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New comment by orestarod in "Windows 11 Pro's On-by-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%"

orestarod — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:05:43 +0000

Trillion dollar US corporations are still under US law, which does include security requests and gag orders from secret services.

New comment by orestarod in "Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States"

orestarod — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 21:59:24 +0000

Why should they welcome you in the house they use to LIVE in? As opposed a house they use to make money out of, without contributing anything to society, like landlords do?

New comment by orestarod in "Ice not recommended for soft tissue injury treatment (2019)"

orestarod — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 16:04:38 +0000

Well ice is there to UNDO some of our body's responses, so it does not do something the body could not theoretically achieve.

New comment by orestarod in "Why fusion will never happen (2012)"

orestarod — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:36:33 +0000

I guess because they can be used as weapons, if the said lasers can transfer enough energy with enough accuracy to cover real energy needs.

New comment by orestarod in "Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says"

orestarod — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 01:20:23 +0000

What do you mean? Does a more efficient way of biologically using sun's energy exist?

New comment by orestarod in "Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says"

orestarod — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 01:05:58 +0000

That animals convert grass and plants in general to meat is undeniable. But I think the issue is, livestock is generally fed with human grown plants, which could be fed directly to humans and save a lot of energy (food and water) wasted in the process, because the amount of calories, for example, that you take off meat is nowhere near the calories contained in the food the animal consumed during its lifetime. Now, regarding if nutrients are missing from a plants only diet, that's another matter.

New comment by orestarod in "The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature"

orestarod — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 20:03:44 +0000

What is the information given when someone states "I am a woman/man"?

New comment by orestarod in "Show HN: Wa-tunnel – HTTP Tunneling through Whatsapp"

orestarod — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:58:01 +0000

The E2EE here is not about privacy, but about being able to send whatever data you want (like binary) since WhatsApp will only see one type of data (encrypted) in transit, in contrast to needing to send data in a specific format to have it transferred at all. Meta can peek at the original "messages" all they want, they will see encrypted packet data anyway.

New comment by orestarod in "American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class"

orestarod — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:22:53 +0000

The problem when you do not perceive class, is that you view those of the same class as adversaries on your way to the top rather than people on the same boat as you, needing to cooperate to improve your overall position and fix your problems. Lower class problems are other people's problems, because you are not really a part of it or won't be for long more (so you think).

Basic human life conditions should really not be up to a game of "success" that by definition has few winners. In my opinion at least.

New comment by orestarod in "Our conscious experience of the world is a memory, says new theory"

orestarod — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 11:07:43 +0000

Well all decisions ARE made in the brain, conscious or not, and whatever consciousness is, it resides in those neurons. That is also influenced by various inputs of the rest of the body, of course, but I think we can safely assume "self" exists in the brain. Thinking it reversely, can we really say an organism with various complex parts but no brain has consciousness?

You are not a disconnected consciousness, but some body parts are more easily discarded than others, and I think the brain tops most (all?) of the others regarding survivability - and is irreplaceable regarding the "self".

New comment by orestarod in "Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain"

orestarod — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 13:52:56 +0000

I thought it was useful to know what the labor laws are?

New comment by orestarod in "Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job"

orestarod — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 17:25:12 +0000

If you feel like that for your boss, that's reason enough to leave already.

New comment by orestarod in "Everyone going to World Cup must have this app, experts are sounding the alarm"

orestarod — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:13:52 +0000

If a country makes Islam illegal, would you think some Muslim countries would try to tell to that country to change its laws or not?

New comment by orestarod in "Everyone going to World Cup must have this app, experts are sounding the alarm"

orestarod — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:09:30 +0000

Is there a reason this must be in the user's file location and not in the app's own internal files?

New comment by orestarod in "Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown"

orestarod — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 08:49:18 +0000

But is it not the management that makes such decisions?

New comment by orestarod in "230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establish Extraterritoriality"

orestarod — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:49:36 +0000

Not parent's point. The point was not to conflate Prisoners of War (or Prisoners of Spy War here?) with slaves. Slaves are enslaved to provide labor without rights and payments, are treated as commodity, and are traded for other commodities, with explicit monetary value. In the case of spy prisoners, people who are in jail because they broke some law are traded for other people in jail in another country who broke another law, because they are valuable to their country of origin, and they too want to return to their home country instead of being in jail in a foreign country. They are not used for labor and they do not have monetary value that can be used in a market.

New comment by orestarod in "Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society"

orestarod — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 19:37:06 +0000

Are Palestinians terrorists?

New comment by orestarod in "Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn"

orestarod — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:53:42 +0000

If you fear your reproductive urge is being exploited, I think eradicating the exploitators is a better course of action than withholding having children. There are better reasons not to have children than using it as a way to harm your overlords.

New comment by orestarod in "Nobody wants to teach anymore"

orestarod — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:56:02 +0000

What happens if no one complains, nothing changes as a result, and everyone just quits instead? You get the current situation, which has not even developed fully. Most of what you take for granted is because someone at one point in time complained about how things were and tried to change them. If you are good enough, force change, just quitting it is an acceptance that you lose your battle and you go on to select another, easier battle, in the hopes you won't lose that too. Nothing wrong with quitting, but I do find it wrong to smear those who complain about wrong things.

New comment by orestarod in "The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal"

orestarod — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:50:10 +0000

Who was forced to practice fetus killing?