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Not possible because the domains are pointed to the webserver from a different host. It has to be done manually with:

`certbot certonly -d $1 -d www.$1 --manual --preferred-challenges dns-01`

The TXT records have to be edited manually then checked with DNS Toolbox. Once visible certbot can be allowed to process.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18556722
I'd like to know some estimate of the rate of disabling or deadly accidents per mile ridden to appreciate the scale of the problem.

The lack of gear and training probably makes accidents worse than they would be. But how frequently and how severe?

> "Some of these injuries have been life-threatening; others have left people permanently disabled."

How many does "some" represent here? Definitely some fraction of the total injuries, which "could be as high as 1,000 per month."

Why "could be?" How uncertain is that figure and what other reasonable estimates of injury rates are there??

On the one hand, the "vast majority end up getting discharged with cuts and scrapes," but on the other hand, "some people may need lifelong care."

How many? And why are you hedging with "may?"

There are some specific numbers in the article-- but they are for individual emergency rooms, without the additional context necessary to extrapolate from that ER over any large regions. And then the information from different ERs ranges so widely as to appear to contradict each other.

I left the article with two takeaways:

1) I assume this is a very real problem.

2) I hate how we reward nonspecificity and anecdotal evidence in journalism. The problem's serious enough to at least take a shot at metrics that would help us to compare it to other social problems, like motorcycle or car or pedestrian injuries.
AI actually significantly effective in practical business would be strongly deflationary and put a lot of people out of work. The deflation would hurt people who have loans on real assets.

Then the good news is, the Fed just prints enough money to counter the deflation, and with the cheap money can hire people, if not for anything very practical then for things that are fun, e.g., high end home decorating, art, pure math and science, far out projects in computing, gorgeous roads, bridges, buildings, gardens. Then also for more things that are practical, e.g., medical research, curing cancer.
That's only possible when the domain is hosted on the same network as the site. Doesn't apply in this case. See above.
No enterprise is using the base windows image that came from Lenovo with the superfish malware. They all build their own standard operating environment image that would not include the Lenovo bloatware. I would be surprised if Lenovo enterprises even realized they were shipping this way and have no reason to react negatively. Their competitors also live in glass houses and so cannot throw stones.
Agreed it’s tiny.. hopefully this fine implies that future infractions may carry much more serious penalties
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Whatever happened to the Web of Trust thing? We could have a curated one so that an extension can indicate:

- whether the domain is substantially similar to a trusted one
- recent data breaches
- whether the site has been known to sell data

Those could be indicated by different, intuitive colors:

- red - high likelihood of phishing/malware
- yellow - recent data breach; user intervention required, but the service itself isn't fraudulent
- green - reasonable safe
- green padlock - trusted

It would be awesome to get all major browser vendors on board to ship it by default, and make sure that data is never sent upstream (download a database).
Understandably.
But they train the dogs to provide false positives, and then they arrest you anyways.
> could just tip a paper a dollar or so when I read something good, they'd make a lot of money out of me. But I can't.

The Guardian has it. But they are an exception.

On the other hand I tried to make a paper subscription of the Guardian [1]. Despite searching for an hour, I could find no way how to order the paper. Maybe another case of rejecting the customer willing to pay, because nobody could possibly want that service... Should have called them, but they weren't open at the moment.

[1] for my daugther who wants to prepare for her English exam. Freshness of the news is less an issue than having it it in a comfortable format for studying. She hates that many of her school books are only online today. Online could have some advantages, but most implementations by school book publishers are rather poor.
> Milton Friedman always said it’s rare to find monopolies form in a free market

Why would that be true? Once a company becomes big enough, it has resources to squash competition in various ways.
It's hard to not mention and ascribe some degree of responsibility to the government. This is especially true of current events books written with a majoritarian viewpoint, which believes that the government has a strong role to play in the market. The only writers/journalists/etc that I've seen advocate for a non-state oriented POV are Austrian libertarians, and I have encountered very few of them.
It was a close call. For a number of months there it looked like RSS was going to be well and truly dead.

The fact that my comment is being downvoted tells me that people here have a shockingly poor memory for this sort of thing.

And heck, it's not even the death of Google Reader that was bad for RSS. The life of Google Reader was bad for RSS too. It was a "good enough" product released for free, as in good enough that it wasn't worth trying to compete with a free product so nobody did, but it wasn't actively maintained and just served to cause the entire RSS ecosystem to stagnate for years.
Yes. I complain about them on the sidewalk if there are any number of people there. If you’re not comfortable riding on the street don’t do so and try to get the configuration changed so you are more comfortable.
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The danger of a monopoly is supposed to be that it can crush all competition, and stay a monopoly forever.

