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541.
by pyrale 2y ago
I believe he has pretty good social skills, he managed to fly under the radar as a public figure for long enough, until he was powerful enough to no longer need to give a fuck.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Regardless, they would need to be a few meters from you (spec says <100m, but that’s very generous). If they are right next to you, there are many criminal activities more lucrative than sending an imessage... ...Which wouldn’t be poss
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by pyrale 2y ago
Not exactly. Interpreted charitably, in the context, it could be replaced by "the unwashed masses". The author seems to have harboured the idea that internet was good only back when it was for a select few. I don't know how h
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by pyrale 2y ago
The technical illiteracy of comments defending apple here with remarks about spam is staggering for hn. Ble is a type of network communication that is only used for short distances, in order to save energy. We’re talking about a few meters,
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by pyrale 2y ago
Spammers sending spam through ble ?! They might just as well beat you up and take your wallet.
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by pyrale 2y ago
The idea that device pairing can and must only be secured at hardware level is a fallacy whose goal is to ensure that only apple products work well with apple products. For the spam example, nothing prevents apple from offering a ble api wi
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by pyrale 2y ago
I’m not sure Apple’s monopolistic behaviour is a good excuse to claim that Google is not abusing its monopoly. As for malware ; sure, but the alternative is not allowing people to run the software they want on the machine they own.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> BlueSky wants to be the next Facebook/Twitter, so IMO by not getting the joke the Bluesky shirt is a self-own. The point of the shirt seems to be that they don't want to be the next facebook. The article clarifies that. Wheth
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by pyrale 2y ago
The sad part is that his nazi salutes don’t even top the list...
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by pyrale 2y ago
> It allows your feature team to remain 100 percent focused on the future, undistracted by customer support work. AKA "it allows your feature team to be completely oblivious to the horrors they unleash, and keep at it until the ship
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by pyrale 2y ago
> SpaceX' having its captive client (Starlink) isn't some external factor that favored them No, but it's an additional information they had to make their decision. > Arianespace took no risks, tried nothing, achieved no
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by pyrale 2y ago
> assuming you ignore Europe’s smallsat industry that’s constantly ridesharing with SpaceX. I'm not saying "build it and they will come" is a bad saying, my point is that it's not a very good talking point when you tr
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by pyrale 2y ago
The big issue with this is that when Ariane 6 was designed, there was not enough business to support a reusable launcher. SpaceX had a different outlook because they had a captive client planning to launch thousands of satellites. Vimes’ ex
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by pyrale 2y ago
> I’ve never seen it at the remotely same level anywhere else. To be fair to the other ones trying, we’ve set a fairly high bar recently, with "Let me show you how to run the world’s first superpower".
555.
by pyrale 2y ago
You may have missed the point where Trump is threatening to annex land ruled by Denmark.
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by pyrale 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat... You don't need an agreement. Tthe EU commission has tried to create schemes bypassing the issue, and twice they were dismantled by the EU supreme cou
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by pyrale 2y ago
> So the US legal system can say "give us this data" but they don't have access as they are on another company's servers in another company's data center operated by another company's staff. US institutions
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by pyrale 2y ago
I wouldn’t say the current situation is about cowboys vs drones, though. There have been plenty of cowboy examples in the us admin in the past, like usds/18f. The current disrupters don’t care about improving the administration or deli
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by pyrale 2y ago
isn't C household consumption expenditures, and I private investment? Also government expenditures can be a form of investment e.g. schools. So slashing G can also reduce investment.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> "major tax cuts" were actually very small [...] on the order of 1-3% of GDP 3% of the GDP in tax cuts is pretty enormous. > a hypothetical 15% of GDP reduction in taxes. For reference, total federal spending was 23% in 202
561.
by pyrale 2y ago
That person speaks about the money not taxed being used for taxable economic activity on the same year, as opposed to that same money being spent on government programs, that generate less taxable revenue (e.g. because while paying contract
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by pyrale 2y ago
Whether or not it's a misconception, and whether or not the US are faithful to the treaty while weaseling out of helping Ukraine, is irrelevant. A treaty where the guarantor is known to give sketchy legal interpretations about why them
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by pyrale 2y ago
> It’s only a matter of time until they realize that they were the intended targets of the cuts, not accidental damage. "If only the Tsar knew"
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by pyrale 2y ago
> It is mind blowing to me that this is what people want. I very much doubt this is what people want. But people aren't asked their opinion, and there's a difference between disagreeing and starting an insurrection to prevent a
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by pyrale 2y ago
I wonder what would happen to the US economy if other countries did similar things.
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by pyrale 2y ago
It isn’t efficient when you factor in the cost of such small deliveries. Also having some form of slack in the system goes a very long way in making the system resilient, especially in a system where your provider’s interests are not alig
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by pyrale 2y ago
> Who doesn't want their Amazon packages delivered sooner? I don't order from Amazon, and whenever I get things delivered, I'm usually fine walking 5 minutes to the store where I have it delivered. And honestly, for the ki
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by pyrale 2y ago
> The experience in College Station has highlighted another challenge: NIMBYs—or people who push for developments to be “not in my backyard”—potentially curtailing where Amazon operates. The term NIMBY seems to have been popularized to r
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by pyrale 2y ago
> e.g. with [...] pumped hydro That's done a lot in France, but there's a limited amount of pumped hydro available in the end. Until recently, countries with lots of available nuclear energy didn't really need to produce f
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by pyrale 2y ago
Maybe they hoped that you’d leave because of RTO, sparing them the financial cost associated with the layoff.

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