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basdftrewqon Bitcoin: Be prepared to lose all your money, FCA warns consumers

Bitcoin, always crashes:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg

basdftrewqon Parler user data exposed and exfiltrated

The mandatory phone and required ID for some features according to the reply below (wtf?) sound really weird.

basdftrewqon Parler user data exposed and exfiltrated

So was Parler was just a honeypot for the incoming domestic "war on terror"?

basdftrewqon Show HN: Array – A Better Python List

    from collections import defaultdict

    d = defaultdict(int)

    d['non_existant_key']

basdftrewqon Some healthcare workers refuse to take Covid-19 vaccine

The best decisions at the population level may not be the best decisions at the personal level. I think physicians should be able to make a decent call at the personal level.

basdftrewqon Some healthcare workers refuse to take Covid-19 vaccine

There was this infamous communicate from the WHO: https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1ZX1H3

basdftrewqon Some healthcare workers refuse to take Covid-19 vaccine

Back in March we were told masks didn't work because there was a shortage and it was "the right thing to do" to say they didn't work. We were also told by high scientific institutions that closing borders was a bad idea.

Probably many people wonder now if the vaccine really is safe, or if it's just "the right thing to do" at the population level to get a lot of people vaccinated even if it's not safe. Hard to regain trust after dropping the ball so hard too many times.

basdftrewqon Alacritty – Fastest OS X Terminal Emulator – Terminal like tmux/alacritty config

Were the latency issues addressed?

https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/

basdftrewqon Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

Are there any example images?

basdftrewqon Ludic Fallacy

The point is that in real life problems it's more important to throw away ridiculous "assume that"s than having very neat models.