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>I can't even imagine the overhead of unpacking and then "scanning" each of those letters by hand

At this point in the war, all mail (not just those to service members) entering and exiting the United States were opened by hand and microfilmed for censorship and counter-espionage purposes by the Office of Censorship[0].

So technically the mail opening and scanning aren't extra overheads, since those same steps apply to regular snail mail as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Censorship

Most of that debt is owned by Americans, who incidentally also own 393.3 million firearms - twice as much as every police force and military in the world combined[0]. I shudder to imagine what 100 million pissed off gun owners would do when they find out that there's going to be a 50% haircut to their life savings.

[0] http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/T-Briefing-Pap...

>Usually some kind person posts an Outline link or an Archive link to the full article in the discussions.

OP is probably asking because recent changes broke all the common workarounds for some major sites:

1. HN's built-in "web" button (basically a Google redirect)

2. outline.com

3. archive.org

Currently all three workarounds are broken for New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, among others.

To clarify further, the exact phrasing used was "roughly 100 partners", as in roughly 100 external legal entities. Each legal entity could have any number of software developers.

Let's say I buy a /24 IP address block and port it to AWS. My friend Bob and I are both on AWS. Would it be possible to share some of my IP addresses with Bob in a secure way?

I know that VPC peering[0] is possible across separate AWS accounts, what I don't know is that:

1. Whether or not my /24 block is "compatible" with VPC peering or not

2. How to prove to Bob that I'm not potentially MitMing him (assign my /24 block to VPC1, peer with Bob using VPC2, and MitM between VPC1 and VPC2 since they're both under my control). Would creating an IAM user with read-only VPC permissions work for this?

AWS is just an example. I would be happy to do this at any major provider (AWS and GCP are the two I know that allows bring-your-own-ip).

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/peering/what-is-vpc-p...

Can you make edits on Wikipedia? I used to be a big contributor there but can no longer easily contribute because they (understandably) blocked all common VPN IP ranges.

I've been using WireGuard for years and it's been great, now I'm looking into some advanced resilient/redundant setups and was wondering whether it's possible or not with WireGuard:

1. I have two unreliable ISP links to the internet. Is it possible to have dual redundancy WireGuard connections to the same server? I.e. each UDP packet is replicated (with the appropriate headers) and a copy sent over each link.

2. My ISP links have heavy throttling at peak hours with heavy packet losses. Is it possible to trade bandwidth for reliability and send each UDP packet twice (with the appropriate headers)? I don't mind halving my maximum theoretical bandwidth; I'd rather have a 1Mb/s reliable connection than a 10Mb/s unreliable connection.

The smallest range that providers are willing to deal with are /24 (256 IPv4 addresses), and each IP is around $20, so that's a minimum of $5,000 [0].

But I only need one IP address, and I'm willing to pay $500 for it. Is there a way to make this happen?

[0] https://www.ipv4connect.com/products/-buy-ipv4-Arin-24/484

Softbank made the vast majority of its profits off a lucky bet on Alibaba back in 2000 (not unlike Yahoo). So using your analogy, saddad got rich off lotto cards and the son is just copying Dad.

Yes, they have separate Japanese Wikipedia articles:

"American Coffee": https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3...

Caffè Americano: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3...

The "American Coffee" article introduction paragraph even clarifies that this is a completely separate thing from Caffè Americano.

Interesting side note, Boeing does make private jets - the Boeing Business Jet family[0].

But Boeing executives doesn't fly on these, since they're too large for even CEOs. Boeing executives fly on one of the three Boeing owned Bombardier Challenger 650s [1][2][3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Business_Jet

[1] https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N541BA/908...

[2] https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N543BA/908...

[3] https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N544BA/884...

Google says this Scala tuning software page dates from 2001[0]. The page's own copyright date says "2003-2015".

Scala the programming language had its first public release on 2004-01-20[1].

[0] http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/examples.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)

I brought an Apple PowerBook G4 back in 2005, and one of the standard system configs allowed you to calibrate the subpixel rendering parameters of fonts for the built-in display, as well as any external displays. It remembers each external display by serial model so that it could load the correct calibration profile for that particular display each time it's plugged in. I must have obsessively calibrated each of my displays at least ten times.

Was this feature removed from OSX? Or did OP try it already and it didn't help much? Honest question here; I haven't touched a mac in over a decade.

The China AWS region is operated by a Chinese company, with all servers physically located in China, thus accessible to the Chinese government.[0]

The above also applies to Microsoft Azure China[1], and any other major cloud provider with a presence in China.

[0] https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/china/

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/overview-operat...

This link[0] seems to suggest that filing under a pseudonym is not possible. Full legal name, residence, and citizenship of each inventor must be provided.

