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maskedinvader··on AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices
This is brilliant workaround, wonder if apple will try taking this down or let this be.
maskedinvader··on What Is Math?
A fascinating topic with profound implications. I have always wondered during day dreaming on the nature of mathematics and what it all means. Highly recommend these 2 videos from this YouTube channel named 'numberphile' discussing this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EGDCh75SpQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA2cdHLKYB8
maskedinvader··on China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs
Absolutely , I cannot agree more about using the little power we have to bring about change. I cannot be in the wrong side of history on this.
maskedinvader··on Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)
This was fantastic. I wish this story is published with full details, I would imagine it would be quite a read. Thanks for sharing.
maskedinvader··on Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?
my friend started this initiative to help give back knowledge to community on specific categories like gardening, hiking etc He brings experts to give hour long interactive webinars, he has slapped together a quick wordpress site https://enlightenedsapiens.com/
maskedinvader··on Hubble Finds Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming Due to Traumatic Outburst
duped here -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24156322#24157449
maskedinvader··on Hubble finds that Betelgeuse's dimming is likely due to ejection of gases
yes, please , pretty please, imagine having something as bright as the full moon visible even during the day, decorating our evening skies for a few weeks. oh please happen in my lifetime, please !
maskedinvader··on Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Tests Positive, Then Negative for Covid-19
Curious why this is interesting and upvoted so much here on HN. False positive tests or false negative tests both could explain what happened.
maskedinvader··on Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
This is awesome , I wish more countries did the same. Also good news for stargazers, you see more stars at night when city lights are dim or use protection to avoid light pollution.
maskedinvader··on Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become the most valuable company
I think a comment above pointed this out too, its a bt misleading to add up expenses with 0 revenue for 6 months, can think of all those subscriptions and services to be bringing in revenue even in times of a pandemic when factories get shut and phones and macs are on sold, its difficult to imagine apple bringing in 0 revenue. so $194 billion cash is just way too much, even for emergencies me thinks
maskedinvader··on Facebook reports second quarter results
I dont think money is the reason to not drop political ads, I suspect its not to antagonize the Trump administration, I see no other reason why they would take the heat for something which reportedly is a very very small portion of revenue. https://www.newsweek.com/mark-zuckerbeg-claims-revenue-faceb...
maskedinvader··on Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
I thought it was super cool. Love the other suggestions on other comments too. We should encourage such posts if not for anything but for allowing a tiny space for such discussions. Really hoping hackernews doesn't change its rules and member enforced etiquettes.
maskedinvader··on CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]
yup I think you are right, Ive always had trouble identifying situational irony.
maskedinvader··on CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]
Isn't this situational irony ? reporters covering the events that were a result of unreasonable police actions themselves were subject to the unreasonable actions of the police.
maskedinvader··on Why are some things darker when wet?
IANAP but from my limited understanding (mostly reading Richard Feynman) light beam = stream of photons, they don't travel through entire body of glass prism without issue, they get absorbed and re emmitted along the way too (Which is what explains the different speed of light in different mediums)
maskedinvader··on No One Is Safe: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear
I suspect its the European Allies that still depend on Saudi Oil that keep the US still supporting the regime.
maskedinvader··on Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’
well if you see the link I posted, there are 11 examples from various points in the past. I was just making the point that their track record with technology predictions isn't stellar.
maskedinvader··on Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’
Id take this article with a large pinch of salt, considering their previous predictions about technology.

case in point below:

"Hence, if it requires, say, a thousand years to fit for easy flight a bird which started with rudimentary wings, or ten thousand for one which started with no wings at all and had to sprout them ab initio, it might be assumed that the flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years--provided, of course, we can meanwhile eliminate such little drawbacks and embarrassments as the existing relation between weight and strength in inorganic materials. "[Emphasis added.] The New York Times, Oct 9, 1903, p. 6.

see -> https://11points.com/11-ridiculously-terrible-predictions-ma...

maskedinvader··on US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Hacked And Stolen
hey at least your insta stories and snapchat stories are safe, hurray to ephemeral messaging ! /sarcasm
maskedinvader··on US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Hacked And Stolen
I am not going to speak for the OP, but the way I would read it is, don't keep centralized pot of gold,aka centralized servers, don't do dumb lazy things aka plain text passwords, etc, don't collect all that extra data, store data with good encryption,don't trade short term convenience for long term harm , FWIW, my personal view is that we should keep pushing for both , less data and more security for the little data we allow our governments or private companies to collect
maskedinvader··on Apple Special Event Livestream [video]
tl;dw; apple news+ (news subscription app for $9.99 / month) apple card (credit card by apple backed by master card/goldman sachs) apple arcade (gaming subscription with 100+ exclusive games, pricing TBD) apple tv channels (all in streaming app having channels like hbo and starz, priced individually per channel) apple tv+ (service that will carry Apple produced content)
maskedinvader··on Why Operators Are Useful
That's what I thought, usually even I am trained to skip those few lines under titles (like opinion articles have a blurb about the author )
maskedinvader··on Why Operators Are Useful
Ramblings through technology, politics, culture and philosophy by the creator of the Python programming language.

This was literally the first thing I read when I hit the link. Don't mean to sound rude but how did you miss that ? Does it render differently on web? I saw this on the mobile version of the site on my Android.

maskedinvader··on What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (2012)
seriously are you okay ?
maskedinvader··on Earth’s Atmosphere Stretches Out to the Moon and Beyond
imagine a gradiant of uv scattering atoms going from a density of 70 atoms to 0.2 attoms ... it should not be quite a interference, for the average astronomer out there, this is not an issue, simply dealing with the lower atmosphere is problematic enough.

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maskedinvader··on Earth’s Atmosphere Stretches Out to the Moon and Beyond
"... The denser dayside region of hydrogen is still rather sparse, with just 70 atoms per cubic centimeter at 60 000 kilometers above Earth’s surface, and about 0.2 atoms at the Moon’s distance..."

tldr: Well that's hardly anything, nothing to see here

maskedinvader··on A Binary Star Is About to Go Supernova and Could Produce a Gamma-Ray Burst
came to the thread to say exactly that and you beat me to it. upvoted :)
maskedinvader··on Is Type 2 Diabetes Reversible at Scale?
correlation doesn't mean causation, although I myself think insulin resistance happens to obese people because they are obese and not some underlying mysterious reason, but insulin resistance is not typically the only source of T2D, if it was, thin people would never get T2D, so I guess we still have ways to go before we solve this one.
maskedinvader··on Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
well summarized, should tag tl,dr
maskedinvader··on Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals
ouch, my wife has the non touch macbook pro 2016, I should warn her

ah well never mind, she doesnt really have any usb c peripherals.

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