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This is a small sample of what's to come should North Korea collapse.

I can see that south korea can experience a huge boost in their labor force that's currently filled by foreigners.

On the other hand, feeding, educating, housing, employing North Koreans to integrate into South Korea is going to be pretty hard.

China is also unlikely to allow US bases so close to the Yalu river.

When I factor in all these things, I believe that Korea will go through a transitionary state where two systems in one country emerge.

All in all, it could be that the unification collapses due to the structural pressure it places on South Korea and it's citizens to oppose it-Nobody in a capitalistic society is willing to trade away their good life.

Whatever happens, I only wish North Koreans live a free life, whether it's under South Korea's control or not.

Because North Korean collapse could mean a significant economic burden as East Germany's collapse was to West....but they've only had couple decades apart, North Korea is like dealing with Chosun dynasty.
The weird thing about Mic.com though, now that I'm thinking about it, is they have the best breaking news app I've ever used on iOS. It literally exists in the notifications so when something happens you can read the story from the notifications screen and be done with it. I wish more media companies would offer that.
They're more like tech business, but yeah.
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> potential extinction-level event that continues at Fukushima

That's an exaggeration. Even if containment were to fail completely on all reactors at Fukushima, the release of radioactive products would make some area uninhabitable and cost a lot of money, but won't lead to even a large loss of life, let alone extinction.
There's currently a civil/proxy war going on, therefore depending on where you are, the "government of Yemen" will be a different group. The US and Saudi Arabia supports one of those two side, Iran supports the other.

The rationale for not getting congressional approval for operations in Yemen is because it's part of the "war on terror".
> "This bit's in backward"

This is why I'm against nuclear power. As safe as the technology could be, it still run by humans who make errors.

If you think a bit being put in backwards isn't a big deal, check out the history of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

> The San Onofre station had technical problems over the years. In July 1982, Time wrote, "The firm Bechtel was ... embarrassed in 1977, when it installed a 420-ton nuclear-reactor vessel backwards" at San Onofre.

Backwards. The reactor was installed backwards.

It goes on.

> In 2008, the San Onofre plant received multiple citations over issues such as failed emergency generators, improperly wired batteries and falsified fire safety data. In its annual review of 2011, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) identified improvements but noted that in the area of human performance, "corrective actions to date have not resulted in sustained and measurable improvement”.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_...
While I agree it is expensive, some perspective is good: 1000rps is Alexa top-1000 level traffic, unless you plan to route every static asset or a high-volume API through this. At this point 100k/month is not that dramatic.
This isn't a new problem. We "know" the common people don't care because all attempts at scandalizing this in the media, for years, have not found much resonance.
There is no right to online privacy. Full stop. If you'd like for an ISP to provide you with an additional benefit, there is nothing stopping you from writing them and asking to pay a premium for them to not track/sell your information.

They have a right to offer you a price, and you have a right to accept or deny their offer. You also have a right to cancel their service and switch to a provider who satisfies you as a consumer.
> A 90k salary would have me turning down the position likely

You and most other people. But not ALL people. That's why we fill our positions it just takes a lot of time and patience.
This picture from the article is nuts: https://outline-prod.imgix.net/20170323-c86vRGKVPsbek3PZXpVw...

The engineers and management have already decided. You want a job, I suggest you get into the robot design business.
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That isn't what a strawman is.
Completely agree. Monopolies are the problem. Capitalism is a delicate system and, unregulated, it leads to monopolies. That's why capitalism needs regulation -- not to pick winners, but to ensure healthy competition. This is something Republicans seem to be willfully obtuse about. Capitalism without regulation is like a football game without referees.
I find the outrage rather interesting. Google and Facebook are basically everywhere sniffing as much data as they can. I actually don't mind if another party starts collecting the data as well. Go nuts.

Google is already toying with the idea of creating VPNs for consumers. In the case of the pixel it's legit because they allow you to opt-in to VPNing to google servers on untrusted WIFI connections. The irony is that now google has even more data on you.
Once your VPN exits, you can still get MitMed/injected on non-TLS resources, so what is the VPN really doing for you? The only thing the VPN does is control which party will spy on you.

The blind lead the blind I guess.
You raise some valid points, but as recently as 60 years ago (in living memory) there were laws on the books that ensured that blacks were on-average a lower class.

