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Of course NSA prioritises offense when it provides a vastly greater RoI.

It seems to be that $100B spent by NSA on offensive operations will reap far greater security benefits than spending $100B “to make American companies more (cyber)secure”.

Knowing what your adversaries are up to is invaluable.

And they’re often the same. Take cyber “offensive” capabilities for example. Why do those exist? To provide intelligence for defense.

> maybe spend less time fleshing out offensive capabilities and more time on defense of your citizens?

What do you mean? The US should invest in cyber defenses instead of fighter jets?

That article does not say what you claim it does. It’s about feds accessing imessage data via icloud backups, not by injecting keys to tap into conversations.

> It's been proven to have happened in multiple court cases

I’d be very glad if you could mention just one court case proving this.

Sure, but people generally agree that some flavor profiles are better than others.

> They're good wines, but you can get a bottle that is just as good for a fraction of the price.

I hear these things, but nobody will tell me what I should drink if I want a cheaper 2010 Mouton Rothschild.

Or a cheaper Krug, people will recommend $50 Champagnes but generally not ones that actually pursue a similar style.

> the so-called US Justice system assassinated Aaron Swartz

Swartz had a history of suicidal ideation and eventually killed himself.

We can’t know why. While the trial must have been stressful, by the time of his death he would’ve known that he’s facing a couple of months at most.

One thing we can be sure of though, only a severely ill person would kill themselves over the possibility of spending a few months in jail.

No it doesn’t.

The hackers aren’t the ones running the receiving accounts, those are offered by finance professionals taking 20-60% and paying out in cryptocurrency.

Making money “disappear” after a couple of international transfers isn’t particularly difficult.

> what's stopping hackers from […]

Why would they want to?

Bread freezes just fine, I could name you a bunch of 3 star Michelin places serving frozen bread every day.

You still want a humidity controlled oven for reheating, so not necessarily super convenient at home.

A high-end baker I work with (https://triticum.net/) only sells frozen bread, everything comes with extensive instructions for reheating.

> There are no white and black winter truffles out of season. They cannot be frozen, cooked, sterilized, packaged, or stored

Is that really true? I’m not a truffle expert, but I’ve seen several suppliers offering flash frozen winter truffles.

> The people remote controlling drones into civilians in Ukraine should be held accountable, just like the people that killed civilians with hellfire missiles in Afghanistan should be held accountable

Typical civilian deaths in Afghanistan would be e.g. families living with high ranking enemy combatants, totally incomparable with Russian forces bombing shopping malls in Ukraine.

At least the US cares enough to have a man in the loop when killing with their drones. Chair force killers actually have to watch and pull the trigger, not like the Russian missile programmers remotely destroying city block sized targets.

How does it not?

What drones developed by googlers are being used for terror campaigns against civilian infrastructure?

Boring. They already knew the geolocation, so they were merely confirming the geolocation rather than geolocating a photo taken in an unknown location.

Are you sure? For each “real” website there were probably 100 throwaway phishing sites.

With FTX collapsing, many are eager to get entirely out of cryptocurrencies.

Yeah there is an arbitrage opportunity, it’s not going to last very long though.

Bitfinex is maintaining the peg, nothing exciting is happening here https://trading.bitfinex.com/t/UST:USD?type=exchange

These headlines come out every couple of months, nothing ever happens. In fact, odds are that Tether makes a bunch of money every time this happens.

Why do Americans need amber alerts? How come the rest of the world apparently doesn’t?

Yeah, a lot of people stay at hotels like this to have sex with prostitutes and whatnot.

People also book hotels for their family members coming from elsewhere.

I did really look. Those articles don’t really discuss their numbers.

Except this bit, which has been totally debunked on HN in the past:

>The debate about the actual numbers of diseased has raged since the British newspaper, The Guardian, published its investigative piece: “Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded”.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30930117

That Guardian article claims an absurdly low death rate among migrant workers in Qatar.

> Since Qatar was awarded the 2022 FIFA World Cup, thousands of migrant workers have died

Uh, yeah? That seems perfectly reasonable given how many millions of immigrant workers live in Qatar.

Browsing through the site, I can’t seem to find any attempt to further explain this statement.

This seems to be a government tax, not a fee made up by the hotel.

Of course, but this is not a reasonable take. The foreign money isn’t to blame for gentrification, local policymakers are.

> And I'm pretty sure most UK citizens, to use a different example, aren't that happy about the London city center being divided between Arabic and Russian oil oligarchs.

I don’t know how anyone could reasonably see that as a negative, this is foreign investment bringing in vast amounts of wealth to the country.

> Super safe too

Yeah, except for the occasional car bomb…

Unfortunately, due to government policy during the Franco years, the south of Spain continues to consistently attract the worst kinds of people.

Even if most days are peaceful, you can never know if today is the day some shit kicks off between the drug cartels and the restaurant you’re eating at gets shot up.

And in the areas that don’t entirely depend on the drug trade? There’s nothing at all.