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That’s interesting you say that because I initially had the opposite impression because this would imply that the Earth has experienced major temperature swings much beyond what we’re seeing now and life carried on.

Then I reread and saw the part about increased greenhouse gas effects… I hope those calculations at least are inaccurate.

Student Loan Forgiveness Distributional Impact

nobodyCloak — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:55:27 +0000

Article URL: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/blog/the-distributional-effects-of-student-loan-forgiveness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32599168

Points: 2

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Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

nobodyCloak — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:55:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org/msg760508.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32582260

Points: 402

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New comment by nobodyCloak in "Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?"

nobodyCloak — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 22:32:09 +0000

Not OP, but for anyone who’s curious I believe they may be referencing George Bernard Shaw’s infamous quote [0] (which FWIW I think expresses a morally abhorrent way of going about things)

[0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7WBRjU9P5eo

Ask HN: Best open-source alternative to Slack?

nobodyCloak — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:19:25 +0000

The idea of ceding total control over internal messaging to an external entity (especially for a startup or small company) has always gotten to me, but I’ve recently considered the possibility of using a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Slack. From what I’ve found in research, Rocket.chat seems like a good choice and relatively “easy” to set up. Do you use any self-hosting or open-source options? What’s your experience been like?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31830251

Points: 8

# Comments: 11

New comment by nobodyCloak in "WEF's proposal for a “trusted digital agent” to regulate online ID [pdf]"

nobodyCloak — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:33:40 +0000

Ahhh you are correct, thanks for pointing that out. I'll update the title. They do refer specifically to "trusted digital agency" but, as you pointed out, it's "agency" as in "ability to choose" not "agency" as in "an organization."

And yes it is quite scary to me as well.

WEF's proposal for a “trusted digital agent” to regulate online ID [pdf]

nobodyCloak — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:04:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Advancing_towards_Digital_Agency_2022.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30547663

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by nobodyCloak in "Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance"

nobodyCloak — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:58:18 +0000

A lot can be said about Israel, and this NSO stuff is extremely alarming. However, they also should get some credit as (one of?) the only countries in the Middle East where the laws don’t dictate that people be persecuted and/or killed for being homosexual.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Israel

List of organizations supporting centralized digital IDs

nobodyCloak — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 01:40:52 +0000

Article URL: https://id2020.org/alliance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27816908

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nobodyCloak in "We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Western thought"

nobodyCloak — Sun, 02 May 2021 01:06:09 +0000

At least in the context of this essay this point seems moot to me. Whether the author argues that only Christianity provided such theories or not, the vast majority of the US founders cite the Christian God as the source of a lot of things, human rights among them. They don’t cite some Greek philosopher because that’s not what they pulled that aspect of their argument from.

Maybe this is just more cut snd dry for me because I’ve studied US history for years and I’m imposing a lot of that into the essay, but I don’t think the author is being disingenuous at all for rightly pointing out the reaching effect of Christianity on our modern understanding of human rights (see Locke’s “Reasonableness of Christianity” for some fun reading).

New comment by nobodyCloak in "We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Western thought"

nobodyCloak — Sat, 01 May 2021 15:03:40 +0000

I think you may be missing the point of the essay. I don’t think it meant to say that Christianity is perfect nor that Christianity is the supreme religion. Of course Christianity has been used to justify hateful conduct (just like most other religions at some point) but regardless it more than anything else is responsible for how “Western Civilization” developed, and by extension our understanding of human rights. Yes Christianity was used to defend slavery, but it was also used to condemn it. Regardless, the point was that Christianity is a driving force behind Western thought/morality and ignoring that is dangerous.

Are there other religions that teach the same values of human rights? Of course! But how many of them directly influenced Western life and the Western definition of those same rights, specifically in the founding of the US (which became the blueprint for so many other countries after it)?

Also, I feel like Judaism is implicitly included to some degree in this because Jesus was a Jew and the author specifically mentions he (the author) was Jewish.

New comment by nobodyCloak in "On Being Blacklisted"

nobodyCloak — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 01:29:36 +0000

Isn't that kind of lumping a great number of people with very different mindsets into a big group of Idiots Because They Don't Think Like Me?

I won't spend the time to go through and contradict every single one of your points, but let's not forget that Tipper Gore (Al Gore's wife at the time) was the main push behind the parental advisory labels, freedom fries is a joke to 100% of the people I've talked to about it, and just because not everyone agrees at what point (or whether) an abortion becomes synonymous with a murder does not mean that everyone on the right wants to rule over women (unlike some cultures that do exist to this day in other countries).