Race, specifically African American race is tied to class in the US in ways that it's not in other countries.
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There can be a huge social stigma about walking into sexual health clinics. I'll provide an example.

In my city, the old STD clinic was in a random building with mixed use (commercial, health, residential). The clinic was on the 5th floor and not marked. You only really knew it was a STD clinic if you had an appointment there. The clinic moved into a new building and were lucky to expand into a large space. Like many new buildings, way finding is important and the waiting room was marked with Sexual Health Clinic and the elevator level was marked with Sexual Health Clinic. Even though you don't need to use your own name at this clinic, they saw a huge decline in visits since it was quite obvious when someone was attending the clinic. People didn't want to be seen in the Sexual Health Clinic.
This is an interesting point. I actually think our service makes sense from 0 requests, because we can (a) speed ssl stuff up immediately (and latency sucks at any volume) and (b) let people ship faster.

If you're building a SaaS that's doing ~2.6mm pageviews per month, you've probably saved enough time using our features that $126 is nothing. The economics for a free service or media property are different, but we'll be valuable for different reasons too (and possibly even have a different pricing model for stuff like that).
Corporate surveillance is ok, government surveillance is not ok, I'd imagine.
Yes, this year's melt season hasn't started yet. And yes, it has been a snowier-than-normal winter for Greenland. That doesn't negate the long term trend of melting!
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> All it would honestly take is a requirement that all voting machines print out a receipt of the vote.

I'm not sure if this would actually help, what should happen in the event that somebody claims the printed ticket disagrees with their vote? Especially considering the vote itself should remain secret in many countries.
On this specific issue, it was the Obama FCC that made sure that ISPs couldn't sell this data, and it's the republican congress & president that rolled it back. So it's a pretty fair issue to point this difference out with.

It's also a good concrete issue to use in understanding that while arguments like "Democrats Do Bad Stuff Too So IDK Apathy" may be persuasive to some people in justifying not voting, it's ultimately not true. If this issue matters to you, there was a ballot box solution to preventing it. Not enough people used it.
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The point is, the narrative is not even addressing that sort of issue because there is no evidence that any machines were successfully hacked.

Yet the phrase "hacked the election" is thrown about intentionally to muddy the issue. To fool the low information voter who may conclude that Russia, in cahoots with Donald Trump, changed vote tallies.

This is much stronger propaganda than explaining what actually happened:

Wikileaks exposed a few (not all that many, but some) shady actions on the part of the DNC, the media, as well as shining some light on HRC's true views on issues (having a "private" and "public" position, corporate speeches, Clinton Foundation donations, etc.) All in all, not that big of a deal.

To the degree it is, how is it anyone's fault but HRC and her campaign? Why is dirty laundry the fault of her political opponent? Why is leaking information that maybe damaging to a candidate described as "hacking the election"?

Can you provide me with any evidence of collusion between anyone from Russia and Trump?
Couldn't your VPS provider sell information about what you're accessing?

I ask because, I use a cheap VPS for a VPN, but wonder if it actually accomplishes anything.
On the plus side, the low-income group can probably get the privacy issue addressed through great customer service.
If you enable user namespaces as well, then you don't need any of that. For example:

[mrunal@local rootfs]$ id
uid=1000(mrunal) gid=1000(mrunal) groups=1000(mrunal),10(wheel) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
[mrunal@local rootfs]$ unshare -m -u -n -i -p -f --mount-proc -r sh
sh-4.4# ps -ef
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 09:42 pts/12 00:00:00 sh
root 2 1 0 09:42 pts/12 00:00:00 ps -ef
sh-4.4#
I don't disagree, the economic factors however go beyond scale. And I also agree that if we could agree on the 'externality costs' it would fare better in comparison but I have given up trying to have that conversation with people who can't or won't move past the emotional fear.

In many ways this wound on Westinghouse (and nuclear power) is self inflicted. As engineers moved out of senior management and politicians moved in in the late 70's, the company became less about moving technology forward and more about 'getting money for management'. It really lost its way.

I expect that the Chinese nuclear power industry will become nearly all of the civilian reactors by the end of this century.
No, it's American unions that are a species of their own kind.
Google found this company offering ipv6 support.

https://www.perfect-privacy.com/vpn-with-ipv6-support/

What I'd really like is a vpn that gives me an ipv4 address and an ipv6/64 so I can have my router do the vpn and route my whole network through a vpn by only configuring one computer.
From my own experience, it was naivety and manipulation.

