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Apologies, you are right.

My apologies. I must have confused them with someone else.

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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.

Cheap thermal camera lets you literally see the studs. Does not work when ambient temperature inside is the same as outside though

USB anal probe can be integrated the same way.

Centrifuges dont need to be mechanically sophisticated and, frankly, do not require tech which did not exist in the 50es.

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.

Well, at least such pressure will be well documented and there will be legal avenues of controlling those.

There should be a national payment processing operator as an alternative to VISA/MC. Just like they do it in many other countries.

I believe EFF did address the yellow dots but got nowhere. Yellow dot problem is decades old.

Not really. Starlink can be turned on and off over certain territories.

Such radar would be a game changer.

Infrastructure is laughable in northeast. And no, we do not have competition here in NJ. Yay "free market"

Yes, but they still approach in just a few seconds.

Air drag energy losses are tiny comparing to other losses when burning petrol so you don't notice the difference.

The illustration gif is way too fast. Hard to understand what is going on. Slow it down 2x or so.

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 the case. With this math you can't afford the risk if it is more than 1 in 30000.

For many European banks the math is even more brutal.

No bank got fined for not root checking, correct. However banks are on the hook for unauthorized transactions. And "unauthorized" means different thing in different countries.

In some jurisdictions if bank can prove that transaction was made with customer's key then customer can not demand their money back. That's the best case, but there are only few of such jurisdictions and even there the burden of proof is on the bank and it costs a lot.

In other jurisdictions bank must reverse a transaction even if it was proven that the transaction was signed with a legitimate key, but the key _may_ have been stolen.

In some jurisdictions (i.e U.S.) banks are required to reverse a transaction at a customer’s request, even if the customer does not dispute having made the transaction.

In any case dealing with all this is too expensive and risky.

Practically impossible to store secrets in a desktop app too. Besides, customers would not willing to install a desktop app. And those who would, will require support.

Well, I've built a bunch of mobile banking apps and we did detect if the phone was rooted, was in dev mode, etc. and it is not because we were "stupid, consumer-hostile, and anti-competitive".

If someone steals the secrets from a rooted phone and steals customer's money the bank is on the hook, so banks do everything they can to minimize this risk.

There is no way to store customer's secrets in a PC browser securely, so all the "dangerous" transactions were outright prohibited in the web app or made available only via temporary QR login.

All this is just is a negative side effect of customer protection laws.

I could use a 3D powerpoint. Even the most basic, boring arrows and boxes will look better in 3D. Some of the slides in a preso I use almost daily would convey the message better if they were in 3D.

maps as well. email client in the browser.

I would argue that accurate sizing is not that important as labor constitutes the bulk of the cost. My total bill was about $20K and going for 30% less capacity would net about $19K so its easier just to go for the maximum. Calling in an IR imaging drone would certainly cost more than the potential savings from accurate sizing.

Unlike gas furnaces which basically can only do ON or OFF, heat pumps can regulate the heat with much higher granularity.

What certainly calls for innovation is managing the labor costs. In my case installation involved way too many people and way too many visits.

Hey, corruption is rampant on each and every continent, except Antarctica. Asia is not the worst by far. Why are you singling out Asia specifically?

So "blowing smoke up one's arse" isn't a completely baseless resuscitation technique after all.

As a child growing up in Central Asia, I saw people piling up stones, sticks, and other debris along the ancient lines people used to control herds and wild animals. The ones built for hunting often had a narrow, funnel-like end, while those meant for managing herds could take on almost any shape. One of the photos in that article looks exactly like the walls I remember from my childhood.

I don't know, looks like hunting walls to me. When chased, animals naturally follow such walls, however insignificant they are (sometimes they follow even a line drawn on the grass), and get onto predictable trajectory leading them into ambush.

Does it exist? I could not find a wikipedia article about it. This Gobi Wall can not be a part of what is known as the Great Wall of China as it was built 5 centuries later, no? Can someone explain?

There is a difference in the way it went for Saudis and Iranians. Saudis, not having the tech, capital, knowledge at the time, still retained ownership. Iranians did not. Saudis had enough bargaining power (and balls), Iranian Shakh agreed to exploitative concessions.

Those who had the tech, capital and expertise in the end just lined up in front of Saudis to be hired.