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I'd prefer to write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media. I imagine I'd also want to get an overview of - or make an ad-hoc post from - one of severa…

No, I mean they did things like privatized state businesses, allowed entrepreneurs to start their own businesses, and created special economic zones.

China liberalized their economy to compete with Western economies, showing their leaders don’t really believe in communism. And the US and Europe are moving towards command economi…

If Valve limited credit card purchases to PG games, but let customers purchase other games via crypto, then payment processors couldn’t complain about alleged high chargeback rates…

Wow, thanks for the warning that Couchers bans naturists. I am aware of many unique and beautiful experiences by naturists hosts. It’s disappointing that Couchers would want to eli…

I’ve been having trouble with Pocket’s offline mode and TTS feature for a while, and just migrated (yesterday!) to Obsidian via Obsidian Web Clipper (automated using Pupeteer). Obs…

I was talking about market accountability. Companies that don’t get anything done fail.

> I wish there were better ways to align incentives here. I have a crazy idea that might work to hold organizations accountable if they never get anything done.

Fake privacy experts like Caro Robson need to be held accountable.

I check for an RSS feed, and if it does not exist, subscribe via KTN. It would be awesome if KTN provided an easy way to upgrade/redirect at KTN feed to an original feed, if one ex…

A lot of communities use Discourse ( https://discourse.org ). LPSF ( https://forum.lpsf.org ) migrated to it when Yahoo Groups was discontinued. Some of the advantages are that it'…

"an employee disrupted a coworker who was giving a presentation — interfering with an official company-sponsored event"

It should be up to the employer. If one company thinks that a past conviction is irrelevant while other companies think a past conviction is disqualifying, then the former may get …

From the court docs: > As alleged, Brody left a few "taunts" in the code that he unleashed on FRB. In particular, he is alleged to have used the word "grok," which the government e…

Wow, that's not an encouraging paper! It doesn't just say that "efficacy of the vaccines dwindles over time," but that the 2-dose vaccine effectiveness against omicron is significa…

Of 288,072 people aged 16-39, only 6 people who had only 2 doses were hospitalized, compared to 1 person who had 3 doses [1]. This study was published before Omicron in October, fo…

I recently described an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29567729

Ian Freemen is a controversial political activist whose pro-liberty, pro-bitcoin radio station was raided by the FBI in 2016 and had their equipment confiscated. It was widely cove…

Increasing land use rights on a property can only increase the value of that property. However, increasing land use rights on a neighboring property can decrease the value of the o…

HN readers are wrong to think this will be fixed when the government creates a CBDC or regulates payment providers like a utility. In addition to the government currently blocking …

I have regular small donations set up to some devs that also host their projects.

IIRC from the last time I read it, the article only provides evidence for Intuit not wanting taxpayers (including themselves) to fund a competitor to their product, which is very r…

You ask for examples a few times. Here’s one. Computers confiscated from a liberty activist and his radio station. No CP-related charges pressed in the 5 years since they confiscat…

> the chance of attack is small Is it? I would be surprised if attacking 1Password wasn’t a priority for governments and hackers. If the encryption used on vaults is ever broken, c…

I intend to move out of their ecosystem. First, they limited my phone to comply with their community standards. Then, they blocked anti-censorship apps. And now, they are deploying…