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New comment by secabeen in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

secabeen — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:31:49 +0000

> You have to pay the government rent in perpetuity.

You are paying the government rent in perpetuity for the services they provide, including enforcement of your property rights. If you wish to live on land without paying government rent, you will need to go to a place without effective government. Today, that would be Syria, parts of Sudan, or Mali as examples. I doubt you want to live in those places as a 1st world resident, but if you do, there's little stopping you.

New comment by secabeen in "Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton"

secabeen — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:02:33 +0000

Largely, because books are heavy, and there's limited demand for most used books. If you've ever been at a book sale on the last day, there are always lots of leftover ones that no one wants.

There's a general sense that librarians are preservationists. This is far from the truth. Most books get pulped within a few years of printing. Librarians are constantly discarding books that don't get checked out to make space for new books.

New comment by secabeen in "An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord"

secabeen — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:08:42 +0000

I can imagine a few more. Here's one that is 100% effective:

* Wait until your account was created > 18 years ago.

That may not be enough for you, and that's fine, this is not a governmental service or site, with a mandate to serve everyone. You can chose not to use discord, and discord can choose not to have you as a customer. YMMV.

New comment by secabeen in "I don't like passkeys"

secabeen — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:22:59 +0000

It's the classic "make your problems worse to fix my problems" that you see across tech. Since they don't care if you get locked out or leave their platform, it's designed to make them maximally profitable. It's the same thing you see when sites "offer" to let you do pre-registration work before an event or transaction, even though doing that work at registration is often trivial.

Want to get a RealID? You can spend 30 minutes scanning and uploading your supporting documents through the website, or you can hand your documents to the person at the desk and they'll evaluate it in 30 seconds. Over thousands of people, it's rational for the organization to optimize away that 30 second review (it also gives people a recovery option if they don't bring the right documents.) For the customer who is competent enough to bring the right documents, the latter approach is way more efficient. I regularly have to put myself in the "I'm old and hate technology, so lets do this the manual way at the desk" flow even though I'm totally capable of doing the electronic flow.

New comment by secabeen in "CERN Renounces RHEL in Favor of Debian"

secabeen — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:27:38 +0000

RHEL is EOLing CPU architectures that CERN still relies on heavily.

> RHEL 9 mandated x86-64-v2, requiring instruction sets like SSE4.2 and POPCNT, while RHEL 10 targets x86-64-v3. CERN's accelerator infrastructure manages more than 2,200 specialised front-end computers and 17,000 embedded devices, including legacy Core 2-era and custom industrial boards, engineered for 10- to 15-year lifecycles aligned with long-term accelerator shutdown windows. Upstream microarchitecture mandates threatened to abruptly obsolete thousands of functional, purpose-built control nodes.

New comment by secabeen in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

secabeen — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:24:06 +0000

> This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why. You could set this up with a short perl script, and the human setting it up would be held responsible for the spam - why is this different when it’s AI agents set up by a human and allowed to post to the internet at large?

It's not, but the courts and the legal system move slowly by design. There is absolutely legal risk for OpenAI here that will not close until the Statue of Limitations has expired.

New comment by secabeen in "Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products"

secabeen — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:44:27 +0000

Quicken Desktop (yes, it still exists) just added this as a new feature as well. It's pretty nice.

New comment by secabeen in "The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]"

secabeen — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:33:51 +0000

BSidesLV is still pretty chill, although it's more focused on cybersecurity professionals than on the hacking side of things.

New comment by secabeen in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

secabeen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:39:52 +0000

Yes, but it's a different group of Americans, and the ones who are currently thriving in this broken system will fight tooth and nail to preserve their way of life.

New comment by secabeen in "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study"

secabeen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:07:08 +0000

And most of that income is salaries to existing healthcare administrators. Quickly ending the employment of the people working those jobs would be a significant shock.

New comment by secabeen in "If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken"

secabeen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:03:53 +0000

Yeah, the only place I use SLOG is with Optane devices in front of SATA/SAS flash. Anything that needs the speed of SLOG shouldn't be on rust anyways.

I would be in a different world if my system was backing banking or other loss critical data. For all my workloads, losing 5 seconds of writes in a crash is NBD.

New comment by secabeen in "If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken"

secabeen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:01:48 +0000

I schedule scrubs during idle time (10pm Friday - 6am Monday), so the metadata hit doesn't affect usage, but YMMV if you don't have an idle time. I also don't generally let them get that full.

If I was building the array new, I'd probably use a special VDEV for metadata, but they didn't exist when I built my last one of these.

New comment by secabeen in "If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken"

secabeen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:52:23 +0000

Every 100+ TB ZFS pool I have is optimized for streaming reads/writes. IOPS are rarely a binding factor at these sizes.

New comment by secabeen in "Dupes took over the world"

secabeen — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:55:38 +0000

In this case, Fanatic is the long-form version of the word "fan" used in the expression "sports fan".

> Fanatics, Inc. is an American sports platform that consists of several businesses, including licensed sports merchandise, trading cards and collectibles, sports betting, special events, and live commerce.

--Wikipedia

Debian launches competing General Resolutions on LLM usage in Debian code

secabeen — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:48:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041395

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by secabeen in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

secabeen — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:38:02 +0000

I thought this, but random updates and changes for my apps in dev mode got too annoying; switching to full root has made my apps stable and turned off the prompts to upgrade the OS. It was worth it.

New comment by secabeen in "Back to Kagi"

secabeen — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:39:52 +0000

Do they even expose much cross users? One of my sports apps has a Family Plan, and my "family" is three other players who organized ourselves on FB. We split the cost evenly and it saves us like 50% each. I don't even know their names.

New comment by secabeen in "Dupes took over the world"

secabeen — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:16:06 +0000

That's because Fanatics took over the jersey manufacture and cut the quality. Fanatics sucks in all sort of dimensions.

New comment by secabeen in "Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033"

secabeen — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:32:13 +0000

Indeed. The worst case scenario with no action is a ~30% cut in benefits; that's a long way from a 100% benefit cut.

New comment by secabeen in "Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033"

secabeen — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:31:04 +0000

Sure, if nothing is done. The trust fund redeeming its bonds is little different than the congress appropriating money for Social Security benefits; both come out of the current revenue of the USG. When the trust fund no longer has any bonds to redeem, there's nothing stopping congress from continuing to transfer money into Social Security to pay benefits at existing levels. They'll just have to vote on it rather than it happening automatically.