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In most countries, including the EU.

If you have a laptop and configure your DNS automatically, you are using whatever DNS is configured by hotels, airports, coffee shops, etc. You have no privacy whatsoever when it comes to DNS requests and you have no control over this until you manually configure your DNS (which most users don't even know how to do). The default configuration of laptops is to use whatever they are told to use automatically. In most places the only safe assumption is that multiple nation states are actively monitoring and aggregating every single DNS request you make and the practical reality is that that is actually exactly what happens.

The sad reality is that ISPs in most places don't lift a finger to protect the privacy of their users and actively facilitate policing, censoring, and monitoring of their user's DNS traffic; even when they are not required to (which they are in most places). Your trust in them is completely misguided.

I live in Germany. I know that my ISP works with the German government to help them censor me accessing certain websites by blocking DNS. I also know that they collaborate with lawyers going after individual p2p users. And I know it has a history of serving advertisements on domains that don't resolve (something I opted out of years ago). I also know DNS traffic data is routinely shared between different nation states and that this practice has little or no oversight.

In so far they are not actively sharing data (which they are), they can also be relied apon to be generally incompetent when it comes to operating and securing their infrastructure and you'd have to assume that foreign intelligence agencies have been actively helping themselves to whatever information they can extract that way for decades.

If you are wondering, my ISP is O2. I'd switch but Germany has a state protected ISP oligarchy and the other ISPs are not really much better.

Mozilla protecting users from their privacy being violated like this by default is a net improvement in most places in the world. Anyone who cares about their privacy enough already configures their DNS manually and probably also uses a VPN and can continue to do so. But for those not capable of figuring this out, this is a massive improvement of their default level of privacy. The status quo for that is that they have none whatsoever in most places when it comes to DNS. It's hard to do worse than that.
it would just spagettify the earth long before it reaches the center.
Ah I've never used any of those apps I just sort of assumed they're free.
Those numbers are based on random zones nobody cares about largely being auto-signed by registrars, which is security theater. Instead, look at popular/major sites, and count how many of them are signed. Look at sites run by actual security teams and note that virtually none of them except for Cloud Flare, which sells DNSSEC services, sign their zones.

Obviously people can stop using DNS servers altogether and run recursive resolvers (and, of course, expose all their queries to their ISP, which is precisely the problem DoH is trying to solve). And, as you know, effectively nobody does this. Obviously, browsers can add support for DNSSEC. But they've done the opposite thing: they've piloted it --- at Apple, at Mozilla, and at Google --- and then later withdrew support.

DNSSEC is a dead letter. It has no operational relevance today; the root keys could be Pastebinned and no site on the Internet would be compromised. And after 25 years of pointless effort, no meaningful adoption has occurred; rather, it has been un-adopted from the few places that tried.
>I’ve been wondering what they both share in common, and suspected that both forms of dietary restriction mean cutting out most hyper palatable ultraprocessed foods.

I would suggest that it's rather about setting a goal, working hard towards achieving it, and seeing measurable results of your work.
[Cough] Gov't consulting companies would like a word.
The collision case is screaming for a "What If"-style exposition, as in https://what-if.xkcd.com/
"On the other hand for offshore wind farms in Denmark the normalised load factor falls from 39% at age 0 to 15% at age 10."

https://www.ref.org.uk/attachments/article/280/ref.hughes.19...

The title should say has the capacity to power 1M homes. No wind farm ever generates to capacity. And they age very quickly.

This tech maybe better and last longer than in the quoted, but it will still degrade over time. So in 10 years maybe it will be 20%?

Wind is not reliable – so where does the power come from when the wind is not blowing? If you say batteries, then you need excess generation (a lot) and a lot of batteries.
I think a black hole with earth mass would be much more dangerous than earth itself.
I worked in wind energy visualisation and attended many community presentations - I've been up-close to these protests. It's not just about aesthetics, concerns range from fear of lowered real-estate value, low frequency health scares, wildlife concerns, shadow flicker and so on. Like you, I think they are beautiful - however at least here in Holland, that is generally not the case. I've seen a Vestas V164 in the flesh at a testing facility in Denmark and it was quite possibly the most incredibly man made object I've ever seen. With a 164 meter rotor diameter, your eyes almost can't work out how to focus on the blades - especially if you're standing directly under it. One moment the blade tip is close to you, and moments later it's 160 meters away. Amazing stuff.
Enough people lack the financial literacy to understand the difference between risk and recurring costs.

Unfortunately, nobody wants to change this because insurers love charging premium rates for low risk recurring costs, providers love obscuring their prices, and consumers have come to demand their insurance covers “the basics”.
Only when they cleared their orbits, around the beginning of the solar system. Doubt they'd see much impact now.
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If I’m not mistaken, they’ve open sourced their “fork” (actually more of a rewrite than a fork).

https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun/

Which is more valuable to the community? I don’t really think you can quantify it.
I generally agree with what you're saying.

