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by hakfoo 2y ago
I suspect the databases useful for KYC already exist. The denylists that have to be checked against, for example. There might be a new record of inquiries or certificates generated, perhaps, but that doesn't really need to be logged.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The problems that a digital license solve always seemed so pointless. They seem to come in two flavours: * I want to compress every aspect of my essence onto my phone. These are the people who will kvetch if you don't accept Apple Pay
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by hakfoo 2y ago
A sensible approach might be to outsource the KYC process to a central state agency. We already have rudimentary forms of that-- like the fingerprint-clearance cards you sometimes need for working with the vulnerable. Why would it be any
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I was trying to think of someplace absurd-- had "Baltimore" in there in an earlier draft, but I know there's a lot of business ties with Russian firms and Cyprus already.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
There could be secondary factors. If you're physically hard on your devices, you might be scuffing up screens and permanently smooshing USB sockets with a couple years of hard use. Yes, they might be repairable, but the breakeven mat
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by hakfoo 2y ago
To be blunt, we need to find some endgame that allows the Russians to feel like they won something . Yes, there has been tragic carnage. You can call me Neville Chamberlain, and insist I'm rewarding a bully for being a bully. But th
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I always figured a kibbutz-style scheme might be something to encourage. Let's try to make spaces where families raising children can live together and cooperate. From a sheer economic standpoint, sharing the breadwinning and parentin
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I think with polymer notes, they might last until withdrawn by UK standards, but that's a unique factor of how fast they cycle their banknotes out. I think even 5 year old English notes (the paper GBP50 with Watt on it) are at the pha
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The awkward factor is that we could have avoided this sort of bubble on a broader scale by sticking to more traditional pension rules. When everyone gets a 401(k), and everyone gets the cookie-cutter advice that index funds are cheap and te
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Triage is hard. People may be mis-judging which is the appropriate service provider for their needs. If they don't know what's wrong they may worry that they stumble into a GP, and he just calls the ambulance/steers you to
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I was always disappointed it didn't acquire a "regional" sort of appeal for businesses serving the CIS/former Soviet states, sort of like when they started to sell .eu domains towards an audience that wanted to imply &qu
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The "it's making mistakes" phase might be based on the testing strategy. Remember the old bit about the media-- the stories are always 100% infalliable except strangely in YOUR personal field of expertise. I suspect it's
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I get a lot of door-to-door salesmen offering window replacements. I just tell them "We're a Linux household, no interest in windows" and slam the door. I think the look of bewilderment is worth it.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Claims about ARM performance tend to be qualified by "for the wattage". Yeah, M2 is impressive at a 10 or 20 watt envelope, but once you're looking at 45 and 65w parts, it's no longer a washout for Ryzen and Core. If yo
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Honestly, one of my favourite aspects of traveling is simply using the local mass transit. Coming from a city where it's a particularly bad joke, it's still a novelty, and it provides such a different perspective on the city than
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I think much as with Windows, x86 is backstopped by gaming. It's going to be hard to kill because of that. Gaming is hardware-intensive, highly locked into closed source ecosystems, and users are not going to be amenable to alternativ
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by hakfoo 2y ago
It feels like they're using software as a solution to a hardware problem. No matter what the software says, or what keys it has set, the hardware should still be hard-configured to honour regional power output limits. This could be so
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I noticed recently actually seeing "Consumer Reports Best Buy" listed in ad copy for some products. For decades they were extremely assertive about not licensing that sort of stuff out, to the point where advertisers used to say &
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The cost/quality thing doesn't mean they couldn't have maintained a "halo product" line that steered the platform. It could have been like the early 1990s PC market: government with a 'buy domestic' manda
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I'm sort of amazed these days that we still have commercial BIOSes (well, UEFIs) They're not a selling point, even for the enthusiasts who buy individual motherboards. You'd think that that by now, the chipset vendors would p
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I wonder if this is regression to the mean. The technical limits of the early internet-- server resources being fairly costly, commercialization tools being limited-- meant silos were the only practical offering. Someone puts up a hobbyist
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Going all-flash was compelling for a while, but it seems like SSDs have failed to deliver on some important promises: * The whole "it's SLC cache until you fill it up, then drops to pretty mediocre performance" thing is frigh
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I'd think for a relatively modest use case like the menu title bar, you could rotate the necessary glyphs once and cache them.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
They didn't do a very good job of pricing in politics. Just because they're "lower value" subsectors doesn't mean they have significant real-world impacts. This sort of announcement will inevitably be used shortsigh
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Tape might win for large-scale systems, but it's basically dead for home-office scale. You used to be able to get modestly priced tape units for home use from the old "connects to the floppy controller" units with capacities
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The "we'll throttle you after nnn Gb" is supposed to be the regulator. If they promise me 10Gb of full-rate data, it shouldn't matter whether I burn it in 30 minutes running rsync on a tethered laptop, or over 30 days o
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Agreed. Gaming is very halo-product driven. AMD has no 4090-killer, so their entire range is always seen as second-best, even for the customers who should be asking "what's the best choice AT MY SPECIFIC BUDGET". I suspect t
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I suppose the other aspect is the gradual death of the white-box PC shop. The large OEMs have contracts to pay 9 cents per license. They'll never crack the individual enthusiast building his own PC from Newegg parts and installing a ha
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I saw that on a super-deluxe early PS/2 to USB converter (PI Engineering Y-Mouse)
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I have to wonder if a TSMC-owned fab in Phoenix is still a different geopolitical risk factor than an Intel-owned one. It reduces the deterrence factor of the TSMC facilities on Taiwan: if they get damaged or sabotaged during an invasion,

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