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Iran has been "2 weeks" away from having nuclear weapons repeatedly. Each time they get especially close we bomb and/or sabotage them to undo their progress. Russia is equally a ge…

If Ukraine loses, Russia will be in a good position to attack the west because they think we're cowards who won't actually respond to, e.g., Estonia getting invaded. Also, it's mis…

> The problem is rule of law, or lack thereof. Rule of law is critical infrastructure. I agree 100% > Also, South Africa isn't sub-Saharan Africa. Indeed. Which made me even less i…

I've done some military charity work in Ukraine, getting donations from people in my community and ensuring that money gets turned into vehicles and equipment reaching soldiers tha…

Military operations would do that as well. Ukraine is destroying Russia's oil and gas industry right now. Sanctions or not, that oil and gas is becoming unavailable. Either way, pr…

"Just following orders" is not a valid excuse. Besides, one reason why they can be coerced is because these actions aren't clearly illegal. If they are, the employee can just repor…

Why would you use this over Bitcoin Lightning payments?

Don't confuse NFT gambling with Bitcoin. The former is a dying craze as the gamblers move onto something else. The latter is at all-time-highs, for the obvious reason that a digita…

That was probably a sound legal strategy. Selling location data without consent is obviously unethical behavior that should be illegal. A jury is more likely to rule on the basis o…

This isn't a proxy war. Russia is invading Ukraine because they want to invade. That has absolutely nothing to do with anyone else; Russia is not a proxy. Ukraine has exactly one c…

> I sure hope you are right but I wouldn't trust too much the official numbers we are told. I don't have to trust the official numbers. I've been to Ukraine both before and after t…

> What kind of "action" did they see, pushing pencils? Frontline trench warfare, including getting wounded. A high % of the young male population saw combat in WW2. What followed w…

> Anyway the fact is almost 4 years in Ukraine is probably dead demographically. You can't really reboot a country after having so much of its "fighting age" male population dead. …

> making it impossible to reliably delete material That said, SSD's have improved the situation a lot with TRIM. While previously deleting a file wouldn't actually destroy any data…

Not at all. Ukraine had operatives inside Russia. The trucks were not driven in from outside Russia. The system was assembled inside Russia. Also, every single drone had its own pi…

Installing open source software on phones is becoming more and more difficult. It used to be the case that bootloaders were generally unlocked or unlockable. That is no longer true…

Nonsense. If online privacy was that impossible Ukraine couldn't successfully organize sabotage operations in Russia. They do it all the time.

Chat control will require client-side AI scanning of all messages, bypassing end-to-end encryption. Since the AI will be an unauditable blackbox, it will make it effectively illega…

> Even more specifically, a blockchain is for when you want Byzantine fault tolerance, i.e. you don't trust one or more of the actors involved. Often yes. But also blockchain's can…

> There is nothing that a Stripe controlled blockchain could offer that a database could not. One way of thinking about a blockchain is to think of it as a shared datastructure to …

Ejections are pretty rough, and occasionally career or even life ending. So there would be a lot of pressure on the engineers to try to avoid it. Plus, this plane is very expensive…

My name is Peter Todd. I am a Canadian. Tell me, where am I right now? I traveled there recently. Governments certainly can find out that information, as my recent flights are reco…

Thanks! That's a good step.

Yes. A good example is the continued use of AM modulation for aviation radio. While bandwidth inefficient, the failure modes of AM modulation are easy to understand and predictable…

> The tracking itself for air traffic control purposes has an obvious good purpose. There's probably a way that the system could achieve the same safety benefits without invading p…