maurimo

Re:Microsoft, Google join study to see if AI will affect jobs on Friday April 05, 2024 @10:28AM (#39942791)

Need to start enabling a pre-filtering of unbearably silly titles.

This title raising the question of whether an elephant in a porcelain shop could possibly affect the porcelains.

Re:The home Wi-Fi upgrade we never asked for is coming. The one we nee... on Monday September 25, 2023 @08:05PM (#37652527)

EE user in the UK here. Instead of working for Wifi 7 could you please remove roaming charges in the EU, that EE suddenly reintroduced after brexit? You're telling us our future will have Wifi 7 but also roaming charges when I travel to the EU?

Re:Who is guaranteeing Russia's foreign currency reserves? on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:32PM (#30471257)

Thanks a lot for the answer! I feel this is a vulnerability on Western side: essentially we are unable to prevent Russia from benefiting of/using our financial/judicial structure while Russia is directly waging war to a democratic country.

Who is guaranteeing Russia's foreign currency reserves?

Posted by maurimo on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:50AM
from the self-post dept.

It looks like that while Russia invades Ukraine it's still taking advantage of a good amount of services from the West. Since Russia's foreign reserves are most probably not physical banknotes, they are probably entries in the balance book of private banks and central banks. How does electronic money work in detail, and why can't those credits be simply seized by the authorities?

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Re:New Cobalt-free Li-ion battery reduces costs with similar design an... on Sunday July 19, 2020 @08:16PM (#23893540)

Calle 13, Latino America! One of my favourite songs!

Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen from 61 to 51 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:00PM (#23707847)

Very interesting comment. That being the case, the biggest fallacy is the ability of challenging the authority, as long as the US politics are protected by US sovereignty (even if they involve and affect the rest of the world).

The Intercept: Operation Amazon Redux

Posted by maurimo on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:53AM
from the theintercept.com dept.

https://theintercept.com/2019/09/20/amazon-brazil-army-bolsanaro/

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Re:Starbucks, monetary superpower on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:08PM (#20772845)

I keep wondering why people buy Amazon/Netflix Gift cards. Great, you converted 50$ into 50$ that can only be used on Amazon, and people may end up not using at all. This is also financing with negative interest rate.

Re:Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests on Sunday July 14, 2019 @07:51AM (#20432946)

Isn't the most painful instruction a conditional jump? Especially when the CPU had preloaded the following instructions and realizes it has to abruptly branch somewhere else. If there is a mechanism of pain in the CPU it should be triggered by this unpredicted waste of power and time.