prisoner655321's comments

>I believe it was one of the outcomes of universal basic income trials, people would engage more with the arts and creativity.

Off topic but this result is one of many reasons why UBI will not be established any time soon. People in general are not ready for the challenging “creativity” that would come from otherwise “idle” individuals.

> You basically should never trust Apple / Google / Microsoft / Amazon / etc to handle your private information... ever. Use audited open-source messaging apps.

Nonsense. Understanding one’s own threat model is critical to deciding the acceptable amount of trust to place in these companies, but black and white thinking helps no one.

Same. I would pay extra for more dogs and no babies.

As the population ages even further and the number of people who never marry increases, pet-friendly accommodations will become way more important than bicycle friendly accommodations.

Those 10million cars are no more available to those drivers than the one in your driveway.

Hm. Not sure how it could be the case that not learning something takes the same amount of time as learning something. Can you think of any more examples of this? It would be great if I could learn those things; even if never have a use for it, it’s literally free.

Precisely my point. Holding on to the antiquated manual transmission makes the easier form of driving more expensive.

Currently, manual cars still account for 70 per cent of the 31.7 million cars on UK's roads.

If you want to make it easier to learn to drive, break the British fetish for manual.

> Funny how findings like this get almost no attention at all, isn't it?

Not really. Without metrics for attention and a definition of “findings like this,” your intuition is as good as mine.

I’ve seen dozens of articles and quite a few best selling books about the plight of young men. I’ve even read a few. So it seems our anecdotal intuitions cancel out.

I think it helps to start with what you think “getting out from under that” means. Why do you think it’s a problem for Japan have this much debt to GDP?

> There's definitely space for bigger conversations but we should be much more careful with the way we do activism.

Where is that space and who is occupying it? What conversation do you think belongs there? I’m just not sure what this last paragraph is intended to convey.

At the heart of all this I feel sorry for the minks, and sorry even more for the psychological damage that humans, usually poor, have to endure to feed an absolutely horrific industry.

Having said that, if the perpetrators of this vandalism are caught, I’ll contribute to their legal fund. Love me some ALF chaos.

> if we don't buy their books, they won't be able to produce the next one for people to pirate.

This is a false dichotomy. Book piracy and traditional book publishing co-exist. If book publishing wants to better compete with piracy, they can innovate like other industries have. As well, your implied prediction —- that if we don’t “stop all the downloading” [0] then books will disappear —- is decidedly ahistorical. Books have existed since long before publishing houses existed, and indeed it’s easier than ever to publish a book and get money for it.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1eA3XCvrK90

A sad day for equal access to information. I’m glad that they made money from Z-Library, they deserve that money for the service they provided.

It’s some bullshit that they were arrested in Argentina on behalf of the US government. From what I can tell they aren’t even US nationals. I know the US scooping up foreigners and locking them away is nothing new (see: Gitmo) but it remains a travesty of justice nonetheless.

Two hypotheses:

(1) There’s a lack of immunity to some old respiratory viruses that mutate every year. Should be back to normal in 1-2 years.

(2) COVID has made people more aware of respiratory illness in general. It has introduced basically everyone to the idea (and habit) of testing themselves. This means more people reporting, and more stories written about it. Whether this is a truly unusual spike (as opposed to being just seasonal) I’d be interested to know.

I wish I had your patience, but I just don't. I find the entire process so insulting to my time and intelligence that I refuse to participate, especially after spending 6 hours -- 6! -- buying a specific EV in the Bay Area.

I also find the personalities of used car salesmen to be so grating that I'd rather do it all over email.

You get treated decently with strong unions because strong unions have power. It’s not a matter of the corporation, which has no feelings because it is not a person, loving you back.

We should recognize the incentives of all the groups at the negotiating table and act accordingly.

I stored my BTC using Geographically distributed multisig and it still lost 40% of its value against USD in the last 6 months. So what’s the point?

This isn’t about where you keep your coins, not really. That’s an implementation detail. This is about the entire system of wealth protection built up around fiat currency.

The word of the week is “contagion”: even if you did no business with FTX at all, even if you have your coins on a hard drive locked in the doomsday seed vault, crypto is crashing because investors are learning that the old system that protects wealth is necessary after all.

The stock going up is what kills it. Apple’s stock has gone bananas the last 4 years, no refresher is going to beat or match that.

This is very common and almost always predicted. 4 years is the end of the initial stock vest. If you don't get a major promotion, or even two, your compensation takes a nose dive. It's no wonder they left.