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FDSGSG commented on Google's most ridiculous trick to force users into adding phone number · Posted by u/vort3

vort3 · 4 years ago

True, I just didn't write that because physical security key is not an option where I live.

Other than security key, it's only phone number or adding account to the phone.

I'm sorry I didn't mention that in my post, I wasn't trying to lie, I just can't obtain physical key and I don't think I have to have physical key to read my emails.

FDSGSG · 4 years ago

Where is that? Judging by your comment history, maybe Kazakhstan? I can easily find physical security keys for sale in Kazakhstan. For example miningshop.kz in Almaty has Ledger Nano S in stock.

Besides, you don't need an actual physical key for U2F.

FDSGSG commented on Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyclist cyclingtips.com/2022/04/e... · Posted by u/altStoner

analog31 · 4 years ago

If it's permitted, then it becomes obligatory. In sports where doping was tacitly permitted, chances are that it was unthinkable for a player to even be a contender for the elite level without doping.

If obligatory, then it starts killing people. Consider football and concussions.

And then there's marketing. A certain amount of risk is accepted in sports, and is part of what makes it attractive to fans and sponsors. But when someone actually dies at an event, it overshadows everything else that happens. If that becomes a regular occurrence, fans and sponsors who pay for the coverage will begin to lose interest.

Part of the reason for rules in sports is to make a sport interesting for the fans, e.g., by preventing each match from being decided by a single factor that is predictable ahead of time. Financial sports already have financial rules. Pharmacological sports need pharmacological rules.

FDSGSG · 4 years ago

It's already obligatory if you want to compete at the top level.

> chances are that it was unthinkable for a player to even be a contender for the elite level without doping.

Which is really the case for most sports today.

FDSGSG commented on Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyclist cyclingtips.com/2022/04/e... · Posted by u/altStoner

ck2 · 4 years ago

I think the point was how many other lives and how much money was affected by just one person and to unravel it.

I mean there are several books and movies written about Armstrong and the like, cycling is full of drama and people apparently like it because Armstrong has a huge fanbase and is still very successful/wealthy despite all his exposed corruption and doping.

I am sure there are plenty of serious amateurs who are clean and honest but to this day I cannot watch professional cycling of any kind, they are all doping and cheating one way or another just using the excuse "well everyone else is doing it".

(adding link to reddit analysis just to be useful https://old.reddit.com/r/Velo/duplicates/uegizk )

FDSGSG · 4 years ago

What's the big problem with doping anyway? Even now, everyone is doping, it doesn't seem to be causing huge problems.

Wouldn't it be safer for everyone if it was all out in the open?

FDSGSG commented on Bitcoin Threw a Party in Miami and I Crashed It thedailybeast.com/inside-... · Posted by u/croes

PaulHoule · 4 years ago

"When I ask why there are so few women in the crypto space..." reminds me of the movie Boiler Room where they train scam telemarketers to never pitch investments to women or let a guy they are pitching talk to their wife about it.

Men are more vulnerable to making certain narcissism-related mistakes, such as getting into bad investements because of FOMO or self-publishing books about new fundamental theories in physics that center around the mass ratio of the proton to the electron being exactly the square root of 3371456.

FDSGSG · 4 years ago

Why are there so few women in the mining industry?

Why are there so few women in arms trade?

Why are there so few women in finance?

Why are there so few women in infosec?

Why are there so few women in ...

How is "crypto space" unique? It's so easy to find countless industry events which are full of mostly men.

FDSGSG commented on Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames gist.github.com/travisbro... · Posted by u/ilamont

hluska · 4 years ago

Did you actually just compare being transgendered to suffering from a spinal cord injury??

I’m curious, why do you feel the need to hurt marginalized people? What do you gain?

FDSGSG · 4 years ago

I'm calling out your celebration of suffering. I'm not hurting marginalised people.

>Did you actually just compare being transgendered to suffering from a spinal cord injury??

Both gender dysphoria and spinal cord injuries tend to be severely debilitating.

We're not lucky to have transgender people. Luck would be nobody suffering from gender dysphoria. The people who end up needing to correct their gender are absolutely not lucky. Why do you think their misfortune makes us lucky?

I'm all for trans rights, consequently I'm also disgusted by you making light of the suffering implied by gender dysphoria.

FDSGSG commented on Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames gist.github.com/travisbro... · Posted by u/ilamont

hluska · 4 years ago

Which once again proves my old theory:

Trans people are fucking badass. We’re damned lucky to have trans people.

FDSGSG · 4 years ago

Are we really damned lucky to have people suffering from an often crippling mental illness?

I'm all for the rights of trans people, but saying we're lucky to have trans people is not very different from saying we're lucky to have depressed or bipolar people. Perhaps we're also lucky to have quadriplegic people?

(And yeah, obviously not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria)

FDSGSG commented on Inside London's first Ketamine therapy clinic leafie.co.uk/articles/ins... · Posted by u/pmoriarty

colechristensen · 4 years ago

When people promote universal single payer healthcare in the US, this is the kind of thing I want them to know about. There are downsides.

FDSGSG · 4 years ago

What are the downsides? People in the UK can still have private insurance if they want, which actually tends to be much cheaper than in the US.

FDSGSG commented on Is this how Russia ends? the.ink/p/is-this-how-rus... · Posted by u/Manheim

Manheim · 4 years ago

I think you should read the interview. It could be enlighting. We know what the Russian press are going through. It is very difficult to report anything from Russia after th eRussian athorities passed the law that made free journalism a crime in Russia. If you wonder why the press from the free world isn't reporting from within Russia these days, that is why. Their journalists risk 15 years in prison if they do their job.

FDSGSG · 4 years ago

Girkins words are certainly more interesting and relevant than Mashas, even if he is a madman.

FDSGSG commented on At least 6,500 migrant worker deaths in Qatar since winning the World Cup bid theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/derriz

derriz · 4 years ago

That's a fair call regarding the title I used. I didn't intend it to be misleading - I was being sloppy as I found the number absolutely shocking. Perhaps something like "At least 6,500 construction deaths in Qatar since winning the bid to host the World Cup" would be fairer.

FDSGSG · 4 years ago

These are not construction deaths. The article does not claim that these were construction deaths. That's something you invented in your head.

This number represents all-cause mortality.

FDSGSG commented on At least 6,500 migrant worker deaths in Qatar since winning the World Cup bid theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/derriz

tluyben2 · 4 years ago

Yeah, I was going to say; any construction deaths are frontpage news here. 6500 for a country the size of a shoe is insane, directly related to the the worldcup or not.

FDSGSG · 4 years ago

These aren't construction deaths. This number includes all causes of death for all 2+ million immigrant workers in Qatar.