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by srgseg 2y ago
Hi Peter, at what age does it start to become more difficult to get a work visa, and does it depend on the type of visa it is?
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by srgseg 2y ago
Exactly - just a Linux box, mounted with SSHFS. To be fair, I have spent some time over the years writing my own scripts for SMART alerts, but the end result is better monitoring and alerting than a NAS would provide.
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by srgseg 2y ago
This is why I always use an encrypted file system, where the encryption keys are only known to the client (and not the NAS or other storage provider).
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by srgseg 6y ago
I agree, if the lender makes cheaper credit available, and if borrowers are automatically provided with drops in their loan rates. If borrowers have to shop around for a better deal and pay fees in the process, this would dull the effect
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by srgseg 6y ago
Euros exist in physical form (notes and coins). There is a digital form of Euros already, called "reserves". However, only banks and other financial institutions are able to hold these reserves (they are allowed to have reserve ac
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by srgseg 7y ago
MP3 link (248MB): http://traffic.megaphone.fm/KM1843288847.mp3
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by srgseg 8y ago
It's important for the US dollar to maintain reasonably constant and predictable purchasing power from year to year. This is part of their dual mandate. Their target is just under 2% inflation per year, as measured by the Core-PCE inde
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by srgseg 8y ago
I notice that the OpenJDK build is only available as a .tar.gz and not as .rpm This means that to upgrade from Oracle JDK10 -> Open JDK11, you'll have to write a script yourself to modify the symlinks e.g. to redirect the existing &
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by srgseg 8y ago
> Why is it so crucial to their business model that the customers' deposits are deposited directly with the Fed Note that whether interest was earned via IOER or via the Fed Funds market, the funds would be deposited with the Fed ei
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by srgseg 8y ago
Do you happen to know how much Cloudflare charges for this?
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by srgseg 8y ago
Because then you have counterparty risk, which means you then have greater regulatory/compliance costs and have to pay up to 0.4% on assets for FDIC insurance.
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by srgseg 8y ago
The "Confidential Transactions" scheme for cryptocurrencies uses homomorphic encryption. The idea is that you can prove that the encrypted input and output amounts in a transaction balance to zero, without having to actually revea
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by srgseg 8y ago
That is absolutely not true. OneTab has never, ever transmitted any information about your tabs outside of your browser, and will never divulge them. I'm the developer. OneTab has never made a penny, and absolutely does and always will
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by srgseg 9y ago
The situation is confusing, because of the difference between physical and financial assets. It's possible for everyone to simultaneously save physical assets, but mathematically impossible for everyone to simultaneously save financial
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by srgseg 9y ago
Can there ever be a mechanism that prevents people from reverse engineering the protocol to announce to the network that they're viewing ads, so that they can earn BATs for doing nothing? Their incentive would be to use these BATs to p
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by srgseg 10y ago
FYI this functionality is 'automagically' implemented by specifying just a web site URL within the http://www.protopage.com RSS reader. It scans a web site and figures out which are the article headlines and links.
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by srgseg 10y ago
"Symbols of status matter, but the symbols aren’t your car, house, or clothes." What are the symbols that matter?
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by srgseg 10y ago
This project deserves a lot of credit, and hopefully will get enough attention that the author will be able to crowdfund a security audit.
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Gocryptfs: successor to EncFS by the EncFS co-maintainer(nuetzlich.net)
4 points by srgseg 10y ago|1 comments
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by srgseg 10y ago
Thanks for the tip - unfortunately that mapping changes too many other things on the keyboard at the same time.
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by srgseg 10y ago
Any recommendations for a simple keyboard remapper that is compatible with Sierra? All I need is to swap the @ with "
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by srgseg 10y ago
Maybe the solution would be to have Swiss style direct democracy so that people could directly approve or disapprove of any particular system of data collection.
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by srgseg 10y ago
If it's impossible to reverse the tide, what if this could become a database of innocence instead of a database of guilt? Instead of cops pulling over some poor innocent guy every few weeks because he has a suspicious looking beaten up
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by srgseg 10y ago
It's staggering how quickly things can change. In 2014, Venezuelans were some of the happiest people in the world, and according to Pew happier than the average American [1] Now it easily tops the Bloomberg misery index for the second
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by srgseg 11y ago
The OneTab extension can also be used to convert all your hoarded tabs into a list, saving you memory and CPU. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...
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by srgseg 11y ago
If governments made loans for university education available to a billion more people, that would dramatically increase their future earnings potential and quality of life. Yet this would be flagged as a "worrying increase in inequalit
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by srgseg 11y ago
Larger size video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BAqirNbwEc0/
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SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes on landing after delivering satellite to space(bbc.co.uk)
36 points by srgseg 11y ago|23 comments
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by srgseg 11y ago
The availability of credit will allow those that are asset poor but with reasonable earnings potential to compete for resources fairly. There are of course very serious implications when, for example, asset bubbles and unfunded state liabil
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by srgseg 11y ago
I feel the serious point Oxfam are looking to make is let down by a definition of wealth that is very distorted. Their headline is based on a report by Credit Suisse [1] which defines net worth as: "the marketable value of financial as

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