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Related question: what online sites, if any, are better to purchase items to avoid counterfeit?

I've been thinking of using B&H instead of Amazon for
electronic stuff, assuming that their reputation means they are less likely to enable counterfeit sellers, but I don't know that for sure. I also don't know if other online sites (jet.com?) have or don't have the counterfeit issue.
I don't have the iPhone X yet, but I'm actually kind of excited about the notch and the round corners for a (perhaps) silly reason: it brings us deeper into the sci-fi age where screens are organic objects with shape, rather than just hard, rectangular squares. It feels more exciting, more human, somehow.

(Also, all the various status bars will now finally have the same height; basically no software properly responds to the double-height status bar when something special is going on.)
Then again... maybe you do get used to it?

Like how our parents got "used to" prior technology's "annoyances"?

I'm not saying this is a "get off my lawn" annoyance, but... I'm curious to see how phones evolve after this notch.
Totally agree that this would be an unacceptable way to act at a company, but this isn’t a company so the comparison isn’t super relevant. However, I appreciate you taking the time to give more of your thoughts.
"not a payment issue, it's an access issue."

...

"bullshit cash grab"

So in other words, it's a payment issue?

Let's say you watch $100/month for cable, and watch about 3 hours a day. That's over $3/hour. $10/month for 4 hours a TV is cheaper than cable, it's ad-free (I believe) and it's more convenient.

It's expensive compared to Netflix or piracy, but it can certainly be argued it's not a cash grab.
It doesn't seem like that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, more an indictment based on shady personal business dealings rather than some serious political conspiracy.
Here's the best place to start: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
"a higher sound than can be heard" or "played a sound, which cannot be heard due to its pitch"

would both work, but your interpretation isn't correct.
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Hm? Typescript actually uses the same mechanism for exhaustiveness checking as flow (like your link describes).
Well, unless you're taking your phone out of your pocket.

Seriously, the "back of phone" placement for the fingerprint sensor has downsides when it comes to "phone on the table," but it's awesome for the pocket. I just got a Pixel 2 XL, which has a more reliable fingerprint reader than any other one I've used (comparison points: Nexus 5x, iPhone 6+, 2017 Macbook Pro touchbar), and it's amazing. My phone is utterly reliably unlocked by the time I clear it from my pocket.

And a back fingerprint reader + the FaceID system would be great in combination. The FaceID system could compensate for the back-of-phone fingerprint reader's weakness when it's on your desk (or when wearing gloves/hands wet).
Hybrid Fortran Pulls Legacy Codes into Acceleration Era
Back when I was a kid I used to stare at the sun fairly often, you look at it long enough and you get this sort of shimmering blueness over the bright area and it's no real issue to keep looking at it.

Used to do that during long car trips to pass the time, I don't have any issues with my sight as an adult but it's definitely a necessary warning.
If you can get through the steps to sign up and use a VPN service, you can likely get through these with a bit more time invested and a helping hand.
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>Surely not all browser version numbers are required for a site to optmize rendering. Surely some versions could be collapsed?

firefox only shows the major revision (ie. the one that changes every 6 weeks)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Us...
Live today and don't care what you leave for your children? I think someone famous said something to the effect. It is terribly selfish and even more shortsighted. (And then, the flood.)

Were talking in massive changes in ecosystem in just about 4 generations (less than a century) if things continue as they are.

Great Filter only applies to date not self inflicted. Global climate change and ecosystem destruction do not count.

And the real truth is that you can be an optimist to a fault. Keep that in mind.
Dire situations happen and require immediate responses.
The main problem here is that humanity is not at the point where we can make these really at all.
But what if they do in the future? Suppose the author is right and ISPs don't support any packets/protocols other than FB, GOOG, and AMZN.

Are you arguing that in sum total, humanity is better off allowing private organizations to control communications in order to adhere to free market principles than the reverse?
That's true, and a better statement than mine.
It's difficult to see mass adoption of Bitcoin from a purely store-of-value use case because most people don't (directly) own gold and probably don't think about hedging against inflation.

I'd argue instead that the main use case is to buy a cup of coffee with Bitcoin anywhere in the world without having to deal with fees and red tape.

So using your analogy of evolution, transaction scaling is probably going to be the biggest driver of who gets to be at the top of the crypto food chain.
I think it's implicit that the 'trillions of dollars of value' are dollars of actual value, like purchases of goods and services that people actually want. Your parable is amusing, but not analogous at all. Of course if each economist extracted >$20,000 of sadistic pleasure out of the other eating poop, then, in fact, there was a net benefit to both of them. (But sadistic or capricious behavior throws a big wrench into economics, anyway...)
I'm not sure that's the message here. The trade-offs in play aren't "custom bug fixes" but different approaches to a similar problem. In fact, the solution provided (BrowserView) is considered a better solution because it benefits from more "ordinary" browser bug fixes in Chromium and less overall custom work. (Every Chromium developer cares that Tabs work, not every Chromium developers works on or uses Chromium add-ons that make use of the <webview /> component.)

