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sgjohnson··on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
> But USDT dropped down to 94 cents during the crash

While that is true, they were redeeming them 1:1. So you could buy them at a 6% discount on the exchange, but redeem them, for free 6%.

Few people did because enough of them thought that USDT is going to the ground, causing the discount.

sgjohnson··on Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk'
> Good luck getting a legit license for it however.

It’s possible (with much effort) to get a legit licence for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC.

But just get an evaluation copy, promote it to volume and KMS activate it and save yourself the hassle.

sgjohnson··on Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024
Because the VS version for macOS is essentially just MonoDevelop.
sgjohnson··on [dead]
I highly doubt this is the place for debating anything regarding Israel/Palestine. It’s a near guaranteed flamewar.
sgjohnson··on The .ing top-level domain
> this whole thing is a blatant money grab.

Well, Google has to diversify away from being a glorified ad agency. And they are becoming so detached from the reality that more and more people are starting to see them as complete scumbags.

sgjohnson··on The .ing top-level domain
For phase 9.

Getting it now costs $1.1m/y.

A complete non-brainer for $13k. If you could get it for $13k, you'd already be far too late. I don't see how it's not at least a high 6 figure flip.

sgjohnson··on WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says
Have you considered getting a bigger apartment with a dedicated room for your office?
sgjohnson··on .io considered harmful
> The countries subscribing to said international law voted 116 to 6.

Unless the 116 countries voting to uphold it are actually willing to do something about it, it's near completely meaningless.

Can we stop pretending that the UN has power over anything?

sgjohnson··on What a third world war would mean for investors
> Do you really imagine the stock market will be a thing after the shit hits the fan?

Yes.

> What part of 'sticks and stones' did you not understand?

I don't believe in the 'sticks and stones' part. Even if I did, it's not something I have to concern myself with—if I do, everything becomes futile anyway.

WW3 doesn't have to mean the end for all civilization.

sgjohnson··on What a third world war would mean for investors
Lockheed Martin outperforms S&P500 currently, what do you want me to do in the current geopolitical situation? Not hedge my bets?
sgjohnson··on What a third world war would mean for investors
> Because in an actual nuclear war, financial markets cease to mean anything at all.

That would largely depend on the sides getting hit with the nukes.

sgjohnson··on What a third world war would mean for investors
> Couldn't this easily be solved with a WW3 prediction market? Why try to find proxies for such an event when one could speculate on the outcome directly? It's simply a more efficient market.

Deep OTM calls on VIX (ETF ticker $UVXY) would be something similar to that. If WW3 happens, VIX will skyrocket.

Furthest expiry available as of today for $UVXY options is Jan 16, 2026.

sgjohnson··on .io considered harmful
> However the UN declared it a violation of international law in 1965

The harsh reality is that it genuinely doesn't matter what the UN declares. General Assembly resolutions are non-binding and are almost universally ignored.

The UN also is not the ultimate authority on international law. The countries subscribing to said international law are.

sgjohnson··on .io considered harmful
> The current situation and ownership is indefensible.

It's very easily defensible. BIOT is internationally recognized as a sovereign territory of the UK.

> And none of that money goes to the people who historically lived there and were displaced.

I fail to see how this is relevant. It's a thing that has happened a million times in the past and has been rarely rectified. We don't (and never will) live in a perfect world.

The status quo offers the most certainty, therefore is the best option for holders of .io domain names.

sgjohnson··on Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says
> It's sounds nice in the abstract; in practice it's political suicide.

Depends on how you spin it. I suspect it would be quite easy to spin the narrative on this one. "So you knowingly funded a terrorist group that's likely going to use the money to commit further crimes against US citizens?" or something of the sort. Have some experts testify on that too, preferably ones in officers uniform.

sgjohnson··on AI.gov
> Or is it just a meaningless website?

It is a meaningless website. Everybody and their dog knows that in the present political climate it’s practically impossible to change the immigration law. It’s only a remote theoretical possibility that the US could fix their immigration system.

sgjohnson··on King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause
> That doesn’t alter the point that he’s still responsible for the things happening in his name.

There's case law on this matter actually, coming from the trial of King Charles I.

