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Thinking about it, basic income would be better than increasing credit as a way to increase the money supply, but it is probably not particularly good either.
I just got through installing Ubuntu on my p70...love it so far. I've lost count of how many Thinkpad Linux Laptops I've gone through over the years, but not a single one ever failed or had compatibility issues with Linux: my 6 year-old w510 is my DHCP server has been up and running for 467 days running Ubuntu (it was powered off due to a power outage). There's a w540 and w520 sitting idle, and other T-series ones that are unusable only because the batteries are shot. Well-built and reliable.
I will pay $5/Month to make sure that I don't get any junk physical mail in my mailbox (US). I hate sorting through mails and I almost always know that 95% are junk.
Thank you. I'm all for switching if we can find a phrase that's accessible to non technical people.

Ideally it would be a phrase that's adopted by many sites, the press, etc. (as Zero Knowledge has been, for better or worse.) It should accurately convey the situation that 1) the data is meaningfully encrypted 2) the meta data is meaningfully encrypted and 3) only the customer has access to the encryption keys.
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Why? What's your use case?

Nobody is saying that your Redis host must be open to unencrypted traffic, not the Redis folks and not me. You do have plenty of options for putting TLS in front of any connections to your Redis install.

Redis is simply not a drop-in replacement for a SQL server environment, and they're trying to make that clear. Expecting it to be one is more your assumption than a fault of Redis.

SQLite doesn't implement any security for you, and it's probably the single most used database. Is that bad software, are they bad citizens too? Should memcached implement https? How about ImageMagick or OpenCV?

I'm a bit confused why you're arguing that Redis should provide automatic security for "largely ignorant users". Redis cannot be safely exposed to public access or an open network under any circumstances, not because of security, but because of memory management. It must be wrapped by a API server. If someone setting up a Redis install doesn't know that or doesn't know about security or doesn't know how to provide a proper wall around internal programs, what business do they have setting up servers at all? How will locking down Redis help someone who can't configure SSH between their API & DB, which you're going to have to do no matter what?
The Bravo text editor grew out of the second example in his thesis, and was one of the first WYSIWYG editors. Its source code is available here: http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/Indigo/AltoSource/BRAVO... . Start here for more background: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/ .
I'm in favor of trying UBI to see the impact, testing it properly.

I'm not a fan of this article however. While we are reasoning by analogy, It's fairly well documented that most capital wealth does not survive past an initial generation or two. There's something about creating the wealth/passive income that creates a different behavior than being given it.

This article does nothing to discuss that. The analogy included feels like it's just there to support a punchy headline.

This is why I'm more excited to see some real tests and results in various countries and communities.
Then it will be a PTSD - a mental illness.
Here's a good article on that:

https://torrentfreak.com/what-cd-is-dead-but-the-torrent-hyd...
IMO the marketplaces, even the high end ones, are mostly not worth your time. They also tend toward lower rates and more fickle clients. On top of paying lower rates, they also take a cut of course.

I would consider using a high-end marketplace or advice channel as supplements, but not as a main stream of work. Though it is more difficult and involved to find your own clients, it's a better approach once you've done it a few times.
Could we link to something less intrinsically biased, such as a news report, and not SpaceX's press release? Here's one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/science/spacex-launch-rock...
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The astronomers responsible for leap seconds will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Down with UTC, viva la TAI!
You say that like it's a bad thing
Sorry for your loss!
> There is at least one documented case of a name brand motherboard offering up junk ACPI data unless Linux claimed to be Windows

I hadn't heard about this and was curious. Google turned up this:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249
That means they're preserving it and reinvesting it so more wealth can be created. This is a good thing.
Someone has to do the dirty job for you. Most of your wealth comes from mega corps like Royal Dutch Shell.
You are keeping it clean in your home country but you wreak havoc everywhere else.
It's the same with your "working culture". How many "cheap workers" have to work hard so you do not have to ?
What do you prefer everyone to use instead?
Spending capacity of a single person does not scale though. A member of top 1% does not eat 1000 hamburgers in a day because they can afford it. They might spend $1000 on a single hamburger or several million $ on a car but it is hard to see how that money trickles down rather than stay in the Veblen goods ecosystem.
You're right. The problem is that rich people don't spent much money, they tend to already have most of their needs met.

Poor people on the other hand are much quicker to bring their income back into circulation. If you want a lot of money to be spent domestically, you need to redistribute the money to the poor.
The bank secret has defacto been dead for a few years now. There seems to be little impact on the economy or quality of living.
> I far more often felt like a curious attraction and "obviously" you're not really Austrian if you're not ethnically Austrian, even if you speak German and have lived in Vienna your whole life.

Once you master the Austrian 'Schmäh' everything is good :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Schmäh
It's much easier to say "portions of America aren't necessarily like this" while also saying "portions of America very much are like this." I know because I used to live in one of the latter parts and now I live in one of the former. Just because your experience doesn't match the experience of the person to whom you are replying doesn't mean that person's perception is wrong.
> Thus they barely get their stuff working on the major commercial platforms, and all the rest have to either beg for specs so they can write their own (good luck) or reverse engineers (and risking bricking the hardware because of abusing standards for firmware flashing and whatsnot).

