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New comment by frzj in "Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory"

frzj — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 03:57:14 +0000

The only argument that is viable against vaccination is that one might already have natural immunity. I get that some will try to get infected on purpose, but those will be the minority of the minority. Maybe there is also the argument that higher vaccination rates will not help. I heard that 90% UK's population has antibodies. People say that Spain has low rates now b/c they have a high vaccination rate, but they also had a high number of cases previously, and they were probably underreported. Personally, I gladly increased the average antibodies count of the population by getting vaccinated despite already having some immunity, but people are frightened, and we can't really change their minds. Force will only make them more stubborn.

New comment by frzj in "I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old"

frzj — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:03:13 +0000

Just this weekend I learned that the Espressif Framework doesn't like it aswell.

New comment by frzj in "Firefox is the 45th result when searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store"

frzj — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 02:45:20 +0000

Chocolatey doesn't have this problem. Really didn't know people used the windows store.

New comment by frzj in "Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)"

frzj — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:53:33 +0000

Hand held terminals giving you an addiction on par with heroin, the ability to instantly pinpoint your location on a map and get directions to anywhere your gig economy job makes you go, logistic chains so perfectioned you can't buy graphic cards cheaply because people from the other side of the world who mine bitcoin out bid you, dependence on biochemistry to difficult to grasp for the majority, planes that are to complex to be checked by third parties so one needs to just trust the manufaturer, machines approaching a human level of deception, meat grown in a lab without hurting animals is not possible/affordable at scale.

New comment by frzj in "Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans"

frzj — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:46:37 +0000

Analogies are always misleading. A cloud provider is no neighbor. They facilitate a specific service, and it is clear that the package is owned by the client. The cloud provider shouldn't have any liability for the data he stores, especially if it's encrypted and not shared to the public, nobody should ever care what's inside the package. If the authorities have a good reason to think that you have drugs or CP in your package, then they can force you to open it.

IMHO, no combination of ones and zeros should ever be illegal. The act of distributing them to others or creating them in the real world should be. The energy stored on a flash drive doesn't harm anybody, human action does.

New comment by frzj in "Misinformation on Facebook got 6x more clicks than factual news during election"

frzj — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 13:59:44 +0000

While they indeed wrote "last year", this is purely semantic because democrats indeed started to say lab origin was unlikely at that time. The new information is by definition new. Sure they could have said that, up until last week they still thought so, but it's implicated. The article says that virologists still think that it is natural. The very job of intelligence agencies is to control information. Sometimes they say stuff that makes them look incompetent, like the WMD in Iraq or that the Taliban wouldn't take Kabul this soon. While their service protects "our" interests in the end, they are no reliable source for anything. Scientists at least have some incentive to state the truth. But I have to agree that news outlets like CNN are politicizing information, but an educated reader can still extract what is important. The alternative is no alternative.

New comment by frzj in "Social media should be treated like the tobacco companies"

frzj — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 21:43:57 +0000

USD 5-10 a year

New comment by frzj in "Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search"

frzj — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:27:48 +0000

I haven't studied revolutions much but I know they are the ultimate form of authoritarianism. The last one actually enforced freedom. There is no opressor class in capitalism, both want the state and most even confirm it every 4 years. In a democracy the government is exchangeable but the economic conditions remain. That's why Democrats will always increase the mil budget and the Reps will always leave some social welfare.

Please continue the discussion if you disagree.

New comment by frzj in "Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search"

frzj — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 20:19:12 +0000

This is factually wrong. They are doing it based on the principles of equality and freedom. This is exactly what those terms mean. Your freedom is only limited if its execution limits the freedom of others. In this case he was free to browser the documents, but he was also impeding on the freedom of that corporation. Same with equality, it seems immoral when the rich always win. But morality is just a WAY OF DEALING with the contradictions of that are inherent to our economic system. People need to understand that freedom and equality can only be enforced by the state and people actually WANT the state to have the monopoly on the use of force. Separation of power and being democratic can be deduced from that too.

