baybal2

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by baybal2 2y ago
> The last thing Xi wants is an emboldened Pyongyang—he has managed Kim adeptly for years. How Xi can "manage" Kim when Pyongyang already is a telephone government? North Korea is a Chinese proxy. When China wants to increase b
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by baybal2 2y ago
The headline is completely disinformative. It's individual Chinese companies being intimidated by American market denial who cut ties in Russia, not the other way around at all. Chinese state companies continue to work with Russia as
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by baybal2 3y ago
> The Israeli judiciary is unique in nominating itself and having given itself the power to cancel any law or demand any changes to laws/policy on any arbitrary basis; 1. Not completely. There are quite a few countries with fully in
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by baybal2 3y ago
Preemptively posting what is people's biggest confusion: Battery cell energy density is not the same as the whole battery pack energy density. Western battery cell manufacturers chased the specific energy density figure, and in the pro
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by baybal2 3y ago
> And that's the difference. When you perform TouchID authentication, the secure enclave can decide to release a secret that can be used to decrypt your keyring. We can't easily do this under Linux because we don't have an
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by baybal2 3y ago
France has enabled nuclear weapons programmes of many rouge states. Maybe Israelis just went to the Elysee palace, and asked?
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by baybal2 3y ago
> Why are we in the area to begin with Because of USSR > inserting ourselves into these volatile conflict zones? Because America was protecting those nations/regimes who allied with America against USSR > We keep doing that an
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by baybal2 3y ago
Lack of experience. Most of the West has bailed out of the electronics race so long ago, that the experience gap in between practice, and what is told in universities is like 20-30 years now. No university in the world will teach you how to
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by baybal2 3y ago
With "cloud" services being mentioned, they say hackers used cloud storage to evade detection, but what if the initial intrusion vector itself was planted by an AWS employee? Saudis used their nationals inside Twitter quite brazen
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by baybal2 3y ago
> At this point, somebody will jump in with At this point you need to jump up and point to: 1. Ordinary banks are not sued for absolutely the same thing, which probably occurs to much bigger extent in major banks which pass many times mo
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by baybal2 3y ago
No, I would say some ideological lines of thought are intrinsically leading to repeatable, predictable outcomes — parting and opposition to the society. Take communism. There were many grassroots communist regimes in the 20th century, and c
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by baybal2 3y ago
Android has horrific UI latency despite heavily employing hardware acceleration. Enlightenments EFL was exclusively software for a long time, but is buttery smooth despite largely using redraw most of the time. Hardware acceleration does no
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by baybal2 3y ago
Betrayers of The Free World reap the benefits of living in The Free World the most, and advance ahead on the social ladder towards decision making positions, perpetuating these bad decisions. And people who did the right decision, have to p
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by baybal2 3y ago
The better way was not releasing Victor Bout, who secured Shahed drones with his Iranian connections
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by baybal2 3y ago
Indeed https://www.cartanzania.com/en/vehicle_listings/ad-toyota-la... That's more expensive than in UAE
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by baybal2 3y ago
This is a remarkably advanced assault, as if career military men were involved, and likely a prelude for something bigger coming from Lebanon, or even Egypt or Syria after a long while. The world is unravelling. American abrogation of its d
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by baybal2 3y ago
> The point of all the AML/KYC stuff isn't to prevent money laundering, but to replace a difficult-to-prosecute crime (money laundering) with an easy-to-prosecute crime (lying on bank forms). Absolute nonsense. There was a time
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by baybal2 3y ago
Russian trade volume was 57% NATO members before the war, and close to 80 if you count Western allies.
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by baybal2 3y ago
Uh, your pops was rich then, and that means you were likely a kid of the communist elite? Mine's lived in a wooden hut by 1991.
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by baybal2 3y ago
> identified as a national security threat by the US DOD, essentially because there's no way to be sure that every second of GPS-tagged video shot by a DJI drone isn't going into a giant server farm owned by the Chinese intelli
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by baybal2 3y ago
You can easily use magnetically soft steel.
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by baybal2 3y ago
> Classifies Semiconductors as Critical to National Security Well, in a case of direct war with China or Russia, it will not be microchips you would be worried about. USA is amazingly self sufficient nation, probably more than any other
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by baybal2 3y ago
Reliable, cheap, and available in high number power supplies are surprisingly hard to come by. Delta makes tons of money on satisfying the "reliable, and available" points, but not the "cheap" one.
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by baybal2 3y ago
Turkey is the biggest provider of bigger UAVs, but not toy sized ones. For that China takes the lead supplying both sides.
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by baybal2 3y ago
Ironically, every SIM card is a cryptographic secure element, and it would've been ideal to do public key login. If you plug SIM card into desktop, you can actually do signing with it, and TLS authentication. I recall, only Nokia S60 s
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by baybal2 3y ago
> The good part is there's no more brushes to wear out and no dry seal needed so the motor can now be oil cooled from the inside as well, but to me it raises the big question about the power losses incurred by the energy that's
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by baybal2 3y ago
> US DoD can't, in peacetime (wrt the US), technically force an unwilling US company to be complicit in attacking foreign military assets It absolutely can, with a long line of court precedents on war powers being actual without for
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by baybal2 3y ago
> By crafting a malicious JPEG/PNG that specified inflated dimensions, an attacker could cause the decoders to allocate an overly large buffer to hold the decoded pixel data. When copying pixel data from the file into the buffer, th
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by baybal2 3y ago
> if you support the Ukrainian cause and U.S. military aid to Ukraine do you then support Anduril, a leading drone innovator during the largest drone war ever seen? You should support the cause, but to begin with you should know if they
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by baybal2 3y ago
Should people in the West start calling things their names? Public sector corruption, not unlike at all what once plagued Eastern European countries. I see the problem as very similar in nature, despite dramatically different origins. The d

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