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by sfifs 6y ago
Sure but to get satellite internet, you need to provide some id to the satellite internet company and they can probably track you back.
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by sfifs 6y ago
Well if it becomes popular, holding and dealing with Monero will be made illegal and ISPs will be tasked with blocking it. Governments can be very vindictive if their tax revenue is threatened. If you have a use case for Monero, you'
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by sfifs 6y ago
Well if you have an easy solution that you think would work, why don't you put up a website, commission a DDOS attack from a skilled actor and try to demonstrate mitigation? Companies pay big money to CloudFlare. If a simpler and cheap
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by sfifs 6y ago
Good to know! Will consider for my next replacement
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by sfifs 6y ago
Say you have a kid in elementary school. Say you need to print something for a school project or even a home craft she's doing urgently (because if course kids don't plan long term - else they wouldn't be kids). BW prints loo
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by sfifs 6y ago
Oh good to know! Thanks!
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by sfifs 6y ago
I feel Apple is literally the anti-thesis of Dieter Rams. Johnny Ive's design philosophy i have always felt is very much "form over function" and has resulted in horrific abominations like skeuomorphism and mobile radios that
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by sfifs 6y ago
Sure but you also need a different economic system to handle this sort of reality. Without a change, this will lead us to extreme wealth disparity and social unrest. It will be interesting to understand which countries will go with mitigati
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by sfifs 6y ago
Their quarterly financial filings may give you a clue... the search, YT and network ads business revenue and margins are so huge that what they do anywhere else pretty much doesn't really matter from a corporate results standpoint :-)
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by sfifs 6y ago
You realise this is one of the main reasons AWS is an order of magnitude bigger than Google Cloud in revenue right?
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by sfifs 6y ago
Have you used Office 365 and OneDrive? You actually get a nearly full blown Word and Excel with the same file sharing features :-)
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by sfifs 6y ago
Only foreign visitors carry cash these days in China in cities in my personal experience :-) Some shops actually don't accept cash at all - so you have to pay a colleague in cash and they'll pay the vendor with Ali or Tencent Pay
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by sfifs 6y ago
> How do you validate I've paid and let me through with a static QR code for something like the metro, or a ticketed event, or even a coffee? How do you know they paid the right amount? I turn and show you my receipt, and you hope i
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by sfifs 6y ago
Well if it actually went to a court case, I'm sure either RIAA's lawyers or the defence lawyers would subpoena Google to disclose the split of downloaded videos between protected and not protected videos and then we'd actuall
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by sfifs 6y ago
I believe a court in Germany has already ruled on the rolling cipher being a technological restriction (and that is referenced in the complaint). The point of the technological measure (together with TOS) is to make the intent clear. youtu
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by sfifs 6y ago
Things starts easing up a bit after kids hit first grade around 6 or 7
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by sfifs 6y ago
Isn't colab going away and being replaced by AI Notebooks? At least that's what a GCP partner trainer was telling me...
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by sfifs 6y ago
I think what you're missing is that a vanishingly small proportion of the population actually earns enough to pay income tax and there's a breathtakingly huge number of relatively poor folks. A lot of services are massively subsid
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by sfifs 6y ago
I actually have a tmp on my desktop for this very purpose :-)
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by sfifs 6y ago
Not really. Revenues and Profits of Samsung group and Apple are roughly comparable and in many ways Samsung's revenue streams are more diversified and sustainable.. stock valuation notwithstanding.
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by sfifs 6y ago
There ain't no such thing as standardized exit exams for colleges - especially for the elite rung of the colleges. My college department's professors set their exam papers as did every other faculty in similar colleges - so it&#x2
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by sfifs 6y ago
Given how SoftBank has mismanaged things across their portfolio companies, wouldn't literally anyone else be a net positive to get ARM out of SoftBank? For all the PR ARM's old founder has been doing, i don't see he'
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by sfifs 6y ago
You think that people are going to tell a government survey that they used the government check to buy televisions? :-) Similar to will people who support either political candidates disclose it in an interview - especially if they
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by sfifs 6y ago
While this IS true, i also find in my part of the world that the brewed coffee and beans from Starbucks is significantly and consistently superior to most things i am able to conveniently find. Now I've been to SF and Peet's was
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by sfifs 6y ago
Yup that's capitalism and LACK of regulatory authority :-)
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by sfifs 6y ago
I sometimes think the US functions as a giant experimental ground for the rest of the world to learn in which domains a combination of capitalism and devolved regulatory authority (which seems to drive rapid innovation) works and also DOESN
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by sfifs 6y ago
In case of Reddit, lack of Personalization of content.
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by sfifs 6y ago
0ne of the pieces many articles discussing Singapore miss is actually the quality of the people in the Government officer corps. This i think makes a massive amount of difference in that a lot of what's planned in infrastructure and pr
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by sfifs 6y ago
New buildings built over the last couple of decades generally have provisions for keeping the outer unit of the air conditioners out of the way. We largely use ceiling fans in Singapore. The difference in electricity bill between the couple
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by sfifs 6y ago
The part which will i think likely be found anti competitive will be not allowing app publishers to advertise or provide alternative payment mechanisms for in-app good & services being provided by them while being the only way to distr

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