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This is scary as hell.

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

If it looks like a conspiracy, it's probably one.

I hope consumers return these phones in droves like Windows RT and Windows 10 S. The issue is that sideloading isn’t an immediate concern—users would only realize the limitation later, when it’s too late to return the device.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69be3eeb-4f78-8002-b1a1-c7a0462cd2...

First - 7421 Second attempt - 1836

The brain does optimization during sleep. Is that something llms can benefit from?

For those who don't understand, Biden sold the Helium not Trump - he took office on Jan 20, 2025.

List of terrorist groups sponsored by Iran Government

1. Hezbollah (Lebanon)

2. Hamas (Gaza Strip)

3. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Gaza Strip/West Bank)

4. The Houthis / Ansar Allah (Yemen)

5. Kata'ib Hezbollah (Iraq)

6. Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (Iraq)

7. Harakat al-Nujaba (Iraq)

8. Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (Iraq)

9. Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (Iraq)

10. Kata'ib al-Imam Ali (Iraq)

11. Badr Organization (Iraq)

12. Liwa Fatemiyoun (Syria/Afghanistan)

13. Liwa Zaynabiyoun (Syria/Pakistan)

14. Al-Ashtar Brigades (Bahrain)

15. Saraya al-Mukhtar (Bahrain)

16. Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (West Bank)

17. Popular Resistance Committees (Gaza Strip)

18. Lions' Den (West Bank)

19. Hezbollah Al-Hijaz (Saudi Arabia)

20. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - Quds Force (Regional/Iran)

It's not like relations between China and the West aren't already as hostile as the West can tolerate.

It's just the US that's publicly wary of china, heck, it's just Trump

Fela bled for Nigeria—literally.

He carried scars on his back from police and soldier beatings meant to silence him for speaking against the government. His houses and estate were set ablaze. His land was seized by the government and never returned.

His mother was thrown off a building by soldiers.

Yet, the very people he fought for chose to focus on his vices and mocked him for them.

I’m glad he finally got this award.

It's unfortunate but at the same time if enough people switch to Linux then they'll be forced to change their ways.

Nope. Not Nadella. He'll kill windows in a heartbeat.

Really? In my country, CNN is Coca cola and Fox is Dr. Pepper

If this is target at developing nations, theft of the solar panels will be a major hindrance.

I set my work android phone to go off 10pm and come on by 7am everyday. It's under settings -> system. It also has the ability to restart on any day/time you want.

That'll wear out the battery quickly. Why does this happen? If it's about overcharging, is it impossible to stop charging once the battery is full?

Use this to automatically redirect to the old.reddit version

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The same happened to me. The negative review shows up when i'm signed in but it did not affect the rating (number of stars) of the business.

Basically, it's just me and the owner of the business that sees the review. The negative review I gave the scammy business doesn't show up when I sign out.

Jews in general are known to be special. But he's emphasizing on Ashkenazi Jews alone. A quick research shows that their history is quite complex. They were banned from most occupations - restricting them to money lending (banking), health care (doctors), crafting...

You can find some in the link he supplied https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence#...

Meaning of IQ Points

40 - 54 - Severely challenged

55 - 69 - Challenged (2.3% of test takers)

70 - 84 - Below average

85 - 114 - Average (68% of test takers)

115 - 129 - Above average

130 - 144 - Gifted (2.3% of test takers)

145 - 159 - Genius (Less than 1% of test takers)

160 - 175 - Extraordinary genius

http://www.free-iqtest.net/iq-score-guide.asp

From the wikipedia article, Ashkenazi Jews have an average IQs - a few points higher than American, Hongkong national average.

Cast psychology aside and focus solely on the economic benefit.

$50 (18k NGN) is nothing to most Americans. However, 18k NGN is the current monthly national wage in Nigeria.

It costs little or nothing to blast Copy & paste emails to 1 million people using hacked / free SMTP servers.

Other factors to consider:

It requires so little skill that 14 year old kids do it.

Risk of getting cut is also super low. Police are on the look out for these scammers NOT to jail em but to collect their own share. They walk the scammers to the atm and take part or all of what they find there - usually, half.

Unemployment rate is 25.20% but this doesn't tell the full story.

