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by ytpete 5y ago
> A no-fly zone is no justification for nuclear escalation. Not directly, no - but by induction, probably. NATO fighter jets attacking Russian aircraft & SAM sites would likely be used by Russia to justify strikes against the airfiel
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> both the US and European countries are not willing to step in and protect Ukraine Both US & EU are lending tremendous support in materials, training (over the past 8 years), and coordinated economic sanctions far beyond what anyone
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It's not uncommon for the losing country in a war to receive support for rebuilding and stabilizing its economy afterward. But you wouldn't really call that reparations if it's the aggressor that started the conflict. If thin
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And Western companies are increasingly falling in line with sanctions by ceasing to do business with Russian customers or partners. So they are also being cut off from business as usual that benefits the Russian government – it's just
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For all the problems with the US's actions in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (not to mention the run-up to them and their aftermaths), there's an enormous gulf between that and any equivalency to Russia invading Ukraine. Iraq wa
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A giant brain drain of scientists, engineers, doctors, civil servants... would surely weaken Russia in the long term – even if Putin might celebrate it as a help to consolidating his power. And even if it didn't result in a backlash th
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One big difference is that your random uncle or sister-in-law can't just read about some trending startup and then semi-blindly invest a chunk of their life savings into it. Financial regulations prevent the average nonexpert from maki
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The Wirecutter (now part of NY Times) is another that doesn't accept freebie products, if I recall. They do use affiliate links, so they have incentive to want you to buy _something_, but no incentive to give any particular brand or mo
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Does someone crawl into the cargo compartment to unload it the moment its door is opened? If that person got caught in a CO2 pool they could plausibly fall unconscious & at least start suffocating before coworkers noticed they were ab
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You wouldn't, but the government might - to keep the economy propped up. I think this is what parent meant, anyway. Not sure that's a healthy point for the government or the economy to get to, but with politics the way they are th
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Depends on what percentage of California voters are renters...
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It feels like a stretch to say that study shows "the most hesitant are the highly educated class." In the table, people with a college degree, masters, or JD are all less vaccine-hesitant than the population average. Only PhDs are
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems testing powerful magnets for future fusion reactor(nytimes.com)
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> Luckily, we only need this for untrusted code. What really peaves me is that trusted code is now having to run slower as well. Realistically though, most userland software falls into that category nowadays: - JS-driven web apps like
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Wouldn't this likely be using asymmetric encryption though? In that case obtaining the public key from a stolen receiver would only let you read the high-precision P(Y) signals – you couldn't spoof them since you still don'
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They could also get caught if say, authorities hacked the computers they were using to execute the Bitcoin tumbler "trades" (or whatever the terminology is)... or used similar means to gain access to a list of crypto wallets they
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I think generally speaking, someone in possession of stolen property isn't entitled to keep that property even if they had nothing to do with the theft and had no reason to believe it was stolen. That prevents them from being guilty of
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That kind of "search" might still need a warrant. For example, there was a court decision some years ago which determined that using IR cameras to detect marijuana grow lights inside a home requires a warrant, since people have an
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It's really hard to view this as suppressing scientific inquiry. Scientists don't use public Facebook posts to collaborate on their research, nor to share their final results with the rest of the scientific community. It's al
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by ytpete 6y ago
It's a surprisingly fun "game"! I've been on a quest to geotag all my older photos, from digital cameras without GPS. It's a great combination of a trip down memory lane – what do I remember about where I was when I
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by ytpete 6y ago
Are you sure it's not stripped out on the client before anything is sent to the server? It would actually be really interesting to see a list of which apps strip metadata early on the client side vs. which retain it on their server and
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Sending a screenshot of your location marker in a Maps app would work well too. But I guess taking screenshots is probably also a power-user feature that many people may not be familiar with...
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That would be nice! There are several ways for others to get your last known location even long after your battery has died, but all the ones I know of require you to continuously track your location, which drains battery too fast for use
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Doesn't it depend on what is done with all the wood that was chopped down? If used say for construction, that carbon is staying out of the atmosphere. Or do mature trees not make up the majority of the carbon that is stored in forests?
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But of course, the other difference is a dramatically higher energy cost. You could never sell any kind of "green carbon tokens" on the blockchain...
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> is anybody really buying? An NFT sold for $69 million just today: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/design/nft-auction-c... Aside from that eye-popping headline, the same article mentions
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Looking at the holistic picture (as anyone implementing an entire browser must), it's probably a stretch to say they're "designed" at all – web standards are a patchwork of almost archaeological layers built up over se
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I remember when Obama having a BlackBerry device in 2008 made for similar headlines, and near the end of his term concerns arose when he was spotted wearing some kind of fitness smartwatch. I can't even imagine the infosec stress that
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Just to clarify (belatedly), my point was that whether or not it's protected speech doesn't matter when we're discussing Twitter - because Twitter isn't beholden to the 1st Amendment. They are free to block speech even i
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Subsets of the mob seemed to have much more concrete plans than others. Video footage shows one group chanting "hang Mike Pence!" while pushing into the building, and others specifically searching for Schumer and Pelosi. Photograp

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