sampa | 1 year ago | on: Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition
as if industrial sabotage was invented in Russia
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sampa | 1 year ago | on: Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition
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sampa | 1 year ago | on: Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way)
no, it's not
sampa | 1 year ago | on: Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on farming
europe's being europe
sampa | 1 year ago | on: FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets
would be funny if I didn't need to do that to know that first sanctions came in 2014, or do I?
sampa | 1 year ago | on: Apple WWDC Event Will Show Whether It Can Be a Force in AI Industry
just like it showed with Vision in VR industry?
sampa | 1 year ago | on: EU doubles down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services
you can't do anything.
current governments in big/not-failed countries are way too powerful, so any idea that "people decide" is from an old age.
they just want you to continue to believe this, so they keep the sheep and you think you live in a good ole western democracy, while you're not
sampa | 1 year ago | on: Inventing Cyrillic
but they have a Turkic family language there, not a Slavic one
sampa | 1 year ago | on: BenQ RD280UA: a 3:2 aspect ratio "programming monitor"
maybe because 60 Hz on LCD doesn't make your eyes bleed like anything less than 85Hz on CRT does?
sampa | 1 year ago | on: Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD
it's a well-known site and you could check that with web.archive.org dating it back to at least 2013.
sampa | 1 year ago | on: Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD
oh that western superiority complex... hits once again... beside the mark
sampa | 1 year ago | on: US revokes Intel, Qualcomm licenses to sell chips to Huawei
and don't forget Nokia, that MS bought and killed
sampa | 1 year ago | on: Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
remember, when a hostile state does it - it is because they're dictatorial.
when a friendly state does it - it is because it was a threat to democracy.
don't confuse 'em
sampa | 1 year ago | on: A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World
Trees don't grow to the sky
and there's no perpetuum mobile either
sampa | 1 year ago | on: Fed Says Inflation Progress Has Stalled, Extends Wait-and-See Stance
bbbut, remember that inflation is transitory
PS just like they missed the window for hikes, now they miss the window for cuts, again
sampa | 1 year ago | on: A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World
if only printing money could solve all problems
alas, but people don't like inflation
sampa | 1 year ago | on: A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World
their debt is 230% of GDP
when global crisis hits again (pretty soon, I'd say), they will have major problems
for now people (carry traders) are happy to borrow yen for 0% and convert and earn 5% in USD, hence the falling yen
sampa | 1 year ago | on: A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World
Japan monetary policy is a ponzi scheme waiting to crash
been that way for decades
sampa | 1 year ago | on: Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor [video]
no, it's not "established". it's just another suspicion
sampa | 2 years ago | on: Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]
tear-squeezing teen novel
PS When I read it was so fake when the then-genius protagonist (that is on above-human level) finds it oh-so interesting to talk to that woman-professor.
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