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I spent a couple of months working on drafts and unreleased prototypes of decentralized P2P networks, but eventually, it comes full circle.

The internet already functions well enough for purposes of decentralization. Sure, there are some clear improvements and some less clear trade-offs that could be made, but the brass tacks is that these are social issues, not technical ones. They have to be addressed at the social level.

There has been some shadowy coordinated push behind the scenes over the last week, corresponding with the CLOUD Act and other dubious events, as described above. I believe this is just the beginning of such coordinated pushes. There are powerful forces at work looking to assert their authority and control over the open diaspora of the internet.

Americans take free speech for granted, but they forget that open forums where anyone can make a strong argument that lives and dies on its own merit are extremely dicey for the status quo power structure.

My belief is that the 2016 election pushed some fence-sitters over into the belief that the internet as constituted is a threat to their power, and that they are working triple-time to fix the situation. Ultimately, I believe this will evolve into something like a government verification and ID check system before someone is allowed to publish, and a YouTube-like strike system that will take away those rights as people are "abusive" or otherwise express wrongthink.

The relatively-free internet of the 90s and 00s will be driven into the darkweb where anyone interested in accessing non-corporate-approved content can be trivially mischaracterized as "a Russian agent or sympathizer" (if not much, much worse). What just happened with the purge on reddit is part of that.

The internet has been re-AOLized over the last several years as massive tech companies have consolidated against the grassroots nature of the homegrown internet. The CFAA and the Copyright Act allow companies to sue the living crap out of anyone who tries to free user data, and Google et al now have the resources to enforce this thoroughly.

The long and short of it is that a new network or protocol may offer some nice features, but it's not going to solve the key problem that ensures maintaining a free marketplace for ideas will always be hard: the rich and powerful don't like things that may threaten said richness and power. The internet is arguably the most powerful such tool invented since the printing press.

As another commenter expressed above, the real question is why this has taken them so long.
Going solo would be an option, I have seen some of my friends going through similar situation and some of the worst too when things don't work between the founders. It's best to let go person and look for people who can work with you in long term.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/id-rather-be-fat-shamed-...
I find the management and politician problem true in the UK too, however there is a younger breed that takes tech more seriously. I see a lot of 40+ non technical people that see technology as a nuisance and don't really respect developers. I think in another twenty years dthe geek will truly inherit the earth.
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(sorry for this becoming an AMA)

I lift weights three times a week to medium-low intensity (squat/deadlift/bench). I sit/stand and code full time. I sleep at least eight hours a day (sometimes more).
Did "PhD" pedigree help in anyway? I mean you could do your research outside academia, since your department was not helping you (in research). But I guess US PhD stipend could be considered as a good salary in Thailand.
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It's an equivalent job to a train driver
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What about Firefox Beta? Does anyone know?
While bad I think it's worse that the location available through your IP is available to facebook.
Further they can guess with which contacts you work with, are good or not so good friends with. And it will be kept forever at Facebook and at companies like Cambridge Analytica.
Why are you using the therm "mother Russia"? Are you trying to politicize this conversation?

People should stop worrying about whatsapp, telegream etc.

The biggest security hole are the keyboards on your phone. Especially on android. Has anyone bothers to check what data for example Swiftkey collects or potentially could?
UK based here, I have had a mix of friends that got a Bsc and a few that got Masters. In terms of jobs and salary nearly all are on a equal footing. I agree with the guy that said a Master's is more a route into research as few employers specifically seek it or reward it and if they do it's a very small number.
I can almost guarantee every variation on the above accident is being tested now by waymo, tesla et-al..
And they'll know who you contacted and when. That allows for a lot of things to be guessed. Especially with hundreds of thousands of messages per user available to them.

Yeah, but my ISP has to follow the local laws and I can easily switch ISPs if I dislike my current one. Try that with Facebook.

Yeah, I might use a VPN but I'd also have to force all my contacts to use one as well.
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Historically, Germany has outsourced most of its technical innovations [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Looks like some eagle-eyed editor fixed it already.

EDIT: the edit is not showing up yet on NewsDiffs [1], but maybe later.

[1] http://www.newsdiffs.org/article-history/www.bbc.co.uk/news/...
Which we should take at face value
Unfortunately if everyone took this route, we'd encounter a whole new stack of problems.
I recall when we were pregnant with one child, our pediatrician told us that the test to detect <a bad thing> had a greater chance of _causing_ some other kind of damage than the chance of our child having the <bad thing> (I forget which). So, please consider that the parent made the best choices they could, and sometimes that means judging the risk of damage versus the chance of having some condition that could have been discovered by a test.
This does not take into account the increased number of ppl. As an extreme example to illustrate my point if it has been 2 million ppl living in Germany in 2001 and 10 million in 2002 in the age range they are looking at then it’s actually better. It should be based on % rather than just numbers. Also it doesn’t look at the trend. If it the trend was to increase by 30% but dropped afterwards to 20% then again it has worked in some way.

