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by 0xy 4y ago
The last ice age didn't even make it to southern Europe and the southern part of North America, so given the amount of food production in those areas as well as Australia and South America, it seems pretty plausible that another ice ag
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by 0xy 4y ago
AudioContext latency information can be retrieved without the user's consent or knowledge on websites that never ever use audio. It's a security disaster. I know for a fact that AudioContext is routinely abused on ad networks and
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by 0xy 4y ago
If something is used 99% of the time for tracking and 1% of the time for genuine useful reasons, it's safe to say it's a tracking mechanism. Intent is irrelevant, the APIs are fundamentally insecure. Google directly benefits from
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by 0xy 4y ago
Of course it's main use is fingerprinting. Do you think WebRTC is instantiated for genuine reasons the majority of the time? That's real absurdity. WebRTC is instantiated most often by ad networks and anti-fraud services. Same thi
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by 0xy 4y ago
With no content, it's a dead platform walking. Screenshots of Twitter don't qualify as real community engagement.
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by 0xy 4y ago
Criminalization of prostitution on either side of the transaction, as this post advocates, is sickeningly anti-woman. It suggests women do not have agency and cannot make their own choices. The author of this post selfishly wants to tear do
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by 0xy 4y ago
The WSJ article I cited says embezzlement is a certainty. Since I cited it 3 comments ago, I have to presume you aren't even acting in good faith. There's US government sources saying theft is a certainty, and you with an opinion
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by 0xy 4y ago
By some estimates, a firefighter costs $120,000 in yearly costs while saving over $500,000 in damages a year. It's a lot harder to make the ROI claim for highways and roads, especially considering increasing road capacity does not decr
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by 0xy 4y ago
Again, and I've made this point repeatedly now, my only claim was that 70% of the material was not making it prior to auditing and that a substantial amount of that was embezzled. You continue to repeat the strawman that I claim 70% of
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by 0xy 4y ago
Your source does no such thing. It basically says 'well the equipment that does make it is being used effectively, therefore it's wrong'. How is that debunking? Your article then goes on to mention that AFTER AUDITORS ARRIVED
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by 0xy 4y ago
No, they retracted it because it goes against prevailing narrative. The source said 70% of the hardware wasn't making it AT THE TIME, that's irrefutable. Whether it's improved since then is irrelevant, because I clarified my
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by 0xy 4y ago
It's the same for any form of aid. For example, an NGO source on the ground in Ukraine said that before US auditors showed up (6 months later), only 30% of the US hardware made it to the frontlines. [1] That means tens of billions of d
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by 0xy 4y ago
WhatsApp pushes users to backup keys to Google Drive, so even if you haven't done that your conversation partner might have. So unless you call Google holding the private keys 'E2E encryption', then it isn't. Signal had
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by 0xy 4y ago
VPNs are only anonymous to your ISP and website providers. They are useless when nation states are involved.
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by 0xy 4y ago
How do you mine anonymously? By blindly trusting a faceless mining pool who claims they don't log IPs? Do you think it's accurate to call it 'anonymous' when it's not in 99.99% of cases?
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by 0xy 4y ago
So it looks like you have to pay $16 minimum for one of these 'anonymous numbers'. How can it be anonymous if you have to purchase the TON required to bid on them, and therefore have done KYC at an exchange or used your credit car
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by 0xy 4y ago
You have to realize that the claim of "vaccines stop the spread" is massively far from what actually happened -- vaccinated people spread the virus literally millions of times and thousands died as a result. Let's look what D
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by 0xy 4y ago
Given lab leak theory was initially censored as "misinformation", and anyone claiming the vaccines did not stop the spread (now proven accurate) were banned from many platforms, I'm not sure this brand of censorship is target
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by 0xy 4y ago
Can you point to the part of the bill that doesn't protect speech they don't approve of? I'm aware the UK Labour Party is in favor of censorship of disapproved topics [1], but I couldn't see any in this bill. [1] https:
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by 0xy 4y ago
Considering Pew got the exact same result and that's a respected Western pollster it's a bit puzzling how you imply "Russian soldiers" had any impact. Do you believe Pew lied? They're independent. You also avoided C
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by 0xy 4y ago
Just curious, considering Crimea held a referendum to leave Ukraine and the results closely matched the results of independent third-party pollsters like Pew Research, do you believe Ukraine forcing Crimea to stay in Ukraine was imperialism
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by 0xy 4y ago
The 131 is the budget for 2021/22, which was before the massive spike in inflation. The inflation between 2015 and 2021 is only 15.7%, meaning the budget has been raised by 15 billion pounds a year above inflation figures. It doesn&#x2
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by 0xy 4y ago
The NHS budget was 100 billion pounds in 2015 and is now 136 billion pounds, which means a 692m pound weekly increase in spending. One of the pieces of fearmongering from anti-Brexit campaigners was that the NHS would be starved of resource
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by 0xy 4y ago
Large financial institutions and banks are expanding footprint in London, and have announced new office developments after Brexit. So this claim of yours seems to be based on pre-Brexit fearmongering that never came to pass. I mean, come on
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by 0xy 4y ago
It effectively does, and collects telemetry. There's also Stripe Radar, however when I was working in fraud for a large e-commerce company we found Stripe Radar to be a very poor product in stopping fraudulent transactions. There are m
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by 0xy 4y ago
>That it's not "personnel changes" but thousands of their best employees leaving? If you pick a random 50% of people from ANY company, only 10-20% of that group are actually high performers. As Musk pointed out, there were
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by 0xy 4y ago
The courts are independent, but for criminal matters government prosecutors decide whether someone even makes it to court. Consider the case of Hillary Clinton, who by textbook definition mishandled classified documents, which other people
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by 0xy 4y ago
Avoid speculative investments like single stocks, crypto or anything like that when you're starting out. Depending on your risk appetite, you may want to consider index funds from Vanguard (very low fee) or government bonds (low yield,
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by 0xy 4y ago
65% of domestic violence involves alcohol. [1] Unless you believe beating women is not social harm then alcohol is undoubtedly a hard drug. [1] https://www.anrows.org.au/publication/links-between-alcohol-...
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by 0xy 4y ago
So the courts didn't determine he did it by the only standard that actually matters, guilty beyond reasonable doubt. It is not a contradiction to say he could've been guilty by preponderance of evidence and innocent because of rea

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