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>If I have a WiFi connection, leaving it without a password is implicit permission to use it. If I have a server that provides HTTP without authentication, that is implicit permission to access the contents.

Lol. I don't know where you got this impression, but no, it absolutely is not.

Not only is it not, but you can absolutely be prosecuted and imprisoned for accessing those networks/servers without permission.

Furthermore, that doesn't really apply in this case because not only was he not given "implicit permission to use it", the in-flight WiFi system explicitly bars you from using the internet without paying for it.
Prevent? No. Alleviate? Yes.

You can't just say "I don't think it will work" without saying why. Allowing for smaller home forms would mean affordable options in desirable neighborhoods. Do you have a reason to believe poorer families would still universally avoid those options?
OK but why can't we have just one of them running somewhere as a demonstration?
I guess one benefit of this is only one country can control a majority of nodes.
Or maybe sand-in-head.
No one is saying the should get a boost in ranking or rank well just by being an SPA. You're the one suggesting they should be penalized just for the fact they use client side rendering.

You seem to suggest that a SPA can only consist of a single `view`, when in fact there's often no discernible difference apart from the underlying architecture. Maybe we need a new word, so people stop getting confused. SPA has nothing to do with the amount of content or views a website has.

It's just as simple to create a shallow, useless website in PHP as it is in React.
It no doubt needs to be called out, but whatI'm saying is that it's already become normalized and works so they will continue to keep doing it.
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You’re proud of stalking people just to make your business succeed and want to continue “building out your pixel” (no idea what that means but I assume putting tracking scripts everywhere you can)?

Meh. I don’t even want to visit your site actually, since I’ll be bombarded with malware trying to stalk me and potentially the odd cookie banner.
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Share buybacks aren't necessarily done on a regular schedule nor do they imply the same sort of public commitment or are required to be paid for out of profits.

Saying they are just a more tax efficient alternative to dividends assumes that they are exactly substituted for dividend payments in amount and timing, but I don't think that's the case in practice.

Something that I've wondered is, if a company has excess capital why not, instead of acquisitions, dividends, or buybacks, just buy an S&P 500 index fund?
Don't kid yourself it wouldn't be absolutely unusable without them.
>Saying that a country like Romania is not ethnically homogeneous is absurd.

My team has two people who came from Romania. My company's site here has many more. I know a bunch of them. Your statement is absurd. I've had more than one Romanian literally tell me he doesn't hang out with that other Romanian because of the ethnic differences between them.

(Not hostility, just a lack of common culture).
Don't worry, Bolsonaro will fix that.
I can't open this page on my chromebook, I'm getting a

NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

Subject: dns.google

Issuer: Google Internet Authority G3

Expires on: 10 Sep 2019

Current date: 20 Jul 2019

With a further message that

You cannot visit potatofrom.space right now because the website uses HSTS.
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I thought both private wealth management and residential real estate would be disrupted by digital technologies. The perception was that these have middle-men adding little value (i.e. just buy index funds! just use Zillow!)

However, what I missed was that these jobs aren't about objective measures and efficiency. They both come down to trust between one human and another.

While it still makes "rational" sense to use online tools, people are emotionally invested in their retirement accounts and the biggest purchase of their lives. They want to be made to feel good about it. At least half those roles are to be psychologists, which at this point, cannot be done by machines or algorithms.
> Make no mistake about it: landlords have a massive advantage in any negotiation with a tenant.

This isn't a very strong argument because it applies to, eg, purchasing food at a supermarket. Worst case for a supermarket; wasted produce. Worst case for consumers; literal death. Yet the supermarkets are generally famous for being very low margin and cut-throat competitive. A tenant is only forced to move neighborhoods if the market is rising in lockstep; individual landlords can't force anything.

Moving neighborhoods due to financial stresses would be completely miserable. But unfortunately reality is unfair and if people want to live the way they like they also have to make a measurable contribution to the economy. If they are relying on the charity of other people, or the state, then they will have to put up with real inconvenience. If other people are bearing the cost, other people get to make the decisions.
I keep seeing this but it does t real jibe with facts on the ground.

Insurance is still priced based on the group you belong to. If you have a preexisting condition and you belonged to an eligible group - you worked for a company that provides insurance - they’ve always had to provide insurance regardless of preexisting condition.

