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> is it possible for the global economy to grow until nobody has to live in mud-huts without air conditioning?

I think generally people agree with you that the answer is almost certainly yes. Given that lack of controversy, why would you choose this as "the real question"?

Perhaps more contentious would be something like "how many years into the future will the so-called 4% safe withdrawal rate remain safe?"
if you host your sqlite DBs on EC2 you can handle the backup problem by taking snapshots of the machine AMI. Then restoration is as easy as spinning up a new machine with the snapshot
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Alternate motivation: People stay engaged on the web more when pages are faster. One thing that makes pages faster is a faster browser. When people stay engaged on the web more, Google makes more money. Chrome's initial big selling point was being faster.

Disclaimer: ex-googler.
> The battery-backed DRAM really is an implementation detail. Things will execute correctly if you don't have it, but it's usually a huge performance win.

For anyone interested, especially the -N variant:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVDIMM

Back when ZFS was still new-ish, and SSDs were still expensive-ish (~2008), people were experimenting with using ZILs (ZFS Intent Log) on these types of devices:

* https://techreport.com/review/16255/acard-ans-9010-serial-at...

SSDs have come down in price since than, so people don't bother with RAM disks as much now.
Claiming that it is a simplistic aid is exactly what reinforces such stereotypes.
It's a cool way to break the barrier and gender-neutralise programming. Gender bias or not, a lot of girls simply like cool and pretty gadgets (I was one of them - not ashamed ;). Reducing inequality in any area is not denying the girls cool and pretty things if this is what some of them might want - it's allowing everyone to engage and do so in any way that lets them express themselves.
BTW - if there ever is a gadget like that for boys, I'll happily support it too!
What about the South face-defacing Wikipedia?
I downvoted because it misses the distinction between not doing evil, which Google never claimed, and not being evil. This is Google being evil.
“Mediocrity + two years of tech experience = six figures. Kids who can code and are two years out of school, who are mediocre, are making $100,000-plus in the market. What’s worse is that they believe they’re worth it. If you can code, yay for you. But you have no real hard skills or management ability.“

So, when this bubble breaks, companies will lay off the coders and have a bunch of managers managing each other into profitability? Makes perfect sense.

Implying Management is a “hard skill” and coding isn’t Is disingenuous at best.
30 says is hardly prohibitive to you. The story is much different when someone is needing to move someone who requires medical care. It may be very prohibitive to someone else, especially given that moving is very expensive, it's well known that benefits are regularly denied the first time, and they're already in a multi-year fight that can become complicated through moving.

Also, I say that this position being made is again failing to consider that 13$/hr may not be adequate. It is not strictly better- one has to pay the cost of moving, then spiral into debt assuming 13$/hr isn't enough to cover the medical expenses and living requirements of one's family. Assuming he's an intelligent man, he will likely already have examined the economics and found it doesn't check out.

I think this position is really unsympathetic and assuming an incompetence that isnt there and is overly gatekeeping. Someone is in a situation in which there are no good options due to little fault of his own, and that sucks. That's all the article is saying.
I suppose it's a matter of expectations.

I don't recall the last time that outright spam made it to my inbox.

For stuff that I forgot to tick, or untick, the right box, once marked as spam it never gets through again.
The point is that I use all kinds of tests all the time. It works fine. You aren't required to join a tribe and debate about abstract test styles.

Look at the current problem and come up with good answers to the questions:

- How do we know it works?

- How will we know it still works in a year?

...you don't always need the best answers, even. Most projects should start with honest answers and work from there.
This seems more like people having different ideas of what the word 'telemetry' means than a malicious statement meant to mislead users. Telemetry metrics were used before the digital age in diving equipment, rockets, airplanes, factory equipment, etc. Traditionally, they are used exclusively to better understand and improve the performance of the device collecting them (and nothing else).

Recent unethical practices of either using true telemetry metrics for advertising purposes or collecting data not used to improve the software under the guise of 'telemetry' have muddied the meaning of the term. I agree that the author could change the phrasing in that blurb to use a different word which has not shifted meanings in the last decade.
> Eye/o GmbH owns AdBlock and uBlock

Wow, I didn't realize the same company that owns Adblock also owns uBlock.org (but not ublock origin)
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I guess, but a very abridged version. It contains highschool-level things like trig identities, integration rules, fundamental physics and chemistry equations, values for various constants, and so on. It’s published by the national association of science teachers. The idea is making exams more about how knowledge is applied than rote memorization.
If I search for ublock with google I don't get a result pointing to ublock in the google chrome app store.

