darigo
>Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism)[a] is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews.
I'm a fellow fan of looking into words' etymologies, but it would seem that antisemitic has not had much to do with 'semitic' for quite some time.
I don't agree with everything he said but the information was well presented and enjoyable.
"We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals"
For example, the number 5,702,400 becomes ~sorreg-namtyv. And 1,742,733,824 becomes ~master-morzod.
I enjoy the quirkiness of the names.
Right now I'm focused on something other than making tons of money tbh. There's a job I covet, so I've been just focusing on maxxing relevant skills so I can join this elite club of extremely cool people working on this very cool thing.
But after that I'm gonna go back to money, for sure.
Btw I love your blog. That same essay "How to be a hacker" is the one I consulted as a teenager, which led me to switch from QBASIC (my first lang, on the recommendation of an IRC channel that was probably trolling me) to Python.
What do you mean by moved up?
I have more work than I can even do - but I may have a different idea of what a coveted job is.
>That might be the issue, that kind of work is worth more.
ikr <3
>Did an early investor in Facebook do more work than an early investor in Pets.com?
It's quite possible that an investor who does more research, spends more time networking with smart young people, etc, would have to do more work in order to invest in better things.
And even if not, meritocracy means rewarding the quality of work, not just the quantity. Making smart investments should pay better than making dumb ones, even if it's not more work.
Bro I have over ten years of dev experience, dozens of significant bug bounties including well-known projects like Chromium and Github, am a great competitive coder (love leetcode and codewars type challenges), and my brother makes much more money fixing air conditioners than I do as a dev.
Appsec is my specialty but my background is in React frontend (Node and Flask backend).
If it's hard for me, it must be brutal for new grads and people just coming out of bootcamps. I'm lucky that I focused on open source instead of going to college, because when I started looking for work I already had a portfolio and real experience, plus FOSS friends.
If anyone is looking for an appsec person who can find vulnerabilities, report them in a way that clearly explains the issue to other devs, and then write patches, please do reach out. Glad to work for WAY less than $60 an hour lol.
Currently I'm a freelancer, can show projects I've worked on. I don't mind hoops at all, send me a coding challenge or CTF or whatever you want :)
The only school I ever went to that was good for socialization was community college. Tbh, for learning too. I basically learned all of math, from arithmetic up, as an adult at community college, to compensate for learning nothing and getting pushed through all of the grade levels at public school.
I wish they had community colleges where I live now lol.
I agree. Public school is not a great place for socialization, and it's not hard to create something better. Nothing socializes kids like sitting next to each other motionless in silence for several hours lol
Her point is that this effect is way bigger in 3rd world countries, where these kinds of beliefs signal alignment with "The West" and the status that comes with that.
I'm also a big fan of the fediverse. However, I'm skeptical in the quality and even practical accountability of "democratic" governments, who are themselves pressured to be "advertiser-friendly" in their own way.
"If the alleged victim is intoxicated, drugged, comatose, or disabled and the offender know or reasonably should have known of the condition, he or she is not considered to be able to consent."
source: https://cantorsexlawyers.com/sexual-assault
In practice, a lot of this depends on prosecutor discretion. I believe the same is also true in California: https://properdefenselaw.com/drunk-sex-rape-in-california-ca...
Of course, it could be that these places have themselves absurdly overextended the word rape.
An improvement might look like this:
def judgement(soul):
in_grace = soul.state.is_graceful()
good_works = len(soul.works)
if in_grace: return 1 # Heaven
if good_works > MORAL_MINIMUM: return 0 # Limbo
return -1 # Welp.
I actually work parttime at a startup where we're trying to use web3 to establish permanent, digital identities that you can use in the afterlife to bargain with demons. The idea is, you can use an NFT (who says web3 is dead!) to correlate the atoms in the immortal eternal one-soul with their constituent souls on earth, so you can identify your friends in Heaven (or Hell). Eventually, we hope to even link people on earth to people on heaven, via our Rust-based AngelLink blockchain. A sort of "tower to the heavens" so to speak.
If anyone else on HN is interested in this space, feel free to email me (darigo.maxwell at gmail dot com). Always looking to make new friends who love God and have a passion for big data and the thirst for God's presence.
implementing algorithms in SQL really made my intuition for SQL skyrocket, to the point where no tasks in my day to day data engineering role were very challenging - at least not in terms of dealing with crazy joins and subqueries and such.
I miss SQL now days (as an appsec dev). Currently, I'm learning Hoon, which is too intuitive to really replace SQL as a language for doing toy problems while having to think wierd.
Like, if the sea cables, and transnational connections, the universal protocols, were to all slowly decay. Not necessarily in some epic moment of war, but even a degeneration over time, like Medieval moss and vines consuming the roads that once all led to Rome.
The embryo of this future already exists (eg RuNet among others). I imagine different regions and communities selectively interlinking, forming complex alliances and networks. Kinda like feudalism. A mushy goo, like the medieval state, totally disconnected from both national and global ideas of what the state is.
Perhaps some networks would maintain a national character (like North Korea). Others would claim de jure a universality which they de facto lack (surely NATO falls in this camp, much like how the Holy Roman Empire imagined itself as the universal government to complement the universality of its historically Catholic faith).
Of course, us open source loving HN types dream of universal protocols where WhatsApp, Facebook, etc, all interoperate without a central managing authority, and users have sovereignty over the data, etc etc. But what if the real future is the opposite, that the intranets break off from the internet, and themselves become different silos, unwilling and increasingly incapable of talking to eachother.
As an Urbit user, Urbit looks like an attempt to preempt this possible future, and make the best of a feudal digital future. Considering who created Urbit, maybe Urbit is even enthusiastically looking forward to this future, preparing us in advance for a kind of computation that will thrive when they day of the king comes.
Btw hmu on Urbit ~motluc-nammex if any other Martians are on here <3 I run into us everywhere these days.
One way to square that with what happened: The left continued accruing power throughout Trump's presidency. I don't think the model of power relations presented in, eg, the constitution, or a civics class, or even an econ 101 class, have existed for centuries now
Really interesting place. Lots of cool food and people to talk to with interesting stories. Painful stories, too. Such an overwhelming, disorienting place. Maybe it's changed too, though. The above-ground world we see on the news is stable because it's a mask for the entropic chaos of the underworld, where portals to the unknown pop in and out of existence all around you, and it's easy to get lost and everything disappears all the time, and you'll never be able to know how or why.
The real world is like a tornado made of spaghetti. And the fake world (like in Baudrillard's The Gulf War Did Not Take Place kind of way) feels so much realer and more familiar because it doesn't need to deal with the eccentricities and contradictions of reality, but can safely play with its symbols. Like the difference between making a Yoda out of Legos vs making a real Yoda. Blood and guts and bricks in boxes, flooding over wet dirt.
What a cheesy stunt, which of course makes it so fitting for someone like Mr 𝕏 dot com