforce and they are afraid to lose their careers. the same is true in advanced economies, women in these part of the world have far more choice and power than in third world countries. of course they are not going to give up their comforts. the redpill take you are subscribing to is NOT what Korean Koreans subscribe to. After all there is a record number of cohabiting men and women in Korea, they just simply choose not to have kids or get married anymore.

also if you think you have game in korea just because of your skin color, trust me, they know exactly why you are here and they dont care. the "white sexpat" have ruined it for rest of us here. most international marriage in korea is between neighboring countries. this is true for Japan and China as well. People who look like each other but are from different cultures.

yomkippur··on Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate
on reddit they seem to be fixated on the "korean women needs to be liberated by chivalrous white male no wonder korean women dont want to marry korean men"
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