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Re:Check Out These Self-Soldering Sleeves from World War II on Friday February 02, 2024 @06:16AM (#39227416)
So, a weld instead of solder!
One would have to assume that it's a combination of both.
One way of understanding the previous comment in light of what you've said is: the third-party doctrine is so obviously wrong it's sickening.
My money's on Hal Finney.
No. Instead, I'm going to be excellent to my fellow people. I'm not going to sink to their level.
Re:FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s on Saturday January 06, 2024 @05:43PM (#38896304)
Somewhere, the NFL is quickly checking its shoes...
Re:Books Fatal to Their Authors (1895) on Friday January 05, 2024 @09:52PM (#38887890)
Investigative journalism, I'd wager.
Re:What can I do with Mickey Mouse as of January 1, 2024? on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:21PM (#38688488)
It's no more ironic than a basketball player who just increased his score by putting a ball through a hoop trying to prevent his opponent from doing the same.
Re:Henry Kissinger Has Died on Friday December 01, 2023 @09:17PM (#38495218)
Why not?
No, it's great! That way when something terrible happens, it's not VW's fault.
I think you've made a mistake. Their comment was not meant to be understood literally. Their intended meaning was obvious to me.
Re:Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer Accounts on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:40PM (#38157408)
>What are the new revenue channels that will pay for all that extra staff (and considering it’s USPS, their pensions)?

The federal government, unlike most other entities, does not need to match new revenue to new spending. It can and does create new money for any spending it deems worth it.

Funding basic banking for all through the USPS is worth it.

Re:We Don't Generate Elliptic Curves Every Day on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:42PM (#38007748)
>but because the mechanism by which they were generated would result in whole large classes of broken curves that academic cryptography and mathematics would have caught by now

Might such discoveries by academics be forcibly suppressed by government agencies?

Re:"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:07PM (#37923714)
I absolutely loved the ending of _Fall_. I literally sat in my truck with tears streaming down my face for five minutes. To each their own, I suppose.
Re:Five Eyes Campaign Against Encryption Threatens Democracy on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:08PM (#37839801)
We need a public lobby.
Re:What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf] on Friday October 06, 2023 @01:58PM (#37793902)
I vote Hal Finney.
Do you remember the name of the post card service? Sounds neat!
Re:The NSA Invented Bitcoin? on Thursday September 21, 2023 @12:07PM (#37599734)
>One would expect that we’d all know who Satoshi was by now, unless Satoshi was a state-sponsored collective effort.

Or, if the creator died of ALS.