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by Slartie 6y ago
For fairness one must say that our free run-of-the-mill wire transfers being instant is a relatively recent development. They used to take multiple days in pre-SEPA-days, and international payments were a hassle (and also usually not free).
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by Slartie 6y ago
The difference between this and a tax is that the taxes' exact height is known beforehand, and the government is not actively involved in creating the reason why the taxable sale is taking place. "Sell your business below value, g
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by Slartie 6y ago
This is plain and unadorned extortion of money from a foreign company by the US government, and Trump makes no effort at all of hiding it.
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by Slartie 6y ago
It was less national security and more not obeying local law, particularly the law mandating censorship of certain stuff. I don't like the Chinese approach to managing the public opinion by censoring valid information and opinions at a
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by Slartie 6y ago
Except for there being this joker called "national security" which magically allows practically anything to be ordered by the executive, because you can obviously reframe anything into a matter of national security, even short vid
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by Slartie 6y ago
I do believe in actual checks and balances, especially of the transparent kind, just not in those dark pockets of unchecked power that have always existed in between the parts of government that do have proper c&b. Pretty much all the s
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by Slartie 6y ago
And what exactly prevents the US government from creating any kind of subpoena they'd like? They don't even have to defend it anywhere, because "national security" trumps the normal judicative process. The targets of the
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by Slartie 6y ago
That would be relevant for the discussion if the stated reason for banning TikTok were specific, concrete and actually happening actions of politically-motivated censorship. However, the stated reason is "national security" due to
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by Slartie 6y ago
Please explain why TikTok is "owned and controlled" by the Chinese government. TikTok is just as much "owned and controlled" by an adversarial state as any app by US corporations is "owned and controlled" by th
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by Slartie 6y ago
This is really interesting and cleared a lot of things up for me, thanks for that! I always thought that when people told me "Banks create money out of thin air in our monetary system" that would mean they get like $100 dollars fr
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by Slartie 6y ago
And when the recipients of those $2 trillion put that money into bank accounts, we're creating another $20 trillion in additional money supply. I sure hope they end up in bank accounts as well, so we can create another $200 trillion. H
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by Slartie 6y ago
I had to chuckle as well when I read that article and the part about gRPC. Seems like the pendulum is swinging into the other direction again - back to where we've already been ten or twenty years ago. New name of course, but same conc
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by Slartie 6y ago
They're secretly waiting for GPT-4 to be finished, which will be trained on the whole SO question/answer corpus and can then be sold to big corporations desperate to scale up their teams of monkeys copy-pasting code from SO...sorr
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by Slartie 6y ago
Actually, on text translations, DeepL nowadays outclasses Google Translate IMHO. The only downside is that they don't appear to offer some kind of transparent website translate feature ("put a URL in and it translates the entire s
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by Slartie 6y ago
Actually not even the typical $5/month cheap VPS offering would die under the "load" of 30TB of static content HTTP traffic being served in 2700 requests over a month. That's just a laughable drain on CPU resources that
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by Slartie 6y ago
That's a nice example of survivor bias: you can't ask the dead.
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by Slartie 6y ago
To do: add to-do-list apps to that list
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by Slartie 6y ago
IIRC it is well-known how to synthesize remdesivir, so nobody would actually have to reverse-engineer anything, but this stuff is particularly hard to synthesize on an industrial level, with some steps in the process taking weeks to complet
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by Slartie 6y ago
"Because I had to spend a lot of time to compile this long list of things that I also did while fixing the problem which are essential for a good solution but aren't immediately visible from the two lines I actually added so I wou
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by Slartie 6y ago
That web site clearly advertises a Tesla car. Hence it is an advertisement. Maybe you meant to say "TV commercial"? The German law doesn't make that distinction though, which means that blatantly false claims about capabiliti
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by Slartie 6y ago
But that stuff is particularly relevant for non-owners as well and thus must be judged primarily through the eyes of non-owners. It doesn't matter whether Tesla pays anyone for screen time or whatever to get their message to receptive
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by Slartie 6y ago
Commercial tills also integrate with a huge bunch of other specialized periphery. Payment terminals are an important category (and an ugly one, because each country has its own, and there are many different protocols in use), but receipt pr
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by Slartie 6y ago
I have a very similar situation: I loved using MacBook Pros as my work computer for over 10 years now, but while my job consists of 80% of cross-platform Java development stuff, it also includes working on and compiling various custom binar
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by Slartie 6y ago
Next question: are they keeping it at 11.x now or are they just adopting the same numbering scheme that brought us Chrome 82 and Firefox 76?
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by Slartie 6y ago
I noticed that too. Might have trademark or legal reasons though. Technically, if they're able to dynamically translate x86 to ARM as they've explicitly stated (with JIT of JS and the JVM as the example) they should be able to dyn
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by Slartie 6y ago
Regarding the "120Hz dance", which sure is ridiculous, the author could probably give the nice little tool "SwitchResX" a try. I adore that piece of software because it allowed me to force my MacBook to properly supply m
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by Slartie 6y ago
The question is not whether they can "technically" do it - of course they can, as they've already demonstrated. The question is whether they can make it work from a market perspective. Last time they transitioned from a niche
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by Slartie 6y ago
> there’s a hotline for getting codes when the laboratory can’t get you one This cannot be overstated and is generally underestimated by developers. Setting up a hotline infrastructure (actually it's two hotlines, one which is more
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by Slartie 6y ago
In 2006 or so I did the same, building a projector out of a laptop LCD (without the laptop, just a plain LCD module and a controller), some lenses, a fresnel lens (cut in half, one part before and one after the LCD) and a 400 watts mercury
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by Slartie 6y ago
It is more a failure than anything else. Sweden has been hit as hard economically as anybody else, and now gets isolated by its Scandinavian cousins Denmark and Norway, which are opening up borders and easing travel restrictions right now..

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