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ofcourseianalon Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery

Wake up. No other country implemented the same measures at the same point in the infection curve.

ofcourseianalon Too Much Crypto [pdf]

One time pad is pretty fast

ofcourseianalon World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1

whoosh

ofcourseianalon Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe

Maybe GS can too?

ofcourseianalon Being a good guy boss left me £1.2m in debt

You can stop thinking about all the auxiliary stuff you mentioned, and just compare, for example, the ratio of tuition : minimum wage from your college education and a contemporary one.

ofcourseianalon Homemade IC (2018)

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Here, I think you dropped a few zeroes.

ofcourseianalon Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer

Yes

ofcourseianalon TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces

Oh, well, if we already have the calculations (and a Wikipedia page!), they must be right.

ofcourseianalon Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

“be far more respectful of user’s data privacy”

“the chat application is Telegram”

Is this satire?

ofcourseianalon Making Radio Chips for Hell

...why

ofcourseianalon A censorship resistant deadman's switch

Censorship resistant, until someone takes down the “publisher tool meant to run autonomously on a trusted system”.

ofcourseianalon Johns Hopkins surgeons perform world's first male genital transplant

Did you read the article, or just the headline?

ofcourseianalon How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband

whoosh

ofcourseianalon Brooklyn Bitcoin Mine Causes Static for T-Mobile Users

“Faraday cage complete protects the interior from external charges but does nothing to shield the interior from the external charges”

What are you on about?

ofcourseianalon Brooklyn Bitcoin Mine Causes Static for T-Mobile Users

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

“Faraday cages are also used to enclose devices that produce RFI, such as radio transmitters, to prevent their radio waves from interfering with other nearby equipment.”

ofcourseianalon Brooklyn Bitcoin Mine Causes Static for T-Mobile Users

For some reason I don’t think they were concerned with 700MHz sound waves

ofcourseianalon Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

Wow, you’re really going wild with the burden of proof.

Maybe we should add “Appeal to Nintendo” to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies?