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> Sorry, weak was perhaps the wrong term, it’s more the management that’s at issue.

“weak” was about half of your original argument:

> The general argument is that X509 with TLS is enough authentication of a site one is connecting to, and therefor DNSSEC being somewhat weak, is something unnecessary.

If we discount “weak”, let me then reply to the remainder of it:

Firstly, DNSSEC is not only for web traffic, DNSSEC secures DNS for everything which uses domain names to locate services, not only HTTP. This is a big deal not only for more obscure (not to mention future) protocols, but also for sending e-mail, the MX lookup phase of which is otherwise unsecured.

Secondly, the general problem with X.509 with rogue CA’s remain, and the only counter I have seen is akin to “but we can close those barn doors really well after each individual horses escape”, and I remain unconvinced.

Thirdly, how do you prove you own a domain enough to get a X.509 certificate? You answer DNS requests, which is spoofable unless secured by DNSSEC.
That was actually a very smart decision as sql parsers are actually hard to write so they saved a ton of dev time.
Yeah! Kit's done a bunch of work on Jepsen's core and Knossos, the linearizability checker. This is her first analysis, and I'm excited to see more. :)
You forgot Haskell..
Not to mention that the sketchy charger can brick the phone now. The phone can just regulate its own power supply and charge however it likes, all the charger does is supply current to the coil.
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0: http://blakes7.wikia.com/wiki/Orac
Yes, but once I have acquired dollars and wish to send them to you I must involve a third party. Not involving that third party would be the sell here.

I have no position in any cryptocurrency and am not trying to argue that USDC is better than USD. I'm just saying that stablecoins achieve most of the goals of a decentralized currency yet despite this they are not appealing to today's cryptocurrency community.
Only if both wallets implement it, isn’t it silly not all wallets support all stable coins? Nope, it isn’t.

Moreover there seems to be a misunderstanding, square cash allows you to instantly move money between bank accounts, via your bank, have at it, totally interoperable because dollars.
The Samsung Airplane Fire was most certainly not related to a charger, that was due to the faulty battery. The Note 7 deserved that reputation.

A more reason comparison would be the Nintendo Switch and 3rd party docks. It turns out the Nintendo Switch does not implement USB-PD to spec, and a 3rd party dock fried the IC for the USB charger, bricking the device.
MIL-STD-810G doesn't really mean anything unless they have test results available. That standard is mostly just a list of lab tests and how to perform them. It could mean anything from the product is designed to comply but never tested all the way up it passing the whole gambit of various tests. Military hardware is going to actually be tested if the manufacturer wants to sell it to the government. No one is regulating the standard for consumer hardware. IP codes at least mean something in regards to what the product is supposedly designed to handle, whether or not the rating is legit is another story.
Store of value? Not necessarily. stable coins pegged to an inflationary asset like the dollar will not preserve your value. You need a stable coin pegged to something like gold or bitcoin.
Edit: curious, why downvotes? Was just pointing out a technical mistake...
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I enjoy Leetcode for this.
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> numerous checks in place to limit collateral damage

Thus avoiding detection as much as possible. It's why the flu strain that kills everyone within an hour doesn't spread very far.
> That's a very elitist take. Firstly they are solving their own very real problem of not knowing how to code. Second they could have a very specific problem they want to solve that can only be solved by code.

It's not elitist, it's realistic. You haven't actually mentioned a 'real' problem they are solving through code.

> Isn't that exactly the same problem they are solving for beginners?

Not according to the comment I was responding to.
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They, Kaspersky, have sent out lots of emails to partners and resellers saying how they are independent of Russian government melding which isn't exactly the most honest read of the situation.

Comments like this, from Kaspersky PR, are interesting don't you think?

"Kaspersky Lab has never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyberespionage or offensive cyber efforts, and it's disconcerting that a private company can be treated as guilty merely due to geopolitical issues."

This tells some of it but I would recommend you do some checking yourself. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/15/kaspersky_labs_anno...
If they're already connected, why would moving digital include more of them in banking? They're not using physical banking now, I don't see how digital banking would convert them.
Ken Shirriff's charger teardowns show that there can be vast differences in quality and safety between different brands: http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-ap...
Chat service, in Erlang. I'd love to just boot to Erlang, and have as much of the system as possible be hotloadable, including the tcp stack. But I may be suffering from too much exposure to hot loading. :)
I'm thinking of a "bad health simulator" that starts at age 50 after a lifetime of eating a terrible diet. Obviously there will be no good choices, everything will be limited.

It's not an interesting "simulation" because it's effectively just stating that you can run your life into a corner if you don't pay attention.
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Exactly! The 'eyePod' comparison is really good. I haven't thought of that before but it's spot on.