However, if you've ever used any of these sites with a profile in a sparsely populated rural zip code, it's a pretty grim situation and I can see how fake profiles could arguably make people feel better than having absolutely nothing to even swipe on.

If the fake profiles don't go beyond just filler status, i.e. they don't reply to messages and lead people on, it doesn't strike me as that big of a deal. It's just more like entertainment and time wasting than anything actually helping you find a mate. But if you live somewhere literally devoid of eligible candidates, it's not like the dating web site (or anything other than moving) can fix that.
Appearently most research says that many, even most people claim to want to not interact with anyone but when they actually test them they're happier when interacting.

This apparenrtly comes up in research on all the ways we've gotten rid of interaction. ATMs replaced bank tellers at the start and now you can order a coffee on your phone and walk in and pick it up all without talking to anyone. Most people love that but the research suggests they'd be happier if they interacted with the barrista and the teller. Yes I'm sure you can recall jerk tellers or barristas but on average they aren't jerks.

In other words their feeling that being able to interact with as few people as possible which they think will make them happier is actually having the opposite effect. This research includes introverts like myself. I love feeling self sufficient. I can go to a new city and basically talk to no one. I use Google Maps to find my way around. Buy train tickets online or tram tickets from kiosks, etc.. but apparently I'd be happier if I ask people how to get some place and sure I'm happy I can get tickets easier than waiting but that convience apparently needs to be replaced by interacting with more people not less.
Well... no, a carbon tax can/should be sufficiently high to cover those externalities. I'd support that. I'd probably wouldn't be able to afford a car at all anymore, which would be much more environmentally friendly than an electric car.
Probably but it would take a while. Any relative angular momentum between the Sun and the black hole would result in the hole orbiting the Sun since an earth mass is tiny compared to the Sun. It might well orbit beneath the surface of the Sun, sucking up plasma as it orbits. How long would it take to "eat" the Sun? The calculation could be done but it's tricky; the hole grows as the Sun shrinks, and that causes the mass transfer to accelerate. And the Sun is denser in the middle and the hole will spiral inward as it grows to keep the center of mass of the system in the same place, etc etc.

It's possible there are one or more black holes orbiting inside the Sun right now. They might be the reason sunspots exist.
Out of curiosity, would we know if a random planet or star system was made of antimatter rather than matter? Is there a spectral difference? Would gamma radiation from interaction with any local matter be the only indicator?
Its actually compressed down to a point. A singularity. The 9mm is just the radius from the point from which nothing can return.
Second the pressure cooker. I can go from zero to an amazing lentil soup on the table in about 15-20 mins. I'm super lazy so for flavoring I use bouillon and dry seasonings. Everyone loves it.
Forks aren't abandonment. And at this point, the market determines which chains are abandoned, it's not a single actor that has any sort of control.
To paraphrase Neal Stephenson, "The earth blew up without warning and for no apparent reason."
> Git was released in 2005, four years before Bitcoin

Now I have a suspicion who was that mysterious Satoshi who had remarkably good industry-grade software skills.
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'circle jerk' is hardly the right term, this is more like mafia, insider ism, or maybe just normal human behzvior
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Deadbolt only guy here too.
and wildy change Earth orbit
I'll chime in with my experience in Austria:

* If I have a cold, I go to a doctor without appointment and if I'm unlucky, I have to wait for 2 hours. Usually it's 30-60 minutes.

* If I have a specific thing that requires a specialist, I may or may not have to get a referral from a general practitioner first. Most specialist don't really need it, but for an allergy test I needed to get one. This puts me at 2 x 60 minutes wait time.

* Costs are close to nothing. Drugs will cost a little, up to around 6€ for a pack of meds. I have to pay 2€ for a doctors visit due to the specific insurance provider I have, which is okay. I needed to pay 12€ for an x-ray because it wasn't an emergency.

* My austrian insurance provider payed more than half of a hospital trip I had to take during vacation in Taiwan. Total cost of the trip to the hospital without insurance was 130€, which included check by the doctor, pain medications and some medical equipment. I had travel insurance, but I didn't use it because I was left with a bill of just 60€.

* A few times I was angry because a doctor only took 5 minutes time, prescribed some pain meds and sent me on my way. Told me all I can do right now is wait until it gets better. Turns out, that was the case.

* If it's an emergency, you get treated immediately.

I wouldn't trade our system for anything. It's not perfect, but it's perfectly fine.
I want to eliminate the stupid parts. Commerce clause can go, too.
A container, for example?
Even more incredible, this guy has a patent on recharging mobile devices? Filed in 2012?! Does the US patent office even read submissions before approving them? Or are they just dinosaurs who have never even used a mobile phone up to 2012?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9448603B2/en?inventor=Le...
> DoH is a vendor-neutral protocol.

