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Pegasus is what the Saudis used to capture Khashoggi. While it’s very impressive software, it’s incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands.

It’s a fairly common thing in archaeology sadly. Sometimes when it’s unclear what something is, it’s chucked down as “for ritual purposes”.

Maybe modern web is the real problem here?

The fact you need a large team of paid engineers just to keep up with whatever features big-tech is adding to their spyware browsers is probably not a great situation to be in.

Some tube lines in London have been closed lately due to unavailability of staff. Not sure if it’s drivers specifically but could be a reason to consider this.

The CCP didn't do it right from the beginning. It took them almost two months to even acknowledge the virus was spreading between humans and was dangerous.

All they did was try to downplay it and cover it up, until it had spread not only throughout China, but the rest of the world. That's despite having systems in place for exactly the purpose of catching viruses like covid-19 early and quickly.

It's a great example of why ineffective bureaucracy, combined with a bad system of governance and a culture where saving face is hugely important, is harmful to humanity.

The wumao and supporters of the CCP have been pushing this racism nonsense for a while now to try to divert criticism against the CCP. It’s unfortunately very common.

I’m not sure I follow. People/governments can use crypto and continue paying taxes, I don’t see the connection here.

This is a HN post where people are sharing their (mostly negative) opinions on cryptocurrencies, not the comment section on a YouTube video about knitting.

Also, I have nothing to do with these awesome cool things, but thanks for giving me credit for them.

Sorry for not mentioning your favourite coin, please don't be offended. The Ethereum roadmap is exciting, so is the BCH one, I just wanted to list some examples to make it clear that Bitcoin itself does not have much interesting going on.

Given what you're commenting all over this post, it's pretty clear you don't follow developments in the cryptocurrency space much.

Bitcoin is stale, there's no development or innovation happening. It has become a store of value only. The only possible solution that could change that is the Lightning network or other Layer 2 protocols.

There are plenty of other coins however that are doing super exciting innovation. Bitcoin Cash and Nano are some examples. They're actually solving problems and moving the technology forward. And they're being adopted as payment methods as a result.

It makes me incredibly sad to see how many people (especially on HN) have no idea about that, and have adopted an anti-crypto stance like it's some ideological war, constantly citing the same old tired arguments.

Iceland definitely has surplus energy. There's been ideas to lay a cables to mainland Europe to export it since it's going to waste at the moment.

I never understood the whole vest craze. I put it down as a California thing, something about the weather.

I've been thinking about signalling a lot lately as well. I guess we're hard wired to some degree to do this sort of stuff? It's a way to express yourself and who you are in many ways, but doing it excessively is narcissistic?

100%. I find this incredibly interesting and I'd love to understand more about what topics they post about. I bet many hot topics, especially ones about politics, have a fair share of bots commenting.

I think their purpose is equally interesting. I'd guess a lot of them are there to polarise discussions and drive people apart, but there are probably ones that have an agenda to drive a specific opinion as well.

I think this isn't just on Twitter, but other platforms as well.

Not a podcast or a book but the Cryptopia documentary gives a pretty good overview of what has been happening in the cryptocurrency space in the past few years.

They've been incredibly successful at soft propaganda in the West to craft an image of China that makes it look better than it is, while also being successful at hiding the things they don't want us to see.

Also not mentioned in the article but bats are in hibernation at the time of year when the spread started, making it even less likely.

The first sentence in the BBC article.

> Chinese authorities and experts are at odds about the origin of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

I'm not saying this argument is invalid in general but it's important to assume that we know next to nothing about this whole situation and that the things that we know are potentially false pieces of information pushed by the CCP.

They've tried to sweep this under the rug and control the discussion from day one and this happens to be something they're incredibly good at.

Seems like adoption as a payment method halted when Bitcoin had scaling issues.

Now the community seems pretty split in two. There's people who are for Bitcoin and see it as a store of value and people who are for Bitcoin Cash who see it as a store of value and a method of payment.

The main contention seems to be around block sizes and wether to increase the block size to make it more scalable, hence the BCH fork.

For those unaware, this is the "new magic" that dhh has been on about since HEY was in beta.

I was gluten free for a few years due to intestinal problems until I got tested (was negative) and I found that the restrictions made me more creative and resourceful when it comes to cooking.

At this point I'm becoming more worried about distribution rather than finding a working vaccine.

One in six people (in the UK) said they'd refuse a vaccine if it became available, and another one in six weren't sure. (YouGov poll)

It might make distribution to reach herd immunity difficult.

With even DNS using TLS on some newer browsers nowadays, the risks of using a public wifi are disappearing.

The good thing about industry standard terms is that it makes it easier for people to work together. As opposed to everyone coming up with their own terms for things. To me that’s one of the big pros about agile.

Whatever you do, have fun, joke around.

I thought it was a vague zoolander reference.

The gap is getting smaller for certain contracts, but it's still huge.