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Like.. a headband?


I was thinking something on the table top.. but sure.


We need venture capitalists to fund the next game-changing vertical holder market disruptor.


I'd hope those currently toeing the line but know deep down we're at the point of ludicrous egregiousness would shoot their shot, if given the opportunity. I'd like to believe at least 20% of elected Republicans lack brain damage.


There were several prime opportunities during his last term when those elusive "deeply concerned" (remember that meme?) Republicans could have chosen to act. We could have nipped this all in the bud, convicted him during his impeachment, and moved on from all of this. But those Republicans failed to act. Now even more congressional Republicans have been primaried and replaced by MAGA sycophants. I am, regrettably, past the point of having faith that the Republicans will do the right thing "this time"


If they would be inclined to do so, it would already happened, here and there in small issues.


They look for carbon 14 isotope spikes in ancient tree rings, and compare to beryllium 10 and chlorine 36 in ice cores

We've developed a fairly decent record of events back to 14,000 years ago

Look up 'Miyake events'


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event

This keeps getting more interesting!

> Six diverse historical occurrences, from archaeological sites to natural disasters, have thus been dated to a specific year, using Miyake events as benchmarks and counting tree rings. For example, wooden houses in the Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland were dated by finding the 993 CE Miyake event and then counting tree rings, which showed that the wood is from a tree felled in 1021 CE.[


13000 years ago seems like a special moment for a few events. Is it possible that say a volcano eruption, or a meteor strike saturates the atmosphere and normal cosmic ray interaction with soot and so on can attribute to what they detect in trees?


According to Wikipedia:

> At present, five significant events are known (7176 BCE, 5259 BCE, 660 BCE, 774 CE, 993 CE)

Seems like the Carrington event wasn't strong enough to be considered a Miyake event.


Interesting one is 12k years ago around Younger Dryas


My kids call our winix purifiers "fart detectors"


Yeah the same sentiment was shared in 2014, 2018 and now 2022. History doesn't repeat but it rhymes.

Can't wait for 2025 for the next round of bullshit expansion. You can celebrate again in 2026 during the "collapse"

Bitcoinisdead.org


If you have your seed someone on the other side of the planet will have an intact Blockchain.

Imagine what it would do to banking data and transfer/payment networks on the impact facing countries.


This recently happened with a Bitcoin wallet app called Cake wallet. They used time() in their random number generator which allowed the key generation to be replicated and funds stolen.


What’s wrong with just using /dev/urandom for the entropy pool?


And it was approved by the TVA, so...there's that.


Yep..MS just had to send out a 'security update' to provide them with a few new vectors.


This is great have you considered writing a LinkedIn article about it?


I actually read a short post on HN about this recently. It’s here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27325735


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