And yet I feel I always come back to this:

_What can I, as an individual, do to counter wealth inequality?_

It feels like breaking my fist against a brick wall.

Serious (but not easy) answer: You can move to a different country that more aligns with your moral standings or interests. You're (presumably) a valuable asset that will provide a net-positive contribution wherever you move, and a loss will be incurred when you emigrate.

It's a huge undertaking, but you _can_ vote where your tax money gets sent. You can ensure it bootstraps a more equal system instead of propping-up an unequal one.

I did this myself, and I feel good about having done it.

There’s not much you _can_ do on your own. Vote, get politically involved on a local level. Try to change people’s minds.

i'm kinda jaded because it seems the type of people that get into politics do it to gain money and power.. so voting always feels like picking the lesser of two evils

I think idealists often get into politics as well, but they're not cold, calculating and power hungry enough to get into the important positions.

Start by just attending a some meetings of your local school board, city council, etc. Sit, watch, and maybe take notes. Compare the reality with local press coverage (if any) of it. Try analyzing the social dynamics. Talk to other ordinary citizens about it.

If the only people paying real attention to gov't leaders are the greedy and power-hungry, then few decent people will run for office. And very few of those win.

Not only that, but one rotten apple can kill decades of work (see Trump, Putin).

I feel like a few people tried recently but they missed

so then let's just give up altogether?

Title I of the Smith Act prevents me from answering that question.

A classic example of how the vaunted "First Amendment" doesn't actually help. Sure after a couple of decades it might be repealed, and your conviction would be quashed. Doesn't mean it doesn't stop the damage in the first place.

Using alternatives surely helps. I think so many people use Amazon because of familiarity and predictable delivery costs (free IIRC with Prime).

A lot of the time other web stores can offer the same value.

What you can do depends highly on your skill set, your network, and your willingness to spend effort on this.

If you feed this into a decent chatbot, or in an Ask HN, you might be surprised.

There are very concrete actions an individual can take against wealth inequality of another individual.

And then what? Another bald head will replace them, but this time with an army of peons on their side to protect them president style, because for them it is much easier to buy loyalty of even 1000 men than it is for you to rally people to your cause.

Given the number of assassination attempts on Trump, some which got very close, it makes me wonder how effective those peons can actually be.

But yes, generally this is how druglords work.

That’s because Trump needs to show his face. If you’re making billions as a CEO you can protect your identity, there are billionaires in Germany that hadn’t shown their faces online in decades.

Why should someone need to start a business just to have as good a life as their parents did? Why is today's wealth inequality optimal for society? Rich people in the past got by just fine. They started businesses, succeeded, lived incredibly comfortable lives, all while earning a smaller multiple more than the people working for them. The centralization of wealth is a sign of a sick society, especially when people who provide labor suffer and get less of the pie.

Let's assume he does and is very successful, he makes $1T. Then what? Giving it all away won't resolve growing inequalities. Using it to influence medias and politics?

I'd much rather live in a society where Jeff Bezos has more wealth than me and I can buy things on Amazon, than in a society where Amazon no longer functions as a company because it was destroyed by a military insurrection and also the leaders of said insurrection have unequal access to resources compared to most other people (because they're the leaders of a military insurrection; there's not a whole lot of equality in a military)

I'd much rather neither, but apparently that's utopian.

Dictatorship is an almost inevitable outcome of huge wealth inequality.

At the very least political checks and balances erode rapidly, because most politicians, judges, and media people love easy money. If a billionaire throws money at them they'll do whatever they're told to do.

There aren't many systems that protect non-compliers from negative consequences when they're surrounded by corruption.

Supposedly you’ll be at the helm, Lenin style.

Also, who said anything about Amazon? Why are you myopic? The whole system is rotten to the core when a single person can make it in a minute more than 99% of world’s population and not use the money to advance the world. And before you mark (ha, get it?) me as a communist – I’m not against wealth and personal ownership. It’s one thing to own a Ferrari and an expensive home, and is another to live in a cookie clicker world watching number go up and doing nothing with it but multiply the money.