Thus the shortest way to get a working system is to stop being an hipster and use one of the major commercial platforms.
Switzerland isn't just a Banking paradise, it's a widely spread misconception that the economic miracle of this country is only related to its bank and tax code. Very obvious by just looking at its balance of trade.

Besides, the Swiss secret has been kinda taken care of by the IRS a few years ago.

One thing tho, is that while wages are extremely high there, the cost of living is extreme too!
Sure. My point was related to that it would be interesting a standard IR, instead of a vendor-specific one :-)
America in aggregate most certainly is like that. There are cases where some or all of these things don't apply, but these aren't representative of a typical American worker's experience.
It's an examination over IRC, so yes, you'd have to have your second laptop on idle next to you for 4 hours, but if you're not staring at the chatroom all the time its not much of a chore.

There also was a site called "What.CD Interview Prep" with all the knowledge you were supposed to have before joining, e.g. about lossy and lossless encoding and "The Golden Rules". I'm sure no one ever had that open on a second computer, or just closed it for a sec when making the screenshot proof.
Immersive video is all about the context
Michael McIntyre explains the leaving the house/car part perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GO2xz0L9gQ

(Edit: The full presentation is pretty relevant to the topic too if you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1cFt2tWsI4)
The EU has been around for 50 years in evolving forms. It's easy to cherrypick failures, but the achievements ought to get some mention too.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, about twenty countries wanted to join the EU as soon as they could. Some like Serbia are still working to fulfill the entry criteria. Brexit does nothing to change that: Britain was always an exception with its recent imperialist past.

The EU institutions are often bureaucratic. Yet they offer more representation and individual freedom to small countries than does the American constitution, for example. Given the often conflicting requirements, many aspects of the EU work amazingly well.
Most of the article's way of life/work balance is common across European countries.

Even those that are much worse than Switzerland, still treat their workers better than in US.
Are you in India? From your credentials, it appears that you in the heart of US tech.
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Appeasement does not (always|ever) lead to progress.

In civilized countries secular law trumps religious law.
Right, but if it's HTTPS, only the website can give you a virus. If it's HTTP, the website can give you a virus, plus the owner of any network device your requests traveled through on the way to and from the website. That's often a lot of owners.
This was a common fear in Vancouver and Toronto in Canada, but I remember reading that a study found foreign Chinese investment was only 5-10%, while playing a role it wasn't the primary issue everyone made it out to be. Can't find the link just now.

I remember thinking they might have just been good at hiding the fact they were foreign by having their student kids or extended family who have moved here permanently buy the properties, or shell companies. Which wouldn't attract as much scrutiny. This is just speculation but it's good to be highly sceptical when people put all the blame on foreigners.
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> If big companies like Apple and Google were behind this, it could change, but I'm afraid this won't happen unless there is a sudden need for it.

Digital privacy for average consumers needs more than a brand behind it, it needs an obvious value. I don't think many average people actually suspect that email _can_ be tampered with so, what does "signing" it mean to them.

Moreover, when/if it enters the mainstream it will be plagued with "hacks" which degrade the user-perceived value, causing many to abandon it if it isn't free.

by "hacks" I mean the users will expose keys and then blame AES :)
Did you finish the article? They're not literally suggesting that all capital income be redirected by the government, but instead suggesting that the government should build up a fund that owns capital assets.

> The US federal government would employ various strategies (mandatory share issuances, wealth taxes, counter-cyclical asset purchases, etc.) to build up a big wealth fund that owns capital assets.

Sure, wealth taxes does mean effectively redirecting some of the capital income earned by other people, but that's basically what all taxes do anyway. And I'm not sure what "mandatory share issuances" or "counter-cyclical asset purchases" mean. But the end result is they're suggesting that the government should own a set of capital assets rather than just relying on taking money from citizens that own capital assets.
As the parent suggested I would terminate the HTTPS connection in an Nginx in front of all your microservices. No microservice needs to handle HTTPS then.
LOL Yeah. Sounds like bullshit to me.
Yes, the federal CIO is a presidential appointment.
PGP (now GnuPG) is used more these days than in BBS (Fidonet) years, particularly in the open source community. Software releases and packages in GNU/Linux distributions are signed by the developers. All the time. It happens automatically without end-user noticing. Is this not one definition of "working well?" Lot's of people are passively using it without knowing.

