meirdavis
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6 years ago
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on: US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses to provide source code
More like if you decide to do a mission that we don't like we won't let you start the aircraft.
The F-35s call home all the time to the US.
meirdavis
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6 years ago
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on: Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
PoW provides significant economies of scale for those with lots of scale and makes mining with a single GPU a waste of time.
PoS doesn't offer much economies of scale at all as the main cost is the ETH, so it's much fairer to smaller validators.
meirdavis
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6 years ago
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on: Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
Correct. Phase 0 isn't useful by itself and phase 1 isn't that useful either. Phase 2 is when people can actually start using ETH2 instead of ETH1.
meirdavis
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6 years ago
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on: The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack
Authy let you password encrypt your data with then, so even if someone ports your sim it won't give them access.
meirdavis
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6 years ago
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on: Ex-NSA man slams Israel for strike on alleged Hamas cyber attackers
We left Gaza. There are no Israelis left in Gaza. It's not occupied.
Now that we can see what happens when we give the Palestinians territory, we won't be doing that again.
meirdavis
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6 years ago
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on: Ex-NSA man slams Israel for strike on alleged Hamas cyber attackers
What country puts their enemy on trial during warfare before killing them?
meirdavis
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6 years ago
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on: Ex-NSA man slams Israel for strike on alleged Hamas cyber attackers
It's pathetic watching people from the safety of their own homes commenting on how Israel should be waging war. Israelis are being killed and if Hamas had their way they would go over the border and massacre all Israelis in sight.
No other democracy is currently fighting a war against a neighbor that's shooting missiles at them and located only a few km from 80% of their population.
Israel's use of kid gloves against the Palestinians just emboldens them and encourages more cycles of violence.
meirdavis
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7 years ago
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on: Returns to education over the past half-century have beaten the US stock market
In most countries where education is cheaper than the US, people don't even think about this comparison. The main cost of education is the effort, not the monetary expense.
This article totally ignores the effort of going to Uni.
meirdavis
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8 years ago
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on: 1 in 3 Americans Have $0 Saved for Retirement (2016)
I don't think this study paints a complete picture. It asked about specific retirement funds, rather than wealth in general. If someone aged 50 has 20k in an earmarked retirement fund but a net worth of 1.5m, that person is fine, but considered by this study to be unprepared for retirement.
meirdavis
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10 years ago
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on: Twenty Four Hours in Ramallah
It's an interesting article, because after making assumptions about the Palestinians, she actually meets them and realises that there is plenty she doesn't understand yet.
She refers to American privilege in Ramallah, but glosses over the fact that had she been visibly identifiable as a Jew or Israeli, she would likely have been attacked.
The missing context to her observations about limits on freedom of movement is that Israelis aren't allowed into Palestinian areas because it's way to dangerous for them and that Palestinians aren't allowed free passage to Israel, because that would be way to dangerous to Israeli civilians.
