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Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.
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Great example of the theoretically infinite losses possible with short selling: in just one month, GameStop short sellers have lost $19.75 billion dollars, on a $1.23 billion market cap.
Of course, the market cap right now is exactly $21.2 billion...
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@harding @pete I use the Scrambled EXIF app to do this on my phone on the fly. Super easy.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif
When sharing a photo, first share to the app, then share opens again and choose wherever you wanted to originally share it to and the exif data is gone. It's FOSS and available on F-Droid too.
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@pete I liked your idea from a few years ago for sharing photos originally taken using a phone or digital camera: instead of uploading the photo directly, take a screenshot of it first to firewall the metadata. I started doing that, and it not only makes me feel more comfortable sharing random recent photos of geese from a park near where I live, but it also makes it easier for me to crop the image by only capturing part of it, or scale it by just zooming in/out using my favorite image viewer.
https://twitter.com/lijukic/status/1355164987212390402/
"Wow it's really true. The European Commission's "redacted" copy of the AstraZeneca-EU vaccine contract is not redacted at all because you can just see everything in the bookmarks bar on the left."
Note how in my defamation lawsuit, Daniel J. Bernstein went to the trouble of printing out his declaration, then scanning it back in, to ensure the PDF didn't leak anything.
...someone else screwed that up so badly that ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛. 😂
"2 Canada Post workers in Regina suspended after refusing to deliver Epoch Times"
Pre-internet communication monopolies were legally prohibited from censoring. Canada Post has no choice here.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/epoch-times-canada-post-suspensions-1.5892549
Should you wear three masks? Or even four?
I personally wear an infinite number of masks. However, each mask has half the filtration of the one before it...
Prediction: the reason why Robinhood has been forcefully closing out client's GME positions will turn out to be because some or all of those GME positions didn't actually exist.
Unlike Bitcoin, there's no way for average investors to know if the numbers on their screen correspond to actual shares. You need crypto for that.
I'm not 100% confident this type of fraud and/or incompetence is happening. But I'll give it >50% probability.
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"Our ideals are rooted in fairness, equal access..."
Stirring words from Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev.
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"Only 31 out of 163,000 Israelis vaccinated by Maccabi Healthcare Services caught coronavirus in their first 10 days of full-strength protection"
vs 6,437 in a comparable unvaxxed sample. Naively, you might think that implies 95% protection.
But remember, *groups* of people were vaccinated, esp elderly, and Israel is under very strict lockdown. So you'd expect herd immunity to result in much better than 95%.
Hopefully that's just false positives.
I did buy a token amount of GME myself. I fully expect to either successfully sell it soon, or lose every cent. Which I'm fine with.
PSA: the short-squeeze we're seeing with GME is a totally different situation than BTC.
Hodling makes sense when there is a long term value proposition. If you're buying GME at current prices, either plan to sell very soon, or do it for the lulz.
"Indians must have no confusion about how we reached impressive Covid herd immunity"
tl;dr: covid just isn't that deadly, and has spread very widely in India. Other diseases like TB kill many more people, and the population correctly recognized the low risk. Based on antibody testing, there's probably 50+ undetected infections in India for every known case.
Case numbers have been dropping since Sept for the simple reason that herd immunity is real.
https://blog.aopa.org/aopa/2014/02/11/roots-of-rcm/
Excellent article on how planes are _actually_ maintained.
tl;dr: the stuff you thought you knew about lifetime limits and preventative maintenance is probably wrong. Most parts don't actually wear out, and replacement parts aren't better. So planes are generally run until failure, and that's actually better in most circumstances than trying to do preventative maintenance.
"Merriam-Webster Changes Definition Of ‘White Supremacist’ To ‘Anyone Who Wins In The Stock Market When They’re Not Supposed To’"
Re: Discord banning wallstreetbets:
We just might be living in a world where multi-billion dollar hedge funds are hiring people to type "n̷͕̘͝i̵͖͋̆g̴̨̼̀g̴͎̜̀ê̷̡͉̅r̶̜̣͗" in chat channels in a desperate attempt to avoid bankruptcy. #cyberpunk
"We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore."
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