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by nyolfen 5y ago
how many websites do you visit without https?
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by nyolfen 5y ago
otoh 'more research' seems to be a database of 1000 individuals compiled and analyzed by an individual. this appears to be founded on ad hoc visual inspections without theoretical underpinnings, and seems like a scientific cargo c
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by nyolfen 5y ago
perhaps he can provably point to it in the future if the government comes knocking. mainly i am remembering the guy in the uk that made a big show of looking for his old hard drive in a landfill, my immediate suspicion was that it was a rus
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by nyolfen 5y ago
chaumian coinjoin, atomic swap for monero or zcash, or even just cashing out off the books
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by nyolfen 5y ago
if i had a huge fucking pot of crypto i would probably also announce to the world that i had lost it
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by nyolfen 5y ago
> Because we assumed that prosperity would lead to liberal democracy. That underwrote complacency while profit motivations took root. this might be a formal narrative, but the simple truth is that we did it because it made powerful peopl
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by nyolfen 5y ago
until it stops being true that the lead scientist at the wiv pioneered work in & published papers about inserting FCSes -- which other than covid do not exist in coronaviruses -- into bat coronaviruses for gain of function research, you
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by nyolfen 5y ago
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...
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by nyolfen 5y ago
> At the beginning of the pandemic, people theorized that public health will influence future media for a generation, much like WW2 did. For decades, we got war TV shows, war movies, war comics, etc. Hogan's Heroes ran into the &#x2
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by nyolfen 5y ago
i do not use poggers emojis or anime girl reactions in my conversations, or chat on platforms where mods have the arbitrary power to destroy your chat history. if you want to, that's fine, but it does not feel like a platform meant for
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by nyolfen 5y ago
it means it feels age-inappropriate for an adult to use, like hanging out at a children's arcade
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by nyolfen 5y ago
best description i've heard of discord ux is that it feels like hanging out at a chuck-e-cheese
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by nyolfen 5y ago
i recently came across jq, which i use for json parsing: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
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by nyolfen 5y ago
i recently came across `jq`, which i use for this purpose
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by nyolfen 5y ago
there is no way to make an EMP of useful effect without high explosives
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by nyolfen 5y ago
the replication crisis came to a head a few years ago when it was revealed that two thirds of social psychology findings failed to replicate -- this is not just empiricism taken too far, this is the mass production of false knowledge due
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by nyolfen 5y ago
i am betting that the UFO stuff in the media ends up being preemptive cover sowed by the military for whatever this ends up being
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by nyolfen 5y ago
i find the idea of 100+ kilos of some of the densest material on earth evaporating or being scrubbed off by mistake totally unfathomable, but i'm inclined to take the word of hersh. surely this kind of thing must have occurred in other
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by nyolfen 5y ago
> Having access to enough accurate information and being able to spend time efficiently to accumulate it, has catapulted large swathes of people into investing in a college education. factors you're leaving out that i find much more
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by nyolfen 5y ago
in the last four decades college has become orders of magnitude more expensive while wages have stagnated and almost all economic growth has gone to the very top, at the same time that the portion of the population with a degree has risen s
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by nyolfen 5y ago
one third of americans have a college degree; this number used to be in the low single percentages. do you think we've all gotten that much smarter?
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by nyolfen 5y ago
what happens when a government legally forces them to look for politically dissident content? they have already lost this fight, it is an inevitability
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by nyolfen 5y ago
how does linux fare in this scenario? few things are as critical in terms of infrastructure
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by nyolfen 5y ago
this does not apply to cryptoshredding or any modern storage media. even a single pass on magnetic media renders data unrecoverable.
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by nyolfen 5y ago
last may, i recall public health officials and figures coming forward to say that mass protests were acceptable because racism was a greater public health threat than covid. you can see a similar push for gun control using the same rhetoric
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by nyolfen 5y ago
a friend from the area insists that judd was involved in drug trafficking and that the (frankly mundane) art was a pretense or money laundering mechanism. i've spent time in the region and it is not difficult to spot people who are obv
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by nyolfen 5y ago
grendel-as-neanderthals is actually the premise of a novel from the 1970s by michael crichton, eaters of the dead/the 13th warrior
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by nyolfen 5y ago
https://vpncloud.ddswd.de/
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by nyolfen 5y ago
it reminds me of an episode of a podcast i was listening to recently about somebody who grew up in a tough area with other people who experienced violence and difficult circumstances, and while there he had no emotional issues and simply pu
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by nyolfen 5y ago
i have one of these with gallium as well -- cannot recommend it highly enough, though i wish the memory weren't soldered in. daily driver for normal web stuff for six or seven years now.

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