nyolfen

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by nyolfen 6y ago
> spy that Japanese company to steal secrets for its American competitor. i don't see any indication that anything like that happened
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by nyolfen 6y ago
news to me! thank you
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by nyolfen 6y ago
https://sci-hub.do/10.1017/S0305741000045495 > The Hakka are an impoverished and stigmatized subgroup of Han Chinese whose settlements are scattered from Jiangxi to Sichuan. Socialist revolution me
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i don't expect this to win you back, but i can't recommend this highly enough: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/better-font-rendering-in-linu... you can choose between different system font rendering style
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> The Earth is a giant living system we're slowly killing and replacing with human technology. "It is only due to a predominance of influences that are not only entirely morally indifferent, but indeed — from a human perspectiv
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> Not understanding the implications of this request, Achitometl acceded to the honour; his daughter went to Tizaapan, where she was splendidly arrayed and sacrificed. Following an old custom, the body was flayed and a priest donned her
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the aztec empire lasted for less than two centuries. the six figure estimate provided by the conquistador was written off as fabricated or exaggerated, unti the skull towers were discovered by archaeologists, and a few years later were disc
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by nyolfen 6y ago
there were roughly this many skulls arranged into towers in front of the main temple at tenochtitlan. not bad for a single city-state
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by nyolfen 6y ago
you can turn off notification badges per app
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the threat of nukes guides all international political arrangements. what does the digital intelligence and coercion machinery guide? you may not feel threatened by this arrangement now, but how confident do you feel that these tools will a
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by nyolfen 6y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-nsas-secret-tool-for-... > Even by that account, the scale of collection brought to mind an evocative phrase from legal scholar Paul Ohm. Any information in sufficient volume,
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i have good news, the routers spectrum began sending out this year not only have SIP ALG enabled but no way to disable it. in fact, just about the only thing you can change is DNS, and only via a smartphone app(!)
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by nyolfen 6y ago
buran was literally based on stolen space shuttle designs https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna18686090
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by nyolfen 6y ago
privatization shock doctrine occurred during the 1990s, after the collapse. the collapse occurred during a period of market and social liberalization, but was directly precipitated by an oil crash pushing over a deeply sclerotic economy tha
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the most important immediate causes were a) that it could not feed itself and had to buy food imports with hard currency, and b) that it acquired its hard currency by selling oil, which became unsustainable during the 1980s
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by nyolfen 6y ago
an undetectable self-reported major disability is quite a potential liability, to say nothing of whether it is real
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by nyolfen 6y ago
another promising project: https://pijul.org/
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by nyolfen 6y ago
mad props, this is extremely cool. i only wish i had it ten years ago so i wouldn't have my crap spread across one more system.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
there is a substantially larger gaming market now, especially in the global south where $60 means a lot more
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i switched to regolith a few months ago on my desktop and +1 this; convenient defaults that are relatively close to what i previously built up on my own, and overall a nice preconfig for i3+rofi. the only real tweak it needs out of the box
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by nyolfen 6y ago
mongolians are also atypically short for a population with a tradition of dairying, though — those with lactase persistence are among the tallest in the world thanks to the massive caloric surplus reducing environmental selection against he
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i wrote that second link :) delighted to see it in the wild
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by nyolfen 6y ago
magnets are just hashes of the contents
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by nyolfen 6y ago
could you point me to them?
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> Epstein's intrest in eugenics is pretty well documented. i don't think of myself as much of an epstein apologist, but as far as i can tell this traces back to him talking about wanting to have a bunch of children, which seems
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by nyolfen 6y ago
modern airburst fuzes are indeed accurate enough to destroy hardened underground bunkers: https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> If he were a politician or a celebrity HN would want to see him hanged with the rest of the degenerate elites. you may be surprised at some of the names here: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/French_petition_against_age
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by nyolfen 6y ago
>passive exfil only works if you have sensors mirroring backbone traffic at all the biggest upstream meetme rooms. but NSA supposedly wasnt legally allowed to install Boeing Narus mirror routers at ISPs until 2001. you're assuming t
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the media was already filled with stories about the obama administration's record number of whistleblower prosecutions in 2013. there was nothing to 'expose'.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the idea that conspiracy theories are spurious is a result of mentally ill people irrationally latching onto them and far predates cointelpro. that said, it is trivially true that the world is run by conspiracies -- conspiracy is simply a l

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