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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Defender does not have to win every time. That is what defense in depth is all about. Multiple lines of defense.
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
NSA banking EternalBlue was the reason for Wannacry ransomware proliferation, which killed people due to downtime of hospital systems.
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Profit as intended means producer surplus. Economic theory predicts producer surplus reaching 0, while consumer surplus getting maximized. That is what competition does. It does tell everything about markets. This does not happen because of
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
The parliament can block legislation indefinitely.
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
DMA, like any other regulation that preceded it, was severely lobbied down. It happened in spite of EU. There is too great of a democratic consensus for it to be completely ignored. Do not get this wrong.
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
The solution is complete zero trust and distrusting the network in organizations. You should treat the internal network as external -- hostile. Google does this. They were the first ones to widely adopt zero trust with BeyondCorp and there
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Oil, as any energy, has multiplier effects. That 200B USD is responsible for major part of the 100T USD.
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Sal Khan in the past has made his position clear that he supports austerity and private schools in the United States. This, if anything, is continuation of the con he always propelled. Edtech will replace teachers has been a talking point f
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Should have weathered the storm and realized LLM craze is at its peak, and will die down. We are at Juicero juicing phase. Instead, they decided to kill their brand value.
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Concrete lasts longer. Concrete also absorbs CO2 from air. In its lifetime, it is expected to absorb all the CO2 emissions. Emissions do not really matter for a material that can last hundreds of years. Genociding old growth forests in Euro
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
As they can. It is still largely a developing country with half the population in poverty. If we are to take United States' historic emissions and equalize it to per capita, China can pollute at current rate till death of universe. Thi
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Americans also consume way more per capita than Europeans. For future trade deal deliberations, EU must demand US pay for its pollution. Carbon credits, but not for goods, but individuals. Tax the carbon of imports, too. It's astonishi
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
There was no "Crisis". Market cost structure changed. So did the incentives. The market balanced itself.
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Those talk that about "disinformation" do so to assume some moral high-ground. The reasonable ones assume all the information out there is hostile and seeks to influence them. Because that's precisely how human interaction wo
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
By mainstream media losing credibility in an online age and being unable to reinvent itself, thus grasping for correct-sounding thought terminating cliches such as "disinformation is on the rise", with no substantiation? And, publ
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
No, I am not being attacked. Issue is widespread.
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
More: https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr/issues/18565
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JSDelivr is experiencing certificate issues(jsdelivr.com)
3 points by shortsunblack 2y ago|5 comments
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
And arguably U.S. has more protectionist trade policy than EU. It is in a trade war with China, it has always historically preferenced American auto makers (chicken tax) and it even goes so far as to discriminate its dear allies with Inflat
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Business models do not have by their own virtue validity. They are only as valid as they are societally useful (and) as a side-effect produce economic value. Which can either be captured privately, or publically or on the consumer side (con
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European Commission Designates Apple's iPadOS Under the Digital Markets Act(ec.europa.eu)
8 points by shortsunblack 2y ago|2 comments
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
That is not copyright but a geographical trademark. And trademarks are for the protection of consumers. Champagne is a type of sparkling wine made in the region of Champagne, France. If it isn't made in Champagne, France it, by definit
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
No. Huawei gear is not allowed in US telcos because American telco kit suppliers lobbied for such a ban. American crusade against Huawei happened the same year Huawei broke the record for most phones sold, surpassing Apple.
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Great news. Concrete industry continues to excel in its innovation, contrary to wood construction industry. Which only excels in its innovation of continuing tree genocide. The novelty is the continuation of unsustainable practices. Concret
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by shortsunblack 2y ago
Journalistic objectivity is not real and has never existed. It is much better when a journalistic outlet acknowledges its plausible biases and lets the reader make up their own mind. This ideal gets further stretched with "citizens jou
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
It's ironic. In 90s U.S. purposefully sabotaged Japanese chip industry with tariffs and other coercive measures. Today, a Japanese company buys out a poster-child of American industrial capacity.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
What use are chip factories in the United States when you cannot sell them to the largest market of chips that only will become even more larger as Chinese middle class and their consumption grows?
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Related shenanigans: KPMG is the leading green-washer https://www.icij.org/investigations/deforestation-inc/audit-...
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
And Bell Labs existed mainly because of the taxation system of US. They needed to do R&D spend to use as a tax write-off. That's why the most productive years of American tech were the years with highest rates of taxation.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Pretty much proof that OSS != automatically more secure. And proof that OSS projects can get backdoored. See this for more ideas on this issue: https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/02/02/floss-security/

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