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> someone with enough time will eventually get in That's only correct if the password is weak. With enough entropy, it's practically impossible to brute force.
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2y ago
Sure, if you slap Basic Auth with "admin:admin" on phpMyAdmin in 2025, you're asking for it. But a Basic Auth password with 256 bits of entropy is just as resistant to brute force as AES-256 (assuming the implementation is so
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2y ago
Richard Mille is well known to anyone interested in watches, especially very rich people. You probably haven’t heard of Jacob & Co? Or maybe you’ve heard of Hublot? It’s the same story with Loro Piana when it comes to clothing, and Koen
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lossolo
2y ago
> something we have ample evidence for. Please show this "ample evidence" because it seems you (or "we" - whoever that is) have something the rest of the world doesn't.
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2y ago
Yeah, that seems accurate. "Alarm inside the Treasury Department over signs of distress in the US government bond market played a key role President Donald Trump’s decision to hit pause on his “reciprocal” tariff regime, according to t
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2y ago
This. Anyone who doesn’t believe it — please go spend some time in Shenzhen, Shanghai, or similar cities, like I did. I just got back from China. I’ve been (also lived and worked) to the U.S. many times, and I can confidently say that China
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2y ago
> Yeah, it's real easy when you employ an army of nation-state hackers to break into and steal R&D and tech from US Fortune 500 and aerospace companies to then use it internally and give to private industry in China. All of this
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2y ago
The first effects of their population decline will be felt around 2050 by UN estimations. What do you think they’ll be doing for the next 30 years? Considering they already ship more robots than the rest of the world combined, I don't
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2y ago
He said he wants the EU to pay €350 billion a year and to "pay for the past"—and I assume he'll feel emboldened to make even more demands and weaken the EU economy further. And all of that for "security" that's
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2y ago
> But, for a long time, they didn't notice. Oh come on, everybody knew what was going on since the 90s but greed was just too strong. The next quarter's results were just too good to walk away from all of it. Everyone who neede
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2y ago
> When China was content to make stuff and not invade places things were fine And "content to make stuff"? You mean back when they were underpaid workers doing low-complexity manufacturing and not actually competing with the U.
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2y ago
Does anyone know how shadowbanning of submissions works? I submitted a direct source for this 30 minutes ago, and it's not showing up for others (both logged in and logged out) in the new section. https://news.ycombinator.co
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2y ago
> And let's be clear — the US did not "lose a war" in Afghanistan or Iraq. Yes, we had failed pseudo-occupations. That is not the same as losing a war. You do not wage war for the sake of war, war is a tool for achieving p
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2y ago
> They had the opposite effect, for reasons that still remain somewhat unclear. It's clear that Russia redirected most of its exports. Just look at how much oil India is now buying from Russia — before the war, it was around 5%, an
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2y ago
Just got back from China, it's insane. EVs with green plates literally everywhere, not just in T1 cities like Shenzhen but even in smaller ones. The infrastructure’s on another level compared to the US.
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2y ago
If not for Microsoft's backing, C# would have died a long time ago. It's just another D, but with a lot more money behind it. It had its chance/momentum, but it failed, and its time has passed. Resurrecting the language now w
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2y ago
> Theory (I live half a world away though) It has nothing to do with totalitarianism. Anyone who has actually lived in India or China for more than a month, as I have, knows that cleanliness and poverty are cultural factors as well. Peop
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2y ago
As part of cost-cutting efforts, the U.S. government outsourced military logistics and supply chain management to private contractors like KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary). Instead of the military running the system
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2y ago
160 - 145 = 15kg
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A flu vaccine cannot "cause the flu". It can mimic an immune response similar to the flu, but this response is much weaker than what occurs during an actual infection, where a live pathogen is actively spreading and causing harm.
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2y ago
It's crazy! They have a 149.04 PE ratio! Their humanoid robots are behind Chinese counterparts, in fact, they are catching up rather than leading. Tesla is losing ground to other EVs while being lower in quality, more expensive, and ca
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2y ago
> OK, so you should advocate for changes in the estate tax. Haha, good one. Good luck with that, you’re up against the most powerful and influential people and their lobbyists. Others have already tried. Maybe if the U.S. were a democrac
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2y ago
They will pay zero taxes, only low interest on the loan (below 2% typically). It's called "Buy, Borrow, Die" strategy. When they die, their heirs inherit the assets, but here’s the magic loophole: The heirs get a "step-u
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2y ago
No, it's not. You can take a loan against your stock and don't pay any taxes. Very common strategy. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, etc. all use this strategy to fund their lifestyles without selling stock.
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2y ago
Have you seen Unitree robots? They started mass producing them. It's Chinese company.
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lossolo
2y ago
Who do you think buys U.S. debt (2 trillion this year) and props up the U.S. stock exchange and assets when recycling USD?
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lossolo
2y ago
Yes, you should be very worried. Imagine accumulating trash in your house—you take some out, but you never throw away all of it. Each time, some remains. Now, imagine what happens after a few decades. In this example, the house represents y
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2y ago
> Again, look at Japan for an empiric example. I already wrote about how Japan is different from the US and why that changes everything. > debt is owed in dollars and can always be serviced. If foreign investors lose confidence in the
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2y ago
This is false. 1. Japan is a net creditor nation, meaning it owns more foreign assets than it owes in debt. The U.S., on the other hand, is a net debtor nation, meaning it relies heavily on foreign investors to finance its deficits. Japan a
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2y ago
> No. That's what de facto means. Taiwan and America can do everything two countries do, with Taiwan being afforded the same rights and privileges--in America--as China, in some cases more, and America afforded the same in Taiwan. W
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