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> I certainly would recommend that US consumers use a VPN router to prevent their ISP from selling data

I wouldn't. Much of the web is moving over to https, VPNs are hit-or-miss on whether they route DNS requests, and having to deal with blocked websites because of abuse isn't worth it. That, and you're trusting the VPN to not sell your data.

> browser fingerprinting

I mean...your IP address changes on cell networks all the time. Browser fingerprinting is still an arms race, but if you're actually concerned about something, either do whatever Torbrowser does or use the most popular iPhone.
When I started reading about the radiation safety of 5G, I started understanding that most early operators were not interested in the safety aspects as much as the money aspects of it.

And if anything, what time has shown me is that the for-profit people will not operate these right. As regular people, we can of course choose to stop buying 5G phones, as long as we do have other sources of Internet.

My personal mobile internet usage has shown me that it is grossly expensive, underutilized and doesn't majorly solve a speed problem for me - only remote connectivity.

And no, I don't need more cancerous substances than there are. Especially after watching Chernobyl, I sure as hell don't need radiation messing around with my cellular structure.

In short, 5G is unnecessary in most cities, and the risks outweigh the benefits, IMO.
If I can't play some ping pong during my interview, I'm not interested.
True, but you can't be lucky if you don't roll the dice, and some people roll the dice more than others.
I believe you are both saying the same thing, you called it websites/domains he called it hostnames.
I did not know that.

However, from what I can tell -- and these studies are always controversial and not convincing -- IQ is only tangentially related to financial success. If I recall, a little helps but a lot doesn't help more.
If you are redistributing money not creating it how by definition will it create inflation. The same money is chasing the same goods and services.
Hustle and preparation are not luck, they're skills you have to hone for them to be useful. You have to actually do something. They aren't something you can be born into (much to the dismay of rich parents with deadbeat kids). By reducing 2 and 3 to luck you're implying that people have no agency. Sure, the person who develops those skills in rural Africa isn't going to go as far as someone who develops those skills in Chicago but they'll both go a hell of a lot farther than the average persona around them.
"Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by the Gang of Four. It has sold over 500k copies and has been translated to numerous languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
As there is virtually no drugs in South Korea or other east asian countries, addiction do have a different perception/connotation. Nonetheless, the word "addiction/중독" is used to refer smartphone addiction.
Pick a cloud provider you trust. I was thinking of moving from Digital Ocean (US) to Hetzner (German) and setting my own VPN up through a normal server.
> unfortunately, it can all be undone quite quickly.

Or put another way, it's easy to push systems towards increasing entropy, but hard to push them in the opposite direction.

That's part of why terrorism (of any persuasion) often chooses targets of symbolic value, like social, political, and economic hubs. They are trying to push the target social system toward entropy.
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It's been this way ever since they delisted product pages, at the same time they started charging for "shopping" tab listings.

Idk if it was a coincidence, but it seems like that exclusion filter was (and is) overly aggressive.

IMHO, this spawned the era of fake reviews and crappy commission websites. Google forced multiple layers of un-needed middle management, which of course spawned multiple layers of advertising. (Search ads to find reviews site. Banner ads on review site. Commission links to get to actual product page. Instead of just search and click product page.)

The same perverse "layering" system seems to have happened for recipe sites, although I'm not sure why. Search results list tons of home chefs, reviewers, and the crappy sites that think adding 3 paragraphs of shitty narrative improves the quality of their knock-off recipe.
Doesn't help that the article is written in a kind of exaggerated, fear mongering way. E.g.:
"
5G also employs new technologies (e.g., active antennas capable of beam-forming; phased arrays; massive inputs and outputs, known as MIMO)
"

MIMO is multiple inputs, multiple outputs, not massive. If the author is bending terminology to enhance his case, that makes the case look weaker...
Compare it to the deadliness of the preexisting tribes and it's an obvious improvement. Obviously no match for the reasonable sensitivity of society of today.

