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headsupftw··on The underground world of credit card network exploitation
What are you even talking about? Read the blog post one more time, please.
headsupftw··on Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet
Sure. Tell that to the valley real estate prices.
headsupftw··on SF Whole Foods to Close Due to Increased Crime in Area
Oh it's just partisan political bullshit you say? Enjoy your low crime rate in SF then. Just the other day Bob Lee got stabbed to death near SoMa but oh no it's just the repubs spinning the news for their gain!
headsupftw··on U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables
When you can't compete, call them commie spies.
headsupftw··on ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real prof as accused
As if the made-up article does not show up in Google search results?
headsupftw··on The collapse of SVB exposes the largest crack in the economy
That's just another way of saying "that's why its price is down 20%".
headsupftw··on Meta Meets Microsoft
"We all decided that's not ok". And we also all decided it's ok to start doing something else in a Zoom meeting, because nobody will notice anyway?
headsupftw··on Meta Meets Microsoft
They can easily provide a feature where the employee could flip a switch and temporarily (semi?) hide herself, signaling that she is currently occupied with something else. Yes, in a Zoom setting, she doesn't have to broadcast that. But that's just cheating.
headsupftw··on TikTok’s Poison Pill
This top comment is odd, in the sense that the article does not talk about TikTok's privacy and/or geopolitics debacles at all, even though the title "poison pill" might lead some users who didn't read the article to think it refers to TikTok's violation of privacy, or it being created and controlled by an Internet giant based in Communist China, or something along these lines.

The "poison pill" in the title actually refers to TikTok's recommendation model that disregards (or at least de-weights) social graph, versus Facebook/Instagram's approach.

headsupftw··on Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform
I used to play on chess.com but now I'm lichess 100%.
headsupftw··on Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees
"One million dollars baby!"
headsupftw··on Monty Hall Problem
To me the key to understand the problem is paying attention to this detail: Monty knows where the car was so he wasn't just randomly opening A door. He always opened a door that didn't have a car behind it. It's this non-randomness that's giving you more information about the remaining door.
headsupftw··on Virtual offices are not remote-friendly workplaces
Not only that, we were forced to do it for the past two years. Does this "thing" truly have any merit? We don't know because companies did not have an alternative. We have nothing to compare it to.
headsupftw··on Graph Theory and Linear Algebra [pdf]
"Caught another mistake: Section 3.2: First, an observation: the column sums of Q(G) are all zero is wrong. Contradicts their definition of Q(G)." True, but it's pretty obvious he was referring to a directed graph G where matrix Q(G) is defined as Qij = 1 if vertex vi has an outgoing edge ej; -1 if vertex vi has an incoming edge ej; 0 otherwise.
headsupftw··on Graph Theory and Linear Algebra [pdf]
"how many ways you can get there in two steps from v1" If it's not obvious, v1=3, v2=1, v3=1, v4=1, v5=1, v7=2.
headsupftw··on China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Biden officials say
If China didn't do this, "Go ahead and kill Ukrainians now. We don't give a shit as we have an Olympic game to attend to." Get off your moral high horse already.
headsupftw··on Peng Shuai retracts sexual assault claims as fears over her wellbeing persist
"那天下午我原本没有同意一直哭": In that afternoon, initially I didn't agree to have sex with you and I kept crying. "原本" means "initially". It even insinuates that she agreed eventually. Of course your rebuttal will be "yeah she agreed eventually because she had no choice".
headsupftw··on Peng Shuai retracts sexual assault claims as fears over her wellbeing persist
Huh? My native language is Chinese and based on her Weibo post, the sex was consensual. She never claimed that Zhang was raping her while his wife was guarding the door.
headsupftw··on Peng Shuai retracts sexual assault claims as fears over her wellbeing persist
Right? This is not the first time I've read it on the English media that Peng Shuai was accusing Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault either. I seriously wonder what is going on here. Don't get me wrong. I do think Peng Shuai cannot speak freely and something sketchy is going on. But putting words in her mouth is a rather strange way of trying to help her.

On the other hand, if she didn't make that specific accusation, then what she just said made sense. She didn't retract anything. She stands behind what she said in that Weibo post, just not the "sexual assault" part interpreted by the western media.

headsupftw··on Peng Shuai retracts sexual assault claims as fears over her wellbeing persist
I read her Weibo post the same day it came out and I didn't get the impression that she was accusing Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. I thought she was saying that they had an affair (if you can call it that. in the post she said one time while they were having sex, Zhang Gaoli asked his WIFE to guard the door...) on and off for years and now Zhang would no longer respond to her, basically abandoned her.
headsupftw··on Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows
Hence the need to lower the acceptance rate of Asian applicants even more?
headsupftw··on Howard University’s removal of classics is a spiritual catastrophe
So your university at some point did to the math department the opposite of what Howard University just did to its classics department.
headsupftw··on A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
Two days in a row I see this Karpathy name on the front page of HN on two totally unrelated subjects. It almost feels like this is simulated world and something is wrong.
headsupftw··on TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022
And Samsung started with dried fish.
headsupftw··on Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (2012)
So did he find a cofounder on HN? I actually met a cofounder of Coinbase on an airplane and he emailed me on the spot a cup of coffee in BTC. Let's just say it has turned into dozens and dozens of cups of coffee by now.
headsupftw··on Sam Altman: AI will generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13.5K a year
Those entities with billions COULD do that, fully aware that it would utterly wipe out their billions in BTC assets. So why in the world WOULD they choose to do so?
headsupftw··on U.S. fears China attack on Taiwan
Are you high or something? Last time I checked Taiwan is not a member of the U.N. and the United States does not recognize Taiwan as a country.
headsupftw··on How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size
It's not exactly a case of downloading an India version when you arrive there. In order to do so first you have to register an India App Store account. And in order to do that, you might need an India cell phone number and credit card.
headsupftw··on AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains
How much did you make?
headsupftw··on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
Speaking of which, https://twitter.com/ljmoynihan/status/1354836830169006081
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