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Check out Khan Academy—it is an exceptional way to learn math. Far better than that Common Core nonsense.

+1 for Matrix. Signal is a honeypot.

I'm not a vegetarian or vegan, so I don't know why you're conflating my devil's advocate argument with those philosophies.

A mouse’s interests are not on par with the interests of a child

For an anti-speciesist, this is a very anthropocentric and speciesist statement.

I would argue that saving the child would cause greater suffering[0], not only because the human condition unto itself is rife with suffering, but because we have the greatest capacity and demonstrated ability to cause grave harm to all species and to the planet, more so than any other living being.

The voluntary human extinction movement[1] is a very real movement, however ridiculous you find it to be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering-focused_ethics#Argum...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Mov...

Crypto is a great utility in this respect, when physical commodities and fiats are severely regulated or vulnerable to seizure in times of strife.

But when using crypto, you are fundamentally trading high utility in exchange for high risk. The extremely volatility of crypto makes the stock market look like a playground. There’s nothing in the way of your life savings being reduced to zero when you need to make a life-changing transaction.

Nationalized paper fiats such as the US dollar are at least protected from extreme volatility by the Federal Reserve, but to obtain such protections, you must trade the high utility for encumbrances like heavy regulation.

This resonates with me. It deeply disturbs me that other animals still don’t have rights on parity with humans.

I can play devil’s advocate and make the ethical argument that animal lives have more intrinsic value than human lives. For one, they are innately innocent due to their (as we currently understand) more limited capacity for reasoning. This limited reasoning dismisses blame when they do things we see as wrong (similar to the way we do for children) and also limits their capacity to cause significant harm to the planet.

I will always side with other animals over man. If I could only rescue one organism from a burning building and had to choose between a human or another animal, I’d choose the other animal. If I had to choose which species becomes extinct tomorrow, it would be humans. We are a plague to this planet and solar system.

Selfish humans, obsessed with self preservation, will easily disagree with this judgement.

Thanks. It’s understandable that it’s radical so I put a little note that I’m not offering medical advice.

Yeah. Admittedly, I was frustrated with having to rely on $1000+ a month prescriptions to treat my symptoms rather than the underlying cause. My venture into researching the human microbiome and homemade enemas was sprinkled with “danger” and “don’t try this at home.” Being riddled with daily bouts of diarrhea caused by my UC, I wasn’t go to just sit idly by.

Enema kits are sold in grocery stores and are perfectly safe if not used regularly. There was simply no reason for me to believe that breaking open some probiotic capsules or putting a little poop in that enema is going to kill me. More than likely, toxic megacolon or colon cancer is going to kill me if I didn’t take the risk.

I consider myself a body hacker, having experimented with nootropics for many years before. Hacking of any kind involves some level of risk, and it’s risks that I’m willing to take to become better.

Edit: Not medical advice.

Cancer is largely a failure of the immune system, and it is well known that nearly 70% of the immune system lives in the digestive tract. Sometimes the microbiome in that digestive tract gets messed up, paving the way to bowel issues, autoimmune disorders, general illness, and cancer. Studies have even shown that poor gut health is linked to many mental health issues such as depression and autism. Populating the digestive tract with healthy microbes from another person is a good way to jumpstart it again.

I’ve actually done probiotic and fecal transplant enemas at home and put my UC into remission without the need for steroidal or anti-inflammatory medications. It can be easily done using standard enema equipment, healthy donor stool, saline and oral loperamide to increase efficacy. Expect to be able to fill the rectum, ascending, transverse, and descending colon. There are big risks to this, especially if you are immunocompromised. Most people will want advice or support from a doctor.

Yes, eliminate cookies entirely. Let companies revert to relying on consumer feedback and word of mouth praise rather than cyberstalking.

When you have anxiety and there’s a “reason” for it, it’s not actually anxiety. This is called stress, since you know that the underlying cause is work. It’s an important distinction, similar to panic attacks versus anxiety attacks. Knowing the cause is half the battle.

Reminds me of people who are staunchly anti-systemd. They are luddite masochists who prefer shit that is inconvenient or broken for the sake of being a contrarian hipster.

Should add (2014) to the title.

Just made a tcl script yesterday for some FPGA stuff. Not a bad little language.

I’m in my late 20s. Here I am trying to actively lower my testosterone to reduce my sex drive. I am taking vitex (a.k.a chaste tree) and it’s working wonderfully. I’ve noticed increased concentration, too. I like it a lot, especially since I don’t care for having children and thus don’t have a biological need for sexual thoughts/behaviors. It’s no wonder monks use this stuff!

Regardless of what the media is labeling the events on January 6th, the people involved were acting of their own free will. Trump has no culpability for the actions of his supporters.

It's intellectually dishonest to say that he incited violence, especially when there's a heavily censored video of him explicitly instructing people to go home and to be peaceful [1].

[1] https://tv.gab.com/channel/realdonaldtrump/view/we-have-to-h...

No, all he said was: "Big Protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"

Protest is protected by the first amendment.

if direct calls to violence and to insurrection against a democracy aren't grounds to take away your megaphone, then what is?

