anonleb4's comments

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is HN becoming more of an “echo chamber”?

HN is in love with anything Apple-related.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: Old photos of Bedouin nomads, 1898

The term wasn't really used before the mid 1900s. It's a relatively recent term.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: Lebanon’s underground cryptocurrency market

Today's currency is all digital and is just a number, yet we say "we're sending it". You're taking the metaphor too literally.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: Lebanon’s underground cryptocurrency market

It is though. I think you missed the part where it says you can't buy cryptocurrency from within Lebanon except with hard cash and from one of the exchangers. These exchangers have to get the cryptocurrency from somewhere to begin with. They mention that they wire the money to Nigeria and let someone there buy it for them.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship

Not really, it's a piece for US readers about the US current views of who's "bad", they're not going to criticize their political and economic partners. There's nothing about Saudis either, see.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: Afghans are racing to erase their online lives

If there's one thing China got right it's the non-interference policy in internal affairs of other countries. Others should learn by example.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: The American diversity meat grinder

Sweden includes all people from the Asian continent as Asians in their stats.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: The American diversity meat grinder

Americans have this weird definition where Asian only equates with East Asia... don't ask why, it makes no sense to even have to fill this on paper.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: The American diversity meat grinder

I never understood the logic of American companies asking to fill up your "race". Isn't it a tool of racism itself to do such things.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: Life Improvements Since the 1990s

For me it's the fact they don't work everywhere. Electricity is not a given in all places, be it outdoor or in a country where the current isn't stable.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda

"Yellow Peril" is trendy.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: My small revenge on Apple

If you were that big of a company you'd do the same to protect your turf.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: The fig is an ecological marvel

That question doesn't mean anything. It depends on where you live. The most common types of figs in France are not the same as the most common figs available in Turkey for example.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal collapse”

There are countless examples all around the world as we speak, but some people, mostly "occidentals", are stuck in bubbles full of assumptions and theories. Maybe it's denial, as mentioned.

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

This list is pretty good: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/list-of-blogs

anonleb4 | 4 years ago | on: How Intuitive Are Macs Really?

They have a tiny market share worldwide. Apart from the USA not many people in the world own them.

anonleb4 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?

For me, HN gives a sort of window into the American SF techno views and mindset about the world. It's quite interesting to read their ideas and opinions. It's a bubble like other places but it doesn't mean you won't learn something.

anonleb4 | 5 years ago | on: The Beirut Bank Job (2017)

https://kryptonsecurity.com/meet-the-team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoun_Sehnaoui

The Sehnaoui family is very powerful and well known in Lebanon. The guy works for the cousin of the owner of the bank. People aren't as gullible as we imagine them to be, but it's a good story for PR, resold over and over.

anonleb4 | 5 years ago | on: The Beirut Bank Job (2017)

Much less impressive when you know the guy works for the cousin of the bank owner, which is part of a mafioso family. This was staged as a PR move for the security firm of the cousin of the bankowner.