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by dsl 5y ago
Think of SWIFT like the internet. You can build your own new internet, but you also need everyone else to connect to it as well. If a Russian oligarch wants to transfer money to a Swiss bank to buy a new boat, they'd need to convince t
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by dsl 5y ago
The actual reason is because SWIFT gives the US/EU visibility into all inter-bank transfers, which provides us intelligence to build sanctions on top of. It's the financial equivalent of kicking Russia diplomats out of a building
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by dsl 5y ago
Because back then the price of bitcoin was much lower. It is $124 million in today dollars, like $1,000 in back then dollars.
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by dsl 5y ago
I think this is Akamai figuring out they need to address the self-serve market. Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.
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by dsl 5y ago
> Sure, but it isn't a CORE REQUIREMENT for the service to function. Again, you don't know Maps product roadmap. Google is taking its "Next Billion Users" initiative very seriously internally. They might be looking at
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by dsl 5y ago
> Unlikely What is your basis for this opinion? Network operators are already talking about it. > Too late. IPv4 are set to hit 1024K (2^20) in January 2024 at current trends Allow me to expand that number for you: 1,048,576 One mill
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by dsl 5y ago
> As someone who's degree had a course in sattelite rangefinding So you are well versed in multipath reflection and why it makes unassisted GPS in urban environments with tall buildings close together almost completely unusable? &gt
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by dsl 5y ago
It is standard on the Cherokee and Compass. On the Wrangler it is part of the Advanced Safety Group with adaptive cruise control. I think it might have to do with false positives when off-road.
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by dsl 5y ago
This is the dataset: https://insight.shrp2nds.us/documents/shrp2_background.pdf It covers 5.4 million trips in 3,400 vehicles with digitally collected records and vehicle data and has been independently validated by th
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by dsl 5y ago
Actual North Korean state sponsored hackers operate from embassies abroad, not from domestic locations. They also hire "security companies" in places like India and China to do a lot of the dirty work.
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by dsl 5y ago
The shell doesn't know what the underlying filesystem is. : is special on NTFS for alternative data streams, and I think HFS+ named forks? (The mac syntax is foo/..namedfork/rsrc, I don't know how that translates to linu
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by dsl 5y ago
> A /48 is considered one "site" in current thinking. This is the really important part. As they continue to hand out IPv6 like candy, the minimum prefix length will get shorter. No ISP wants a hundred million+ routes in t
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by dsl 5y ago
> non-essential data sharing But it is essential. Google (and Apple) maps provide lane specific navigation directions, which are really only possible with assisted GPS. In theory GPS has the accuracy, but remember you are in a big metal
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by dsl 5y ago
In your head come up with a list of ten people you know that you'd let die in exchange. That is the trade off we are balancing.
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by dsl 5y ago
No. It wasn't that bad. School still continued. Your children are at most slightly inconvenienced during a global pandemic that has killed MILLIONS of people. All you have to do is keep your kid looking at a screen. They may need t
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by dsl 5y ago
Of course all of our problems go away when you convince the remaining 40% of the population to get vaccinated. I'm actually in favor of doing away with masks and social distancing. Just create a nationwide policy that the unvaccinated
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by dsl 5y ago
At your dentist or plastic surgery clinic, sure. Hospitals everywhere are short on nurses and anything that can be delayed still is. A friend was recently transfered to another hospital to give birth because the maternity ward was unstaffed
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by dsl 5y ago
I know multiple households where the initial infection vector was the kids. Grandpa might be stupid and refuse the vaccine, but keeping little Billy from becoming a carrier lessens the hospital load. If screaming Karens are going to insist
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by dsl 5y ago
Aside from all the flashy handwavy marketing "technospeak" what SpinRite actually does under the hood is re-read each bit from the disk thousands of times and then see if it gets more 0s or 1s. It works well when a drive is past t
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by dsl 5y ago
> Is there something impassably / chronically dangerous about nuclear power or is it just public fear that pushes us away from it? Oil funding of anti-nuclear FUD. Thats it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilve
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by dsl 5y ago
I think what they meant is prior to the "digital farming revolution" if you called up a satellite/arial imagery company and requested anything other than visible spectrum, you'd not only get some strange looks - they&#x2
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by dsl 5y ago
https://www.nro.gov/
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by dsl 6y ago
If it is newsworthy when they are removed, it is also newsworthy when a company makes a decision not to remove them.
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by dsl 6y ago
Governments, Universities, and large corporations have had ongoing source licenses for Windows back to the 95 days. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
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by dsl 6y ago
You were speaking authoritatively about the underlying code of an app that had a review issue related to Touch Bar, and made an incorrect statement that there are no design requirements for that feature. I was giving you guidance on why tha
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by dsl 6y ago
You either referenced NSTouchBar or included a library that did so. Sometimes it is as simple as a error reporting library or ad network client trying to enumerate the device hardware. The Human Interface Guidelines explicitly lay out what
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by dsl 6y ago
To understand the economics of oil you have to think of it as a raw ingredient rather than a fuel source. Even if you stop burning it (which I think is a terrible idea), you can't live without oil. Antiseptics, rubbing alcohol, paint,
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by dsl 6y ago
You can't value oil under your own soil the same as imported oil, and it has nothing to do with profit. Oil demand is never going away (we need it for plastic, lubricants for wind turbines, etc) but the supply is. When you are talking
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by dsl 6y ago
> How exactly would Americans feel for that country later? 30% of our country doesn't see Russia as a threat, with some going as far as wearing "I’d rather be a Russian than a Democrat" t-shirts in public.
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by dsl 6y ago
> Other than aesthetics, what are the advantages of the point cloud? Higher bandwidth? Higher information density, in that it can pass ad-hoc wifi network info and cryptographic keys. The animated "QR code" also contains a uniq

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