And there are criminal penalties for knowingly supplying the patent office with false information[1]:

>1) All statements made therein of the party’s own knowledge are true, all statements made therein on information and belief are believed to be true, and all statements made therein are made with the knowledge that whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the Office, knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or knowingly and willfully makes any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations, or knowingly and willfully makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be subject to the penalties set forth under 18 U.S.C. 1001 and any other applicable criminal statute, and violations of the provisions of this section may jeopardize the probative value of the paper; and ...

[0] https://www.dhuelaw.com/blog/2017/february/is-it-possible-to...

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s410.html

There should be more push back against goods made in non-democratic countries like Vietnam, and not just against Made-in-China.

My previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S5 and I was surprised to find out that it was made in Korea. Manufacturing in Korea certainly didn't seem to harm Samsung's financial prospects back then, and the phone wasn't any more expensive than its Made-in-China competitors. I have zero reservations about South Korea's workers' rights protections, workplace health and safety, and environmental regulations.

Too often the discussion becomes:

1. We shouldn't manufacture in China

2. We can't afford to manufacture in US/EU

3. Let's just manufacture in Vietnam/Cambodia/Myanmar instead

When it should be:

a. We shouldn't manufacture in non-democratic countries

b. Let's manufacture in democratic countries instead

>bring back traditional Chinese characters

The Japanese people, through their democratically-elected representatives, chose to simplify many of their Kanji characters[0].

Should Japan also be forced to bring back traditional Japanese Kanji characters as well? What about Singapore[1]? I'm a little lost on which countries need to bring back their traditional characters and which needn't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Chinese_characters

It's been done, but it's expensive. Not many people can drop $30,000 on a drone: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1416171-REG/walkera_q...

One of my favorite piece of WWII trivia is that Albert Einstein actually worked on fixing the Mark 6 exploder of the Mark 14 torpedo.

Back then, Einstein was not employed by the military at all; he was an academic at the Institute for Advanced Study[0] in Princeton. Lt. Stephen Brunauer from the Bureau of Ordnance sent an unsolicited letter to Einstein basically saying: “Hey Einstein, can you help us with our torpedo problem?” and Einstein happily obliged[1]. Their entire correspondence is in the national archives; here’s an example: [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study

[1] https://mathscinotes.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/torpedoesan...

[2] https://catalog.archives.gov/id/305254

Boeing voluntarily paid compensation to the victims and their communities directly. This is in addition to the travel insurance claims that the victims could file for.

[0] https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-07-03-Boeing-Pledges-Suppo...

Whether someone is an employee vs a contractor solely depends on the "economic reality" of their job. Neither the employer nor the employee can choose to have it classified as a contractor relationship if it isn't actually one.

For example, if Subway determines how, where, and when I make the sandwiches, and provides all the equipment and materials, then I am a de facto employee. Even if both Subway and myself voluntarily agrees that I am a contractor for whatever reason (sidestepping minimum wage laws in this case), and signs a service contract to that effect, I am still treated as an employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/whd/workers/Misclassification/misclassif...

[1] https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs13.htm

>The system requirements are Windows® 10 PC or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

I must say: I'm liking this new Microsoft.

[0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kinect-dk/

Ubuntu is officially supported by Microsoft.

>The system requirements are Windows® 10 PC or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

[0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kinect-dk/

Arguably the Suez Crisis was UK and France invading a sovereign state and trying to setup a new colony in 1956. Had they succeeded, I have no doubt they will attempt to setup new colonies all way into the '60s and '70s.

Yes, that's a hard bug to catch, but if the mantra of "every floating point comparison must use a context-appropriate epsilon" is followed, then it wouldn't have happened in the first place.

AWS averages about one major outage per year[0].

Google's own status page[1] list near 100 incidents in the past 365 days, only one of which ended on HN frontpage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Service...

[1] https://status.cloud.google.com/summary

I would like to send my friend in India $1 USD. Does Unified Payment Interface make this possible?

Traditional wire transfer certainly cannot, since the fees alone are many times larger than $1 USD.

HP is the largest laptop manufacturer in the world by units shipped.

https://press.trendforce.com/press/20190509-3240.html

>I too have a chronic condition, and there are doctors who offer magic solutions for large sums of money. There is a doctor who claims he had the condition and treated himself. Then weeks later his website went up and he now offers the treatment for a tiny sum of like $13k. Desperate people will pay that money for having hope. It is sad imo.

If it's an FDA-approved treatment, then it's been vetted by peer-reviewed double-blind trials so it's unlikely to be snake oil.

If it's not an FDA-approved treatment, then I highly advise you to report them to the authorities because you stand to receive whistleblower rewards that are many, many times larger than the tiny sum of $13k.

You are correct if you interpret "Visa and Mastercard" as literally Mastercard Incorporated and Visa Inc.

He used "Visa and Mastercard" as a metonymy for the entire payment processing network i.e. payment gateway + issuing bank + acquiring bank + card networks. The total fee for the entire network is indeed 3-4%, and as you rightly pointed out, Mastercard Incorporated and Visa Inc. fees actually only make up for less than half of the total transaction fees.