hubadu

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by hubadu 5y ago
Just like Youtube scrapped from its search results the full version of that July presidential town hall video because it was not looking so good.
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by hubadu 5y ago
"That means the government did not burn any oil, coal, or natural gas to power the country." This is a new low for HN to upvote such garbage, but at least they edited the headline which originally was: "Costa Rica Has Run on
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by hubadu 5y ago
I agree on the massive risk associated with the usage of Tether and stable coins in general. It's working until one day the music stops. Regarding how it would affect the market, it seems all experts automatically assume that it would
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by hubadu 5y ago
You could make it illegal by law tomorrow, it doesn't change the fact that bitcoin would still exist and be used due to its decentralized nature.
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by hubadu 5y ago
I can understand your fierce will to ban crypto for environmental impact reason. However you cannot ban bitcoin, you just can't, that the whole purpose of its existence. And black markets have always existed and always will.
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by hubadu 5y ago
I don't think it is technically possible to ban bitcoin, only centralized exchanges. If a country decides to ban exchanges, it could end up creating an untraceable black market since people might start exchanging crypto <-> cash
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by hubadu 5y ago
Citation provided, and this is just a tiny fraction of the censorship that was unleashed on this topic: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ends-ban-on-posts-asse...
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by hubadu 5y ago
You don't get to rewrite history after the facts and invent another smearing label to wave off the reality. Social medias implemented CCP-style censorship on their platform on anything related to the lab leak theory for more than a yea
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by hubadu 5y ago
There has been an attempt by some researchers to determine when the first cases of covid were detected in wastewater samples. There are three known studies so far. December 2019 in Italy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc&#x2
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by hubadu 5y ago
Just a reminder that a lab leak of SARS had already happened in Beijing in early 2000s, and for which Chinese CDC officials were publicly punished. It was even reported in CCP owned China Daily: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn&#x2F
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by hubadu 5y ago
They were no wild animals sold at the seafood market, only seafood product. Picture of people eating bat soup were taken in Palau island. Wild animal market pictures were taken in Guilin, Gongguan or even Tomohon market in Indonesia. Youtub
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by hubadu 5y ago
A year ago in France the health pass was publicly dismissed by officials as a conspiracy theory that belonged to sci-fi literature. Six months later it became "well there are pros and cons". And now here we are, on the verge of en
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by hubadu 6y ago
Chinese app stores take a 50% cut on every sales and transactions. To publish in China you need to get a deal with a local publisher/company which takes another 70% cut of the remaining 50% (before taxes). Plus the long and heavy admin
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by hubadu 6y ago
NoSrv
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by hubadu 6y ago
"China is going to engineer a virus..." Yes, that is part of what they were doing at their labs in Wuhan. That is not a conspiracy theory, they have research papers, conferences, press releases and job offers about this very topic
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by hubadu 6y ago
Why is this one-month-old paper reposted now that the lab leak theory is regaining traction in media outlets? Here is the conclusion of the paper: “[…] we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible”. Here is the
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by hubadu 6y ago
Researchers who warned us years ago about dangers of engineered bat virus leak scenario in an article from Nature Research Journal, should we label them as conspiracy theorists too?
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by hubadu 6y ago
It is interesting that a potential accidental leak is now labeled as a "conspiracy theory" by the media outlets, even though China already had two accidentally leaks from their lab in Beijing. Including the SARS leak accident for
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by hubadu 6y ago
It is a fact that a 5G network will consume three and half times as much electricity as 4G.
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by hubadu 6y ago
To any person living in Europe, I hope you guys know the bank account seizure that happened in Cyprus in 2013 has been used as a template to create an european law named "Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive"(BRRD). Some people
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by hubadu 6y ago
Every single downside listed in the article already existed way long before cryptocurrencies were even invented. Yet another article that confuses security of exchanges with security of cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are digital asset d
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by hubadu 7y ago
It has already happened multiple times in the past, four times in Beijing alone: https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/threatened-pandemics-and-lab...
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by hubadu 15y ago
Official.fm
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by hubadu 16y ago
Great Work. Small popups spawned over the "next page" button are really annoying.