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Social media won because it is better and more profitable for the producer/site owner. It is objectively worse for the consumer: * Algorithms that push content the user didn't ask …

That is a great book. All my kids loved it. "Good night little house and good night mouse, good night comb and good night brush, good night nobody, good night mush" My kids loved t…

not an amputee, but he did heal a man with a withered or malformed hand in Matthew 12. he also healed plenty of cripples, so I don’t think it’s a stretch to think that some or many…

even the Jews of the time that did not believe or follow Jesus wrote that he performed signs. They claimed it was sorcery. in Folio 43a of Tractate Sanhedrin of the Babylonian Talm…

Were I still on Linkedin, I could totally have been caught by this. Thank you for this post, and the technical breakdown. The company that I currently work for is currently paying …

You are not wrong. They don't do this because they make money from the scammers. I have posted about this before. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191971

this is unfortunately, the most revisionist take I can imagine. I don’t mean this in a personal way, mind you but while it may have been magical to publish interactive websites, us…

Secure boot is designed to verify software signatures. The UEFI bios might support loading software over https, but it isn't part of secure boot. Secure boot would verify any kerne…

Drivers got better after ATI merged/got bought by AMD, but ATI has a loooooong legacy of terrible drivers in Windows. The funny thing is, in Linux, the drivers are pretty great as …

Why can't it be both?

256 here :( the cpap is a wonder, I can't sleep without it. I only wish I'd gotten one 10 years sooner. I have whole years of my life missing from my memory - REM sleep is very imp…

Nvidia makes a fine GPU. The problem with Nvidia on linux is the drivers. You're beholden to Team Green for driver updates, and when they decide not to support a GPU anymore, that'…

I think that this is actually a good thing. If everyone had the same internal world model, we would have very little innovation. I try to train and mentor those that are junior to …

Think about how they validate how old you are. Meta and Google, who are lobbying in support of this legislation,will force you to sign up with your real ID, and be the arbiter for …

An outstanding idea. Those lobbying for age verification hate it though, because they want to be the arbiters of age, and all that juicy PII that they can analyze and resell.

From my own perspective, the "visceral hatred" isn't so much at AI (which I use almost exclusively to generate funny pictures of myself and coworkers) but at the executives that vi…

Big space stagnated because they could. Their friends in Congress directed them lots of money and lots of political cover, and they both profited handsomely. Why would they change?…

I wonder if kawaii face paint would work

Neither GM, Chrysler, or Ford wants to hurt their expensive offerings. Toyota and Nissan have less expensive offerings, but can't bring them here because the tariffs make them much…

CAFE killed small trucks in part, tariffs in another part, but US manufacturers are the real reason small trucks are dead. US manufacturers want margins, and they're not getting ma…

> The arguments I've heard against it are almost all slippery-slope (e.g. "they're gonna do this first, and then add ID requirements next year, because that's what I fear will happ…

You shouldn't be downvoted for this, the problem is exactly as you described.

> out of style a bunch of viral tiktok videos could bring it back pretty easy.

The micro stamping law is in no way reasonable because removing the micro stamping from the end of a firing pin is laughably trivial. The only people who won’t do this are people w…

I was put on 5000IU D2 and I got kidney stones, twice. The doctor wouldn't believe that the D2 was the cause, but I stopped taking it and the stones have not recurred. I would like…