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by ta1243 2y ago
Some completely unrelated information, Iraq moved to using the Euro to sell oil in November 2000 https://www.rferl.org/a/1095057.html
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by ta1243 2y ago
Who is this debt owed to and what will they do with it should it be repaid?
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by ta1243 2y ago
I find it fascinating that the right wing in the US is massively pro Russia. It didn't happen in the UK, probably because of a populist prime minister (Johnson) who wanted to be seen as a Churchill figure throwing immense and unconditi
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by ta1243 2y ago
> Heck even Chinese is now sending more rockets and successfully than Elon+NASA The US has launched 84 of the 134 orbital flights this year, 2.5 times as many as China's 32.
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by ta1243 2y ago
$ curl -v " https://maps.apple.com/?ll=41.77708546284588%2C-122.51487365... " .... < HTTP/2 302 < server: AkamaiGHost < content-length: 0 < location: https://maps.google
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by ta1243 2y ago
In the UK minimum wage is up 75% since 2014, but median wage is up 50% Given that minimum wage is a leave school asap, don't bother learning anything, then just push a broom round a shop. You used to get 50% more of that by working har
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by ta1243 2y ago
> People will buy something from a store, buy a fake version of that thing on AliExpress, swap the fake into the box, re-shrinkwrap the box, return the shrinkwrapped fake to the store, and sell the real one on eBay. Why not just sell the
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by ta1243 2y ago
> Alexa can set timers and tell me the weather, and...that's basically it. Make it a value add in my life and I wouldn't mind paying a subscription fee for it. I wouldn't. Amazon wouldn't be able to stop them selves d
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by ta1243 2y ago
> - Is it reasonable to have more than 70% of the computers/servers that run important infrastructure on the same OS / software ? How about the mitigation of the risks etc… This is the problem as far as I'm concerned. Indu
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by ta1243 2y ago
> Date: 24 JUL 1973 1527-PDT Interesting. I thought Ameria preferred the "M-D-Y" order?
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by ta1243 2y ago
No it wasn't a typo. Netwars was the most important part of the provision we had at school as it kept us sane in the "this term we're going to write a letter" lessons. The webserver was a key thing in later years too --
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by ta1243 2y ago
Lets say 20% of people booking through ryanair and paying £30 for a flight go for their "upselling" (which is deliberatly designed to get more people to add it). That makes ryanair £50 each. That pushes the revenue per customer up
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by ta1243 2y ago
Not just more prude but shifting it. In the past it was normal to see naked people at the beach or changing rooms. Now that's been stamped out, but porn is massive. The only naked people the majority see are porn actors. It's not
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by ta1243 2y ago
I wonder how much of it is due to the proliferation of cameras and photo sharing sites.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Ryanair relies on dark patterns and brainwashing as part of the checkout process to sell you hotels, insurance, car hire, etc. Those feed into their income stream. If you bypass that process they don't make their profit.
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by ta1243 2y ago
We've seen this week that the world does not want options. It wants a single point of failure in all infrastructure so that nobody is blamed for making the wrong choice.
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by ta1243 2y ago
When accessing a closed departure board display then that isn't a problem
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by ta1243 2y ago
Those sorts of things just need to boot to a web browser in full screen with some watchdog software in the background, launching from a read only disk (or network image). Get a problem, just unplug it and plug it back in. Make it POE based
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by ta1243 2y ago
Netware 4 I think was dubbed "intranetware" and had some form of IP support. We had netware at school in about 93-96 with windows 3.1 running on diskless clients. Netwars was a key component of this. I think Windows 95 and "i
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by ta1243 2y ago
So you're against minimum drinking age laws?
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by ta1243 2y ago
> won't someone think of the children Really not a good thing to be doing with porn
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by ta1243 2y ago
So that's what the MP was after [0] [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61284686
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by ta1243 2y ago
And will be about as effective at prevention
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by ta1243 2y ago
In the UK, a housing minister was bribed with £12,000 in return for a £45m tax break. 3750:1 return on investment, you don't get many investments that lucrative!
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by ta1243 2y ago
If 90% of the world runs in AWS, and I'm the only one running on my own hardware, do I get a benefit when AWS goes down?
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by ta1243 2y ago
Mine certainly does, our key windows based control systems use windows defender, the corporate crap gets sentinal one and zscaler and whatever else has been bought on a whim. I'd assumed that any essential company would be similar. OK
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by ta1243 2y ago
The benefits include 1) Nice trips to golf courses before contract renewal 2) Nice meals at fancy restaurants before contract renewal 3) Someone for the CTO to blame when something goes wrong
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by ta1243 2y ago
> Does CS actually offer any real protection? I always thought it was just feel-good software, that Windows had caught up to separating permissions since after XP or so. Either one is lying/scamming, but which one? Our ZScaler rep (
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by ta1243 2y ago
A proper fix means that a failure like this causes you a headache, it doesn't close all your branches, or ground your planes, or stop operations in hospitals, or take your tv off air. You do that by ensuring a single point of failure,
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by ta1243 2y ago
CTOs do not get fired because they chose a massive system like crowdstrike and it fails once a year They would get fired if they chose a non-normal system and it failed once every 10 years

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