Ultimately, yeah, they probably ran out of possible new material (they even joked about doing the same themes across multiple episodes within episodes).

I think it would have been better off cancelled once Season 10 rolled around.

They could be doing the show they do now with different characters entirely, and they'd probably have a more accurate sense of quality that's not clouded with nostalgia.

It's no surprise that FOX doesn't understand going out on a high note though. I admittedly probably hung around until season 20 just because of the previous 10 seasons of goodwill.
iFixit actually has a rating system for that: https://www.ifixit.com/smartphone-repairability
It should be easy enough for corporations to null route the default DoH IP's so that end-users have to at least intentionally enable this. There is already too much DNS leakage from companies.
No taxonomy/segmentation/categorization is perfect, but these structures provide a useful starting point for conversation.

If you believe there's another kind of tech debt, tell us what it is and how it differs from the two kinds described in that article so we can be convinced and expand our understanding of the world!
I've been watching "The Simpsons" since season 1 and I think the decline described here is absolutely correct. The show is a zombie version of itself, but I still watch it.

I'd say there are usually about 4 really good shows per season. Most of them are pretty forgettable, and none of them are as funny as the show was 25 years ago.
Everything we know about Lee now was known when McChrystal was a new enlistee.

He should be more ashamed for subscribing to the Cult Of Lee, perhaps America's most overrated historical figure.

By the way if you are going to damn Lee or any other Confederate, you might as well damn the Union as well...virulent racism on a level that would be considered shocking today was mainstream at the time, even in the North. How many towns and cities in the North continued to suggest that Blacks settle elsewhere? Even Lincoln himself claimed to not consider Blacks to be the equal of Whites (see the Lincoln Douglas debates)
Back in college I had the great fortune of going to Thailand for 3 months and working for Mechai's non-profit. The man is a legend for real and this article barely scratches the surface. While it started with condoms his organization has done so much more since.

My student group worked with Thai students and we visited villages where the PDA had installed solar powered water pumps. We were basically tasked with checking in and seeing how it was going.

The whole experience really changed my perspective on a lot of things. Mechai's approach is based on empowering communities instead of telling them what to do. And guess what? It works.

As a bonus, here is a picture of me with an anthropomorphic condom I met at a Cabbage's & Condoms restaurant: https://imgur.com/a/pRnCrh9

Also, Mechai's TED Talk is worth checking out: https://www.ted.com/talks/mechai_viravaidya_how_mr_condom_ma...
“then they're not going to be good contributors or collaborators.”

Maybe you mean aren’t optimal contributors or collaborators. There are obviously good contributors who lack what some think are adult social skills. I mean, you can look at Linux and see commits with “poor social skills” that do quite well.
75usd on a phone bill? Really? Basic plans with unlimited calls and texts, and maybe half a gig of data are about £6-8 (say 8-10USD) here (1). 75 USD should be enough for 6 months service in any other western country, easily.

The cell phone bill makes me question how realistic this "simulator" is. Are the healthcare costs realistic? Obviously in every other western country these costs would be zero (or very close to zero if you don't qualify for 100% free prescriptions in the UK at least).

Is healthcare really that bad in the US? Really? Genuinely staggering if so.

1 - https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/compare/sim_only_deals/
I think a big issue you're nodding to is localized definitions.

For instance, why must you legally have a privacy policy? Because of a law in California.

What does that privacy policy entail? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You can write a privacy policy that say you are going to go out of your way to make any private information given to you as public as you can or sell it all to the king of Saudi-Arabia and if nobody reads that privacy policy then it's kind of meaningless. And very few people read the privacy policy.

People seem to think, well this is popular... so they can't be doing anything bad or someone would stop them. And with internet properties, that's simply not the case.

There's no implicit privacy or federal/global definition of what privacy rights people should have, if anything the rights are diminished the higher up the ladder you get. So people have to navigate a sea of differing definitions in massive legal documents which they aren't properly trained to do unless they already hold a law degree.
Believe or not, this fits very well as the informal curriculum of my Masters degree in Architecture and is not random at all.
> I wish the US had big construction projects like this also.

Big construction projects have big bills to pay, for both construction and maintenance. Do you also want to pay the bills?

I wish for construction projects that have big ROI. I prefer a small one to a big one if it produces the same value - just like in software.
That was entirely Samsung's fault, made worse by the fact that Samsung didn't allow customers to change the batteries in its phones.
Shady indeed.
My plum trees here in Tennessee are now blooming as well :(
>Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of cryptocurrencies though?

