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> Trump has already imposed 50% tariffs, causing major economic losses. NATO has already threatened to impose 100% tariffs on us if we keep buying russian oil. And these are mere tariffs, not actual sanctions.

Maybe we're looking at vastly different numbers, but most analysts are expecting little to no impact from the 50% tariffs. The US only makes up 12% of our exports, and they've already cut down the scope so that only around 36% of those are even affected. Since we mostly export commodities, even those 36% can just be sold elsewhere.

The NATO claims are irrelevant: NATO is not a trade alliance and the US struggles to get it to comply even with its intended military goals. You can safely place the odds of the other NATO countries agreeing to their own tariffs at approximately 0%.

> Sovereignty must be backed up by military and economic power. We have neither. It's complete fantasy.

Not sure where you get this idea? We have both military and economic power. Just because we're not as large as the US or China doesn't mean we have nothing.

Also, I don't see why you think there's a possibility of this escalating to war. Trump already had to back down with large exceptions to his 50% tariffs due to the domestic political impact it would have, and war is extremely unpopular with the Americans these days, which is why they only fund Ukraine and Israel instead of actually sending soldiers to fight.

> Brazil is essentially the world's soy farm and we import like 70% of our fertilizer.

You might want to check the sources from which we import those fertilizers, largest of which are Russia and China. While some do come from more US aligned sources, including the US itself, most of the names on that list have no problems ignoring US sanctions if it comes to that.

> They're going to sacrifice everything to protect these judges and display their non-existent "sovereignty", like a defiant child trying to stand up to its parent.

Our sovereignty is very much real and existent :)

> Brazil is pretty much done for if this continues.

Nope, we'll be fine.

Interestingly, just yesterday I found out 4 already exists, but it's inverse of what you're thinking: top up excess battery capacity overnight, when grid prices are low, and then resell during the day when purchase prices are high.

I think the economic problem is that while there /may/ be overproduction during the day, the day is the only time other than early-mid evening when there is significant demand.

You would effectively be targeting the early-mid evening demand, assuming there was overproduction during the day, and with the current cost of batteries, their installation, and their replacement, I can't see the numbers working out.

I would love for battery prices to come down enough to make something like this possible though.

Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source on Monday May 19, 2025 @04:12PM (#44034289)
Nope, VMWare added the capability to work as a sort of nested hypervisor atop Hyper-V (which WSL2 and newer Windows security features depend on).

That being said, there is a performance impact.

IIRC you have to show harm to take anything to court. I recall cases on federal regulation that failed to move forward because a state AG failed to prove harm.

It makes sense when you think about it, otherwise courts would be flooded with lawsuits "because I don't like it".

Re:XAES-256-GCM on Saturday June 29, 2024 @03:27PM (#40832838)
https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/crypto/crypto

Elixir can call Erlang/OTP modules directly, so they also have access to that same module. Erlang/OTP is a hard dependency for Elixir afaik.

Congress will do the usual: accept Boeing's money and overlook the issue on one hand, and pretend to the public that they're doing otherwise on the other.

Unfortunately, Americans and the peoples of many democratic countries have given up on verifying if their elected officials are actually doing what they say they are, so taking a ~~bribe~~ campaign contribution and lying about it is a medium-high gain and low risk activity.

As a bonus, you can then use those contributions to market yourself and your lies to the same voters even harder!

Re:Why Use ECC Memory on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:27AM (#40297252)
I was on the NUC search a while ago and I'm not sure you can. Although the AMD motherboards may not support ECC, I haven't heard of any that actually don't. Best bet is probably to buy a recent, barebones AMD NUC, and buy the ECC RAM yourself. Sometimes they'll advertise ECC support as well.
So that they can increase their own pay and benefits. Nonprofits still have to pay their staff and the amount of money some pay theirs can be rather... inflated.
It could work, as it's pretty rare for IP addresses to be used directly and not through DNS, but that also defeats the purpose of the mechanism: it doesn't add anything of value if everyone is using DNS. Even malware writers will purchase several domain names (several for redundancy from government take downs) so that they can rotate command servers easily.
I think you're confusing their goal. It's not that they have a problem with people working remotely on tourist visas, it's that they want them to do it for longer as it brings economic benefit to the country.

If they disliked the idea they wouldn't be creating new visas for the purpose, since that only makes it more prevalent and normalized.

Re:BlockTube, a YouTube Content Blocker on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:15PM (#39192762)
Along with the Google Search algorithm, it's hard to get anything that's actually relevant out of it anymore
I guess in a pedantic manner, but then they were always documented, since their country of origin knew who they are.

In terms of immigration, undocumented typically means you don't currently have a valid visa or residency permit. In that case no, they would still be undocumented, since the ITIN doesn't grant them either.

