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> What does “divine right” matter to a serf?

Good point!

This essay doesn't explore enough how "leaders" hold on to power through the use of violence/coercion. The targets of this violence certainly didn't believe in the "divine right" of the person threatening their existence.

> "That was why regicide (the murder of a king) was considered, well into the early modern era, the worst crime one could possibly commit – it was against the ruler and against God."

If I was a king, and I knew that people hated me because I was killing them, I would probably make a decree that murdering the king is the worst crime! If a society is authoritarian (king == sole decision maker) then we can't look at the "laws" as anything but the product of the self-interest of that authoritarian ruler. "Was considered...the worst crime" by whom? Surely the average normal person (e.g. not in the ruling class) would still consider the murder of a loved one as a worse crime than the murder of a king?

> "It is hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership. It is all around us. We still tend to teach, study and celebrate ‘Great Men’. All over the world, people are in search of larger-than-life figures who can lead them past crises and catastrophes, and into a bright future."

The question, I think, is: Who is the "we" that the author refers to in this essay? The writing moves slickly from "we who teach, study and celebrate 'Great Men'" to "people all over the world". Is it "we" the population that benefits from the decisions made by the ruler? It certainly isn't "we" the people the ruler wants to get rid of!
Thinking for yourself requires just existing. That goes for anyone who is not being indoctrinated into a cult.
It isn't a firewall, it's a DNS server that returns fake results for entries in its blocklist.
Bluesky is ditching its waitlist and is now open to everyone
I'm in the process of migrating my OPNSense to a virtual machine so that I can run whatever network-related services I want right along side it in a container or VM. I used to scoff at those enterprising homelabbers who apparently stuck their firewall in a VM just because they could but I get it now. It's super nice to be able to just snapshot and back up the whole VM, and run whatever you want alongside it. (Although I will limit the box to specific network management things like AdGuard Home.)
Your fingers aren't required, only the whistleblower's:

"and possibly some employees benefited from the fraud, financially pocketing thousands of dollars, which I call the proceeds of crime."
> "internal framework developer for MegaCo"

NGL, because this is actually my dream job.
There's a little too much "housing is way too incredibly expensive for the citizens of the country" going on here for us to really care about "fairness of the open market"
In the US the receiver gets unbanked without warning or explanation and permanently loses the ability to accept money through any service via systems like MATCH.
I've always found Apple's moral position on these kinds of [USA Puritanical] things (porn, gambling, and so on) pretty weird. Of all the tech companies not beholden to the pressures to censor from advertising customers and external brands, Apple is least reliant on these external forces. You'd think they of all companies wouldn't care because a laissez faire attitude wouldn't lose them revenue. Yet, the AppStore has some of the most puritanical rules on the web. Huh...
> HSBC ain't worse or better than others

Money laundering does seem to be their choice in poisons.
added these to my wallpaper file!
Or if we don't want to watch it collapse during ours.
Thanks. I'm starting to realize that part of the problem is job search and matching.

I was contacted by a company recruiter for a small healthcare SaaS in California and had 3 interviews recently. When I looked up the job, only 7 people had applied in 2 weeks on LinkedIn. They are a very real company with very real people, but their job post is not getting seen (it's not a promoted post).

My next AI project will be to scrape LinkedIn jobs, analyze it for repost/promoted behavior, group it by consulting/headhunters vs company job post, eliminate duplicates, and filter based on my skillset and hard-no qualities (such as can't work if I live in California, must be in EST but I'm in PST timezone, requires Java experience, etc).
All governments of the world at least in the west appear to mostly consist of attorney's I doubt they'd let it happen. It'd be bad for their guild.
It is not a popular class of software to the masses, it is a popular class of software to a niche audience. I don't share as pessimistic attitude as OP though. I'm pretty sure the audience is in the tens of thousands!
That's very far, etnically and ideologically, from "Stomfront nazis" though.
For me Facebook is hit-or-miss. If the post is public (say, a venue posting about an event) I can typically read the main post, but can't click on anything. If I'm on mobile, it tries to redirect me to install an app. Usually harder to see much.

Instagram just shows me a Meta logo or a blank page. Not sure how much this is due to ad-blocking though, and not particularly inclined to disable it to find out. Mostly I just don't click and I ask the friend/whoever to summarize or send a screenshot if it's something I care about. For generic "hey look at this funny post" stuff I just skip it.

