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by pjc50 6mo ago
Wasn't that .. these guys themselves?
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by pjc50 6mo ago
I think mature sysadmins accept there's a certain .. bushido to their security-critical role. It is after all their job to respond to security threats, including by revoking credentials, and to recognize that they might fall on the wro
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by pjc50 6mo ago
No, it's just a cash replacement, the trust lies in expecting people to make the payment in the first place rather than just steal unattended goods.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
It takes up more space and costs more (connectors are surprisingly expensive), as well as adding an electrical overhead, while most (yes, not all) customers don't take advantage of it.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Meanwhile in Korea: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/south-korean-offi... https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sk-hynix-employee... SK Hynix is making an absurd amount of money fro
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by pjc50 6mo ago
The EU absolutely can't cancel elections in EU countries!
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by pjc50 6mo ago
I have no idea how you'd measure it, but I suspect Republican states hate Democrat ones more than most European countries hate each other. Listen to the way they talk about California and New York.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Well, neither was Orban, and he caused huge problems. The real enduring toxic legacy is the packing of SCOTUS, sold to voters as a means of overturning Roe V Wade but in fact a massive enabler for corruption and gerrymandering. Those guys a
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Yes, that was the thing that set off all the alarms. Trump 1 said a lot of things but had not completed the Hungary-fication of the US. Trump 1 was also before the Ukraine war!
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Well, unless all the planned datacentres get built, using more electricity than some small countries.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
They're unfree and not great at service offerings for foreigners?
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by pjc50 6mo ago
I think the blame for Hungary falls on Hungary?
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by pjc50 6mo ago
GDPR is a bureaucratic annoyance. Trump is an existential threat.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Well, as described in the article, the victim was given a sort of appeal by phone: he could make it easier for them to kill just him, rather than murdering his whole family as well.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Back to the corrosion discussion from the original article: when handling sulphuric acid at 800C, what kind of piping material do you need?
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by pjc50 6mo ago
> unless government policies mandate it or restrict batteries or blue hydrogen Yes, but I think this the most likely outcome. Natural gas is only cheap in certain areas, and the past few years have made everyone very, very aware of the g
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by pjc50 6mo ago
So apart from the clickbait, the reason why this is interesting is because it's a limiter for the often cited idea of clean green hydrogen from electrolyis. The current use of titanium and precious metals is, obviously, really expensiv
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Objectively, nukes have killed 0 American school children and their teachers while legal constitutional American gun owners have killed thousands every year. The main natural predator of Americans is other Americans.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
> There was a pretty good reason to be scared of nukes when these folks were children in the 50s Yes, but I think if you asked which country was more likely to "push the button" in the 50s-70s it would have been the US, and the
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by pjc50 6mo ago
I take a center position on this: every year new nuclear looks worse economically, but that's not a good reason to shut down already operating plants. The safety issues .. I think the combination of low probability (unknown) and potent
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by pjc50 6mo ago
You can appeal a fine. You can't appeal a missile.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
The monitors of the time were a lot blurrier than the screen you're looking at the screenshots on. For maximum verisimilitude you'd have to have photographs of screens. I got an 800x600 LCD monitor in about 1999, and it was a mass
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by pjc50 6mo ago
It's for throwing the alien queen off the spaceship, obviously. (It looks uncannily like the loader Ripley drives in Aliens)
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by pjc50 6mo ago
> Maybe a large screen that can easily be flipped vertical/horizontal would work well. People already do it with the their smartphones - why not stationary screens? Have the OS detect when it happens so it can make any predetermined
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Screen real estate is precious unless on the very largest screens. Especially vertical. I'm a big fan of being able to put the app list/bar on the right, keeping the maximum vertical space available and allowing its captions to be
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Operating systems of that era were designed based on UX research to help people use the unfamiliar operating system. Subsequent ones were designed by UI designers, and opinionated senior managers, who already knew how to use them, and took
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by pjc50 6mo ago
The second half of the line was also relevant, since the claim of Jews controlling the world was specifically a Nazi one.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Also unexpected contents; I think Soylent Green suffered from an adulteration scandal where people were blaming them for food poisoning. https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/california-tech-world-so... (I had to ch
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by pjc50 6mo ago
"Say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, at least it's an ethos" -- The Big Lebowski, another influential film to many people.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
So.. a lot of this is "negative polarisation" combined with "exactly wrong". People see something bad happening, or come to distrust a piece of mainstream belief/reporting when it gets caught in a contradiction or t

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