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New comment by ovibos in "Show HN: An audio only social network"

ovibos — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:25:22 +0000

In the same way that Tumblr is like blogging but with shittier content, or YouTube is like cinema production but with shittier content

New comment by ovibos in "I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life"

ovibos — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 17:24:02 +0000

You're sort of attacking a straw man here - just because someone is against the war on drugs doesn't mean they are for indiscriminate legalization. The biggest criticisms of the war on drugs in this thread are that it A) attacks people who are no threat to anyone else or themselves (e.g., cannibas and psychedelic users, "responsible" users in general) because of public misconceptions of these drugs pushed by the powers that be, and that B) it attacks people who are very much in need of help, such as addicts of more dangerous/addictive drugs, by punishing them for what is effectively a disease.

Opinions of HN users may vary on how exactly to fix these problems, but I think it's safe to say that neither the system we have now (villainizing and condemning users) nor complete and total deregulation are solutions.

New comment by ovibos in "The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)"

ovibos — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 05:43:24 +0000

Sure, but I think that the self imposed barriers the author talks about may be more common in ivy league graduates.

New comment by ovibos in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People"

ovibos — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:49:50 +0000

Money is just a stand-in for resources and labor, and if automation makes labor very very cheap, the rich will only need the natural resources the poor sit on, not anything from the poor themselves.

New comment by ovibos in "The map of ideas how the universe appeared from nothing [pdf]"

ovibos — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 18:55:13 +0000

This point of view is addressed in 6.3

New comment by ovibos in "Show HN: Handicareers.com – A simple job board for disabled people"

ovibos — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 15:51:16 +0000

Why does "disabled" have the connotation of being unable to be productive, and the phrase "people with disabilities" not? Surely, if we use the phrase "people with disabilities" as we would have used "disabled", it will gain similar connotations, no?

Sorry if i come off as confrontational, I'm legitimately curious

New comment by ovibos in "Authenticity in the Age of the Fake"

ovibos — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:32:31 +0000

Sort of like how bitcoin uses hashes to demonstrate value, things like diamonds and dyes are a social "proof-of-work" - meaningful only because the cost they imply.

New comment by ovibos in "Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers"

ovibos — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:15:42 +0000

IMO scraping is only abusive if the site explicitly asks to not be scraped (via the site's robots.txt)

New comment by ovibos in "SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed"

ovibos — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:59:53 +0000

The corrupting aspect of power is nonpartisan. It affects the right, and it affects the left.

New comment by ovibos in "SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed"

ovibos — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:03:27 +0000

I don't know if it was necessarily that they "couldn't be bothered to show up and vote". My father decided not to vote on the grounds that he couldn't justify voting for either major candidate, and many other people who voted for Obama in the previous election cycle probably felt the same way.

New comment by ovibos in "What.CD is shutting down"

ovibos — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 05:16:44 +0000

> I have no idea what actually happened to cause a shutdown

Their servers were raided by the French authorities.

New comment by ovibos in "Why the World Needs WikiLeaks"

ovibos — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:52:29 +0000

What makes you think wikileaks doesn't vet their information before they publish it?

New comment by ovibos in "Why the World Needs WikiLeaks"

ovibos — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:47:18 +0000

> they never did match the (encrypted) files

The pre-commitment hashes have always matched the encrypted files, up to this point.

New comment by ovibos in "Why the World Needs WikiLeaks"

ovibos — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:18:53 +0000

Wikileaks are not "spreading misinformation", they verify everything that they get before they leak it. This is why people take what they leak so seriously - any jackass with an internet connection can spread information, but wikileaks has a reputation for thouroughly vetting the information they recieve.

New comment by ovibos in "Why the World Needs WikiLeaks"

ovibos — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:05:13 +0000

There hasn't been a proof-of-life from Julian himself in some time, and there was recently insurance files released that didn't have matching hashes.

No hard evidence, but it is worrying, especially when there are so many parties that would benefit from wikileak's infiltration/de-legitimization.

New comment by ovibos in "Why the World Needs WikiLeaks"

ovibos — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 03:55:57 +0000

Regardless of how (in)significant you think the material they release is, there's no such thing as too much transparency.

New comment by ovibos in "Why the World Needs WikiLeaks"

ovibos — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 03:51:50 +0000

How? In what way does preferentiality damage the transparency or validity of the information?

New comment by ovibos in "Firefox 50.0"

ovibos — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 02:55:58 +0000

On my machine (Intel Celeron, 8g RAM) it's noticeably slower than TST even with only 50 or so tabs

New comment by ovibos in "Firefox 50.0"

ovibos — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:00:59 +0000

What's wrong with `firefox -P`?

New comment by ovibos in "Libreboot is not GNU Libreboot anymore"

ovibos — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 03:34:53 +0000

The thing is, people who create drama tend to be much more visible than those who suffer quietly (for better or for worse).