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by makomk 5y ago
Not necessarily. Small websites have to pay for their bandwidth, but bigger companies like Netflix have been pushing ISPs into various schemes that give them that bandwidth for free, either through peering arrangements where ISPs take traff
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by makomk 5y ago
Most people aren't going to think about their internet usage in terms of total data used, because working out how much data a particular site or service will cost them is a lot of work and requires knowing technical details that most p
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by makomk 5y ago
For the most part, I don't think the companies in question were really thinking about the internet at all in this era. Typical intended services would be voice, analog cable TV and Videotex in the short term, with the intention to upgr
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by makomk 5y ago
It looks like there's some more contemporary context here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12817403-300-technolo... Basically, in order to take full advantage of this system every house would need their own
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by makomk 5y ago
Some of BT's early fibre rollouts were... interesting. In particular, there were various unlucky people who ended up not being able to get broadband at all because they were on BT fibre - as in, not even 512kbps ADSL, just nothing. Tha
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by makomk 5y ago
Yup. Most of the UK's reactors are an unusual gas-cooled design which does produce steam temperatures similar to coal power plants, but that's pretty much unique to the UK and also a technological dead end - there were apparently
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by makomk 5y ago
No. Generally speaking, proof of stake doesn't let someone transfer other people's funds to themselves just through owning a large proportion of whatever cryptocurrency - that's a really bad idea in terms of incentives and al
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by makomk 5y ago
It is. The ideology that's referring to which is popular amongst politically active young people is frankly a mess. In particular there's a gaping hole in their post-modernism where they just completely fail to apply any of its to
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by makomk 5y ago
People blame the UK government for the fact that the same thing is happening here, and we're a lot smaller and more tightly connected to other countries than the US is. Of course people in the US are going to think their government is
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by makomk 5y ago
As far as I know, the UK is about the only country that's made this work reasonably well, and that's with pretty much all routes double-tracked or quad-track for the major ones, and much less freight rail than the US and worse pas
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by makomk 5y ago
It's probably not quite that bad, but if there's a single train anywhere on any single track section that means the entire section is effctively blocked off to traffic in the other direction, it sounds like there's a lot more
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by makomk 5y ago
Hong Kong has a worse vaccination rate amongst the elderly and better vaccine mix than the mainland (more imported vaccines, probably less of the more dubious Chinese-made ones), but broadly speaking they're very similar. I think even
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by makomk 5y ago
There was no magic money tree. It took a while for the effects to spread to the whole of the economy - perhaps because people were in lockdown and limited in their ability to spend money - but throughout the western world people's inc
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by makomk 5y ago
China used the same Chinese vaccines as Hong Kong and according to ABC News in Australia only 62% of Shanghai residents over 60 have been vaccinated. This is fairly typical; Chinese policy was to focus on vaccinating people of working age.
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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, whereas the reality seems to be more like Italians were idiots, and this could well be why it happened to us. There were several interesting things about the Italian outbreak which got downplayed or ignored (at least in the English-sp
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by makomk 5y ago
I didn't downvote, but the UK was middle of the pack amongst European countries in terms of Covid deaths and economic damage. It's just our media focused on anything that'd make us look worse, like comparing total deaths with
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by makomk 5y ago
Linux development in the present era is very heavily driven by Red Hat's needs and desires, and I don't think they have this problem because they don't support upgrading from one release to the next using the package manager
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by makomk 5y ago
The lack of both LNG terminals and adequate connections to ones in other countries is a big part of what people mean when they say Germany went all in on Russian gas. They physically cannot import enough gas from other sources, as I underst
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by makomk 5y ago
The BBC has been pretty anti-government since about the time of Brexit. It was really obvious in particular during the pandemic, which had many decisions where all options had major downsides - and they spun whichever the government chose a
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by makomk 5y ago
The NHS in the UK - whose low, low costs certain US political activists point to as proof public healthcare is not just better but cheaper - literally does this. There's a fixed amount they're willing to spend per expected year of
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by makomk 5y ago
Seems unlikely. The commit this speculates is the fix for the supposed RCE does not appear to change the behaviour of Spring in any way - it just refactors some code into a seperate function, adds a unit test for that function, and marks th
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by makomk 5y ago
It's not really goalpost shifting - thieves in countries without extradition treaties and with justice systems that don't care are a serious ongoing problem with the existing banking system, and those transactions are not in gener
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by makomk 5y ago
There definitely seems to be at least a little truth to that argument, though. Over the years Kaspersky has found and documented a whole bunch of seemingly US government linked malware whilst their Western competitors just haven't, and
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by makomk 5y ago
It's probably worth thinking about how ugly this is going to get politically. Right now, we basically have a bunch of wealthy people jetting around the world on private planes pushing for changes to society that will make ordinary peop
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by makomk 5y ago
Nearly all of the stuff that makes the Arduino interesting comes from places other than the Arduino company itself, though - even the IDE and the user-friendly Arduino libraries that ship with it were basically just copied from the Wiring p
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by makomk 5y ago
The GDPR had consequences that were both wider and wilder than even its most aggressive critics predicted at the time, such as making it illegal for the banking system to continue using their existing EBCDIC-based systems: https:/&#x2
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by makomk 5y ago
Part of the problem is that the more reputable hydroxychloroquine studies were abandoned based on an even more blatently fradulent paper in the Lancet claiming it actually increased the risk of patients dying - like, it wasn't even som
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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, and the UK's wind capacity factor should be better than average because most of the recently-added capacity is offshore, which is more expensive per GWh produced but produces it more reliably. There just doesn't seem to be a
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by makomk 5y ago
It was an inaccurate rant about the UK's response to Covid too. The only part of calling up people with Covid to find their contacts which was contracted out was recruiting and employing them, fairly directly by the government, and of
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by makomk 5y ago
The US did not, in fact, brutally execute most of the population of Afghanistan. Remember, it's the Ugyur population as a whole that China has "deradicalized or reeducated" - not just active terrorists, not even religious ext

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