I’m not arguing that this is definitely the case, I’m just saying how data should be looked at and compared to have a better understanding of the outcome of an event. But if I’m wrong I’d love to hear why. :)
They always said, one day they will open source the servers. I hope that day comes soon.
How do you even deal with that? I'm on the lower end of BMI (still in the normal/healthy range). I am constantly in a state of starvation. My body burns through food like it's nothing. I have to eat 2 main meals per day to even sustain myself properly. The thing about low calorie intake increasing your lifespan freaks me out.
I think it's very difficult to draw a firm line, as it's going to be so context-dependent (how in the information is gathered, the nature of the information, how it is released), but generally I'd say no. If it's just something private, you are damaging the electoral chances over something that is quite probably irrelevant. If it's something illegal, it should be _publicly_ exposed -- leaking through local sources runs the risk that it be used for bribery/manipulation, or to gain an advantage without revealing the criminal activity.

Further, I'd also say the CIA/NSA monitoring of potential politicians is concerning in itself -- there is the potential that they will allow the election to go ahead normally, but then use that information for manipulation after the fact once they are in a position of power (of course this buts up against the more legitimate spying against foreign governments, but there they would expect some monitoring/scrutiny and be trained in OPSEC so irrelevant but blackmailable information is less likely to come up -- like I said, it's very hard to draw an actual line of what is legitimate activity and what is meddling in another country's internal affairs)

I'd also said it grants disproportionate power to the US, as they have the greatest ability (not necessarily strictly greatest, but few other countries would come close) to find such information (through networks of people/global surveillance access and just raw resources).
>Right, the fact someone could compromise a random government agency in the 90s clearly means someone else could compromise Russian military intelligence in 2016, because NASA's IT security in the 90s is totally comparable to the GRU today, absolutely.

Because such hacks don't happen today?

>Which nation state, exactly?

Well, which nation state likes false flags and BS excuses like WMDs for their target du jour?
I wonder if the German federal government could play a larger role as an innovation facilitator, that then hands breakthroughs off to the private sector for commercialization. It produced a $44 billion budget surplus last year. Does Germany have an equivalent of DARPA?
Could Uber be doing this on purpose? They're way behind on self-driving tech, so maybe if they can't have it, no one can.
Oh course German sex trafficing increased; prostitution is illegal in the neighboring countries, so now Germany's border regions service a large international customer base. Sex tourism is also big thing for some cities. The market got a lot bigger the second prostitution was legalized.
Still up in Canada

Though it's mostly bots these days. Used to be a good place to get laid
I assume for some people, e.g. the type of person that would literally sleep in front of an iStore to buy a new iPhone at launch day because waiting an extra week to just walk in during lunch and buy one is “too long” would find 2 years to be an “eternity”.
Blaming everything on "Russian hackers" also didn't use to be "common on the internet".

As words, phrases and fads spreads on the press, so they do on the internet.
Some people just want to see the world burn. So maybe let's delete the whole internet and get back to letters, telegrams, pidgins and encyclopaedias? No one is forcing you to use dev, nightly or anything else if it is not consistent with your faith. Especially Mozilla they made some silly things but are one of the most "privacy and shit" companies out there and they will not come to your house and beat you because you do not want to do something.
Actually .onion prostitution services exist already and have for a long time. There was at least one that was very popular around 5 years ago, but I don't remember the name.

But you are absolutely right, this is pushing sex workers further underground and therefore making their lives more dangerous.
>only god knows what Google is sending itself from Chrome!

Chrome always uses Google DNS, which means that they already collect all the data that Mozilla could potentially collect from the DoH test.
A bit less extreme, but I put my phone silent mode about 6 months ago and never set it back.

I was probably checking it more for the first month to be honest, but after breaking my own and others expectations of a swift reply I find it much easier to respond at my leisure.

Edit: communication at work is expected over internal IM and email, and my previous solution was to not give out my number. I feel this works better.

After all, if I'm 3 hours late responding and it was dire I would have been contacted via other means.
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Mozilla, wtf?

I can understand mistakes like Mr. Robot, mistakes happen.
But I can't understand an explicit company policy.