Depends who you ask. The cryptocurrency community thus far have been happy to participate in ICOs in which cryptocurrencies are issued from a central authority.
Intelligence services are supposed to be bound by laws and under strict oversight, because frankly history is full of the horrors that emerge when they’re left to their own devices. I think it’s good to focus on the rule of law, but worrying about he direction of technological change and application seems wise too. I’d at least like a broad discussion of it before we’re st the point of having “hue checks” at the barrel of a Dominator gun.
I was referencing the broader program of social change Mohammed bin Salman has begun to enact (driving, concerts, movie theaters, women working, anti-corruption), as contrasted to the more regressive opinions of his predecessors any likely successors.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-women-drivers-face-one-la...
Stablecoins appear to be the new ICO. USDC follows on the heels of the Gemini Dollar, and a raft of other stablecoins offered by fully-regulated bank-like entities.

Oddly, there's nothing about regulatory compliance (AML/KYC) or fungibility in the announcement.

Based purely on the article, one might get the idea that USDC can be traded between individuals without any third party oversight and in a censorship-resistant way.

It's highly unlikely this will be the case, given the potential for money laundering.

So... USDC users get a form of digital dollar that's more difficult to use than PayPal and the numerous alternatives because unlike those systems, the user must secure cryptographic material. Alternatively, the user will simply deposit USDC onto an exchange and gain absolutely nothing over PayPal and friends.

Even worse, should the user decide to make an on-chain USDC transaction, a permanent public record will be logged on the Ethereum block chain, which can be used in various ways with any information lost by Circle/Coinbase due to the inevitable data breaches (legal and illegal) to come.

I'm all for innovation in this space, but caveat emptor couldn't be more relevant.
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This idea that authoritarianism is a good way to get things done.... I’m seeing it suggested more and more. Is it true?

It makes sense on some level. But historically, is it actually true that dictators get more done?
> but the costs of the tools are prohibitive.

A device being repairable does not equate to the device being repairable by the owner only.

The cost for a tool could be prohibitive for a single person but would still make sense for a professional third party repair company.
I've seen two documentaries that really have stuck with me. One is Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (watched in multiple long parts from memory); the other is Icarus.
"A movable pointer called a 'cursor' was developed to make it easier to read numbers off more precisely. (This is likely the origin of the computer cursor!)" Etymonline corroborates this, https://www.etymonline.com/word/cursor#etymonline_v_494. So its cursor was the precursor to our cursor.
I don't think it would, but that is what the parent comment suggested.
Why not save shares of the S&P 500 index? You just sell some when you want to buy something like a car.
I find it surprising that the article makes no mention of the suppression of debate on Israel/Palestine in UK universities.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/15/academics-...
This one was seriously awesome! Thanks. Most times when people say Math is hard they are actually talking about this. All the different ways to memorize stuff which doesn't help them get intuitive in Math.
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Well I use a cooks measure for that allows you to quickly measure different things by volume flour rice etc.
Example from the article: the one about Chinese students offended by Chinese state discrimination against Tibetans. The school removed it, even though China really does. Universities are supposed to be a place of shared knowledge and diverse perspectives. Another example Berkeley, a school which, according to USA Today, "has become known more recently for its violent demonstrations between those with opposing viewpoints."
Also, the article presented overall statistics, focusing more on university trends than individuals. I think a presentation of how widespread the issue is is more impactful than attacking one particular person/university.
One thing I noticed immediately is that this person has a lot of luxuries:
1. Child.
2. Pet (went to the shelter)
> you can get Pell grants reduced if the college closes while you're attending

I think you mean Stafford loans. Grants, by definition, do not need to be repaid.
It can be traded directly. It's just an erc20 token.
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You have a child in this 'simulation'.
Because most people who saw the first 9 seasons over and over and over, thanks to syndication and DVDs, etc., haven't seen the seasons past 9 nearly as much. That's certainly true for me. I haven't seen most episodes in the past 5 years more than once or twice.

Also, the first 9 seasons were just that much better.
I assume you mean the cups that come in various containers of a particular size, because the ones I know come with a scale.
I meant having more ways to spend their money directly from their phones would allow them to avoid having to withdraw from physical ATMs, and more digital acceptance options means not having to deposit at ATMs. Those are kind of the last vestiges of the physical banking system. These problems are being solved though. Basically any time you’ve seen a “cash only” sign, it’s a blocker to totally digital banking.

Low income folks get wrecked disproportionately by the high fees associated with physical retail banking (including ATMs). They charge flat fees (like Cryptos incidentally) which function as a regressive tax on the poor. Digital banking, by virtue of not having to deal with real estate and physical assets is more efficient and cheaper.
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Could you tell us more? Where? Since when? How long is it? How well does it work? How much traffic?
I've had lots of fun using Mongo with Spark, I have found it pleasant, though most Spark libraries are good to use, including the JDBC ones. I haven't had much luck with the kind of viz where you don't first do ETL from Mongo to some tabular format.
The bridge, while very interesting as a large infrastructure project is laughably useless for many stakeholders.