Feel free to believe the common lie that every indigenous was a graceful peaceful person that wouldn't hurt a fly. Hard to come up with a greater untruth than that.
Elisa CTO says the business case for 5G is simple–’human impatience'
I think it is reasonable for them to disallow divisive topics from being discussed. I don't think it is reasonable to take a contestants prize money because they broke that rule, or to fire the interviewers who didn't say anything controversial. And even if it was a perfectly fine thing to do, they are doing it because the Chinese government wants them to, which I don't agree with.
A programmer who writes their own documentation is like a barber cutting their own hair: Economical perhaps, but worse for anyone who has to look at the result.

And yes, if your audience is programmers, then ideally you can hire technical writers who can program, and who can speak to programmers, but failing that, technical writers who can get proofread by a programmer can also work.

Having a single consistent voice is what matters, and that comes from giving a person the responsibility to be that voice.
This is a good response to your question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21312537
Somewhere, eyes closed, sitting on a lotus flower made from PDP-11 listings, Knuth is smiling.

Deep in the underground forge from which internets and androids are made from, Torvalds is fuming, hard at work with his army of assistants.

The Fates of names Cryptos, Opensors and Peertoopiera weave together the tapestry of the future from forum threads.

In high towers or dark cells, oscillating between reflections of spotlights and shadows of untrustworthy authorities, the twins of intertwined fates, Assange and Snowden, exchange anonymously an encrypted token.
He can handle looking weak as long as the economy keeps humming along, which maintains CCP securely in place, which lessens internal party tensions.

If the Chinese economy crashes... well, look at history for the sum of dictatorship + economic malaise.
The problem is that China is a country of a billion people, many of whom are rapidly entering the global middle class, so many companies depend on those new customers to hit their growth targets.

Companies growing so that they can be worth more when their investors sell them is the whole point of businesses in general. It's the reason we all go to work every day.
Another older parallel which popped in my mind is tommie smith et al. 'silent gesture' at '68 olympics.
Their PR handling was disastrous (though perhaps forced by the Chinese government [1]), but they're absolutely entitled to not have people hijack their events to spread political messages, regardless of how valid the message may be.

[1] https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1183215204525412352
That’s what the parent said: they can still see “hostnames and IP addresses.”

But, for most people, that means that the ISP will just see:

• google.com

• facebook.com

• reddit.com

• somebignewspaper.example.com

Etc.

And there’s really nothing much too valuable about that. They won’t even be able to figure out if you’re shopping for something (unlike every other nosy channel provider), because most shopping traffic today just looks like Google + Amazon.
The average lifetime risk of getting cancer in the US has actually fallen substantially due to a decrease in smoking.

Diagnosis has simultaneously increased, especially in cancers where the rationale for treatment is low (e.g. prostate cancer in most men).

(work in cancer research)
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You should take the $10 million. That's "fuck-you money"; with that amount, you're beholden to nobody. $1 million doesn't cut it. $100 million is unnecessary.
I thought it was wildly agreed that it's a pretty terrible book to learn modern C with?

It is however in other respects a fantastic example of great technical writing and a great text book.

But as I understand it it's today mostly an extraordinarily great book on inflicting legwounds on yourself.
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Being prepared doesn't mean anything unless 1 happens. Hustling => success and preparation => success are dependent on lucky opportunities.
Yeah but it's a bit hard to run a PR campaign backing off that when you have it engraved on a fcking plaque outside your HQ.

That plaque has done more damage in light of their recent actions than any directed media campaign ever could.

The reason Blizzard is up shit creek without a paddle is because they simultaneously tried to virtue-signal and pander to developed world sensitivities while selling out to CCP for views opposed to those.
I actually read this as: ”overwhELMingly“...
The reason people won't boycott China or other companies that are doing far worse than upholding rules agreed to by those breaking them is because it will impact them financially. Blizzard is doing the same thing. They are only doing the same thing everyone else does already.

Case in point: where were these people prior to Blizzard banning the player? They weren't up in arms about companies supporting China. And where is the boycott of Apple and their removal of an app amongst other things (giving the keys to iCloud to the Chinese).

