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cf1241290841on Video: People jumping a ten meter tower [video]

Yes the girl at 3:08 wants to go first but he has to anyway.

What a sexist world. She should have just pushed him while laughing. It would have been better for everyone involved

cf1241290841on The Plot Against Einstein

You do realize you didnt actually argue against it being apartheid? You repeated a victim narrative, a common method in fascist systems to normalize crimes against humanity.

Its really worth reading Einsteins notes on Israel.

"“When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations build [sic] up from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people.”" https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/albert-einstein-the-p...

Should echo in the ears of everyone that ignored Trudeau warning

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/israel-s-gaza-campaign-puts-...

Murderous totalitarian regimes do not work. They quickly turn into mafia states. At its not something you end up in accidentally, its very visible by people falling back onto tribalistic narratives they prefer over reality.

Looking back at Einsteins letter from 1948, its worth remembering, that Hannah Arendt co-wrote it while being a Zionist. Anyone actually interested in a future for Israel should think really hard if revisionist Zionism is a way to achieve that.

cf1241290841on German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator

Certification is a major issue here.

cf1241290841on The Plot Against Einstein

He was also quite vocal on this https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYork...

cf1241290841on Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection

If you are going down a DRM search trip, both Widevine key dumping and DMCA compliant HDMI / HDCP downgrade hardware are quite interesting topics.

cf1241290841on Harvesting electricity from high-voltage transmission lines using fences

Explanation would be beneficial. Without you just make it more likely that someone does.

cf1241290841on Harvesting electricity from high-voltage transmission lines using fences

This isnt a one way argument. If this is stealing so is pollution reducing throughput sabotage. Prosecuting one but not the other is a value judgement which gets us to the nature of laws. They are not an end in itself and often times so stupid they get changed when unintended implications become clear.

edit: Someone posted https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23799/has-anyon... a bit down with the following comment that highlights this quite well.

>At least here in germany, it is unclear whether "stealing" via induction is really stealing, the corresponding law explicitly states that a conductor is necessary. There have been lots of urban myths about it being forbidden, but the fact is that near lots of high power mid wave radio stations you automatically "steal" lots of power, e.g. just by having a neon tube installed in the "correct" direction.

cf1241290841on Best Documentaries You've Ever Seen

"Crack House USA" was quite the accomplishment in my opinion. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1991025/

Intimate view through surveillance cameras over 6 weeks about the inner working of a crack house. With interviews from law enforcement, families and later convicts. Unorganized crime being the key word here, including drive by shootings by barely adults whos perceived room for maneuvering narrows to the extreme.

On youtube as " Inside A Crack House: US Drug Gangs Exposed (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGK4gGtz44

cf1241290841on Best Documentaries You've Ever Seen

>34. Free Solo

Also worth mentioning

The Dawn Wall (2017) Meru (2015) The Alpinist (2021)

The mindset of the people at these extremes is really interesting. Clash of cultures with Magnus Midtbø visiting Honnold was also an interesting watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyya23MPoAI

cf1241290841on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)

If you truly believe to know something i dont, i would hope you had responded. This way it looks like you prefer feeling right over being right.

cf1241290841on Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

Thank you so much for posting this.

If anyone else has any educated guesses about the mechanism, please do share!

cf1241290841on Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

Might be a case of me being too stupid to use ctrl + f

But its very much worth mentioning that Russia has totalitarian laws that criminalize the use of vpns.

cf1241290841on Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization

This isnt my native language, might i ask you for your interpretation of that post? I didnt think i was being confrontational here, so i cant figure out how to interpret your post.

Pls be direct, any little bit helps.

cf1241290841on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)

I dont think you can argue your position without reverting to a sunken cost fallacy or an ideological ignorance of the amount of suffering inflicted through simple existence, even in the best of circumstances.

If you want to argue that suicide is always an option, let me remind you that this is how the Romans justified the conditions of slavery.

I could always be wrong here, but i dont think you are able to explain how. To put it bluntly, fanatics never can. Or want to because they prefer feeling right. Pls do explain how i am wrong here.

cf1241290841on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)

Not sure how you got to this conclusion from the initial post.

My point was condemning somebody to existence in this world is.

cf1241290841on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)

There is no story or belief that can justify unethical behavior.

cf1241290841on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)

Which you can change. I was talking more about the overall circumstances you cant change.

cf1241290841on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)

Depressive realism might be. And there is no ethical way for me to argue for that.

My link is also not arguing for being depressed. Once you are here, by all means make the best of it. But to give you all a flashback to sex ed, do the right thing and use a condom.

cf1241290841on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)

The increase in depression numbers might be a rational reaction to the current environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Never_to_Have_Been

cf1241290841on Scientists find why spinning magnet causes 2nd magnet to levitate

UFOs are so 20th century

I was thinking more in the realm of LK-99

cf1241290841on Scientists find why spinning magnet causes 2nd magnet to levitate

This does seem to be quite useful behavior as well, no?

cf1241290841on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections

Cockpit resource management is also something a lot of industries can learn from. As well as human error analysis. How an error came to be is often much more interesting then the personal shortcomings of the person who caused it.

cf1241290841on Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking (2020)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

cf1241290841on Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews safety debate

To be fair, investigating incidents and crashes is how you get incident prevention. Most safeguards today are a result of the lessons learned from NTSB investigations.

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https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

What ever he is doing works

edit: Also duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38904433

cf1241290841on The Battle for Biometric Privacy

from the 37c3 the new accessory to have https://youtu.be/3KYmAYG829I?t=1101 The ring-finger ring

cf1241290841on How An ASML Lithography Machine Moves a Wafer [video]

What a great find, thanks a lot for posting this. I never saw a better example for the radius of blame.

cf1241290841on How An ASML Lithography Machine Moves a Wafer [video]

I especially liked his ZEISS videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUOfNa8n6mQ&list=PLaLGh7vzNI...

The stuff you find on ebay is just amazing.

cf1241290841on Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet

Not saying that it will work. Just that somebody thinks it will.

I watched somebody loose a fortune when the covid supply chain shock was first predictable. He got killed on the timing. The rationality of markets is highly overrated. And this is far from rational.