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swebson Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

Yes, that's my point. Read the parent comment again.

swebson Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

>nobody care about solving problems

It solves the problem of corporate censorship. Visa for example is notorious for refusing to do business with people they don't like (porn companies, 4chan, etc). If the US government wants more people to use the dollar and less to use Bitcoin, they can come out with a public, first-amendment-protected payment system.

swebson David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98

What part are you saying is a lie?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...

swebson Bonzi Buddy

>In 2002, an article in Consumer Reports Web Watch labelled BonziBuddy as spyware, stating that it contains a backdoor trojan that collects information from users. The activities the program is said to engage in include constantly resetting the user's web browser homepage to bonzi.com without the user's permission, prompting and tracking various information about the user, installing a toolbar, and serving advertisements.[11]

Of course, back then we called software that behaved that way malware. Today we'd call it Windows 10.

swebson Researchers: Culture drives human evolution more than genetics

Are you referring to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherian_runaway

swebson No evidence UFOs are alien craft, unclassified US intelligence report to reveal

Every outlet was reporting on this, at least when it was big news a year ago.

swebson No evidence UFOs are alien craft, unclassified US intelligence report to reveal

>Aliens being non-peaceful fails so many logic tests though

How so? Humans are capable of basic space travel already.

swebson No evidence UFOs are alien craft, unclassified US intelligence report to reveal

>Senior US administration officials briefed on the findings of the report said that the majority of more than 120 incidents over the past 20 years did not derive from any US military or other advanced US government technology, according to The New York Times.

So they have no evidence that it's aliens, no evidence that it's US military technology, and no evidence that it's foreign technology. In other words nothing new has been discovered and we're still at square 1. Not really news, but I guess it's good to keep us updated.

swebson America has a drinking problem

Doctors? Research studies? Not from some 16th century English religious movement. I don't know why so many people on this site try to harp on this.

swebson Jq is rounding 64-bit unsigned integers (2017)

The comment states that they're IDs.

swebson “Computer science is not about computers”

You could find a MOOC (Massive open online course) for pretty much any programming language you want. Here's a pretty good one for Haskell.

https://haskell.mooc.fi

swebson Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this

That sounds like the tripcode system you see on imageboards like 4chan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageboard#Tripcodes

swebson Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing

Read the parent comment again, but more slowly this time. Particularly the last paragraph.

swebson GitHub Actions Down

Nope, this isn't normal at all for products on AWS, GCP, or pretty much any other cloud provider. Azure is simply a subpar product and its time to stop attempting to sweep its awful downtime under the rug.

swebson “Bush Hid the Facts”

There's analysis of each character linked from the talk page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archi...

swebson Anal oxygen administration may save lives

Why do people in this thread keep saying this?

swebson Advanced Situational Awareness [pdf]

I'm sure you've experienced 300+ page textbooks in high school.

swebson Unsolved mysteries of the Warhammer 40k universe with loremaster Dan Abnett

In WH40k, it was prehistoric shamans from all over the world noticing their souls were being eaten by demons and preventing reincarnation, so they all kill themselves at the same time, merge their souls in the warp, and reincarnate as a single super human.

swebson The health benefits of better air

The recommended humidity level is 40-60%.

swebson The Botanist Who Defied Stalin

This is how we got the term Lysenkoism, which is

>any deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically, religiously or socially desirable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

swebson Google have declared Droidscript is malware

>How good are Pinephones[1]? Are there better alternatives?

I like mine, but the ancient CPU needs a serious upgrade. There's also the Librem 5, but it looks like they're heavily back ordered.

swebson Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme Court case on speech

Thanks for the links. They're really eye-opening.

swebson Study finds ride-sharing intensifies urban road congestion

No, it doesn't compare at all. There is no bus line that goes straight from the bar to my apartment. Hell, after 11:00PM, there are barely any bus lines running at all due to low ridership at that hour. And this is in a major European city. It just doesn't make sense to run a bus when it will only have 1 or 2 riders throughout its route. That's why it makes sense to have an individual car service. That's why taxis/Uber are doing so well.

swebson Paid in Full: an internet where every interaction is a financial transaction

>There is no inlet on my end for this BAT without the cruft of me setting up whatever is required

>I can send you a file with scp trivially right now.

You'd still have to set up "cruft" for that as well. Generating private keys, enabling port forwarding, configuring sshd, configuring firewall rules. I don't see how setting up some crypto wallet is unreasonable in comparison.

swebson Study finds ride-sharing intensifies urban road congestion

People just want to get from A to B as quickly and painlessly as possible. Maybe the public sector should take the hint and come out with their own ridesharing services.

swebson Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies

>Please drink verification can to continue

https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png

swebson Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmission to the FSF board

>our comparison of survey results with official election truth indicates that the use of a so-called secret ballot yields more accurate, valid self-reports of voting on socially sensitive ballot issues, such as supporting taxes for elderly services.

https://academic.oup.com/poq/article-abstract/59/4/568/19401...

>regression analysis shows that social forces appear to have a greater effect on vote choices among people who doubt the formal secrecy of the ballot.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23526132

swebson Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmission to the FSF board

Are you asking for evidence that secret ballots prevent voter intimidation? Or evidence that people are harassed online for their stance on this specific issue?