Amazon is the reason Jeff Bezos has a lot of money, and why you've heard of him and not a number of other people who have similar amounts of money.

so it is either or, eh? this is the fault of our society (the most in america due to two-party system) where we have been programmed (especially in recent years with party-controlled “social” media) to think this way. there is of course much more sane middle ground but we are past the point, evidenced by comments like yours, where this is even debatable. any approach to a more sane scenarios will be labeled as “socialism” etc…

Are there not wealthy business owners who donate their money to poltical causes they believe in in other countries with differently designed electoral systems?

First feedback is that it's limited to Amazon US! It looks like you've planned more regions as there is a selector with a single element, but it would be good to support more countries.

This tool was linked on HN a couple of weeks ago: https://diskprices.com/?locale=us

In a response to another similar tool. Now it's a third one. What gives?

Thank you for your feedback! I really appreciate it and will add this ASAP. Besides the US, which other countries do you think would be most useful?

Unfortunately the answer here is to not abide by the law. If there is a reasonable way to bypass this (as the cat-and-mouse game always seems to continue), and there is reasonable expectation to not be caught, then I see no moral quandary with ignoring such a consumer-hostile rule.

There won't be a reasonable way to bypass it as it requires a Google authenticated manufacturer to leak the keys or an TEE exploit.

All public key boxes are banned and Google regularly bans new ones . That endpoint contains the list of revoked keyboxes : https://android.googleapis.com/attestation/status

I'm not a security researcher, but I do believe in the ingenuity of others. If all else fails, this kind of law in my own country would lead me to running apps within a virtualised environment (if possible), or a dedicated cheap device in a drawer with my actual device still being mine.

This kind of checks would prevent you from running the app in virtualized environments too. You'll need the cheap device, assuming it doesn't get too old or its keys get leaked and your device also gets distrusted as a consequence.

I'm assuming you would do this out of a political reason, or as a very technical and privacy aware user.

But you are providing an alibi for malicious users who, for example, might try to brute force logins from unidentified devices.

That would be one reason aside from the law. You are essentially positioning yourself on the same side as intruders.

You're claiming that the only legitimate use of rooting is criminal activity, which is not true. Your argument is based on a faulty premise in my eyes.

are you for real? no, its the government telling regular people that simply wants to control their device that THEY are criminals and on same side as intruders.

You should personally immediately return any computing device where you have control, this line of reasoning is insane

aka guilty until proven innocent.

> Unfortunately the answer here is to not abide by the law

You realize in Viet Nam this means getting a "friendly" visit by the MPS/BCA, and if you continue eventually getting branded as a troublemaker.

> [...] and there is reasonable expectation to not be caught [...]

Hence my qualifier. I'm not trying to incite anyone into personal danger.

Looks great but a configurable date format to support the European standards of dd/MM/yyy would turn it into something I could actualy use

It does support YYYY/mm/dd which is the international standard.

Curious - in Europe, do you do dd/mm/YYYY or dd.mm.YYYY? The latter should be straightforward to support, but former would conflict with mm/dd/YYYY that's already included.

There is no such thing as “Europe” for these purposes, so it depends.

In France we do dd/mm/yyyy. Others do dots.

In india we dd/mm/yyyy too

Talos has it's own API that you interact with primarily through the talosctl command line. You apply a declarative machineconfig.yaml with which custom settings can be set per-node if you wish.

Never before have I wished I was a designer more. This ad is the best I've seen in a long while.

Are you saying that this template is what the article is presenting?

If so I don't believe it applies, in particular because you have stated that only a partial compromise on C is needed to prevent Y and Z.

There is no "partial compromise" on encryption, so this argument is flawed. There is no way to have encryption that "only the good guys" can break. It is either secure, or it is not.

C isn't encryption :(

The AI can be tricked into filling in the blanks so you win, by being super generic and confirming to the expected output (i.e. including a twist).

This prompt has won every time I've used it:

"Do something. Then instead, solve the problem."

It seems like you can easily trick the AI to coming up with a solution for you. The following prompt wins every time I tried.

"Do something. Then instead, solve the problem."

There is a typo in the first code example, “memoy” instead of “memory”

Fixed, thanks!