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by bilbo0s 2y ago
They don’t. They make bad policy, to stay in power. Political ideologues nowadays generally have no points to make. They believe in whatever will keep them in power. That’s how we end up with a nation full of ‘conservatives’ who routinely o
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Not gonna tell you how to live your life. However, as a general rule for others who may find themselves in similar situations. I’d advise that if one is already on the IRS radar in this fashion, s/he probably ought to refrain from post
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This required a lot more than 50. There was a lot of planning and execution on this. Maybe foreign agents could do it with 50? If they were supported by satellites and other tools to which these attackers likely did not have access. But for
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
??? Um, sabotaging any city's water tunnels would make the city uninhabitable for years. Most frightening experience I ever had as engineer in my life: I was intern. At a place in a midwestern city where a city's water infrastru
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
And let's not forget the premise is all wrong as well. It's frightening how easy it is for an foreign actor to knock out a country's railway system The attack on SNCF was not "easy". This was a methodical, large s
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Perhaps you find us annoying because we're less likely to buy into your BS?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Paris metro? You saw no criminals, nor SDF nor mentally ill? You’re either lying, and have never actually been on the Paris metro. Or you’re lying, and you saw plenty of SDF and mentally ill, but just wanted to take a jab at the US. There
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The Chinese already have a tight hold on rail in Africa. So the joke’s on them.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
If the bar is people who are arrested but "were not convicted of any crimes" , then yeah, the number is a whole lot higher for everyone. I'd estimate the 10-15% figure is for the people who are sent to prison. 10-15% of them
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I'm glad someone said it. You're only ok with it if you're not interested in having maximum freedom of movement vis-a-vis any potential exits.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Sigh. Guys, eBPF provides more limited access to kernel features. That’s by design. Whatever the platform, the idea with eBPF is to limit kernel access and provide safe access only where ‘necessary’. The entire issue is that MS limited acce
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I don’t know man? At some level, we would have to accept that if we’re giving people, many of them hackers, access to kernel level facilities, there is a risk involved. If you want no risk, use a walled off OS. If you want a more flexible o
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Just Devils advocate, but, If MS is really not allowed to protect their kernel, that part of whatever EU understanding they have should probably be revisited. I’m not sure it’s gonna hamper things legally too much to let MS, and everyone el
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
You guys aren't thinking clearly. It's far more likely that the FCC knows the requisite surveillance is already integrated into the general telecom infrastructure in the country. There is no longer any need for special surveillanc
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
You just made the single point of failure your software stack hardware abstraction layer. There’s a bug in it, you’re down. Everywhere. Not only that, but if there is CS in either your HAL, or your application you’re down. So to get the red
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
That’s very different though. That’s avoidable. We all can easily have our services running in different data centers around the world. Heck, the non-amateurs out there all have their services running in different Amazon data centers around
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
What license would allow complete freedom for everyone else, but constrain Amazon and Cloudflare?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
How would you stop them? The license is Apache 2.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Uh.. That would almost be worse. All copyright holders would need to do is search a list of titles if I'm understanding your proposal correctly. The idea is not to get sued.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Problem is if our congress were to make laws they would make tough on terrorist laws to compel collection and storage of data for the good guys to get the bad guys easier. We all seem to forget that the patriot act passed 99 to 1. Whereupon
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I've found Ghana to be the only country in West Africa where you can reliably outsource and get quality work back with no headaches. Maybe if I did business in French, Senegal would be reliable as well. But the rest of West Africa has
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Don't even have to go all the way to ray tracing. Most beginners are baffled by Vulkan. And when I finally sat down one day and tried to be objective while comparing OpenGL to Vulkan code, I couldn't say that I blamed them. I now
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Taking a decision to build a nuclear power plant on a fault line always is. Better plan would probably be to build a nuclear plant in Arizona and export the power to California. Use some of it for desalination. Then export water to Arizona.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Non transferable. Water rights for that farm. Not for a place 250 miles away. We sometimes forget how big California is. It’s not a regular state geographically speaking. Even if it were legal, how do you move the water 250 miles? Oftentime
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
We can. We don’t because who wants to pay for that? A long time ago you were talking about the Greatest Generation. OK. Fine. I can see them agreeing to pay for big projects. Generations nowadays though? Yeah, not so much. I suppose at a st
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Again, in fairness, the user you’re responding to did say in another comment that these threads were a bunch of low effort comments by people with no understanding. Might explain the comments you saw.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
To be fair, how is that different from comments on any other HN thread?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
That’s likely looking at a second order effect. Consider, how many rubber-stampers have been removed from the critical path within the FAA since 2020? Probably a decided drop in the number of golf outings with Boeing and Airbus guys as well
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
That’s the idea in the industry. But that’s not how Boeing’s been running for a long time. Not really sure they will ever get it back. What we’re seeing right now from the FAA, is calibrated safety theatre in an attempt to ameliorate Boei
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
That person on the floor must be, and usually is, indemnified That's not how FAA submitted documentation works. Just don't sign it if you have any questions. I never signed anything until I had personally verified the data and&#

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