The exchange group plans are priced separately.
I find that iMessage always works on my flights with United. No images though. I was surprised since the cell was off and it remembered the Wi-Fi but messages came through.
He is in high school. The defense company should offer him an internship.
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Is there any calamity that affects the young and the rich the most?
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Fact-checking the Tor Project's government ties (2018)
> Your sketches provide you with all the capabilities of full fledged electron apps. The only difference here is that they just weigh a few kilobytes instead of hundreds of megabytes. We achieve this functionality by using a shared JavaScript runtime for all your sketches.

Why is this being promoted as a feature? Of course you wouldn't want to make a copy of GUI framework for each user's project. That's quite a stretch for a per-project config files advertisement.

I would suggest adding "Show HN" tag, and "JS" somewhere in
the title.
If we can agree that profit is essentially what we call "greed," any financial risk means deceased profits, in other words less opportunity for greed. I'm not a communist so I'm not against profit, but in Marxist theory this kind of profit is seen as the problem with capitalism.
Because some major corporations would have to change their business model or even disappear entirely.
I should be free to choose between the plan or no fine

That’s fine as long as you support getting rid of laws that force hospitals to treat you whether or not you have insurance and you medical bills are not dischargeable in bankruptcy if you don’t have insurance.
You will be happy to know the send it on "airplane as luggage with passengers" business models are now seen as failures by most Silicon Valley investors as well as some YC partners. It's been 5 years and there were many of these companies - the investors got burned

How do I know? I run a YC funded company that legally imports :)
"It's almost never the case that they can make more money by keeping the rent high and units vacant."

Unless they can hold out until property values rise and they can sell for a profit.
The site's down for me.

I got a 404 and a few minutes later a Firefox "Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue" followed by this explanation:

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to potatofrom.space because this website requires a secure connection.

What can you do about it?

potatofrom.space has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

The issue is most likely with the website, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the website’s administrator about the problem.
Even though Bolsonaro is a stupid animal, his policies wrt the Amazon are only the result of capitalist thinking, which is the standard way of western society. So much so that he has strong support from the rich in Brazil and in other countries as well.

The reason Amazon is being deforested is simple: is not that they hate the Amazon and want to destroy it. Is that doing this is very profitable. You get FREE land to raise cattle and grow soy. You can get rich(er) from day to night. With that money you buy your way with politicians, both in Brazil (easy) as well as in other countries who will turn a blind eye on this. And its not only people in Amazon getting rich, Americans are buying like crazy into the cheaper meat, wood, and soy. And Americans will find this great, because now you can get "hormone-free beef", cheap "earth-saving" soy products, and beautiful, cheap wood products. People in America peddling these products are getting rich and telling everyone that they're making their lives "better". This is what capitalist society calls a "win-win".

The problem there is that making more money is not good to everyone as they want us to believe, and in particular not good for the environment, or to the thousands of native people who will die or be dislodged from their native land, or to the several thousand people that will have to toil on land stolen by others. There is no way capitalism can prevent this, because it only benefits a certain part of society that decided to live under its auspices (most of them in rich countries) - Brazilians making cents per day have close to zero power in the market. Making more money is not good for the workers that will be squeezed for this profit to happen. It is not good for the kids that will grow without education because their families are forced to participate in this process. In other words, making more money does not solve problems, it only create more problems, even if these problems are going somewhere you cannot see or care about. The world needs to break this vicious cycle of money making before we can find a solution to these grave problems that cannot be controlled under capitalism.
> religion: it impedes progress

Please don't make generalizations.

You should look up who came up with the Big Bang Theory.
Can you share a link to the design changes mentioned?
The whole let's run workers like machines idea because they are poor and they have no bargaining power is very closely akin to slavery and yet is tolerated... and not thought of as completely immoral. I mean how the fuck do you get away with limiting the ability of people to use the restroom.
They should make reproducible builds mandatory and then sign over apks built by devs. That way they don't have to be trusted specifically and that's how it must be.
> "Well you know it true and you aren't admitting it". It isn't an argument of any sort.

Most unfortunately, it's becomes impossible to make what we previously conceived of as an "argument" when one or more of the parties involved refuses to acknowledge the validity of objective reality (more commonly referred to as "facts").
I think it's pretty close to the reality. The lobby is wide open (viasat's payment gateway), but if you just use the viasat lobby key (viasat.com SNI) on any other door (IP address) it allows you access. They could prevent you from getting to the doors in the first place (whitelisting MAC address to access anything other than a whitelist of IPs instead of just TLS SNI whitelisting) but they don't, as it's especially evident when they allow other protocols when the connection is not encrypted.
The problem is today we have an entrenched and embattled NASA. Just watched the full Robert Zubrin video that was linked elsewhere in the comments.

