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Re:Proton releases end-to-end encrypted password manager on Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:08PM (#35648228)
Looks like Bitwarden rebranded.
Ken Griffin belongs in jail, not on Harvard's list of biggest (and most corrupt) donors:

https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-08-22/s70822-20127538-288680...

https://www.thestreet.com/memestocks/reddit-trends/citadel-s...

https://www.cryptotimes.io/sec-chair-gary-gensler-accused-in...

https://newrepublic.com/article/162053/bernie-madoff-dead-he...

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/skorea-fines-citade...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-citadel-settlement-routin...

https://franknez.com/robinhood-and-citadel-colluded-night-be...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-07/ex-citade...

https://www.reuters.com/article/sac-fund-citadel/update-3-sa...

More on Harvard's new president here:

https://karlstack.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-claudin...

Given the mere 'slap on the wrist' that she gave Prof. Martin Nowak for helping Jeffrey Epstein evade prosecution on the brewing child sex-trafficking charges for more than two decades, I'm not surprised that she sees nothing wrong with facilitating a little "reputation laundering" for Ken Griffin as he seeks to avoid being held accountable for his own misdeeds.

It's the same reason why this old geezer

https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-simons-renaissance-mit-s...

was buying "good will" from universities like MIT while the IRS was deciding whether or not to prosecute his firm for tax evasion:

https://nypost.com/2019/04/10/hedge-fund-slammed-over-6-8b-i...

BTW, the "student financial aid" that Griffin is providing courtesy of his latest gift to the university should be more accurately translated as financial support to "prop up Harvard's bloated and thoroughly unaccountable bureaucracy."

For a good laugh:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/29/anderson-burea...

Re:SympyGamma: A SymPy Version of Wolfram Alpha on Friday April 14, 2023 @12:32AM (#35565551)
Mathics.org
But what about global warming?

Isn't rising sea levels more important than rising obesity levels?

Re:The end is nigh for gas-powered cars on Thursday April 13, 2023 @01:56PM (#35559406)
... but not before the climate change 'crisis' -- in the integrity of how scientific research is conducted and presented in this field -- mints a few more Elon Musks.
Re:PineTab-V and PineTab2 launch on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:39AM (#35552640)
When will they offer a retina screen resolution?

My Google Nexus 10, still running strong from more than a decade ago, has a 300dpi screen.

Re:Setting Up Git Bash / Mingw / MSYS2 on Windows on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:16PM (#35547788)
Why not just install everything from msys2 to using pacman?
Re:GPT4 gets a 0 on Steven Landsbrug's undergrad econ exam on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:10PM (#35544146)
Because it couldn't explain corporate executive compensation levels?
Wonder if this is a result of all the cows farting.
Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for personal files backup/sync? on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:05AM (#35520692)
Kopia
Why just artists?

There are also too many scientists and engineers out there doing meaningless "bullshit jobs," also known as "bullshit research."

Re:Musk, Wozniak and others want to stop AI development on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:48PM (#35364968)
What a joke. Sounds like some folks just want to pause the race to give themselves some time to catch up after being caught off-guard by OpenAI.
This is why I enjoy using emacs so much.
In sports, transitioning that late in life (i.e. after going through male puberty) would not allow her to compete as a so-called female.

Why should math be any different?

Much simpler formula:

1. Brainwash

2. Rinse

3. Repeat

In certain cities, this is probably a good way to get some people killed.
Open source is always a dangerous thing ... because it can grow "like cancer."

Just ask Bill Gates.

Thanks ... I'll try installing the Google drivers.
Re:The Wage Gap, State by State on Friday March 17, 2023 @06:06AM (#35195117)
Why did Scott Adams compare women asking for equal pay to children demanding candy?
Re:Neovim got a 10BTC ($247k) donation on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:46PM (#35187324)
Too bad it didn't go to emacs.
Haha!
Re:4.5%, and the Demographics of American Murder on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:12PM (#35177707)
You know what's a better idea than removing all the "damn" guns?

Mandatory life sentences for everyone who uses them to murder someone else.

Re:Suburbs Destroyed America on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:03PM (#35177646)
Bicycle lanes destroyed cities.
Re:Free Git GUI for Mac and Windows on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @10:29PM (#35177445)
Is it open source?
Re:Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @10:27PM (#35177427)
Has anyone gotten this mode to work with Windows yet?
Re:Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @10:26PM (#35177422)
Has anyone gotten this mode to work with Windows yet?
Re:The climate cost of the AI revolution on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @05:05PM (#35174706)
Okay, so the Earth is about to get a little hotter now.

Why not just replace your air conditioning unit with a more powerful model?

Re:MIT 24-Hour Challenge on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:28PM (#35174277)
If you believe that the child of this donor

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/07/mit-gets-a-140m-anonymous-...

has the same chances of being accepted to MIT as yours or mine, regardless of test scores, then "I've got some property overlooking South Beach down on Martha's Vineyard that I'd like to sell you," as Alan Dershowitz recently told a news reporter :)

Regarding your degree of faith in the ability of humans to cooperate without ever defecting, let me refer you to this aptly entitled book:

https://www.amazon.com/SuperCooperators-Altruism-Evolution-O...

How do you think Harvard and MIT helped Mr. Jeffrey Epstein evade prosecution on the child sex-trafficking charges for over thirty years?

Type into your favorite search engine: "Martin Nowak Jeffrey Epstein Alan Dershowitz and the legal definition of a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization" if you need a refresher.

And quite frankly, I could care less who MIT or Harvard accepts these days. Admission to these schools has become nothing more than a modern-day equivalent of the 'beauty pageants' of yesteryear ... for all of the nerdy teenagers who don't look good enough in bathing suits for Mr. Epstein apparently:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-want...

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