BelenusMordred

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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> foreign buyers are only able to buy newly built homes In theory, yes, in reality the largest single residential purchase in the country was $35m and splashed all over the front page of newspapers. It took them 5 years later to realise
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Malaysia has some of the cheapest retail power on Earth. This is the usual performative nonsense by a foolish government. They could have easily sold them at auction like they do with all sorts of other seized goods. ASIC's go for a fe
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Is this not general control of an estate? Seems entirely within what we in the West consider normal. Whether it's "creepy" or not doesn't really factor into all the other decisions made on the behalf of a deceased person
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> can all be drafted into the service of CBDC initiatives which require digital identity for digital currency wallets This is why initiatives like Decentralised Identifiers are so important. There's simply no government or organisat
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Nothing wrong with that. It's how we got good at building skyscrapers too.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> I am yet to work with a payment method that does not support reversal Strange, because from your comments you are based in India and there's simply no way to reverse a bank transfer there or in my own country, can you confirm thi
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Probably a poignant time to point out that CryptoAG was based in Switzerland for half a century and highly trusted around the world yet controlled by the CIA the whole time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Secret sharing is a trivially easy solution to this problem.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> SEO blog article The writer is Jameson Lopp. There's good solid advice in there for anyone, not just crypto holders, yes he's promoting his own company but it's a big stretch of the imagination to say the bloke is some S
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
You're not wrong but that system only works on a very small scale. Do you really think the authors would be amenable to answering 10000 emails with the exact same request?
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Fair call, all the best to you for it.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Small props use barely any fuel per nautical mile, the actual extra cost here for a recreational pilot is absolutely tiny. A large 4X4 has a slightly smaller tank than a Cessna 172 and has nowhere near the range. The outrage is misdirected.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Any reason you didn't take the work? Seriously locking down a phone seems like a rewarding cross-domain engineering challenge. I'm honestly shocked at how most ultra-high risk people just use off the shelf products, sure they are
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> Private jets will enjoy an exemption through classification of "business aviation" as the use of aircraft by firms for carriage of passengers or goods as an "aid to the conduct of their business", if generally consi
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> a lot of the detrimental effects of long-term space travel are eliminated Apart from the fact that everyone you know is now dead and if you returned home you'd basically be a living caveman museum piece.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
With antimatter propulsion you'd want to use it as its generated rather than the messy business of trying to store it.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> GLS has scary privacy implications and you cannot uninstall it. I have an Android without Google Location Services, the alternative location service is a Mozilla backend instead. I doubt that's much better for privacy and more lik
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> A quarter say nightclubs and casinos should never reopen; almost two in ten would support an indefinite ban on leaving home after 10pm “without good reason”. Would it really be that surprising that there's that many people who don
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
The metadata hosted on Facebook's servers is worth more than the actual content.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
I'll throw my hat in the ring for postale, they are a good service for both individuals and business. Is $1 a month really going to put you in financial stress? Is your business going to die paying $5 a month? > Also, be aware that
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Just to be clear, the entire planet apart from Liberia and some tiny islands use Celsius, not just the English-speaking world , that's probably around 7.5 billion people if you are going for an extended audience. This is a good map to
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
This is really confusing with the link being the actual "ask us anything" and people asking questions here that others are answering, yet OP hasn't written a single response.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
An incredibly simple and effective measure that I've personally seen people rail against in tropical regions because it's ugly .
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Nothing in that thread backs up what you are saying. There's some rude commentary by an angry individual but the devs clearly explain the reasoning and make it known to end-users on the actual download page. Also just update your versi
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Discord audio is terrible and unreliable, I don't know how people use it for anything other than casual chatting. Maybe people are just impressed solely by UI but they are apples and oranges wrt quality.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
I read this comment about 5 years ago on HN.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
While it's easy to blame the big multinational here, a lot of people seem to ignore just how corrupted fish labelling actually is across the world. Australia has strict laws on seafood origin and labelling and yet year after year it&#x
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PipeWire Under the Hood(venam.nixers.net)
113 points by BelenusMordred 5y ago|25 comments
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> So far, history has not been kind to those civilizations exhibiting declining populations over sustained multi-generational spans. And yet Japan has some of the highest quality of life, a huge economy despite very few natural resources
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Something like PostmarketOS is likely a better choice if it is supported for your device.

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