The reality is, while some people might have quit, Blizzard isn't do as much because they probably aren't losing as much. The boycott is coming from people who aren't giving them money. Who are subscribe to their games, or playing Hearthstone. Gamers weren't playing the games before, and boycotting them now means nothing happens.

I'm not suggesting that you can't take a stance, and I'm sure someone will post here how they quit Blizzard games and they were actively playing. Great. And I know someone who started playing WoW Classic while this was going on, so whatever.

Point is, Blizzard isn't doing anything more or less than what people are already doing. If anything, we should be ashamed of ourselves first.
They follow the laws of countries they operate in. I don't see any problem with companies refusing to judge what is good or bad and just following the law.
Sure. Just like i suspect a lot of people lie, it isn’t really a surprise. But if you get caught in a terrible lie while being hypocritical in public about it, expect to be called out on it.
> I can't help but notice that NordVPN is one of the most heavily advertised VPNs from what I've seen

Which already means it's the least valuable.
In what way? Islam caused that entire region to become a hub of knowledge. A lot of advanced that exist in the West today can be traced back to that era (e.g. the word "Camera" is of Arabic origin).
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There's way too much money on the table to accept fact as evidence.
Feynman's Lectures are great for understanding conceptually, but they don't teach you what you need to know to solve research problems. Some of what's in TAOCP is directly applicable to research (for example, the combinatorics part).
I agree with your comment in principle but the specific example of Roundup is rather weak. Yes, glyphosate is usually studied in isolation rather than as a commercial formulation including surfactants etc., but we have decades’ worth of epidemiological studies showing that proper use of Roundup has, at most, a marginal effect on tumour incidence. Conversely, the most-discussed studies that purport to show Roundup’s carcinogenicity have well-known, glaring methodological flaws (including some that formed the basis of the IARC report). The case of Roundup is made more complicated by the fact that Monsanto/Bayer has been caught red-handed skewing the publication record without disclosure of conflict of interest, and lobbying scientific journals. But the same is true for the opposition: for instance, the now-retracted 2012 Séralini study also failed to disclose the authors’ conflict of interest. And beyond improper publication practices (which, yes, is serious), there’s no evidence that Monsanto/Bayer actually falsified information.

In sum, I’d rank the risk of Roundup being carcinogenic on roughly the same level as that of 5G: possible but unlikely, given the best available evidence.
Yes, I've had that comment more often. My standard answer is that if sea level rise is accelerating somewhere on the planet, it should be accelerating everywhere. The sea level rise itself may differ per location, but logic dictates that an acceleration should be visible everywhere.

Note that sea level rise differs across the globe for many reasons, land sinking being one of them. For example, sea levels are dropping in Sweden, because the land is rising.
That doesn’t equate to “developing country” like living standards as the OP was suggesting. There is a distinction. As someone who actually was born and raised in India, this is not even remotely the same thing. It is like saying traffic jams in NYC are like Mumbai, therefore NYC is like a developing country
> If all fossil fuel vehicles are replaced by 2030 think of the scale of that

What's the lifespan of a car? A large proportion of vehicles will be replaced anyway in 11 years.
Blizzard owns its IP whereas EA licenses it.

Fans are paying much, much, more than $230 to attend NBA, NFL, FIFA, etc. games.
Edit: and me :)
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecc 9:11
Well since Europe started requiring to have "hate" speech, the american progressive "fake news", "harassment" and "abuse" removed it seems that a lot of other factions seem to seized the opportunity to use the existing framework to their own gain. Who could have guessed ...

It is rarely only the "good" guys that get to censor in the end ...
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No, this article is entirely about blind luck. None of the things you describe matter.

There are plenty of prepared, hustlers who can capitalize on lucky events. For every one of them that becomes mega-rich, there are thousands who are exactly as fit who do not.

That is, 2 3 and 4 follow a normal distribution, wealth follows a power-law distribution. The attributes don't correlate strongly.

Makes me feel better to have a study confirm it.
I would like to extend git such that you can check out a commit, amend it, rebase all descendants onto the amended commit, and update any branches accordingly. Effectively like `rebase -i` but not modal.

