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by smsm42 9mo ago
> EFF claims that some states enroll illegal immigrants in Medicaid Actually they don't. They say "Some states, using their own funds, allow enrollment by non-citizens" - but they never say if it's legal residents or
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by smsm42 9mo ago
Language is not a huge deal - if the French and the Spanish and the Dutch can use Facebook, they could use Eurobook if that existed, as well. The problem of course would be, if they made a committee to build Eurobook, they'd spend 5 ye
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by smsm42 9mo ago
Yes, Vladimir Lenin is likely one of the most appropriate people to quote on the question of freedom. Maybe only his successor Joseph Stalin is better in that regard.
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by smsm42 9mo ago
If Europe were capable of doing this, Europe would not need to do this. They'd already have active and vibrant tech scene compared to US one - EU is bigger than US by population, and certainly not less smart - in fact, a lot of people
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Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"(arstechnica.com)
3 points by smsm42 9mo ago|2 comments
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by smsm42 9mo ago
Nope. I stopped using google for search many years ago, and stopped using it as a verb about the same time. I admit I've used something like "are you banned on Google or what?" a couple of times though.
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by smsm42 9mo ago
One guy says "I was lambasted on Reddit", no link, no proof, no hearing the other side, no any substantiation anything actually happened even. Immediate conclusion: "community is full of assholes, unwilling to change". T
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by smsm42 9mo ago
That would shut down all drive-by contributions, which may not be a good source of big improvements, but are a good source of information about bugs/maintenance issues. I.e. if I find a rare corner case where the code breaks, for an op
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by smsm42 9mo ago
DNS level is too easy to circumvent - you just set your server to 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, and it's enough just one of them refuses to kowtow to Ofcom. More likely it'd de on routing level. Which has obvious problems unless they build
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by smsm42 9mo ago
Pumping out a lot of noise is usually easier than locating a source of a weak signal. That said, Russians likely have the necessary technology. The question would be do they feel like selling it to Iran and are Iranians capable of using it
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by smsm42 9mo ago
Billionaires there are subjects to the regime, and only remain billionaires while they are absolutely loyal to the regime. And threat of disagreement not only would cause them stop being billionaires, but also stop breathing altogether. I m
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by smsm42 9mo ago
I pretty much expect 0 support from any major company unless I am covered with juicy Enterprise support contract. They are too big to care.
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by smsm42 9mo ago
How it's related? Jamming is just drowning signal in noise, how does it help locating the source of the signal?
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by smsm42 9mo ago
These things must be big, stationary and likely very sparsely manned (if anything, they must emit a lot of energy which is not healthy). If there ever were some good targets for a surgical application of some B-2s...
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by smsm42 9mo ago
Not yet, but soon. Possibly even this year.
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by smsm42 9mo ago
Billionaires can do this in any country. In US, the difference is other billionaires than the rulers of the country are allowed to exist.
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by smsm42 9mo ago
Injecting Gaza, assault rifles and vague implication of conspiracy (with Jews lurking on the background because you must respect the founding pillars of the genre) into an article that is supposedly about tech startup founder - is exactly w
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by smsm42 9mo ago
A: it looks like this article is no more than an ad B: Oh noes, it can't be, they have specific policy against that! A: That policy actually does not have anything about this. B: Ah, that's because they are so ethical that they di
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by smsm42 9mo ago
Probably not directly, that would be too vulnerable. But they could hire a background check company, that could pay a data aggregator to check if you searched for some forbidden words, and then feed the results into a threat model...
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by smsm42 9mo ago
IIRC even activating the physical card requires an app, which is of course only existing on iphone. Also, the user agreement specifies you need a device which is ApplePay compatible (i.e., iphone). Also, IIRC the card doesn't actually
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by smsm42 10mo ago
I think Amex one is $95/year
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by smsm42 10mo ago
Yeah I was surprised finding out it's Goldman card - I haven't heard about Goldman doing a consumer cards before that (and I have a lot of cards).
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by smsm42 10mo ago
It is very hard to get any proper use of apple card without an iphone, so it's clearly designed for people buying into i-system wholesale. The titanium thing is more backup (for those dinosaurs still not accepting applepay) and a gimmi
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by smsm42 10mo ago
That only makes sense if they don't charge extra for paying with CC. Most places I've seen would charge you 3-4% fee for CC payment, which makes the whole thing pointless - except if you need a big spend e.g. for a sign-up bonus.
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by smsm42 10mo ago
3% for $60 annual fee is not bad. AmEx has Blue Cash card with 6% back, but it costs $95 and only works for (some) grocery stores. So if you have a decent churn $60 is not bad. Of course, if you play these games you should never ever hold a
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by smsm42 10mo ago
I don't believe any card would mean "no fees" as "no late fees". It would be insane. I mean, I just take their money and never pay back and they are fine with it? Doesn't sound possible. I think they mean &quot
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by smsm42 10mo ago
The catch is it's very annoying to use outside of Apple ecosystem - e.g. if you don't have an iphone or don't want (or can not) use ApplePay. Also, 2% cashback and no fees is nothing exceptional (in US market) - I mean, it&#x
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by smsm42 10mo ago
There's another side to it. Imagine a company has a guy somewhere overseas that they hired, and they worked with him for 5 years, and now they want to bring them to the US because it's more convenient and close to the main team. C
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by smsm42 10mo ago
> If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so. That's a wrong way of looking at it though. For 99.99% individual sites, I wouldn't care if they were down for weeks.
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by smsm42 11mo ago
I am the least likely guy to defend communists, but come on. It's not even clear he is a communist, and if you need to dunk on communists, you could find much, much better targets. His personality has nothing to do with his political v

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