But there are still gaps regarding discovery of DoH servers.

> DoH is simply DNS transmitted over a secure encrypted medium, whereas existing DNS is transmitted over an insecure unencrypted medium.

I think you're confusing DoH and DoT.

> It's very similar to HTTP vs HTTPS.

No, it isn't.

1)It is common to HTTP-redirect to HTTPS, and none of the DoH proponents have proposed/standardised discovery of DoH, as far as I can tell.

2)DoH means that suddenly many "features" of HTTP infect DNS, such as cookies. The RFCs allow for cookies, the question is, what cookies does Mozilla send in DoH requests, and what does Cloudflare do with them?

> Somehow, groups that stand to gain a lot by continuing to be able to read and intercept DNS traffic have led a successful astroturfing campaign against DoH by conflating it with one specific implementation in Firefox that happens to use Cloudflare as default provider (though of course with the ability to choose other providers, as you can for search engine).

Not only "groups that stand to gain", but users who stand to lose more privacy by exposing their DNS requests to Cloudflare by default.

DoH may be good (I think DoT would be better), and surely Mozilla could do a better job of encouraging DoT and/or DoH support by working to get better discovery of DoH and/or DoT instead of forcing all DNS traffic (for users it has identified are in the U.S., and by the way, how does it do that without additional privacy concerns) to a (to me) un-trusted third party.

Actually, I think in my country, if they do this, Mozilla would fall afoul of traffic interception laws.
The ground or the entire planet cannot remain in its current form anywhere near a black hole. There would be no ground for the black hole to sink to.

Besides wouldn't the 'ground' gravitate towards the black hole than the other way around?
>You should always drive engineering excellence, but you shouldn't be driving day to day decisions/execution unless the company is very small and you are still having to play architect, coder etc. Once you have team leads and teams, you should be pulling back and setting direction and standards but not dictating implementations etc.

I'm going through this on a smaller scale and have been evolving through my responsibilities for around three years.

I started as the only engineer with total control over a next generation system for a client, then for the last year and a half I have been making the painful transition from solving problems myself to trusting others to solve them.

I've grown a small team from nothing to three highly reliable members by doing much of what you suggest and following similar themes.

My responsibilities have been partitioned among them, group methods and practices have developed between us all, and finally, there is a capable group of people to carry on and evolve my hard work, which is now becoming their hard work. One of the best parts is that they actually produce higher quality work than I do, because I create buffers from business pressure and give them longer runways, so there is more time for attention to detail.

I'm in the process of handing over my duty as team lead to one of them and I'm pushing my way into helping our CTO with product design (and essentially anything else that comes up), where I hope to leverage my understanding of our various teams and business context.

I am evolving my role for the third or forth time by now, and I am doing it out of necessity, because, every hour of my time typically goes toward controlling dozens of hours of other people's time and so without an engaging task like writing code, my days feel endless, because there isn't that much I can do at any given moment. Jumping into my teams code and working on requests directly is actually one of the more self destructive things I can get into lately.

Therefore, I find product design highly engaging, it makes the hours fly (almost as good as writing code) and am sending the message that I'm here to help at a higher level than I ever have previously - apart from growing half of the environment for three years.

I don't even want a career by the way, I'm a remote 1099 freelancer if you can believe it. We have a really interesting team composed entirely of freelancers, but we seem to stick together.
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that eating lots of sugar and fat is a worst-case metabolically for gaining bodyfat. Your body will prioritize sugar for energy while it's in your blood stream, so if you have lots of both, your body will just store the fat.
> The question then is, how does this apply to search engines/indexers?

The bigger issue I think is that Google is already enjoying such position of deciding who and what is visible in the indexes. This is about giving similar option to the person whose data is indexed.
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Another unicorn goes extinct.
It's clear now that we'll be able to power much more of our power needs by using wind and solar. More 'exotic' schemes today like using the tides might not even be needed, but we'll see.
We are constantly interacting with rocks of various sizes and thd small amounts of hydrogen in even nearly empty space. Presumably an antimatter planet would be also only much more violently and would by now be gone.
> There's also no trust with ISPs. They've already all lobbied at the Congressional level to legally sell our data.

Yes, for you Americans.

Please, go fix your politicians, rather than inflicting technical "solutions" to political problems on the rest of the world.
Yes. They'd mostly be sustained by the solar wind.
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Earth-mass black holes have surface temperatures well under that of the cosmic background radiation and will not have evaporated, they'd have been literally accreting mass just from the background. You need to get down to the billion-ish tons range to find black holes that can have appreciably evaporated over the life of the universe.
But it might be much worse than a beef burger from a health perspective. Grass-fed beef in moderate quantities in the context of the right diet can be very healthy for you.
Not to be gross but the colon can hold a lot of weight until you empty it. It could be a mix of that and water.
Battery backups, of course.

