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wwtdtgotiatl··on Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
It took ten years to find Osama Bin Laden, which we can fairly assume had a lot more resources directed at it.

You seem to falling into this common trap of intel agency omnipotence when we have plenty of examples to the contrary.

wwtdtgotiatl··on It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing
Who went to jail or faced sky sort of justice for the sub-prime mortgage crisis and subsequent harm it caused?
wwtdtgotiatl··on Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)
Why would techies be less susceptible to bias compared to the general population?

That statement itself seems like it would be a cognitive bias.

wwtdtgotiatl··on Australia to ban engineered stone
Used engine oil is definitely carcinogenic.

https://roadmaponcarcinogens.eu/facts/used-mineral-oils/

wwtdtgotiatl··on The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers
Funny because I've been hearing this almost fortnightly on reddit and freelance forums for a few months now.

And the big middleman platforms siding with the client.

Some people prefer their anonymity, especially when they are put into the public sphere over disputes which can cost them future work. Notice the client wasn't named either.

wwtdtgotiatl··on Crux: Cross-platform app development in Rust
> I can always tell — your app is being uninstalled.

I find this very hard to believe given how many big apps are written in flutter and life is made a lot harder without them.

Very weird hill to die on too.

wwtdtgotiatl··on Why Australia’s Housing Crisis Is a Warning for the World [video]
> desirable city

Sydney has topped net internal migration for years now. It's desirable for everyone who doesn't live there, actual locals are getting out at a ridiculously high rate.

wwtdtgotiatl··on Singapore in Colour
So Florida but without an actual Disneyland?
wwtdtgotiatl··on Docker Is Four Things
There's also the part where it starts punching holes in your firewall without even a peep about it to the user.
wwtdtgotiatl··on Tech sector Salaries have fallen up to 15 per cent as fired talent floods market
IT workers have a union in Australia.

https://www.professionalsaustralia.org.au/

wwtdtgotiatl··on New York Is Full. And it’s the housing market’s fault
That is so ridiculously wrong it barely deserves a reply.

The US is ~3 per 1000 NOM, its not high at all whether we are talking advanced economies or global South

wwtdtgotiatl··on FFmpeg Explorer
Do you condone this attack too:

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

What level of violence is too much in response to being offended by someone else's words or nonviolent actions?

Many in the Islamic world consider that response just.

wwtdtgotiatl··on Men charged by U.S. with laundering more than $1B in cryptocurrency
> or don't start a company to make money off of money laundering

Funny because real estate agencies across the western world rake it in without fear.

wwtdtgotiatl··on My deep learning rig (2022)
> tens of thousands of dollars worth of GPUs that become obsolete quickly

I sold a 4yo gpu for more than I bought it for not long ago.

It's the only thing in a pc that doesn't depreciate much these days, besides maybe the case.

wwtdtgotiatl··on Russian empire aerospace refugees (2021)
> proposed

he contributed $3000 to a political campaign against gay marriage, 6 years prior to losing his job for that reason

wwtdtgotiatl··on What happened to the microfinance company Kiva?
Utterly bewildering statement by the VP Guis in here:

> she found it odd that an American would be offered 0% interest while borrowers in poorer parts of the world were being charged up to 70%, according to the estimates posted on Kiva’s website. “I don’t see why poor people in Guatemala should basically be subsidizing relatively rich people here in Minnesota,” she told me. Guis disagreed, telling me, “I take issue with the idea that systematically marginalized communities in the US are less deserving.” She said that in 2022, nearly 80% of the businesses that received US loans were “owned by Black, Indigenous, and people of color.”

Do Black Americans really put themselves on par with Guatemalan subsistence farmers?

Seems like such an egregious thing to say. Not trying to handwave away real issues but these two groups couldn't be further apart.

wwtdtgotiatl··on Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand
Really starting to feel old here because to me that's one the most legitimate and accurate titles in the industry.
wwtdtgotiatl··on Chinese Trust Companies on the Brink
Sounds absolutely great, since when is having a surplus of basic needs a bad thing? if a country produces too much food, water or electrity everyone thinks its great, but somehow housing is different?

What would majority of NYC residents who rent think of that market?

wwtdtgotiatl··on Reflex – Web apps in pure Python
Firefox on android allows you to inspect source.

You need to prefix the url, ie.

    view-source:https://news.ycombinator.com/
wwtdtgotiatl··on Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing
Original creator of freenet has reworked the entire model and has a beta up and running.

It's not focused on censorship resistance but instead decentralisation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36007984

wwtdtgotiatl··on Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of largest Lemmy servers
Smarmy reddit-esque comments like this don't belong on HN. Please read the guidelines.

As for numbers:

> In April 2023, Brave Browser reported 57.27 million monthly active users.

> There are more than 21 million monthly active users of Metamask.

wwtdtgotiatl··on Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad?
Please drink a verification can for 5 more tweets.
wwtdtgotiatl··on MdBook – A command line tool to create books with Markdown
vscode has one built in

  ctrl + shift + v
wwtdtgotiatl··on Crypto Exchange Backed by Citadel Securities, Fidelity, Schwab Starts Operations
> A USD tethered coin offered by a major institution

Do any banks want to hold 100% reserve accounts? What do they get out of it?

Very few narrow banking offerings available worldwide today.

wwtdtgotiatl··on I applied to McDonald's and other fast food jobs but chatbots made it impossible
$15 is under minimum wage in many parts of the US
wwtdtgotiatl··on Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid
> yet the lab itself did nothing to help during the pandemic.

Which people in this thread are somehow believing as truth instead of the bald-faced propaganda it is.

Do you actually think a virus research lab in the epicentre of an outbreak would not be put to use?

From Wikipedia:

> As the virus spread worldwide, the institute continued its investigation. In February 2020, a team led by Shi Zhengli at the institute were the first to identify, analyze and name the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), upload it to public databases for scientists around the world to understand,[28][29][30] and publish papers in Nature.[31] On 19 February 2020, the lab released a letter on its website describing how they successfully obtained the whole virus genome.[32]

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