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Just a few first instalments used generators, yes, but all the subsequent releases do not, ever since await was introduced in JS.

Koa is awesome.

It surely was in 1945, no doubt about it.

Oh, you mean the half-century old song New York New York by Frank Sinatra? One written for a musical depicting golden days of 1945? Nice one, I love it.

Such metric would just indicate that respondents are unaware of other cities, no? Majority of new yorkers never lived in good cities. I guess many just repeat 100 years old notion that NYC is the best city in the world and just never doubt it.

You seriously think NYC is the greatest city in the history of world civilization? Or is it sarcasm? I am asking this as NYC resident.

One should not build their own cryptography, one should not build their own ledger, that's what I am saying.

I see no reason why CFSB would be in any way different from Evolve, they are just not caught up in the mess yet.

Synapse problem was fundamental and it stems from the same mistake OP is making: never ever build your own, homegrown ledger if you can avoid it.

A single debit can result in many credits.

A single record can (and will) be lost. Network issue, db issue, etc., some transactions will not make it to the db.

With double entry you at least have a chance of reconciling the lost transaction.

Some problems in life can be easily fixed with crimson red nail polish.

I believe that's where he invented it

Nobel (the Nobel prize guy) made his fortune in Baku, IMSMR

The fact that plaid was allowed to exist and grow into a monster tells a lot about incompetence/impotence of the regulators.

For those wondering what electro-ag is: convert CO2 into acetate—a carbon-rich compound that can fuel crop growth without sunlight.

Don't forget genocides they are committing

Can you, please, elaborate? Wasn't it their main feature and the selling point?

There is a dedicated bicycle road connecting Cumberland with the National Mall in D.C. and which promises no cars, no pedestrians. Ten hours of pedaling mostly downhill.

The fact that some countries started mimicking FATCA does not make it less idiotically counterproductive and stupidly wasteful. Not to mention it undermining international law and making this world less stable of course.

Yes, theoretically. Practically though when one applies to open an account they will be asked "do you have or have you ever had a US address or phone number? Have you ever had a greencard? Have you ever had SSN? Were you a subject to US taxation?" and single YES would lead to rejection. For banks which make a few bucks per year per customer dealing with anyone who remotely could be a subject to FATCA is just not worth it.

Even those who officially abandoned their green cards are subject to FATCA for life and often struggle to open bank accounts abroad.

Kind of true, yes, in theory, because FATF is largely controlled by the US and it enforced US-style rules to the rest of the world. However, on the practical level AML/KYC works differently outside of the US. Regulator would create well-defined criteria for banks to execute: To onboard a customer bank must do this and this, check that field against that record. In the US regulators just washed their hands and placed the burden on banks: banks must make all the "reasonable" efforts to "know" their customer and what is is deemed "reasonable" varies across banks, branches and even individual clerks.

Fighting crime should not be a bank problem.

Putting this burden on banks is a thing pretty unique to the US. Not sure why anyone would be surprised to find out this does not work.

Went to a hotel lobby bar once and asked guys sitting to the left and to the right of me where are they from. Turns out both were Scots. Asked them what do they think about Scottish independence. One thing led to another and soon enough they started fist-fighting each other. Armenian cognac is great.

I see several words which could fit but all of them are obscene.

Nothing is more dangerous than a bored soldier.

I see why you have this assumption, yet we have 20+ years of data proving that a private bureau can actually compete, flourish and innovate while serving majority of the reports while gov-run bureau ensures that prices stay manageable.

Twenty or so years ago Experian and FairIsaac were paid by USAID to help build credit bureau infrastructure in Kazakhstan. USAID also paid their legal departments to help draft a law which would govern the whole process. And guess what, in the result we got much fairer, more efficient, far more future-proof infra than the US has today.

Gov licenses credit bureaus and runs its own one. Banks must report to all licensed bureaus and may choose which bureau to pull reports from. This means a report from any bureau is as good as from any other one.

Having a gov player in the market effectively creates a price ceiling, so a private bureau has to sell data for less than the government-run bureau. Private bureau has to keep innovating to justify its existence and thus keep creating new products which predict creditworthiness better and better. Credit report includes all the raw information, so banks are free to compute their own score and are not bound to anything stupidly archaic and awkward such as US FICO score, don't need to rely on any external score at all. It is the XXI century, computing a credit decision out of a few hundred datapoints takes milliseconds, costs nothing. So gov-run bureau sees a fraction of a % of the load yet effectively moderates the whole market. The largest private bureau is owned by banks (like VISA used to be) and thus is working in the best interests of the banks.

Many (if not all) problems we see in the US financial sector are the result of regulatory and legislative negligence. Just some lazy folks trying to run things the way there were in the 80es.

Thanks for your comment. It just occurred to me that I have an inner voice narrating the text when I am reading in English. This does not happen when I read in my first two languages.

This explains why I read slower when I read in English.

They make decent hardware which comes with with modified end-of-life versions of OpenWRT. And their customizations are quite questionable and smell fishy. And no, can't install newer versions of OpenWRT.

At least that's my experience with GL.iNet MT2500A (Brume 2). I happily use their older travel routers though.

I am thinking of a Sun compass a signal of which could be used in space. Can this signal be fused into IMU? I wonder if it makes any sense.

Can one use Sun's magnetic field for navigation? I imagine Sun compass would be far more precise than Earth compass, no?