petertodd

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by petertodd 3mo ago
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 genuine threat to the west. A threat we can eas
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by petertodd 3mo ago
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 misleading to say that Ukraine is 1/20th th
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by petertodd 4mo ago
> 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 impressed by my example of power outages. South Af
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by petertodd 4mo ago
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 that I personally know in Eastern Ukraine. Just a small &q
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by petertodd 1y ago
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, preventing innocent Ukrainians being slaughtered with you
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by petertodd 1y ago
"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 report what they're being asked to do to the
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by petertodd 1y ago
Why would you use this over Bitcoin Lightning payments?
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by petertodd 1y ago
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 digital replacement for gold is clearly useful, and Bitcoin i
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by petertodd 1y ago
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 of that; with a judge maybe there's a chance that a tech
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by petertodd 1y ago
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 choice: defend themselves, or be subjugated and killed.
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by petertodd 1y ago
> 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 the full scale invasion. Yes, there are eas
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by petertodd 1y ago
> 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 was some of the most successful economic growth
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by petertodd 1y ago
> 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. You should actually look up the facts befo
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by petertodd 1y ago
> 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 until it was overwritten. With TRIM in most ca
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by petertodd 1y ago
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 pilot: https://www.bbc.com/news/article
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by petertodd 1y ago
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, including on Android. Google is also planning on banning A
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by petertodd 1y ago
Nonsense. If online privacy was that impossible Ukraine couldn't successfully organize sabotage operations in Russia. They do it all the time.
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by petertodd 1y ago
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 illegal to have secure end-to-end encryption. Yes, it is that fasc
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by petertodd 1y ago
> 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 be useful simply for backups and scaling: by c
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by petertodd 1y ago
> 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 keep databases in sync. Any time you want to distribute
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by petertodd 1y ago
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. The cost is multiple times the average lifetime earnings o
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by petertodd 1y ago
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 recorded in lots of databases accessible to the. But it's m
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by petertodd 1y ago
Thanks! That's a good step.
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by petertodd 1y ago
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, which is good for safety. But, even then, there may still
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by petertodd 1y ago
> 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 privacy. Obviously, this FAA list is part of that. Bu
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by petertodd 1y ago
Also, while not as relevant to the OP's post, remember that not everyone is famous and rich. I'm not rich. But I did get a degree of fame due to that ridiculous HBO documentary falsely accusing me of being Satoshi. I'm not ha
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by petertodd 1y ago
> Why am I still surprised that the wealthy have special laws just for their privacy? The status quo is you or I can travel without significant non-government privacy concerns, as we blend into the crowd of millions of normal air travele
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by petertodd 1y ago
Baseload power stations sometimes over-produce on longer timescales than just a few seconds because they'd rather not turn them off for maintenance/operational reasons. E.g. imagine you have a big biomass boiler feeding a steam tu
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by petertodd 1y ago
> This is a mild curiosity at best. Exactly. There are genuine economic/engineering reasons for negative prices to occasionally exist. But in a well-designed, well-run, grid price will be negative only a small minority of the time.
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by petertodd 1y ago
Yup. On a much bigger scale it's common for the power supplies going to electric trains to do this too. They like to use regenerative braking because it's efficient. But the electricity grid can't always handle the extra powe

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