Hacker News: Profragile

New comment by Profragile in "Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity8"

Profragile — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 10:15:29 +0000

>The resources would have been better spent working directly with and on Debian

Debian is a slow bureaucratic political organization and works very hard to punish those who want too use it for business. Even if Cannonical had spent double the money, they'd probably get 1% of what they were able to do with Ubuntu.

>and offering support/consulting/employment to do so and it made Mark's intentions seem seriously dubious to me

Why should they not offer support to those who want too purchase it?

>although aside from the ad spying thing he hasn't really done anything egregious as I feared initially

The "spying" you are referring to is what Google Chrome and all the browsers do with what you type in your search bar. All Cannonical did was send your search queries to an HTTP endpoint. What are you searching in your app drawyer anyway that you don't want sent anywhere. It's not going to be anything other than the list of apps you have installed and all Linux repos can detect what apps you have downloaded from them.

New comment by Profragile in "Firefox is on a slippery slope"

Profragile — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 23:14:27 +0000

I have been using Brave on my mobile and love it. Thank you for what you do!

New comment by Profragile in "Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?"

Profragile — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 20:29:39 +0000

The Richest Man in Babylon.

New comment by Profragile in "Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations"

Profragile — Sun, 21 May 2017 18:43:29 +0000

Trump is doing arms deals with Saudi Arabia for the military industry, a part of the deep state, as we speak.

New comment by Profragile in "Getting Julian Assange: The Untold Story"

Profragile — Sun, 21 May 2017 18:18:25 +0000

That may be true. In the real world though, there are no explicit legally binding statements uttered and confirmed before sex.

New comment by Profragile in "Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?"

Profragile — Sun, 21 May 2017 10:46:24 +0000

I did that last year to avoid bullshit generated and perpetuated by people I know. This year, I decided to delete the reddit app to get away from bullshit generated and perpetuated by people I don't know. I still consume some bullshit, but I'm getting there.

New comment by Profragile in "Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta"

Profragile — Tue, 16 May 2017 17:22:21 +0000

Connect with FB is broken.

New comment by Profragile in "The Multiverse as Muse"

Profragile — Sun, 14 May 2017 10:44:41 +0000

The Copenhagen interpretation is wrong. There have been developments in alternatives but as Max Plank said, we need the current generation scientists to die out so that the better saner alternative can replace it.

New comment by Profragile in "Reddit User Analyser"

Profragile — Sun, 14 May 2017 10:37:52 +0000

> 50% kind and < 5% controversial. I am disappointed in myself.

New comment by Profragile in "Long-dormant bacteria and viruses in ice are reviving as climate warms"

Profragile — Sat, 06 May 2017 08:09:23 +0000

Climate fluctuations will happen regardless of whether we do anything to cause warming/cooling. We need to focus on protecting ourselves from it by using more energy... because both heating and cooling our living rooms and cars requires energy... and make artificial heating/cooling accessible to more and more people... regardless of whether or not our activities warms up or cools down the earth.

Why we are focusing on what happens to the overall earth's climate makes zero sense to me... I'm sure it is entirely political and it is a fight between few rich corporations and political powers where everyone has been dragged into. Climate will change very drastically like it has done in the past, with or without human activities. We should be working on how to save ourselves from changes in the future... not desperately trying not to breathe too hard which might cause some tsunami in another part of the world (butterfly effect)... specially because nobody can correctly predict if it will.

New comment by Profragile in "RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017"

Profragile — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 18:08:15 +0000

So do you agree that unless the money is out of politics, participating in voting is futile?

New comment by Profragile in "Can We Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon?"

Profragile — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 17:48:40 +0000

Are you implying humans are artificial?

New comment by Profragile in "Can We Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon?"

Profragile — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:29:03 +0000

Can we let nature run it's course and let species that go extinct go extinct like they always have for billions of years?

New comment by Profragile in "RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017"

Profragile — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:23:30 +0000

This. Voting is essentially always "setup" i.e. the people who make maximum use of the power usually bet on both sides, albeit slightly differently. Since they know it's either one or the other, it doesn't really matter to them who really wins. They have necessary control of the situation no matter what happens.

If you don't frame your life in a way that whoever wins matters to you very less, you are doing something wrong. If that is already the case, your vote doesn't count at all. It's one vote. The chance of your vote actually affecting the outcome of the election is so small that you might as well buy a lottery ticket instead.

If however, you have the power to convince a large enough group of people to sway the election to one side or another, you should sell some of that influence to whoever is offering more money or favors to you.

New comment by Profragile in "Intel Pulls Out of OpenStack Effort It Founded with Rackspace"

Profragile — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:51:36 +0000

I just use Scriptsafe to block everything.

New comment by Profragile in "How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)"

Profragile — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:01:21 +0000

My Step 1 would be: Don't listen to an internet article on how to raise a fucking child... specially if it's a NYT article.