> The court challenged the doctrine of sovereign immunity and proposed that "the King of England was not a person, but an office whose every occupant was entrusted with a limited power to govern 'by and according to the laws of the land and not otherwise'."

So no, granting the Royal Assent doesn't happen in the name of King Charles III.

sgjohnson··on King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause
Actually just HMs, if we really want to be that pedantic. :)
sgjohnson··on King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause
> Yes the military it Canada also swears allegiance to the monarchy in the UK.

Technically the military in Canada swear allegiance to the monarchy in Canada.

The monarchy of Canada is legally completely distinct from the one in the UK. Or Australia. Or New Zealand. Or any other of HRHs realms and dominions.

It’s just that they all share the same monarch and the rules of succession.

It’s actually theoretically possible for Charles to abdicate the throne in the UK but still remain the King of Canada. Which would be utterly ridiculous and it’s not going to happen, but theoretically it could.

sgjohnson··on King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause
> essentially whether or not he'd be on the side of whoever won the next election (that would be swiftly triggered)

No. The only reason why the British monarchy still exists is because they are completely apolitical.

If that changed, it would very quickly become a bipartisan issue to end the monarchy, irrespective of which side he’d support.

sgjohnson··on King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause
> What would happen if he tried?

He would probably be either asked to abdicate, or it would be the end of the British monarchy altogether.

It would cause a massive constitutional crisis in the UK where not only the monarchy would be called in question, but also the nobility (i.e. House of Lords)

sgjohnson··on King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause
There is nothing wrong at all with that headline for British audience, because virtually nobody in the UK is going to interpet it as “King Charles endorses [...]”.

International audience might interpret it exactly like that.

sgjohnson··on King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause
The title should probably be changed to “UK enacts Online Safety Act…” or something for the benefit of those who don't know that this is exactly what's expected of the monarch.

“King Charles III signs off” is a perfectly ordinary part of the legislative process. Royal Assent has been granted 100% of the time in probably the last 1000 years. I’m not going to search when was the last time royal assent was not granted, but I’m somewhat certain it was before 1600s.

Edit: looked it up after all. Royal Assent was last withheld in 1708.

sgjohnson··on Apple Faces Potential Watch Import Ban After Federal Trade Ruling
The patent system is utterly broken and we could probably do away with it entirely, which would probably be a massive win for absolutely everyone except patent trolls.
sgjohnson··on Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source
> I don’t think such an amount could go unnoticed in a public company.

It would not go unnoticed, but say if the CEO is >50% shareholder, he could just say “if you don’t like the way I run the company, sell the stock”.

sgjohnson··on Could a $400k Australian court ruling silence Kiwi Farms?
A complete non-article. Of course that the part on what actually happened is buried right in the middle of the article.

> The case claimed that a Brisbane-based company, Flow Chemical, and its sole director, Vincent Zhen, were “instrumental” to its publication and for keeping it accessible, even though they were not the authors of the defamatory Kiwi Farms thread.

> Because the matter was undefended, an interlocutory judgment was made against Flow Chemical and Zhen in July and Fong-Jones was awarded damages of $445,000 plus costs this week.

The defendant didn’t show up to the court so a default judgement happened. No case law was set here. Nothing has changed, at all.

sgjohnson··on Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
> IPv6 in contrast is a hacker/spy tracking digital superhighway right through my front door and straight into my devices.

I'm fairly confident that nobody is ever going to scan a single /64 of IPv6 addresses within our lifetimes.

In comparison, scanning the ENTIRE IPv4 internet on a single port can be done by anybody at all and it's going to take about 40 minutes.

sgjohnson··on Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
> but I can't think of a technical reason we couldn't do NAT with IPv6?

We absolutely can do NAT with IPv6, but there's no reason why anyone should (aside from stateless NAT66 in case you get a dynamic prefix that changes every now and then, but that's about the only use case)

sgjohnson··on Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
> each IPv4 address can fetch between $15-$25

$15-$25? when was that? Currently it's $40-$55 on ipv4.global.

sgjohnson··on The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Branson
Nothing to do with Brexit at all, since Brexit had 0 impact on travel between the UK and the US, or on air travel between the UK and Ireland for that matter, because neither of those countries were in the Schengen area.

Covid killed the flight.

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