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To be fair I've been running my infrastructure for years and it's usually fine.

The problem I have is that it's a pain in the ass to setup correctly and when things do go wrong it's really hard to figure out what's going on.

> Can you explain what you mean by attacks and exploits from spammers?

I haven't encountered a remote exploit (yet) but yes: accidentally running an open relay, backscattering, etc. You also have to worry about the system security of the box you're running it all on but let's treat that as a separate concern.

I'd been running my setup for years and as recently as August of last year I was dealing with an outage of my email server. I must've missed something somewhere because someone had figured it out and started using my server as a relay. It took me a few days to figure it out and I'm still not sure what the problem was or how I fixed it. Though my server stopped bouncing emails and started forwarding things again so... win?

As I was fixing this issue, not the first time, it occurred to me that it was just criminally easy to not know if your system is being exploited as a relay or not. There are a bunch of different configuration files in all different formats and guides that require working through dozens of steps. It's way too easy to get something wrong.

For someone like me who works at deploying software running on hundreds of nodes it seems manageable but I don't think it's ready for my cousin who's good with computers.

That's where the idea for a secure-by-default MTA that couldn't possibly be configured to be an open relay came from. Minimize the configuration so it was hard to get wrong even at the expense of flexibility.

I dunno, maybe it's not a great idea. But it's fun to hack on in the evenings when I've got nothing better to do and hopefully I'll have a fewer text files to manage in the future.
While I can see how that statement could be abused to sexist ends, nothing about it is sexist nor prescribes any sort of discriminatory treatment.

Note that it doesn't imply or conclude that a given female applicant is less qualified than a given male candidate nor that the pipeline of female applicants is less qualified in aggregate than the pipeline of male applicants (because there's no reason to assume that the pipeline has the same distribution as the overall population).

It merely suggests that (assuming pertinent biological causes) we shouldn't expect a fair process to result in parity of outcomes.

Whether or not there are pertinent biological causes is a question I leave to scientists, but I do want to note that (contrary to Damore's critics), science has established biological sex differences that may be pertinent, and lots of scientists have validated Damore's position (that biological differences may explain some of the gender distribution in tech). https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201711/the-truth-ab...
it is cheap. because human time is always worth more than paying for routes, requests and healthchecks (ps. you won't get healthchecks that easily with your own setup, especially not health checks that will remove/add servers from your dns.)
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Password protected.
EDIT: After further investigation it seems the old password used to be "flame" - but has been changed since :(
A hardware wallet is probably a good way for most people to do that, though.

Most people getting into cryptocurrency at this point aren't going to be able to spin up a secure debian box, download and run zcashd, run it until it syncs with the network, construct a transparent address, round-trip a test portion of their exchange funds through the address, park their on-exchange zcash there, and put the wallet.dat file somewhere secure from hacking or destruction. But my understanding is that Ledger can handle transparent zcash transactions, which potentially massively simplifies matters.
> I'm really tired of having to explain to people that claim to have studied this exact thing why it's not as simple as white people vs everyone else.

Isn't it though? Look at the race numbers for prison, school quality, poverty, profession, representation in media, etc. Even when you control for everything else (especially socioeconomic status; people love to argue that being poor and white is just as hard but hey, racism is still something that poor Black people have to deal with that poor white people don't) race is a huge, dominating factor.
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to be fair though, the NSA has been known to inject malware into american products without even telling the manufacturers
Space twitter suggests that there was no malfunction with the rocket, there was some process (read: human) failure that caused the rocket to be given the wrong instructions.

Further the satellite is going to have to burn years worth of fuel to get to where it's supposed to be.
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AMD lost to intel a long time ago, for purely technical reasons. They had the upper hand circa 2002 or so, before intel trashed that line of development and launched the core duo platform.
>This from an article that chose to characterize the readers of one of his books as, "men who feel fatherless, solitary, floating in a chaotic moral vacuum, constantly outperformed and humiliated by women, haunted by pain and self-contempt."

The NYT actually got this right. Jordan Peterson is explicitly targeting his message for that type of men, because he feels that they need it. It applies to everyone, of course, but that's his primary target.
China does indeed have the concept of private property, to the extent that China de facto recognizes the rule of law (which admittedly isn't that much):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_Law_of_the_People's_R...

It's not accurate to say China is "still a communist country." It could be more closely defined as a capitalist one-party state. That one party is the CCP, and they still revere Mao, but it's an open secret that they have embraced capitalism under a veneer of socialist populism.

