HN user
[Verifying my OpenPGP key: openpgp4fpr:7391BF2DA2C3B2C9BE25ACA9C7A74616F3025DF4]
Lobste.rs is a tech-focused website quite similar to HN, and it's also affected (although they decided that the risks of legal action are low enough to avoid geoblocking UK users entirely).
You can read their community discussion at https://lobste.rs/s/ukosa1/uk_users_lobsters_needs_your_help...
The site is down right now, but there's a nice behind the scenes video hidden in the background: https://katalog-barbaraiweins.com/BEHINDTHESCENES/marbles.mp....
(or archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240624140531/http://katalog-ba...)
Partially. Legally, they use both USD and Bitcoin; but it wasn't really adopted by the population [1] (it doesn't help that they've been using USD since ~2000, which is relatively stable by latam standards). It was also much more a political endeavour by their president to promote neoliberal ideas rather than anything to do with blockchains per se.
[1] https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-09-02/two-year...
Even though social isolation may make someone more resilient, I don't think there's any good advantage to it. You can study better if you're not alone, and these relationships give you knowledge that'll be used in the workplace years later, when you need to manage a team. You can get proper resilience from bad relationships, not the lack thereof. And, well, the study also said that it can lead to stuff like alcohol misuse, which is not cool at all.
This is mostly another consequence of social media use by kids and teenagers. Why are 14 year-olds so worried about being attractive anyway?
You should check out https://yacy.net: a global, P2P web search engine, where each peer can build and share its own index, etc.
(I live in Brazil)
Since, according to the article, wheat should be planted on already existing crops, I don't think it will be a big issue in the near future. However, soybeans are already a major cause of deforestation, especially in the Midwest, and this extra productivity may boost these activities.
I'm not an expert, but working with multiple crops in the same year can also further deplete soil resources, decreasing the overall productivity and increasing deforestation.
Brazilian politics is extremely messy right now, and it's hard to tell how we're going to face environmental issues in the near future. The recently-elected president has a strong environmentalist agenda, but is fighting with the Congress and may lose support for pushing forward such legislation.
I don't think we should blame Matrix for trying to get funding for their open source project, but it's also hard to blame everyone's reaction after such bad wording. Even marketing that their technology is used by governments is understandable - it does mean something. But it's no excuse for answering good-faith users in this way.
I think it's important to at least own your email domain, so you can keep your address when changing hosts. Hosting myself is too much of a hassle, so I go with PurelyMail. It's wonderfully cheap and works great. Had no issues with delivery so far.
Besides the possible technical impossibilities, there's just no reason to do so. If there are clear markings, antivaxxers would just not get inside. And people that really cannot take the vaccines due to some medical condition or young age would be exposed unnecessarily.
doesn't kill people
the Omicron variant is less deadly, but it's far from not killing people. There are hundreds of kids dying with the Omicron right now. Should we deny vaccines to these children? The vaccines not only reduce the severity of symptoms, but also decrease the mortality and infection rate. Even if we try herd immunity, vaccines can still be used to save lives.
Duolingo has a platform where volunteers can contribute to develop new courses. If you are fluent both in Bengali and in English, you should definitely consider signing up.
If you're actually really legally required to answer them, just write some generic text. Probably spam or some weird research, but better safe than sorry. And then you'll have a cool text if a real user happens to have concerns around CCPA
afaik, the "birds aren't real" movement is a joke indeed. They'll never say that to you, though
It's not even 2022 yet-
The best journaling app is anything that opens a markdown file. You can always build the workflow that suits you best.
I think it's broken, it's not working for me either (I'm using chromium)
A rotcev
Brazil received strong govt propaganda for ivermectin use. Some people even got liver problems due to Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine overdose [1].
Yet, the country is one of the most affected by the pandemic. It has more than 600k deaths. For comparison, India is around 6x bigger regarding population, and only had 454K deaths.
That's the real-world Ivermectin study. If it worked, you can be sure that Brazil would be in a much better situation.
[1] https://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2021/03/29/apos-desc... (in Portuguese)
We definitely won't have websites in 500 years
Ivermectin does not cause liver failure. There is no evidence of this.
The ivermectin was taken on high daily doses. Many people would take it even without symptoms and a diagnosis. If you take any drug that much, be prepared for liver issues. That liver transplant thing is increasingly happening with a large number of people, not one or two.
The Brazilian Senate is currently investigating how these "kit" drugs were delivered. In some cases, they gave it to patients without family consent, and forged their death certificates, so "liver failure" or "Covid-19" would not appear in the statistics. It is also currently investigated who would benefit from this (large Ivermectin producers multiplicated their production after these incentives, and the president is known for elaborating corruption schemas around Covid-related agendas).
It is important to notice that this claim is highly disputed. Paulo Freire and his methods are frequently attacked by far-right politicians and activists in Brazil, and this information is definitely politically biased.