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by rabite 4y ago
Perhaps for the use case of the underbanked, which is the majority of the world. That I need to wait for confirmation on the blockchain for a crypto payment is orders of magnitude faster than my other option, which is wait for someone to ma
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by rabite 4y ago
It's hard to convey how and why I am so attached to mechanical watches. I'd say that looking down and seeing the pallet fork dance like a skeleton and the balance wheel spin in perfect time makes me feel like everything in the uni
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by rabite 4y ago
Never updating the user side is a positive signal for a social media company. Redesigns, even objectively superior ones, are frequently catastrophically received by users, and significant alterations to app experience can cause user flight.
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by rabite 4y ago
I remember when I wanted to be a mechanical engineer. After a statics and dynamics class, I realized I was just not mentally fit for the job, and decided to be in the Internet advertising industry instead. Stupid me, the right answer was to
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by rabite 4y ago
I am on my 12th year of virtually no access to the traditional financial system. I had all my bank and brokerage accounts killed with no suspension and no allowance to appeal. No bank will do business with me either on my Pridnestrovian pas
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by rabite 4y ago
> reallowing tax havens in the "digital" world where we spent years to try to curtain them in the "real" world. Singapore and Hong Kong have all been tax havens for virtually the entire history of their existence as
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by rabite 4y ago
> Blacklists should not include whole IP blocks. I am not responsible for what my IP neighbor is doing with their server. This is obviously laughably naive and creates infinite sources of spam. Before doing a proposal on a core Internet
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by rabite 4y ago
Intestinal parasites are a sexually transmitted disease. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19653954/ It's possible that some men who sought out a life of close confinement with other men might have a proclivity for
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by rabite 4y ago
> because it's been proven that you can detect the use of curl|bash Serverside. Sure, but what you're missing is that this argument would also strike down package managers. For example, you could similarly fingerprint the diffe
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by rabite 4y ago
Marsh was not the public square. It was the sidewalks of random streets. The company that owned them explicitly did not intend for them to be a public square. In contrast, the historical statements of Twitter make it very clear that they in
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by rabite 4y ago
This is not historically the reality of 1a jurisprudence. Before the Internet, the ruling was that private companies cannot restrict your speech in public view. See Marsh v. Alabama for this -- a company town was prohibited from barring pic
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by rabite 4y ago
I wish Ghost supported Bitcoin and Monero, without a third party processor. Even Jack Dorsey has advertised it suggesting it could be decentralized with this single feature. I hope they get around to implementing this.
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by rabite 4y ago
> health care Most heart disease and cancer, the two biggest cost centers, are somehow self-inflicted. People choose to eat badly and take drugs. In fact, moving away from a post-scarcity society would be the best at mitigating healthcar
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by rabite 4y ago
> A lot of them probably struggled quite a bit to recover. The ones that were a party to fraud or extreme folly, sure, but competent people generally had the same difficulty finding a new position as anyone else after their company goes
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by rabite 4y ago
> will I be unemployable because I spend several years in the scammy crypto industry? People that worked at Enron, Lehman, LTCM, et al all got new jobs quite easily. You'll be fine. > the constant backlash from the public is nagg
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by rabite 4y ago
So do child labor laws. Think of how much cheaper metals and coal would be if we could have children work in the mines again!
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by rabite 4y ago
@BXRekt on twitter shows liquidated short positions on Bitmex in realtime. https://twitter.com/BXRekt/status/1527462460457984000 Here's a million dollar short that got liquidated all of seven hours ago. Short
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by rabite 4y ago
They're just normal fries, made fresh from potatoes. McDonalds fries are a result of a process of many steps.
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by rabite 4y ago
On my internal network servers I use wp-supercache to generate static pages on page visit, then I use a shell script that iterates through all possible article, rss, tag, and category pages with curl at varying intervals, forcing a cache bu
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by rabite 4y ago
They won't be able to sell them at all. Putin has already said that any companies that leave Russian markets as a result of the current conflict will have all their assets nationalized. This is what happened to McDonalds in the Donbass
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by rabite 4y ago
That's obviously not tactically equivalent to the Ukrainian border. The Lithuanian-Polish border between the gap of Russia and Belarus is a mere 100 kilometers wide, with two viable routes for rapid transit of large armor. It is a chok
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by rabite 4y ago
The British considered destroyers an acceptable risk (and likely losses). You know when you park ships in a sea theater going hot that you're going to lose some. This is just how war works, and nobody can universally prevent losses of
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by rabite 4y ago
Early on in the Falkland Islands war the British destroyer HMS Sheffield was sank by anti-ship missiles launched from Argentine aircraft. The British Navy was considered at that point the most well trained and equipped in the world. It was
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by rabite 4y ago
>Jonah Bennett previously worked at The Daily Caller and he resigned from Palladium when it was discovered he had authored some racist messages and was friends with various white nationalists. This is the very definition of ad hominem --
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by rabite 4y ago
Nope, nothing has changed! You can still MITM with BGP in the exact same manner! BGP is like SS7 -- once you get access to use it, it is wide open and completely insecure and no effort has been made to use it. All its security is predicated
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by rabite 4y ago
pay for colocation with BGP access with a fake ID or compromise any BGP-announcing router in the entire world (I've found cisco routers with announce access, with default credentials, on networks that don't do any kind of prefix f
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by rabite 4y ago
With a non-HTTPS link, an attacker could trivially MITM the connection and forward it to a domain like id.hеrоku.com instead with a completely valid SSL cert with lock symbol. In case you can't realize, that domain is made up of unicod
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by rabite 4y ago
Unfortunately the way the DMCA is written means that GitHub is acting prudently here. If GitHub does not take down content they receive a valid DMCA request for, they lose their safe harbor and can be made a defendant for a future frivolous
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by rabite 4y ago
The Chinese are not a party to the ICC treaty (the OP article above even mentions this, they are just "establishing ICC jurisdiction" e.g. coming up with an excuse for hostile actions toward China)
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by rabite 5y ago
Mastodon is nowhere on the entire spectrum of decentralized. No component of it provides decentralization.

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