After the install, Chrome will disable the extension on the next restart but it can be re-enabled .. for now.

Connecting grids could significantly increase the fragility of the system resulting in higher risk of large-scale power outages. Some of you might have experienced the 2003 blackout in northeast North American (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003), which luckily happened in the summer. Tail risks should not be swept under the rug.

Even a single widespread event could completely wipe out the benefit gained from connecting grids.

I have forgotten why I originally wanted to update but I have had no issues with the updated system.

The reason is that the government wants its tax money. Since the cash flow is coming from the renter they are also responsible for it. There is a similar situation with employers who are responsible for remitting tax withholding even though it is the employee who owes the income tax.

The renter in this case was responsible even though he claimed he did not know his landlord was a non-resident since she left Canada during the time that he rented. The Canada Revenue Agency disputed that claim since "[the landlord's] phone number on the lease was an Italian phone number; she had used an Italian e-mail address to correspond with [the renter]." The landlord had also asked the renter to start paying her sister who was still in Canada before she left for Italy.

I am curious about what would happen if the renter could genuinely establish that he did not know their landlord was a non-resident. Based on the defense lawyer's claim that "Whether the CRA could have collected the rent in some other way does not impact his liability under the law. The CRA and the Tax Court have to apply the law as it is written." [Note there is a mistake in this quote the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) collects taxes not rent].

YC has been reticent to fund solo founders since its inception.

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From the paper: "Accordingly, the public intellectual arena has witnessed active debates, such as the one between Steven Pinker on one side, and John Gray on the other concerning the hypothesis that the long peace was a statistically established phenomenon or a mere statistical sampling error that is characteristic of heavy-tailed processes, 16] and [27]–the latter of which is corroborated by this paper."

The BBC article from 2021 linked above even says "The law is seen as a test case for similar regulation around the world."

Everything I wrote is 100% correct and in fact incontrovertible. Whether there is a little or a lot of differential capacitance does not change the fact that the differential portion of the capacitance has a 2X effect on the differential signal (as opposed to the common-mode signal, which it has no effect on). This is supported by basic math.

If capacitance is to ground then it is not differential capacitance so it is not relevant to this discussion. It may be true that differential capacitance is not a significant contributor to the impedance of PCB differential traces but that does not change the fundamental result (similarly, the principle of photovoltaic conversion still holds true in the dark even though there is little light to convert). And PCB traces are not the only kinds of differential pairs. Diff pairs exist inside the integrated circuits that drive the PCBs where they operate less like transmission lines and more like lumped capacitances due to the frequencies of interest compared to the dimensions of the conductors. In these circuit and conductor structures, differential capacitance can be significant and this is what OP was talking about since he was talking about the legs of the driver (transistors). OP was just wrong about the differential capacitance being good for speed. It's bad for speed.

The article is correct. This comment is wrong.

> Differential signals, at a physical layer level, are faster than single ended IO. It’s because you have double the current drive/sinking capability with two drivers.

The load is also double in a diff pair compared to a single wire, so the net effect is a wash compared to a single wire.

> You’re also getting capacitive coupling between each leg of the pair working in your favor, which keeps your edge transition nice and fast.

The opposite is true. Differential capacitance effectively appears 2X higher than the nominal capacitance to differential signals, making it a drawback of differential signaling rather than a benefit.

This is organizational problem that should be solved so that meetings are avoided as much as possible. The main way I have seen this solved is by engineering teams having clear APIs between. I use the term API loosely. This may be a software API between software teams but it may be a document, hardware interface or other sort of interface.

Without this sort of structure, communication requirements grow quadratically with each additional person, i.e., n*(n-1)/2 where n is the # of people.

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> If one reads the original paper, one only finds a description of this attack as a thought experiment, leading one to conclude that any claim of a real-world attack by Thompson was an urban myth due to exaggeration.

This is true although Thompson gives some tantalizing hints in the paper.

In the introduction, he writes " I would like to present to you the cutest program I ever wrote." So he definitely wrote it and at least played around with it.

Later on in the "Moral" section, he writes "The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.)"

This appears to be an admission but not quite strong or direct enough to validate he implemented and used the Trojan horse so it is great to read this post.

[1] https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/publications/conference-pap...

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