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sec400··on A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?
As a side note/additional area to explore, some antibiotics do also have anti-inflammatory effects
sec400··on Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
If in the US, major metro?
sec400··on Joe Rogan Issues Warning After AI-Generated Version of His Podcast Surfaces
You're telling me this was fake all along? https://twitter.com/TallBart/status/1643108942627864577
sec400··on You don't have to engage with people on the Internet
Follows the saying "Never wrestle with a pig because you'll both get dirty and the pig likes it."
sec400··on Z-library founders arrested in Argentina
Imagine the person who cannot afford a book or paper on a particular topic. Should they not have access to the information?

I agree, as always there is nuance, but zlib et al fulfill a need for certain people. In b4 public libraries, they aren't equal around the world, depend on geographic proximity and add latency to the learning process.

sec400··on Life Is Good in America, Even by European Standards
Higher highs but also much lower lows in the US and much easier to climb up or fall down.
sec400··on Medieval medicine under the spotlight in major new project
Has ... this been reproduced?
sec400··on El Salvador Made Bitcoin a National Currency. The Bet Isn’t Paying Off
Those sure are a lot of predictions stated as fact.
sec400··on What’s up with Austin?
That constant questioning around whether you've picked up covid or it's just cedar fever is fun
sec400··on Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?
Have found DMs on Twitter to be high ROI. Recruiters in the UK can be hit or miss as it's such a low barrier of entry job. Some out there that really are worth their weight in gold and others out there that give them all a bad name.
sec400··on The harrowing journey to Elephant Island by Ernest Shackleton and Endurance crew
If you like history and stories like this you'll probably also enjoy "Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54900051-madhouse-at-the...)

A 1897 expedition that ends up wintering (stuck floating in the ice) in a time just before radio communication.

sec400··on The biggest crypto lending company is a ponzi scheme
Not Celsius specifically but you can see details about yearn's strats here: https://docs.yearn.finance/getting-started/products/yvaults/...

Specific vaults strats: https://medium.com/yearn-state-of-the-vaults/the-vaults-at-y...

Links to the actual contracts: https://yearn.watch/

sec400··on The Max Headroom Incident
34th yr anniversary of it yesterday
sec400··on The Frenchman who pioneered the modern mercenary industry
A documentary about the attempt to kill Escobar that he was involved in has just come out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nTCjg40WCw
sec400··on How to Remember What You Read
Would be great if it worked for books sent to the device not bought through the Amazon kindle store
sec400··on Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship
Greece + Italy golden visas also worth taking a look at.
sec400··on Tax details of US super-rich allegedly leaked
If anyone understands the reasoning behind the US capping your deductible net capital loss in any tax year at $3,000 vs allowing your full capital losses to be offset I'd be interested.
sec400··on Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average
Thanks, interesting. I will of course now 1-up and use a double 00 prefix on any publicly posted dates.
sec400··on Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average
OT: why do you prefix the year with a 0?
sec400··on Off-by-One: The Curious Case of 2047-Bit RSA Keys (2019)
On the included estimations of the frequency that this occurs. I scraped a collection of (mainly developer) public keys for a previous project and got the following numbers.

  sqlite> select count(*) from keys;
  1627715
Quite a difference between the ratio of 2047/2048 bit keys and 1023/1024 bit keys.

  sqlite> select count(*) from keys where strength = "2048";
  936441
  sqlite> select count(*) from keys where strength = "2047";
  466

  sqlite> select count(*) from keys where strength = "1024";
  39068
  sqlite> select count(*) from keys where strength = "1023";
  5908
Interestingly also:

  sqlite> select count(*) from keys where strength = "2049";
  13
  sqlite> select count(*) from keys where strength = "2050";
  5
  sqlite> select count(*) from keys where strength = "2051";
  1
  sqlite> select count(*) from keys where strength = "2052";
  0
sec400··on Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency
You can sign up for an N26 account via smartphone app and then use this (unofficial) python library https://github.com/femueller/python-n26

I fully agree with you though, the Open Banking outcome in reality almost looks like a joke. I only found the above as I was searching for a while to find a way to do this that didn't involve building my own screen scrapers to implement.

There are banking offerings in the UK with official APIs however you are looking at £200/month+ in costs.

sec400··on Why has no one made a better Goodreads
I've been enjoying using https://beta.readng.co/ as an alternative
sec400··on OAuth Attack Vectors
I owe you many thanks, your guide helped me exploit a bug on a bug bounty years ago and then helped me get my first security job.