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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Of course, but were you frequently asked why you were taking photos? In your case, what explanation would you give? Wonderful shots by the way, and thank you for your reply.
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
As a long-time "hobby" photographer of street and neighborhood life in certain parts of Mexico, I'm curious, how did you build rapport with the locals for the sake of your photography, and that friendly acceptance. I'd l
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
So, it being the case that jumping into a black hole will not make you disappear for good, that, particle by particle, the information needed to reconstitute your body will reemerge, I wonder how this (very speculatively here) would fit wit
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Where I live, you can get just about any blood test you want or heard of done at a days notice (excepting clinically conditional time rubrics for the sake of test accuracy, ie: waiting a couple weeks+ after possible HIV exposure to get an H
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
As a final additional note, we could summarize what I wrote above by stating that: 1. the cartels by no means stay safe from state level actors in their activities or protection of their operators. The contrary, they're fully in the ey
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Living in Mexico here, the cartels in this country do indeed fight back against nation state adversaries (specifically the U.S government and the federal and state government forces of Mexico and its 30+ states where they operate) but the e
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
I assume you're being tongue-in-cheek, but just in case you're serious: No, today's wage "slavery" is not anything at all like the literal slavery of premodern times (taking aside the also literal slavery that still
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Every single one of those private liquor stores buys its stock through the BC Liquor Distribution Branch of British Columbia, so yes, the monopoly is still very much there, just hidden behind a few facades. I suspect something similar is th
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
And when you consider the probable sheer social consequences of those severe lockdowns in France, that number is absurdly little to brag about. I mean, really? 585 vs. 539? One country that maintained a policy of normalizing extreme emergen
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Id argue that the more obvious sign would be one in which all three drawings are present, but stacked vertically, with the radiation sign on top, followed by the death's head, but with an = sign between those two and no wavy arrow rays
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
And.... Who cares? Given Google's absurdly shitty behavior to so many users, its opacity, frequent mendacity, casual indifference to small organizations and let's not even go into all the gory details of its globe-spanning not-eve
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
I would sincerely love to know how to make Firefox work this well for me. For reasons I still can't decipher, the browser tends to slow any computer I run it on terribly no matter what I do or which version I run. I've noticed thi
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Thank god Hacker news doesn't offer laugh emoticons like those in whatsapp or facebook, but if it did, you'd have earned several from me with this.
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Not to belittle the quality of the reporting and research by the ICIJ but a hefty chunk of the site's narrative about hiding funds puts way too much often unsubstantiated focus on how evil and "dirty" the whole thing is, as a
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Love these. I've been taking photos of doors, windows and lit windows at night, surrounded by darkness, as well as utility posts bathed in street light, for years. Sometimes we find what we consider to be almost overwhelmingly lovely a
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
I truly don't understand why everybody keeps referencing the Mick West debunking video of the UFO footage. I actually corresponded on the guy about inconsistencies in his own debunking claims and he gave no satisfactory justification f
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
In reply to both of the comments above, okay, perhaps my driving example wasn't the best. It was the first thing that came to mind, but I think my underlying point remains valid and applies to many other choices that one could commonly
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
>The most comfortable way to think about risk is to imagine a range of potential consequences that don’t seem like a big deal. Then you feel responsible, like you’re paying attention to risk, but in a way that lets you remain 100% confid
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Am I missing something or has a controversy been created out of nearly thin air by random politicized factors here? Facebook may be a gigantic media company with a whole social component, but it's still in many ways (especially in term
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
I don't see how you could disagree on the first point though. Not only is is often done today to varying degrees of success depending on country and technology, it was exactly how much of consumer crypto got its start back in the earli
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Both can be done, activist opposition, and a practical move to build the tools that make circumventing such privacy-hating regulatory nonsense all the more easy to pull off. More simply put: while active public opposition to bad laws is goo
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Why not work on said technology? It can even end up being very lucrative to take up the cause. Do you forget that prior to the 90s (and also during part of the 90s) much of the lead-in to the completely common, widely commercially and priva
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Another novel that I really recommend, which mixes fantasy with social critique and science in one very interesting way, is "Soldiers of Paradise" by Paul Park. Its description of a world with seasons which last for generations an
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Major agreement with you there, and glad i'm not the only one. After reading the incredibly rich, beautifully rendered world of The Anubis Gates, I expected more of the same from his other books, but no, not quite as good, oddly. That
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Yes, that's one useful option, in cases where those contracting work or buying services want to or know about using it. But does Transferwise also have a tendency to engage in Paypal's now famous other habit of randomly freezing a
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
What a godawful piece of shit company. For freelancers of many kinds, it's also one of the only available methods of payment out there, especially for those doing low to mid-pay copywriting work, graphic design and so forth. The fees a
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
I really don't think so. There was an externally verifiable chain of evidence created by Ulbricht through random tidbits of sloppy opsec on a few occasions, enough of them for him to eventually be identified and caught. So if these exi
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
That's a loaded and extremely variable question. Furthermore, it has little relevance to the main thing I criticized above: that misdemeanors are usually irrelevant to most work and rejecting people because of them is grossly, punitive
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Yes, but multiply the ransom by multiple small, low ransom targets, as is commonly the case with groups taking a more diversified approach of targeting many small companies in the same attack type, partly depending on such small ransom dema
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by shadowprofile77 6y ago
This is just puritanical, judgemental idiocy at its most pointlessly discriminatory. Even for felony offenses it often veers into the same territory but flatly refusing to hire people for fucking misdemeanors with absolutely no relevance to

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