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by ropable 1y ago
The human cost of these industrialised pig butchering scam compounds in southeast Asia is staggering. Hundreds of thousands of people forced to work in indentured- or slave-labour conditions, running these scams on people in other countries
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China sentences Ming crime family group members in relation to scam compounds(spp.gov.cn)
4 points by ropable 1y ago|0 comments
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by ropable 1y ago
The situation in Gaza is horrifying and despair-inducing. While acknowledging the incredibly complex historical context of the region and the security bind that Israel is in, IMO they have surrendered all moral authority by their actions th
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by ropable 1y ago
Thank you to the reply; the fact that there is a qualified human in the loop to review test results is very encouraging. I stand corrected on my initial assessment.
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by ropable 1y ago
I am extremely skeptical about the need for this kind of shotgun "health marker" blood panel test. Even granting the premise that whatever ML algorithm they use to interpret the results is at all accurate, the upshot is unlikely t
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by ropable 1y ago
I don't entirely disagree, however: it's a far sight easier to live a "virtuous" life if you weren't born into poverty, or with a mental illness, or in a country that is actively at war, etc. These things are all be
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by ropable 1y ago
Couldn't agree more. Many (most?) of our opportunities are afforded by the family, community and society in which we grew up. Of course individual talent and choices make a difference, but it's my feeling that many people wildly u
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by ropable 1y ago
Google Search jumped the shark years ago. It's the modern-day Yahoo at this point. Even Bing is a better experience, which is not a sentence I ever thought I would type a decade ago.
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by ropable 1y ago
> what an outsized role is played by luck This speaks to me. So much of our life circumstances are beyond our control (parents, genetics, geography, society, wider economy, etc.) It's humbling, how much of our success or failure is
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by ropable 1y ago
For me, HN is distinct and special because (despite its scale) it doesn't reflect the internet . HN, as a discussion forum, has its own distinct norms, "vibe" and specialisations which give it value. Places like Facebook and
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by ropable 1y ago
Cool tool, however: the people who are going to spend $500 on a cook's knife likely already have the capability and motivation to properly sharpen a kitchen knife. The market for this feels extremely limited. Also: I'd be curious
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by ropable 1y ago
FWIW I've been using a personal domain hosted at Dreamhost and their mail server for many years and have not had any issues with sending mail from my domain.
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by ropable 1y ago
When you start learning a little more about pig butchering scams and the organisations which run them, it gets extremely harrowing. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people being forced to work in these online scams across Myanma
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by ropable 1y ago
One man's "affront to fundamental individual freedoms" is another's "essential for the collective good".
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How the infamous APT-1 report exposing China's PLA hackers came to be(zetter-zeroday.com)
5 points by ropable 1y ago|1 comments
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by ropable 1y ago
I don't disagree that commuting by bicycle can be hazardous, but the major risks to cyclist safety are cars, trucks and other cyclists (mainly e-bikes). Pedestrians, potholes, bollards, etc. are no worse than an inconvenience most of t
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by ropable 1y ago
As an outsider, I can only offer my hope that somehow you all manage to collectively take a breath, agree that you're heading down a dark path, and take a few steps back towards consensus and compromise. Godspeed.
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by ropable 1y ago
Accepting the premise, this outsider's view of the US is that there seems to be an increasing reluctance to fund "public" goods (e.g. infrastructure, population healthcare, etc) of which public education is one such service.
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by ropable 1y ago
> And your farmland is not only cheaper, but it’s more productive. It's almost as though comparative advantage is a real thing, and nations can be better off overall through specialisation and open trade. > You can probably affor
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by ropable 1y ago
> Somebody has to just implement the standard security measures that prevents these compromises. I don't disagree, but this sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. See also "draw the rest of the owl".
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by ropable 1y ago
A review from having used this project seriously for three months (self-hosted on a small NAS device, deployed/updated via Docker Compose): it's great. The web application is stable and very configurable (though ML performance wil
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by ropable 1y ago
I got my start in professional software development by building an multi-user Access shadow-IT database application that made heavy use of VBA. It only worked because it had a couple of active users at any time, and I left that workplace wi
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by ropable 1y ago
Ignorance was the most charitable interpretation that I could infer from your original statements. It seems clear that it was sincerely believed and well-intentioned; it's equally clear that your operating knowledge of ADHD research, d
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by ropable 1y ago
This is a profoundly ignorant take on the subject matter. Notwithstanding neurological changes that happen to everyone over the time span of decades, ADHD isn't something that people can just willpower their way out of. It's a spe
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by ropable 1y ago
I'm sad that a basic description of what RSS consists of makes it onto HN. I still upvoted to help educate the kids :/ FYI FreshRSS is fairly trivial to self-host, and is a really nice option for an RSS reader app.
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by ropable 1y ago
This statement also hit home for me when I thought over my woodworking tools. I could buy finished timber for $300, or I could spend $500 on tools and several hours to finish $75 of rough-sawn timber myself. We aren't doing these thing
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by ropable 1y ago
Materialized views are great and (obviously) useful, but they have the usual tradeoffs of any caching mechanism (e.g. now you have to worry about cache data age and invalidation. IMO a slept-on database feature is table partitioning to impr
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by ropable 1y ago
Yes, you need to refresh the materialized views periodically. Which mean that, just like any other caching mechanism, you're solving one problem (query performance) but introducing another (cache invalidation). I've personally use
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by ropable 1y ago
I read this article and thought "Thanks heavens the US Federal government is appointing a highly-qualified and unbiased head of their Bureau of Labor Statistics so we all have perfect confidence in their future employment numbers"
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by ropable 1y ago
That pretty much all modalities of resistance training work , no individual training session matters all that much, and what's really important is just doing it consistently for years.

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