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by crote 2mo ago
Credit card tap-to-pay doesn't have to be slow. The transaction could be done asynchronously, and some payment schemes even explicitly classify transit transactions as impossible-to-fail and will ignore things like overdraft limits.
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by crote 2mo ago
It also allows for easy in-transit checking: anyone on the "secure" side of the fare gates must be in possession of a card whose last transaction was a tap-in. There's no chance of a cheeky "it wasn't me who jum
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by crote 2mo ago
The original Dutch system used a very similar approach: the card not only stores the balance, but also a history of taps, and information about the travel products. Your travel history is available on a website, but new trips are only sho
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by crote 2mo ago
In The Netherlands it is exactly the same, just from a different vendor and with different branding. Of course the "not invented here" mentality resulted in it being woefully insecure when it was introduced in 2014, and NFC tap-to
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by crote 2mo ago
IBANs aren't secret, they have the same level of confidentiality as your address or birth date. One-off SEPA Direct Debit is virtually unheard of, recurring payments are a bit more common but usually involve a €0,01 payment to prove ow
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by crote 2mo ago
Absolutely not. This is 100% self-inflicted. What we are seeing here is a trillion-dollar company screwing over its existing well-established customer base in a desperate attempt to get some crumbs of the current hype cycle. GitHub isn&#x27
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by crote 2mo ago
If events like these are "nearly impossible to predict", how come this post is linking to a scientific paper predicting exactly this scenario ? This flood is like The Big One in California. We know it is going to happen, it is
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by crote 2mo ago
Arch doesn't market itself as a newbie-friendly opinionated secure-by-default distro. An Arch package having less-than-ideal default settings is pretty normal: the user is expected to read the manpages and the Arch wiki when making any
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by crote 2mo ago
It became unfashionable when the general public realized it was also commonly used to, say, lock up and lobotomize women for wanting to vote, or divorce their husband. Your child is "difficult"? To the asylum it is!
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by crote 2mo ago
So how come the weak-on-crime Western European countries are not drowning in homeless drug addicts?
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by crote 2mo ago
So how come incarceration in Asia is orders of magnitude lower than in the US?
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by crote 2mo ago
The biggest drug dealers are legitimate doctors. You can't solve the problem without first adressing the pipeline to addiction. Want to get rid of drug addicts? Start by banning all pharma ads and stopping over-prescription.
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by crote 2mo ago
Can we start with the drug-using tech billionaires?
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by crote 2mo ago
Very few people want to be homeless. The alternatives offered to them just somehow manage to be even worse than homelessness.
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by crote 2mo ago
It really makes you wonder what their long-term plan is. If buying no longer means owning because the platform can steal it back at any time, why would anyone ever "purchase" a movie? Clearly ownership has become meaningless, so
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by crote 2mo ago
Grid congestion in The Netherlands is highly localized: the last-mile wiring is at its limits, but higher up there is plenty of capacity. Furthermore, the congestion is time- and condition-dependent: people living in a home want 24/7 a
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by crote 2mo ago
And yet, building city-sized datacenters is somehow totally doable.
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by crote 2mo ago
That's the cost of Western retail for you! $0.50 to get it manufactured somewhere in Asia, $4.00 to get it shipped to the US, tested, packaged, put on a shelf, retrieved for your order, and put in a box to ship your way. You're no
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by crote 2mo ago
Because putting a somewhat-precise resistor inside a connector is not trivial, and would likely double the price of the connector due to the increased complexity of manufacturing. On the other hand: the resistor itself is basically free,
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by crote 2mo ago
> if nobody follows the spec, it's the problem in the spec The vast majority of devices follow the spec. It isn't exactly hard, you know: throw "how do i implement a usb-c port on a device" in Google and its AI summ
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by crote 2mo ago
There is nothing to detect on the sink side, for basic operation. All the smarts are in the power source. It's like saying USB cables should still carry 10Gbps data when only the VBUS and GND wires are present, because some AliExpress
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by crote 2mo ago
... which is exactly why a source with a female USB-C port is not supposed to apply VBUS until it detects a sink. Obvious counterpoint: what's going to happen when two noncompliant "always provide 5V" USB-C wall warts are c
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by crote 2mo ago
> to a USB 2 only device, a C-C cable looks different to an A-C cable It does not. The vast majority of sinks have absolutely no knowledge of the cable used. This is literally device engineers not bothering to read any part of the US
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by crote 2mo ago
It absolutely would. This is an "didn't even read a 5-paragraph AI summary of the spec" level of a design defect. If you need this fix, it will literally refuse to work with any spec-compliant USB-C device on the other si
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by crote 2mo ago
The problem is that the application of the rules is inherently usage-specific. For example, with the 1% duty cycle limit it is totally fine to have a transmission take 30 seconds - provided you only send 1 transmission an hour. Want to se
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by crote 2mo ago
> We need reliable, real-world ~20mbit/s for our warehouse scanners, not 382722 theoretical Gbit/s 5cm from the access point Those two are the same thing, though! Literally nobody is hitting those insane theoretical transmi
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by crote 2mo ago
Why would they? Iran has been fairly harmless for decades, and the downsides of starting a war with Iran are pretty obvious . What's next, starting a war with Egypt or Panama, just for funsies? Pre-Trump, some European countries might
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by crote 2mo ago
Is it? How is America going to project its power without the ability to use overseas air bases? Is it going to do Falklands-style bombing runs to the Middle East, with 15 tankers to get a single small bomber to its target? Is it going to ac
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by crote 2mo ago
Germany came into being in 1871, and was in essence a monarchy until 1918. The Weimar Republic was its first attempt at a proper democracy, and it included an explicit "in case of emergency, we can revert back to totalitarianism"
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by crote 2mo ago
There were no real negotiations, and there were never going to be. This has always been painfully obvious to anyone with even the slightest interest in EU foreign relations. The options on the table have always been the same: You can be l

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