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nangz··on PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network
PayPal couldn't act as an on-ramp for anything crypto because PayPal is run on soft money (reversible credit card transactions or potentially hacked bank accounts).

Allowing conversion of soft money to hard money (a btc with 6 onchain confirmations) means every criminal will use you as an on-ramp to convert their hack cc details and bank accounts into immutable hard money.

nangz··on Ask HN: How to capture entire 3D space and photograph everything in a big shop
Happy to push the shopping cart thru the shop.. want a solution that can be done in any shop
nangz··on To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
Sorry, but organisations need to be held to account.
nangz··on To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
Remember when MIT media Lab gave a civil disobedience award to bethann mclaughlin for some nebulous #metoo bs who since disgraced herself by LARPing as a fake Native American academic who died of covid? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/twitter-account-emba...

Remember when they chased Aaron Swartz to commit suicide and never gave him a civil disobedience award?

Remember their extremely close links to Jeffrey Epstein?

Sorry but MIT media Lab is absolute trash and an embarrassment to the MIT name.

nangz··on Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
Talking to a Chinese friend who is quite pro-CCP, they are pissed that UK is offering this and say that mass emigration of HKers would be a major loss of face for the CCP.
nangz··on Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
Talking to a Chinese friend who is quite pro-CCP, they are pissed that UK is offering this and say that mass emigration of HKers would be a major loss of face for the CCP.
nangz··on Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin
Sunk half my life savings in at $16, then doubled down and sunk the rest in when it dropped to $3.

Have now bought a house each for pretty much all my close friends and family members.

nangz··on WHO Deletes Misleading Tweet That Spread Paranoia About Covid-19 Reinfection
It is misleading because basically every virus ever has produced some degree of immunity to reinfection.

And because saying "there is no evidence that.." is often a weazelish way that doctors with unproven prior beliefs push their personal theories.

WHO should say "there is no strong evidence either way, however based on our understanding of similar viruses there is likely to be at least some residual immunity post infection."

Tedros has apparently been on a hiring spree focused more on "representation and diversity" than competence and experience: https://www.politico.eu/article/tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-g...

And it's likely that the world is now paying the price for overemphasis on wokeness as well as pandering to the corrupt ccp.

nangz··on Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine
The Lyme disease vaccine: "By 2001, 1.4 million doses of the vaccine had been distributed, but the FDA’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System only picked up on 59 reports of arthritis."

Rates of arthritis roughly at population baseline level.

People who talk about going through the motions of 2 years of animal trials have zero perspective. In wartime, this pedantry needs to be chucked our the window. Do the high yield human tests asap using heroic volunteers, and do it fast.

nangz··on 1000 True Fans? Try 100
Yep, I subscribe to a couple of podcast patreons.. for $5 a month for 5-10 hours of good content it's a no-brainer... Patreon.com/redscare It's basically just 2 women mouthing off, it's funny though. They do well out of it.