I have opted in Firefox's data collection every time I was asked. But such data gathering should always be opt-in. Ask in a nice way and you'll get contributors. And if not, well that should give you a hint that you shouldn't do it.

You're better than this, really. It's why I use Firefox. So please stop it with the mistakes.
> As an example, they discuss Germany, which legalized prostitution in 2002. The minimum estimate of sex trafficking victims in the country increased from 9,870 in 2001 to 11,080 in 2002, to 12,350 in 2003."

Careful, such numbers typically come from criminal statistics. Those count reported cases, not convictions, and (by design) can't contain unreported cases.

Alternative reading: by legalizing prostitution, an entire economical sector (there's €€€ involved) is now open to routine law enforcement controls which increased visibility in the trafficking part of it, since sex workers can be more forthcoming with information as they don't need to hide their own business.
The ramp up into 2003 could indicate that law enforcement took a while to properly take advantage of that.
A better source is the original posting:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...

Not even in Nightly yet.
Just because B is potentially worse than A, lets forget about A and discuss how bad B is.
That's a very interesting hypothesis, thank you for the link. However, it doesn't seem to support what you're claiming about mutations, from my cursory reading. Can you provide a source for this claim that random mutation is a bad source of variation?

http://extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/about-the-ees/why-i... explicitly rejects the idea of a revolution regarding mutation and other genetic sources of variation:

> How can the EES seek 'profound change' and yet disavow 'revolution'?

> All recognized causes of both evolution (e.g. natural selection, genetic drift, mutation, etc) and inheritance (e.g. genes), as well as the vast body of empirical and theoretical findings generated by the field of evolutionary biology, are accepted by the EES.

> Hence the EES does not entail a rejection of current understanding within the field, and does not require revolution. The EES seeks only to supplement the existing causal framework through recognition of additional causes of evolution (e.g. developmental bias) and inheritance (e.g. epigenetic inheritance), entirely complementary to those long-established within the field. Nevertheless, should these additional processes prove to be important, the conceptual change to evolutionary biology could very well be fundamental.

Although not in your source, I did find the following. Known as Drake's rule: as a genome's size increases, the mutation rate also tends to decrease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_size#Drake's_rule. A recent update to Drake's rule suggests that mutation rate is also negatively correlated with population size too, not just genome size (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3494944/). And another interesting article about mutation in reproduction: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15183 (somatic mutation is two orders of magnitude higher than germline mutation). This is intriguing, though I have to wonder how the genome ever grows if mutation supposedly becomes so strict over time as to become a non-factor (transposons, gene duplication?). It's worth noting that mutations do occur more frequently in non-coding sections of the genome, which may not be accounted for in the studies I've linked to.

Still, regardless of my sources, I would like to see you provide support from specifically EES proponents for the devaluation of mutation as a source of genetic variation, as you implied.
I would still consider it very unusual for one to not learn much on a masters' course. Admittedly my masters degree was in maths, not compsci.

Whether the degree was worth your time and money, and whether it was interesting, is an entirely separate question, of course.
As a german, I see a problem within our culture.
We are a people of envy and jellousy.
Great people often get discriminated...a brilliant developer?...no he's an arrogant academic...a smart manager?...just a renegade not playing by the rules.

This is the typical german mindset. You better be avarage, following the german mediocrity.
Nice writeup! I have always been interested in how ransomware works and to what extent the transactions can be backtraced. It still surprises me that these attackers seemingly are unaware to what extent bitcoin blockchain transactions can be traced. It certainly took them long enough to make the switch to Monero.
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The internet is pretty much as decentralized as things get while remaining accessible and available to the general public. There is room for some tweaking here, but even if a parallel "NewNet" rose up, it'd come to suffer the same set of problems.

"Decentralized", "peer-to-peer", and "distributed" are not just magic words that make the whole world better. Consider BitTorrent as a case study. Probably the largest "decentralized" tech success story in internet history ... and it depends on a central core of pre-baked trackers, safe DHT bootstrap nodes, and search engines to be usable.

The internet is plenty decentralized technically. The problems we have are that big companies want to get paid and they want to make sure little companies won't threaten their ability to do that. So we get shameful abuses like the CFAA and the RAM Copy Doctrine.

The further problem is that governments and other establishment power brokers want to control narratives. They've been able to do this pretty well for the last 50 years, as your average Joe on the street couldn't just start broadcasting video and competing with the television broadcasts from FCC-approved speakers. But with YouTube, the average Joe can. That is a huge threat to the power brokers.

People are working overtime to make others feel that so much as grunting a sound that sounds similar to the word "Tor" means you're an evil traitor. I don't think that the young, who know little besides the status quo by definition since they haven't experienced much yet..

