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by toss1 2y ago
>>Kinetic? Notice I put sanctions first, but considering we hardly go a week without seeing more massive CCP actions from cyberattacks to converting Chinese expats to spies, it needs to be taken seriously. We could start with, every
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by toss1 2y ago
When you are dealing with an aggressive authoritarian regime like CCP or Putin, agreements mean nothing. They all follow the algorithm described by Vladimir Lenin: — “You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, y
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by toss1 2y ago
These sustained aggressive and systematic attacks by China demand a serious response, including massive financial and even kinetic responses. Allowing it to happen with mere protests of concern is allowing it to happen. I get not wanting to
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U.S. files complaint against fintech app Dave and its CEO(cnbc.com)
7 points by toss1 2y ago|1 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
And that 'truly decentralized option' comes with a problem that will permanently dissuade many serious people from using it — there is no way to prevent imposter accounts. Imposter accounts will be attempted for anyone of signific
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by toss1 2y ago
Or, as with Thalidomide, the formulation pathway also happens to make a 'left-handed' version of a drug which turns works great, but the opposite chirality causes horrible birth defects (as in kids with brain damage or deformed ha
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by toss1 2y ago
The point in having the International Agreements is indeed to honor it. But only as long and as fully as is possible in the real world When bad actors deliberately refuse to live within the agreements, e.g., Putin, who has broken nearly EV
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by toss1 2y ago
An vast array of options are available. Moreover there is an entire body of international law and established practice of proportional response. No, these are NOT necessarily "breaking international law". Start with sanctions. Im
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes — Thx for the great reminder! Kind of cool that today, this could be the height of luxury net zero living, surrounded by tactile natural surfaces on all sides, naturally and passively quiet and temperature controlled, and with all the r
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by toss1 2y ago
There is an ENORMOUS gap between "Please don't..." and WWIII Nuke war. And adhering to "Please don't..." is rightly seen by bullies and authoritarians of all stripes as "I won, I got away with it, I have
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by toss1 2y ago
The point is that all sky-pointed bullets are NOT going only 170ft/sec. Yes, it is reasonably established that bullets fired straight up do not regain their initial velocity on the way back down. But, at less-than-vertical firing ang
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by toss1 2y ago
As with the rest of the corporations who hire immigrants, it's "deportations for thee, but keep the workers for me"; deport everyone else's workers, but not mine. I'd be more OK with Musk's and Ramaswamy's
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by toss1 2y ago
I have not logged the citations, but I distinctly recall reading on the order of one-two news reports per year of people being killed by falling bullets in multiple different countries, including US, Brazil, and several middle eastern coun
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by toss1 2y ago
>> I still use my representations formed as a kid, I don't seem to make new ones when I learn new info Very interesting; why do you think that is?
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Poker Players Are Cheating with Tiny Hidden Cameras(petapixel.com)
6 points by toss1 2y ago|0 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
Yup. Seems like a great idea at the time, until it is both such a great idea that it becomes ubiquitous and we start looking at it more closely. Kind of a proverbial 'boiling the frog' problem. A little bit of handling lead pipes
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Paraguay probing suspicious Huawei-owned vehicle seen near Taiwan envoy's house(focustaiwan.tw)
4 points by toss1 2y ago|0 comments
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Something is wrong on the Internet(lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
74 points by toss1 2y ago|101 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
>>n average 10 minutes like it always Ummm, not in my experience. I washed my hands of the lot some years ago, but was seeing ordinary transactions (with good fees paid) taking 6-24 hours to get confirmed. This was after getting accu
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by toss1 2y ago
I also used to be enthusiastic about the prospects for Bitcoin (and the lot of cryptocurrencies). But they massively failed their core challenge, which would have made them great successes — they never solved the problems of security and us
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by toss1 2y ago
At this point in the US, it seems we are far better off asking ChatGPT or Claude than the average police station.
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by toss1 2y ago
Yup $19.95 per incident to talk to someone who could ACTUALLY resolve an issue would be totally worth it, especially for people who suddenly find themselves locked out for no known reason. A fee would also filter out most the silly calls,
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by toss1 2y ago
Exactly and literally; from the roots of "de"="off" and "caedere"="to cut" [0] If you can't cut something off, you cannot decide. decision (n.) mid-15c., decisioun, "act of deciding,"
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by toss1 2y ago
YUP My first rule of software programming is: Work Hard to Avoid Writing Code — Code is habitat for bugs; more code equals more bugs, and interactions between separate parts of code can harbor even more "interesting" varieties. —
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by toss1 2y ago
If you and only you (and maybe some allies) also make an antidote or vaccine, it is targeted at everyone who doesn't. And that is a huge blackmail opportunity. OFC, if any leader worth their salt will respond with "Hell NO, if yo
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by toss1 2y ago
>>understand that small-scale hypothetical first We understand it well enough to know that it does not apply. Flour in crevices is not a gas in a mix of gasses Your problem is you must pick the right small-scale hypothetical. For gass
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by toss1 2y ago
See my reply above for two very sound reasons
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by toss1 2y ago
Of course, rapid emissions reductions would be best. However, there are still two very solid arguments for capture, even if it has greater costs. First, even if we somehow make emissions go to zero next Monday and forever after, the CO2 alr
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by toss1 2y ago
Not true at all (or only in limited circumstances that do not apply First, it was not the original energy expenditure that is the problem. The problem is that the CO2 CHANGES the solar energy exchange equation, by allowing ~the same amoun
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by toss1 2y ago
The charts and data you cite are not an argument to do nothing. They are a very strong argument to immediately commence CO2 removal (and ironically, one of the arguments against it is that it might let the CO2 polluters 'off the hook&#

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