New comment by frzj in "Texas Power Companies Are Remotely Raising Temps on Residents' Smart Thermostats"

frzj — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 10:33:24 +0000

While I think that blaming the consumer never works because voting with your money is a myth, I believe it's a good thing to help people get a better baseline. I don't know exactly how 78F translates to the real temperature in his house, but it seems reasonable. Same with sugar tax or water fluoridation, consumers are uninformed and are taken advantage of by their primordial need for comfort. Give them back their freedom by time restricting Facebook too.

New comment by frzj in "What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour"

frzj — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:12:27 +0000

In the contrary. Somebody always owns it, at least in our economic system. If I had bought/leased a new iPhone I couldn't have bought as many Apple shares during the dip last year. And I could afford to buy during a pandemic because I have no rent to pay. You can't build wealth by wasting money, at least in europe, where there are no Californian companies that pay 100k a year.

New comment by frzj in "The brain isn’t supposed to change this much"

frzj — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 05:48:58 +0000

Programs are executed in different memory addresses all the time. The hardened linux kernel randomizes itself. It's like a computer alright, just very different from a von-Neuman one and a completely parallelized one. When I started reading the article I expected something mind-blowing, but it always seemed obvious given the sheer number of neurons that they would load balance and feedback, rewire themselves and do all sort of cool, difficult to predict stuff all the time.

New comment by frzj in "Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?"

frzj — Mon, 31 May 2021 13:13:24 +0000

What bias are you talking about? I thought Jimbo was an Rand Fanboy, freedom of speech is their religion.

New comment by frzj in "Wall Street struggles to sell Washington on Bitcoin for the masses"

frzj — Mon, 31 May 2021 00:28:06 +0000

The reason being the fear of missing out on getting more fiat money back than they paid for. If you buy ETFs you at least indirectly incentivize firms who produce usefull stuff like medicine, food, shelter, insurance or trading (not by itslf useful but it serves an important role in our economy). Now that I think about it, maybe you are onto something. Even if crypto is just a fad it was an important signal for governments and the markets.

New comment by frzj in "World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years"

frzj — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:25:57 +0000

The rockefeller foundation is the 39th biggest foundation. Any search term and it will show something. I tried random terms such as "animal conservation" and "Sydney" and there were a dozen results. Science is about building knowledge, so if climate change against all odds turns out to be false, it will be abandoned and the mechanism that is really behind the data will be the focus of further studies. There is no such thing as scientism but a bunch of different people who are competing for the best explanation of reality. The ability to predict is a very handy thing. Newtonian physics might not be 100% correct, but it makes damn good predictions that made our lives so much better.

New comment by frzj in "Coalition of big investors pushes banks to defund carbon emitters"

frzj — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:17:01 +0000

> Capitalism/trade is generally morally good for all consenting stakeholders (with a few exceptions such as taking advantage of addictions) and morally ambivalent for everyone else. It is so because morality is the affirmitation of societal norms.

> I wish more adults understood the above. Capitalism isn't always an unadulterated good (for people outside of the exchange) but it mostly is positive-sum good for people within the exchange, and we need government to implement taxes that prevent the former and otherwise mostly stay out of the way for the latter.

Your argument goes the way that lousing each other is beneficial to all if there are strict rules and punishment for those that don't louse back, instead of simply washing yourself or seeking other ways to delouse oneself. I'm well off and thanks to wide diversification of assets my future descendants will have all the time in the world to wonder why people still equate labor and property.

New comment by frzj in "Ask HN: The best Cookie Warning popup you've seen recently?"

frzj — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 17:21:48 +0000

I use https://ninja-cookie.com/ and it even works on some sites. I hope mobile firefox will soon whitelist it or at least some addons. So far ABO can do a basic job with hiding the banners but this breaks some sites. Ninja simply clicks the not-Agree-buttons-and-switches based on a json ruleset. There was defunct browser that used that feature first and some french guys recycled it into a addon (works almost on any browser)

New comment by frzj in "Pine64 Smarphone Spare Parts"

frzj — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 18:08:39 +0000

I guess you could setup a matrix bridge[1] and search for a sane client[2].

[1] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/mautrix-whatsapp [2] https://fluffychat.im