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Thanks for the browser recommendations. I switched to the Mullvad browser. The other recommendation, LibreWolf, provides the following warning on install which scared me away: "War…

The article is light on details of the substance of these lectures. While I couldn't find the referenced lecture, the following lecture might be similar: Hoover Institution: Apocal…

Could you kindly support that statement and explain why you feel that way.

To dismiss him as being “devoid of information” is lazy and cheap. He had scholars on his team shape his message.

You can buy prepaid SIM cards with cash, and without hassle, in the US as well. You can do this in many countries, I believe, as well as online through services offered in exchange…

In Mexico you can buy prepaid SIM cards with cash, and without an ID, at convenience stores such as 7-11 or Oxxo.

> Is this actually a problem you see? I'm going on 15 years in the industry and haven't seen any issues training people up on a new language in just a couple months. Some years ago…

No, they're going 20-something mph in perhaps a 20mph zone: the author stated kilometers per hour.

Would be interesting to know how much data leaks on a new iPhone with some of the iOS privacy settings enabled and a handful of popular apps installed (WhatsApp, Instagram, Google …

I added a response to this question in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42254263

Marc Andreessen mentioned what's called "Operation Chokepoint 2.0" in relation to many tech founders being debanked. In the crypto industry you can find many examples of this, howe…

Tailscale is not a good option for this (hiding your geo-location from work). As the article states, 'Additionally, in the case of a DERP-relayed connection, if one were to run a “…

Here's a number of articles outlining the A16z support for Trump: - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/co-f... - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-0…

Why am I being voted down for pointing out, validly, that many people disagree? Why the rush to censor?

Not according to Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz [1], Chamath Palihapitiya & David Sacks [2], possibly Zuckerberg [3], and others. And of course Elon, Thiel. Many such cases. [1] ht…

There are four censored comments in that thread that cannot be read along with a few benign downvoted comments. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that at least someone behaved…

[citation needed]

We should enforce rigorous qualifications for doctors. We've relaxed the standards far too much already.

Thanks, I didn't know that. So if you have a VPN server at home and you bounce through it from a foreign location to a corporate job then perhaps the employer could identify the co…

They can determine a connection to their network is through an OpenVPN server even if that server has a clean/normal IP address? Is there some otherwise basic tell that the host is…

The startups you're describing are bad deals -- excluding the rare unicorn liquidity event. The DEIA candidates can afford to be pickier, as their applications are boosted in cushi…

Yes, startup culture is bullshit although not for the cliched reasons outlined in the article. The author displays a lack of familiarity with US startup culture: "seventy-hour week…

Forward all your Gmail email to a more private service like Mailbox.org and read your Gmail from there. Then you won't be logged into Google products nearly as often. Watch Youtube…

In corporate-type environments, I've seen individuals working within the company be put on something like a secret discrimination list for not passing enough underrepresented candi…