Furthermore, BrowserView versus WebView isn't even necessarily a concern for every Electron application. It's used for embedding remote (read as web server hosted) web pages. In the Electron apps I've been building, 100% of the code is hosted locally, and I don't have a need to host outside webpages.
Hack Days talks a lot about this and how Bitcoin mirrors Linux in a lot of ways @ the 59 minute mark:

https://www.facebook.com/hackdays4all/videos/545598169119184...
Wow, that's pretty bad. That's people I guess. Though maybe that CEO now has a job where he doesn't need to stay until 9, which is probably a win for him...
I don't have anything against bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, but I wish the cryptocurrency community would stop trying to co-opt the term "crypto".

It's a well-established (understatement of the century) shorthand for the term "cryptography", that no honest cryptocurrency enthusiast can claim in good faith to be ignorant of, because cryptography provides the technological foundations on which all cryptocurrencies are built.

Conflating these terms can cause undue confusion that breeds disdain for the very technology you're trying to promote. I, for one, was expecting to read an article on the history of cryptography as it evolved over the years when I clicked the link.

Despite all this, I just wanted to say the article itself was an interesting read, but you're doing yourself and the cryptocurrency community a disservice by unwittingly pulling a bait and switch like this on so many potential readers.

At the very least, please avoid using it as a shorthand in contexts intended for communication to those outside your community.
This person's suggestion is to replace serial numbers with a blockchain code? When will the madness end?

/edit mistakenly used UPC instead of serial number.
This isn't Electron's fault. This is slacks fault. Look at the memory footprint of VS Code opening hundreds of files. A much much more substantial application than slack that uses a small fraction of the memory. On my machine, VS code with hundreds of open files is using just over 200MB.
Following a link in the article led me to this nice quote[0] "The trade-off is that positioning and layering BrowserViews is trickier because you can no longer use the normal HTML and CSS positioning and layering primitives like you can with a webview. You have to manually layout BrowserViews and make sure that it is layered properly."

So to make electron less of a hog, you ditch the web part?

[0] https://blog.figma.com/introducing-browserview-for-electron-...
Really worthy insight. Especially for people like me, who wants to get a deeper understanding of the ecosystem before being an actual data scientist !
China’s New, Severe Curbs on the Internet Leave Little Left to Censor
"they" is one guy, Ken White, a former federal prosecutor.

If he can be said to have a partisan/ideological PoV I would call it "mildly libertarian" but as a non-libertarian myself I read him avidly and don't consider him partisan.
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How fast do you have to be to get into the AMP carousel?
> I do have some concerns that tor is a tool that needs to be improved upon greatly to truly accomplish its goals but I am not aware of any projects that are doing so. Re metadata, fingerprinting, developers inserting backdoors etc.

I always try to tell people about Tor's limitations, which are considerable. (I wrote the content for the EFF graphic that was linked above, and one goal was to show people things that aren't hidden by Tor — for example you can see an NSA agent in the graphic performing some kind of correlation attack between source and destination by monitoring the network at multiple points. Of course, the source of data for this doesn't have to be fiber optic taps, so other entities that can get source and destination data can correlate them too.)

Tor is doing work on all of the things that you mention: metadata, fingerprinting, and developers inserting backdoors. One could wish for more work and that it had happened longer ago, but all of those are active areas of concern and research for the Tor project.
There is nothing constructive nor mature about your comment.
My whole point is that people use VPN for torrenting so Tor would not help and i2P neither. What are you talking about ? Did you read the first post ?
Googling this gives you lots of links: "isp sell browsing history"

Here's arstechnica: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/how-i...
Another issue to look for in selecting a VPN is leaks, where network packets travel through the 'hostile' interface and not the VPN. Leaks can happen many ways, if I understand correctly (I did some reading on it recently but not my own research):

* Many VPNs use "split-tunneling': To save bandwidth, they route https traffic through the hostile network interface

* Some don't route other protocols via the VPN, for example, IPv6 and even DNS are sometimes excluded.

* If the VPN connection drops

* When the VPN connection is out of sync with the device's network connection (e.g., after the computer boots and before the VPN starts, or after the VPN is disconnected and before the computer shuts down).
Ken blogs about Legal Things. We probably know of him from his "seriously, shut up!" post about talking to police/investigators, or his chronicling of the (karmatically satisfying) downfall of the people who would post their own porn torrents and then sue/blackmail people who torrented them. (If I recall right?)

He also spent a long time writing about various legal scams, chronicling the story as they happen (e.g. a mail fraud scam that he called out in 2011 and has been writing about for six years), with digestible non-lawyer-accessible explanations of things that are important or not-as-non-lawyers-might-expect.

