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Banks are in a unique and perfect place to collect and require KYC data.
Because of the exorbitant privileges given to banks by state actors it should be easy to demand that the banks KYC be extensible to all other private transactions.
Which is to say: if the banks do KYC, nobody else has to.
I am simply pushing back on the notion that anyone who disagrees with my parent was paid to do so.
I don't believe that Kennans position (in 1997) was disingenuous or dishonest.
Is there a simple CLI interface that can be redirected or pipelined into other tools ?
"... expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era. Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking ..."
Is it your position that he was paid for, or in some way disingenuously held, this view ?
I don't have strong opinions on this topic but I note with interest that there seem to be contrary viewpoints that aren't not puppets/trolls.
I don't know what "VanceAI" is but I am confused ... why would they not want corporate (as in, Fortune 500) users to sign up ?
Please don't interrupt the discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system.
Lady, why are you so interested in what I read or what I do ?
Not my preference but also not out of bounds as a democratic outcome.
If we want our respect for democracy to be taken seriously we need to respect democratic outcomes ... even when they are not the ones we prefer.
The best music, in my opinion, in the movie is not on the soundtrack and it is:
Guy Pratt - Combination
Related to this is the very useful:
rclone serve restic ...
This howto is not rsync.net-specific - you can follow this recipe at any standard SSH endpoint:
https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/2025-q4-rsync.net_tech...
You can hold up a key card to cover each bayonet filter and it seals it perfectly for a quick test at any time.
If you are sophisticated enough to understand, and want, these things (and I believe that you are) …
… then why would you want to use WhatsApp in the first place?
You are correct to wonder this and almost every use case for a robot will be optimized to a non-human form factor.
Certainly there are tasks - like BJJ training partner - that require a human form factor. Almost everything else, including general, purpose, helper, robot, will be cheaper and more extensible in a non-human form factor.
One of your children remarked that nature has experimented with form factors and humans have won… To which I would point out that the upright, bipedal, form factor arose from the limits of oxygen processing, and heat dissipation… Neither limitation will be encountered in the same way with a robot…
… or perhaps I would point out that nature has, indeed, experimented with form factors and ants won - by a very large margin.
… and the warrant canary we publish every Monday morning.
My IP has not changed since 2010 and I have perfect dkim/dmarc/rdns and whatever duct taped bullshit de jure is currently being practiced.
Everything generally works.
… right ?
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Today the yield is ~4.9.
Now, in 2026, how many institutions are "picking up pennies in front of steamrollers" ?
They want to build “the scream room” from Frank Herbert’s _The Jesus Incident_.
There is immense power to wield over someone when you know what they did in the scream room.
What really interests me is, for the very first time, following a link to twitter and viewing something that is intelligible and digestable and cohesive in format and not some weird mid-conversation snippet that can't be viewed in context nor expanded nor make any logical sense of replies, etc.
It's almost as if someone at twitter bothered to survey online discussion formats of the last 40 years and choose some decent design guidelines ...
https://www.eizo.com/products/flexscan/ev2730q/
... available on Amazon last time I checked ... they also make a square 2048x2048 monitor for ATC:
https://www.eizoglobal.com/products/atc/sq2826/
... although I think it costs $5k or so ...
A properly configured DoH server (perhaps running unbound) with a properly constructed configuration profile which included a DoH FQDN with a proper certificate would not work in iOS.
The reason, it turns out, is that iOS insisted that both the FQDN and the IP have proper certificates.
This is why the configuration profiles from big organizations like dns4eu and nextdns would work properly when, for instance, installed on an iphone ... but your own personal DoH server (and profile) would not.
Unfortunately this runs only on a MacOS system which is hard to provision as long-running datacenter infra ...
This is the correct - and obvious - response to something like this.
Unfortunately, I believe that rclone has no support for iCloud photos at this time.
There is a special term to denote "amount which something is opaque" and that term is opacity.
The old, standard RSA number generator token key ring device is not permitted in Europe for authorizing bank actions ?
They can, and do, validate on street number and/or zip code so you can certainly error out on typos there ... but not name.
You did all of that but then you gave them your real name?
Visa/MC payment network has no ability to transfer or check card holder name. Merchants act as if it does, but it doesn’t. You can enter Mickey Mouse as your first name and last name… It won’t make any difference.
Only AMEX and Discover have the ability to validate names.
FWIW, I have a paid account with OpenAI, for using ChatGPT, and I gave them no personal information.