Yea every other use case beyond feeding the hysterical Epstein conspiracy machine has been totally worthless. All the consumers and companies paying real money for this tech must just be stupid.
On the other hand, providing more fuel for sweaty basement dwellers to invent fake stories about elite lizard people while trashing the civil liberties of thousands of random innocents contacted by this dude? I can think of no better use case.
Upvoting for making me feel sane. I don't understand the level of attention paid to this shit, and it makes the people invested in it seem orders of magnitude more perverted than the financier himself is purported to be.
And he's dead and he's been dead for a long time, and people still paying daily attention to this are being played for laughs and having their rage strip-mined.
He is but everyone else who participated is very much alive and yet to face any accountability and justice. Do you genuinely not understand why people would be outraged that "leaders of the free world", namely Trump and the rest of the US government that's been keeping a lid on this, are just a bunch of unaccountable sex-trafficking pedophiles?
Whatever is left of the western social contract is disintegrating in front of us and the reaction of our societies has been extremely mild if anything - there should be mass protests over revelations of this magnitude.
Who? Most of the people "named in the Epstein files" are guilty in public of consorting with a guy with a lot of money and not much else. Pretending they're all perverts is one-handed behavior. If you think any of this is unique or exceptional or worthy of mass protest? then I think you should read closer, because you've been had for a fool.
And that's the direction the conversation always turns. You literally don't have any influence over that, neither do I. We have judges for that. The man died 7 years ago now, and the ongoing drip-feed of additional salacious information is transparently only still happening to piss you off and make sure you stay mad. Holding the perpetrators responsible here is not my job, and it's probably not yours, and I personally don't enjoy reading about these crimes for fun as much as the front page of HN apparently does.
Half the time it's all there is to do on this text-based website, which is most of what I'm complaining about. I can read in peace just fine but there are stupid vibe-coded rape inspection projects on the front page here every single day. I think pretending you are all titillated about the same as the Facebook audience you pretend to be above is worse. Let's make a rape gmail! let's make a rapebook! How many ways can we present the rape in the most exciting way! It's disgusting to pretend it's about investigation, it's about enabling private pervert detectives.
Yeah I know, you wrote that reading about trafficking children is a hundred times worse than trafficking children, that is why I pointed out what you wrote
How is anything you mentioned in this response worse than trafficking children? Like I would imagine that trafficking children would be the worst possible thing, can you explain how it is not actually that bad? Like if you could start a sentence with: “This instance of child sex trafficking is not nearly as bad as somebody reading about it online and posting because: “
No shit. Do you like talking about child rape every day? Is that fun for you? Are you tickled seeing "CHILD RAPE UPDATES" in 72-point second coming font over your morning coffee?
No, I don't, but as an adult in a democracy I have an obligation to address harms done to my countrymen, especially insofar as they're perpetrated in collusion with my government.
I do not like it. It is not fun for me.
But sometimes, as an adult, you have to do the responsible thing, and not stick your head in the sand.
Frankly, I'm disgusted that you're blind to this, and can only imagine that people only care if they are "tickled."
Your indifference only facilitates the perpetuation of harm. Pathetic.
I wasn't blind to this many years ago when it came to light. I'm indifferent now when it doesn't matter, and disgusted when my countrymen are so easily distracted by bait. You are distracted, wasting your time, and convinced into thinking you aren't. Jerk off every single day thinking that being enlightened matters. "Blind" lol, how many times x day should I cum defending this?
While i find everything about this post thoroughly dystopian; I will state that I don't break harshly, just about ever, my car still has it's original breakpads (they still have some life, about a cm and a half to two) and it had 107k on the odo. Never been in an accident outside of getting break-checked by an insurance scammer when I was 19, and a head on when i was stopped at a stop sign.
Although I keep a varying follow distance, if there is an open lane immediately adjacent to me, I don't care if i'm tailing someone a bit, but if I'm boxed then you better believe it's 6+ car distance.
I do think it's a crack up how when I check my own "living wage" i still under-perform in comparison to the chart, but in my county i'm within the top 15%.
Needless to say; only old people have homes and only those who have sufficient help get a nice appt.
Why should we accept that rather than our own standards? If we take your tack on this then we shouldn't try to make anything better for anyone, just live with what we've got and accept whatever lot we find ourselves in.
The mystic bent limits the usability of the deck, since most people I play with, when playing games like Sheepshead try playing with more traditional decks. As well as traditional Tarot decks from Russia (OG tarot, not modern designs).
Vintage Tarot decks include more art/influence from the current ruling empire, not new-age mystic nonsense.
I would like articles like this to have a quick "who" and "what experience" is talking. I can usually tell the conclusions based on experience/skill level regardless, but it would be nice.
Also, that projects page on his website is atrocious; hate to be "that guy" but I don't trust the author's insight since "personal projects" seems to include a lot more than just his work; the first several PRs I looked at where all vibed.
I'm not interested in re-implementations of the same wheel over and over again telling me and people who know how to write real software (have been doing it since I was 12) that we are becoming unnecessary bc you can bully an extremely complex machine built on a base theory of heuristics abstracted out endlessly (perceptually) to re-invent the same specs in slightly different flavors.
> 100% human written, including emdashes. Sigh.
If you can't write without emdashes, maybe you spend too much time with LLMs and not enough time reading and learning on your own. Also people can lie on the Internet, they do it all the time, and if not then I'm doing it right now.
In high school, an acquaintance of mine made the website "e-imagesite.com" [1]. It was a very easy-to-use image uploading site (and honestly less irritating than ImageShack and predated imgur). It was just being hosted on HostGator, I believe, and written in PHP and used jQuery.
I believe he had to eventually shut it down because people kept uploading horrifying stuff to it, and it was never even that popular. Child porn and bestiality were constantly being uploaded and I don't think he liked having to constantly report stuff to the FBI.
After building a proper comment section for my blog (including tripcodes!), I've thought about making my own "chan" site, since I think that could be fun, but I am completely terrified of people uploading horrible stuff that I would be forced to sift through and moderate pretty frequently. User submissions open up a huge legal can of worms and I am not sure that's a path that I'm willing to commit myself going down.
When there's strong anonymity, I suspect that this problem could be even worse.
It's a little depressing, because decentralized and distributed computing is one of the most interesting parts of computer science to me, but it feels like whenever I mention anything about it, people immediately assume piracy or illicit material.
Yeah, I’m fully in support of a decentralised web but the internet is old enough now that being naive about this stuff has become equivalent to being maliciously incompetent. Without designing for things like community or self-governance and moderation, you’re designing for trouble. Thinking about ways to healthily cultivate a peer-to-peer web doesn’t make someone a Nazi, it makes them a responsible member of a community.
you can't stop someone from verbally describing certain objectionable material, therefore we should regulate the medium thru which sound travels and suck up all the oxygen on the planet. it's the only way to save the children
I wonder who censored my other response to another commenter (I said that if being against hosting CSA means I'm a 'n4z1' than I'm ok with that derogatory label)
Though the irony of being censored while talking about how CSA should be censored is very funny to me.
These pro-speech absolutists (who are usually libertarian) miss that NAP is clearly violated when any abuse is hosted/disseminated. Additionally while speech should never be censored.. everything must be permissible if all media is speech. You can have a society that censors multi-media but not the caption/description attached; other allowances (for other types of "speech") always leads to the most degenerate of people having a voice while everyone else is punished for calling them out.
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