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Correct. That is what almost all geostationary satellites are. If you want encryption, do it at the application layer.
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Highly unlikely given your average age is 46. The time for draconian fertility policies was about 15 years ago. I think at this point most Europeans are just waiting for fiscal collapse.
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They aren't offering coverage because the state is disallowing premium increases. It's a government caused shortage via price fixing.
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The fact that the O1 isn't a simple IQ floor is a travesty. Gatekeeping access behind "published journals" is dumb. We could be brain draining the entire world.
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Tim Cook doesn't want the legal liability when this app is named in a civil suit regarding an assassination. It simply isn't worth it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/24/dallas-ice-
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They do. Billions are lost in Germany every year due to fraud.
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My employer switches insurance carriers every 4 years or so because another carrier has a more competitive rate. "What's best for the employer" is also what's best for me -- I can walk across the street and get a new job
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There is immense pressure on insurance companies to lower costs, as they get blamed for the "American health care system". The only one on the side of the payer is the insurance company, they're the only one who wants to keep
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Donald Trump signed in the TRACED Act in 2019, mandating usage of the STIR/SHAKEN protocol to require accurate caller ID records and KYC requirements on VOIP providers. A whole bunch of VOIP providers disappeared after this went into e
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I have about 3200 hours in EU4, a ten year old game. But I also have $400 in its DLC (all of them). But the thought of paying $30/mo to play a game is just too much. I only buy 2-3 games+DLCs per year. Game Pass was fine when it was $5
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AI can detect a Black person vs a White person via their chest x-rays. Radiologists say there is no difference. Turns out they're wrong. https://www.nibib.nih.gov/news-events/newsroom/study-finds-a... That be
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Every ugly person would just go through the app and report the hot people to increase their chances of landing a date.
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"Hey friends! This guy was a jerk to me at my date. Please file a rape report with Hinge to get him banned! Toodles :)"
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Lots of these sorts of European problems could be fixed if Cloudflare+Google+Apple+Microsoft colluded to block an entire country from all their services at once until it is resolved. And then move on to the next country, and the next.
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1y ago
11% unemployment for CS majors. Absolute insanity to be admitting H1Bs for the tech sector right now.
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Rack servers still use VGA. Yes, please stop removing it from monitors.
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Microsoft needs to provide their own anti-cheat hooks and block any kernel-level mods entirely.
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I disabled all Windows updates last October because 24H2 absolutely tanked performance of games. Various reports around the internet claim that its still a problem. So no more updates for me, of any kind.
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The TFR decline of the rest of the world over the past decade has been astronomical. There simply aren't that many young people left in the world to pull from. South American countries have seen >50% declines.
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Its the least regulated (not at all). So it will be the first to be changed. AI lawyers? Many years away. AI civil engineers? Same thing, there is a PE exam that protects them.
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Yes. Shareholders and their agents ("corporations") have rights to free speech.
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It's not dischargeable because you can't seize the asset to resell in bankruptcy. The borrower would still retain the knowledge and connections
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Why are they spending 16bn dollars on transit infrastructure for a population that won't exist in 2 generations? Italy has one of the lowest TFRs in Europe. They should be spending infinites amount of money fixing that instead of bridg
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Datacenters do not employ thousands of jobs. They employ about 5.
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The suspension of grants is not the DOJ. It is the DOE for violations of Title 9.
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That's why it's a settlement offer, not a judgement. If they think they're innocent, they can go through discovery and go to trial. But for the same reason Columbia settled: they know they broke the law. They used protected c
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When you are ignorant about the world, it becomes a very confusing place. https://x.com/JohnDSailer/status/1907794415436873742?t=Zw9FF... There are dozens of examples of UCLA violating federal civil rights laws. Y
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Unless the employee is in a union, unless you're a landlord in a state that protects political ideology in housing, unless you're an employer in a state that protects political ideology, unless you're a hospital that takes Me
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> If the very best LLM is 1.5x as good as good as the next-best, then pretty much everyone in the world will want to use the best one. Well only if the price is the same. Otherwise people will value price over quality, or quality over pr
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This article convinced me to take myself off the donor list. Great job guys.
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