I'm sure he has a bias, politically or ideologically, but I'm not sure I could articulate what it is. I like reading just about everything he writes.
The situation is perhaps even worse on iPhone 6, which I have. It feels like Apple doesn't test iOS on older hardware. For example the camera app has rotation freezing problems [1] half the time I open it. It's not a rare occurance, it's a constant issue. It's not a case of slow hardware either, because there are still plenty of times when everything works smoothly.

--

[1] When I rotate the phone, half the UI elements react to the rotation and update, but the other half of the UI remains at the previous mode. So I have a UI which is half landscape, half portrait. Depending on the mood of the iPhone, the UI will fix itself in either a second, 5 seconds, or not until I restart the app.
Arguing that "your career provides your wealth" isn't valid because "you use the money from your career to build your wealth" is like arguing "father provides my food" isn't valid because he actually just gives mother the money to buy the food.

Pointless. You're arguing semantics, and pretty meaningless semantics at that.
We want to do something, but we haven't figured out what yet. Defining a problem is often the first step to a solution.
> Maybe the detractors would prefer that the app did less.

Sorry, that argument just does not hold water. On my Mac currently, MS Outlook is using 483 MB versus Slack using 704 MB, with just one tab open. For all of Outlook's bloat, one can hardly say it does less than Slack; it's just a glorified chat app for pity's sake.

Even IntelliJ is using only 2x as much RAM as Slack with 4 medium sized projects open and IntelliJ is orders of magnitude more complex than Slack.
Much of this uses Z3 under the hood, and Z3 is made of pure wizardry.
> Telegram, an app actually written in native code, is currently using ~500MB on my machine right now.

I took a look at the Telegram source code right now, and…I'm not impressed. It appears to be written without a real knowledge of how Swift or Cocoa works, has no consistent style, and seems like it reinvents significant portions of standard APIs. Like anything, the benefits from migrating to "native" only work if you actually utilize it correctly.
The only chance of this paradigm existing is as a long shot project

I couldn't agree more but I also am not as pessimistic as he is at its chances of happening.
/r/personalfinance is a really good way to get going. It's generally US focused, but I think there are some European focused subs as well. Once you've got a grasp of some of those investing discussions, move on to /r/financialindependence and /r/investing.

Investing doesn't have to be a scary beast, just go one step at a time. I'd suggest starting your studies by reading about asset allocation and expense ratios on mutual funds. Asset allocation will cover how bonds, stocks, and cash behave in various economic situations. Expense ratios are good to understand because they can have a huge effect on how much money you have down the line.

Them look into active versus passively managed funds.

Notice I haven't mentioned picking an individual stock yet. If you're risk adverse and getting into things, I'd highly recommend sticking with low cost index mutual funds. E.g. An S&P500 fund will give you almost exactly what the "overall stock market" would get without the guilty feelings of "I probably picked wrong and I'm screwed now".

Bogleheads is also really good (as mentioned below).
I get that the article promises to refute what the OP said, but if it really provided a relevant insight, you should be able to summarize the insight so as to contribute to the current discussion and let others know whether they've already heard the argument, or what crucial assumptions it makes, and whether the refutation really gets at the core point of the parent's objection (or is just nitpicking). And save the thousand people 15 minutes of figuring it out.

It would be much more helpful to say something like "having an investment of stable value can decrease the volatility of the returns as you balance in and out during the market ups and downs, and improving the risk-adjusted returns, which back-testing can demonstrate". (I don't know if that's what it said, but that's an example of contributing the insights back to the discussion.)

And if the article really did provide insight, wouldn't it be easy to produce a paragraph like the above?
This suggestion is intended to solve the "free VPN app installs malware" problem and not solve the "VPN provider who actually logs/is in league with govt/MPAA/etc" problem.
Is Bob a cop? Does he have probable cause that you were involved in criminal activity. I don't think you can just handwave "call my ISP with a warrant".
Too add a data point, here is a list of the 10 most common <FirstName, LastName> pairs in the United States.

https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/calling-james-smith-10-most-co...

I hesitate to guess ethnicity based on names, but I see mostly Caucasian and Latin names (Smith is represented heavily).
If you live in a democracy, "governments" come from voters. So you can do your part by being active in politics and supporting parties or representatives who take serious action against global warming (by the way, especially but not exclusively if you are American, this might mean parties or representatives fall outside of the Overton window: I just cannot see how saving the planet can be compatible with US-style laissez-faire capitalism). Apart from living a carbon-light lifestyle, e.g. ditching the car.

Of course one person cannot do anything about world problems, almost by definition, but if everyone did those things, we wouldn't even have the problem. Governments and corporations wouldn't be able to do much harm without the invaluable assistance of the millions of people that just don't care.
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I'd like to clear up a few misconceptions here. I have a lot of experience in this space.