Sucks, because links from friends should be fun or useful. It's kinda nuts how many don't work unless you are logged into something snoopy/sketchy.
>For example should non-residents not be allowed to purchase vacation properties and lease them?

AirB&B has been a terrible experience, so many people buying up houses just to lease them out for a weekend has definitely contributed to rising housing costs and over-all cost of living
Could you explain why you think that's not worth taking seriously?
Depends on the blocklists you're using. I broke Google search sponsored links, some Slickdeals links, and the meta quest app store. You have the ability to whitelist as well if you want to unblock some things.

I'm running it in a docker container and then pointing my router at it.
Kurzgesagt Just for fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiGEI9pQBs
If youre willing to accommodate a highly opinionated take from experience:

Intelligence itself seems to correlate with anxiety, i.e. being able to construct and focus on abstractions, as opposed to your immediate environment, on demand increases likelihood of fixation on abstractions.

Combine that with a lack of forced grounding in computer-based professions, i.e. little human interaction, and you're a heck of a lot more likely to be in your own head, then add weed on top and you're even more likely.
No it is not. In the mainstream, is either that Palestinians should have full access to their historical lands, or at its extreme that it should be a fully Palestinian state. Of course some people on the fringes take it further.
From the now hard-right Israeli side, Likud literally used this expression in its initial charter[1], and N. dog whistled it in recent statements about two states.

1. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/original-party-platform...
>The whistleblower, whomThe Bureau is calling D.M., immigrated to Canada as an international student from India, making him a minority among mostly Chinese-Canadian co-workers at the Aurora branch.

I mean it's real Chinese income backed by fake paperwork. There's PRC capital controls, rich PRC national who buy RE abroad are going to do it via laundering services and has been for decade+. Banks are fine with this and have dedicated branches in diasphora area to handle because the money is good and reliable. Sometimes rich Chinese immigrants also do odd jobs to fill time, bored aunties with multi million dollar mansions in Richmond working shifts at River Rock Casino. It's a bizarre world.
I know a family with some sort of genetic disposition to anxiety disorders. Every generation up until recent times had at least one functioning alcoholic in it. The second to last was the beloved family matriarch, not the black sheep. Trying to drown out the maelstrom.

It’s called self medication, and people have a sense of when something is wrong with them without a doctor telling them (or for that matter, believing them). Neurodivergent people know this especially well, since “all in your head” was the ultimate dismissal of medical complaints up until the last decade.

Might as well study hospitalizations for stimulants and tendency to impulsiveness and intrusive thoughts. People with ADHD have been self-medicating with stimulants since the trade routes brought tea and coffee ( and probably with beer and wine before that).

I maintain that the original motto for Coca Cola (with real coca leaves) was a nod to high functioning ADHD customers. The Thinking Man’s Drink. Most measurable gains in cognitive ability from mild stimulants are enjoyed by the neurodivergent. But if we are 10% of the human population, that’s a demographic even Apple could love.
Yes, but the title suggests that OpenWrt is the only place it runs. Which is misleading.
> Going to an ER after taking cannabis seems like something only someone with an existing anxiety disorder might do.

Twenty or thirty years ago, I'd have agreed with you on this, but potency that's normal today wouldn't even have been a dream back then. If you think that makes no difference, I'm here to tell you you are wrong.
I heard that ships have cleaner fuel so their exhaust don't block as much solar radiation.[1]

[1] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/ea/d2ea0...!
> This is genuinely tricky due to battery life and data usage considerations.

Which isn't really any of Apples business if I want to make that sacrifice, but rather something they can promote as a win by using their solution if it turns out that alternative push notification services implement it poorly.
> for thousands of years before they were colonized had this figured out

Yes, it is outrageous that we can't directly apply the same policies and methods considering we have the same level of urbanization, population, industrial and economic requirements and private property laws /s
For me, the second main pleasure in doing electronics (in addition to seeing a useful, working device emerge) is plonking a rat's nest into the PCB designer and laying out all the components and traces by hand.

Take that away and I'm switching to point-to-point wiring. :)
Neat, I'll look into that.
> Also, a journalist interviewed this person, wrote it as an article, and a bunch of people upvoted it here. So clearly there's a market.

