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pseudo0

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About pseudo0

Infosec, cryptography, dabbles in machine learning.

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    Comment #49146966

    Low-quality post that reads like AI slop. Someone likely put three sentences into a prompt and told it to expand it into a full-length piece.

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    Comment #49138376

    Wait until you find out who helped write the guidelines for those "dysphoria-treating surgeries"... https://reduxx.info/top-trans-medical-association-collaborat...

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    Comment #49125055

    Missing (2019) - this story is seven years old.

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    Comment #49077157

    They had the victim's device and logs from the messaging service. The issue was that the logs were attributed to the wrong user.

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    Comment #49050387

    It's just currying favor with Carney's voter base, senior citizens who are middle class and up. They uncritically read the headlines from the Globe and Mail or CBC that claim Canad…

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    Comment #48788339

    Funny that you mention Granta, given their recent issue with allegedly AI generated work: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/20/granta-magazin... One thing to note here is …

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    Comment #48736682

    The WHO claims it's over 170k heat-related deaths per year, not 70k. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152766

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    Comment #48723958

    They are trying to avoid a situation where you end up with one juror who watches a lot of CSI and insists that they need forensic evidence to convict, despite having a dozen eye-wi…

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    Comment #48654089

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    Comment #48522654

    That stat is off by a couple orders of magnitude. The total number of death penalty convictions overturned by DNA evidence is 29 (as of 2025). There are a couple thousand death row…

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    Comment #48455003

    Rural Alaska... Just about the most inhospitable climate in the US, remote, and with a very high cost of living. Teachers can find work just about anywhere, they have little incent…

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    Comment #48408440

    That's the whole point of price signals though: luxury foods like strawberries will get more expensive if young, physically fit workers are in higher demand. People will shift thei…

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    Comment #48408278

    That's an opinion piece from a NGO... > Foreigners are overrepresented in the crime statistics compared to their share of the population. This is due to factors independent of orig…

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    Comment #48408220

    What percentage of the Japanese workforce is working in the fields? Most industrial economies are in the 1-2% range for agriculture. And someone in their 50s can easily ride a trac…

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    Comment #48408182

    The last migration of equivalent magnitude was the Anglo-Saxons 1500 years ago... Most people did not move around much at all. An average person would be born and die in the same v…

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    Comment #48333037

    Wow, if only there were a way for a sovereign nation to control the composition of its immigrants... Crazy how this is framed as a factor completely out of their control, rather th…

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    Comment #48291210

    You presumably have their shipping address, so you can look up their local police department and report it as general fraud. Eg. The Toronto police have an online reporting tool fo…

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    Comment #48081473

    That's not how it works. Especially for foreigners, where it's often easier to just make them someone else's problem, assuming the charges are relatively minor.

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    Comment #47827554

    League's Wikipedia page describes it as "inspired by Defense of the Ancients, a custom map for Warcraft III." I believe they also hired some of the core Dota devs to work on League…

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    Comment #46510679

    The issue there is time. The Nobel prizes will be announced in around 9 months. Buying a share of "No" would currently cost 98.2 cents, working out to a (basically) risk-free retur…

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    Comment #46510643

    There are also issues with the time value of money for long-shot events. Someone has to be willing to buy a share of "No", and if that works out to a return lower than the risk-fre…

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    Comment #46363127

    What exactly is novel about this case of copyright infringement if you put aside the political angle? Thousands of new torrents get uploaded every day, this is established technolo…

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    Comment #46362841

    This is a petty political slapfight, basically the definition of an off-topic submission. If you want to hear about it, turn on CNN. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or cr…

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    Comment #46029016

    The stats don't bear that out. Bluesky has been losing momentum since the election, with its DAU dropping from around 3.5 million to under 1.5 million today. For comparison Twitter…

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    Comment #45891119

    Canada had eliminated measles, it was reintroduced by travel from a country where measles was endemic. This is not rocket science. High-volume international travel from countries w…