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by evgen 5y ago
I use a US voip provider (line2) which I ported my number over to. I tried briefly to use Google Voice and it was too much of a pain to deal with; less expensive but too many pieces, including a few third-party tools and SIP providers, that
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by evgen 5y ago
> I wonder if any of these VPN services are actually peer to peer, so that your IP is an exit address for people that want to pretend to be in your country. It is not quite peer-to-peer, but not as hidden as you might think. Nord and few
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by evgen 5y ago
Not sure who told you that you could get away without having a cookie opt-out option, but even in post-Brexit UK you still need this. Having the alternative to 'accept all our tracking' be a 'learn more' that just goes t
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by evgen 5y ago
> SpaceX, at least as much Shotwell than him SpaceX without Elon would still have been SpaceX, SpaceX without Gwynne Shotwell would have been another Blue Origin.
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by evgen 5y ago
FWIW it has at least passed a sniff-test from Bellingcat, which is probably as close as us normal mortals will ever come to being able to vet a doc like this. If Bellingcat FSB sources suggest this was 'probably written by a colleague
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by evgen 5y ago
All monitors have DisplayPort and HDMI inputs, using DP<->DP, usb-c<->DP, and usb-c<->HDMI (latter for the 1080p display). Also using DisplayLink Manager to drive the 2nd and 3rd extra displays.
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by evgen 5y ago
Sounds like you didn't do enough research. I am using a CalDigit TS3+ with 2x4K and 1x1080p external displays on a M1 Macbook Pro to write this comment. It is not difficult at all to do and took less than five minutes of searching for
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by evgen 5y ago
Having moved to the UK from the US I have watched the Cadbury saga with amusement. As a well-travelled food snob I have known for decades that US chocolate (e.g. Hershey et al) is absolute shit. What I find hilarious is that people in the U
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by evgen 5y ago
It is IDNA, the standard for encoding international unicode names into ascii dns. In this case the name is the encoding for ä1.com and that is what would show up in browsers that convert punycode back to ascii in the url bar.
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by evgen 5y ago
This is a useless game to play only if you lack the critical thinking skills necessary to notice that the account in question does nothing but parrot CCP talking points. There is a difference between casual disagreement and simple propagan
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by evgen 5y ago
This would be a valid point if the account in question did anything but post CCP apologia and parrot the latest talking points of the party. An example of a commenting history that does not get you immediately dismissed as a CCP drone would
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by evgen 5y ago
"Oh, those grapes were probably sour anyway!" Some people work a short period to get a taste of the tech stack and pace of a FAANG while other people post to HN about upcoming interviews at Meta and how they may hate the company&#
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by evgen 5y ago
No, the most efficient way to solve climate change is for people to consume less crap; this reduces far more wasted resources. There is no need to give up your privacy and no need for corrupt middlemen to track you.
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by evgen 5y ago
The Hiller flying platform is a rather cool gadget and Bay-area folks can see one at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos. With all of the wacky vehicles people have made using jumped-up quadcopter designs or small jet engines I am rea
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by evgen 5y ago
Some people claim, without much proof, that ads without tracking are less effective. We don't care and would prefer to see their business model fail than to maintain the status quo. That is the point here.
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by evgen 5y ago
The latter case is related more to 'writing something down [on paper]' than to a standard up/down usage that implies directionality.
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by evgen 5y ago
L2 is unstable so sitting there is not a win. By orbiting (and orbiting at quite a long distance from the actual L2 point) the JWST can ensure its solar panels get maximum sunlight.
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by evgen 5y ago
Yeah, but when you become internet famous in certain circles then the income stream appears. Within hours of this hitting various sub-reddits a gufundme was in place ( https://www.gofundme.com/f/thedacare-exemployee-supp
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by evgen 5y ago
Everything is written in Python because early in on the process people realized that you are not doing anything special and are certainly not doing actual math: you are just wiring together libraries that you barely understand using a cookb
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by evgen 5y ago
Try conducting a financial transaction from the US with an entity in Iran or North Korea and get back to us about how it is impossible for the US government to enforce such a law. Now try to do it from some other country whose banks engage
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by evgen 5y ago
While gasoline demand may bounce up and down, it is important to remember that no one is pumping petrol out of the ground. It is a component of crude oil and so some fraction of the crude oil demand is being pushed forward by ICE users. If
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by evgen 5y ago
This really depends on how quickly the virus in question mutates and what components of the virus the vaccine keys on for its protective features. HIV evolves quickly (it is a sloppy replicator and is a fast reproducer) but if the vaccine t
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by evgen 5y ago
> it's pretty clear they're talking about DES, which the NSA was pushing everyone to adopt Nope, this was filmed in the mid-90s. Public-key encryption was the new hotness and DES was very old skool by this point. Since the &#x
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by evgen 5y ago
For the same reason that, in this case, the UK cannot make someone stateless it is not possible for Bangladesh to do so either. Her Bangladeshi citizenship is by blood and cannot be revoked while her UK citizenship is by naturalization and
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by evgen 5y ago
It is the former. Countries are not allowed to make someone stateless and the UK bill in question explicitly states that this can only be applied to someone with other citizenships available to them. There are different types of birthright
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by evgen 5y ago
The reality of the situation seems to be that we have all decided upon the proper collective course of action and you are the one who is in denial. You are the one who seems to have no clue why nations form, why this particular nation came
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by evgen 5y ago
This is just flat-out wrong. I am sitting here in the UK and I get occasional calls from my bank, from businesses, and even from what appear to be random numbers (e.g. when my Ocado driver is running late/early and wants to update me a
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by evgen 5y ago
The GIL is less about python being easy to embed, than it is about embedding other libraries into python. The GIL was set up to make it easy to wrap C code and expose it to python code. A task for which it served quite well at the time and
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by evgen 5y ago
Studies have shown over and over again that scientific literacy is no panacea against believing in bad science and that facts are poor counter-points to aggressive disinformation. HN is filled to the brim with people who declare their STEM
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by evgen 5y ago
> I'd say protect the weak properly, have the current vaccination restrictions on everybody, but otherwise let the rest get on with their lives. Even if it means some will die. From my perspective its criminal to fuck up children&#x

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