Hacker News: Duplo

New comment by Duplo in "the US Government Warned Ukraine Not to Attack NordStream 3 Months Before Attack"

Duplo — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:27:21 +0000

Fed, because they were not in use anymore after Russia turned them off.

New comment by Duplo in "UK should play leading role on global AI guidelines, Sunak to tell Biden"

Duplo — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:44:14 +0000

The likes of Dubai/UAE/Israel won't even care about any laws passed by the west anyway, so the action will move there. Just look at the sanctions against Russia in London, the London traders simply moved to Dubai (source: Bloomberg).

New comment by Duplo in "'We're all worse off': Britain is now paying the price to leave the EU"

Duplo — Fri, 12 May 2023 19:43:28 +0000

Those who are anti-Brexit are loving it as they are blaming EVERYTHING caused by Ukraine war and gas prices inflation on Brexit. They are just as much the liars as the Brexitiers they accuse of being so. Some of them will in fact will be reading this and being in glee and loving how much Putin's invasion has helped them.

New comment by Duplo in "eBay’s Fast Billion-Scale Vector Similarity Engine"

Duplo — Fri, 05 May 2023 22:19:59 +0000

I dislike eBay search, for example all of a sudden one of my daily bookmarked searches went from the usual 10 results to THOUSANDS, all of them not including my search term, this is the link: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=Tasmota&LH_PrefLoc=1&...

Why are some sellers having all their listings (car parts) included in my search for "Tasmota"?

New comment by Duplo in "Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings"

Duplo — Thu, 04 May 2023 19:59:44 +0000

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/savings-accounts-b...

Chip app with 3.71%

New comment by Duplo in "My grandmother died at home, just as she wanted. It cost $145,000"

Duplo — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:58:19 +0000

According to helpful tool on ListenToTaxMan.com tax is 46% if earning £2million/year.

https://listentotaxman.com/?year=2022&taxregion=uk&age=0&tim...

New comment by Duplo in "Has Windows Become Spyware?"

Duplo — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 20:21:07 +0000

Is there a way yet to install and use Win11 without a Microsoft account?

New comment by Duplo in "ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon"

Duplo — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 23:50:37 +0000

> "inurl:reddit.com"

site:reddit.com would be slightly better :)

New comment by Duplo in "Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone"

Duplo — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 01:22:04 +0000

> The EU is a major power - the world's largest economy, IIRC

Incorrect. When UK left the EU economy became smaller than USA. Despite EU having 100+ million bigger population than USA!

New comment by Duplo in "A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network"

Duplo — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:28:02 +0000

All charges eventually dropped, a £20,000 fine and promise not to do it again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer

Seems he now runs a software biz.

New comment by Duplo in "How tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end"

Duplo — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 11:05:59 +0000

> I don't actually how much it costs to run a DHT node, or even who's paying for them today

By default all BitTorrent clients are acting as DHT nodes (if they can receive inbound UDP packets). You can disable it in the options, but most don't (unless for private trackers on per-torrent basis). I don't think anyone actually runs a DHT node like Tor exit nodes (except researchers and search engines like BTDigg).

New comment by Duplo in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

Duplo — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 17:52:09 +0000

A few weeks ago I tested a number of family phones using the online tools available and symmetric NAT was detected, some were very large UK mobile networks (Vodafone IIRC). That made me give up too.