Yeah, but that market needs empathy. Seems to be in rather short supply for some HN commenters these days.
i paid for NextDNS back in 2020 but discontinue the following year due to services such as streaming from PBS app and websites not working properly. I knew this maybe related to aggressive blocking DNS but I wasn't having the time to investigate. I have no complain about NextDNS. Their service works and pricing is fine. I just use Adguard premium now and have no issue for a year.
Right, which is why the separation here is important. The user-facing app can focus on product concerns, the protocol it's built on top of can focus on technical concerns. The two can then feed back into each other in a virtuous cycle.
> bizarre any jurisdiction would allow someone to buy housing there when they can't legally live in it

Foreign-owned homes are a problem for asset acquirers. Vacant homes are a problem for anyone who needs housing. The former seems to get a lot of visibilty when concerns around the latter get raised.
HSBC has been part of plenty of scandals. Here is one example:

https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...
> women divorcing on their 65th birthday seeing an average income decline of almost 60pc

That's a pretty drastic drop, with no explanation (in this article)

> Mr Vandenbroucke said it was not possible to draw conclusions about why the decline in male earnings was so marked after a divorce.

So we don't know much it seems.
https://www.getlago.com/ gets mentioned regularly (also they're a Ycombinator company and had a job post on the frontpage today).
> If the current pricing would be $500 an hour for a real lawyer, and at some point your costs are just keeping services up and running, how big cut will you take?

Zero. We're providing the AI chat for free (or free for customers who purchase something from us, or some mix of those 2 choices). Our core business is generating documents for people, and the AI chat is supplementary to the core business.

It sounds like you're approaching the topic with the mindset that lawyers might be entirely replaced by automation. That's not what we're trying to do. We can roughly divide legal work into 3 categories:

1. Difficult legal work which requires a human lawyer to spend time on a case by case basis (at least for now).

2. Cookie cutter legal work that is often done by a human in practice, but can be automated by products like ours.

3. Low value legal issues that people have and would like to resolve, but are not worth paying a lawyer for.

We're trying to supply markets 2 and 3. We're not trying to supply market 1.

For example, you might want a lawyer to explain to you what is the difference between a joint will and an individual will in a particular circumstance. But it might not be worth it to pay a lawyer to talk it through. This is exactly the type of scenario where an AI chat can resolve your legal question which might otherwise go unanswered.
Can't a tech firm running a "legal gpt" have an insurance?
It's very likely that you had way too much THC. Especially if you vaped or ingested it.

When I first started smoking, 0.01g (yes, one hundredth of a gram - a barely visible layer on top of some tobacco) was enough to get a whole room of students incredibly high for a few hours. I used to buy 0.2g and that lasted 5 people the entire weekend.

And that was before all of this lamp-grown craziness with 10% and more THC content. If you used more than 0.1g of these medical dispensary strains, it's really no wonder you had a crazy panic attack. I'd have too and I'm an experienced smoker.

I know some people using weed to treat anxiety. They smoke so little they don't feel high at all. One gram might last them a month.
They also get to run the engine at a lower duty cycle while it is warming up, which is a big source of wear and tear for a gas engine. They also never have to run a rich mixture because the power gap is made up for by the electric motor.
There a fediverse instances that are explicit homes for such content. I don’t read them. They are blocked from most mainstream servers.
HSBC Canada is in the process of being sold to RBC. As employees will no longer work for HSBC in March and possibly unemployed through the new found efficiencies by RBC, this creates an interesting situation for virtually no risk whistle-blowing.

I hadn't thought of this possibility when the exit was announced.
A Study on the Coﬀee Spilling Phenomenon in the Low Impulse Regime
I tried to make the original statement very fair. I think facebook is definitely a propaganda tool. It's a propaganda tool of its high-level employees and moderators, founders and, more recently, US government agencies. The twitter files [1] document pressure from employee culture and various government agencies on twitter, I assume the US government puts the same kind of pressure on facebook. There is absolutely bias. That isn't to say that the bias is bad necessarily, just that it obviously exists and this is isomorphic with it being propaganda.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files (I know linking wik as a source is lame but lots of additional links here)
I must not be reading this paper correctly because it appears that they only used 10 procurement contracts to do this study.

If so, the abstract and title feels misleading.

