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by mrb 7y ago
archive.is can bypass the paywall, try http://archive.is/PbCtz
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by mrb 7y ago
The backstory is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21000273
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Coalfire believed the agreement allowed physical security assessments(finance.yahoo.com)
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by mrb 7y ago
Coalfire just released their statement and, yup, I was right: « Coalfire and State Court Administration believed they were in agreement regarding the physical security assessments for the locations included in the scope of work. Yet, recent
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by mrb 7y ago
That's right. If I had to bet who was incompetent, Coalfire or the state agency, my bet is on the latter. The state agency probably didn't understand/read the full contract or maybe some internal miscommunication through hier
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by mrb 7y ago
No, read very carefully the way they worded the sentence. What is "inherent to the sovereignty of nations" is not "monetary power" but "no private entities having control of monetary power". They are not saying
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by mrb 7y ago
Bitcoin being "tolerated" is more accurate than "approved of". That's what I mean. And again, if they didn't tolerate it, they could ban/outlaw it, just like China did.
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by mrb 7y ago
France & Germany could block or ban Bitcoin if they wanted to, just like China. The fact they don't imply they tolerate Bitcoin. They tolerate it because it isn't controlled by a private entity.
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by mrb 7y ago
« Yeah, very confusing statement - would they use this same logic to ban Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies? » No, and that's the great point everyone is missing. Paraphrasing their logic: "it is inherent to the sovereignty of nati
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by mrb 7y ago
The article gives only half of the facts. The universal postal union has already reclassified China as a "developed" country since 2018. Their terminal dues have already been increasing two years in a row and will continue to incr
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by mrb 7y ago
Here is something practically all news article about China exploiting these low terminal dues fail to reveal: Since 2018 the UPU moved 40 countries, including China, to a new tier and this actually is causing them to already pay higher te
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by mrb 7y ago
The first photograph in the article was taken from an helicopter at this exact spot: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1988405,-117.7584448,1342a,3...
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by mrb 7y ago
« [Apple] claim it was only operational for 2 months. Yet they provide no justification or evidence for that claim. They are in no position to monitor what happens on the web as they don't crawl it, and don't even attempt to expla
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by mrb 7y ago
Or the password is used in sprintf() ... I know at least one organization where this happened. The % was being stripped from passwords for that reason.
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by mrb 7y ago
Oh boy, I can relate. In fact, I would go as far as saying that many modern cars (sedans) are so close in terms of mechanical reliability, safety features, etc, that the differentiating features that determine which car I buy end up being m
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by mrb 7y ago
Ah I see, this makes sense. Thanks. I misunderstood the second paragraph.
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by mrb 7y ago
« …an undervalued currency, by raising the cost of imports, acts as a kind of consumption tax for household and so reduces disposable household income. With lower disposable household income usually comes lower household consumption…the com
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Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild(blog.coinbase.com)
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by mrb 7y ago
« Very few developers are prepared to write code that can efficiently use 256 threads / machine » This junk justification has no longer been relevant for years. Most developers don't care because (1) they rely on core applications
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AMD EPYC Rome Officially Launched: 7nm High-Performance Server CPUs(wccftech.com)
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by mrb 7y ago
It's annoying that in this article it's pretty obvious what the main downside is, namely the likely very high cost of producing Solein (electricity, labor, machinery), and the author and company make no attempts to address this is
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by mrb 7y ago
Here is what the author of DSVPN says in the readme about that: « TCP-over-TCP is not as bad as some documents describe. It works surprisingly well in practice, especially with modern congestion control algorithms (BBR). For traditional alg
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by mrb 7y ago
SOCKS is not TCP over TCP. Application data (not TCP packets) is directly transferred over one TCP connection.
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by mrb 7y ago
It's just one random data point but one of my personal friends said: « I still have many friends & family working in Amazon fulfillment centers across the country, and every single one of them says it’s the best job they’ve ever ha
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by mrb 7y ago
You massively underestimate the destruction caused by a 1km asteroid. Remember some scientists estimate the asteroid that killed dinosaurs was as small as 11km. In other words a 1km one may be 1/10th the diameter needed to cause an ext
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by mrb 7y ago
I think this is a non-problem. At least for France and Germany, peak electricity consumption is in winter, because electric heating is much more common (and needed!) than air conditioning. This seasonal surplus is such that nuclear power pl
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by mrb 7y ago
I suppose this answers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19331307 "What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words?"
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by mrb 7y ago
There are SD cards rated for "high endurance" for example https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07B984HJ5 is designed for continuous 24/7 writes such as surveillance cameras. These should have great
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by mrb 7y ago
« I'm not sure how the 5Gbit/s and 10Gbit/s USB-C cables fit into this. » A USB3 cable has 4 differential pairs. When in alt mode, all 4 pairs transmit in the same direction, so a 5 Gbit/s cable can transmit 20 Gbit&#x2F
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by mrb 7y ago
« But is a 5Gbps cable enough? Or is a 10Gbps cable needed? » Here is the answer: if you need DisplayPort 1.0-1.2, a 5 Gbps cable is enough. If you need DP 1.3-1.4 (where they upped the transfer rate for higher resolution and fps,) you need

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