<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gzread</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gzread</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:51:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gzread" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gzread in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Pi Pico doesn't have networking capabilities, so that would be silly. You're probably thinking of the Pi Zero.</p>
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<p>Yep. If you write<p>```
© <?=$currentYear?> Your Name
```<p>As many sites do, it may actually invalidate your copyright. You have to put all of the years when you made copyrightable edits to the page. A range like 2010-2025 is only allowed if every single year in that range is included.</p>
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<p>Yeah, they send you to die in dumb wars instead and if you survive then you get your welfare (a military paycheck). So you think dumb wars keep countries great?</p>
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<p>I meant per week, of course.</p>
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<p>Well the first is just plain old bog-standard bigotry. What was the "ok dude" in response to?</p>
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<p>Which viewpoints?</p>
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<p>Political ideas don't come in isolation. You cited some relatively benign aspects of conservatism. But those are symptoms of a deeper process, and that same process brings both the benign aspects and the malignant aspects. People's stances on these issues aren't independent. They are correlated by some common factor that causes all of them, and we're not quite sure what that is and it may have evolutionary underpinnings. We call the common factor conservatism (or progressivism, when it's flipped the opposite way).</p>
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<p>Those hundred million people who voted for all this, however, are Americans and show us what American values are.</p>
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<p>It also takes a week to get your money when finalizing the channel. This is because the other party has a week to post on the blockchain a proof that you cheated. Only if no cheating proof is posted can you actually finalize the channel.</p>
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<p>You have to commit the money upfront into not just the network, but the <i>link</i> on the network.<p>Basically a Lightning connection (or channel) is two parties locking up some money (in any amount and any split they want) and then repeatedly re-agreeing on what the current split is. At any time they can close the channel which unlocks the money according to the latest agreed split. It's cleverly set up so that if either one cheats (by trying to finalize an earlier split), the other one gets to overrule it and keep 100%.<p>The most money that can be transferred is when the split is 100% to one party. Then you need to finalize it and create a new one.<p>It's not as magical as its proponents think. It is better than the base protocol in some cases - if you have connections and money. The sender having to lock up actual money in advance, in the maximum amount they can foresee sending, is a real buzz killer for the sender. And if the sender is some central relay - if you want to receive via a central relay and not peer to peer - you'll have to convince them why they should do that. Usually by actually prepaying, in real bitcoins, a few percent of what you want them to lock. Which is more than the transaction fee for a nontrivial base layer transaction.</p>
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<p>I thought they were using Chinese yuan. Bitcoin must be a fallback option for countries that haven't yet updated to the new global reserve currency.</p>
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<p>NYT just doesn't care about the consequences of what they publish. A few years ago they put out a piece about how a big group of people were constantly raping another big group of people, that had significant geopolitical implications, it turned out to be entirely made up and they never apologised.</p>
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<p>This is all about how the housing market is structured, not the amount worked. If people worked even more, house prices would rise further to cancel it.</p>
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<p>Is this actually a problem? We all know the average white collar worker doesn't actually work for 40 hours despite being at the office. The average - everywhere - is more like the equivalent of 20 hours of solid focused work per week day.<p>Does more white collar work beyond a threshold produce more value, anyway? Sometimes yes but often no.</p>
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<p>But that's how it works in America and China as well. And in Russia. And basically everywhere. Since it's the same in all of these places, it fails to explain the differences.</p>
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<p>It's not strictly necessary to be a super power.<p>I don't think idleness is what's preventing it anyway. It's more about capital ownership. I'm not deploying high speed rail because I expect it would be impossible to get the land rights, not because I wouldn't work enough hours.<p>Actually I myself would be a terrible entrepreneur in any field, but I feel that I produce good value at a good rate at the actual work that I do. I don't think there's a shortage of entrepreneurship even though I happen to have none. I do think it's not being deployed on things that make the country more powerful.</p>
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<p>There is no other interpretation of changing "we respect your privacy and do not sell your data" to "we respect your privacy".<p>Mozilla even tried to claim the old wording was bad because some governments erroneously define "sell" as "to exchange something for valuable consideration, such as money".</p>
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<p>Not necessarily your real age. Plus on Unix systems age is not a required field in /etc/passwd.</p>
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<p>Sensible people are pointing out that it means if you need to know if the user is a minor, you're required to check this new thing. You, however, are trying to claim grep has to check if the user is over 18. It does not.</p>
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<p>As expected. However, since it's the law, there's some way to enforce it.</p>
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