baybal2

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by baybal2 3y ago
Countries indeed used cab drivers as spies, ie USSR
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by baybal2 3y ago
The Communist Party of China also owns 5-6% of Blackrock.
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by baybal2 3y ago
Exactly the opposite, the project was pulled from the mothballs very recently. It's very likelly it was initiated as part of the same PR excercise, of which the war itself was part of.
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by baybal2 3y ago
You forgot one massive point Short circuit due to vibration letting sharp parts cut through insulation. Normally, cabling near vibrating parts must be installed in a protective sleeve, but penny pinchers pinch.
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by baybal2 3y ago
And it's a big irony that LG had to cease production of their otherwise excellent linear compressors globally because they were sued to death by legal trolls in USA.
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by baybal2 3y ago
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/125200/... At "only" 100GBPs per adapter, with said adapter costing like 1 Epyc, does it make sense? Epycs can do 400gbps of
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by baybal2 3y ago
The amount of academic publications outside of English native language countries have long surpassed the amount of publications in US+UK No wonder, these tools just gather word statistics from some large online publications repository.
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by baybal2 3y ago
It is not, or, if it is, it's completely not serious. As I said in the other comment, the majority of global money laundering happens in banks, and investment funds completely legally. And it's also happening primarily in US becau
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by baybal2 3y ago
Real estate is not that big of a money laundering channel. It's mostly the most unsophisticated mobs. The absolute majority of laundry is happening in 100% legal banks, and investment funds. Any baddie who can launder few billion dolla
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by baybal2 3y ago
While he maintained an office in Russia, for everyone to see, while denying that publicly.
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by baybal2 3y ago
> Hong Kong belonged to China already, it just had a special status that was supposed to expire at some point Hong Kong was leased to the British Crown in the perpetuity.
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by baybal2 3y ago
> totally sufficient for embedded stuff. No, TSMC 22 has no eFLASH, expensive SRAM, lacking of analog capability, lacks high temperature tolerance, and is tied to multiple patterning design flow. TSMC 40 on the other hand is the last por
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by baybal2 3y ago
That's an interesting development. I can't fathom how TSMC would've let Infineon+NXP into the deal without some level of positive, or negative coercion. For Germany, it's an insurance against TSMC possibly bailing out in
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by baybal2 3y ago
1. In much of the country, people drink vodka like people drink Coke, not oligarchs in Moscow though. 2. Much of restaurants in Russia are indeed Chechen owned. Great many of Japanese, Chinese, Korean restaurants, and street food in general
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by baybal2 3y ago
To make the judge even read that contract, they need to send an attorney. And if the SCC judge will say arbitrate, then, why not for something so trivial, and clear cut?
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by baybal2 3y ago
Small claims court, I once got n-times the money frozen in my paypal account. It works, because big cos almost universally settle. Attorneys cost many times more than your acc. And another moment, small claims court judges are rarely some i
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by baybal2 3y ago
And important note that relatively modern coal and gas powerplants are more thermally efficient than nuclear. Nuclear is ran in between 250C-350C, which is rather inefficient, and requires very big turbines.
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by baybal2 3y ago
But that is one generation of GPUs away when they will make some computational shortcut for small triangles, which to me seems to be rather trivial to implement.
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by baybal2 3y ago
We still use smartcards within the company for everything. Either standard plastic for admin access, and USB dongles for regular employees which they take home. An "Insert the dongle" popup is instantly understandable, and we neve
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by baybal2 3y ago
On the other hand, this shows GFW authors are more, and more considerate of the collateral damage, which is a surprise. It seems GFW has indeed became good enough to frustrate casual users to trigger uproar when windows update, or AWS ip ra
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by baybal2 3y ago
> The reporting by traditional media had a lot of „not independently confirmed“ details. This was very strange, given that everything was happening in a densely populated area - Rostov, Voronezh, Lipetsk and Tula are big cities, M4 is an
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by baybal2 3y ago
An unfortunate Russian passport holder, my parents were one of richest people in Russian Far East in the early nineties. Hackernewsers knows well I am extremely anti-Russian. The West massively misunderstands Russia, and how it works on the
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by baybal2 3y ago
> Tangentially, I wish there was some online resources for learning how best design for manufacture for things like laptops and cases. You are effectively asking for a disclosure of shop secrets. Even in cases of completely no-name facto
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by baybal2 3y ago
Lots of lenovos, MSIs were using the "bathtub" back in late 200X. But when the trend for ridiculously thin laptops came, they went back to upside down.
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by baybal2 3y ago
In the past, it was solved this way. A heavy contactor powers on stage 1, stage 1 powers another heavy contactor powering stage 2, stage 2 does the same with stage 3. When mains voltage is too low, the contactor cannot close. This way this
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by baybal2 3y ago
> I just feel like there's probably an interesting story there, but we never hear it, just the tidbit that can fit in the headline. They say that the trade was done under cover, but they don't tell why the Soviet Union was doin
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by baybal2 3y ago
No, most of these fancy adhesives are hand applied. Screws on the other hand are perfectly automatable with enough investment into tooling. A screw does not need feedback for being torqued to spec, but for glue, you need eyes to see if it s
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by baybal2 3y ago
Dubai is not Saudi Arabia
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by baybal2 3y ago
This sounds very much like... prelink?
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by baybal2 3y ago
No, it's a scorched earth tactic, in preparation to abandoning Crimea. Without this dam, Crimea will be without water for at least next 3 to 5 years after Ukraine recaptures it.

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