For starters, Amazon has very good policies that allow sellers to protect their IP and products. It's very easy to remove fraudulent products from your listing.

The problem is that Amazon is a very complex platform to use, with a lot of rules and policies, so it seems to me that the sellers in the article, and many others, don't quite know how to protect their ASINs. I would like to think that Amazon would do a little better to inform the sellers, but since so many are just starting, or are amateurs, there probably isn't time to walk each one through.

Of course, RTMFD, as they are very clear on what is and isn't allowed to be sold. For example, it is a clear and blatant violation of Amazon policy to drop-ship from overseas.

eBay and Amazon aren't able to police everything. It is up to the sellers and buyers to report products that are knock-offs. As a buyer, I've closed down a few listings. As a seller, I've done the same, but mind that there is a complex war going on between sellers. Some sellers game the system by nuking your listing over fake violations, so there is a balance to all of this that is very difficult to maintain. Unfortunately, the world is full of jerks, so if it was a blind trust, we'd be in a much worse position.

Anyways, please read through ALL the policies of Amazon and eBay before making assumptions about what is right and wrong. What is in this article and in many of these comments are very wrong.
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> torturers, who do all kinds of things according to supposed art/science, but in reality it's just bullshit for show.

sounds like you flat out dismiss all the human history with myriad of cases where torture (or even just a plausible threat of torture) did work. It may have worked not up to your taste of torture efficiency ... well ... that would be a torturers' shop talk and i'm not interested in it.
A few years ago someone managed to do a similar thing with a JS attack on Twitter.
For a contrived example, let's make the following assumptions:

1) There is no inflation.

2) Your capital investments always return 5%.

3) Your salary is $100,000 and does not change.

4) You are able to save 50% of your income and invest it.

At year 0, you are worth the equivalent of $2,000,000 invested. It won't be until year 40 that your investments are returning the same amount as your starting salary. Presumably, you plan to retire sometime around year 45 (~65-ish).

Thing is, there is inflation, a 5% return isn't guaranteed, your salary will probably increase, and saving 50% is pretty ambitious. All of these things actually make it harder to get a better return than your salary.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/congress-clears-way-for-isps...

Congress removed FCC regs. that would have prevented it. ISPs have been claiming both the regulation is unneeded but that they won't sell your data.
If we had access to this kind of energy, we'd be generating and treating copious amounts of antimatter and using it to power electrical CO2 sequestration devices.
I don't think the picture is quite that clear. There's a fair bit of anecdotal evidence that Microsoft was genuinely gunshy about wielding its monopoly power thanks to the trial.

Yes, Google and Apple found ways to break that monopoly, but a chastened Microsoft wasn't prepared to wage the type of scorched earth campaigns that it became famous for.
I agree with your points. Transaction scaling is going to play a big role. I wouldn't neglect the store of value use case so quickly. Even if it only does that, it's a trillion dollar market.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/08/17/how-does-bitcoins-...
I meant styling the SVG — instead of replacing SVG with react (slow), use CSS to modify properties of the SVG DOM.

That is significantly faster.
Thanks for the tip. Trying out Syncthing and I love it. It's made for me.
The webpack option for this seems ideal for that even... I'd be far more interested in that than pre-transform steps.
It's not that hard. Watch a lunar eclipse. Watch the sun rise, follow an arc, set, and then watch the stars rise, follow their arcs, and then set. Then travel to a few degrees south and see the whole thing again, except the pole around which everything revolves shifts by exactly the amount you moved south.
I was happy when we moved from the HipChat client that used several hundred MB of RAM over to Slack which is proving to at least be more svelt. I really don't want to go back to another RAM hog.

It's not like my laptop is just brimming with extra RAM, and being a Mac of course the RAM isn't user upgradeable.

My choice shouldn't be "be present in chat, or carry out work". Guess it's time to figure out IRC integration.
You are confusing AMP pages with AMP Cache.
Sure, adversaries could pressure VPN providers for logs, account information, help tracing traffic, etc. So you pick VPN services that have been in business for several years, are well known and recommended in relevant communities, and have no history of giving up their customers. There's a recent relevant thread on Wilders: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/purevpn-keeping-logs...

Even so, it's prudent to assume that your VPN provider logs, works with your adversaries, etc. Just like the Tor project assumes that any particular relay may be malicious. So Tor clients create three-relay circuits, to distribute the risk. And one can do the same with VPN services. I'm currently working through a nested VPN chain, using servers from multiple providers. I use pfSense VMs as VPN gateways, and workstation VMs. It's also easy to add Whonix to the mix, so I can use Tor through nested VPN chains.
I'm not sure I understand how the PODS would keep your data from becoming centralized. If you allow a service to read data from your PODS, they could simply save it in their own database.