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An alternative is using an eSIM with an “internet breakout” via another country.

Esimdb is a good place to start.

He could’ve skipped the intermediate steps and made it a one-liner by piping the sql dump over ssh right into the sqlite3 reconstruction command.

Depends what you mean by “holding” USD. Is it under your mattress? Or in a bank? Is it a bank in Venezuela or Lebanon?

Holding USDT is kind of holding USD. You just have Tether in the middle.

Main utility (value?) of stablecoins is to “bridge” USD fiat into crypto though.

Interestingly, crypto.com (exchange) keeps a “USD” balance for its customers, which is separate from its USDT balance. You can deposit/withdraw to/from your “USD” balance via fiat (bank transfer) or a basket of stablecoins like USDC, BUSD etc. Binance does this as well, and FTX before. They all kept USDT separate though. Worth considering why this is the case.

If Tether is insolvent then better to ban it earlier than later, before it becomes even “too bigger” to fail.

The other stablecoins are unaffected though…

So here’s where there might be some confusion, Binance consolidates a pool of different stable coins into 1 “BUSD” balance for its users[0]. Depositing any of these stablecoins into Binance will add to your BUSD balance, and you can withdraw from it as any stablecoin of your choice. What CZ is saying is that they ran out of USDC but have plenty of the other stablecoins instead. It sounds like they need to redeem the other stablecoins to fiat USD and send it to Circle to mint USDC with it, hence the talk about the bank.

[0]https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-to-a...

Why not just use or alias ‘mv’ to trash?

In the article, a Wizz Air rep explained it’s meant to charge bots and other automations for booking, but is catching users who use ad blockers as a false positive.

Just send it to yourself first?

This is it. Amount of energy spent = profits from mining / cost of energy.

While price is the main factor affecting profits, fees/volume and the constantly decreasing block reward also play a part.

Maybe HFT is intellectually more interesting than day-trading but I don't believe it to be very gratifying at deeper level.

HFT is automated day-trading in a way, so 1 meta level more intellectually interesting I suppose.

The Supreme Court asked them to block the delivery of content inside of Brazil, for brazilians in Brazil's territory.

If you read the article it’s saying the court is asking Facebook to block delivery of certain content globally, not only within Brazil. And they are threatening a local Facebook employee with criminal liability, which is the reason Facebook says it has complied with the order while appealing it.

The Brazilian Supreme Court is asking Facebook to block accounts globally, not only in Brazil.

He’s probably saying these are free apps which Apple doesn’t take any money for, and the money the developers keep are from ads or fees from clients and so on.

This one I made couple years ago (and haven’t checked in years) is still running for free thanks to Heroku and Cloudflare: https://github.com/jlxw/geoip

Facebook had a free simple login service, over email and SMS as well. Until they shut it down.

Of course, but that was my (and presumed common) use case for discrete graphics.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that iOS has “content blockers” built in. If you google “iOS ad blocker”, AdGuard should be the first result, just install the app and flip a few switches in settings to enable it. I still haven’t actually used ad blockers yet on my other browsers, only iOS Safari.

How long till Apple GPUs can take the fight to discrete graphics?

I already play Fortnite, Call of Duty, PUBG, etc at 60fps on my iPhone.

Browsers can’t write, only read. So you would need another way to get client input into the db if that is the requirement.

FB, Have you consider adding Continuous Integration and Functional Tests questions to your Interview's questionnaire?

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Let’s take a step back and look at the quote in the article’s opening paragraph: “As a US business (and tech) community I think we should be significantly clearer about our horror at, and opposition to, the atrocities being committed by the Chinese government against its own people.”

Now let’s swap the words “US” and “Chinese” around. Maybe it’s not so absurd after all.

They shut down a sizeable portion of downtown for a weekend every year. Literally shut it down. For a fuckin Grand Prix.

They do this in Singapore too. They used to close all the roads in the city for 2 weeks just for the F1, but slowly got more efficient (or less over abundantly cautious) over the years. It’s all for the $$$ here though.

Is that where we are heading now? That even 6 year olds get phones?

Isn’t a phone just another computer? I mean, how is it worse?

As they point out at the very bottom, all their arguments apply to all third-party sign-ons, so they're removing Facebook as well.

Nope, not all their arguments. Only some.

That’s crazy. IOS prompts before giving apps your location, clipboard data is many times more sensitive

I use Bitwarden on my iPhone and sometimes copy passwords to the clipboard for some reason. Does this mean any app could have snooped on it without me knowing before?

Is this true? That's hotter than most days here in tropical Singapore! Where are the photos and videos of the locals sunbathing? I’m really curious how they are reacting to the unusual (for them) warm weather.

Amazon is likely grateful for the “competition” amid greater scrutiny from regulators around the world.

I had fun building this. Wanted to make it feel very quick despite the large data set. Also wanted it to be very low maintenance with little to no running costs ($0 currently). It’s a static Jamstack site, using vanilla JS, hosted on Netlify with Cloudflare. A scheduled GitLab CI job regularly polls Spotify’s API and updates the site, using JSON files on Google Drive as a database.