kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
I just returned from Bukovina and the election campaign was very active, with plenty of banners and roads fixed literally overnight to make it before Sunday. It was a local elections so I'm curious was there any countrywide vote split between parties, or it was actually all local candidates?
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To be honest, having this discussion here at this level of evidence-based argument is one reason why I love Mastodon.
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@clacke @profoundlynerdy @changaco @kravietz
(2/2)…Also FutureWork of the AustraliaInstitute found that the bureaucracy surrounding #UnemploymentSupport including #enforcement and other auxillary services costs around 100 billion per annum, and that a #UBI would cost around the same amount.
Also removes a perverseIncentive to buy property as a nestEgg for the kids and the need to pump a country with more people to boost house prices etc.
(Also see our Progressive #LandTax (on #RentalValue))
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@profoundlynerdy @changaco @kravietz Every European country is a social democratic mixed economy with a welfare state, and with social benefits.
A system of social benefits is in practice setting a minimal level of income, but it's an awkward one. It requires a heavy bureaucracy, the purpose of which is to deny social benefits to an appropriate number of people, and it introduces a benefits trap where you might not be able to afford to take a particular job, because you would lose more in benefits than you would gain in salary.
A UBI turns this on its head by not having any conditions on the minimum level of income. You can maintain the same money supply through income taxation instead, and this eliminates the benefits trap.
A system of social benefits is in practice setting a minimal level of income, but it's an awkward one. It requires a heavy bureaucracy, the purpose of which is to deny social benefits to an appropriate number of people, and it introduces a benefits trap where you might not be able to afford to take a particular job, because you would lose more in benefits than you would gain in salary.
A UBI turns this on its head by not having any conditions on the minimum level of income. You can maintain the same money supply through income taxation instead, and this eliminates the benefits trap.
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📰 Congratulations, Nobel Committee, You Just Gave the Literature Prize to a Genocide Apologist | Peter Maass
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/10/congratulations-nobel-committee-you-just-gave-the-literature-prize-to-a-genocide-apologist/
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"Hello, I'm calling from [x]. Before I can tell you what this call is about, I need to take you through security."
> I trust that you are calling from [x], but can you please verify by answering some questions?
"No sir, that would be a breach of data protection."
AAAARGH.
@kmic Jabcok? Kruszon?
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«Новичок» в виде порошка подсыпали Навальному в чай в аэропорту Томска, предполагает The New York Times
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Like... in 90's? 🤔
"A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows TCP/IP stack improperly handles ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the ability to execute code on the target server or client."
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16898
People in general have screwed up perception of risk. They like to be afraid of things that are a marginal risk, and not afraid of things that actually threaten their lives. Amanda Ripley "The Unthinkable" is probably the best book I've seen looking into that subject.
Not in Europe. Due to very low surface power density RE require plenty of one non-renewable resource we don't have much: land surface.
This is why wind & PV plants are facing opposition in UK, France, Norway and Germany, and why Germany plans to rely on fossil gas for the next 30 years.
Surprisingly, alcohol is also chemical, even if made of "organic" sugar 😉
https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/chemicals/ethanol-alcoholic-beverages
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RT @LTE_Max@twitter.com
The great injustice of IPv4:
Lying to RIR to some extent worked for a very long time.
Honest companies and organisations returned lots of unused IPv4 for free.
And now everyone with a need has to pay those that hoarded them.
The only solution: #IPv6
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There are prospective technologies that might improve capacity factor for wind and solar (power-to-gas, hydrogen, batteries etc) but they are not there today on industrial scale.
Today they are just as prospective as nuclear fusion, which also promises very high power density and zero waste... but it's not here yet.
We're really dealing with four parameters here. Three are physical/engineering - CO2 intensity (gCO2eq/kWh), surface power density (W/m2), capacity factor (%). One is economic - LCOE ($/kWh).
Nuclear has very good first three but high LCOE.
PV has low LCOE but poor capacity factor and surface power density, similar on-shore wind.
Off-shore wind has slightly better capacity factor but LCOE comparable with nuclear.
Next step: you communicate with clients over a smart contract 😀
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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