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by rswail 5y ago
The main difference I can see is that the Fed controls the dollar. It is the central account holder. Miners are distributed and there is the well known problem of 51% of the mining pool being controlled by a single party, but they would h
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How does 0.0001 BTC "suddenly double in value" to be 0.0002 BTC? What you're actually saying it suddenly doubles in value when converted to another currency . Just the same as if I owe someone $10, in the same currency, then
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by rswail 5y ago
Thanks for that explanation, clearly separates the action of disconnecting from SWIFT, from the act of the Fed freezing the accounts of the CBR. I take it that it means there's an account in the Fed that says the CBR has a credit of $6
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Perhaps because the demand for vehicles post COVID is exceeding supply. However, is it just drawing forward future demand, which would mean the inflation is temporary? I mean after a 2 year recession caused by the pandemic, in terms of larg
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I thought that because Singapore is primarily a market/port economy, having its currency pegged against a basket that covers the majority of its trade weightings would help it withstand dramatic movements in individual currency swap ra
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by rswail 5y ago
What is interesting is that revoking your US citizenship (or Green Card permanent residency) isn't sufficient to stop you being subject to IRS law. It actually costs you money, $2,350, to give up your citizenship. The filings to give u
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See FACTA. If an overseas bank (say in Australia) open an account for a US citizen, subject to US IRS taxes, then they have US regulations to comply with for not just that account. FACTA requires an overseas bank to identify US account ho
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The RT-11 OS for the DEC PDP used the forward slash for options and didn't have the concept of directories. The filename format for RT-11 was a three character device specifier, 6 character file name and 3 character extension CP/M
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China is an empire on the rise, Russia is one in the throes of death. Russia will eventually have to choose between Europe and China.
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In what way have "we" pushed things here. Ukraine voted for independence back in the early 90s by an overwhelming majority in all areas, including those currently "recognized" by Russia. Ukrainians want all the benefits
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Sorry, but bricking mobiles is not "the only way ... to hit them hard". Cutting them off from international trade, refusing shipments of semiconductors and other "dual use" resources, refusing docking rights to load&#x2F
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It's not just dollars that are flowing via SWIFT. SWIFT is what blockchain wants to be, it's a way for banks to send and receive funds of many currencies. SWIFT is a messaging system. The actual transfer of funds is performed with
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People here are arguing that having "esoteric" knowledge is pointless. But the point of the article was to use it as a "discussion point" and get the person talking about things. I've interviewed lots of developers
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by rswail 5y ago
Patreon is not a "payment gateway", it's a mechanism for people to support creative activities, as the original term "patron of the arts" means. Funding military weapons steps on some very complicated lines about wh
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As a customer of thingsboard.io I am worried for the people we've worked with there. They are good people and don't deserve this in any way.
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That's fine if you're running on a Linux platform, but if you're running on AWS/GCP/Azure with lambdas/workers/serverless, you need to have the SBOM for your own software. Not everything is going to be acc
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Well, that's a good thing if they are open to creating a community, which is what they're looking for on first inspection. The idea of using a directed acyclic graph, along with content addressable artifacts (or representation of
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Aside from the git trademark issue, which is easily resolvable, this project is interesting from a professional point of view because the concepts of SBOMs and the requirement to deliver them as part of NIST standards is becoming more impor
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It really was an elegant instruction set.
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Batch numbers have been in use for ages, both for tech equipment and the milk you buy at a store.
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Well, they've got serious investors and serious money at stake. Why is the concept of long distance HVDC cables, large energy storage and reusing flat, sunny land to generate power seem to be "pie in the sky"?
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C#/.NET/CLR are competing against Java/JRE/JVM. So reinventing "everything" in a Windows Server environment is slowly coming to an end, with Windows server becoming a hypervisor for VMs/containers and a ru
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It's a closed system in that the applications that are installed in the Wallet require approval from Apple and that includes fees as does the provisioning of the existing EMV and other Wallet applications (not the other Wallet uses lik
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That is primarily a US issue. In EU/AU/CA/NZ and increasingly in Asia, EMV chip+pin and contactless(+pin) are used and mag stripe is specifically excluded from the new standards.
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The iPhone has a secure element that will allow for it to implement the SCRP (Secure Card Reader for PIN) PCI standard. So this allows for an iPhone/iPad/Android phone/tablet to implement EMV contact/contactless payments
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The way google/apple/samsung pay work is that there is a secure element that is running its own OS that contains applications. For contactless payment (the consumer side), there are apps that implement the EMV NFC standards and al
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Age verification is to Tories as abortion is to Republicans.
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Keeping credit card details will expose private companies to the requirements of PCI to store them. It's against those rules for private companies to keep the cardholder information connected to the card details like the PAN. The PANs
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Why? You have a screen, the cameras are so small as to be undetectable, they add safety and they provide much better coverage than mirrors do. It also enables auto-parking and other enhancements while not inhibiting anyone that wants to per
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To be clear, Apple is not licensing ARM IP "just like everybody else". They have a very different relationship, being a founding shareholder, and then acquiring an "Architecture License" from ARM after also acquiring PA

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