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>I hope we see a different CA for each ccTLD in the future. Completely agree with this and IMO it's how the system should've operated from the very start. Unfortunately, I highly d…

>I recognize that Russia is making this change for MitM spying Nope, they do it primarily out of necessity, because of the mounting pressure on the previously used CAs. The MitM ca…

Nope, MitMing will be done by the SORM system [0] using certificates signed by the Ministry of Digital "Development" which will be trusted the Yandex Browser, which will be widely …

Nuclear submarines often operate without any escort. Russian nuclear icebreakers and floating SMRs also do not have heavy military escorts.

I wonder how much would it cost to build a tunnel as an alternative to the Panama canal to fundamentally resolve the drought issues. 1.8 km is comparable to ~80 km (probably a shor…

Because it is a "public broadcast", so it obviously "Cannot Give In To Government Pressure": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9tzoGFszog

>the USD doesn't have strength and power because oil sales are denominated in dollars. You have it backwards. Not quite. The "petrodollar" deal has helped to bootstrap and anchor t…

For tracking of military ships it's much better to use radar imaging satellites (e.g. see [0]). They can cover a larger area, see ships really well, and almost not affected by weat…

>it's literally modeled on the density of cone cells in the human retina It's related to it, but not "literally modeled" on it. This number is from experiments where people are ask…

>The middle for the day, on our time keeping devices, being light outside goes all the way back to the first sundials over 3,000 years ago. Most of the world is perfectly fine with…

You clearly do not know how much havoc and complexity leap seconds introduce into various systems. This is why leap seconds are likely to be phased-out [0]. It's effectively an adm…

Computer systems (most importantly, UNIX) should've been using TAI [0] from the beginning. Human-readable time in turn should be computed from it using periodically updated time zo…

>Contrast that with China and Russia The linked map is outdated regarding Russia. Here is an up to date map: https://64.media.tumblr.com/4a9a4613f057d3b5f17ec548e6ac06d1...

>The article is adamant that "this is not printing money," and then gives very technical explanations that are honestly difficult to untangle. Because it's BS. In the modern fiat s…

You assume that the executive branch would willingly follow the court decision. I think it's naive (doubly so for the current administration) and it's more likely that the tariffs …

This is why I mentioned "litigation" in my comment, i.e. you probably would need to separately sue the government if you want to refund the tariffs.

Sure, if you are ready to sue the US government for that. /s I dunno if a class-action lawsuit is realistic or not in this case or how likely a court decision stating that all tari…

Let the fun of returning hundreds of billions of the illegal tariff revenue back to importers through litigation begin!

Hopefully, it will result in finally dropping use of SSNs as "secret" identifying person's identity and instead it will become an opaque ID which is safe to share.

This does not work at scale . Sure, there is plenty of anecdotes how you can successfully play this game as a consumer living in a rural house with electric car, power wall, and ro…

1) Introduce a lot of intermittent generation into energy grid without sufficient amount of storage capacity. 2) Use marginal pricing model which effectively guarantees windfall pr…

I wonder if China has a constellation of similar satellites with the primary function to track the US CVBGs and provide aiming info for their "carrier killer" systems.

There are several factors which contribute to the "rosy" official picture: - A lot of people participate in the gig economy instead of getting registered as unemployed. - AI has er…

Because unless you sit on top of a volcano, amount of renewable geothermal energy is minuscule. In most places on Earth it's somewhere around 40 mW/m2 (i.e. accounting for conversi…

>THAT's the competition for an FPV drone. Russia uses plenty of artillery shells daily even today. Its own production easily outpaces NATO countries and they buy a lot from NK in a…