But for messaging it's indeed very marginal. In open source projects' techical mailing lists and version control systems there is pretty much message or commit signing but that's a marginal group who does that.
This came up in a previous thread (can't find atm) and I suggested alternate, more cryptographically correct terms: "provider-obscured" and "homomorphic" (this is like homomorphic encryption, but where the only operation allowed is retrieval).
The thing that convinced my employer this was actually important was the announcement that Chrome 56 would mark non-SSL login pages as unsafe. Cheers to Google!
Are there job postings for the software engineering positions? Can't seem to find them on your Jobs page
The release is SpaceX reporting on an investigation they themselves conducted. There probably aren't other sources besides SpaceX that are better equipped to report on an investigation conducted by SpaceX or to independently corroborate or dispute its findings; all we can do is take their word for it, biased or not. Indeed, that NYT article is mostly just a regurgitation of the release.
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I've been trying to dig up the launch time. Does anyone know when that will be? Thanks.
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I don't know. I've met tons of software engineers in the US that never work less than 45 hours a week in spite of having only 3 or 4 weeks of vacation a year. It seems kinda ridiculous to me
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It's a fairly cynical take on journalism, but it seems like an article like that would be mostly "read SpaceX's press release and a few of their tweets, then summarize and paraphrase". If a not-very-well-known blogger did the same thing, we'd call it "blogspam".
I also found it a little surprising with so much involved that they didn't take the effort to reproduce the failure case, perhaps doing so on a smaller scale than a full vehicle launch if possible.
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That's what the Estate Tax is for. There are ways to circumvent that via things like charitable foundations, however that's a very different debate.

The author is confusing income from dividends (either of the stock or bond variety) and interest income with income simply for existing. He chooses to use Alaska, an oil rich and low population state, as a model for the rest of the country. He states that the government would somehow build up a "big wealth fund" that would deliver "returns" without specifying where those returns would come from or the amount of those returns. A fund of the size required can't easily generate large returns since that amount of money is enough to distort markets.

Simple back of the napkin math is that based on the 2013 census, we have 242,470,820 adults living in the US. If we pay each of them $12,000 per year, that's
$2,909,649,840,000 in additional mandatory spending every single year. That's more than Medicare and Social security combined, and that has no cost of living adjustments built in. The basic math shows that this idea is simply unrealistic as far as I can tell.
Wow, did not know openntpd just ignores the leap second altogether.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150628132834
I agree that Sokal's point of view was uncharitable to the majority of post-structuralists, but I can attest to the fact there is a definite strain of radical relativism on today's campuses. It goes hand in hand with a reflexive questioning of authority, an attitude that views all authority as illegitimate, even when that authority is derived from legitimate learning and knowledge. And when that attitude confronts science, it becomes a rationalization to challenge or deny universal theories that have been proven repeatedly by experiment as somehow merely a 'local' knowledge framework, or 'culturally constructed' or 'patriarchal' and therefore something to be suspicious of. This opens the door to treating all scientific assertions as equivalent and suspect. And you can draw a straight line from that to the anti-intellectualism that dominates our social discourse today.

As to your question, in many ways calling Einstein's theory 'relativity' was a misnomer because it was actually a statement about the absolute laws of physical reality - laws that don't change with perspective or reference frame. For example, for special relativity, the absolute laws of electrodynamics require the speed of light to remain constant in every reference frame. And these laws entail that space and time must change with reference frame in order for the laws of physics to remain absolute. For these reasons, the relativity of physics bears little resemblance to moral relativism.
The bigger issue is hardware / software that manufacturers won't update. HTTPS best practices often require servers to drop support for old protocols.

So if you pull out a 10 year old palm pilot and try to go to HN it won't work due to SSL.
Describes the upper middle class DC suburb where I grew up to a T.
> There's something about creating the wealth/passive income that creates a different behavior than being given it.

My completely uninformed opinion is that this is largely due to one of the following:

1. Kids who grow up with so much passive income that they never need to work even for luxuries. UBI won't produce this, because anyone who wants luxuries will still have to work to afford them.

2. Passive income isn't automatically self-sustaining, so if kids aren't as good as their parents at actually managing their assets and/or business, then they may simply end up spending more than they make (especially if they're trying to maintain the same lifestyle their parents had even though they can't maintain all of the income). I think this ties back into #1 as well. The article said 30% of the income is capital assets, but if kids aren't good at business (or don't want to work at all), then they're relying on capital income for nearly all of their income instead of just a portion of it, which generally isn't self-sustaining without a change in lifestyle.
> The first and the most probable trend is the complete dominance of PHP 7.x in all aspects of PHP development.

I don't see how this conclusion follows from anything in the article. As long as big players (specifically WordPress) hold down minimum version requirements, and shared hosting providers decline to upgrade, a very large percentage of PHP will still be run in pre-7.0 environments.

The professional PHP types will go to 7.0, but people developing commercially for WordPress are kind of stuck. And people developing professionally for WordPress are ~25% of the PHP ecosystem, if I had to guess.

As much as it pains me, I wouldn't be surprised to see it take until 2019 or 2020 for PHP7 to truly displace PHP 5.x. It took PHP 4 that long to disappear.
Who said the author likes capitalism? A lot of people don't these days: it hasn't been very nice to us.
that's the culture of most of the country once you get out of Cali and northeast.

also, why should good living standards only apply to those with "elite jobs?" it's a rich country.
I might be bit dense, but can you browse this thing somehow without first registering?