NASA hasn't been able to get to the Moon, or Mars, because NASA has been structurally incapable of deciding to 1) go to a destination, and 2) do only the things that help to get to that destination. Instead, everyone has to protect their turf and their technology, the net result being that NASA isn't allowed to go to the moon or to mars the easy way -- they have to invent a ridiculously complicated way that keeps all of their constituencies happy and their pet project funded.
What is the principle at work behind a heat pump?
If the shortage was so bad, companies wouldn't be so picky when it comes to older workers: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/09/ibm_age_iayoffs/
>Not a single intelligence agency or diplomatic service will rely on ToR for security that’s madness... For the most part any country which can perform intelligence collection out of its embassy will have sufficient budget and and technical capacity to develop their own secure means of phoning home.

The CIA has it's own onion service:
ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion

Tor was developed by the US naval research lab, it was opened up because an anonymity network only spooks use isn't anonymous.

Smart intelligence agencies are not going to reinvent the wheel (or in this case, the onion router).

>A properly configured commercial or open source VPN is considerably more reliable and secure than ToR since you have no idea who is listening on the exit nodes

If traffic is encrypted this does not matter. (HTTPS also provides integrity checking to show messages were not modified in transit)

Also, traffic to onion services does not exit the Tor network - there is no "exit node"

>Also for highly sensitive material a diplomatic pouch is still the most secure means of transport as it never leaves your sight and is never inspected and if you do get intercepted then destroying physical media is much easier than securing network traffic to the same level of assurance.

They may use diplomatic pouches for especially sensitive information, but the need for low latency communication is strong. What's more likely is that one time pad codes for said communications are sent via pouch, and the communication itself then goes over Tor or some other channel.
You're not just saving on fuel, you're saving on waste
I don't know why the downvotes, the bus factor in this case is 1 and that's horrible.
Well yes, but bandwidth is practically free anyway. I'm not actually stealing computer resources. It's more akin to looking at the Mona Lisa through one of the Louvre's windows using a pair of binoculars.
Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190720140005/https://potatofro...
> Would it seem less ridiculous if we were talking about cash instead of art

Yes of course. Cash has no sentimental value. Only cash value. Possessions have both.

I guess the same thing happens to people when they are forced to sell their grandmas wedding ring to pay off her inheritance taxes.
As long as you ignore the 15.2% that everyone pays in social security and Medicare. There is no separate account where those taxes go. It’s just goes into the general tax budget.
One time pads[1] are an effective and cheap measure. Certain privileged diplomatic luggage (not exactly sure of the protocols) cannot be searched by the host country. You can bring them to your embassies on a regular basis.

1 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
Yup it’s a combination of protecting those who are less powerful and I would argue a way to avoid perverse incentives. If a landlord can arbitrarily raise rent, they have no incentive to perform ongoing (inexpensive maintenance). They can wait until the problems become critical and much more expensive and then pass those costs onto the tenant. With rent control the landlord knows they have to control costs and has more incentive to perform the cheaper preventative maintenance.
The article is great a sample of the way Bolsonaro thinks.

There must be a stage in infant development where the child is still unable to extrapolate and can't fathom that things exist outside of their own immediate line of sight. Bolsonaro is basically stuck in that stage of intellectual development.

Basically, he interprets reality strictly through the synthesis of his own everyday experiences + "news"/memes shared by fans through social media. A corollary to that is that he's utterly incapable of synthesizing data, statistics, analogies, etc -- basically any kind of abstract thought -- into his own worldview. Thus, when those pieces of abstract thought contradict his day-to-day experiences, he immediately dismisses them as "communist propaganda" or "fake news". In his own sense he is right -- in his reality, those things are not real because reality is only what he himself experiences or gets through memes.

Amazon deforestation can't be real, because he flew over the Amazon and saw many trees.

Europe has no forests, because he traveled through it and didn't see any.

Brazil has no hunger problems, because he never saw any hungry-looking bony person on the streets.

