PlasticTank

Let's say you're only allowed to write one more book for the rest of your life, what topic would you write about?

when the seconds count the police are only minutes away

My heart really goes out to those of you who went through long battles. Today would have been father’s birthday, sadly he passed away last year aged 61. I often anguished over how quickly he left us, two weeks from the day I found out he was sick to the day he died, I now realise that although I was robbed of time, he and I were both saved a lot of pain.

That seems like a strange line to draw, surely plenty of disabilities are genetic, implying bad genetics no?

I would like to see it your way but all of this so-called decoupling from China seems very half-arsed and appears to me to be nothing more than a show for the electorate. None of it seems very concrete, for years we’ve read that country X is going to hold China accountable for Y but China just keeps on steamrolling forwards without much consequence.

Another +1 for AMD from me, only reason I haven't bought one yet was I was hoping to get an AMD chip for my next laptop.

Because Asian countries were basing their advice on science

Actually for the most part this isn't true, our government was also telling us to wear masks but because of our previous experience with SARS everyone wore them anyway. Now of course it is illegal not to wear one.

Maybe, just maybe you're the one of the opposite cliffs edge. But no, you'd never consider that.

Very true, it goes a long way to explaining the current state of news and politics.

Sure, it's not like the current lines of conflict haven't existed for hundreds of years or anything. This reductionist mentality is really starting wear thin.

Love this story, funnily enough it was the first story I ever read on HN on my first day of work as a junior developer.

Judging by some of the posts on HN in recent China related threads it seems we may have the attention of the infamous 50 cent armies.

Let's just ban people who think differently from education, that will surely be a great boon to the country... It doesn't matter if they grow out of it or not, who are you to decide who gets education and who doesn't, I thought education was believed to a be universal right.

A similar vein of thought but much much broader. It Allows for the collection of content data by local law enforcement as opposed to the NSL "By law, NSLs can request only non-content information, for example, transactional records and phone numbers dialed, but never the content of telephone calls or e-mails."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

For anyone not sure of the difference between this and most countries where companies have to comply with police requests, the big difference is that HK police no longer requires a warrant. HK Police may now demand data from companies such as Facebook without a warrant, it should be interesting to see how these companies handle it.

You don't need to compromise a site they visit regularly, there are plenty of other ways to get someone to visit a malicious page, phishing email or even a link on HackerNews for example. People will visit new sites for all kinds of reasons, you'd just need to understand your target.

They are hardly related. Will you be removing my master's degree next?

I believe sleep to be one of the most underrated and underutilized health strategies, I know so many who diet and do all sorts but then are proud of the fact they only sleep 6 hours a night. Study after study shows how incredibly deterementail even a slight lack of sleep can be, so much so that I usually don't believe I've read them correctly to begin with.

I would suggest this book to anyone interested in the topic: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker The author was on Joe Rogan at some point too but I haven't listened to it.

For two things to be equal is surely an impossibility, they would be one.

How long until you have to shutdown because it starts getting offensive like Tay?

It surprises me that they don't require both of you to have each others phone numbers in your contacts lists before giving away identifiable information.

I don't know of any directly related to it's encryption but multiple protest organizers were identified and arrested by the Hong Kong Police Force through Telegram, I'm not 100% sure but I believe they just added lists of suspected phone numbers onto their phones and looked in Telegram see which one's matched to Group admins.

Another fascinating social bird although not a parrot and one of only a few social birds of prey is the Harris hawk, my father had one when I was a kid and it was the most intelligent animal outside of humans that I have ever interacted with.

well after today's news I'm going with war

Decreasing the value of nearby homes

People often overlook this point way too quickly, they don't consider people with mortgages, if you saved up for a house and purchased with a mortgage then when the flood gates are opened and your house value drops, you now owe more than your house is worth, not a good position to be in.

Where I live I see police SUVs driving around with these types of devices on their roofs, this is a couple of times per day occurrence. I was wondering strictly for research purposes what kind of attacks are these devices vulnerable to? Could one for example spoof enough phones/connections to cause some DoS like affect.

How do people think nuclear fusion will affect renewable energies when it comes to maturity? Does this technology make solar and wind some what redundant?

I run a small consultancy and Development Friday's are almost mandatory for my developers. Everyone is given Friday afternoon to learn new skills or improve existing ones, I even tell my clients that this happens (we charge by the week) and in the last 4 years I've only had one complaint and we quickly cancelled the contract with them after.

Is it worth it? None of the positives you described are exclusive to a totalitarian government.

They're happy to stand up to the FBI but not the CCP?