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by nroets 2y ago
I have no first hand knowledge, but there are some news articles and forum posts on https://www.mybroadband.co.za/ that will give you an indication of how StarLink is handling it. Surely international law can't force S
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by nroets 2y ago
They are still subject to US law I presume (like Ftx). (As someone who spent most of his life in a country with capital controls (South Africa which calls it exchange control), I like this product)
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by nroets 2y ago
If you're resident in a country where StarLink is legal (like Mozambique), you can procure the service and then roam in a country where it's illegal like South Africa. I don't think that will ever change. StarLink's defi
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by nroets 2y ago
The central message of this article is that huge companies are bad because they make large profits. But there are many countries were companies cannot grow huge because the underlying economy is small and not part of a large trading block.
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by nroets 2y ago
I guess similarly you can carefully craft a poster with a QR code and put it on a wall in a room with two LED bulbs. The bulbs will have different color temperature and the decoding will be dependent on which bulb is lit. Another idea would
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by nroets 2y ago
The Gulf coast is thousands of miles and hurricanes only destroy a few dozen miles of it each year. So the risk management isn't illogical.
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by nroets 2y ago
You forgot to mention all the CO2: Building new city will take a lot of concrete. More people traveling by plane etc.
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by nroets 2y ago
Also note that around the same time other European expeditions were making similar discoveries: 2 years before Columbus, Dias discovered the Cape of Good Hope and a decade later Da Gama braved 10,000 km of open ocean and discovered a sea ro
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by nroets 2y ago
The buyers of these claims often have inside information. By selling during bankruptcy they gambled that the "experts" were wrong and it turn out not to be the case. That's why exchanges often suspend shares during bankrupt
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by nroets 2y ago
Em, do you know that plants are actually a net source of oxygen ? And a sink of CO2 ?
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by nroets 2y ago
And it has data for some smaller airlines like AJet in Turkey.
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by nroets 2y ago
Maybe it's cheaper just to keep him in jail on contempt of court than actually proceed to trail.
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by nroets 2y ago
If that's case, I'm sure proper economic modeling will show that the $20k+administrative burden is better spent on reducing taxes for everyone in Cumberland.
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by nroets 2y ago
Keeping A bombs out of the hands of supervillains is much much more trickier, yet we managed to do that for the last 70 years.
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by nroets 2y ago
Technology is progressing so fast that something like space based solar or fusion power will replace terrestrial solar within 100 years.
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by nroets 2y ago
But it's a simplification: One iteration is enough to detect lying. In a real ZK proof the probability of the prover lying reduces after each iteration but never reached 0.
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by nroets 2y ago
Note that the BRICS are known for loosing their richest (and most talented) citizens. ("Brain drain").
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by nroets 2y ago
I, on the other hand, have a lot more sympathy for Apple: Many highly successful people and many businesses have never owned any of there products. They are not a monopoly. Why can't market forces just regulate them ??
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by nroets 2y ago
Social media was already rife with fake news and half truths before ChatGPT. And there are already open source LLMs that can be trained to scam a significant number of people. OpenAI can't do anything about it. The only remedy is socia
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by nroets 2y ago
I think a lot of runners have the ability, but are excluded simply because they have a weak passport or can't afford the visas. The visa requirements of many West African countries are too strict. Even draconian.
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by nroets 3y ago
Bear in mind that WhatsApp adoption is often driven by the costs involved with SMS especially when sending to an international number. WhatsApp also enable free international voip calls.
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by nroets 3y ago
Isn't it inevitable that one person will decide the fate of many ? If we get rid of billionaires through wealth tax, then politicians will have more power to decide the fate of many. The US seem to choose their presidents not based on
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by nroets 3y ago
This is a company with over 40,000 employees and a market cap of over $100b. Surely they would have opened offices in different countries if Dutch culture was holding them back. They are just a domestic flight away from Eastern Europe. And
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by nroets 3y ago
Perhaps it isn't legally a license deal, but rather unlimited scraping i.e. database access. The AI company just trains their models on that and aren't creating derivative work in the legal sense.
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by nroets 3y ago
The article says nothing about the cost of shipping gas across the globe. It only says 44% of exports are by pipeline. If shipping makes it an order of magnitude more expensive, then there is no global price.
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by nroets 3y ago
He may be convinced that wherever the this Bitcoin will be tracked wherever it goes. And confiscated if it ever reaches a centralized exchange. (Due to pressure from law enforcement, the whale and even Binance)
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by nroets 3y ago
My theory is that a hacker gained access to a whale's account and didn't have a way to monetize his crime. So he did this for "bragging rights."
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by nroets 3y ago
Approximately 10 years ago, I played with an Android app that takes the camera video input, looks for a Sudoku puzzle and then solves it. (AR Sudoku solver) Detecting a QR code in real time should be possible on all devices by now...
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by nroets 3y ago
So there was a chance in the system: China moved to a market economy. Some changes happening in the system right now: Solar power. Coal being used less for energy. Electric cars. Has the correlation between fossil fuels and energy consumpti
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by nroets 3y ago
Airbnb also puts pressure on guests not to leave bad reviews: If you try to leave a 3 star review they ask you to explain using their criteria. And noise and lack of space aren't on that list. And they say they'll tell the host wh

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