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Re:Mosh in a Lift (2012) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @09:28AM (#49168698)
Sending an email for an emergency! I thought it would only happen on IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ
>>Messi should've gotten red in the Algeria match (same ref who didn't have the balls to give star player a card, was doing the finals).

There is a big difference between an intentional and not intentional foul. There was a touch but Messi did try to stop and is clear from the video. Stop the racist campaign.

>>Against England, Argentina were playing rugby again, and the ref just let it pass.

Against England they received more yellows even considering the amount of fouls. Go have a look a Harry Kane foul against Messi. No punishment.

>>Against Egypt, Egypt got a goal disqualified which.. was a goal.

It was a foul. Clearly shown on the video. Nobody is discussing that

>>Against Switzerland, a rule of identity mismatch was used wrongly (it can only be applied on same team).

That was a clear and blatantly obvious simulation. Embolo fauls magically without a touch. That destroys the game integrity. Stop the racist campaign. That was the referee understanding at that moment. It was re-clarified few days ago.

>>Argentina was lucky to end the final with 10 players and only 1 goal against. It should've been 9 players, with a 3-0 score, but the corrupt FIFA couldn't match-fix that part. It'd have been too obvious.

Argentina had an older squad, with a great keeper. Cucurella should have been sent off, same as the player from Paraguay from provoking and covering his mouth. You just spread hateful, racist messages. Good on you.

>>* We want to see fair-play, with a meaningful VAR which can be called by the captain or coach of each team twice (getting back their call if agreed on).

I am not sure what your problem with Argentina is, but with a meaningful VAR, Cucurella would have been sent off and Enzo Fernandez would have stayed on the pitch. I am sick of the anti-Argentina racist campaign. Just follow the amount of yellow and red cards they were given in their last three games in the WC.

If you look at the points per game, Conmebol was the top achiever with 1.77 points per match. Then UEFA (1.76) then Concacaf (1.21), CAF (1.07), AFC (0.66) and OFC (0.33) Please note that penalty shoots are considered a draw. If we are considering performance alone, Conmebol and UEFA should get more spots.
Argentina received more yellow cards on its last three games. How is that a "free pass"? Cucurella should have been sent off, same as the Paraguay player for covering his mouth. Fernandez did get a yellow card for a very light challenge that he tried to avoid.. All the Argentina haters need to look at the facts. I expected more from HN.
Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:02PM (#46850289)
Iremember doing exactly this kind of hack for a small telco in Bueno Aires. Extel. Around the year 2000.

In most cases it was not much more difficult than what OP described.

Re:Yerba Mate – A Long but Current History (2021) on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:59PM (#33978113)
70C / 158F would be enough. According to the paper, it is not different than coffee or tea when it comes to the risk effects drinking it hot
if you read the article, it talks about the sea level rising and having to relocate a lot of people that live around the coast.
isn't AMD Raizen the fastest nowadays?
Re:Open Source Farming Robot on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:18PM (#27637420)
If that's the case then plastics from your irrigation system would also ruin your environment.

Metals (although in tiny portions) are part of ourselves but plastics are not.

Take a look at this great story from Richard Stallman:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

Transaction fees keep mining running. Exchanges or other actors might add hashing power as well. There are so many incentives to keep transactions going..
"I cried into my keyboard forking out yet more money for a llama emoji that I probably didn't need."

Kudos to the author for such a fun project

You know what else consumes heaps of electricty? Your computer, your data centre, your AWS account the bank services you consume, your appliances and a large etcetera.

Bitcoin is the first financial break-through in a long, long time. Is designed to move control away from the few back into the hands of the people. In Argentina people love investing in Bitcoin because their currency is awful. It loses value because the government can print more. Just like in the US. No government can print more Bitcoin so the value keeps growing.

Bitcoin alternatives like Bitcoin cash (or regular Bitcoin but with a bigger block size) can be used across the border without censorship. Remember MasterCard banning donations to Wikileaks? Bitcoin cannot be banned.

Back to your comment. Now we have solar, we have wind power. All clean sources of energy. They are cheaper than coal and can power everything. Including Bitcoin.

Ask HN: Is this upcoming course worth it?

Hi HN, I'm considering learning AI/ML for fun and maybe for career progress. In the past I did the Andrew Ng Machine Learning course in coursera but haven't really apply it. I'm considering refreshing my knowledge and doing some practical work in the near future. This course uses Python rather than Octave and seems modern. Reviews in class central are mixed though. Any...

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Re:The Environmental Cost of Bitcoin on Sunday January 17, 2021 @04:39PM (#25815239)
that's ridiculous.

You are forgetting (among many) about the impacts of a decentralised currency for the billions of people without access to bank accounts or a stable currency.

I'm curious about this.

I used Nextcloud for a few years already and never, ever I had a corrupted DB in any of the upgrades.

Interview request with founders and conference speakers

Hi HN!Long shot here but I'll try anyways.. I'm a DevOps Engineer who founded a consulting company a few years ago. We are doing good so far but I would like to keep developing my career.For that reason I enrolled to the Top Performer Course (1) from Cal Newport and Scott Young. One of the first assignments is to find a career role model and have a short interview. In my case that would be a...

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Re:A new skimmer uses WebSockets and a fake credit card form on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:46PM (#25062770)
Any idea how the attacker manages to inject their JavaScript code?
Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:40AM (#24197901)
sure, we also have a couple of atomic bombs only. Not much difference there either.
Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:55AM (#24186343)
Indeed she did make a difference in 1975 when her representative fired no other than the Prime Minister.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitution...

There are also many reports about Google or Facebook employees abusing private data. In Permanent Record, Snowden explains how the NSA employees watch nudes stolen from regular citizens on a regular basis.
in a broad sense internet is for sharing information. Hence facilitating copyright abuse..
Using the same argument you could forbid internet or computers (or even both) because they facilitate copyright abuse.
Re:Toxic sofas are a secret scandal on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:58PM (#22428383)
Any information about the usage of these chemicals in Australia?

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