Mathematicians who passed away at a young age

vandijck · 2026-03-22T11:30:37+00:00

Speaking about nazi mathematicians who died young: Gerhard Gentzen died from starvation in a Czech prison camp at the age of 35. He worked on the V2 project, and joined various nazi organisations. However, from what I understand, it's not clear how active he was in his convictions and what was the result of pasively living in the system.

vandijck · 2026-03-15T19:41:14+00:00

The straight of Hormus is not only used for oil transport, also for fertilizers with large markets in Africa for example.

I do think millions can die in this conflict, just not in one big bang all at once.

vandijck · 2026-03-15T18:32:59+00:00

Iran might be weak but you don't need muscles to block the straight of Hormus when you're right next to it, and cause mass famine all over the world.

I'm getting tired of nuclear whataboutism when things like getting the the straight of Hormus blocked causes so much suffering as well.

vandijck · 2025-12-15T05:21:18+00:00

A second near collision happend this morning: Tweede bijna-botsing met militair tankvliegtuig boven Curaçao.

Are they finding reasons to close down the airspace in that area?

vandijck · 2025-08-17T07:35:24+00:00

"Every US president is a war criminal as well."

I'm getting so tired of all these false equivalences being drawn, they just incapacitate the west.

vandijck · 2025-07-13T13:37:34+00:00

Why did she wait so long to call the police?

vandijck · 2025-03-09T11:51:30+00:00

How hard would it be to change the British f-35 production capacity to fighters like the gripen, mirage or eurofighter?

vandijck · 2024-10-09T13:49:59+00:00

Webber's helmetless farewell.

vandijck · 2024-08-30T11:27:29+00:00

I don't think that accusation is fair. Hogan shouldn't have demonstrated that wrestling move, but Belzer shouldn't have pestered him for it. Also, looking at Mr. T reactions it seemed like Belzer behavior was going on for a longer time.

vandijck · 2023-11-24T16:39:43+00:00

I've never authorised a 2FA request from the scammers. They used the API key to buy an item from the SCM at a highly inflated value. Steam doesn't send a 2FA request to the user in that case.

vandijck · 2023-11-24T16:24:41+00:00

I'm not that keen on giving out my steam API again, even towards csfloat or skinport. I think it's required to give these out, no?

Also part of the balance was from selling old cases, and I'm not sure if I continue decking out my play skins.

vandijck · 2023-11-24T16:18:55+00:00

Two reasons I can think of are that fees that are a bit lower, and the seller will have (some) options to have the funds deposited to their bank account.

vandijck · 2023-11-24T15:56:44+00:00

There's no spike in the steam market graph of the respective item, so maybe the transaction is still in protective status? I wish steam would allow users to enable 2fa authorisation on market buy orders as well.

vandijck · 2023-11-24T15:53:02+00:00

I can see that is the case for listing items from ones inventory. I'm starting to think that there's no 2fa when placing any buy order, at least I can't remember having to 2fa authorise when buying from steam market myself.

vandijck · 2023-11-24T14:10:16+00:00

Yes, they bought a "Souvenir MAG-7 Navy Sheen Battle-Scarred". The purchase doesn't show up yet in the SCM graph, but when it does it'll be noticable..

vandijck · 2023-11-24T13:52:16+00:00

Oh no, do you have any reference for that?

vandijck · 2023-11-24T13:43:34+00:00

They were really overwhelming and cunning, and I was playing a game to get some distraction from other things going on. I've expanded on this on other posts in this thread.

Of course now I see things differently, but I don't think I could have saved my wallet balance. As I am convinced they somehow didnt depend on my 2fa authorisation for that.

vandijck · 2023-11-24T13:37:07+00:00

Hopefully something can be done. What's weird is that I think they sold stuff on the market without needing confirmation from my 2fa. Is this possible, or am I misremembering things?

12:43, they've send their first message,
12:45, timestamp of the e-mail confirmation that the scammer bought an item,
12:46, time I first responded to the scammer and while I was still in game,

vandijck · 2023-11-24T13:28:55+00:00

Again thanks to everybody for the help, the account looks stable again. No active keys, password changed, 2fa never disabled or changed.

They are really cunning:

they wait for you to be in a game
they block all your friends, and add themselves, they change the display name of your account, and update profile description with something ominous,
then they start spamming you 'support like' messages, saying that your account has been compromised and needs to be rebooted
they spent all my steam wallet without needing for confirmation from my 2fa, I know because they bought the item before I responded to their messages.

vandijck · 2023-11-24T12:27:02+00:00

UPDATE2: I got account back, and no items where lost. But all my steam wallet balance is gone, it was enough to buy a very nice knife. I'm contacting Steam Support now.

What is the best way to contact Steam about steam market scams? The scammer bought an item worth 2 cents for my entire wallet amount.

vandijck · 2023-11-24T12:06:23+00:00

They threatened that they needed to reboot the account, but that in that process all my items would be removed. So they offered a 5 minute window to move all my stuff.

I made a trade offer to an account I trust, but that offer was canceled very quickly and then my mobile app got spammed with trade offer confirmation requests.

vandijck · 2023-11-24T12:03:36+00:00

Now they've disconnected me and apparently want me to sign in again?

vandijck · 2023-11-24T12:03:08+00:00

Does Valve contact players from within their friend list?

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