If monopolies can routinely be outcompeted, then what is there to be concerned about with them?
What would the lawsuit be? WE would have to show standing, no problem there. Damages, no problem there. Discovery would be interesting to say the least.

Is it fraud? Is it criminal?
What would be the charges?

Is it lieing to the public, other webmasters?

Forcing so many to waste time working on sites to make G happy, knowing that they will never achieve ranks without being mentioned in newsy articles on a select few sites that are not going to write about them?

From the public statements of how all this was created, it would seem to me they had every intention of misleading web site makers - causing them to fail, causing them to spend more time working on content - working on disavow lists - spend money on SEO help - all knowing that those things were going to fail.

They encouraged people to do things they knew would not work. They told people not to do things that are working for other sites that are in the top.

The intended to frustrate those people who had done things to gain search positions - intentionally causing mental anguish and suffering or something.

What would the lawsuit really say though?

I think the Missouri(?) attorney general did some legal maneuvering around this like 2 years ago, but I never heard anything about it since the initial announcement.
>Actually, following French where male grammatical gender is used when the actual gender of the referent is unknown, fiancé is also the generic term.

I did not know this, thanks.

>Words with semantic, but not grammatical, gender are not uncommon in English which lacks grammatical gender.

Are you referring to words like actor vs. actress?
So there was no trade before "government" was invented?
You could go the other route and only use apps from F-Droid. Speaking from experience, it works quite well.
> Under current state law, people must wear helmets while riding these vehicles, which can travel at 15 mph. Bird sponsored a bill in February to get rid of that law, which passed in September. Starting January, helmets will no longer be required for scooter riders in California.

> Bird said its goal in sponsoring the legislation was to create "consistent ridership rules" between e-scooters and e-bikes since helmets aren't required with e-bikes.

So they are actively working to enable more severe injuries and cloaking the move in an appeal to "consistency". That seems pretty grotesque to me.

(Why aren't helmets required with e-bikes!?)
This is definitely a step forward in thinking regarding 'personal data control', but if you imagine 'data brokers' as the potential attacker here, and assume that their goal is to sell your information to the highest bidder, they still have some opportunity here.

They could/would form 'data validation' companies who would investigate the plausibly-deniable facts you had been distributing. For example, the validator could buy your age from five different vendors and likely end up with a pretty good approximation of your real age.

Ok, perhaps this creates a 'data marketplace' and there would be competition - but the situation is ultimately very similar to credit scoring agencies (Equifax et al), and clearly something is wrong in that industry.

There'd be ample opportunity for these data validators to follow the same pattern as credit scoring agencies and charge third parties for access to the validated data. And possibly even charge people to have details corrected. Regulation might help, but regulatory capture happens.

Some good ideas here and it'd be great to develop this further and make it more robust from attack.
> If you are a tourist you'll get accommodation and travel tickets to these "reviving" towns (free of charge) as well. https://www.detouur.com/rikuzentakatamain/

This particular example you gave, while probably cheap, is not free (~$225/day)
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I’d really like to use git repos for fiction; use commits and forks and merges to tell a story that is far larger than any snapshot of the repo’s content. This could be as simple as creating a fictional creative process for some work, or as complex as an entire fictional community collaborating on a document
I look forward to a day when the rich command shells are treated no differently than the other 99% of command shells. Shell inequality is not discussed enough and often pushed under the rug. Only with open dialog and full transparency can we combat this injustice.
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Possible alternative method is to hire and train students to be observers, both covert and overt. Put them into classes as if they were students, and those students Would then Evaluate that professor. It could work especially cross colleges, where those students will never naturally take classes by that professor.
I work for White Ops, which could reasonably be considered a verification vendor, though we prefer to be known as a security company.

As you can imagine, specific techniques used for detecting fraudulent monkey patching (or even whether we attempt to do so) aren't generally something I can talk about.

That said, there are a few slides about the cat-and-mouse games of .toString() here (starting about page 20): https://rya.nc/shmoo17 [PDF]

In short, using .toString() will find naive monkey patches, however it can be overridden to varying degrees of cleverness.
> On the one hand, the "vast majority end up getting discharged with cuts and scrapes," but on the other hand, "some people may need lifelong care."

> How many? And why are you hedging with "may?"

That's a quote from a doctor about specific cases that went through a specific hospital he works at. That's why.

I've posted the full quote below, for context. Ironically, the journalist went through the effort of giving some very concrete numbers:

> Doctors in Dell Seton's emergency room say they're seeing about 10 injuries a day.

