ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: An audio only social network
In the same way that Tumblr is like blogging but with shittier content, or YouTube is like cinema production but with shittier content
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ovibos | 9 years ago | on: I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life
You're sort of attacking a straw man here - just because someone is against the war on drugs doesn't mean they are for indiscriminate legalization. The biggest criticisms of the war on drugs in this thread are that it A) attacks people who are no threat to anyone else or themselves (e.g., cannibas and psychedelic users, "responsible" users in general) because of public misconceptions of these drugs pushed by the powers that be, and that B) it attacks people who are very much in need of help, such as addicts of more dangerous/addictive drugs, by punishing them for what is effectively a disease.
Opinions of HN users may vary on how exactly to fix these problems, but I think it's safe to say that neither the system we have now (villainizing and condemning users) nor complete and total deregulation are solutions.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)
Sure, but I think that the self imposed barriers the author talks about may be more common in ivy league graduates.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
Money is just a stand-in for resources and labor, and if automation makes labor very very cheap, the rich will only need the natural resources the poor sit on, not anything from the poor themselves.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: The map of ideas how the universe appeared from nothing [pdf]
This point of view is addressed in 6.3
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Handicareers.com – A simple job board for disabled people
Why does "disabled" have the connotation of being unable to be productive, and the phrase "people with disabilities" not? Surely, if we use the phrase "people with disabilities" as we would have used "disabled", it will gain similar connotations, no?
Sorry if i come off as confrontational, I'm legitimately curious
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Authenticity in the Age of the Fake
Sort of like how bitcoin uses hashes to demonstrate value, things like diamonds and dyes are a social "proof-of-work" - meaningful only because the cost they imply.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
IMO scraping is only abusive if the site explicitly asks to not be scraped (via the site's robots.txt)
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed
The corrupting aspect of power is nonpartisan. It affects the right, and it affects the left.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed
I don't know if it was necessarily that they "couldn't be bothered to show up and vote". My father decided not to vote on the grounds that he couldn't justify voting for either major candidate, and many other people who voted for Obama in the previous election cycle probably felt the same way.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: What.CD is shutting down
> I have no idea what actually happened to cause a shutdown
Their servers were raided by the French authorities.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
What makes you think wikileaks doesn't vet their information before they publish it?
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
> they never did match the (encrypted) files
The pre-commitment hashes have always matched the encrypted files, up to this point.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
Wikileaks are not "spreading misinformation", they verify everything that they get before they leak it. This is why people take what they leak so seriously - any jackass with an internet connection can spread information, but wikileaks has a reputation for thouroughly vetting the information they recieve.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
There hasn't been a proof-of-life from Julian himself in some time, and there was recently insurance files released that didn't have matching hashes.
No hard evidence, but it is worrying, especially when there are so many parties that would benefit from wikileak's infiltration/de-legitimization.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
Regardless of how (in)significant you think the material they release is, there's no such thing as too much transparency.
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
How? In what way does preferentiality damage the transparency or validity of the information?
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Firefox 50.0
On my machine (Intel Celeron, 8g RAM) it's noticeably slower than TST even with only 50 or so tabs
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Firefox 50.0
What's wrong with `firefox -P`?
ovibos | 9 years ago | on: Libreboot is not GNU Libreboot anymore
The thing is, people who create drama tend to be much more visible than those who suffer quietly (for better or for worse).
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