thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? (2019)
I completely agree with what you say, but I hardly see it as better now. Big payment services (from traditional banks to PayPal) lock "high-risk" (meaning anyone who has ideas they don't like) customers out of their services completely independent of the justice system and state apparatus.
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Europe edges closer to a ban on facial recognition
Sorry but I don't want to live in a country where the government scans my face and tracks my movement every time I leave my home. Nor can I even believe I even have to say this. Cars are deadly machines and regulating deadly machines is different to regulating and tracking human beings. And just because my name won't match in a criminal database and therefore I'll remain "anonymous" doesn't change that I don't want the government putting a leash around my neck, even if they promise not to strangle me with it unless they say I did something wrong.
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Europe edges closer to a ban on facial recognition
Firstly, the guy never said anything about European values, he could just as well have been talking about his party. That said though, the "value" being breached here is the value of having a free society where you can exist outdoors without government cameras scanning, identifying, and tracking you. I would like to think it's more a human value than anything else.
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
TIL people in the US use SMS
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client
Me too, but it's not available on desktop.
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
The S-Bahn is run exclusively by the DB subsidiary S-Bahn Berlin
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Lidl and Waitrose to sell ‘wonky’ fruit and vegetables amid UK drought
We have this in Germany at some stores, such as Kaufland. They're sold in a section called "Die Etwas Anderen", which means "The ones that are a little different". They're sold at a reduced price, and they're just as good quality as everything else, they just look a little funny.
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan Experience
That's just typical formatting in some languages, like French...
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network
As a relative stranger to Twitter, I can't help but feel a thread of Tweets is unsuitable for telling this story, surely he should just write an article about it rather than have it chopped into chunks and strung into a thread?
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Cycle for One Hour and You’ll Live an Hour Longer
If there were no health effects of not sleeping besides having that "gained" time taken away at the end of life, I would absolutely do it. I'd be spending more time in my 20s and 30s and wouldn't have to deal with being in my 70s and 80s
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: How to access Reddit without ads and tracking
For me it's the groupthink mentality where anything but the status quo is downvoted to oblivion.
Other than that I don't get much out of the site, because most the subs I would enjoy are so small, I can just visit once or twice a year and sort by best of the year, and stop when the quality drops. That was I never even need an account.
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Favorite audio book for long drives?
My two favorites are the aforementioned WW1 one and the other one on the Pacific theater in WW2. I already knew almost everything he said in the WW1 one, whilst knowing almost nothing about the Pacific Theater one - both were super interesting.
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Elon Musk sells $6.9B worth of Tesla stock
He was the same on Rogan. He has Asperger's and finds it difficult to hold a conversation
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Elon Musk sells $6.9B worth of Tesla stock
This is what I always say. The only people more annoying than his fanboys are the people that passionately hate him and want to tell the world about it
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Are You Wearing Sunscreen?
I am outdoors for 6-7 hours on most workdays and I never use sunscreen. I get burned once or twice in May and then I start to tan. The only time I use sunscreen at all is on my nose if I burned it badly the day prior (my nose is the only place I get sunburn after starting to tan).
That all said, the UV index here is usually 7-9 in the summer months, and I assume it is higher in California.
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: I don’t have notifications enabled, nowhere and never
The only notification I've been getting in the last 2+ years is calls. As for everything else, I just open the app/program when I want to check what's there. It means I check my messages when I have a moment free, not when my phone demands it. If anything is urgent then someone can call me.
I always hated pop up notifications and my phone buzzing or making noise, it feels so intrusive as well as being distracting
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Japan to start jailing people for online insults
The issue, as the article says, is that the law doesn't define what an insult is. That means that a death threat or saying "you're stupid" could potentially both be prosecuted under this law.
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Japan to start jailing people for online insults
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: Japan to start jailing people for online insults
Here in Germany we once had a guy have his apartment raided by 6 cops because he wrote a tweet to a local politician that said "You're such a dick". That's all he said.
thekingofrome
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3 years ago
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on: We can't check the app permissions on Google Play anymore
The best alternative is to use Aurora Store. It's also the only way to use the Play Store without a Google account connected to your device.
