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07d046 | 3 years ago | on: We’ve only scratched the surface of how bad the crypto crime wave has gotten

This sounds like the same level of understanding about copyright law that led one NFT group to spend $3m on a rare Dune art book thinking it would give them the IP rights to the art.

07d046 | 3 years ago | on: Murder-Suicides by Pilots Are Vexing Airlines as Deaths Mount

The WSJ reported US officials saying it looked intentional based on black box data. The main alternative theory was that someone who wasn't a pilot deliberately did it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-eastern-black-box-points-...

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

Unfortunately not. The majority of countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, but this doesn't include Russia, or Ukraine, or the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munition...

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: Belarus referendum approves proposal to renounce non-nuclear status

True, but that's why I said "stated reason". Here's the full speech: https://theprint.in/world/modern-ukraine-entirely-created-by...

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: Belarus referendum approves proposal to renounce non-nuclear status

Ironically, one of Putin's stated reasons for invading Ukraine was that Ukraine might get nuclear weapons.

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War has begun”

Awful.

A lot of people in threads a few days ago like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30335610 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30405782 were terribly wrong. This wasn't just Russia's annual war games in the region. This wasn't the US and media pushing for a war. If anything, this was the US declassifying things in real time to tell the world what was happening to prevent war.

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: The fastest GIF does not exist

It's in the Windows 2000 leak.

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: Cuffed – A dating app with only one match at a time

Ironically, if I had to guess based on the name of this app, I'd have guessed it was a kink-themed dating app.

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: Off the Grid

In their "basic medicine kit": Oxycodone/acetaminophen (severe, short term pain)

Paracetamol isn't normally an alternative for oxycodone. Also, if travelling internationally, I'm pretty sure there are countries that will consider oxycodone as equivalent to heroin even if you have a prescription.

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: Primel – guess a 5 digit prime number – each guess must be a prime

It seems a lot of us came up with 12347 for the first line.

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: Primel – guess a 5 digit prime number – each guess must be a prime

I thought coming up with primes would be very challenging, but then my first three guesses were all prime (all I did was pick numbers that ended with odd numbers that weren't five). I got it on the fourth after a few attempts at entering the number - the prime constraint here makes it easier.

There are 8,363 five digit primes. If you limit your guesses to numbers ending in 1, 3, 7, and 9, there is a 23% chance of randomly picking a prime.

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: EV startup Rivian announces $2.5B funding round led by Amazon, Ford

> I think the reason you see so many EV announcements from Ford (and GM and Honda and Mercedes and...) in 2021 is because they all suddenly realized they need to press a panic button.

Alternatively, maybe because the traditional manufacturers timed the critical point where it made economic sense to focus on electric cars in the same way?

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community

As far as I know, there is a gradual trend to push Mandarin at the expense of Cantonese, and there is reason for concern, but I doubt there's a connection between this and Apple's decision here. (There's a reason I said "crudely".)

07d046 | 4 years ago | on: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community

I doubt this is the case here. Cantonese is an official language of Hong Kong and Macau and the mother tongue of tens of millions in Guangdong. Language politics is complicated but I don't think the CCP is so crudely trying to eliminate languages. Apple also has keyboards for Uyghur and Tibetan, which are probably more sensitive languages.

07d046 | 5 years ago | on: The Bombard Story

Not just ocean water. From Wikipedia:

> However, it appears that Bombard may have been misunderstood in regard to the possibility of survival without fresh water. Bombard has never argued that human survival is possible only by drinking seawater. On the contrary, he indicates that seawater in small quantities can prolong survival if accompanied, if rainwater is not available, by the absorption of liquids present in the bodies of fish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Bombard

07d046 | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: I Made JavaScript Color Conversion Library for LCH/Lab/XYZ/RGB/Hex/HSL

I don't know why it should be tiny, given what it's trying to do. Multiple kilobytes are dedicated to CSS color names and ColorBrewer scales, which don't compress well.

At the end of the source there's a section where you can comment out lines which should remove sections of the code when compressing it.

07d046 | 6 years ago | on: Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly

Indeed, it is not off topic when the topic is "Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly."

One practical implication of grouping Taiwan with China is that Italy banned travel from Taiwan along with China, even though the situation in Taiwan is basically fine.

It's also not plausible that the author, a professional cartographer, just made a mistake about Taiwan.

07d046 | 6 years ago | on: U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks

The scary thing about this attitude is that if it's widely adopted and results in Huawei being welcomed (or something that facilities spying), it puts the people who do push back against the Chinese government in the crosshairs.

07d046 | 6 years ago | on: Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU

This contains some links: https://twitter.com/royngerng/status/1224934421540663297

07d046 | 6 years ago | on: Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU

Caixin is the best Chinese news source in normal times, and at this time all Chinese news is more free to report on the virus. As someone very critical of the CCP, I'd say Caixin's reporting here is as authoritative as anywhere.