I trusted the founder when he would make big promises for the future. He didn't bring up equity until the last moment once we already were ready to quit and join. In hindsight these are clearly common business tactics (get the person to accept before going into details), but as a young engineer I had more trust in older more experienced folks like the founder. Even when there were huge alarm bells ringing in my head, I said yes. It's hard to describe how a good salesman can have you saying yes to things you aren't comfortable with.

In the end the company crashed and burned after losing all it's founding team who all work at top companies now.
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Religious or other social reasons aside, the fact that s/he was brought to term indicates that he was wanted in some sense by his birth parents. Late-term abortions are most typically done only in the case of a grave medical issue (for the fetus or mother).

Instead, what may have happened are situations changed for the couple. Maybe a nasty divorce occurred, or one of the partners abruptly left the relationship for reasons? Or maybe the father suddenly died? Or lost his job (or she did - or they both did)? Or any one of those coupled with already having other children. Any one of those, and other reasons, could be the case. Had something like that happened late in the pregnancy, where a legal late-term abortion wasn't available or allowed, then adoption might be the only choice for the parent(s).

That doesn't mean s/he wasn't wanted by the birth parents, but that they instead (perhaps) loved the resulting infant so much that they decided adoption would give a better chance for life than keeping him/her. Maybe that was the wrong choice, maybe not.

Adult choices are rarely easy.
This is only marginally related, but I have a story about how I "hacked" Ebay way back in 200x.

At the time they provided a free VIN report whenever you listed a vehicle for sale. VIN reports provide details of the history of your car (liens, accidents, maintenance, title transfers, etc). And the leading VIN services charge about $10 per report.

I wrote a PHP script that, when given a VIN number, would create a listing on Ebay for a car with that VIN number. The script then kicked off a website scraper which would monitor the listing page for the VIN report data to be populated (sometimes took a few seconds). Once the data was captured, the script would unlist the item (so I wouldn't be stuck selling a car that didnt exist). Bam! Free VIN reports.

So I took it a step further and registered and designed a website for it. It looked very semi-professional and web 2.0-ish as I have some decent design skills. There were sample reports and calls-to-action and everything.

A user would provide a VIN, pay with paypal checkout, and get the VIN report emailed to them within minutes. The report was stripped of all data pointing to the original source, and reformatted & rebranded with my site's name. All automated of course, since I had already wrote the scripts to do the heavy lifting.

I then set up an Adwords campaign, researched price points and settled on $7.99 per report. My ad campaign used targeted keywords that displayed my ads whenever people searched for "carfax" and "vin report", with my price displayed prominently in the ad block. The more money I allotted for ads, the more money the hack made.

For about 3 weeks I just sat back and watched the money roll in. In the interest of not drawing too much attention, I would disable the entire site and ad campaign during the day, only running it at night. I was thinking 'slow and steady wins the race.' But the whole time I was working on it, I felt a rush: part paranoia about getting caught, part excitement at crafting such a sneaky, sophisticated hack with so many moving parts.

In the end, ebay noticed an anomaly in their api usage data caused by me creating and deleting so many car listings, and sent me a nastygram.

I decided to shut up shop before they realized what I was really up to. Greed will get you 'got' quicker than not.

In the end, I learned a lot -- it was my first experience working with ad campaigns, writing parses/scrapers, and working with ebays api.
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> most people eat sleep go to work go to the bathroom and spend time with their families

> I don't know what kind of peace of mind you get by living for your own pleasure

> If you're not dedicated to raising others up, either your kids or in some kind of missionary work, then not really sure you can say you're living your life and are doing anything worthwhile

Are you unable to look at life through any lens other than your own? There are lots of different types of people in this world living a myriad of different lifestyles, many of which offer plenty of personal satisfaction, add real value to the world, and should be considered worthwhile. Having kids and doing missionary work might personally give you a sense of self worth, but that doesn't mean there aren't other paths to finding self worth/meaning that aren't just as valid. Your worldview is not the only one that matters.
Westinghouse had severe technical problems with AP1000 and it's not alone. French nuclear reactor builder Areva was restructured after they could not get their new EPR reactors ready on time. Their flagship project Olkiluoto 3 is nine years late and several billions of euros over budget.

Chinese are building reactors as fast as they can. They are buying reactors designs from all main manufacturers. There are 21 reactors under construction and they are three years late on average because manufacturers can't get these next generation reactors ready.

