mirimir

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   by mirimir 7y ago

   Doesn't GitHub pay staff? I'm saying to take the whole operation into anonymous space. Or replace it with one that is. It could be Tor, or perhaps Loki, based on what little I know about it so far. And pay with cryptocurrencies. P
2. 692.▲
   by mirimir 7y ago

   I'm sure that there have also been takedowns that weren't terrible mistakes, but merely procedural. And given the disclosure that GitHub implements sanctions loosely, far more repos are likely at risk.
3. 693.▲
   by mirimir 7y ago

   Billing addresses are easy to fake.
4. 694.▲
   by mirimir 7y ago

   They could move everything to Tor onion services, and offer clearnet access via disposable VPS as reverse proxies. Paying staff anonymously would be problematic, I know.
5. 695.▲
   by mirimir 7y ago

   Obama was forced into broad brush cost reductions.
6. 696.▲
   by mirimir 7y ago

   No, it's not a cost issue. But I suspect that it was a consequence of meeting fixed cost reduction targets, and being something where cutting had no immediate impact.
7. 697.▲
   by mirimir 7y ago

   Find a swap meet, and you'll find gold buyers. Maybe bring one or two levels of armed backup, however.
8. 698.▲
   by mirimir 7y ago

   True. I did, and was being ironically pedantic.
9. 699.▲
   by mirimir 7y ago

   I think that "the following hundred years" would be clearer.
10. 700.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    We all do, to some extent.
11. 701.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    OK, so also fund stuff through the UN.
12. 702.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    Except that it'd never make it through the Senate, or Trump. Although I gotta note that he has talked lots of populism. Or did I miss the invisible /s?
13. 703.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    This makes total sense to me. Banks will sit on most money that they get. Little people will spend it. And they also actually need it.
14. 704.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    Can't the government always print ten times as much?
15. 705.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    Hey, it'll make gold worth "more" :)
16. 706.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    More generally, the Budget Control Act of 2011.
17. 707.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    With a larger budget, they could have done both. And why was their budget so limited?
18. 708.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    I suspect that federal stockpiles of medical supplies were sacrificed to give money to the wealthy. Likely because there was no constituency for them. Edit: So how are stockpiles of masks somehow not part of downsizing the federal governmen
19. 709.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    I think that FTA == TFA.
20. 710.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    I don't live in a bunker, but I do have some gold and silver, in a box under my bed. There's also a loaded shotgun under the bed, with dual pistol grips and laser sight, loaded alternating slugs and buckshot :)
21. 711.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    Maybe Charter doesn't have the technology and/or resources for call center staff to work from home. Is that possible?
22. 712.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    Sure, but all that paper gold isn't really gold. From TFA: > The gold market seems split at the moment: while the price is falling, meaning there are more sellers than buyers, everything I read on Twitter is that physical gold is ne
23. 713.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    True, but the monetization of intellectual property only peripherally involves physical objects.
24. 714.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    I find it hard to imagine a modern patent that's based on the Venturi effect. Entirely abolishing intellectual property seems extreme. But the need for higher standards of obviousness seems pretty obvious. And arguably also limits on r
25. 715.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    I probably spent more on Asteroids than on cocaine ;)
26. 716.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    Less /s, "Back off, or I'll shoot you!"
27. 717.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    GPS is receive-only. You'd need substantial power to hit geostationary satellites. If you truly have no cellular or WiFi connectivity, nothing will be tracking your location. However, hardware kill switches are the only way to be sure
28. 718.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    > How is this different from nightclubs having a high bar to entry? I gather that TikTok claimed to be inclusive. Nightclubs almost by definition don't.
29. 719.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    I haven't managed to identify the valve manufacturer. They definitely ought to be named and shamed. I did find this: https://www.archyde.com/italian-start-up-3d-prints-valves-to... Edit: Charging 10000 EUR for a 1 EUR
30. 720.▲
    by mirimir 7y ago

    Maybe, you know, someone might manage to access the machine that runs the 3D printer. Just accidentally like ...