One theory is that nuclear detonations are not only detectable by ET but it causes some sort of ripple effect in their dimension that is beyond our own and it worries them and have been said to disable any efforts by Earthlings to weaponize space.
Bob Lazar explains the exact mechanics of these UAP vehicles and it is so far beyond our own conventional technology, the GOV obviously made it a priority to both study and reverse engineer them for defense.
Anyways, I hope ET overlords can come and clean house, get rid of all the corrupt humans destroying this planet and possibly other planets in the future.
I absolutely believe that ETs have/is/will be watching us, and whenever we step out of our bounds, they just simply disable those means.
Imagine if you were the government, some UFOs show up disable your ICBMs and other latest tech. It'd be like a Sicillian message: Know Your Place Human We Are Superior in Every Way.
> As someone who watches the very unusual moderation of China-critical comments on HN (+3 one moment, -3 a few hours later) I'm wary of a political piece praising China hitting #1 on HN.
So im not crazy for noticing this...im also highly concerned that HN may not have appropriate vote manipulation filter, and that much of what we read on the front page are increasingly engineered.....
As long as the US is able to maintain both fiduciary and military hegemony, it has nothing to worry.
The fact is to aurpass the US, you need to possess better if not technologically superior assets to project.
It boggles my mind why this military factor is often ignores by proponents of china maximalists.
The us can call upon a dozen carrier strike groups on a moments notice, port call literally anywhere that isnt russia or china, bases distributed globally and unknown next gen technology that isnt even being revealed but kept secret, if the us had sr71 in the 60s they have something in the works that guarantee they will be ahead.
Only now china has started producing f16 class jet engines domestically, but still decades behind in many power projection components.until china has projection that aurrounding countries will take seriously, its just another pipe dream, until china can prove itself on a world stage like the US has in its constant state of warring, only then will your financial institutions criticized by Chomsky crowd, be actually legitimized.
Much like your local mob or cartel, those who are perceived to have monopoly on violence, often backed up by real violent acts, have weight behind their words. Those who are in competition, risk elimination through in action, so they must constantly maintain high tension with skirmishes here ans there to remind the other side. If you think this way, it makes sense that the governments purpose is to maintain this monopoly on violence, or otherwise risk being overrun by other competing groups, much like narco economoies where the official government body is increasing being weakened through corruption, and losing the valuable monopoly on violence. The US has monopoly on world violence and china wouldnt be the first to challenge it and lose, much as did USSR. Only rarely in Afghanistan and Vietnam, the US simply could not out terrorize the population as did the taliban and viet cong,and thus lost the war.
I might be generalizing and basing this on anecdotes but often people that work in the drug trade are users/addicts themselves, including the ones who are drawn to positions where it grants them the illusion of unlimited power & material excess. It's ironic that becoming a drug kingpin is the least efficient way of attaining those things, but when you live in a region where there is little to no economic activity, getting a Netflix drama portraying you is the highest point, even if it means doing consecutive life sentences in a maximum security prison where you can no longer enjoy the very things you've worked hard towards.
The "entrepreneurs" who simply come from the same pedigree but who has access to both capital and network with capital that propels them to force the transfer of wealth through deception, including imitating the attires of those that have successfully convinced us they are the good guys, whose popular products produce so much human misery in another country where people couldn't care less about.
Similarly, that same banality we feel towards another far away country, can be amplified towards anything in life. If you ask a criminal why he did it, the answer you get is very much the same as a consumer--"because the opportunity existed". To you it may mean indifference to the children to adults working in horrid conditions overseas, to a criminal, that same indifference is just far more profound and pervasive. Literally a criminal will describe robberies, scams in full pride-just like you they were indifferent to the suffering and damage caused around them, instead these were "opportunities" that they took advantage of because no other options were desirable.
I am considering laying off the ganja for a while. but I need it to meet deadlines, to do the work the market demands at the best possible time to the best possible consumer, I am the invisible hand that keeps pushing me, in this struggling and character building times. thanks for the advice 친구!
Ah yes! Pleasantly surprised you'd follow up on here.
Does Estonia offer any anonymity through its e-residency program?
A lot of us have stereotypes towards EU regulations as being restrictive, wonder if you could address this one glaring fear in the back of our minds (ex. GPDR).
