Pretty much the same. Bought some Bitcoin in high school in the early 10's. It was just a novelty and I was a kid, so I didn't buy much, but if someone was kidnapped or something it would be worth it to go through my old drives.

Ahem.

When they say every fingerprint is different, are they right? There couldn't be an infinite number of finger print patterns, could there be? If, so how?

It depends how close to each other they have to be to count as the same. They consist of a series of mostly parallel lines, but for the sake of simplicity only focus on just one. It's a curve. A curve has an infinite collection of other curves that are different to any, arbitrarily small degree, and that's even true for smooth curves like we're talking about here, and even if you ignore a finite set of transformations, like moving it or stretching it.

However, the systems that police use to catalogue them have no such infinite precision. If you have a collection of k fingerprints, and there's n possible fingerprints a system could distinguish, the probability of two overlapping is a lot higher than k/n, actually, even if you charitably assume every fingerprint is equally likely. In criminal cases, a little bit of doubt is enough to prevent conviction in a typical Western country. The issue of whether a fingerprint - especially a partial one - is reliable enough evidence a given person was involved has indeed come up before. Off the top of my head, I don't know if it's made the difference in any cases, but I bet it has.

IIRC, it's a big issue because a lot of the systems are proprietary, and the companies don't want to provide defence lawyers with any sort of data on how they work. For all they know, it could be programmed to return a match with a random frequent offender if it can't find anything else. Unfortunately, most judges are tech laymen who see no issue with blindly trusting a magic box, and are very aware that some nasty people could be released if they call said boxes into question, so getting the problem recognised is or was an uphill battle.

Expect a lot more "white collar workers laid off due to AI" posts coming. I wonder how long it will take for a (very well resourced, those are status-y jobs) movement to form in response.

Yes, it's been established that you can still use JavaScript, and it will only backfire sometimes, even though it's a bad language. And yet, people try to use it where it's not even required.

Unsafe... for our margins!

Which is a library written in C, of course.

Russia should have had the conventional phase all finished in a couple months, so by that measure Ukraine. Russia has also lost territory the whole way past the battle of Kiev, so by that measure also Ukraine. Neither look set to win any time soon, so by that measure (which is probably the important one) it's a stalemate. The big variables now are Western support and Russian political stability as the conflict drags on. Neither side is close to running out of men.

The claims that Russia was winning the whole time come from basically the geopolitical version of flat earthers, who believe exactly the opposite of what everyone else does. Or actual Russian agents, but as far as I can tell that's rare.

Really? I don't usually watch those, but I'm pretty sure they're holding a weapon and definitely not signaling intent to surrender in the ones I've seen.

The evidence presented is pretty damning anyway. I question whether it even matters at this point, though, given that a sovereign first nation has claimed her.

Yep. Small ones that still hosted communities also had a high attrition rate - I was in some of them.

The big stuff has transferred quite nicely, as have tech communities, but other niche communities seem to have floundered. Even ones that explicitly and openly made the switch died off, like r/streetphotography. It seems raw user count is pretty critical to supporting them.

So “eat the rich” is just edgy humor or what?

Yes. Most people don't want to eat other people. I would expect the explicit cannibalism to clue you in to a level of irony there.

Weird, because somehow, every time that every time communism has been tried, it involved massive genocide, though perhaps one could argue that the majority of it was the result of incompetency, because the majority of the victims starved to death as a result of disastrous agricultural policies.

Genocide has to be at least a bit deliberate, and generally they just fucked up their economy bad enough agriculture was negatively effected. In the USSR's case at least, the starvation affected the republics pretty equally, too. As Ukrainians were starving so were Khazaks. For political reasons, some parties have tried to make it sound like a targeted ethnic thing, but it just wasn't, and it certainly wasn't on purpose.

but you have to admit that even when taking to low estimates, communism’s death toll is far higher than that of the Nazis. OP is correct, they’re all evil ideologies.

This is the part where the communists come out with capitalism's death toll. Dumb ideology, maybe, evil ideology no, at least not on it's own.

Edit: Also, I take issue with not counting all of WWII as part of the Nazi death count, since they very deliberately made it happen. Consider this was in the space of just a few years, vs. an entire human lifetime for the Soviets.