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New comment by bsd44 in "Ask HN: How do you deal with lies on the internet?"

bsd44 — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:57:17 +0000

I agree, this is probably the best approach. Stop, breathe, apply critical thinking and give it some time to process the information and see how it fits into the big picture. You need to detach yourself emotionally from the issue you're trying to observe and evaluate (aka don't choose sides, it's not a football match). And as ever; if in doubt, go against the majority. That's your safest bet. The average person is more or less an idiot (I don't mean this as an insult, I'm not sure how to explain it in just a few words).

New comment by bsd44 in "Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet"

bsd44 — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:44:08 +0000

I would if Pinephone was able to make phone calls or Librem 5 ever shipped...

New comment by bsd44 in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

bsd44 — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:08:42 +0000

Let the politicians play politics. It's bad for business when companies decide to do that. Namecheap might have only a handful of Russian customers to afford to do that, but this won't affect just them. It will affect everyone else who will now think twice about trusting their business with Namecheap, because what's stopping Namecheap to do the same thing in the future but for a different reason? Once you cross the Rubicon, there's no going back.

New comment by bsd44 in "Accounts to Support Ukrainian Army Directly via Bank of Ukraine"

bsd44 — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 13:02:14 +0000

It's more likely that you are being naive, to be politically correct. There hasn't been a single time of crisis in the recorded history where donations hadn't been stolen (and sometimes victims even being abused and exploited). From earthquakes, tsunamis, famine, wars...none of the campaigns went without an incident.

Ukraine is receiving military support from the entire NATO sphere. They can't shoot with your donations and they can't make any purchases either, so guess where the money is likely to end up. That's why I said if you want to donate then do so, but don't ask where the money is going because if you do that you won't donate ever again.

New comment by bsd44 in "The Effects of Finland's Possible NATO Membership (2016) [pdf]"

bsd44 — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 20:06:04 +0000

I don't see a problem with Finland joining NATO on a reciprocal basis; as long as Russia can set up a military base on Cuba. Of course the United States will start a world war before they allow that to happen, but then we can't reasonably expect any different from Russia?

New comment by bsd44 in "Cutting Russia off from SWIFT a “matter of days” – euro zone central banker"

bsd44 — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:58:12 +0000

If you want a short summary of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, I suggest this presentation/speech by John Mearsheimer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 - he explains it really well.

New comment by bsd44 in "Cutting Russia off from SWIFT a “matter of days” – euro zone central banker"

bsd44 — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 15:54:20 +0000

I would be very surprised if this happened. This would mean that European economies won't get their invested money back and also won't be able to pay for services. Extremely highly unlikely. Even if Europe replaces Russian LNG with American it will still be at least 3x-5x the current price.

New comment by bsd44 in "Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT"

bsd44 — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:05:28 +0000

That is exactly my point; you don't dig your own grave. Sanctions are only affective when it hurts someone else, not you. That however proves to be a difficult task in a globalised world.

New comment by bsd44 in "Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT"

bsd44 — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 15:50:21 +0000

Probably for the same reason they didn't exclude Five Eyes from SWIFT when they invaded Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and killed over 1,500,000 people in just over twenty years...lol nah it's about money. They'd shoot themselves in the foot if they did it.

New comment by bsd44 in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

bsd44 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 15:43:40 +0000

The only reason why there isn't a NATO base in Ukraine is because Russia has taken measures to make sure that doesn't happen. NATO pushed you into a war by installing a puppet regime, publicly speculating about Ukraine joining NATO for decades and supporting Ukrainian neo-nazi groups. It's an old divide and conquer recipe that worked well so far, you fell for it too.

New comment by bsd44 in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

bsd44 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 13:18:36 +0000

Yes the "rest" of the world knows the "truth". It's just a matter of defining what "the rest" and "truth" mean. In the context of the modern Axis of Evil also known as Five Eyes the "truth" is whatever the propaganda machine releases to its mass audience of intellectually handicapped people.

The "truth" were the "weapons of mass destruction" where the Allies killed over 550k children only in Iraq, not counting Syria, Libya, Afghanistan. Quiet an achievement in just twenty years. Let's not talk about killing children in Serbia in 1999, keeping Cuba isolated for over fifty years, having English aristocracy go on man-hunts in Africa in the 1980s... "truth" is a very funny word nowadays.

New comment by bsd44 in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

bsd44 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 12:59:41 +0000

How do you comment your NATO countries invading half of Middle East and killing 1.5mil people in just 20 years so that your economy could prosper? Did you consider sanctions then?

New comment by bsd44 in "Ask HN: If you're in a 100% remote role, should you turn your camera on?"

bsd44 — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

There's being professional and unprofessional in a business environment. Those are the only two choices you have.

New comment by bsd44 in "Ask HN: If you're in a 100% remote role, should you turn your camera on?"

bsd44 — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:35:55 +0000

All hands: no Everything else: yes

It's rude otherwise. I don't like attention so much that I only have a few pictures of myself as a child, none as an adult. But you have to put your preferences aside when it comes to business and be professional.

We had someone join our team and in every team meeting they would have their camera turned off while the rest of us had it on. I felt like they weren't part of the team, I could barely remember their face from the interview. Far from the eyes, far from the heart. So when the probation review came I gave them a thumb down, turns out others had the same experience and that person was gone.

You wouldn't hide yourself in the toilet and eavesdrop a meeting if you were in the office. This isn't something that needs "adding to the contract". That's so far from common sense that it hurts me physically reading such comments.

New comment by bsd44 in "Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions"

bsd44 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:50:20 +0000

So a VM inside a VM inside a physical container. Sounds great.

New comment by bsd44 in "If Everyone Else Is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich? (2011)"

bsd44 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:31:51 +0000

This might come as a shock to a lot of people, but not everyone's goal in life is to be rich.

New comment by bsd44 in "New map of meaning in the brain changes ideas about memory"

bsd44 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:40:39 +0000

I think that's fairly normal. When you learn a concept in a language it's difficult to convey it in a foreign language if you don't have the vocabulary, even if you're a native speaker. That happens to me all the time.

New comment by bsd44 in "Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes"

bsd44 — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 17:19:19 +0000

I had to manage email infrastructure for years as part of my job and I really don't see how running your own email server can be a good idea for anyone. Setting it up superficially might be a quick and easy task but maintaining it stable takes hell of a lot of effort. I seriously cringe every time I see this type of guide and articles, it just makes me think that people who write them have zero experience running a mail server and have no idea what it takes to set up one that is secure and stable.

For majority of people best middle ground is to buy a cheap domain and a cheap cPanel/web hosting and just use that to host emails. You'll be done in 5min, it will cost you a cup of coffee and you won't have the headache maintaining anything other than passwords.

New comment by bsd44 in "Watching video twice at 2x can benefit learning better than once at normal speed"

bsd44 — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 21:35:03 +0000

Ah yes, "self-improvement":

- watching videos as 2x the speed

- speedreading

- listening to audiobook while doing chores

I'm sure there's plenty more I'm forgetting here.

New comment by bsd44 in "Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging"

bsd44 — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 20:32:08 +0000

People spend their lives in misery and then go out of their way to try and artificially prolong it. :)