To save the internet, get out there and teach people about the value of an open forum and free dialogue, even if it makes them uncomfortable. Work hard to counter-influence the negative and evil influences. Abolish the CFAA, revamp Copyright to something sane.

Just whatever you do, don't spend 10 years reinventing the internet just to make us go through this show again in 15 years when Netv2 gets the same treatment.

Pre-edit: literally falling asleep while typing this, excuse any errors etc. Going to sleep now. Goodnight.
Isn't part of Germany's success in manufacturing their conservatism when it comes to large changes in the way we do business? To take an example, there are still companies that make pencils profitably in Germany (the two biggest, Faber-Castell and Staedtler, are local rivals that have been recently arguing in court over who is older [1]; both are at least 250 years old). Both companies are examples of Mittelstand, small-medium sized German manufacturing businesses that grow organically over decades instead of undergoing explosive growth (and explosive failure). This is in part probably due to managers not fearing missing out on The Next Big Thing and trusting in their capital, intellectual property and people. Maybe they think the same about digital innovation right now - let's wait and see where it goes, and when the time comes, throw everything we have at it.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-13019777
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Working as a consultant on digitization with some of the largest German companies, the main problem is their success in one field.

Everyone wants to innovate, I've got orders directly from the board on these topics, everyone in top and middle management is on board, wants to innovate, there is a lot of tailwind, but in the field they are squashed by the success of their main products and by time constraints maintaining their cash cows.

Many expect ROI much too early. I tell them look at startups, VCs and exits, these are the time frames to expect success (up to 10 years). But if a new project doesn't make enough money in 2 years it is often killed or seen as a career killer being on board.
"Some of my clients haven’t even found a single applicant for positions in ..."

I wonder if this doesn't have to do with pay. I often get the impression they want Mr/Mrs Houdini know-it-all of ML but offer entry level pay.
I think the author misses a key ingredient when he talks about the “lack of skills”: German companies are notoriously stingy (or frugal, however you want to call it) when paying their engineers. Combined with a hesitation to greatly differentiate pay between great and average staff (due to culture and also the “Gesamtarbeitsverträge” between employers and unions), this means that really great and innovative employees will be able to earn far more in nearby Switzerland or far Silicon Valley. I’m always a bit sceptical when (allegedly free-market loving) managers talk about a skill shortage: remember, economic theory states that in a free market there will be no shortage, because prices will rise to accommodate supply and demand.
German is much more complex in counting than Japanese in that table, which I would wager is not true. In Japanese, you have to decide which counting words you use depending on what you are counting, and most of those words are highly irregular. There's no such complexity in German, it's only irregular for 10, 11 and 12.
The reason is simple. If you were a top developer, would you like to make 80k€ at a German software company, paying 33% income tax, or 160k$ at a US company paying 9.3%. And in the German company, the non-technical management is traditionally payed a high salary than the engineer.
Of course things are changing, but German developers will have to learn to ask for more. And until that happens, the trend to leave for greener fields will stay.

Edit: 9.3% was off a google search. see below for more knowledgeable numbers.
Citation needed. DNS-based block lists (e.g. Pi-hole) appear to work fine on Chrome.
Fraunhofer insititute for one. But its tiny compared to DARPA.
Solution shouldn’t be more government (we have enough crooks already in Brussel).
We need more private sector investment, less regulations, more entrepreuneurial spirit, less scrutiny of failures, more guts to take risk.
This is difficult to follow in daily life although not impossible. Given that food is becoming less nutritious as per [1] taking less food will mean less nutrition which can affect general well-being. Figuring out foods high in nutrients, low in calories will require a lot of discipline.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13179
Germans are obsesed with hierarchy. Management is what counts for a business, a developer is just a cost. You can see incentives in salaries. As a senior software developer you would be lucky to get 70k, but in the same company if you went the management route double that is common.
There's 6-base pair organisms now.
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-organisms-have-been-formed-...

Also, RNA seems to work and it's possible we started out using RNA and later evolved to DNA.
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That’s great and all, but you cannot build muscle unless you’re on a caloric surplus. Good bye resistance weight training with the goal of having more muscle.

The irony is that having more muscle would also increase the amount of calories you need to maintain (not get bigger/fatter, not get smaller).

What I’m trying to say is that a “deficit” completely depends on what your current lean body mass is. If I want to go on a 15% calorie deficit, I have to eat 2200 calories a day. A much smaller person would probably GAIN weight at that caloric intake.
botcoin did happen though.

So it is not that unimaginable