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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I would agree. Which is why I’m suggesting that the Irish Data Protection Commission and Engadget should refrain from saying that. It’s also impossible to say that I am not responsible for a breach of your private data either. How much shou
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
That describes an entirely different incident to the one referenced in this article.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
It’s a control failure, not a breach. It would also be an incident, one that could result in a subsequent breach, or one that warrants some work to be done to ensure it does not turn into a breach. But it has not resulted in an unauthorised
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
This is a very imaginative use of the word “breach”, according to the details reported in the article at least. Internal staff (inadvertently) had access to users plaintext passwords. The article doesn’t mention any use of these credentials
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Aside from some especially uncompetitive seasons, driver skill has evidently always been a factor. The gap between Max and Checo has shown the importance of driver skill during the recent RedBull dominance, and during the Mercedes hybrid do
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
You are 100% correct, but that’s a photo of Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, who were each others primary competitors at the time, and each have rabid fan bases. Whenever they have an incident together the commentary is usually (or at lea
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Hah, how interesting. I can’t believe I’ve never seen that one before.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
These password guidelines were the state of the art at the time they were popularised. It really only becomes obvious why they’re bad when you observe the knock on behaviours they encourage, and even then the only way to make them not bad i
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
If you only need one VPS, then you potentially only need a tiny fraction of 1U worth of compute/storage. That’s not a sensible colo use case. From the DC perspective, the biggest costs for providing colo are power, AC (which is mostly
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
A 1U can very easily contain 64+ physical cores, many TB of storage, and a few hundred GB of RAM. A 1U colo can be a great deal if you’re looking to use that much compute/storage. The admin for those arrangements is pretty simple reall
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
If you need something close to the full compute a 1U can offer, then you can definitely get value for money from ordinary colo like that. But you’ll get a lot more value if you need a full or half rack. But if you just need a single VPS it’
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
The issue with the “cost of switching” line of reasoning is that it’s not possible to offer the services that AWS, GCP, Azure do, without having a high cost of switching. As a baseline, moving production workloads that run entirely on VPS o
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Production workloads are incredibly difficult to move, regardless of location.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Yeah I just googled it when I posted that comment. How disappointingly stupid.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Israel is ultimately unimportant to every other country in the world, and the argument that they contribute anything to regional stability is rather laughable. What is important is that we contribute to the defence of our allies, but they a
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I remember the house buying as being very basic. You could buy a house, fill it with items, sell the house, steal all the items from it, and buy it back for less, as many times as you like. I also remember being rather frustrated I couldn’t
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Having worked with a large number of researchers, this wasn’t my experience at all. A very common moan to hear was that they were underpaid, underfunded, and that if only the public was smart enough to understand the value of their work, th
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Offshoring parts of your supply chain (and to high income countries no less) is your idea of colonial imperialism?
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
In principal I agree, but there is a benefit that you're missing out. The fact that the US is in a constant state of war for so long has made it by far the best country at doing war. Aside from being better equipped than probably the r
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Globalization is not at all designed to exploit inequalities, it is in fact the exact opposite. The purpose of globalization is to increase the efficiency of the global economy, and the effect that has is to minimize inequality. Which is ho
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
The US foreign territories have nothing to do with resource extraction. They're primarily maintained to provide strategic territory to the US armed forces.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Historically, it is minuscule. It wasn’t too long ago that waging a war for too long would bankrupt most countries, but the US has been waging wars for almost the entire time it’s existed, and it’s managed to build the worlds largest econom
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Funding Israel’s conflicts is not a fundamental part of our way of life. The ability to load a huge defenceless cargo ship full of billions of dollars worth of goods and send it anywhere in the world is. The ability to choose how we govern
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Personally I can’t imagine not understanding that the defence funding is one of the most essential factors in enabling our modern way of life. It’s been so effective at providing the security needed to produce globalisation and highly democ
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I don’t think it’s pure curiosity. Maybe physicists are driven by passion, but everybody understands that new physics has historically unlocked a lot of new technology. I also don’t think that the public really has much of a say in what get
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
If you can convince yourself that your problems are caused by modern novelties, then you don’t need to address the tricky problem of what’s actually causing them (it’s probably yourself). Any sort of scapegoating like this is going to have
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
There’s not a lot of solid state nitrogen or metallic powders in an airport. The rest of the high explosives that I’m aware of are all rather dense organics. Possessing those things is how you get yourself selected for secondary screening.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I don’t know how those scanners work, but I’ve always presumed they’re looking for individual chemicals. There’s not many you’d need to detect to find explosives (probably just high concentrations of carbon, nitrogen and metals?)
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Well not intentionally engineered by the CIA, but definitely the result of their engineering. Much like the rise to power of our brave allies the Afghani mujahideen, and many others…
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I’m struggling to believe that a qualified accountant said that. Tax avoidance is completely legal, if it becomes illegal, then that’s called tax evasion. Avoidance and “minimisation” are the same thing, evasion is a crime.

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