There will always be failure modes. I mean, the failure mode for a traditional lock is "I lost my keys". Unless you have someone else with a spare set who can get to your location in a time you deem reasonable, you're going to have to have the door forced.
Or be constantly flashing if it wasn’t.
There's nothing "wrong" with the units, besides that it is easy to get confused, evidenced by GP calling the turbine "7MW(h?)".

If you want to compare, however, you will have to convert to common units, and I at least find it easier to use watts and joules than watt-hours/second and watt-hours. By all means convert to stationary-bike-hours and big macs or whatever unit at the end but calculations are easier in the SI units.

Hubble's constant is expressed like that because it is a nice unit for the math.
Add on a "use it or lose it" policy and I'm onboard. If the patent holder isn't building products with their IP or licensing it as the original author than they shouldn't be allowed to hold it.

It would disable "defensive" patent strategies where companies don't patent their actual technology, but the path to it, which is against the spirit of patents, and disable patent acquisition as an IP strategy.

Meanwhile companies like ARM, which live off IP licensing but wouldn't be punished because they're the original patent authors.
The bigger the black hole, the slower it evaporates. By the time you get up into planetary sizes they basically don't change mass on the time scale of stars. (From this wonderful calculator [0], a black hole with a mass of 6.0x10^24 kg - about that of the earth - would have a lifetime of ~5.75x10^50 years)

So if there's a 1-20 Earth-mass black hole out there, it hasn't evaporated from anything appreciably larger to get to that point.

0: http://xaonon.dyndns.org/hawking/
Note that deciphering type tag info in a Lisp value can be called "parsing". Cases occur: for some values we have to chase a pointer into a heap to get more type info.

A Lisp function call does "parsing". (foo 1 2 3) has to figure out dynamically whether a (lambda (&rest args)) is being called or (lambda (a b c)) or (lambda (a b &optional c (d 42)) or whatever.

The #S(employee id 1 salary 95000) object also isn't an employee record without context and interpretation.

> it needs to know where declarations are and where the code body ist

The syntax can be subject to a fairly trivial canonicalizing pass, after which all these things are at fixed positions:

(let ((a 3) b) (foo a)) ---canon--> (let ((a 3) (b)) (declare) (foo a))

Now the variables are all pairs to which we can blindly apply car and cadr, the declarations are at caddr and the body forms at cdddr.
Very true. And it doesn't matter if it's black or reflective, except we're sure to see it coming if it's reflective.
> I think it's a fatal flaw in the dating site business model, to be honest.

I think it is just one exhibit of the fatal flaw of the idea that shareholder value maximization is the correct objective of a corporation. The very original raison d'etre of limited libility was to enhance wellbeing of public, not shareholders. And for some reason that has been forgotten.

(No, I have no good solutions for proper corporate governance, but I still think acknowledging we have a problem is the first step.)
Do you hear yourself ?! ImageNet was not based on either purposely or obliviously racist ideas and stereotypes. If it was, sure, I would have some patience for the claim it was racist. But it was not.
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If you were with me for the good times, then ditched me at the first problem and shit talked me and turned other people against me, then described yourself as “a loyal friend”, I think I’d raise an eyebrow.
Definitely feeling this during my company's health insurance renewal this year. I used to think that I had it pretty alright, but over the past few years, things have gotten worse and worse. This year, for our "gold" plan, which was sold as the equivalent of the previous year's "gold" plan, our insurance provider increased our monthly cost by approx $120/mo, and increased our deductible by $5,000, up to $15,000.

I used to be against single payer, but now I'm rooting for any politician that thinks they can pull it off. I'm willing to pay a bit more tax in exchange for no longer having the "best" health insurance plan that I can afford that, quite frankly, I am terrified to use. Health care costs in this country are completely out of control. We need to have the system burned down and rebooted.
I broke a window with a pebble when I was a kid. Most people have windows. Something like an extra sticky vinyl sticker takes care of the noise problem.
Former CTO of a multi-mllion user dating app. I am certain Match will claim plausible deniability here, the reality is such an argument would be a total farce.

While spam prevention is technically not a "solved" problem, simple and clever techniques in addition to shadow-banning go a long way. Once an account has sufficient activity, which for spammers takes anywhere from 30s - 4hr, even modest systems can confidently identify the vast majority.

A company like Match that has conglomerated other upstarts in the space surely has spammer identification systems far in excess of smaller apps. Yet somehow those competing apps often cite account authenticity as an advantage over Match. The Ashley Madison scandal exposed this business tactic. Match clearly followed suit and has been just-subtle-enough to evade legal action until now.
Kik is super common among certain online kink communities, it’ll be interesting to see where they move to. And given the underage problem those communities constantly have I wouldn’t find it at all hard to imagine Kik having some pretty grim stuff going on particularly in their new-ish group chats.