Wednesday, October 16
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- Again with the Torquemada: The president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve has explained that nobody buys anything with Bitcoin (because the government makes it as difficult as possible) and it's a lousy hedge against inflation, having gained just, um, 1000% against the dollar over the last five years. (WCCFTech)
Of course, Kashkari is on record for stating elsewhere that there is an "infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve."
Right.
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- SpaceX is working on plans to boost Starlink to gigabit speeds. (Notebook Check)
This will be done using the Gen2 satellites the company started launching last year, that will also provide direct-to-satellite phone service once that is approved by ground-based authorities.
- If you're still annoyed with Apple unilaterally reducing the lifetime of SSL certificate from five years to one, good news: The company plans to reduce it further to just 45 days. (The Register)
This would completely kill manual installation of SSL certificates. Nobody has time for that.
- SSD prices are expected to start declining again as nobody continues to buy the hot new AI PCs. (Tom's Hardware)
Good news. Prices haven't increased that much since manufacturers slowed production anyway, though the very cheapest sale prices have dried up.
- Apple has announced a new iPad mini. (9to5Mac)
The CPU is upgraded from the A15 to the A17 chip. Apart from that, it's the same, with the same 1000% markup on storage prices.
Disclaimer: It do be like that sometimes. D-5, unless you count X, in which case D-0.
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Shock news! Kashkari doesn't understand the difference between infinite and unlimited. Also, how does inflation even like, you know, work?
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, October 16 2024 06:58 PM (bg2DR)
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, October 16 2024 07:59 PM (bg2DR)
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Obviously whatever standard that Apple is screwing with needs to be forked.
Also, Apple execs perhaps ought to be roasted over a fire of lithium ion batteries; of course after an appropriate trial.
Well, there is mathematical infinity, and engineering infinity. Engineering infinity includes large finite numbers.
The delay in reducing value of a currency is human behavior, so it probably takes non-zero finite time, so theoretically, there is a delay from Quintilian dollars bills being printed, and them being worthless. but, in practice, actions of certain sorts that the US government does not announce well in advance tend to be regarded as lawless. As a result, Quintilian dollar bills would become worthless before being printed, and perhaps before the sourcing of the paper could be finalized.
OTOH, for example, paying back or writing off the student loans is a debate of academic interest, because the money was deemed into existence, and we have already paid a collective cost in inflation.
I think designing a parody Quintilian dollar bill is maybe appropriate as a response. Biden's wrinkly old decaying ass on front, some sort of rant on the back.
Also, Apple execs perhaps ought to be roasted over a fire of lithium ion batteries; of course after an appropriate trial.
Well, there is mathematical infinity, and engineering infinity. Engineering infinity includes large finite numbers.
The delay in reducing value of a currency is human behavior, so it probably takes non-zero finite time, so theoretically, there is a delay from Quintilian dollars bills being printed, and them being worthless. but, in practice, actions of certain sorts that the US government does not announce well in advance tend to be regarded as lawless. As a result, Quintilian dollar bills would become worthless before being printed, and perhaps before the sourcing of the paper could be finalized.
OTOH, for example, paying back or writing off the student loans is a debate of academic interest, because the money was deemed into existence, and we have already paid a collective cost in inflation.
I think designing a parody Quintilian dollar bill is maybe appropriate as a response. Biden's wrinkly old decaying ass on front, some sort of rant on the back.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, October 16 2024 10:41 PM (rcPLc)
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Reading the SSL article, Google's already planning to force the issue with Chrome rejecting certs longer than 90 days, so Apple competes by cutting that in half, which means we should be down to a week by 2026.
I'm so old I remember when "experts" thought the solution to password security was to force you to change them frequently, right as you're trying to log in to get work done...
-j
I'm so old I remember when "experts" thought the solution to password security was to force you to change them frequently, right as you're trying to log in to get work done...
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, October 16 2024 11:14 PM (oJgNG)
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Just need your own root cert, right?
Posted by: normal at Thursday, October 17 2024 03:51 AM (zx18t)
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