Own a car in Hong Kong and want to drive across it to Macau? You need to get vehicle registration plates (some "electronic" or temporary) in 3 jurisdictions. You also need insurance for 3 jursidictions. Also, you can only drive to a parking lot outside of Macau and then transfer to public transit to enter the city. And you need to register for a parking space 12 hours before your trip. Watch this hilarious HK government video on the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3bNlB9j9o

But you don't own a car! Like most Hong Kongers, you take public transit. Surely this bridge will make it faster than the 1 hour ferry ride that leaves from 2 ferry piers in the middle of the city every 15 minutes or so all day and night. Unfortunately this isn't the case. The buses across the bridge from Hong Kong leave from the airport and take 40 minutes. You'll have to take another bus from the airport to the city at the cost of another 45 to 60 minutes.

This is a political project to show that Hong Kong and Macau are being integrated into China.

As political projects go, this certainly isn't the worst of them. It's better than the other things governments do to bolster domestic support like wars or locking up people you don't like. At least we'll all get to have a fun day trying out the bridge and something for tourists to take pictures of as they land in Hong Kong and Macau.

Perhaps in the future policies will change and it will become easy to us the bridge as a normal bridge.

If you're interested in learning more, here's a great article with more background: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/10/23/explainer-hong-kongs-t...
I mean you could at least pretend to have a charitable interpretation of their position. Apple implemented a software workaround to extend the useful life of phones with aging batteries which engineering thought would be transparent.

Then after what could only be described as a media shitstorm Apple responded to the criticism by putting the decision in the user's hands and offered battery replacements for around material cost. I mean $30 is ridiculously cheap when just the battery for my Android phone is $24 before shipping and labor. I'm honestly jealous.
The tokens only have value as long as your tokens are redeemable. Multiple things can make them non-redeemable:

* Your tokens can be tainted, for instance because they were once owned by a blacklisted address. The value of your tokens will be effectively 0.

* The issuer might run a fractional reserve (this is the accusation against Tether, the most popular stablecoin at the moment)

* The asset backing the stablecoin might not be backed by anything. It's not worth getting into FED policy here, but let's just say that a stablecoin denonminated in Venezuelan Boliviar is not attractive.

> Stablecoins seem like they would achieve most of the goals of the original cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin

The original goals of cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, to be precise) were exactly to avoid the problems that stablecoins have.
'Everything is awful and everybody should feel bad'

Still, this is an influential public figure admitting to changing his views and taking a stance on a controversial topic.

We should encourage it and hope we will see more of it, rather than whatever it is that you are doing.
Kyle got so well known for Jepsen that it became a full time thing for him. He got such a backlog that he started bringing in people to help him do the testing.
> once I have acquired dollars and wish to send them to you I must involve a third party

Cash.

(There is no way to send electronic dollars without involving a third party, though more money is laundered using dollars and euros than cryptocurrencies. I'd argue leaving a permanent, public record of transactions is a poor price to pay for decentralized electronic transmission, particularly given the centralized issuer and guarantor problem.)
I had one too, and that was somewhat to be expected with it being their very first model - especially considering that they did not even design the phone themselves.

I currently own the Fairphone 2, and that, too, probably won't last as long as I'd hope. Hell, I'm amazed that your 1 still works.

That said, the repairability is great, and I'm confident that it will still last longer than most phones. Still, the main reason I bought them was to support them in their journey towards a phone that does live up to everything they hope they achieve. As they mature, they'll hopefully be in a better position to do so. And if not, they'll at least have shown other manufacturers how to do so.
The US uses customary measures. The UK used Imperial.
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Cool, thank you. From a quick glance at the wikipedia page I saw that it could mean a whole bunch of different stuff, or almost nothing.

I'm just glad my phone is still working after dropping it in water this morning!
To be fair/accurate, the South Park generation (myself included) is no longer "young".

South Park is great if everyone is in on the joke. They tend to make fun of BOTH sides of every issue, showing the insanity and hypocrisy along the way. A smart person realizes what is right and wrong. The danger of this are those who "don't get it" and think being a giant asshole is funny/cool.

The same thing applies to Howard Stern fans. Part of his audience understands satire, and realizes the absurdity of the humor. The other part, thinks racist/sexist/offensive jokes are just hilarious.
It's still expensive, but they have been handing out discounts everywhere the past year or so.