That being said, it's not wrong to say that information in the hands of a Chinese company is a trivial step away from being information in the hands of the Chinese state.
A charity can't function like a normal business. Income to the charity must be donations, and it's OK to give something of low value back but you can't just "sell" stuff and make money. Hence, "Donate $250 and get this T-shirt".

But what you can do is have a _for profit_ company that makes T-shirts and sells them for $10, and then a charity which _owns_ the for-profit company and receives all of the profits as a donation from the for-profit. That's legal.

So, Mozilla has a corporation to do all the stuff a charity isn't allowed to do, and then a foundation which owns the for-profit corporation. Getting paid a pile of money by a Search Engine to make their engine your default is not a charitable donation, because there's a quid pro quo, so the Mozilla Corporation takes all the Google money, for example.
I used to not mind Peterson because he seemed to help out young males find some direction in their life, but then he found out arguing with transpeople about pronouns made him more money so he let himself be adopted by the far-right.
Even if you are a nobody, are you sure? Maybe you know someone that is not a nobody (works at the Pentagon, or at a defense contractor, or a diplomat, or government official ...). Or you know someone that has access to a non-nobody. And even that. Probably having access to an allegedly nobody with no connection could be interesting. Which access level has, I don't know, the DevOps of Credit Karma? Or a Data Scientist for Acxiom, or...
They are totally mister nobody, but they have access, directly or indirectly to important peoples. So, the risk is actually higher than expected...
> Jordan Peterson's rhetoric is just another round of reactionary sophistry

Reactionary? As far as I understand it, a 'reactionary' is someone who wants a return of monarchy. There doesn't really seem to be anything in Peterson's dialogue about that. Unless you mean something different by that, and it was just a poor choice of words?

Calling his argument sophistry without any actual reference to them is in and of itself sophistry. Most of what he's saying, once understood, is material that would have been common sense to virtually anyone a few generations ago, and the arguments still stand very strong.

> There's not enough hours in the day to devote to deprogramming a true believer who in the long run is severely mangled as an intellectual being by internalizing his garbage.

Are you going to make reference to any of this 'garbage' or are you simply going to assert this without evidence? Such a brave position to take. I'm sure you think of yourself as the sole voice of reason muchn of the time. So are you suggesting the opposite of Peterson's claims - should young Western men simply shrug their responsibilities and be happy hive-dwelling consumers, the "salad men" as the Japanese call it, continuing to fail at their attempts to build meaningful lives?

You offer no alternative and you don't even admit to recognizing there's actually a crisis. Shame.
They could've done a lot more if they were more focused, but that's not really how Apple works. They don't really research based on current technology, they like to spend time & money what could be invented. They even investigated things like "spherical wheels" [1]:

> Apple even looked into reinventing the wheel. A team within Titan investigated the possibility of using spherical wheels — round like a globe — instead of the traditional, round ones, because spherical wheels could allow the car better lateral movement.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/technology/apple-self-dri...
But you're open to being corrected at least.

All else being equal, those who have the least difficulty with admitting they are wrong, are wrong the least often.
> Starting from 1.6 release, our prebuilt binaries will use AVX instructions. This may break TF on older CPUs.
I'm really not familiar with quant jobs, but is the company itself in good shape? And was your job going well before your team got laid off? I"m kind of curious about the three week severance. I've heard rumors that those companies can have huge concerns about employees leaving jobs for competitors if their jobs involve proprietary IP. So they have really strong non-competes they enforce buy paying ex-employees for the length of the non-compete. But that probably isn't a huge concern if they decided to only give the team three weeks severance.
I've literally in a 25 year IT career only worked at one place which did TLS MITM, and that's a place that works extensively with GCHQ.
I’m sorry, I don’t understand. S3 storage is cheap, bandwidth is expensive. CF is free storage for in-cache items, refreshed from the S3 backend when expired, serving that bandwidth. You can’t lose money as compared to a pure S3 setup.
> It sucks ass when your mail does not get through as GMail/Hotmail rejects a connection from the IP address your cloud company allocated for you, in spite of DKIM etc.

God, yes. Gmail, in particular, really enjoyed just dropping connections from my IPv6 addresses every few months. Sometimes it would return an error, something obtuse and wrong like maybe, "your forward and reverse DNS records do not match" even though they absolutely did and hadn't changed in years.

Outlook/Hotmail was far better and would always return a sane, yet sometimes inscrutable, error that bore some resemblance to reality. It still took them a week to get me off the hit list that I got dropped on for no discernible reason.

> Or they decide to mark your mail is "suspicious" and it goes into the recipient's Spam folder.

