Hacker News: webinvest

New comment by webinvest in "The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide"

webinvest — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:11:40 +0000

That’s because Apple still makes their hardware in China & America. But not in the UK.

New comment by webinvest in "Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption"

webinvest — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 06:14:35 +0000

Are you sure the UK is a democratic country?

New comment by webinvest in "Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption"

webinvest — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 06:12:53 +0000

Furthermore, Apples phones are made in China. Apples phones are not made in the UK.

New comment by webinvest in "FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive"

webinvest — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:23:34 +0000

You could have a medical procedure certification card.

New comment by webinvest in "Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population (2019)"

webinvest — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 04:58:29 +0000

Over the last 3 years, Earning $XX per year in appreciation, $XX per year by renting the extra rooms, $XX per year from paying off the mortgage automatically, and $XX due to the lower monthly total payments compared to renting for a total of $80k/year in earnings is definitely worth mowing the lawn a dozen times a year. I haven’t even mentioned the tax deductions, or non-monetary benefits either.

Homeownership in America, assuming you paid for an inspection and didn’t buy a money-pit, typically means you will be at least middle-class for the rest of your life.

But sssssshhhh don’t tell everyone !! Otherwise there will be more buyers and more competition.

New comment by webinvest in "Maine becomes first state to decriminalize selling sex"

webinvest — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 01:28:04 +0000

That seems less exploitive of labor. At least you can pick your hours, clients, sex acts, and pay. With the former job, you don’t have a choice anymore.

New comment by webinvest in "Maine becomes first state to decriminalize selling sex"

webinvest — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 01:22:32 +0000

We disallow the selling of organs due to the potential of selling someone else’s organs.

New comment by webinvest in "Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around"

webinvest — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 01:34:39 +0000

Learn from the past. Assassinating the dictator just creates a power vacuum that someone else fills. Look at Iraq. The US killed Osama Bin Laden. Then Al Qaeda. Now there’s ISUS and they control everything there. Figure out what will fill the power vacuum or you may do more harm than good.

New comment by webinvest in "Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative"

webinvest — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:42:53 +0000

I just hit accept with a blank input and it accepted it

New comment by webinvest in "Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative"

webinvest — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:36:54 +0000

The loading time need to be improved & sped up to under 2 seconds. Ideally a quarter of a second. It’s doable — one thing to do is serve a cached page first.

At the time of writing, the 1st page load is 14 seconds and subsequent page loads are 7 seconds.

New comment by webinvest in "FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says"

webinvest — Tue, 23 May 2023 00:37:31 +0000

Somewhere in the book Freakonomics, a study mentioned that crime dropped precipitously in New York because abortion was legalized about 18 years before.

New comment by webinvest in "Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job"

webinvest — Fri, 19 May 2023 03:50:14 +0000

Some pay relocation bonuses.

New comment by webinvest in "Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy"

webinvest — Mon, 15 May 2023 01:13:25 +0000

How do you invent a system where the websites instituting the identity proof (KYC/ Know Your Customer) systems don’t just become honeypots for collecting the necessary data to impersonate the millions of people that used it?

Others have commented on your point about money already

New comment by webinvest in "Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years"

webinvest — Sun, 14 May 2023 19:35:24 +0000

In Germany only?

New comment by webinvest in "FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup"

webinvest — Tue, 09 May 2023 03:14:14 +0000

I remember the Documentary “Loose Change” about this.

New comment by webinvest in "The “Location Off” switch on your phone is a lie"

webinvest — Wed, 03 May 2023 12:49:21 +0000

What about just turning your phone off?

New comment by webinvest in "Spotify passes 500M active users as operating losses deepen"

webinvest — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:00:37 +0000

$200M of that loss went to Joe Rogan.

New comment by webinvest in "A social media site for chatbots to talk to each other"

webinvest — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 04:25:36 +0000

XOR a bit-flip of a few hexadecimal strings hidden in base64 after overflowing them through a buffer with a variable size that changes every hundredth of a second.

New comment by webinvest in "Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible"

webinvest — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:58:38 +0000

They want the data

New comment by webinvest in "Iceland long term visa for remote workers"

webinvest — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:26:06 +0000

Iceland is the 3rd most expensive country in the world to live in. Just look at the prices in ISK for the websites of businesses in Reykjavik, one of the only cities there with cellular data service, and convert it to your local currency.

Your money will stretch 3x-5x further in Europe unless you plan to build yourself an igloo and catch fish lol. Europe isn’t known for being cheap either.