YeBanKo

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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Nuclear energy is clean, until it is not. When something goes wrong it can easily go terribly wrong. Such 180 degree swings in public opinion seems dangerous. In 2018 Macron talks about reducing France' reliance on nuclear energy [1],
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
> certain data types must be removed in your commercial offering per FAA. Can you link to source if it? Afaik everything transmitted by ADS-B is public including military and le. FAA allows mil or le to turn off ADS-B out if it can compr
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
> Of course, none of these desires relate in any way to your personal happiness or true desires. This is where I stopped reading, because of course the most egregious false generalization typically starts with words like “of coruse”, “it
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
A bit of a digression, but when is it appropriate to introduce kids to a computer at all. Isn't 2 years old too young? There are ways to entertain creativity and abstract thinking at that age that involve more physical activity. It doe
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Why not?
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
What kind if data would they be collecting and whom selling to? I can’t see any way this could impact their financials?
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
US taxes unrealized capital gains as well: NSO and AMT on ISO.
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Tracking the FDA advisory panel meeting on Covid-19 vaccines for kids(statnews.com)
1 points by YeBanKo 5y ago|0 comments
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Why do you think, that this policy is well intended? Honestly, a lot funds end in private pockets right away. Even recent homeless relocation to hotels benefited hotels mostly. They would be sitting idle otherwise, and even all the damage c
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
> they could alternatively adhere to SEC guidelines for selling financial instruments to the public. Clear auditing, GAAP, prospectus including a frank discussion of risks, etc. Imo it would make it worse. Most of widely available standa
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
I agree, only the selected few should be allowed to participate in financial schemas, that may yield very high rewards. For middle and lower class, let's leave gambling and lottery. Wealth has to come from generations. /s In all s
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
For IT it’s often that whoever makes software, also tests it. When dealing with outsourcers, there comes a level of complexity. Government contractors don’t have skin in the game, and hence motivation to appropriately handle this complexity
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
They gave notice and waited until the offending pages were taken down. The article does not specify what the original html looked like, it could be a simple artifact from testing, when someone dumped the entire object into a template for de
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Yeah, and median house price next to the great schools is 2mil. Or it is fairly far from big tech hubs.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
I suspect he did not use the API and rather emulated actions in browser. Action was performed on behalf of the user and data scope he collected was limited to one user using extension, which theoretically equivalent to a user’s execution of
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
"facebook is a private company that can do whatever they want" – as much as i like the argument, i don't think it applies here. In the US being banned by one or few bug tech companies is almost similar to being banned by USPS
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
“That’s why Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan includes billions of dollars to reshore manufacturing, invest in basic research, and beef up domestic supply chains.” – everything has to be a political propaganda.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
> users can not (and a tiny subset of users that actually know how to, will not) securely manage* key material. True. And the is also true for password. Sure, generation is different and a way to authorizing a transaction is different, b
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
There are ways to mitigate, such as multisig wallet. For day to day, use a wallet with a small amount. When it's balance runs low, you can replenish the amount from your vault, that requires at least 2 signatures. Crypto is not about c
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
One thing that cryptocurrencies achieved is they introduced a private key authentication at scale. For a moment, there was a hope that we can move to private key authentication mechanism. But, unfortunately, it was quickly rolled back by in
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
No amount of increase of general scientific literacy will allow public in general to read/understand highly specialized fields. And most fields end up being highly specialized. But access to source can allow someone to validate the cla
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Donated three times until they announced partnership with mobilecoin. It signals strange priorities.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Telegram supports E2EE only of you specifically switch to secret chats and I believe it is only supported in pm, not in groups.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
They also did not acknowledge the previous big outage, that happen at the beginning of the year. Their blog does not mention what steps are being taken to mitigate scalability issues. While the protocol and their effort to make everything s
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
I hope they will focus on backend stability, as it seems to be their biggest issue yet, not the lack of built in payment method.
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Signal is experiencing technical difficulties(status.signal.org)
186 points by YeBanKo 5y ago|251 comments
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
One more way PII can be leaked, now enriched with another piece of data: gun ownership. Yet, it’s going to cause zero reduction in gun violence and illegal firearm possessions. So it penalizes legal gun ownership.
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Apple's Siri and Applebot targeted by a patent troll(appleinsider.com)
1 points by YeBanKo 5y ago|0 comments
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
So they can fully focus on drug cartels.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
No, all the enablers are danger to society.

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