Nuclear reactors being constantly late and exceeding their budgets is not new. This was true in 60's and 70's and it's true now.
There is a lot of social commentary on this thread.

Unanswered however is, "How will this affect relationships between men and women"?

The "MGTOW" crowd laud this development, arguing that once control of fertility is in the hands of men rather than women (a woman can always "forget" to take the pill)... something good, as they define it, will happen. (IANAMGTOW - I am not a MGTOW)

In terms of total fertility rate, what does this mean for a country/nation when one population group greatly restricts having kids in terms of moral suasion, societal acceptability, etc. while offering money to those who do have kids? e.g. upper middle class (children discouraged, at least beyond 2 kids) vs. other classes in society (have a bunch of kids).

Living in the USA I have often heard complaints along the lines that we seem to be "discouraging the smart and hard-working people from having kids, while paying stupid people to have them".
The economics are based on two things:

1.) Incredible cost to privately insure a nuclear power plant.

2.) There hasn't been an economy of scale when producing nuclear power plants.
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The recent vote on rolling back FCC privacy rules highlights the fact that our browsing data is definitely used by many different companies to ostensibly create market analytics based data and either sell or sell and process that data.

So that's the law of the land now - fine. That being said, as an individual entering into a contract with an ISP, I know that they are earning money off of me in different ways, but I have very little visibility over how much money that is, and how those savings are passed on to me, the consumer, if at all.

What I basically see is a business relationship in which I am giving money (in the form of data) for free without getting any money back in return (in the form of reduced fees, a check at the end of the month, whatever). I would like to opt into with-hold the money according to the contracts that I have already signed with those third parties, but receive the same amount of service.

So excluding using Tor, is there a program or app out there which can totally muddy my browsing history up, basically an invisible browser that just randomly goes out there and starts visiting pages, clicking links, doing all sorts of things, thereby making the data about me worthless to these ISPs who are collecting it?

Going further...could such an app be built and installed on a large number of users, and then could that app pay that user base from money raised from those ISPs, essentially selling back the right to view that data again?

Edit: to clarify, in the "Going further" section I am referring to a service that one signs up for.
Hey, we're huge discord fans (we're mostly using it instead of Slack).

I'd love to find out more about what you all use for this stuff. I'm not shocked we're more than Enterprise Cloudflare, primarily because we don't have an Enterprise product just yet.
I may be misreading your message, but this approach seems to be an example of rational, good engineering. If a system is broken in a faraway place it is best to analyze it and develop a fix in a well equipped lab convenient for experts to work in. Once the solution is known, deploy and validate it, ideally remotely or by shipping components, not by sending your experts on site.

Sending an expert to a remote site or a ship to fix a problem is a last resort.
While your point is important, keep in mind that the value of nuclear safety (like so many other things the market puts a price on) is entirely determined by what people think. If they think the hazards are significant, because they hear alarming rhetoric, because the hazards actually are significant, or for any other reason, the value will reflect what they think. Regulations like the Price-Anderson Act[0] then formalize this value as insurance and construction and operational expenses, essentially defining many of the economics.

[0] http://www.naic.org/cipr_topics/topic_nuclear_liability_insu...
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This tweet [0] and explanation might help:
@ConstructTeam #Construct3 is a game changer. Develop for mobile while mobile on mobile with HTML 5 in @chrome 57+
https://editor.construct.net

Tom has mentioned other points, but one major value I see of Construct3 is that when I'm away from my desk or laptop I now have the ability to tinker.

The amount of times I've had to take notes or do a sketch in lieu of being able to sit down and tinker due to physical constraints.

Now I can jump straight in and prototype whilst mobile on my mobile.

True mobile warrior ;)

[0]: https://twitter.com/richard_boegli/status/846737923793936385
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>Other articles have argued that VPNs are not a solution to a policy problem, because you can’t necessarily trust a VPN provider, or some VPN providers don’t encrypt your data properly. That may be the case, but that’s an easily solvable problem. And there are no monopolies on VPNs. This is something that a market economy can solve in a year.

It has been a few years since my Econ 101 class, but I suggest the author Google "market for lemons". Users have no way to verify the intentions of VPN providers as there is natural information asymmetry. Trust is not an issue that market economies have come up with a good solution to fix. The solution we often use ironically enough happens to be policy and regulation. So maybe this is a policy problem.