helsinkiandrew

> he frequently receives PBA cards as a thank-you for extending cops small business favors and deals This is corruption. I've never understood how things like this can happen in the US - why …

As a Brit I have my own opinions on what should be considered “poor English”. Perhaps the default should be International English. Not MS International English but that subset they teach as EOFL and…

I'm not sure 1.3B Indians can justify giving Indian English priority when only 125M of them speak English with just 9.5M with it as their first language. https://en.wikipedia.org/…

No offence but I thought this was HN not reddit: Hydroxychloride isn’t a COVID-19 vaccine. It has anti viral and anti anti inflammatory properties that might help if you have the virus but it won’t gi…

It would be interesting to see numbers for the actual active radio Hans rather than license holders. I’ve a feeling (but no proof) that a ham license today is more of a geeky/fun thing to get wh…

US has GDP of roughly 20B (2018) and population of 328M ($20B 5%)/(328M 15%) / 365 = $55.68 a day A penny per person per day is $1.2 billion a year

Some interesting statistics: "Between a third and a half of those infected do not notice any symptoms. In those who do become unwell symptoms usually clear within two to three weeks with just hom…

I’m not sure that $900M can be called a ‘few million’ as stated in the article. 200 or 300 million is probably the upper limit for a few?

Many believe that this is the mechanism by which the Trump administration is using to remove Chinese influence from TikTok rather than the cause. It’s easier to legally justify than proving the ‘secur…

> the tool automatically scans the faces of people pictured in other users' posts, even if they don't use Instagram and didn't agree to the terms of service. This suggests to me that…

I recently read and was amazed that ”The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy“ by Hannah Glasse, published in 1747 was a best seller around the English speaking world for over a hundred years. “We had e…

Whilst I have fond memories of playing Sabre Wolf on my spectrum (Ultimate - Play The Game!) That is marred by the memory of having to reload the assembler program from cassette every time I made a mi…

Interestingly this will create a much more cohesive and valuable set of data about an individual, linking silos from different companies. It will be interesting to see if online data will also be link…

> two can play this game China is a dictatorship. No one doing business in or with China does so without knowing that they have to toe the party/government line and could loose everything if …

I imagine there are many fly fishermen and women that would disagree with you.

But in that case the hash sent to the server in stage 3 is always the same and behaves like a password - capture it and you can use it again elsewhere.

I’ve never understood why the long term effects of Covid-19 have seemingly been ignored by the people who say this isn’t a big deal, deaths aren’t significant, and it mostly effects old people. Normal…

Can you elaborate on how this makes things more secure (assuming HTTPS) Surely if the server accepts a client side hash of a password, then the hash has become the password

This is a good example of where a strong belief in something (in this case Apple greedily taking a huge cut of developer earnings) that something that sounds patently false is believed automatically a…

You mean to say that something that covers half or more of the thing being recognised makes the recognition worse? who'd have thought? The real news is that the error rate for the top algorithms …