Are you suggesting that Trump made direct calls to violence and to insurrection? If so, that is patently false.

From Trump's actual Tweet on December 19th: "... Big Protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"

All he did was call upon his base of supporters to exert their first amendment right to assemble. To suggest this was anything more than that is pure confabulation.

I’ve also found it incredibly difficult to help depressed/lonely people without experiencing some kind of backlash. I have a jobless friend who still lives with his parents, and is always lamenting about how terrible his life is, as if phishing for help. When I offer help, he becomes combative, so I try to just avoid the topic until one day he’s ready for change in his life.

it tends to be the case that you can't suggest to people "You could try doing things differently" because that will be taken as blaming the victim

Sometimes it takes a friend (or stranger) to make such suggestions. Lonely and depressed people are typically trapped inside their heads, so they need some kind of external stimulus to help them understand that they are in control of their life. The truth sometimes hurts, but calling it victim blaming is nonsense.

Just deleted mine, too. Thanks for the idea!

Very shady move on behalf of Google. Seems like the acquisition of Fitbit was done with this intention. Idle dollars, ripe for picking.

AFAIK, you cannot view applications on iOS unless your device is jailbroken. Apps are completely opaque since there is no traversable filesystem. On Android, it is a little simpler.

The vast majority of non-technical users have no knowledge about hexadecimal file comparisons or checksums. They see an app that promises privacy, and they click download.

Thanks for pointing out collision vs. preimage. Interesting distinction.

Friendly reminder that reproducible F-Droid builds of Signal are still rejected for weak reasons [1]. You must trust the Signal binaries on popular app stores [2][3].

Don’t worry though; the Signal devs assure you that signed Android binaries from their website are reproducible [4]. As if checksum collisions aren’t something that state actors could trivially create [5].

I don’t trust Signal.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/wiki/F-Droid

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...

[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/signal-private-messenger/id874...

[4] https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/

[5] https://shattered.io/

In light of the revelations of these Gestapo tactics employed by Nintendo, I will never again purchase another Nintendo product.

From the pulseaudio developer (@pali) whose MR was blocked for 2 years:

“Hi all pulseaudio users! I'm really sorry that I have to do this thing but there is no other option. I'm really sorry.

I have to close this pull request because pulseaudio maintainers are bastards who decided to merge this pull request and later rework code to remove dependncy on codec libraries (which ensure proper audio quality) and replacing it by codecs provided by gstreamer which do not support neither SBC-XQ, aptX-HD nor FastStream. Both libsbc and libopenaptx libraries are required to have improved bluetooth codec quality.

Without them quality would stay low as it is without my patches. As pulseaudio maintainers stated in this and other discussion, including todays dicussion on IRC that they will do replacement, there is absolutely no reason to merge this pull request, which the only purpose is to improve bluetooth quality... as quality would be again decreased by usage of other unsuitable library.

Game is over. I'm closing this pull request now.

Blame namely @arun who from begining (see first comments) is working on decreasing quality by replacing codecs by gstreamer and @igor.v.kovalenko who today after IRC dicussion forced me to this thing and explained it by that linux distributions are not going to compile/whitelist libsbc and libopenaptx libraties like Ubuntu...

Good bye. It is pity that I have not do this thing year ago and I spent time on this, now useless project.

EDIT: Do not expect any bluetooth improvemnt in pulseaudio project. Maintainers are doing obstructions for 2 years to prevent merging this pull request in any form and rejected any other compromise or fixes which were proposed here in this pull request.

I get lot of emails from you "users" that you want better bluetooth audio quality. But I was not able to do anything for 2 years, you have to blame pulseaudio maintainers. Some of you sent me information that they are paid by either Red Hat or Microsoft/Apple to ensure that bluetooth quality would be catastrophic. I do not want to believe to these conspiration theories but reality is simple: Maintainers are doing everything to not improve quality -- either by blocking merging this pull request for 2 years (see that first version of patches were created prior gitlab existed and were only on mailing list) or forcing to use ffmpeg/gstreamer which does not support none of codecs in this pull request. And they do not want to change their mind or fundamentally did not understood this issue.

(PS: Reason for existance of LDAC, aptX and other proprietary codecs in bluetooth headsets is just because of poor implementation of SBC codec in systems)

So if you are asking, what to do: switch to other operating system. As you can see maintainers really do not want any improvement in Linux pulseaudio. I cannot help more

I would not reply to any other user comments, please send them to pulseaudio maintainers.“

Why was the previous post flagged? This website permits upload and download of publicly sourced data.

Edit: I think it was because the title of my previous post matched the name of the website. Per the Hacker News Guidelines: “If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.” Fixed!

Private entities are horrible at self-regulating. They are equally horrible at creating their own laws to selectively apply to users of their platform, in addition to laws of the location of the user.

This law effectively diminishes the ability of those private entities to enforce their own laws and terms of use. That sounds like a win for regular folks like me and you.

Hopefully the rest of the world follows suit.

Do you think the risks of taking antidepressants are worth the benefits? I suffer from depression, but I’m afraid I might do some serious damage if I go on meds.