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I'd prefer to write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media. I imagine I'd also want to get an overview of - or make an ad-hoc post from - one of several accounts on one of several platforms.

I came across Posse Party and Postiz, both of which are self-hosted. It doesn't seem like either is built for this use case.

Which direction would you go in?

No, I mean they did things like privatized state businesses, allowed entrepreneurs to start their own businesses, and created special economic zones.

China liberalized their economy to compete with Western economies, showing their leaders don’t really believe in communism.

And the US and Europe are moving towards command economies to keep up with China, showing their politicians don’t really believe in liberalism.

If Valve limited credit card purchases to PG games, but let customers purchase other games via crypto, then payment processors couldn’t complain about alleged high chargeback rates or association with adult content.

I imagine payment processors wouldn’t love this solution, but at that point they’re just asking for full editorial control, and we should resist.

Wow, thanks for the warning that Couchers bans naturists. I am aware of many unique and beautiful experiences by naturists hosts. It’s disappointing that Couchers would want to eliminate them.

I’ve been having trouble with Pocket’s offline mode and TTS feature for a while, and just migrated (yesterday!) to Obsidian via Obsidian Web Clipper (automated using Pupeteer).

Obsidian doesn’t have all the features necessary for a read-it-later app, but almost!

I was talking about market accountability. Companies that don’t get anything done fail.

I wish there were better ways to align incentives here.

I have a crazy idea that might work to hold organizations accountable if they never get anything done.

Fake privacy experts like Caro Robson need to be held accountable.

I check for an RSS feed, and if it does not exist, subscribe via KTN.

It would be awesome if KTN provided an easy way to upgrade/redirect at KTN feed to an original feed, if one exists. I'm not sure how conveniently redirects would be handled by RSS clients...

A lot of communities use Discourse (https://discourse.org).

LPSF (https://forum.lpsf.org) migrated to it when Yahoo Groups was discontinued.

Some of the advantages are that it's open source, self-hostable, and can be configured to work as both a traditional mailing list and modern forum.

"an employee disrupted a coworker who was giving a presentation — interfering with an official company-sponsored event"

It should be up to the employer. If one company thinks that a past conviction is irrelevant while other companies think a past conviction is disqualifying, then the former may get the employee at a better rate, the company will thrive depending on whether they were right, they'll have more resources to hire ex-cons, and other companies will follow suit.

A blanket law that forces all companies to hire employees without considering information they think is important is really inefficient. Just recently, governments and people were complaining that rideshare companies weren't being exclusive enough! If you think new laws will find the optimal policy for all companies, you are incorrect!

It's also overreaching. Freedom of association is important. The owner of a Jewish deli shouldn't be compelled to hire a formerly convicted neo-Nazi.

From the court docs:

As alleged, Brody left a few "taunts" in the code that he unleashed on FRB. In particular, he is alleged to have used the word "grok," which the government explains is a misspelling of "grock," which, in turn, means to understand.

Wow, that's not an encouraging paper!

It doesn't just say that "efficacy of the vaccines dwindles over time," but that the 2-dose vaccine effectiveness against omicron is significantly negative in the 91-150 day bucket.

Of 288,072 people aged 16-39, only 6 people who had only 2 doses were hospitalized, compared to 1 person who had 3 doses [1]. This study was published before Omicron in October, for which the vaccine is even less effective and the disease is less severe.

I'm not yet aware of any other study that indicates the booster is useful for people in this age group.

I thought that a spike in antibodies might be useful in the short term, but a recent CDC presentation [2] said of an Omicron case study:

79% fully vaccinated; 32% with booster dose; Five of the 14 persons received additional dose <14 days before symptom onset

which doesn't give me any confidence.

security theatre

Since mandates don't exclude people that were previously infected, to me, they seem punitive.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...

I recently described an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29567729

Ian Freemen is a controversial political activist whose pro-liberty, pro-bitcoin radio station was raided by the FBI in 2016 and had their equipment confiscated. It was widely covered in the news, he was kicked out of at least one community organization, and last I heard, they still didn't have all their equipment back.

No charges were ever filed, and the media outlets didn't bother to update their articles.

I think false accusations happen, especially to controversial figures, and assume most victims just don't want to call much attention to it.

Increasing land use rights on a property can only increase the value of that property.

However, increasing land use rights on a neighboring property can decrease the value of the original property. For example, a neighbor might want to use their property to establish a brothel.

Nimbys want to control property that they don’t own. Seems like theft to me!

HN readers are wrong to think this will be fixed when the government creates a CBDC or regulates payment providers like a utility.

In addition to the government currently blocking transactions from semi-legal industries that should be legal (cannabis), the government has a history of censoring mail mentioning contraceptives (Comstock Laws) and pressuring banks to cut businesses with legal, undesirable industries (Operation Chokepoint). A few weeks ago, an IRS agent at a service center refused to help me because they didn’t like my clothes. (I was wearing a tank top.) This is inevitable when you create government-backed monopolies.

I have regular small donations set up to some devs that also host their projects.

IIRC from the last time I read it, the article only provides evidence for Intuit not wanting taxpayers (including themselves) to fund a competitor to their product, which is very reasonable.

I also don't want the government to get in the business of writing tax software.

You ask for examples a few times. Here’s one. Computers confiscated from a liberty activist and his radio station. No CP-related charges pressed in the 5 years since they confiscated his computers.

I’m guessing most times this happens, the accused try to keep it on the DL.

https://www.wmur.com/article/fbi-raids-radio-talk-show-host-...

the chance of attack is small

Is it? I would be surprised if attacking 1Password wasn’t a priority for governments and hackers. If the encryption used on vaults is ever broken, compromised, or buggy, users are screwed.

I intend to move out of their ecosystem. First, they limited my phone to comply with their community standards. Then, they blocked anti-censorship apps. And now, they are deploying on-device surveillance. No, thank you!

I don't have a plan yet. I felt a lot more affinity for Apple over Google, given their security models, business models, data models, rhetoric, and OSes.

Thanks for starting this discussion! I’m starting a small research foundation for studying the biology of aging. I’d be happy to keep in touch!

Then, after a short while, we’d probably have little violent crime, police misconduct, and wasteful spending.

Private citizens are not under the same legal scrutiny officers are

Government police have qualified immunity and are not subject to market oversight. As you might expect, this fundamental lack of accountability results in abuses, particularly of minorities, historically and presently.

I’m much less concerned about the Starbucks security guards becoming a gang. Unlike government police, as soon as they start bashing gay people or colored people, I can stop supporting them.

Mining BTC is as much like counterfeiting USD as mining gold is like counterfeiting USD, which is to say, not alike at all.

Is it really your experience that the market fails to cater to the interests of the people, and politicians are uniquely capable of it?

Politicians can’t print a dollar without abusing it to promote religion (“In God We Trust”), funding war, or handing it out to get reelected.