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by golem14 6y ago
Pragmatically, I believe the threat is that someone has managed to install some malware on your phone/computer/... you are 2FA logged in. If so, then the bad guys can disable 2FA on your account without you having to prove the 2FA
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by golem14 6y ago
Given the recent series of atrocious child porn scandals in Germany, I think this has a good chance of passing.
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by golem14 6y ago
+1. I believe a lot of (if not most) people come to the US not only for the education system, but to have a good chance of getting the green card and eventually citizenship. I don't think that's bad for any party - the US gets acc
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by golem14 6y ago
Agree. I wonder what is the rationale for all this. Other than plain old xenophobia. Will this reduce pandemic ? No, it will incentivize colleges to offer in-person classes promoting COVID. Will this reduce students on non-immigration visas
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by golem14 6y ago
https://egbg.home.xs4all.nl/counterscript.html has a decent resource on how to handle these kinds of calls (if you choose to engage at all). One should really have a printout ready to use at all times.
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by golem14 6y ago
I feel the same about induction cooktops. They all come with crappy electronic control boards and can only regulate approximately in 20 degrees Fahrenheit steps with an internal temperature probe. I just want one without the control board t
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by golem14 6y ago
E.g., if swing/big band is your thing and you live in the Bay area, https://www.kcea.org/ on 89.1 MHz is pretty awesome.
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by golem14 6y ago
Second this! I was soo excited about the Google App Maker as the cloud equivalent, but of course, they shelved the product and will turn it of Jan 19th 2021. The alternative they are touting, "AppSheets", isn't really the sam
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by golem14 6y ago
I don't understand the premise. Why would one expect to be able to interact with the world without any consequences ? That makes little sense, philosophically, at least to me. Even hosting via Tor can have consequences, if the governme
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by golem14 6y ago
Sure, but the equivalent would be to host your content on a Raspberry Pi that is not connected to the internet. What would be the point ?
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by golem14 6y ago
As cool as these Vic-20 and C64 clones are, I think it would be even awesomer to have a small MCU with HDMI booting into a micropython IDE. Of course, this mostly loses some luster when the hardware isn't as completely open/docume
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by golem14 6y ago
Neat! OTOH, Peter Suber's Nomic page must win the contest "who has the biggest dead-to-live link ratio": https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm
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by golem14 6y ago
I say, no need to look at hypotheticals. Just sit back and watch what the Chinese government likely has done with the social media posts from people in Hong Kong, who are now in a desperate rush to obliterate them. Tough look, those have al
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by golem14 6y ago
You can either maximize nutrition or minimize cost, but not both at the same time :)
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by golem14 6y ago
It's an interesting article. I'm not sure I agree with it 100% - I would say a lot depends on the larger picture and incentives. Right now, there is a huge incentives to create "narrow AIs" because they help improve prod
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by golem14 6y ago
This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6m6fS8bxU about the "meshtastic" project is quite interesting. It allows communication via spread spectrum LORA, which seems pretty hard to intercept. Ironically, to u
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by golem14 6y ago
I find crunchbase, owler, linkedin etc overpriced, and they don't really have that great data especially on emerging startups - there's few hard data points they have, and some bias towards companies who volunteer their data (or i
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by golem14 6y ago
What's the use case you're after ?
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by golem14 6y ago
Yup, the private entity would have to make a deal with the EU to only send OKed passengers on a plane (and crew, too). It's not that hard. And while tests are not foolproof, it's probably "safe enough". I wonder why this
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by golem14 6y ago
My guess is that there is a huge opportunity for some private entity to do Abbot-style 15 minute tests on arriving passengers (like global entry). Pay $100, check out negative, good to go. Maybe the airlines themselves could do it, seeing
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by golem14 6y ago
Sure, but there’s someone managing a budget and has to decide to either hire 2 good cops or 1 expensive bad cop. The next step might be that departments have to publish their insurance rates, like the recent hospital bill law.
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by golem14 6y ago
More recently, Germany's insistence to go all in the hydrogen economy has the same flair.
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by golem14 6y ago
One problem is that cheap LCD displays are not easy to source. E.g., the largest old school lcds I find are 4x20 characters, which is a bit confining. There seem to be tons of TFT options out there on the cheap, but they're probably no
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by golem14 6y ago
Given the amount of work going into custom DIY mechanical keyboards, it's surprising that there aren't DIY solutions out there. All you need is a $5 MCU (think ESP32) and a cheap display. Would make a fun side project :)
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by golem14 6y ago
Isn’t the Wikipedia current events portal just that?
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by golem14 6y ago
I'd expect that starlink could be disabled within a few hundred miles around green banks etc. Would that help?
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by golem14 6y ago
Eg would be great to add 'hand drawn look' to other tools like graphviz without having to hugely modify the underlying tool, e.g. graphviz.
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by golem14 6y ago
Neat! I wonder if there is a way to modify something like xfig to output in hand drawn "look". Collaborative editing is of course also very good and tools like xfig don't have it. I guess I'm wondering aloud if it makes
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by golem14 6y ago
My personal favorites are the audiobook "Blandings Castle" narrated by James Saxon, and "Jeeves in the Morning" narrated by Jonathan Cecil. Excellent for long trips driving a car.
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by golem14 6y ago
I suspect so, but it's pretty heavy machinery and really made for a big mast. I've shied away from it so far because it's a big investment, and it's a bit unclear how precise it is, how exactly to connnect it to a comput

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