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by heidar 5y ago
Pegasus is what the Saudis used to capture Khashoggi. While it’s very impressive software, it’s incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands.
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by heidar 5y ago
It’s a fairly common thing in archaeology sadly. Sometimes when it’s unclear what something is, it’s chucked down as “for ritual purposes”.
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by heidar 5y ago
Maybe modern web is the real problem here? The fact you need a large team of paid engineers just to keep up with whatever features big-tech is adding to their spyware browsers is probably not a great situation to be in.
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by heidar 5y ago
Some tube lines in London have been closed lately due to unavailability of staff. Not sure if it’s drivers specifically but could be a reason to consider this.
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by heidar 5y ago
The CCP didn't do it right from the beginning. It took them almost two months to even acknowledge the virus was spreading between humans and was dangerous. All they did was try to downplay it and cover it up, until it had spread not on
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by heidar 6y ago
The wumao and supporters of the CCP have been pushing this racism nonsense for a while now to try to divert criticism against the CCP. It’s unfortunately very common.
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by heidar 6y ago
I’m not sure I follow. People/governments can use crypto and continue paying taxes, I don’t see the connection here.
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by heidar 6y ago
This is a HN post where people are sharing their (mostly negative) opinions on cryptocurrencies, not the comment section on a YouTube video about knitting. Also, I have nothing to do with these awesome cool things, but thanks for giving me
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by heidar 6y ago
Sorry for not mentioning your favourite coin, please don't be offended. The Ethereum roadmap is exciting, so is the BCH one, I just wanted to list some examples to make it clear that Bitcoin itself does not have much interesting going
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by heidar 6y ago
Given what you're commenting all over this post, it's pretty clear you don't follow developments in the cryptocurrency space much. Bitcoin is stale, there's no development or innovation happening. It has become a store o
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by heidar 6y ago
Iceland definitely has surplus energy. There's been ideas to lay a cables to mainland Europe to export it since it's going to waste at the moment.
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by heidar 6y ago
China does not have a stable society. You never hear about most of the social issues that happen inside China. A country committing genocide against its own citizens is not a stable society.
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by heidar 6y ago
I never understood the whole vest craze. I put it down as a California thing, something about the weather.
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by heidar 6y ago
I've been thinking about signalling a lot lately as well. I guess we're hard wired to some degree to do this sort of stuff? It's a way to express yourself and who you are in many ways, but doing it excessively is narcissistic
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by heidar 6y ago
100%. I find this incredibly interesting and I'd love to understand more about what topics they post about. I bet many hot topics, especially ones about politics, have a fair share of bots commenting. I think their purpose is equally i
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by heidar 6y ago
Not a podcast or a book but the Cryptopia documentary gives a pretty good overview of what has been happening in the cryptocurrency space in the past few years.
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by heidar 6y ago
They've been incredibly successful at soft propaganda in the West to craft an image of China that makes it look better than it is, while also being successful at hiding the things they don't want us to see.
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by heidar 6y ago
Also not mentioned in the article but bats are in hibernation at the time of year when the spread started, making it even less likely.
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by heidar 6y ago
The first sentence in the BBC article. > Chinese authorities and experts are at odds about the origin of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. I'm not saying this argument is invalid in general but it's important to assume that we
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by heidar 6y ago
Seems like adoption as a payment method halted when Bitcoin had scaling issues. Now the community seems pretty split in two. There's people who are for Bitcoin and see it as a store of value and people who are for Bitcoin Cash who see
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Hong Kong hosted a virtual New Year's Eve celebration(youtube.com)
2 points by heidar 6y ago|0 comments
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by heidar 6y ago
For those unaware, this is the "new magic" that dhh has been on about since HEY was in beta.
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Wuhan scientist would 'welcome' visit probing lab leak theory(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by heidar 6y ago|0 comments
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by heidar 6y ago
I was gluten free for a few years due to intestinal problems until I got tested (was negative) and I found that the restrictions made me more creative and resourceful when it comes to cooking.
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by heidar 6y ago
At this point I'm becoming more worried about distribution rather than finding a working vaccine. One in six people (in the UK) said they'd refuse a vaccine if it became available, and another one in six weren't sure. (YouGov
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by heidar 6y ago
With even DNS using TLS on some newer browsers nowadays, the risks of using a public wifi are disappearing.
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by heidar 7y ago
The good thing about industry standard terms is that it makes it easier for people to work together. As opposed to everyone coming up with their own terms for things. To me that’s one of the big pros about agile.
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by heidar 8y ago
Whatever you do, have fun, joke around.
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by heidar 8y ago
I thought it was a vague zoolander reference.
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by heidar 8y ago
The gap is getting smaller for certain contracts, but it's still huge.

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