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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 p…

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 …

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 …

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 th…

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 innov…

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.

China does not have a stable society. You never hear about most of the social issues that happen inside China. A country committing genocide against its own citizens is not a stabl…

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 w…

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…

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 …

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 i…

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 stor…

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…

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,…