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If the engineer responds by harboring a grudge against all encryption, and silently failing to employ secure industry standards, then neither he nor his other customers win. Medical professionals treat individuals, not political groups.

Stop Facebook 5 years ago

Do you mean passive third-party requests I could block on my end, or something built into their backend that exposes their entire registration list? I thought it was only the former.

You're right. I noticed this on Bing Maps before, but hadn't noticed Google following suit.

It makes these sites so much less useful. Their unique location catalog is the reason I usually prefer Google, then Bing, over Here Maps or whatever OSM thing. But it's harder and harder to query it to receive anything useful.

The web is fucked 5 years ago

Early adopters and enthusiasts always have different values. That's why we act differently toward technology in the first place.

Which is made all the more difficult when people react violently to your attempts to connect with them, because they perceive your political stance as a threat (usually through misunderstanding). No wonder we clam up and brace for war.

a cache of pine cones worth $15 a bushel. These woody cones are in steep demand

A bushel, even of lightweight pine cones, is fairly large at eight gallons. For some varieties*, a bushel of pine cones delivers 1.2 pounds of pine nuts per bushel.

$15 per sounds unlike "steep demand" to me, based on my observation of prices of raw pine nuts in areas I've been where they're harvested by locals. But they provide no justification for their idea, or market context. It just leaves me suspicious.

* https://www.fs.fed.us/eng/ref/seedlings/conecoll/determine.h...

define what value and relevance a license has for such

Government compliance? India is a democracy. Tech may move faster, but that doesn't mean it's right. Voters decide what's right, ultimately.

The Amish are wise in this: wait for the community to approve technology, and only then apply it to their lives. The Government of India doesn't need to be held hostage by cybermancers, they can decide tech usefulness on their own time.

Older versions (https://mises.org/library/three-more-attacks-civilization) of his dishwater article, which seems to be ever-evolving*, included mention of TSP. That was dropped, then topical politics was added.

Some people with hard water still swear by TSP in laundry. Even if it went straight to waterways (I would guess most users return it to their own septic systems, and municipalities do treat waste), agricultural phosphates still dominate, like agricultural use of water compared with residential use.

* Previously, at least:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13279337

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29361893

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27237296

[dead] 5 years ago

Ringworm is a fungal infection, not a parasite like ivermectin works against.

It failed to apply to populous or notorious Muslim countries like Indonesia or Pakistan, only to those which Obama had previously put on a list. It got a bad name for political reasons, not for the facts of the executive order.