I do get results for: firefox, opera, microsoft.

coincidence?
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We have a weird relationship with death in the West. Rather than remember the dead, we delete them?
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It could be a way of taking over someone's email account, even if they are alive. It would not be difficult to fake an obituary, especially since anyone can create an account and post a short blog. Most of these sites require a photo of a death certificate, but those are also easily photo-shopped.

Imagine what sort of damage you could do if you had access, even for a day, to Tim Cook's email? Some other CEO of a Fortune 100 company? A celebrity?

I'm surprised this isn't used more often as an attack vector.
Do they have the wrong guy or is “they don’t like you” == “commit espionage against the United States”?
as a wise person once told me, go where you're appreciated, not where you're tolerated (theres obvious limits to this)
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It's interesting that US government is embracing Tor, while Germany is cracking down on it[1].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19399576
That we need to get better at naming things?
> I feel they have talented people who are massively underpaid.

They pay enough to get the talent they need * . Or in other words, if they're sufficiently staffed it's because people are willing to work there for less than market rate.

Patriotism, a chance (in some roles) to work on cutting edge tech / scale, and making a difference in the world attract people.

You can feel however you want about the agencies morally and ethically, but their work is unique.

* Subject to Congressional cooperation and government pay scales
Well I'm done with Chrome then, Firefox it is.
It is more complicated than that. The effect is minuscule and won't matter for the next million years.
DNS over HTTPS against a server you can't choose would do so, yes.
Previous discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/bbjq1o/a_type_of_p...
My grandfather is still in my contact list... just can't bring myself to remove him.
Not sure why simply blocking the ads isn't a better signal than trying to send mixed messages that they can just filter out. Ad blocking already is fighting back, is more environmentally friendly, and doesn't expose you to anything.
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https://google.com/search?hl=en&q=ublock%20origin
Yep, this was their claim. I don't know if I'd have been able to make it stick in small claims court but it was absolutely guaranteed to cost me more than $500 to find out so I just paid another, more reputable (for now, anyway...) company to redo it.
Black Mirror did an episode based on this concept (Be Right Back)
Firefox plugins are signed and quite tightly controlled, very easily blocked or banned for business or political reasons.

While there are workarounds to install/run plugins locally, they have been made quite inconvenient and inaccessible to the average user, as seen a few weeks ago with the expired certificate incident
You could make use of features that work in Firefox but don't yet work in Chrome, such as SVG favicons and position: sticky (Chrome supports but only on th elements)

There's probably a way to compile a list of such features from caniuse data.
Firefox has profiles too, although they are probably even even harder to use than containers.
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When you go to the blog/web log on the. Org site, it redirects you too the .net site, so I would guess the .net is the legit one
Thanks, I'll take it for a drive. My big concern about third party browsers built on Chromium is knowing if they're up-to-date with their security fixes. Also there's that lack of openness about all the stuff they're building on top of Chromium, which is maybe a bit rich seeing as I rely on Chrome :).
Yeah I think that user was responding to a question I had.

One of their points was Google has specific written policies about what deleting means and a team(s) whose job it is to do it and make sure it happens.
I mean, it's not that hyperbolic. Wikipedia is a highly toxic place for many people. Even the foundation appreciates this.
The "Black Models" exhibit at Musée d'Orsay has a number pieces on France's abolitionist stance in the 19th century [1].

There is also a replica of Lady Liberty in the hall at Musée d'Orsay -- you can see the chains at her feet [2].

The early abolitionist/Black empowerment movement in France is quite interesting, see Tom Weis's Pulitzer award winning biography "The Black Count"[3].

[1] https://m.musee-orsay.fr/en/exhibitions/article/black-models...
[2] https://charlescearl.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/img_0274.jp...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Count:_Glory,_Revolu...
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What OS are you using? If it's Windows, check out Resoph Notes. It's not open source but it is shareware and it's very good.
To see how Google feels about ad blockers, all you need to do is look at Chrome on Android & the fact that it does not allow extensions at all. I have personally used Firefox on Android for years because of this.

I predict Firefox will see a large uptake in market share if ad and content blockers become ineffective on desktop Chrome. I've finally switched to Firefox on the desktop now that U2F support is here, and it looks like it was just in time.
> It's actually that the developers are not capable of writing tests, reviewing code, or refactoring to a sufficiently useful level that it's worthwhile.

