That's a social credit score for businesses, not individuals.
It's weird being a 90s/2000s anti-war, anti-globalization, and pro-labor Democrat in a 2025 world.
I've followed The Cradle for a couple of years. For what it's worth I've been able to corroborate much of what is published against other sources, and I believe it's entirely funded by donations. Rather biased against…
>Human breast milk is very bitter Aggressively incorrect.
I believe it was Germany's constitutional court, which given the experience of East Germany is understandable.
My grandfather was tenured, published voraciously up until he retired at 73, and was sorely disappointed when I chose not to follow in his footsteps and go into academia. Why? Primarily because I had to hear him gripe…
No fellow citizen- as long as it's in the name of Liberal Democracy and the Open Society™, the means in question are rather ephemeral.
My wife enjoys telling the story from her time living in the Hague of watching drunk girls in mini skirts all attempting to ride side-by-side to keep each other upright, and...somehow managing to do it.
"Protectionism for me, but not for thee."
To my knowledge emulation is illegal in Japan, as is modding consoles. Edit: I looked into it a bit more. As it is against the law to dump ROMs from games you have legally purchased, as well as acquiring them through…
It was around that time that I stopped watching cable television altogether. If you want to back down memory lane, search on YouTube for old recordings of network TV ad breaks from the late 90s and early 2000s- they’re…
Searching for “Israel” and “downvotes” and “flagged” in the HN search shows a steady stream of people complaining for years about an apparent coordinated campaign to silence criticism on this website. It’s frankly a…
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Big Toilet Paper needs to try harder than this.
If you believe that’s the case why aren’t you founding a disruptor to the construction industry with high-skilled, highly-paid labor? Should be easy to eliminate those “opaque costs” and undercut all of your…
> Steam removed games that people legitimately purchased from their personal libraries? The sad reality is that you purchased a license under terms that allow them to do whatever they want- it’s not really your personal…
> It really feels like we can't have nice things anymore. Economists talk about the middle-income trap, but I feel there’s another trap in developed economies. The economics of low-cost, high-skill labor that made the…
This. When I turned eighteen my grandparents took me on an autumn driving tour of New England to visit the haunts of my favorite writers, get a real lobster roll, etc. It was so nice to see the coziness and warmth-…
For my purposes there’s nothing that I can do on a FOSS smartphone that I can’t do more comfortably on my FOSS desktop. Portability and the capacity to take pictures aside, but I also don’t go anywhere and my wife takes…
>How the courts of a liberal democracy allow that? The conclusion is that the United Kingdom is not a liberal democracy. The term I see thrown around is “electoral authoritarianism,” where elections may be free and fair…
In some ways yes, in others, no. I enjoyed this discussion on Apple’s less-than-stellar privacy situation. Sources are in the video description. https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=nQ9LR8homt4
At that point I think my challenge is to not have anything you’d rather be private on a platform you don’t actually have control over, or why have it on a phone in the first place.
I suppose that’s the other side of this. There’s a kind of privacy-as-ideology black hole that I’ve seen people get sucked into, even if in actuality they have nothing and do nothing actually illegal/immoral/sensitive.…
The conflicts of the last couple of years have not helped improve my already-low feelings about journalism and journalists.
I don’t agree. Conceptually “the market” in this context is just individual purchasing decisions in the aggregate. The people, voting with their dollars, have decided that they simply don’t care about privacy, libre…
That's a social credit score for businesses, not individuals.
It's weird being a 90s/2000s anti-war, anti-globalization, and pro-labor Democrat in a 2025 world.
I've followed The Cradle for a couple of years. For what it's worth I've been able to corroborate much of what is published against other sources, and I believe it's entirely funded by donations. Rather biased against…
>Human breast milk is very bitter Aggressively incorrect.
I believe it was Germany's constitutional court, which given the experience of East Germany is understandable.
My grandfather was tenured, published voraciously up until he retired at 73, and was sorely disappointed when I chose not to follow in his footsteps and go into academia. Why? Primarily because I had to hear him gripe…
No fellow citizen- as long as it's in the name of Liberal Democracy and the Open Society™, the means in question are rather ephemeral.
My wife enjoys telling the story from her time living in the Hague of watching drunk girls in mini skirts all attempting to ride side-by-side to keep each other upright, and...somehow managing to do it.
"Protectionism for me, but not for thee."
To my knowledge emulation is illegal in Japan, as is modding consoles. Edit: I looked into it a bit more. As it is against the law to dump ROMs from games you have legally purchased, as well as acquiring them through…
It was around that time that I stopped watching cable television altogether. If you want to back down memory lane, search on YouTube for old recordings of network TV ad breaks from the late 90s and early 2000s- they’re…
Searching for “Israel” and “downvotes” and “flagged” in the HN search shows a steady stream of people complaining for years about an apparent coordinated campaign to silence criticism on this website. It’s frankly a…
[flagged]
Big Toilet Paper needs to try harder than this.
If you believe that’s the case why aren’t you founding a disruptor to the construction industry with high-skilled, highly-paid labor? Should be easy to eliminate those “opaque costs” and undercut all of your…
> Steam removed games that people legitimately purchased from their personal libraries? The sad reality is that you purchased a license under terms that allow them to do whatever they want- it’s not really your personal…
> It really feels like we can't have nice things anymore. Economists talk about the middle-income trap, but I feel there’s another trap in developed economies. The economics of low-cost, high-skill labor that made the…
This. When I turned eighteen my grandparents took me on an autumn driving tour of New England to visit the haunts of my favorite writers, get a real lobster roll, etc. It was so nice to see the coziness and warmth-…
For my purposes there’s nothing that I can do on a FOSS smartphone that I can’t do more comfortably on my FOSS desktop. Portability and the capacity to take pictures aside, but I also don’t go anywhere and my wife takes…
>How the courts of a liberal democracy allow that? The conclusion is that the United Kingdom is not a liberal democracy. The term I see thrown around is “electoral authoritarianism,” where elections may be free and fair…
In some ways yes, in others, no. I enjoyed this discussion on Apple’s less-than-stellar privacy situation. Sources are in the video description. https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=nQ9LR8homt4
At that point I think my challenge is to not have anything you’d rather be private on a platform you don’t actually have control over, or why have it on a phone in the first place.
I suppose that’s the other side of this. There’s a kind of privacy-as-ideology black hole that I’ve seen people get sucked into, even if in actuality they have nothing and do nothing actually illegal/immoral/sensitive.…
The conflicts of the last couple of years have not helped improve my already-low feelings about journalism and journalists.
I don’t agree. Conceptually “the market” in this context is just individual purchasing decisions in the aggregate. The people, voting with their dollars, have decided that they simply don’t care about privacy, libre…