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by beezle 6y ago
I really doubt that MSFT is going to go into chips in a big way. That would not pass anticompetitive muster given the lock-in with their OS. Even if they claimed publicly they would sell the chips to anyone, who will believe the deal will b
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by beezle 6y ago
>and transform "dealer networks" into "maintenance networks". People tend to overlook just how many service centers are available for the big three (about 10K), not even counting independent garages. Tesla has..500.
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by beezle 6y ago
Seems far crazier to base spending not on a predefined amount of revenue appropriate for the various levels of government but instead on what those governments would like to have or do and then finding ways to pay for it (taxes or debt).
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by beezle 6y ago
The issue is the 'progressive' nature of the tax code. Everyone could be taxed at the same rate and the 'rich' would still pay the most in tax dollars. The only reason ever given for why the 'rich' should pay a
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by beezle 6y ago
If anything applies it probably would be the commerce clause
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by beezle 6y ago
Not big fan of taxes in general but I find the whole 'wealth' tax to be especially odious. Why not call it what it is, a pre-death estate tax? If the government is to tariff/tax, it should be done at the time of use or inco
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by beezle 6y ago
I'm sure others could add to the list but at the very least shouldn't all Americans be on the hook for the cost of the defense of the country? I'll agree though that the reporting and other requirements are needlessly complex
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by beezle 6y ago
Slightly off topic - it would be refreshing if financial and other institutions provided similar public post mortems on incidents that affect large numbers of their clients. Recent ones that come to mind are Interactive Brokers and Robinhoo
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by beezle 6y ago
When will somebody replace Google (and Bing) with one that actually works again? Is the cost of entry that high? Is there no business model to permit one to operate at some level of profit? I'm sure most here have been frustrated by t
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by beezle 6y ago
From the author's post, I get the feeling basic research and the research environment are what he misses. There is something powerful about contributing to the universal body of knowledge vs say finding patterns in data to help better
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by beezle 6y ago
Institutions are in bitcoin because there is far too much free cash to soley invest in equities, bonds or money markets. Institutions are also in bitcoin because it is a market that is easily moved so they can make significant trading prof
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by beezle 6y ago
The bitcoin faithful don't like to hear that having 'faith' is not the same thing as 'being in demand.' What you see now is not the movement of a currency (a stable temporary store of value) but the modern day equi
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by beezle 6y ago
Newspapers, magazines and broadcast news have been actively, negligently and often knowingly defaming people and organizations for decades (centuries?), sometimes with very serious consequences for the offended parties. I've not heard
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by beezle 6y ago
pigeons are rats that can fly
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by beezle 6y ago
TreeRats
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by beezle 6y ago
Not specializing in this area, I'm somewhat at a loss to understand what is so unique about the M1 that competitors could not implement similar in other ARM based systems or instead on Intel/AMD? Maybe another way to ask is what
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by beezle 6y ago
Back in the day... COBOL programmers were often 'analysts' as well - meeting with the end users and/or management to design and then implement the required system. Funny to me how so many in this thread rag on COBOL, yet when
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by beezle 6y ago
Surprised still using fortran 90. Thought everything now is 95 or 2003 and up.
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by beezle 6y ago
Likely "The one thing different about trump is that he purposely provoked the media" Generally, one does not provoke your sympathizers.
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by beezle 6y ago
Also, it is probably possible to narrow down pin codes by looking at the surface of the phone for finger prints/screen damage. At least on Android, the unlock will appear in the same location every time and unless your pin uses every
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by beezle 6y ago
There is no equivalence between Gore in 2000 and Trump in 2020. Gore demanded a recount of the exceedingly close outcome in Florda, one which hinged in large part on the accurate counting of the dreadful butterfly ballot. Gore at no time sa
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by beezle 6y ago
It seems funny to me that when people say things about the "media" they by implication omit such members as Fox News, the many, many right leaning web-only news sites and "conservative" talk radio (terrestrial and sat).
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by beezle 6y ago
You do know of course that the governor of Texas expanded early voting by personal proclomation, right? I suppose other states which did not have early voting, or a shorter window, can now claim TX has created substantial illegal votes by s
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by beezle 6y ago
Is there precedent for such a thing? Five or ten years after approving acquisitions and then saying 'oh our bad, that was anticompetitive' I'm not a fan of FB, was only a user briefly (though still maintain whatsapp) but fin
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by beezle 6y ago
Until proven otherwise. And honestly, where is the 'national security' risk? There is probably far more data available in public databases that China could gather and analyze, not to mention you can apply the same paranoia to ot
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by beezle 6y ago
If I read Tutanota's explanation of encryption correctly, messages sent between users are encrypted on the client side. While it would be obvious in network traffic if they sent back plain text to their server, it is possible to encryp
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by beezle 6y ago
Norway is also a member of NATO which could subject it to additional pressures (same applies to other member states).
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by beezle 6y ago
>The court seems to have forced Tutanota to store new incoming non-encrypted emails in plaintext This makes sense as AFAIK Tutanota messages between users are encrypted on the client side, not the server side. I guess they could try to b
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by beezle 6y ago
Am I the only one having flashbacks to the dot.bomb? It is not just Slack of course but certainly this is good icing on the cake of crazy valuations.
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by beezle 6y ago
FreeBSD is my second OS and has been for over 10 years. Prior to that I was a Slakware adherent. I do dread the update/upgrade process of FreeBSD. Beyond the need to deal with the diff editing, I often need to rebuild/install p

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