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aleister_777··on Giving the finger is a ‘God-given right’, Canadian judge rules
But honking will get your bank accounts seized and have you declared a terrorist.
aleister_777··on Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week
Wow. The delta between the entitlement that you have for your "second full time job" and your expectations vs the reality of the history of people going to work is pretty astounding.
aleister_777··on Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?
> Which is demonstrably false.

If that's the case, be demonstrable then. Given the physical size of the virus vs the size of holes in say, a cotton mask, combined with the infection rates for the strictest masking areas, I would say your statement is demonstrably false.

aleister_777··on Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150
I switched to Dynadot years ago since they hosted wikileaks. If figured if they could handle that domain they could take care of anything of mine. Nice interface, never any issues.
aleister_777··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
I bet there would be a whole lot of people that would join elon-twitter.
aleister_777··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
They certainly had no problem with selling to Saudi Arabia.
aleister_777··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
It closed $.18 above initial offer price in 2013.
aleister_777··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
You're not the richest man in the world. It works different if you happen to be though.
aleister_777··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
However, I think it's a harder case to argue when twitter stock closed at $.18 above the price they went public at in 2013. Sounds like whatever it is they have been doing hasn't been in the interest of the average shareholder either.

The stock is toast regardless after this.

aleister_777··on Google Image Search Tools not staying active with new searches
But it just makes you ask why. Without at least some way to "upgrade" back to the original functionality, what was the point? Were the COGS that bad?
aleister_777··on Ask HN: Is the Tech Bubble Crashing?
This is the natural reaction to the implementation of various fiscal policies by the US. This sort of flat and reduced market is historically consistent.

When the policies swing back, so will the market.

aleister_777··on Johnson and Johnson says its Covid booster shot provides increased protection
I think the bigger issue is finding the places where strict mask use has reduced COVID. You seem to think there is a lesson to be learned however I'm unable to find any data that support that lesson. Yet, you assert it like it's truth, as if you know the truth and can back it up somehow, but you don't.
aleister_777··on A generation of American men give up on college
It's also terrible to consider that "enhanced health services" are only reserved for certain shades on the color wheel.
aleister_777··on YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
There in-lies the problem. "Hate speech" is just speech you don't like or choose to be offended by. You have no problem with "hate speech" that suits you and your political worldview.
aleister_777··on Ask HN: Is access to information a problem in preventing pandemic deaths?
Yes. Life saving information has been restricted and then shown to be true at every milestone of this "pandemic" (you have a better chance of dying due to stairs, or driving btw), and this continues to be the case. Big tech's policies to project "the truth" have killed thousands.
aleister_777··on IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% of the Time”
I believe the use of a contract and signatures in fact does literally make it legal, since that is the point of a contract. Everything depends on what you signed.
aleister_777··on The Story of the SolarWinds Hack
At least 18k+ networks were compromised. I bet average people got caught in that net.
aleister_777··on The Story of the SolarWinds Hack
I worked for Crowdstrike. We did this hack as our primary demo. Dmitri is on the Atlantic Council along with the rest of the Obama team.

There is no more evidence to suggest Russia was involved than there was that Dmitri himself was for political reasons. And Shawn Henry will fire you for saying this out loud.

aleister_777··on The Story of the SolarWinds Hack
I worked for Crowdstrike. We did this hack as our primary demo. Dmitri is on the Atlantic Council along with the rest of the Obama team. There is no more evidence to suggest Russia was involved than there was that Dmitri himself was for political reasons. And Shawn Henry will fire you for saying this out loud.
aleister_777··on The Story of the SolarWinds Hack
I was speaking to some Russians at a party yesterday. They lamented at how Russian and American media were mirrors of each other.

Russia uses America as the core of their propaganda just the same as the DNC has been using Russia as their boogoieman since they needed a narrative to apply to Trump.

As someone who formerly worked for Crowdstrike and has performed the APT-29 demo countless times, I will say attribution is bullshit and people frankly have no real data to point fingers.

aleister_777··on Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?
All is needs to be is a list of keywords associated with your advertising profile.
aleister_777··on Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes
Were you speaking about yourself?
aleister_777··on Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes
> They messed up by betting large on a celebrity and ignoring the fact that Joe Rogan wasn't a cultural fit.

He's a cultural fit for x hundreds of millions. You may not fall into that demographic, but there's no discounting that other cultures exist outside of your own.

aleister_777··on What can I expect to change for LastPass Free on March 16, 2021?
I migrated to Bitwarden due to this silly business and couldn't be happier.

I had given a try last year but it didn't work for me for whatever reason but now I much prefer it over Lastpass, particularly in auto-filling web pages. The mobile app is great too.

aleister_777··on The Dangerous Rise of the Supersized Pickup Truck
tl;dr I'm scare of trucks cause they are:

> "troubling", "angry", "furious", "dangerous", "gleefully violent", "women are dying!", "belligerent", "petrol-mascalinity", "fossil fuels are bad".

aleister_777··on Python 3.10.0a6 is now available for testing
"And now for something completely different

Schwarzschild wormholes, also known as Einstein–Rosen bridges (named after Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen), are connections between areas of space that can be modelled as vacuum solutions to the Einstein field equations, and that are now understood to be intrinsic parts of the maximally extended version of the Schwarzschild metric describing an eternal black hole with no charge and no rotation. Here, “maximally extended” refers to the idea that the spacetime should not have any “edges”: it should be possible to continue this path arbitrarily far into the particle’s future or past for any possible trajectory of a free-falling particle (following a geodesic in the spacetime).

Although Schwarzschild wormholes are not traversable in both directions, their existence inspired Kip Thorne to imagine traversable wormholes created by holding the “throat” of a Schwarzschild wormhole open with exotic matter (material that has negative mass/energy)."

Not really sure what to do with that.

aleister_777··on It Is Costing San Francisco $5k/Month for Each Homeless Tent
They don't actually cost that much. The corruption and grift costs that much, but the tents are much less expensive.
aleister_777··on Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
They are all drinking from the same self-righteous well of "morality". The fact that they consider themselves "advanced" also seems to translate that they are also "correct" in all matters, regardless of their expertise.
aleister_777··on Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
Portland.
aleister_777··on Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps
Trump can do all he wants, but empirical data shows that folks just ignore him without consequences so these apps won't be banned any longer than Tiktok was shut down or Chinese companies were delisted from the NYSE.

That doesn't mean he is wrong and China hasn't infiltrated America at every level, but it's a lost battle now that America will be rolling out the red carpet for the CCP.

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