What should folks on HN know a thing or two about Estonia? I've literally only heard of the country 4 years ago when I played Arma: Cold War with an Estonian gamer, which ironically is a military simulation of gorilla warfare against a USSR invasion of the Baltics..... (see OF: Resistance)
is it possible to somehow buy this off-line in person in mass quantities? seems like it takes ages to ship from alibaba, also I'm afraid of the Chinese government tapping my phone (as I suspect happened on WeChat I foolishly installed, literally seduced by this Chinese chick who claims she's in Vancouver but then doesn't know where Surrey is???? red flags) potentially, so I want to tinker with these interesting DIY projects and get started with soldering and PCB etc., but I always can't be at complete comfort (I am well aware and conscious of the fact that my privacy standards are in the extremes), knowing what I read on HN all the time, maybe it's a good time to take a break.
So I would really love it if somebody could sell me large bulk of various stuff like this that you could literally get from Alibaba in some vain hope that some wholesale buyer/middle man can make a premium off this paranoia, I'd gladly pay $3~$4 for this if it meant that somebody bought like a million of these for $10,000, and then sold me a chunk of that (at a markup of course which I'm more than happy to pay for the same reason people use VPN and Incognito or Tor), why not for electronics?
tl;dr: Looking for somebody to start a wholesale brick and mortar business based on DIY electronic parts like this so I can pay with cash to escape suspected foreign state surveillance.
Imagine a younger, ambitious, slightly politically sensitive you from the past, expressed a common consensus held by a specific group of like minded peers who believed that a certain country Brad Pitt made famous in the 90s should be free to exercise their political, religious and cultural will against an aggressor state, those things suddenly attract the wrath of peers from that said aggressor state, who think very differently from us, things escalated and I'm still to this day freaked out and feel tense when I hear people speaking the official language of said aggressor state. Call me disturbed, paranoid, I don't care, you weren't there man, you weren't there when the Charlies flanked us and got embassy involved. What is this...People's Republic of Vancouver?
Hope the best for you guys, I really do! If realized, this could be too seductive for foreign governments that depend on importation of oil and polluting their air to support export industries. Cleaning up the air AND mining the skies for gasoline? Good deal imho.
You really hit the nail with those simple percentage, its clear as day to me now.
So it seems to me that Groupon really makes sense for businesses with fixed & low variable costs, thick enough margins to come out ahead and either repeat business or extra spenders.
I think the advertising comparison makes sense here.
I see so the primarily utility of Groupon is that businesses can pay for a chance of repeat customers and/or extra spenders? I think the theater is a good example of the latter.
Then the question arises, why can't businesses do this themeselves? Why can't the breakfast place you frequent just advertise $20 worth of food for $10? Why Groupon? Is it because Groupon can send foot traffic on demand for a cut of the sales?
Very promising but I'm going to hold out until I actually see this being applied in places like South Korea, literally suffocating from a combination of both local and foreign smog from Korea's favorite neighbor.
You can't really fault me because we've often seen groundbreaking, extraordinary claims, and very little of it is actually realized. Sort of like how we get news about how somebody found a cure for AIDs or Cancer. Again, not trying to shit on anybody, just practicing good old skepticism, I will believe it when my nephews and nieces in Korea are able to breathe in cleaner air and can play outside without wearing industrial face masks. Until then, fingers crossed and hope this is the real deal.
So the retailer is forced to provide a deep discount, even if it forces them to sell at a loss? Who gets the final say here, might we assume Groupon? If so, why would retailers continue to utilize Groupon if it ends up being a net negative operation?
Can you elaborate on why you think its a scam? What did the founders do previously which supports those allegations?
> It's a very compelling illusion of actually understanding the topic. I've seen less coherent responses on Stack Overflow and, dare I say it, Hacker News.
I think you've highlighted a very interesting angle. A lot of writings by users on the internet have common grammar mistakes or more like, the apathy towards adhering to correct English grammar.
After arguing and correcting people on the Internets for the past 20 years, the semantics became more urgent than the syntax, and as a result, I often read my own writing in aghast-the realization that when people write tl;dr they really meant it-because as soon as you hit submit the original meaning is lost and with our limited cognitive resources we choose to filter out only what we want to read and ignore the rest.
