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This is an absurd fantasy.

If you take psychedelics and go outside, no one is going to arrest you. Consumption of drugs, in most western nations, isn't a crime. Stop spreading this sort of asinine fear.

With all the great encryption utilities like age[0], Signal, or Veracrypt, can anyone please tell me what the point is in using pgp anymore? It's old, it's clunky, it requires careful use to be safe.

Why not use something more modern?

0. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

This article has absolutely no substance in it. Nor is "cryptocurrency traded at $60k" - that's literally only Bitcoin, and today that is roughly cut in half!

> Besides, an open patent scheme means that any pharma company can sell the vaccine. And I guarantee that the vast majority of companies that will start doing so will be fly by might operators that will take advantage of desperate countries to sell them crap that will end up killing people and simply damage vaccines in the eyes of people all over the world.

This is a completely unfounded claim. You have no evidence, no data, etc to back an argument such as this one.

Do you have any evidence suggesting otherwise that doesn't reduce to your dilapidated pessimism?

It references TikTok as problematic, but TikTok actually tells you to take a break after you've been swiping for a bit.

Yeah, so?

Are you really coming on HN to try and blame immigrants for this?

Do you know the kind of contributions immigrants have had in this industry? Do you know how important open immigration has been to the rise of tech?

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It will get reported and deleted _very_ quickly.

TikTok's moderation team is pretty on point. Far better than any social network I've ever used before.

I don't think the commenters who say they only get weird or bad content actually know how TikTok works, or how to use it. You can't just scroll your FYP and expect to get new content, you have to go out of your way to find it. FYP is just a feedback loop of videos you keep watching.

If you want to start getting more queer content, for example, start searching the #lgbt or similar tags and watching/liking/commenting. Your FYP changes really quick.

Lots of comments here hating on TikTok, so I'll offer another perspective:

TikTok is instrumental for offering children and teens an "in-group" and finding their interests. If you're LGBTQ, you find really wholesome content. If you're depressed, you can find people being open about their depression. If you self-harm, you can find other people discussing and opening up about it. If you're in a toxic household, there's basically a whole support network for you. It's an exceptionally human way to interact with people online, and it's so much fun.

IMHO, TikTok has been the most wholesome social network I've ever used and participated in. Even as an adult (24yo), it's even helped me explore my own identity and how I relate to the rest of the communities I'm a part of. Legitimately, TikTok has helped me feel comfortable opening up and be more "myself" in public.

> How many bites of the pie did you lose during those 4 transactions?

Probably between ~1-2%, if that.

Wow, that's truly awful.

This looks really neat. I noticed a typo on https://tuition.treena.org/

"Enrol Now" should be "Enroll Now" :)

Cops are in less danger than sanitation workers. Get this state-violence apologia out of here.

Why is academia (at least in the physical sciences) so competitive? My partner is a molecular biologist and she can't collaborate with anyone outside of her lab because of the fear that they collaborators will take their research before they get a chance to publish it.

It seems this method of performing groundbreaking research and science is horrifically detrimental to our collective progress. There's no reason for these groups to compete when they could collaborate.

Additionally, we can also detect deep double-spends very easily!

When a double-spend occurs, usually it's from a deep chain reorg. This is what people usually refer to as a double-spend attack, not the kind of reorg where it only affects a few of the top blocks (which isn't uncommon). The latter occur relatively frequently due to the nature of Proof-of-Work being essentially a race.

Consensus mechanisms can detect when a sudden "deep" reorg occurs, e.g. a sudden reorg of 200 blocks that we didn't previously expect to be reordered. When this happens, it's relatively safe to say that this is a double-spend attack and we can disregard the attacker's chain. There's variations of this that additionally add things like "checkpointing" wherein reorgs beyond a certain block depth (the "checkpoint") are impossible at the consensus level.

There's a lot to critique about blockchain tech, but miner centralization is a relatively dated concern. Yes, it's a concern for many blockchains, but for the major Proof-of-Work chains (Bitcoin, Ethereum), it's not an issue anymore.

> about a coordinated effort to mint & publish some blocks without front-runners stealing all the work & claiming a big contract for themselves.

Wow, I have no idea how you read that really awesome article and concluded with such a response as this.

The article demonstrates how the authors were able to collaborate with miners to safely secure $9M worth of tokens due to a security vulnerability in a smart contract on a public blockchain where anyone could figure out the vulnerability and execute it before they could secure the funds.

Being upset that a miner is able to pick transactions that they want to include in their block demonstrates a clear lack of knowledge in how these distributed databases (blockchains) work and any critique similar to this can be disregarded.

Isn't the open internet great? I can register a domain to use for my own purposes so I can also have a voice.

I preordered https://areyou.gay a while ago.

I don't know what to put on it, but I would like to host a FAQ or something for people who are questioning their sexuality and make it v wholesome.

The SKS rifle chambers 7.62x39mm and can be used effectively at a distance.

This lacks a clear threat model and even overstates many problems it claims to resolve (e.g. vulnerabilities in Signal, et al).

I'm not very certain what value this adds to the landscape. Is it possible the developers can elaborate here?

I try to participate in Startup School each time it comes around. I find it incredibly good practice for "the real thing".

I'm not quite ready to start my own venture just yet, but I like to "practice" by coming up with an idea, setting goals, moving towards them, doing interviews, etc. The startup school is a really nice program to follow along with and have conversations with other founders during. I'm basically using it to war-game a startup launch myself. The idea being that when the time comes that I decide to jump in on something I'm very passionate about and put skin-in-the-game, it should all feel familiar (if not just a tiny bit more comfortable).

Of course it's not a substitute for the real thing, but I think it's brought immense value to my skillset.

> Aside from that, english is just such a meh language. Asian kids get higher math scores in part because mandarin's numbering system actually makes sense ('eleven, twelve, thirteen' don't include the words one, two, or three, while the numerical representations include 1, 2, 3).

This doesn't represent a fact of any sort of linguistic truth whatsoever.

> Would CFAA still apply here if EFF wins this case?

I hope not! What you described here is a great example of why EFF should win this case. Violating ToS is not and _should not_ be cause for civil or criminal action. If you don't want this user on your service, then remove them. If they continually violate your ToS and it results in damages or losses, then perhaps you have a more reasonable civil case than one invoking CFAA, but IANAL.

You could begin with the Anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan. However, heed my comment above: a lot of the followers use this philosophy to justify horribly fascistic ideals. Take a peek at the alternatives to this such as post-civilization.

But don't take Anarcho-primitivism seriously. A lot of the "thought leaders" on that side of the Anarchist spectrum just use it as a means to espouse what would normally just be considered Fascism except with an Anarchist twist.

It's the same stupid arguments that people use to justify population control due to "overpopulation". There's a school of thought called anti-civilization that's a tad similar with some divergences that offers far more interesting critiques of industry. Once you get through that, post-civilization thought is also rather interesting.

But really, Anarcho-primitivism is essentially fascist dribble disguised as environmentalism and social justice.

I'm not an expert in this, but I imagine a clause such as this is pretty standard in banking. The reason being that it waives _the company_ of fraud liability. Consumer banking offers protections, but the company is not held liable for the fraud.

For example, imagine that American Express be held liable because your card was stolen. That doesn't make much sense, thus they want to protect themselves against those claims.