Gmail was the ABSOLUTE FUCKING WORST about this. My spouse's e-mail to Etsy customers who used Gmail--not spam, not newsletters, person-to-person e-mails INITIATED BY THE CUSTOMER--would work for the first couple of e-mails in a thread and then start going into spam. Or, even more fun, friends with whom either of us had e-mailed would send us a mail and then we'd reply and nope, into spam.

Gmail would do this for WEEKS and no amount of poking or begging or pleading would make it stop. And then it spontaneously would. So maybe the begging did work but was just delayed. I dunno. I tried signing up for Gmail's "Postmaster Tools" but no data was ever reported because "your mail volume is too low."

The ultimate ignominy? The final humiliation that sent me to Fastmail? I finally, through a couple of professional contacts, got to actually e-mail (via Gmail, of course, because they were blocking my personal domain again) with a real, live Gmail SMTP admin to ask why my latest round of e-mails were going into the bit bucket. Know what he said, even though my domain has been hosted on a server in the same colo facility with the same IP addresses for a decade? Something along the lines of "your domain reputation is coming back as too new."

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you whois:

google.com - Creation Date: 1997-09-15T04:00:00Z

mypersonaldomain-notreallythisvalue.org - Creation Date: 1997-03-10T05:00:00Z
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many years ago and long before 'matrix' his books changed my view on the world: William Gibson, the guy who invented 'cyberspace'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_William_Gibso...
can't agree more.. It seems like many are simply listing their favorite books, not necessarily the ones that "most influenced the way" they see the world
See, for me running my own mailserver removes one of the biggest weaknesses with third party mail servers: the helpdesk. How many mail exploits are simple social engineering attacks against the service provider? Probably more than half.

Of course I still have to worry about attacks at my domain provider level, but at least it removes one weak point. I'm waiting for the day that someone pretended to be me calls me to get me to reset my mail account password.
Imagine you have 2 sets of keys to your house and if you lose both then your house is not yours anymore. That's what keeping your money outside an exchange seems like to me. Exchanges are easy and familiar to people.

If there was some secure way to do password recovery that was built into the currency that might be a game changer. That might be impossible by definition, not sure.
They are tainting the stolen coins to avoid them to be sold. What’s the point of having a decentralized currency if a centralized entity make the decisions anyway at the end of day?
Yes, the I believe the sum of fiat deposited on bitfinex, bittrex, huobi,... is close to that amount. I even see people from high school "investing" in crypto now.

It's really not hard to believe when you consider how many millions of people are on these exchanges. Binance touts 3 million users, and has 425,819,642 tethers. 141$ average a user is completely believable.
I'd rather just have a mimosa. :/
>Should these be called numbers or rather just processes which arrive at numbers?

They are one and the same. You can use a Graham's number place value system and Graham's number is simply written while a number like 7 might be quite complex to represent.
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What do you mean "knowledge exists on a timeline parallel to popular history going back thousands of years"?

Are you just saying that Magicians believe events occurred differently than popularly understood?

Or are you saying that secret knowledge comes from a parallel version of reality, where the timeline is different, but somehow makes its way into our universe and is effective.

To illustrate what I am asking, Did Kennedy die in our timeline from a magic bullet? Or can I put magic on a bullet in this timeline using knowledge from a different timeline where Kennedy is still alive?
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That sounds absolutely fascinating! By your description I had thought it must be an old game from the early 1980s, but it is pretty recent.

Thanks!
Certainly, many of the conspiracy theories are silly, but it is simply a matter of documented fact and common knowledge that Soros funds political movements in Central/Eastern European (CEE) countries that would not have otherwise received that support in their own countries, funneling money toward political causes that emerge out of nowhere. That sounds a lot like foreign meddling to me. He was also active in the region before the fall of the Berlin Wall, propping up those he saw fit to prop up. The transformation process that CEE underwent from socialist, centrally planned economies to free market, democratic republics is a complicated affair and with time, we've been learning more about the kinds of backroom deals and controversial changes that went on. It is fallacious to say, as some do, that because these countries are better off today than they were under Russian-sponsored communist rule, there's nothing wrong with the way these countries transitioned or with the resulting status quo. It's also silly to characterize everyone who opposes Soros a fascist (the fascist rhetoric is getting tiresome and will ultimately dilute the power of the term when applies to actual fascists). These are false dichotomies.