Underemployment is another factor. As a result, many scammers are employed full time. The employment provides three benefits. 1. Free use of office computers and internet and most important electricity for scam. 2. A steady shock absorber income source for dry periods. 3. A camouflage to keep neighbors' tongues from wagging

I've rambled.

Scamming is so easy, has low risk, barrier to entry and high pay off.

One other point i failed to mentioned. If you live in SV, tech will rub on you. Same applies living in developing nations. Scam will rub on ya.

Great suggestion. But...

Microsoft has an annoying "in your face" bundling precedent. (Windows vs. IE, Windows Store. Renaming hell: windows live..editor, messenger, essentials, msn..messenger, One..drive, Xbox..music)

It should be okay, if the VS code team can integrate Azure without management or marketing taking over. Else VS code would become Azure code and it'll nag you to login to your Azure account on every startup.

What if Twitter made character limits a level game - just like HN voting Karma?

Level 1 users get 140 chars. Level 2 - 160 chars, 3...

This reminds me of Porsche vs. Volkswagen

Copy and pass is not an accurate description.

It's more like chew and pour. Cram and pass. Photocopy.

'Three Idiots' Where silencer says, "I don't care what it means. I'll memorize it." Describes Nigerian, Ghanaian and Indian school system.

This is what results when lecturers also crammed and passed without understanding. Since they don't know what's important, they favor trivial parts of their subjects.

For instance on an Excel course, the lecturer asked us to draw the exercises in drawing books after every class.

When most exam questions are patterned after "Who wants to be a millionaire?" The only way to get good grades is to cram.

But these issues are Child's play compared to the real issue: In public schools what you know doesn't matter. If you've not "sorted" the lecturer, it's an automatic E, F, or D.

When a lecturer tells you on your first day that A is for alpha and omega. B is for the lecturer. And C is for bright students...

I've not made anything up.

Basically, the bribery in developing or underdeveloped countries is simply a reflection of what goes on in schools.

Alt title: Wikipedia Readers Shouldn't Need Science Degrees To Digest Articles About Basic Topics'

Original title: Cloudflare CEO: DDoS Attacks Will Now Be ‘Something You Only Read About In The History Books’

I suggest title be changed to: Clodflare to offer free unlimited (unconditional?) DDoS protection

Summary: Google suspends AdWords campaigns of Vivaldi Browser after Vivaldi CEO wrote an anti-Google article

Yes it's annoying but forgivable when you consider that MS's first priority with its Surface Line is to run a profitable tech demo rather than competing its own foremost customers - Dell, HP...

Summary of Amazon's patent:

Provide in-store wifi. And when customer searches for competitor product, display yours, block the search, or send over a sales person.

Candidate for stupid patent of the month

Alt title: NASA to Create Fake Red And Green Clouds Near Virginia

War on corruption has impoverished many African esp. West African countries.

A new government spend the first half of their term 'fighting' corruption i.e trying to recover the looks of the previous government.

Whether the recovered loot is not used for the benefit of the country is debatable.

However, this new government uses it's remaining term to siphone and hide it's loots in Switzerland, Hong Kong - outside the country.

Why?

Because the next government could, usually seizes houses, companies, bank accounts in the country.

The next insurance for these thieves in authority is to NEVER leave government.

Thus, they keep looting and exporting the country's wealth - lowering the exchange rate, necessitating even larger thefts and government borrowing.

Authority stealing depends hugely on opaqueness, the ability of elected individuals to have privacy in their supposedly PUBLIC dealings.

Thieves in position of authority benefit from EXPERT status i.e. citizens do not feel qualified to monitor the activities the activities of the elected. Officials openly flout their ill gotten wealth and the citizens are in awe, praying to God for a chance to eat the 'National cake.'

Just last month, I talked to at least 10 ordinary persons. And these 'educated' individuals couldn't suspend disbelieve and imagine how much better their world would be if they could keep their representatives in check.

They all believed that their votes didn't matter. And it's quite true. In the last Nigerian election for instance, individuals from the Igbo tribe weren't given voters card because they wouldn't vote for the incumbent party.

I've spent a ton of time thinking about the state of Africa. And I don't see a way out short of a bloody revolution.

Even then, history says a revolution would only replace one set of tyrants with another.