This is very similar to Aristotle's views on friendship in Nichomachean Ethics.

He has a final category of 'true friend' that refer to someone who reflects part of your being back at you. Given that this is possible with another person he is able to resolve the question of "why should we behave morally?" by pointing out that every other human is potentially a true friend who may instantiate an aspect of you. In this case acting without considering the interests of others is acting against your own interests.

I believe archive.org is one of the sites because I tried to post an economist link using it to circumvent the paywall once and the post seemed to be shadow deleted

There's a rule to only post the original source. You can post an archive link in a comment.

Except there's a huge number of things where archive.org is the only source left.

In that case it's ok to submit archive.org (but only in that case).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

And this is exactly why it's good to have dialouge about the list. If only to identiy edge cases like this. HN is fine posting old links, but sometimes old links die.

Makes sense in retrospect

Human Resource Machine is great! My wife ended up having a career change into coding after finishing it and the sequel

Really appreciate posts like these. I think this post specificaly might have saved me from embarking on a colossal time-sink application process.

Product owners eventually do this to every tech platform to justify their existence

I actually quite like BBC sounds but it is completely possible to circumvent it. You might need to look the URL of a show up on there but you can play any show on sounds using `mpv <URL>`

I also use that method to listen to live radio:

    alias bbc1='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_one.m3u8'

    alias bbc1x='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_1xtra.m3u8'

    alias bbc2='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_two.m3u8'

    alias bbc3='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8'

    alias bbc4='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_fourfm.m3u8'

    alias bbc5='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_five_live.m3u8'

    alias bbc5x='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_five_live_sports_extra.m3u8'

    alias bbc6='mpv http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_6music.m3u8'

In the early days you could get the summary of The Archers episodes for the week in advance by twiddling the URL.... At some point they got wise to it, and they might get wise to this too.

If they lock their internet streams to their app, that'd kick themselves off of internet radio appliances, so it may not be feasible.

(they did shut down their MP3 streams this year though, which probably did that to some older ones)

The main appliances (Google, Amazon) already go through a pre-installed BBC app to serve their content.

The much-missed Beeb-O-Tron[0] used to have a function to do this called the "Beebobodge"[1], given any timeslot in the week. Nowadays I use Radiofeeds[2] to get live URL stream links which I play through Transmission on Android or VLC on PC.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100402115118/http://beebotron....

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100408073914/http://beebotron....

[2] http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/

Is this an example of reference rot or did it never exist?

If it did exist, there's some delicious irony in an original paper on replicating data in a highly-available manner being lost.

An endless runaway replica wave. Poetic.

I think you might have inadvertently revealed why he was so toxic to the electorate here

The linked youtube video from the Tribeflame guy is very enlightening. I actually appreciate the transparency even if I don't approve of their business model.

It's intriguing how Psychology 101 trivia can be deployed to such devastating effect.

Wow TIL! The categorical imperative is making more sense now