Hacker News: lishzen

New comment by lishzen in "Piracy"

lishzen — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 22:03:17 +0000

pitchfork.com has RSS feeds of best new albums and best new songs

New comment by lishzen in "Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting"

lishzen — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:39:07 +0000

I was looking for an UPS replacement and found this: Anker 521 Portable Power Station. Haven't decided what brand to buy, bit $200 sounds reasonable.

New comment by lishzen in "Why GitHub won"

lishzen — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:01:44 +0000

Migadu

New comment by lishzen in "Mondragon as the new city-state"

lishzen — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:18:45 +0000

I understood from the article that workers remain working for the coop (possibly in different companies) until they retire, and then, the coop provides them with pensions; so they continue to receive value after retirement.

New comment by lishzen in "The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints"

lishzen — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:49:45 +0000

We solved some of this by having a "src" folder with subfolders: "functions", "triggers" and "views". Then a update-src.sql script that drops all of those and recreates them from source files. This way we can track history with git and ensure a database has the latest version of them by running the script and tests (using pgtap and pg_prove).

New comment by lishzen in "New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers"

lishzen — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:17:16 +0000

+1 make it per user This decision works against zulip long term, now we have to think before inviting/adding users to our server. Third rug pulled from under us in a year: zerotier, rport and now zulip.

New comment by lishzen in "Irishman arrested in UK for 'causing anxiety' by retweeting meme"

lishzen — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:17:23 +0000

Reminds me of Karma Police:

  Karma police
  Arrest this girl
  Her Hitler hairdo
  Is making me feel ill
  And we have crashed her party

  This is what you'll get
  This is what you'll get
  This is what you'll get
  When you mess with us

New comment by lishzen in "A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design"

lishzen — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 01:10:31 +0000

Love it! Searched for Shigeru Miyamoto and this was the third result: https://www.glitterberri.com/developer-interviews/miyamoto-h...

New comment by lishzen in "A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong"

lishzen — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:36:25 +0000

Yours is a short question to make, but it requires a very long answer, not fit for a comment box. The negative consequences of prostitution are deeply personal because the effects of sex on the participants go deeper and last longer than the effects of the act of copulation. If you want a good argument against prostitution one route could be to understand the link between sexual expression and: intimacy, self esteem, love, relationships...

New comment by lishzen in "My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone"

lishzen — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:17:50 +0000

You know, technology doesn't just materialize spontaneously, it is made with a human purpose and that purpose (with all the subjectivity of everyone that participates in creating and fostering the technology) is imbued in those inanimate objects. When you use technology it guides you in its intended use according to its purpose, when you open a door by its handle, when you put your headphones on.

Phones and youtube specifically are made to make money by gaining and keeping one's attention. They achieve it with tactics that trigger addiction. Some people become addicts, some not so much, but if you have a human brain you will feel the pull to abuse them.

In the case of phones and youtube the "mythical they" are the ones who profit from them and don't care about the effects of their tactics on the users. Maybe it is not warfare but it sure is asymmetric.

New comment by lishzen in "What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?"

lishzen — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 17:54:00 +0000

Non medical placebo effect? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845699/

New comment by lishzen in "Tesla fires hundreds from headquarters, factory"

lishzen — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:23:01 +0000

If corporations are suddenly liberated from labor regulations they are not going to reverse their decisions and sell the robots to employ more people or make part-time employees full-time. Cost cutting is a war of multiple fronts.

Labor regulation has the same effect as taxes, the money just doesn't go through the government. Higher taxes and no labor regulation would have similar consequences in corporate profit-seeking decisions, because corporations are the ones paying most taxes anyway.

Besides, there is no clean separation between government and corporations, I think it is improbable that taxes are raised after getting rid of labor regulations.

New comment by lishzen in "It’s time to give Firefox another chance"

lishzen — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:35:50 +0000

I think you're joking but it's the third time I heard someone say something like this today, so... profits don't pay your salary, your work pays for it.