> "The vast majority end up getting discharged with cuts and scrapes, maybe a broken bone," said Ziebell. "But some injuries are significant."

> The hospital has seen 37 severe traumas since April: eight head injuries, 23 orthopedic injuries, four facial injuries and two "other" injuries. In October alone, doctors say 18 people were admitted to either the intensive care unit or surgeries with overnight hospital stays.

> "The folks that had severe head injuries, they're in for a long course of rehab," Ziebell said. "Some people may need lifelong care, like a nursing home."
Earlier in my career. I've noticed the more years I've been developing software, the easier it is for me to understand other people's code.

Also, when I see a codebase I don't understand, if I'm paid to work with it, I spend my time learning the stuff. Debugging tools help: traditional general-purpose debuggers, graphics debuggers like pix/renderdoc, network tools like wireshark/fiddler, OS-based tools like strace/procmon. For different projects different ones are the most useful, sometimes even custom built tools are most useful.
> Markets only exist in the first place because of "government help": without government creating and enforcing property law contract law, and numerous other laws, there would be no markets.

We have archaeological evidence that trading networks (and over fairly long distances, at that) existed long before anything we'd recognize as formal contract law was around, and certainly long before anything like international laws and regulations.

Likewise, one of the first things that develops when a government collapses (or, conversely, becomes overly restrictive) is a robust black market.

Contracts can be (and are) made in the absence of government-enforced contract law all the time. The parties to the contract simply develop their own mechanisms for enforcement (which can range from social pressure to outright violence).

Surely you're not trying to argue that drug dealers are likely to sue each other in court when one of them breaks the deal?
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I mean, the first 1 million Lambda invocations and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute are free each month... you can do a lot of things within the free tier alone. That free allocation represents about $7 worth of Lambda resources. Assuming that it cost the same to write your application to run in Lambda as it would to write it as standalone, which it almost certainly doesn't due to (probably) immature frameworks, that would be really nice for certain businesses. I agree that it is a niche, and savings of a few dollars a month aren't generally valuable to viable businesses.

What I was getting at is that the "scale to zero" feature with Knative is rather worthless if you spend more money just running the Kubernetes master on EKS alone than you would spend running a $5 or $10 per month DigitalOcean instance.

Lambda scales all the way to zero, and it's free when it's at zero. You just pay for what you use. Actually, you pay for what you use minus $7, since every account always gets the free tier for Lambda.
IP laws? The algorithm behind PageRank was published in Larry and Sergey's dissertation. Amazon started as an online bookstore. Facebook was not the first social network by a long shot.

I think IP laws and patent wars are a lot more salient when it comes to hardware (like Apple, Samsung, Motorola, etc), less so for those 3 examples.
> airlines were heavily deregulated in 1978.

With regard to the routes they could fly and the prices they could charge, yes. But they were never de-regulated with regard to the safety requirements they had to meet or the qualifications their pilots and crew and maintenance workers have to have. Those regulations have, if anything, gotten more stringent over time. And those regulations pose a huge barrier to entry for new competitors, and favor large airlines over small ones because a large airline can more easily absorb the costs of compliance.
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Silly as it may sound! but any suggestions appreciated
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Been riding motorcycles for 16 years. Took a lime for a ride. Couldn't believe I even need a license and 1 year on L/P for my bike... I didn't feel safe on that thing, at all.
While I think copyright was a very relevant law when selling boxed products, it's less clear that copyright is the relevant law in the age of SaaS. I think trade secrets law is much more relevant these days.

And in any case, many tech giants exist around natural monopolies, either in network effects, either obvious ones, or those from two sided marketplaces or simply economies of scale.
Speaking of monopolies, anyone heard of JA Konrath? http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ He wrote the blog a newbie's guide to publishing. During that time he discovered publishing his refused books on Amazon KDP because the big 6 publishing companies had rejected them.

He used to be an advocate for signing with a big publishing company, and suffering their 17.5% royalty + marketing costs. Most large published books never out earn their advances your chops.

But his refused books kept growing in sales with Amazon Kindle. The books he did publish with traditional publishes kept insisting on high prices to keep the paper backs competitive. Eventually he switched to just publishing on Amazon KDP as the future and eventually got the rights to his books back.

The above book is published by Wiley. The digital version listed on Wiley's site is $14.95, the hardback is $27.95, while the amazon hardback is $18.27. The Kindle version is listed for $11.99.
So yes, in a normal case, one would expect to be safe because they are using their own built image. But Lenovo went much further than simply installing crapware, they added a firmware that updates files on startup in the OS to ensure that they had a way to install whatever they wanted onto your system [1].

