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by zamnos 3y ago
The problem is it doesn't. It does balance out if you're a big wealthy nation with imports and exports. If you're a small poor nation with limited resources, money only ever flows out, and barely ever in, depleting the nation
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by zamnos 3y ago
Cleartext HTTP is blocked for users on Microsoft Edge with "Automatically switch to more secure connections with Automatic HTTPS" turned on via corporate policy - which means they can't turn it off to get around the "fea
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by zamnos 3y ago
Exactly right - which is why neverssl.com now redirects to a randomly generated subdomain.
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by zamnos 3y ago
Doral Bank failed in 2015, so 8 years? Not quite 10. The GFC was 2008 which was 15 years ago though but people still remember that one. Even though the FDIC chose to make depositors whole for SVB, Signature, and FRC, there's no written
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by zamnos 3y ago
ISPs and coffee shop wifi injecting ads into webpages wasn't a theoretical attack, but I'm more curious: Which barriers with HTTPS are you referring to?
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by zamnos 3y ago
Is it their random number generator or are the reselling that off AWS as well? Because have you tried to navigate AWS billing?
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by zamnos 3y ago
Someone buy SometimesSSL.com and make it redirect to http://NeverSSL.com
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by zamnos 3y ago
In the escalation of security, some browsers or browsers with extensions only ever try https, so that change was necessary to handle those browsers.
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by zamnos 3y ago
When Chase, BofA, and Citigroup are all offering approximately 0.0000% APY on their CDs, and it's credit unions that are offering 3+% (you should be shooting for at least 4% right now), it's not clear that big banks are actually
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by zamnos 3y ago
Why do you think it has to all fall down? What happens if it doesn't?
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by zamnos 3y ago
The bank manager can take more risks, knowing that the depositor's won't lose their money (over $250k if the bank they manage fails. Which is important because people tend to get mad when they lose large amounts of money. Thus, bu
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by zamnos 3y ago
Cash sweep products are a thing. For example, Wealthfront will sweep your cash into a bunch of smaller banks, putting 250k in each, so on the off chance they fail, your money's not been disappeared.
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by zamnos 3y ago
Yes exactly. You plug in the cables and then there's the following conversation: Laptop: *Om nom nom, 5 volts, yum!* Power supply: Hey, I can do 5 V, 9 V, 15 V and 20 V Laptop: I hear ya. Laptop: Can I get 20 Volts?
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by zamnos 3y ago
That's not likely to get you a winning mug, if threads complaining any the fake reviews and fake products off Amazon. Better to buy direct if you want a mug that's actually made out of thick enough aluminum to resist breaking, and
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by zamnos 3y ago
What was the uBanks/person in the US before the GFC/2008?
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by zamnos 3y ago
But what if they discover alcohol/drugs/gambling/etc? They'll fall off the tracks and the loan will never get paid back. Which ofc is incredibly stupid, classist, and racist to boot. And not even a guarantee by someone&#
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by zamnos 3y ago
As for the limited paperwork rate adjustment, the word you're looking for is recast (instead of a refinance), and it's fairly common
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by zamnos 3y ago
Even if you're not in the bay area, you should check out credit unions or really anything else (Wealthfront, betterment, withcompound, just buying bonds/tbills, etc), so you're not getting approximately 0.0000% on CDs.
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by zamnos 3y ago
Don't even need to write a script, just provide the storage. Eg https://www.gpswox.com/en/mobile-apps/android-gps-tracking-a...
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by zamnos 3y ago
Ah yes, the Henry Ford of user choices. "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black". -Henry Ford, My Life and Work (1922)
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by zamnos 3y ago
The word chat isn't skeuomorphic just because we as developers have our own jargon for interacting with computers. It's not ornamental, it helps non-technical users understand what to do with the system. Is naming the calculator a
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by zamnos 3y ago
How much is on Google itself vs Google search linking you to, eg, StackOverflow. A side question: how much of your job could you do only referring to https://devdocs.io/ or other reference?
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by zamnos 3y ago
Which is a great explanation for SVB, but what about FRC?
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by zamnos 3y ago
I agree the evolution will be interesting (especially since chat isn't the original interface for textual GPT, eg GPT-2). But skeuomorphisms are about "ornamental design cues from structures that were necessary in the original&quo
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by zamnos 3y ago
Tint of the windows. The appearance of the driver if the tint isn't very high.
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by zamnos 3y ago
ZDNet: Microsoft now supports running Windows 11 on Arm on Apple Silicon Macs, but there are some limitations. https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/microsoft-finally-a... or an article from Microsoft themselve
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by zamnos 3y ago
You could at least have named the prior art you appreciated and pictured, but I'll just link to its Amazon page: Kitchen Safe Time Locking Container (Medium), Timed Lock Box for Cell Phones, Snacks, and other unwanted temptations (Whit
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by zamnos 3y ago
Fun fact: Scientists have determined that a moth or butterfly may not remember being a caterpillar, it can remember experiences it learned as a caterpillar. Hence I'm not sure dissolved is quite the right word to use because the nerv
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by zamnos 3y ago
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requires banks and other financial institutions comply with a bunch of regulation for they pleasure of having an American as a customer. Unless it's a particularly interesting market for a
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by zamnos 3y ago
And if there's a medium amount of power?

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