samtho

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by samtho 3y ago
> I remember reading articles (15+ years ago) about how dangerous and impassable the Darien Gap was. Clearly that's not the case, or at least not anymore, considering the number of migrants (including children) walking through every
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by samtho 3y ago
Regardless of the impact of this breach in particular, your point still stands and is one I do share: this is a major downside to centralized identity providers. Their existence creates a centralized point of access that all an attacker mus
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by samtho 3y ago
Not sure why you are preoccupied with this being a video - that’s just the medium. There is already, rightly, a lot of scrutiny with how much law enforcement is allowed to get away with and the public is very receptive to this message at th
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by samtho 3y ago
Putin was actively attempting to repair relations with western democracies during the early 2000s. 9/11 happened and helped spur two American-led, endless wars from which no clear goal could be defined. “The West” focused its geopoliti
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by samtho 3y ago
In a similar vein, the corecursive podcast[0] covered the Sloot Digital Coding System[1] in which it is hypothesized that he attempted something very similar but for video. Unfortunately, it seemed like overestimated his ability to produce
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by samtho 3y ago
It does take many years (in the timeframe of decades) for CFCs and other ozone depleting molecules to reach a point where they do damage as it’s heavier than air. 2010 was only 13-14 years ago at this point and those gasses have mostly not
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by samtho 3y ago
I, too, found this out about myself, but on AncestryDNA originally. I did find a previously unknown cousin my the other side of family thanks to 23&me. It’s a shame because the relative matching is a really fantastic tool and has been a
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Nothing, you abandon many viable samples of it wherever you go. This relates to the biggest problem with biometrics: it represents an effectively static attribute about an individual. It cannot be reset and therefore we place this enormous
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Lying about it would expose them to a lot of legal trouble. Im guessing they are choosing their words carefully as they have likely been worried about being sued from day one.
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> How easy is it to submit random DNA (cow, cat, dog, chicken, etc. or even fake?) and get yourself enrolled in their system to then legitimately have access to the next 1500+ "relatives?". You really must not fundamentally und
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It sounds like we’re either measuring the wrong thing or putting too much weight behind a measurement that sums up an inherently complex system. This measurement matters enough to be able to petition days to be excluded, why can’t we just c
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I find it difficult to believe that people would be shocked to discover that datapoints can be removed as a result of the spike identified as non-human-caused pollution. We can’t regulate acts of nature, even if these acts are made worse by
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by samtho 3y ago
Another junk fee that disproportionately impacts people who do not have a ton of cash sitting around: reconnect fees. In the past, a utility had to come out to your property and physically disconnect a wire or close a valve with a lock if y
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by samtho 3y ago
I agree, if I could uncheck a box that says “coloring” when buying food, I would uncheck that every time. The only issue I have is that we don’t live in a world where that is possible, and food dyes inhabit anything that is wrapped in plast
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by samtho 3y ago
This is more a reflection of the organizational structure that allows or tolerates such behavior rather than anything to do with the 12 factor app methodology. I think most reasonable people would agree that if you were able to incorporate
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by samtho 3y ago
> How many of those devices actually had 5V batteries inside? (Are there even credible 5V Li-poly battery banks)? That’s a good point and revealed that I conflated battery capacity with source-able/usable power. You are correct (as
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I seriously cannot tell whether food dyes will be this era’s “refined sugar” in terms of epidemiological impact or a massive red-3 herring.
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> Consumers use batteries that are a specific voltage. Nowadays with sealed, non-serviceable batteries, it is not always abundantly clear what voltage the device takes for power (which can be different from its charging voltage) unless i
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by samtho 3y ago
The problem is rarely cash flow, it's credit worthiness and access to a one-time down payment. Additionally, the types of mortgages people take out are fixed rate and your payment never changes (so long as you do not refinance) regardl
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by samtho 3y ago
My partner and I have a number of animals and volunteered at a shelter for many years pre-pandemic. We worked with vets and vet techs and are roughly aware of the associated costs. $10,000 feels high at first glance but consider the size of
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by samtho 3y ago
Something that seems absent these days in American political discourse is the assumption that the other party, in general, has a similar north start to your own, i.e. both conservative and liberal ideals (in the recent past) seemed well-int
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Isn’t the bigger issue that the fund itself was fake? If they made the decision to set aside some amount of money to be untouchable based on a random number, that is, uh, unconventional to say the least, but they very purposefully chose not
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by samtho 3y ago
I’m fully aware of the difference. The only parallel I’ve drawn is the fact that it uses gases as a result of the combustion as propulsion rather than spinning a fan. Whether it has its own oxidizer is irrelevant for the purposes of this an
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He is doing a full series on the engineering of railroads and mentioned this is just the basics. He did not cover locomotives (propulsion, types, differences among passenger, fright, etc) in this video and focused solely unpowered rail cars
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This not a typical low-bypass, cigar-type turbofan jet engine you see on airplanes, rather, it’s a modified turboshaft jet engine used for helicopters, intended to provide longitudinal rotational energy. The air it moves from the intake is
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by samtho 3y ago
Yeah, I think the problem is that we’ve been taught that pre-optimization is the root of all evil and that we should getting it working before improving upon it. Pre-optimization became a thing because enthusiasts liked the challenge of cre
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by samtho 3y ago
This is also acceptable to me, especially if it’s X per month for service and device (including device replacement if needed). I also like how it reduces capex for a business that is looking to connect their devices and just needs a plug-an
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by samtho 3y ago
I work in IoT and my single goal working in the industry is to do as much as I can (which will likely still be small) to make devices that are entirely separable from the cloud by enabling the use of different services and by being local-fi
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by samtho 3y ago
> People look at that? I'm nowhere close to 10 years and people already don't care. It was only relevant for my first job out of college. This was my experience as well. A lot of places that previously had a hard requirement fo
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by samtho 3y ago
Lest we forget the very systems enabling this behavior of banal evil were created and maintained by perhaps the most evil of them all.

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