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Are you quoting prices including the cost of the land? Around here there's plenty of new construction being sold at well under $200/sq. ft., and even a fair amount at or under $150 / sq. ft. This is even when you include the price of the land.

How does it work that they have the ability to help you recover your funds, but they can't do that "recovery" unilaterally?

So, maybe a business model of buying a bunch of smart TVs, pulling off the wifi module and reselling them?

Are housing starts down? The article included this graph[1] that shows starts taking a brief dip in Q1 of last year, but bouncing back to above pre-pandemic but not pre-2008 levels. Anecdotally, I see plenty of new construction going up in our town, I assume mostly on the basis of low interest rates since the prices they're selling for definitely aren't low. I've heard the same from a realtor friend in a larger city, saying that builders are signing plenty of contracts, and are even telling people there's no guaranteed delivery date as part of the deal.

[1] https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22481706/N...

The unique thing about YTTV was that it kind of combined the live content, and watch any show on demand. Their DVR option gives you unlimited storage, and keeps shows you record for 9 months. So you could basically just spend an hour when you signed up clicking record on anything you're interested in, and then in a few months you basically had access to everything that's been on the TV for the past few months whenever you want.

I'm glad you had a good experience, but the one car I've bought from a dealer was the typical horrible sales experience -- long negotiation, then making me wait forever, then they put the wrong price on the contract and apologize for their "mistake" when I point it out.

I believe you've transposed "harm" and "good" in your quote. The linked Pew article lists the question as "Do more good than harm."

I think they'd usually use one of the non-KYC exchanges to move the money into an anonymous cryptocurrency, and then out to whatever they wanted. I'm not sure why they don't skip the intermediate step and just ask for Monero or whatever. Maybe they think the mark will be more familiar with BTC and thus more likely to deliver?

This seems to nicely lay out how the censorship may happen and be implemented. But it only briefly touches on one small example of censorship currently taking place. Is there anything else to support this portion of your previous post?

> Not to mention that all the major mining pools have voluntarily chosen to collaborate with governments on censoring the blockchain, etc.

I haven't heard about the mining pools collaborating on censorship. Do you have any sources I can read up on?

If he is senile (and a fair amount, but not all, of the "evidence" for that is propaganda), then it probably means that his cabinet will mostly run the show or that he'll be removed from office. This same line of thinking gave me some peace of mind on Trump, and it really held for about a year and a half that it took him to fill the cabinet with more pliant people.

Interesting idea. I think there may be feasible political routes to accomplishing that. Tighten up the points system that basically every state uses for deciding when to suspend your license, and simply force those who would normally lose their license into robot driving.

A popularity score that combines age of the package, number of downloads, and the number of packages that depend on the package in question could give a quick metric for cases like this, helping people realize that this probably isn't the official Twilio package.

All of that is roughly available on the npm website, but isn't really exposed in the CLI.

I think attractiveness confounds a comparison between Brad Pitt/Leonardo DiCaprio with Zuckerberg, Bezos and Gates. Is there an actor who isn't considered highly attractive that you think the average person would hold in significantly higher regard than successful tech entrepreneurs?

I haven't tested but, as far as I'm aware unlock origin never sends anything back to a site, it just blocks content so I expect that it would just remove the element with no feedback.

Presumably fees will rise at that point to making profitable enough to move transactions.

> Covid-19 would be in the population and will come back every year as a seasonal respiratory illness, killing off more people every year until we get a vaccine.

Do you have any evidence to support that it would keep coming back? As far as I know there's only very small anecdotal evidence of people getting reinfected and we simply have no way of knowing yet whether the average person's immunity will last weeks, months or years.

It's not just US-centric. DDG is just a little bad about local queries in general. With Google, if I'm looking for a local business, or something in the news locally, there's a decent chance I can just search for it and I'll find what I'm looking for. With DDG I need to explicitly tell it the locale I'm interested in.

On top of that I live in a small city that shares a name with a larger city. Google understands this and gives me results for my local, smaller city, but DDG needs to be explicitly told city name, state name.

The calculations you cite and what the linked page are fundamentally different. The numbers you're citing are roughly what it would cost to buy hardware that would continuously be capable of mounting a 51% attack. The linked site is estimating how much it would cost to rent existing capacity to mount an hour-long 51% attack.

> So lots of Office / Outlook / AD / Windows Server customers are getting hundreds of thousands of thousands of dollars worth of Azure that they’re not using

Sounds like an arbitrage opportunity. Have tons of unused Azure credits that were forced on you? We'll happily use them up and pay you back a fraction of that credit.

> Call me when there's a popular one of these which has multiple lives or some other mechanic that ensures a single mistake doesn't result in ~5 minutes of being unable to play the game. I don't have the time or the patience for this.

Fortnite has numerous other game modes than solo BR where this would be the case. At it's most basic level you can play duos, trios or squads where you are "knocked" but can be revived by a teammate, or "rebooted" if you get knocked and eliminated. There are even more varied game modes that are even more arena-like: 50v50s where you immediately respawn with the same loot for example. I have no stats but I'd guess that these alternate modes are more popular than the main BR modes.

Aren't the credit reporting laws pretty strictly scoped to making decisions about loans? I imagine these companies are pretty explicit with their clients that scores can't be used for those purposes.

Ditto. The facility shown as in Columbus, GA is actually in Utah.

So I take it you're opposed to the ADA in general?

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It's definitely some level of stereotyping, but there definitely appears to be a divide with friends (especially from college) who are a few years older than me, and those who are a few years younger. The older group finished college and entered the work force just as the internet was really beginning to churn, when it was interesting but not necessary, when it was still easy to ignore the digital world socially and economically. As a result they seem to be much less plugged in online than my friends who are just a few years younger.

Does your local resolver not have to query an upstream provider? Is that recursive query private?

It does not. You just need internet access.

> It seems very unlikely that 2 would occur because mining power approaches the brute force limits of SHA-256.

Can you elaborate on this a bit more? I'm not following what you mean by the "mining power approaches the brute force limits of SHA-256."

It's obviously always listening since it has to respond to the trigger word. I assume that it's got a little buffer, and when it detects the trigger word it uploads the spoken text plus a little buffer of time before the trigger word was spoken.

> If it became known that ransomware criminals never actually decrypt your data they would lose their "business", so it is in their interest to actually do it.

This opens up one of those weird moral dilemmas akin to asking whether it's moral to hack someone's exposed device to patch a security hole: Would it actually be a net positive to create a ransomware variant that had no decryption key, but acted like it did?