Undocumented immigrants can get an ITIN, and many do use them to pay taxes. The IRS really doesn't care where you got your money from, so long as they get their cut.

Where undocumented immigrants won't be able to file their taxes is if they used a counterfeit SSN to be employed, but even in those cases they pay anyways through standard withholding. Most Americans don't know you can adjust withholding, nevermind undocumented immigrants.

Undocumented immigrants can get an ITIN, and many do. A lot of the time the ITIN will be used where it's allowed (opening bank accounts) and a counterfeit social security card where it's not (applying for employment).
I find that preferable to trying to get split horizon working reliably enough that data isn't going out to the gateway half the time.
I can't answer definitively, but I was looking for SFP cards recently and the older cards don't really support ASPM. The cards themselves aren't power hogs, but they keep the CPU from going into lower states during idle.

The cheapest one I found that others related had ASPM actually working was the Intel X710, and those are much more expensive than the ConnectX-3.

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your finances? on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:01PM (#38944750)
For those searching for it, they've rebranded to Empower. I've been using them for years and they've done an excellent job.

Only downside is that there is a slight nagware aspect (only when you're inside the app though) and they do cold calls to get you on an investment plan. Then again, it's free and they have to make money somehow...

Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms on Friday December 22, 2023 @04:47PM (#38739057)
For CG-NAT you don't actually get any inbound ports, so dynamic DNS won't help you.

That being said, I know some ISPs over here that will block standard ports inbound beyond SMTP when you're not behind CG-NAT. I can imagine that leading to some who are just starting giving up when they've followed all the instructions to get HTTP on port 80 working and it still doesn't work without explanation.

Re:Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:03PM (#37539192)
I've had a lot of success with https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated . It exposes the different parts of the process (deploy challenge to DNS, deploy cert to filesystem, etc) as hooks, so it's pretty easy to integrate with anything and however you want, if you don't mind writing a bit of bash. There's a few scripts out there that use Cloudflare that you can use as well.
Re:Hackers steal $53M worth of cryptocurrency from CoinEx on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:48PM (#37515832)
Not someone that believes in crypto, but AFAIK there's no process for resolving theft outside of getting the thief's wallet somehow, and that's intentional (not theft specifically, but the concept of transactions being final).

One of the things that's been done, in the example of sanctions, has been the banning of identified wallets by exchanges, and I assume any wallet that receives funds from them is similarly banned. If this were applied to thieves, they may be unable to use their ill-gotten gains, but it wouldn't make the victim whole.

Re:Ransomware crew hits Save The Children, steals 7TB of data on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @05:35PM (#37502020)
7TB of data (the article mentioned 800GB of financial data) is impressively small for an organization that brings in over a billion USD a year[0] and has over 10k employees, especially when it operates in as many countries as Save The Children does.

It's normal for charities to store data: not only do they have financial regulations to comply with (and people that ask for receipts for tax deductions), but the best donors are repeats and it's well established practice for charities to make sure to keep sending former donors marketing materials and requests.

[0] https://www.savethechildren.net/about-us/accountability

Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:05PM (#37003567)
It didn't read to me as if the parent was talking about the abuse being done to the children but to the partner themselves, something that is far more common.
Re:FedNow Is Live on Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:24PM (#36808158)
FedNow doesn't change anything other than transaction speed & cost. If your concern is the Fed giving people money directly, they've had the technical capability for a very long time.
Re:The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @04:19PM (#35347244)
Apart from what vineyardmark mentioned, there's a few additional levers, like having the app removed from app stores. I don't know what the current state of their traffic and DNS filtering capabilities, but if they really wanted to go nuclear they have jurisdiction over the com TLD. Wouldn't be the first time they've seized a domain on "national security, etc." grounds.
Interestingly I've never heard chimarrão here in Paraná, here it's either chá mate (can be hot or cold) or tereré (cold), so it might be a RS & SC thing.
Yes, for GPU passthrough you usually assign specific cores to the VM and isolate them (to reduce hiccups caused by other tasks using the core), so in this case you'd just assign the cores with the extra cache.
I've had tremendous success ending them for me. My main number is with a VOIP provider and I set up the IVR to say "Please dial 1 to continue the call" and wait for it. No spam calls have gotten through since then.
Re:The Privatization of Policing on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:30PM (#34225227)
> It doesn't seem too unlikely where in the not-so-distant future these private security companies would be made up of accredited police officers.

No need to look to the future: this has been going on for a long time and is pretty common. Even though case law has built up, to my understanding it still gets pretty messy.

Re:PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:57AM (#33968239)
Even if that's the case in your jurisdiction, you can spend a lot of time in jail and a lot of money on lawyers before a judge agrees with you. This is also the reason why it's not recommended to run tor exit nodes at home.

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