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by sennight 5y ago
I was heavily involved with Bitcoin back when the spot price was in the single digits and the goto attack against it was "Only drug addicts and pedos use it!" My day to day involvement dropped off around the time that Wall Street
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You know how racecars spectacularly fly to pieces when they crash? That is by design - as it rapidly sheds energy. Same thing applies to things that "burn up on reentry", so long as you prevent the thing from coming down as one so
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> That interpretation is unclear from that source. lol. "Several livestreams posted on Google’s platform last weekend by truckers protesting in Canada have had their audience limited... This creator explained that they have had the
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What you are asking for is already widely available: network television. I don't see how it is a good thing that Google has adopted more and more of the negative aspects of the old system, but they certainly have been busy doing so for
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Supposedly it is targeting a very specific type of content: medical mandate protest coverage. Unfortunately this is a plausible explanation. https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-capping-viewer-limits/
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You made a critical mistake in your opening sentence: you conflated 3 very different things, not a promising start. "Blockchain technology" is just a consensus protocol, cryptocurrencies are currencies (well, one of them is at lea
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Put more bluntly than I was willing, but pretty much. I think this would be the case for the majority of the envious complaints, and the remainder would be a laughably unrealistic over-estimation of the power of money. As in: it doesn'
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I worded it exactly as intended when I said "meaningful achievement" instead of "wildest dream". If the scope of your ambition is to push the envelope in astrophysics, you probably already have enough resources at your d
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Not that long ago the vast majority of scientific progress originated from rich men doing it in their free time. Does it really matter that they published their results for bragging rights instead of a need to fulfill some goofy academic pi
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dunno, but lets assume it did: is it more likely that existing thieves switched to a higher returning crime, or that out of work kindergarten teachers started stripping roof AC units? Wait, if the gap in wealth inequality has been doing not
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If that were true, then it would be reflected in crime stat jumps during periods of recession, but it isn't.
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Current legislation is selectively enforced - pointing to a lack of enforcement only weakens your position. There are a lot of major distinguishing differences between HN and Youtube, but one of the most obvious is the way HN has a narrowly
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> I just also happen to believe that youtube should get to decide what they distribute... Sort of like a publisher, right? Well that sounds totally reasonable for a publisher to... oh. Might wanna rethink that one - it would be a shame t
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Many years ago I had to get formally trained on the whole counter-terrorism thing. It was depressing, because of how obviously broken and compromised it was. You could clearly see that the military had done 99% of the leg-work in developing
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I guess you've never had a reason to check what processes are doing what on your systems. I've never been comfortable with the mess you get upon opening something like top on a systemd managed OS. It isn't just the aesthetics
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That might be too low of a resolution for RGB, I have a feeling that few cars would share the same spectral signature in the commonly measured bands. A lot of papers have been written on vehicle identification using SAR - so that would prob
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> The UK is pretty culturally diverse. Relative to the US? lol, no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_et... > But even if it wasn’t, what would that have to do with policing standards and
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The point is with regard to escalation of force rationale, getting bent out of shape about the mere mention of the big bad US military is a pathetic response. No, the London police and the CIA aren't military - neither enjoy anything a
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> Well, the world is aware that the US tends to have a "shoot first, ask later" policy. The larger point that you seem to have missed being that the US military doesn't do anything without a logical or historical justifica
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Addressing this feels like how I imagine it would feel to drop a cinderblock on a box of kittens... > It has been established that the truth will eventually surface with sufficient education, public awareness and time. Not really, but ev
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> As for shooting out the tyres... This comes up every so often with regard to high speed chases: "Why not just let him go and then make the arrest after things have calmed down? We know where he lives." The answer to that ques
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Yeah, you're right - it was definitely bat soup and Adam Schiff will be releasing that evidence of watersport hijinks any day now.
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huh, you'd think that the last few years would have sufficiently chastened the kind of people who reflexively characterize things as "conspiracy theories"... :)
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Why it was created? I don't think anyone could offer more than guess. Why it is maintained? lol. First, we could get a lot more specific about the kinds of classification and the distinguishing characteristics... but I think we can get
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These are the keywords you are interested in: The Finders, FBI, CIA memo to NBC, North Korea visa. It has been my experience that the more effort one puts into sharing something like this with a stranger on the internet - the more easily it
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That is why classified systems exist, they act as a last ditch mechanism to ensure that the ruling class isn't inconvenienced by silly things like "the law". How many people have been locked up for lying to Congress about the
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Scraping public data doesn't result in compelling another person to work under a false premise. Sure, you could argue that scraping introduces load that may draw an operator's attention... but the comparison is a pretty big stre
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> The phone companies standardized on a hopelessly insecure protocol in 1975... I vaguely remember an interview with somebody involved in early ARPANET standardization efforts stating pretty definitively that the prevailing direction for
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Kessler syndrome: specific orbital ranges denied for a period of time measured in generations. Not applicable to Starlink, the orbital shells are so low that 5 years is the worst case scenario.
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A lame answer that happens to directly, and accurately, answer your question... better move the goal posts. I'm sure Lenin would strongly disapprove of a strategy wherein everything is regarded as a right to be overseen by the governme

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