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saemil··on Ask HN: Why aren't there any 'good' long-term personal use printers available?
Not sure it is an oligarchy but the rest of this sentence is probably the correct answer ("...where the goal is to sell printers and then keep making money by selling single use cartridges.").
saemil··on Google PDF Search: “not for public release”
I needed a good laugh today. Thanks.
saemil··on Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995)
And then see that a solar eclipse was predicted for today.
saemil··on Rise of ghost hotels casts pall over Toronto rental market
Anyone else read the subject as Toronto has a lot of haunted hotels?
saemil··on Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
Columbus is considered the midwest? It is North and EAST of Nashville.
saemil··on People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
Wow. Should we also say that people younger than 30 should not vote because they do not have the life experiences necessary to make rational decisions?
saemil··on Azure services in South Central region down
I can confirm. We are having authentication issues as well.
saemil··on Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
The issue is with the chip. So, it should impact any OS running on the chip. This would include Windows as well as MacOS running on Intel chips.
saemil··on Blockchain could save investment banks up to $12B a year: Accenture
I agree with your sentiment. I do not see a scenario where financial institutions would agree to put their transactions into a distributed ledger with copies of the data (even encrypted) held by their competitors. If the financial institutions limit the ledger to computers within their control, what would be the benefit over a clustered database environment (I am assuming that most large financial institutions already have these).