I’d be more interested in a study done on thousands of contracts of different types. I also have my doubts it would perform well on novel clauses or contracts.
On the Bluesky community:

The community is interesting and while it definitely has a tech-y bias, it's a lot less Liberachat adjacent than big Fediverse instances are, so you get people in other niches using it. The community is still a lot smaller than Twitter though, which lends itself to feeling like a community more than being part of The Conversation that I presume Twitter goes for. The UX is very similar to Twitter. For me, my hobbies just aren't that well represented on Bluesky yet, but I like how nice the community feels. Just my impressions.
No but I do believe in magic. Especially when clients keep asking for it. Gotta deliver!

I give a talk about magic in design actually I should post…
Anything that people will do for free is hard to make a living at; think painting and music. Game dev is close.
Supports commercial use!

Interesting what's unsupported:

- In any way that violates any applicable national or international law or regulation or infringes upon the lawful rights and interests of any third party;

- For military use in any way;

- For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way;

- To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others;

- To generate or disseminate inappropriate content subject to applicable regulatory requirements;

- To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information without due authorization or for unreasonable use;

- To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;

- For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;

- For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics;

- To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;

- For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories.
2021: Google Drive Web UI Slow and Unusable
For some reason they locked this thread, and I'm having the same issue now.
And it's quite the turnaround for Qatar in the last 50 years considering how they were once part of the British Empire. The Qataris still have a fascination with British things (e.g. Harrods).
Strongly resonates. The first time I saw the CLI Guidelines I even stopped reading them upon reaching that section. This time I read through the remainder and found it quite OK.
That is really cool to hear, thank you.

And I should have mentioned it before, but we have an open call for speakers for the Carolina Code Conference. This would make for an interesting talk I think.
>While most of it will be burnt up some bits get to the ground

Starlink satellites are designed to be fully demised, which means that _nothing_ gets to the ground.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/spacex-claims-to-have-redesigned-i...
Ah yes, because they blocked porn sites in the safari browser and default hosts files, right? Or maybe they don't have control of those?
If you've never had a panic attack before, the first one is easy to mistake for something a lot more dangerous.
It’s almost like we live in Elden Ring universe, where we didn’t let the tree burn when it should, and now we suffer dire consequences.
It's always that last 20% of performance in any product that's creating a huge chunk of the cost.
How do you know who owns the land?

How do you prove you own the land and not the person who is trespassing?

How do you know who to tax?

How do you know who to fine if they dump chemicals in their backyard?

How do you know that everyone is being treated fairly under the law?

And why should the government have privileged information for all of these necessary records for private property?
Shhh... don't tell the advertisers.
Half-correct in a completely incorrect way. Who’s more indoctrinated: someone who lives off the land and has all the free-mind time in the world since he does manual work all day? Or someone who went through over a decade of Prussian-inspired conformity/workplace training (schooling)? And gets information-saturated from all free angles throughout the day?[1]

Of course you won’t be convinced either way so there is no point pursuing this.

[1] The mind is not like a vessel that you fill up with knowledge and facts.
Apple has enough product development experience to know this use case exists but I suspect you are right, they didn't support the feature as a whole and the discussion was only partly about the porn use case. The cynic in me suspects the lack of support is more about them preparing an apple friendly (read not friendly to the res of the market) format that they want to force the industry towards.
The forest ecosystems in Europe have not evolved in the presence of regular fires afaik. Large parts of Germany for example used to be an impassable swamp before they were clear cut and drained for agriculture a few hundred years ago.
If you have -r / --recursive, I would rather just have -recursive work as the others. POSIX be damned, the double hyphen is just an opportunity to make more mistakes, and the combined -rptgo single-hyphen flags are more opportunities to make mistakes.

Let some legacy programs like ls and sync keep their single-hyphen combinations. Most new programs should just accept separate flags, and allow either single or double hyphens.

Edit: Yeah, this opinion collects downvotes, doesn’t it? Y’all love it when you accidentally type -recursive instead of --recursive, and it turns out that it means the same thing as -r -e -c -u -s -i -v? That never made any sense to me, for the vast majority of tools out there. It sucks, to be honest.
> Maybe browser vendors could come up with a standard where you can "charge up" your account like a prepaid phone card

This will, sadly, never happen. When an adtech giant controls not only the world's most popular web browser, but also has major power in directing the future of the web itself, there's no scenario where they would voluntarily align against their own business interests.

Brave actually has a browser that does what you say, but it will never gain major adoption, either from web users or sites. Course correction of a ship that has sailed long ago, and is run by people who benefit from its current direction, will never happen.
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