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...
You can read stuff as the text scrolls flying by.

Without acceleration it's a blur.
I've been skipping through Deadspin in my RSS feed for years now, but I was really pleasantly surprised at how readable and in depth the chess articles were when they popped up (speaking as someone who hasn't played a competitive game of chess in 25+ years). It definitely hit the sweet spot for me in terms of being both understandable and enlightening.
In my opinion, both lead to monopolies and oligopolies.

Ekianjo is right, in the sense that entities with lots of capital will become rent-seeking entities in over-regulated/mis-regulated markets because of very high barriers to entry. Examples include ISP's and insurance markets.

You are also right, in the sense that entities will rush to control a heavily de-regulated market. To that end, companies with lots of capital can afford to outspend or acquire their undersized competition. Examples include Air-transit post-1978 and the Internet 2.0.

There isn't one single legislation that led us here and there is no one-size-fits-all solution that can solve each monopoly. We have to evaluate each industry and each market on its own to determine how the state would break the oligopoly.
The distinction between proximate and ultimate causes is deeply relevant for science and scientists.

For instance, when oceans change, such as el nino, la nina, reversals of enduring currents, or even new connections between seas due to tectonic transformations, that is properly a cause of climate change -- regardless of how much that change is, in fine, mediated by the atmosphere. Atmospheric changes are demonstrably not the only, nor the ultimate causes, of climate change.
Great, another of numerous ways for us to lie to each other.
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Lenovo is known to install rootkits in their devices [1], which an OS image will not prevent.

Do you have a citation for Lenovo's competitors installing comparably vulnerable malware?

[1] https://threatpost.com/lenovo-hit-with-criticism-over-second...
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Huh, that's why that comment is attracting downvotes...

That has to be the least charitable reading ever. Do you seriously need me to spell out "In the case of a tie after the 12 games under the regular time constraints" while defending my math?
> Why does the author refer to this as "fake capitalism"? Isn't this what capitalism is?

The author appears to be conflating the terms "capitalism" and "highly competitive markets", which are not at all the same thing. "Capitalism" is, as you say, perfectly compatible with regulatory capture and co-opting the government to help stymie potential competitors; in fact that is exactly how the "capitalists" of the late 19th century in the US operated.
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In my view, no business can grow beyond the size of, say, a mom-and-pop grocery store or a family farm without a number of government institutions that we take for granted: The money system, limitation of liability, police, the tort system, and so forth.
Peter Thiel has made similar remarks. He said that IT has been only area to see major progress in recent decades, in contrast to e.g. transportation, because it is relatively unregulated. (Hence Twitter rather than flying cars.) Of course, Thiel also holds the view that monopolies are often a good thing.
He was wrong
I would question if it's ever possible to have "free markets" at all (it's definitely not in the neoclassical sense, which relies on the assumption of everybody having the same, perfect information of all prices).

Let alone in actual societies where anything like laws exist. So I think what comes more through in that quote is more Friedman's ideology around Government intervention than any actual practical economics.
I bet you could implement a fast-enough terminal in QUIC, and keep the idea of non-permanent connection.
To add to this, while the Superfish issue only affected their consumer laptop lines (e.g. IdeaPad), the LSE issue was found on their enterprise lineup (e.g. ThinkPad).
Yup, a good way to understand why RDBMS are they way they are is to try to make your own in whatever language you choose.
I've done this on a very elementary scale making a built in DB for a past project, at first it was single threaded, but when you start considering indexing and the datas structures necessary, it makes you understand and appreciate the man hours that have gone into projects like SQLite, PostgreSQL etc.
At first you think, oh I can just write my own database, but when you start getting into areas and the CAP theorem starts to create problems, you really understand why anything past a local machine only ephemeral KV store is asking for trouble.
I'm using graphql-go/graphql at the moment. Sparse documentation, but everything seems to work correctly. I'm not too familiar with the Python GraphQL stuff, but here I'm writing my own schema and resolvers, so I guess it depends on what you mean from "by scratch."

If you need something off the ground ASAP, maybe look at something like Hasura or Postgraphile: point it at your DB and get the GraphQL resolvers.
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I'm not sure how careful this author is with checking his facts. One example that I quickly spotted:

"Delta has an 80 percent market share in Atlanta and 77 percent in Philadelphia, while in Dallas-Fort Worth it has 77 percent."

The last two are fortress hubs for American Airlines (Philadelphia used to be US Airways until they merged with American), not Delta.