Of course, Soros is not alone in this regard, though he is an important figure. Piketty has called CEE "foreign-owned countries" given the extremely outsized control of the wealth and resources of these countries by Western companies (consider that 80% of the media in Poland are owned by foreign companies, mostly German). When foreign companies dominate the capital of a country and (usually through capital) influence the politics in a country, this is bad. Very bad.

Then there are the problematic values Soros promotes. It's one thing to share what you believe with others and allow them the space to consider your views. It's another to insinuate yourself and your views through a web of NGOs and other organizations.
It's all part of understanding the culture of the time. Manuscripts generally are quite hard to read: the language, the script, etc.
So true. And with more and more devices we use have computers in them (as small as the ATtiny85), then we'll head somewhat back to it. 'Magic' incantations will fix whatever nearly permanent firmware bugs or hardware bugs exist. Because, yes, these computers are deterministic IFF you have the software, logic, and its variables. And hope the sensors aren't malfunctioning.

My wife had a car that a temp sensor somewhere thought the car was always much colder outside. And it then set the cold/heat as a differential of what it measured. There was no way to say "Hot air, blower medium speed". It was a song and dance to get the "right" set of temps and blower speed.
There's an addendum at the bottom of the page linking to a how-to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN8AwGUaqDA
I first did this years ago with a science blog under a nom de plume and ended up with a decent audience relative to no promotion (40-60k~ readers per article). It was pretty satisfying and I would highly recommend doing it. The only downside may have been that it deeply inflamed my generalist yearnings for multiple careers.
> but then he found out arguing with transpeople about pronouns made him more money so he let himself be adopted by the far-right.

I don't think this is a fair characterization at all. The issue with pronouns is just a microcosm of a larger issue, which is not just the erosion of free speech, but the influx of compelled or forced speech, which is insidious and must be named and stopped early lest it gain more of a foothold.

As for the alt-right - if you're going to make the argument that some group liking their interpretation of what you've said means that you're one of them, you've got an uphill battle ahead of you. It's plainly illogical to assert this.
It breaks the model that nearly every other email client uses where you can enter email1@example.com, email2@example.com, ...

and instead it provides an input box, one per line, per email address. When you have a large to list, this gets painful.
FWIW, Soros has himself been accused of anti-Semitism by the AD, among others.
I now use em client, but I'd love thunderbird interface to evolve to go back to it.
Nice quote, but "nor more early sanctified and Christianized" is technically incorrect. The Goths and Franks and Lombards etc. were Christianized before Angles and Saxons.
It's only shown in the Bay Area and Brazil. Really.

The API itself has more data, with varying levels of quality around the globe.
Lazy answer: Cut it almost in half and leave it connected. Fold hinge around.
> The successful applicant will be hired as freelancer (independent contractor) through the Mozilla Foundation’s third-party service Upwork (www.upwork.com).

Terrible idea, for a corporation with a revenue of $520,000,000 in 2016[1]. Upwork is extremely humiliating for programmers.

For hourly contracts they take random snapshots of your desktop in 10 minutes intervals and they measure your mouse movements and key presses to show your activity, because design doesn't matter, only implementation. Then they take a 2.75% cut from the client, a 20% cut from the freelancer plus extra wire transfer fees when your hard earned funds are available, some 4 weeks later, after they earned interest for Upwork.

Then they decided to punish those freelancers who did not upload silly promotional videos on their profiles by forcing them to have video calls for "verification" or get suspended from the platform.

Fuck Upwork and fuck Mozilla.

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[1]: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/02/mozillas-revenue-increased...
His political views are literally on the left, he just doesn't think the government should be compelling speech of any kind. It's the slippery slope argument, which I'm sure some people here will argue is a logical fallacy.
That's because people should stop using centralized exchanges that don't have their funds insured, and should instead investigate using decentralized exchanges. Cross-blockchain ones are currently being developed, with OmiseGO and KyberNetwork competing to be the first to launch.

On Ethereum this ecosystem is much more developed, and you can choose between EtherDelta, IDEX, 0xProject and Radex.

These exchanges eliminate counterparty risk because you control your funds at all times. They essentially act as matchmakers between those creating buy/sell orders and those who fill them.
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considering that multiple exchanges in addition to bitfinex ONLY deal with USDT (instead of regular USD), that's not too implausible.
> it is cheap. because human time is always worth more than paying for routes, requests and healthchecks (ps. you won't get healthchecks that easily with your own setup, especially not health checks that will remove/add servers from your dns.)

Do you genuinely not understand I'm talking about a production setup that already exists?

Like, if you think health checks are non-trivial you probably shouldn't be running your own DNS.