AWildC182

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by AWildC182 6y ago
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption The amount of energy used by bitcoin is many zeros larger than any of the examples listed and is used by a group of people many zeros smaller than any of the demograph
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by AWildC182 6y ago
It's not that awful of a problem. Simply making the antenna directional enough is a solution, such as using a phased array coupled with an IMU to tell if the signal is coming from a known satellite location.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Logging software uses GPS. If they jam it they can go off route or otherwise not have big brother watching them. I imagine it's becoming somewhat less prevalent though, as it's widely known they do it, enforcement has ratcheted
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Try explaining that to the FAA. They've been shutting down more VORs and airways every year.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
That doesn't really have anything to do with the GPS jamming tests. That's because GPS isn't actually global, or at least wasn't a couple decades ago. What you're checking is the number of satellites available on
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Also morally repugnant? Whataboutism.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
This cannot be repeated enough. Bitcoin is consuming as much energy as a small-medium sized country and all so a tiny minority can speculate on it.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
By my understanding, systemd is just handling the unlocking process and merely provides LUKS with your password/token communication. LUKS is the part that actually needs to be secure beyond systemd just not emailing your password to t
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by AWildC182 6y ago
And even if they weren't more out less directly equitable, how long would it take for one to pull up the other. China has 4x the population the US does. The US won the cold war because it had a larger economy, partly because it had
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by AWildC182 6y ago
So? Even if bad metrics push the inevitable a few years down the road it's still inevitable. China will become the dominant world power some time in the next decade or so and there's not a whole lot we can do about it.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
IANAL but best I can tell it is with regards to filing the takedown notice rather than taking them to court. If it is just the sending of a takedown notice, then holy fuck have they abused it.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
I suspect one could make a case, given the history of the MPA/MPAA that they've left both the realm of "good faith" and "belief" long ago. Each incident doesn't get to occur in a vacuum. You can't c
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by AWildC182 6y ago
The official number for 2020 appears to be 25 (not including last week), however conservatives seem very interested in representing this as a list of "people BLM murdered" when it's really a list of all deaths due to politica
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by AWildC182 6y ago
I suspect you mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_dur... ...which is a list of all deaths surrounding the events. There are only a few that actually fall within the bounds of the question:
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by AWildC182 6y ago
You know, I'm totally down with kerbalspaceprogram.com becoming a de-facto scientific journal for space exploration papers.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
> far more damage and fatalities Name the fatalities from BLM activities.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
This is an interesting take that I'd like to dig into a little more... Do you mind expanding on if there are any known ways to achieve this?
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Not unredacted.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Yea, I'm not sure what their plan is other than to keep trying to sell to institutions until everyone makes the switch to someone else. If they actually want to survive long term, there are two paths as I see it: A) Be legitimately bet
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by AWildC182 6y ago
So many people commenting about Spacex and such but I feel they're missing the point. This marks the end of an era where publicly funded science was driving the frontiers of human knowledge faster than ever before. We went from having
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by AWildC182 6y ago
For those that are unaware, this project is absolutely amazing! They're an independent NGO launching a goddamn satellite to be able to locate emitters and pressure corporations and governments into behaving. Good luck on your launch!
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Why do megacorps need charity? Additionally GPL doesn't have any financial interest, just a demand that contributions are upstreamed.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
I came to this conclusion as well as it seems like a lot of extremely pivotal economic events took place around 1971. It was basically the year the modern economy was born.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Interestingly most of the anger was before I added that. I agree it's your choice. I will say, however, that we need to band together as a community. This of course depends on your views on the future of OSS but if you want corporati
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Obviously if you license your code without any strings attached, you can't exactly demand payment or anything. Rather this should be a cautionary tale that MIT/BSD in the hope of other people using your code is dumb and the indus
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Absolutely giddy that a multi billion dollar company is profiting massively off of the generosity of an individual without contributing anything back! Edit: And this is somehow controversial! Do tell me more! GPL your shit people.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Yea I call bullshit. The actual article is on a rental blog pushing passive income and is just throwing around a bunch of misleading numbers while hand waving violently. This isn't analysis, it's just content farming.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Stockholm is ~300mi from both St Petersburg and Kaliningrad. That's cheap cruise missile range.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Sweden isn't a NATO member state so any trumpist arguments regarding the 2% GDP expenditure number are moot.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Are....are you me?

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