silotis

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by silotis 2y ago
It's usually not stated so explicitly, but often implied by people who advocate for expansive entitlement programs. When pressed on how to pay for such programs, "tax the rich" is often their only answer.
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by silotis 2y ago
This is just a variation on the broken window fallacy. There are any number of engineering projects one could embark on that would stimulate R&D and provide a productive output in their own right.
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by silotis 2y ago
I have a regular exercise routine I do every day. Believe it or not some people still have insomnia even when they follow all the usual lifestyle advise.
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by silotis 2y ago
Eh, I've found my insomnia to be largely independent of the amount of exercise I get. I can run 5 km during the day and still only manage 3-4 hours the next night.
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by silotis 2y ago
The situation with H.264 is complicated by the fact that it refers to a whole series of standards released over an extended period. The vast majority of H.264 videos in the wild only use the High profile which was first published in March o
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by silotis 2y ago
CalFAIR is subsidized in the sense that insurance companies are forced to pay into it. Insurers of course pass this cost on to their customers. Combined with price controls on insurance this is just taxation with extra steps.
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by silotis 2y ago
With DNSSEC + DANE Brazil would not have needed to make any deal with MS to be able to issue certs for .br domains and they would not have been able to issue a cert for google.com. Admittedly DNSSEC has issues to put it mildly, but it does
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by silotis 2y ago
The article gives examples of CEOs borrowing against their shares. The article provides no examples of CEOs rolling those loans over until their death.
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by silotis 2y ago
This isn't about getting free internet, no competent ISP will let the link come up without a serial number registered with the port. This is about bypassing the awful gateway hardware many fiber ISPs mandate.
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by silotis 2y ago
IME most new residential fiber deployments in the US are using XGS-PON which provides 10 Gbps in both directions. Typically ISPs don't put the maximum number of clients in a node that the standard allows. I've heard 32 is a common
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by silotis 2y ago
If you're fortunate enough to have the older BGW210 you can bypass it without specialized hardware by having your router proxy the authentication requests. https://pyther.net/2020/05/03/bypass-att-gateway
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by silotis 2y ago
It's a good point in general, but in this case it's not clear if the cost of re-writing the existing codebase is less than the cost of staying with a memory-unsafe language. We know from past experience that it takes an extreme am
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by silotis 2y ago
Bittorrent normally hash checks all content against metadata in the torrent file so a simple MITM wouldn't be enough to inject malicious data unless the torrent metadata itself is being sent in the clear.
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by silotis 2y ago
> does not switch to 200MHz for a minute during video calls I had a Dell work laptop that did the same thing. As far as I was able to tell the system had a bug/fault that continuously asserted the CPU's BD PROCHOT line when the
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by silotis 2y ago
When Social Security was first passed into law it was sold to the public as a sort of compulsory annuity, not a means of mass wealth redistribution.
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by silotis 2y ago
Artillery has been the number one cause of combat casualties since World War I. The tech is obviously changing, but soldiers dying out of sight of the enemy is not new.
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by silotis 2y ago
The trick is to enforce conformance right from the start in the first implementation of a format. Shipping a product that doesn't interop with the existing tools is a non-starter so the devs will have to fix their shit first. As you sa
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by silotis 3y ago
This isn't limited to the US. For the trip distances we're talking about here European trains are often just as expensive as flying if not more so.
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by silotis 3y ago
From a legalistic standpoint it makes sense: the FAA spends a lot of resources regulating SpaceX's activity, therefor tax SpaceX to pay for it. From an economic and geopolitical standpoint it's clearly a poor choice to introduce a
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by silotis 3y ago
The relevant statute[0] says that companies are required to notify the EPA before they start manufacturing new chemicals. So knowingly hiding a new chemical from the EPA would be a risky play, if the government found out the company (and mo
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by silotis 3y ago
Almost. I tested this a few years ago and IIRC zstd at its highest settings is typically about 5% larger than LZMA. So there is a difference, but probably not enough for most people to care.
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by silotis 3y ago
It was less "I might be killed" and more "my son/husband might be killed".
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by silotis 3y ago
To be fair I think the conservative objection is not quite that filing taxes needs to be annoying. The concern is more that automated tax calculation makes it easier for people to be blissfully unaware of how much of their money is going to
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by silotis 3y ago
That's not how it works on modern CPUs. Power draw at "100%" utilization can vary widely depending on what part of the core is being utilized. The SIMD units are typically the most power hungry part of the CPU by a large marg
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by silotis 3y ago
According to the pdf the source isn't even pure peanut butter. It also contains sugar and vegetable oils so it's probably based on one of the cheap emulsified varieties.
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by silotis 3y ago
The cheap old varieties of insulin are still available and still cheap. What's expensive are the newer analogues which make it much easier for diabetics to manage their insulin levels.
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by silotis 3y ago
Cloudflare's lack of EDNS doesn't prevent DNS based routing. It can still be done based on the DNS request's source address. This will be the IP of the Cloudflare POP closest to the client. Lack of EDNS only makes DNS based r
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by silotis 3y ago
> assuming a network size of ~25k DHT Server nodes I guess they've given up on the idea of end users running full nodes. There still might be some value in having a federated CDN service, but I think they will struggle to compete wi
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by silotis 3y ago
DHTs have had support for mutable pointers for a long time. The bittorrent DHT has BEP44 which was published in 2014. http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html
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by silotis 7y ago
The average user doesn't have the level of visibility into the system to know that the middlebox is the one causing the problem. Instead whatever changed last gets the blame, regardless of what's actually at fault. So if a user&#x

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