Or maybe it's that management pushed new features far higher up the priority list than "making code more maintainable". That has been the case in most places where i have worked.
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To be fair, "embracing Tor" is an interesting phrase, considering the FBI was actively breaking it 5 years ago: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/11/07/how-did-...
Neat, this looks really well done. I should know, I am working on something similar, and coincidentally I also posted to Show HN yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20039933 ) :-)

It seems we had roughly the same idea, an intermediate layer/DSL which is used by a generic front-end, that can control different back-ends. Looks like we have a slightly different focus (both in terms of front-end, back-end, and how to describe tasks), but I find it highly interesting and educational to look at your design and architecture, and compare it to what I came up with.

Instead of languages as back-ends, for example, I'm targeting frameworks (Ansible, Terraform, although I also intend to add a shell and powershell adapter). And I'm only just now starting to think about how to feed one tasks output into the next tasks input. I'll have a look how you did this, to get some inspiration, hope you don't mind :-)
I like the data-breaking approach to anti-tracking and ads.
I wonder if it would be more effective to fuck with cookies, like randomly scrambling your cookies with other browsers'.
This is like saying that a given browser is malicious, because it sends HTTP requests, accepts cookies and uses JS. It's a fork of Firefox (or distribution?), so you're barking up the wrong tree.
Please switch to Firefox, it's better:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?redirect_source=f...

If your favorite feature works slightly worse in Firefox, consider that its interests align with yours, unlike Google's.
Personally I'd just take it as a chance to remember that person instead of making it even easier to forget about them.
I think it will be clear that DNS based adblocking may be the only viable adblocking solution for a while.
From a strategy perspective now is a great time for all ad blockers to simply abandon Google... causing a massive outflow of users to Firefox and other browsers. There is not reason to keep making this sort of software for Chrome.
In the limit, all arguments of doom-and-gloom come true.

The same argument of destruction of solar system, milky way and our galactic super-cluster can be made for different time scales. Even universe is expected to fizzle out.

Though I agree there are no easy answers. Risk will always be there, but we should realize that hedging one type of risk exposes us to other types of risks.
Does North Face understand the image licencing here?

I can take every single one of their photos and caption it "North Face sucks, buy Patagonia" or whatever I like, and then republish it, and NF can't do anything about it so long as I give attribution.
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It is also discussed in the article.
Yeah, I forgot to add to my comment something about their Profile implementation which feels like another half baked idea.
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You could be right, but i'd be more convinced by some stats. On the occasions that i use a browser without an ad blocked, it's so intrusive and unplesant these days that I imagine plenty "non-technical" users seeking out a solution purely from the perspective of basic usability.
Password safe seems like a good idea, especially since you'll quote likely want to store credentials for the site anyway.
You could still shut down the initial DNS query for the dns-over-https provider and make it unreachable
I used a friend's phone to look at some website and was horrified that the website had added ads everywhere since the last time I visited! Then I noticed he was using Chrome, which doesn't have adblock, and apparently the web is just terrible.

Thank God for Firefox Mobile.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback. I have definitely considered doing a trial of sorts. It is something I have in my backlog.

Can you help me with this statement " I never use these tracking apps since every game, especially in sports shot, varies from lane to lane and night to night.". Are you saying that other tracking apps you have used don't allow you to track the lane patterns per lane and per night?
Making your own cheat sheet is half the battle when you are trying to learn the topic. I remember in my 4th year Stochastic Processes class [0] (back in 2005, wow) we could bring in a double sided page of notes. I wrote my sheet up in LaTeX [1] and shared it with the class, of course this made it better by having others contribute. Some didn’t understand why I would “help others out” by giving it away, but I never understood that, like a page of formulae are going to get you an A (also why not help others out?).

Of course after spending so much time developing the formula sheet and working through the example problems (always the most important thing you can do), I think I looked at the sheet twice in 3 hours during the exam.

Also, Dr. Glen Takahara, this class and your instruction are one of my fondest memories at Queen’s!

[0] http://kje.ca/school/stat455/cheat2.pdf

[1] https://mast.queensu.ca/~stat455/
Here's a pic containing the relevant sections - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7vU3AvXoAIfvFH.jpg - If it was intended as a joke, then the joke intended is a practical joke from the fallout of putting it in the report in the first place.
Or in docker on a pi..
> The deprecation of the blocking ability of the webRequest API is to gain back this control, and to further now instrument and report how web pages are filtered since now the exact filters which are applied to web page is information which will be collectable by Google Chrome.

Which means in the medium run they are looking to deal with ad-blockers altogether because if you can instrument what rules are applies to pages by the most popular blockers you know exactly how to get around those rules. Basically this is a way to dump all that data into Google's pockets so it can slowly but surely get around all of that.
So does simply using a different DNS server than the network supplies, unless you’re blocking port 53.
Indeed. The city I live in has this random-fare-inspection system, and considered turnstiles. The study's result was surprising: the additional fare from mandatory inspections was much lower than the capital and ops cost. Of course, this depends on an overwhelming majority of people being honest.

