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New comment by digianarchist in "Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes"

digianarchist — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:19:58 +0000

It’s not one or the other. There are plenty of societies that meet the bar you describe without the restrictions Singapore has in place.

New comment by digianarchist in "Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance"

digianarchist — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:02:48 +0000

> Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity. Write your UI once in declarative TypeScript, and it compiles directly to native views on iOS, Android, and macOS—no web views, no JavaScript bridges.

New comment by digianarchist in "Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes"

digianarchist — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:37:22 +0000

The proscribing of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist group" is an absolute farce but that doesn't prevent you criticising the governments position on Palestine.

New comment by digianarchist in "Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes"

digianarchist — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:25:10 +0000

I don’t agree with that assessment at all. I’m free to criticise my government in the UK in any way I wish to. I would have no such freedom in Singapore.

New comment by digianarchist in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

digianarchist — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:26:08 +0000

Other platforms are over-policed and Twitter is under-policed.

There was a sweet-spot, subjectively speaking, for Twitter mid-2022.

New comment by digianarchist in "Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes"

digianarchist — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:30:14 +0000

Singaporeans have chosen economic security and social authoritarianism over the freedoms we enjoy in the West. That's their choice.

A powerful passport doesn't mean they can move anywhere to live permanently and if they choose to become a citizen of the country they do move to then they will lose their Singaporean citizenship.

New comment by digianarchist in "Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes"

digianarchist — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:30:46 +0000

No freedom of press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of assembly, government owns/operates roughly ⅓ of the economy that features many state monopolies, the PAP maintains a gerrymandered control over the electorate, criticizing the government lands you in court for defamation and conveniently bankrupts can't run for parliament.

Singapore is many things but not none of what you've written.

New comment by digianarchist in "Self-help gets philosophical"

digianarchist — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:33:29 +0000

A wasted opportunity to explore related ideas.

New comment by digianarchist in "Self-help gets philosophical"

digianarchist — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:55:43 +0000

A good point is made at the end of the article:

> But preemptive surrender is no sign of wisdom. Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. The price of this power is mutual obligation: we can never let ourselves off the hook. The things we can accomplish together are, by definition, within our sphere of control, even if we have to act through structures that are bigger than any of us alone to achieve them.

Stoicism doesn't answer the question "what can and can't we control" and doesn't claim to. I think the modern neostoicism trend is to make the reader believe that they have little control over daily life, encouraging an almost narcissistic-nihilist response to ongoing events.

New comment by digianarchist in "Ask HN: How much money did you get from the Facebook privacy settlement?"

digianarchist — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:12:52 +0000

I got a payout today from BMO Bank to my Paypal account for $38

New comment by digianarchist in "Self-help gets philosophical"

digianarchist — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:42:54 +0000

I have a particular disdain for the profanity-laden slop that is works penned by Mark Manson. He's not alone as most "self-help" books are trash reads that only serve as some form of cathartic release to their readers.

That's not to say all books in the genre are useless. I have recommended Cal Newport's works before but they very much suffer from "this 300 page book could have been a blog post" levels of verbosity.

New comment by digianarchist in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

digianarchist — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:10:15 +0000

Apple is far behind the competition when it comes to image editing...

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DPWkNZHjebe/

New comment by digianarchist in "Ask HN: How much money did you get from the Facebook privacy settlement?"

digianarchist — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:44:48 +0000

Nothing. Filled out the form and heard nothing since.

New comment by digianarchist in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

digianarchist — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:20:30 +0000

It’s not just convenience. This single box is a single point of failure.

New comment by digianarchist in "Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake"

digianarchist — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:29:08 +0000

There's a tunnel between Detroit and Windsor. Faster than the bridge sometimes because no trucks.

New comment by digianarchist in "Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake"

digianarchist — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:39:01 +0000

You're probably right. I scanned the FDA website and wasn't sure how easy it would be to meet the requirements for personal medicine importation [0].

As a Canadian national in the US I wouldn't even attempt doing this in the current political climate.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importat...

New comment by digianarchist in "Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake"

digianarchist — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:29:22 +0000

$450 CAD I believe.

US consumers would have to travel to Canada for injections which isn't practical unless you live on a border town.

It's unlikely to meet the bar for personal importation as you say.

That probably won't stop people from trying. There's already a huge market for illegal compounds and GPL-1 drugs are available alongside the usual testosterone and other steroids.

New comment by digianarchist in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

digianarchist — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:53:42 +0000

Also Libation for Audible books.

New comment by digianarchist in "X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended"

digianarchist — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:23:57 +0000

Less than 24 hours after I posted this Musk intervened on the idea of winding down the creator program favoring an increase in payments.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1978721345279082596

New comment by digianarchist in "X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended"

digianarchist — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:33:28 +0000

I saw Nikita mention that X will flag account locations in order to be transparent around a poster's origin [0] which is a step in the right direction, though abandoning the creator program altogether more so.

Nikita has had a rough couple of weeks. Targeted with the most vile antisemitism I've seen after attempting to get doxxing campaigns under control. That is hard to do when your boss is overriding every decision you make.

I'm not sure X is salvageable at this point. The internet's town square is starting to look at lot like a 1930s German beer hall.

[0] - https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1978132382868988310