The true test for this sort of text transformer will be to generate an equally incorrect syntax and idiosyncrasy through writing style and skew towards the use of specific group of vocabulary (ab)used by the author, meaning an entire Reddit drama thread generated purely by AIs, complete with trolling, argument traps, and generalization, the complete toolbox of an Internet keyboard warrior.
edit: I finally got a response back from the generator: I typed 'lick my butt' and the result is shockingly good-its everything I'd expect from someone who would start off with that phrase: lick my butt. I don't know what kind of ass you got. I'll just crawl next to you. I'll crawl next to you like this, so that if you get a little pissed, you have time to take it easy and go back to enjoying the show. Don't make me go back to enjoying the show. You can go back to enjoying the show. You can walk with me. You can take me. You can crawl next to me. Don't go. It's okay. I'm just making you comfortable again. And, I don't want you to leave. And, it's fine. I'll let you keep my body. You can take me but don't keep me. I don't need you to keep me.
That's just the opening I mentioned from when she says goodbye and leaves him for it. It has been a while since I have been "comforted;" and not comfortable in a nice way. He's gone over her body in a way that just takes her from me, into my body again; but, doesn't take her any further. She continues to leave behind me that way, but we both know that this isn't just about me anymore. It's about her.
I don't know what to say to her at this point. As much as I want to go over what I experienced with her last time, I can't just let this go. After all, this wasn't a last-minute fuck because I couldn't come. It wasn't because he wasn't enjoying himself. It was because he has a girlfriend; and, he feels that she deserves to be comforted. (The way he says that doesn't work either; it's one thing if he needs me to be comforted, but it's another to tell her he wanted her too and he just needed time to enjoy himself. She deserves to be comforted too; after all, he is getting older and older.
Especially that line 'last-minute fuck because I couldn't come' is completely in line with the overall tone of the generated text. You would think this post was written by a 20 something red pill poster.
yeah my original idea was a sort of a Google Freebase P2P Strikes Back Like KaZaA
Imagine a structured gigantic tree data where relational, tabular data of any data is available?
You can see why I was seduced by this idea of an all out liberalization of information by making the storage and computation decentralized and p2p reliant-selective one at that which allows you to create your own private "pool" of workers each with a rotation-des-adresses IP of your choosing.
Basically any data that is uploaded to a scrape:// URL which is seeded by other peers running the Scrape.it client (people you shared the URL with) will stay up there theoretically as long as there's "seeders", sorta like Bittorrent.
You could share a scrape:// URL and maybe somebody will knock down your doors (CIA_OPEN_UP) but if it's shared globally and theoretically if one uses other means of traditional anonymically inclined tools of your choosing online that rhymes with possibly XOR, then anything is possible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Large scale amounts of data can be crawled because speeding up the volume and speed is literally authorizing another peer to have write access to your local Data Sanctuary (by default only read access is granted), virtually even the most stubborn 2009 non-vanilla AJAXY-ANGULARLY-JQUERY-SPHAGEHTEI web apps where the backward navigation is broken, Scrape.it have powered right through, essentially dramatically lowering the cost barrier to that data available online.
Ex) it can try every order of form automation permutation combinations, for every option in select drop down, for instance: search this list of product id and crawl everything on this J2EE enterprisesque web app from 10 years ago.
Creating a completely free and decentralized bank for structured data that is impossible to completely take down once shared with other than your group, with full end to end encryption in-between, cryptographically verifiable list of order edits....
but alas, I'm really pressured to get this out the door so looks like I will just have to focus on the bare minimum in terms of client for now.
I originally aimed this to be a standalone self-hosted desktop/server tool...
anyways I digress, I need to get back to work. Lately honestly been a challenge mentally and emotionally(?) from some other life bullshit, its only when I get into the zone do I feel free
Bob Lazar explains the exact mechanics of these UAP vehicles and it is so far beyond our own conventional technology, the GOV obviously made it a priority to both study and reverse engineer them for defense.
Anyways, I hope ET overlords can come and clean house, get rid of all the corrupt humans destroying this planet and possibly other planets in the future.
I absolutely believe that ETs have/is/will be watching us, and whenever we step out of our bounds, they just simply disable those means.
Imagine if you were the government, some UFOs show up disable your ICBMs and other latest tech. It'd be like a Sicillian message: Know Your Place Human We Are Superior in Every Way.