Aspos

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by Aspos 7d ago
End-users don't have much agency here, network needs banks. In Iran, they simply don't have much choice, so banks use the only network available to them. It just happens to have been built in this century, so it's not as arch
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by Aspos 7d ago
I struggle to understand how is this relevant. Alipay is closer to paypal than to VISA/MC
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by Aspos 7d ago
Each of those networks carry a lot, a lot of ancient stuff. Gov is better off building a brand new network from scratch and promote it as a standard for banks to join. There are plenty of great examples from this century all over the world.
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by Aspos 7d ago
If someone owned all the highways, building an alternative would be difficult as well.
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by Aspos 10d ago
Limiting progress by letting only select corporations access the stuff is how you fall behind China, UAE and in a few years even Kazakhstan. Whoever wants to have access to (A) will have it, but letting only few select corporations provide
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by Aspos 10d ago
No, that's an illusion, that's the thing. You can't physically have (C) without the (A). Large corporations will spend billions trying to convince the population it is somehow possible, but the reality is different.
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by Aspos 10d ago
If and I mean IF it will be a (A) "hack anything" button, it as well will be a (B) "find a vuln in my site" button too. And a (C) "harden my site" too. And limiting such buttons to a few corporations does not m
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by Aspos 10d ago
Is this "think of the children, think of the hospitals" argument? Really?
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by Aspos 29d ago
I can recommend looking up Yanis Varoufakis and his Technofeudalism.
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by Aspos 1mo ago
Plenty of reviews on youtube already.
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by Aspos 2mo ago
Uzbeks do say "non".
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by Aspos 2mo ago
Both of your statements are not true. Freezone LLCs do not require Emaratis. Even if the company is owned by an Emarati one absolutely can bring legal action against the company.
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by Aspos 2mo ago
Apologies, you are right.
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by Aspos 2mo ago
My apologies. I must have confused them with someone else.
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by Aspos 2mo ago
deleted.
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by Aspos 2mo ago
An open window means kilowatts of energy wasted. All the air I spent money cooling will just leak out. It also means all the pollen will be let in.
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by Aspos 3mo ago
Cheap thermal camera lets you literally see the studs. Does not work when ambient temperature inside is the same as outside though
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by Aspos 3mo ago
USB anal probe can be integrated the same way.
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by Aspos 3mo ago
Centrifuges dont need to be mechanically sophisticated and, frankly, do not require tech which did not exist in the 50es.
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by Aspos 4mo ago
This looks as a benefit on the surface, but it is not. In the end everybody loses -- the bank, the network, the customer, the merchant.
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by Aspos 4mo ago
Well, at least such pressure will be well documented and there will be legal avenues of controlling those.
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by Aspos 4mo ago
There should be a national payment processing operator as an alternative to VISA/MC. Just like they do it in many other countries.
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by Aspos 5mo ago
I believe EFF did address the yellow dots but got nowhere. Yellow dot problem is decades old.
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by Aspos 5mo ago
Not really. Starlink can be turned on and off over certain territories.
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by Aspos 5mo ago
Such radar would be a game changer.
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by Aspos 5mo ago
Infrastructure is laughable in northeast. And no, we do not have competition here in NJ. Yay "free market"
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by Aspos 6mo ago
Yes, but they still approach in just a few seconds.
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by Aspos 7mo ago
Air drag energy losses are tiny comparing to other losses when burning petrol so you don't notice the difference.
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by Aspos 8mo ago
The illustration gif is way too fast. Hard to understand what is going on. Slow it down 2x or so.
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by Aspos 8mo ago
Let's say you are a bank and you make $10 on each $100K transfer. If customer disputes a transaction and you must return the money, you lose the whole amount and twice as much on lawyers, internal audit, compliance people working on th

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