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by rdl 8y ago
Sarah Jeong op-ed.
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McKinsey in Puerto Rico(nymag.com)
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by rdl 8y ago
Preventing spread of misinformation is good, but preventing the spread of "information" in a context where people are already sensitized could be worse. It depends on whether people will assume censorship/blackout means some
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by rdl 8y ago
This seems like a bad move for both moral and practical reasons. Morally, free communication is a basic human right. Practically, having a bunch of churches/hotels attacked by an easily-identifiable group, followed by shutting off comm
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by rdl 8y ago
“Must” according to who? Should, in many cases, sure. I’d rather physically removable sensors rather than off switches, though. Cameras on laptops are far from my greatest concern. Microphone on cellphone is a much bigger concern, as well a
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by rdl 8y ago
Pretty cool that this is done client-side, although it does need more presets. I'd also want to be able to export/import my old posts, or at least manually review, but that's getting into the kind of features I'd expect
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by rdl 8y ago
Would hybrid (specifically series) make sense for GA fixed-wing? I'm pretty excited about it for VTOL, especially since it gives you a lot of redundancy in the electrical part and thus allows far lower reliability in the main engine-g
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by rdl 8y ago
Cloudflare is one control plane, but it's 1) anycast 2) over 100 locations 3) multiple servers per site. The SPOF with Cloudflare is either your account getting hacked, or (much less likely) a CF control plane/configuration outag
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by rdl 8y ago
This was true in the US before we created all these stupid regulations, which is why they were created. 1700s/1800s, "spoils system", etc. That is the whole reason the regulations (and attendant overhead) exist. (I bootstra
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by rdl 8y ago
Historically, government contracting and the public sector has been incredibly corrupt, as it's basically unlimited funds with no market-based mechanism to address it (in a private entity, the owners will be angry about money taken fro
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by rdl 8y ago
My dream is to eliminate PSK from all the networks I care about/am responsible for, but it's really challenging to deploy 802.1X in anything but a fully managed enterprise (and also hard when you also have random other IOT/et
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by rdl 8y ago
When I was last in China my friends friends had $10-20k BEVs which I didn't even realize were BEVs until I was riding inside; seemed like generic compact cars to me.
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by rdl 8y ago
What, to optimize emissions?
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by rdl 8y ago
I never really trust a binary provided by someone which also talks to a server operated by the same entity. There is no way for me to audit an arbitrary binary (or application with source, in any reasonable way), particularly since it is r
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by rdl 8y ago
$0.25/rd is a fair price for 9mm or 5.56mm. However, it is 25000 rounds per week. $6250/wk. Plus a bunch of other costs far exceeding the ammo costs. I don't think the 150k rounds round count is reasonable, unless a lot o
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by rdl 8y ago
This stuff, right? https://hygenall.com/shooting-sports/ (I'm pretty much a 9mm shooter (124gr CCI/Speer TMJ Lawman 124gr, or Gold Dots -- or SIG Frangible when I'm at SIG Academy or TR; 5.56 ranging fr
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by rdl 8y ago
> In a single six-week course, each student would fire upward of 150,000 rounds Whoa. 3571 rounds per day for every day for 42 days?
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by rdl 8y ago
One of the top firearms instructors globally (Massad Ayoob) is utterly paranoid about lead -- he has special range clothes/shoes, changes before getting into his vehicle in the way one would do with hazmat-contaminated clothing, and ha
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by rdl 8y ago
Thank you Kazakh government for causing Sci-Hub to exist. All we need to do is get anonymous ecash added and we'll have a perfect information market.
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by rdl 8y ago
Kind of depressing that they gave up on the "GPs must have been operators" rule (presumably due to pressure by LPs or the press). Do any large VC firms still maintain that?
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by rdl 8y ago
If they're now an IA, they're not able to talk about their investments publicly? Doesn't that hurt the value proposition for startups/etc. taking money from the new a16z?
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by rdl 8y ago
Tezos (Nomadic Labs) | Technical Writer, Release Engineer | Paris, FR | ONSITE Tezos is a top-20 cryptocurrency project with a focus on on-chain governance and security. We're a decentralized ecosystem with multiple entities working t
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by rdl 8y ago
150k is St. Kitts, Grenada, Panama, etc. programs. The Portugal program is "Golden Visa". https://www.google.com/search?q=portugese+golden+visa&oq=por... I'd rather do the Euro 250k to the arts thing if
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by rdl 8y ago
You can get ~50% mortgages I believe, internationally, particularly if you have other assets to secure it with (some banks I work with will do crypto lending, at least for BTC)
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by rdl 8y ago
Yes. If it is in Lisbon we will probably do 4-8 units in a building with a dedicated concierge/Airbnb manager shared across them. Otherwise, there are services which manage like that. Option C is a rural property and finding a long t
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by rdl 8y ago
What services do you want? I can handle my own police/medical/fire in a small settlement. Same with k-12 schools.
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by rdl 8y ago
Yeah. I am planning to get Portuguese residency through property purchase along with some friends, although we might not go for rural. Only need to spend 14 days/yr there, though. It is a 350-500k EUR investment. If you rent the prop
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by rdl 8y ago
Technology has advanced. You can do reasonable off-grid utilities (solar/battery/water/waste/internet) for 25-100 people at grid-level prices.
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by rdl 8y ago
I'm sure there are plenty of people who can work remotely who would love to live in a place like this, if it were either turnkey or at least if there were some collective action organization. Makes even more sense in Portugal, though
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by rdl 8y ago
For me, virtually all of those are worth solving through whatever effort is required, as it gains one advantage you can't get on earth: You're very far away from all the people who can't/won't/etc. go to Mars.

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