Obviously "not having too many unauthorized riders" is a very different objective from "only allowing authorized access and refusing all else".
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or maybe just don't use the browser built by an advertising company
what do you think about the new Edge browser from Microsoft, its based on Chromium.
So you would get most benefits of chrome but its from Microsoft, which personally, I trust more than I trust Google.
I guess I'm just being cynical but LinkedIn's [real] customers are being served by the swiftness of response -- the deceased persons cannot respond to their solicitations for job applicants.
So, are you claiming wind can change the total angular momentum of the Earth + atmosphere?
I switched over to Brave (chromium skin) and I'll never go back to Chrome.
Out of topic, but why is your username green?
The US government created Tor for intelligence purposes.

So it being embraced by the US intelligence community is unsurprising.
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One of the big downsides of using iOS over Android is the lack of an adblocker.

Overall I still prefer it (iOS), but definitely a pet peeve of mine.

Edit: nevermind, I'm an idiot!
Firefox Quantum is pretty good now. I've switched back recently and rarely use Chrome now as my personal browser.
Open Banking means you can access your own banks API, however if you have a lot of customers and you need to access lots of different APIs from different banks then you use an intermediary 3rd party, e.g TrueLayer and you use their API to access the open banking API of the customers bank.
I remember years ago using Peerblock, is that still a thing? When browsers starting adblockers, it became less useful/neccessary.
Same for youtube. The mobile youtube site experience is subpart compared to the app, but the app is bombarding you with ads you can't block.
SQLAlchemy Core is powerful but hardly complete; every real-world application I've written with it has ended up needing substantial hand-written SQL to cover the gaps. So I see a clear use case on top of SQLAlchemy to organize those queries.
My experience is that I’ve worked at a federal agency and at a national lab, but in the waning days of the Cold War, so things may be different now.

For tippy-top talent, I imagine it’s kind of like the same way academia can compete with tech firms. You get freedom to work on interesting problems in a relatively low pressure environment. Additionally a lot of federal agencies (ironically it might seem) are no-bullshit places to work. There’s a published pay scale and promotion schedule. You show up do the work you move up. You never get laid off. One other thing is that certain national security important roles do get paid on a higher scale than the usual GS scale.
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I was looking for the name of the CAP theorem, thanks for posting this!

HN discussed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14038013) about the issue and the post (https://blog.torproject.org/cooking-onions-names-your-onions) outlines some of the ways in which you can mitigate right now.

Cloudflare is using the 'alt-svc' header (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-onion-service/).. The CIA is not, I'd have loved it.

curl -I https://www.cia.gov/index.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/html
ETag: "<>"
Last-Modified: Tue, 28 May 2019 15:05:25 GMT
Content-Length: <>
ID: <>
SESSION: <>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 12:36<> GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: _session_=<>; path=/; domain=cia.gov; secure; HttpOnly
ID: <>
SESSION: <>
Hmm so if you don’t accept you’ll be harassed? Sounds like a disincentive to even applying.
I'm happy with 1Blocker [1] for blocking ads on iOS.

[1]: https://1blocker.com/
NewPipe fixes it.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
[0] Indeed, 'branch' is the correct term. For retail business 'branch' is the bricks and mortar space you see on a high streets for retail customers including SMEs, and for institutional 'branch' is usually head office of the country (but the only thing that matters is the relationship manager that looks after individual customers for institutional customers, the handling of business done in a shared service centre somewhere offshore).

Challenger banks, that don't have branches (well, they do in the regulatory sense, but not in the customer service sense) all seem to use MasterCard (please correct if Visa also serve them), so I'm sure there's a deal there somewhere but I'm also sure they are required by regulators to run their own general ledger as independently licensed banks, and yes existing infrastructure (it's actually quite simple to set up an ATM network of your own using existing protocols and networks). ATM withdrawals are transaction-free for the user. A challenger to payment systems is FasterPayments providing RTGS payments at low cost, who are now expanding in Hong Kong/HKD (and perhaps more).

They (challenger banks in the EU) do have very low interest rates, but seems targeted for low balances and perhaps the business model is to take advantage of PSD2 in the future for brand and financial management, I don't know, N26 makes a big deal of travel insurance and value-added services for a monthly fee of 10-15 EUR. PSD2 destroys the traditional concept of brand of a bank simply leaving the brand of the service.

Part of my background is setting up and managing shared service centres for institutional businesses, so I'm looking somewhat from the outside in the retail space as a user, but an avid user.
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