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A proper warrant must be respected and adhered to …
… but was it a proper warrant or just a bluff and, further, was the customer notified?
I insist on knowing the answer to this question and if you are a customer of fly.io (I am not) you should too.
It seems impossible to imagine that there are any layers of defense in depth involved here… Because it should be so easy to avoid.
What country produces all of the ASICs used in contemporary bitcoin mining?
The faster we get to a good enough open model, the sooner it gets burned to hardware, and the sooner the transition to (relatively) low tech, low margin, high volume cards to run it on …
… and those are built in China.
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"If we don't work with them they will go to our competitors. Not our fault. Simply the way the world works."[1]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwdo17GT6sg @ 3:31
I build them on machines I own placed in racks I have they key to.
There aren't any resource limits to hit and legal service is brought directly to me - not to a provider nor middleman.
There also isn't a global MITM inserting itself between me and my users.
I can't imagine doing it any other way and I implore you not to build things on complex, fragile, highly abstracted foundations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power,_Sex,_Suicide
which, IIRC, discussed the notion of an semi-autonomous population of mitochondria in long lived tissues (like muscle) which could be curated over ones lifetime by high intensity exercise stress. Future mitochondria in these long-lived tissues would then not be descended from the poorer performing members who were weeded out through apoptosis.
I don't find this to be the case.
I use (al)pine exclusively and with only three or four hacks/workarounds manage a normal, modern email workflow.
Unlike SMS where my unix-based telecom results in green bubbles, in the email world there is not even that small indication that anything is different on my end ...
Can anyone (Germans ?) confirm that this was, indeed, the only possible mechanism to pay for this single bus trip ?
I'm genuinely curious as my experiences in Switzerland - as late as last November - were that many different durations and service levels of paper ticket were able to be purchased, with cash or bank card, from a ticket machine.
Is the experience really that divergent in Germany ?
This seems like an obvious configuration option - I can imagine someone disliking the italics as well…
I am also using pi exclusively after having had decent success with openhands but begrudging all of the docker infrastructure ... and all of the emojis.
My only pain point is that in my extremely common and boring workflow, which is pi inside of gnu screen inside of OSX terminal.app ... all reasoning/thinking text is blinking ... like old fashioned ANSI blink on a BBS.
I cannot figure out how to disable the blinking thought/reasoning text ...
It stays in airplane mode. It has a real headphone jack.
If you're going to do this with your life you have to believe that you're necessary - and you are - everyone wants to drive their fancy cars and their big fucking houses they can't afford they need you - you're necessary.
The only reason any of this works is (you) have (your) hand on the scale in their favor. (You) take it away, everything gets really fucking fair, really fucking fast - and don't no one want that.
They want all of the things (you) have to give them and .... then they want to pretend they don't know where it came from.
It is a tool that was created by the author of sqlite. It does just what you would expected to do.
https://github.com/Retrotink/PockeTerm-II
Very simple serial -> VGA device. Unfortunately no longer in production but the github project contains everything one would need ...
Of course there is: you pay your lawyer to send correspondence by registered mail.
Then you have them send followup correspondence a week or so later.
You will absolutely get a response.
That sounds simple and elegant.
If the chips weren't this compelling they would have something different to announce.
These are paperclip maximizers who just happen to wear human skin - there is no underlying premise nor ideological goal.
Neither visa nor MasterCard networks have the ability to verify cardholder name.
Everyone behaves as if they do, but your name cannot be verified.
Which is to say, all of these cards have name anonymization, not just robinhood.
In addition to the pragmatic point about how nobody actually paid those rates, there is an ideological mismatch as well:
Those very high marginal tax rates were not enacted to address inequality or any of the typical social goals that we think of when we advocate for higher marginal tax rates. Rather, they were imposed to combat war profiteering during the WW2 period:
"The crisis of World War II led Congress to pass four excess profits statutes between 1940 and 1943. The 1940 rates ranged from 25 to 50 percent and the 1941 ones from 35 to 60 percent. In 1942, a flat rate of 90 percent was adopted, with a postwar refund of 10 percent; in 1943 the rate was increased to 95 percent, with a 10 percent refund."[1]
Can you argue for a very high marginal tax rate as a means of wealth distribution and furthering progressive policy ? Yes, of course you can.
Have we ever had one ? Not really.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_profits_tax#United_Stat...
Then I would read Empire of the Sun.
You may also find it interesting that South Africa had nuclear weapons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma...
Just email…