All of these examples are literally things he has said.
Chattel slavery is only one form of slavery.
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Is there any way to search the internet except for all the advertising supported sites?
Because if you don't know where traffic is going or coming from it's harder to infer what the message is about.
I dont think ive ever seen a fast car on a dense city street (difficult to go fast when theres gridlock) whereas speeds above 55 mph were common on the 'nice' suburban street I grew up on
At least in SF, there is a cap on maintenance pass through, something like $60 per month.

If you’re maintaining a 100 year old building, it would be very easy for costs to exceed that cap.
I started reading this thinking it was going to be a long form piece. What I thought was the intro was interesting enough to get me hooked and then it abruptly ended.

If anyone is wondering what Ikigai means without clicking, it's a Japanese concept that (apparently) can be interpreted to mean the intersection of what you're passionate about and what you're good at.

I guess it doesn't need anymore explanation than that.
A sister team under the same director offered a relevant platform, and we couldn't really turn it down. We went with an architecture based on human relationships instead of technical merit. The team sitting next to me, facing the Sisyphean task of operating a correct and reliable product on this platform, all burned out and left within a year.

I've taken away the opposite of your #1.
Yes, it makes both connections highly unstable. Not recommended.
The problem with having the government step in is that well, the vast majority of the population would disagree with any attempts to limit consumerism/things that may damage the environment, and any politician who tried them would be a political pariah.

I mean, imagine a government actually trying to limit how often people/companies could fly/run planes, how much meat they're allowed to have, what kinds of cars were allowed, etc.

The immediate reaction would basically be:

A: Most of the population flat out ignoring them and their attempted guidelines, leading to bad press if they tried to enforce them.

B: The opposition having a golden opportunity to win over the current ruling party's supporters with claims they'll revert said changes after the next election.

C: Said main party's polling support crashing straight through the floor as most of their supporters abandon them.

D: Tons of bad press in general, especially if certain people/companies seem to be 'getting away with' behaviour they don't allow the rest of the population to indulge in. You can already see this (for good reason) with complaints about stuff like Davos and how all these politicians and actors/celebrities are taking private planes everywhere.

E: Their own party members jumping ship, especially if it's a larger/established party which went all eco intense.

F: If things got bad enough, outright civil war/revolution/military coup/riots/etc. And given the percentage of people who'd back such restrictions/law changes is so tiny, it probably wouldn't end in their favour.

The government stepping in would (if done as strictly as some articles/guidelines suggest), lead to a lot of civil instability and any political party implementing it basically collapsing.

So the options are basically either 'hope everyone becomes more environmentally conscious (unlikely)', 'get the government to step in' (unlikely, may lead to wars and revolutions, would sink their reputation), 'hope some sort of invention makes carbon capture much easier/resource efficient or makes clean energy super cheap'.
It's such a gross misuse of the word.

Amazon employees are voluntary and by definition would rather have the job than not. It's nothing like slavery. Saying it is waters the concept down and is incredibly disrespectful to those who were actual slaves.

That doesn't mean the job shouldn't be improved, but anyone equating it to slavery loses all credibility and can't be taken seriously.
I just gave you evidence of that, and no, I'm not interested in censoring that evidence.
Seems to me that being curious about things and documenting how they work is a very junior-accessible thing to do. But a junior probably wouldn't have identified this as needing to be done.
So you found yourself as a big fish in a little pond? You prefer to be the small fish in a big pond (lake / ocean)?

You can learn a lot by teaching others. You can learn by leading.

On the other hand, if you run into a situation I ran into where I joined a company where I was going to learn new. And the senior people all left, and myself not knowing anything, became the senior. Then I recommend: 1) find a mentor to help you 2) find another job. I was blamed for the lack of progress as we struggled with the tech the prior people had selected and partially built.
Last year I was on a flight and my phone buzzed, which was odd. I looked down and it had somehow connected to the WiFi without my doing anything and started getting chat messages.

I tested further and my WiFi was totally unrestricted. I was able to download a show from Netflix at 20Mbps+ ... does anyone know what happened? I didn't even think planes had WiFi that fast and I definitely thought they blocked all streaming video domains.
Modern-day slavery looks like someone kidnapping you and forcing you to work in a brick kiln because they showed you the equivalent of $200 USD before taking it away from you and so now you "owe them money".

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27486450
Practices differ between warehouses and at different times, depending on volume.
Tesla drops restraining order request against allegedly dangerous short seller