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by brmgb 6y ago
> I find it hard to believe there's anti-sub tech that can tell if a given vessel is being operated by cartel members or the Russian navy. Without betraying any secrets, the army can know a lot (I mean a lot) about an enemy submarin
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by brmgb 6y ago
Surface radars don't work too well with objects very close to the sea. It becomes hard to pick them out from the clutter caused by reflections especially if their size is comparable to the height of waves. That's why floating stra
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Military subs have a lot high-tech stealth tech (much of it classified) to hide their electronic signals, engine noise, and so on. Subs have no electronic signals. Water is mostly opaque to EM waves. Small subs are by design pretty sil
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> Most of the numbers I can find for Europe is from surveys of employees, not gathered from data on labour contracts. Then you are looking at it extremely poorly without obnoxious quotes. Most of the official stastics on productivity l
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by brmgb 6y ago
> goodbye European economy Even mass defusing (which no one is suggesting) would not tank European economy. It would barely be a blip actually. We are talking about tunnels in the middle of nowhere. The "Zone rouge" is pretty b
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by brmgb 6y ago
> The UK has notoriously low productivity compared to Europe and the US, and longer average work hours than the rest of Europe. You should be very wary of productivity statistics coming from Europe. I have worked most of the past decade
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by brmgb 6y ago
> "buy-or-build" As an aside, the term of art is "make-or-buy" if you want to be able to Google it. The discussion we are having is interesting because COTS are notorious for their hidden costs and how difficult they
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by brmgb 6y ago
> What counts as an impossible supply challenge is very different at the $500 price point than at the $50 price point. Considering the insane profits pharmaceutical companies are currently recording, the issue has more to do with these c
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Everyone stopped using xrdb more than twenty years ago, same things for drawing primitives. I understand the wish some seems to have for things to never change. It's probably very comforting but things have to move with their time or t
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by brmgb 6y ago
To be honest, there is little emotional investment in Europe regarding Brexit. People wanted to be done with it as the process was wasting valuable union time and there was a feeling it was needlessly draging on but from what I have seen Eu
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by brmgb 6y ago
> oxygen replacing suppressants No, they are a major risk to the employees working there. I would much rather have a data center destroyed by for every twenty years without victims than mandating the user of oxygen replacing fire suppres
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by brmgb 6y ago
You are completely missing the point (it feels like I am now posting this everyday on HN). No one is asking for a Blue Snowball mic and Logitech webcam in their laptop. People are rightfully wondering why in world a ubiquous small competent
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> This is quite a significant revision to your previous statement that there’s nothing about a data center that makes it more secure than your house. I said there was nothing magical about data centers security, a point I stand with. It
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by brmgb 6y ago
Of course it's serious. You are entierly missing the point by quoting the compliance programs followed by AWS whose sole business is being a third party hoster. For most business, what you call sensitive data is customers and orders li
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Bankruptcy when dealt with correctly is a process not an end. Yes, that's why "Go bankrupt" is not a plan which was the entire point of my reply. That's like saying that your disaster recovery plan is "solve
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by brmgb 6y ago
> but it seems whole of SBG region for OVH is within same disaster radius for one fire SBG is for Strasbourg. That's not a region. It's a city. Obviously, SBG1 to 4 are in the radius of one fire. It's four different buildi
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by brmgb 6y ago
> The publicity damage alone will be on par with (if not bigger) their replacement costs. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to rebrand. Honest question: which publicity damage? A fire in a datacenter is very much part of the things yo
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by brmgb 6y ago
"Go bankrupt" is not a plan. Becoming insolvent might be the end result of a situation but it's not going to help you deal with it. Let's take an example which might lead to bankruptcy. A typical answer to a major disast
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That's because he doesn't trust you with this data. That has nothing to do with encryption safety. There is nothing magical about data centers making them safe while your local copy isn't.
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Cyprus is a member of the EU and has been recognized as a sovereign country by pretty much everyone already. The northern part called the TRNC and under Turkish control isn't however.
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> does that mean we should make the app not bother to get your finger print and just have nfc on all the time? You don't need to unlock your phone to pay amounts under 30€ in my country. You just need the screen to be on. I'm q
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Since the final payment amount is often not known at the time you tap/dip/swipe your card As a foreigner, I have trouble understanding this. How can the final amount of a transaction not be known when you are paying it? Is th
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by brmgb 6y ago
> But that's better than the experience I had with the app when I paid at a McDonald's recently. I was expecting a screen which said something like "You are about to pay $9.72 to McDonald's Corporation. CONTINUE/
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> The branding is not just the literal logo. The typical visual elements peculiar to Peak Design are present in the Amazon Basics version. And? The Amazon Basics definitely is a knockoff of the Peak Design one but that's perfectly l
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The issue is pretending that C even has strings as a semantic concept. It just doesn't. C has sugar to obtain a contiguous block of memory storing a set number of bytes and to initialize them with values you can understand as the strin
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by brmgb 6y ago
More common than you think and a good way to do it. In a hard-real time environment where you need strong guaranties provably overshooting is a sane strategy. Freeing is not free. Missiles are extreme because they never will be reused but y
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by brmgb 6y ago
That's brilliant marketing from Peak Design and Amazon obviously copied their product features but contrary to what most commenters seem to think that is not in anyway a counterfeit. A counterfeit has to be made in exact imitation of s
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by brmgb 6y ago
> the fact that the court decided the appeal in publisher’s favour in the first place weirds me out a bit. It looks like emergency COVID regulations against contract termination came into play? Honestly, the surprising part is that Frogw
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> It seems exhaustive enough though, and so far I’m inclined to think they aren’t distorting facts If you read the appeal court judgement summary, you will see that they are actually heavily distorting facts. You are notably missing thes
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My personal enjoyment is watching people argue against measures which have demonstrably been effective in cities around the world (Vienna, Toronto) based on purely theoritical and ideological reasons while failing to address both their poor

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