This requires keeping some state around. libgit2 is a nice pointer, I'll check that out.

(hg users will recognize this as "restacking.")
> We didn’t want to write JavaScript. There’s a surprising number of techniques we tried to avoid doing so.

Good grief. You can just write JS. It's OK.
i don't need them to follow chinese law in my country thank you very much
Nuance is needed. Being told by you (who?) that the matter ‘is settled’ is not a persuasive approach.

If people like MIT professor emeritus Richard Lindzen, Freeman Dyson of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, and Stanford University professor emeritus Elliott D. Bloom and many more including other atmospheric physicists believe there are arguments to be had on a complex subject then I tend to think they have a point.
The above joined 497 other distinguished scientists in signing the European Climate Declaration and are listed in a link here.
https://clintel.nl/prominent-scientists-warn-un-secretary-ge...

In summary their position is:
1. There is no climate emergency:
2. Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming:
3. Warming is far slower than predicted:
4. Climate policy relies on inadequate models:
5. CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth (< 150ppm plants do not survive):
6. Global warming has not increased natural disasters:
7. Policy must respect scientific and economic realities:
8. An honest climate science debate is warranted
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Blizzard does not release player numbers, but as a public company, they do release their financials.

Per Activision Blizzard's investor calls, approximately 10% of their total revenue is from China. So, with a profit margin of 25% and profits in the billions, Activision Blizzard is not going to go bankrupt even should they lose all their Chinese income.
Personal: Onenote - for mobile and tablet
Work: Confluence wiki

How you organize/classify/process information is more important than the tool imo.
You're correct - TLS / SSL operate above the IP layer, so they know which servers you're talking to, when and approximately how much, and if they can see your DNS requests it makes it that much easier to know which sites that maps to. TLS stops them from seeing the actual data you're sending them (like passwords), which pages you're viewing, and it also prevents them from manipulating the data (unless they've subverted the PKI, like if your company laptop has a certificate installed that trusts your company VPN, you company VPN can do a Man-in-the-middle attack to subvert TLS).
The problem with the precautionary principle is that there are many doomsday scenarios, so it is not clear which one to take precautions against. Also taking precautions has a cost.
Sipser was the one my alma mater used, so if you could, please post the one you used! I’d be interested in an alternative.
The second "failure" was about small flaws on display (mostly visible on white background). I didn't actually expect them to replace it, but they did.

I've also heard from friends that E7*70 had a bit higher failure rate than usual. It still seems (subjectively) to be much lower than Apple's issue with keyboard. Most importantly, they fixed it almost immediately.

Today, I don't expect things to not break. I'm still annoyed when they do, but more important is what happens after failure, how long (and how much effort) does it take to get things working again.
There's nothing wrong with changing fields. But if you tell me "these are the most relevant scientists in the field" and most of them aren't actively working scientists - it looks fishy...
My guess is that it's some kind of distribution curve.

You can certainly improve your odds via 2, 3 and 4, but some people will do all those and end up not doing well. The average person who does them all will end up a bit better-off than average, and some will end up very well off.

In other words, they help, but don't guarantee 'success'.
In the current government, that’s a prerequisite. PM himself sets the tone.
They are applying Chinese “laws” to Americans in America
> Funneling all your Internet access through a single entity

You don't have to funnel it all, only data crossing hostile networks like free wifi hotspots (The only real use-case for VPNs in the first place). Alongside this is choice of geolocation so you can watch things like HBO even when in Europe.
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If you sort by Supplemental Poverty Measure, you'll see California is by far the highest (23.8% vs 19.8% for the next highest state) - that's what happens after you adjust for cost of living.

https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jan/20...
The problems addressed by avoiding a locally hostile network by connecting to another, globally hostile network is solving a very limited, nuanced set of problems.

Unless you're VPNing to your home or office, these public providers are just asking for trouble. They're too cheap to run well.
I'm still just outraged at this "5GE" hoax being played on us by AT&T. They should have called it "5GL" for lies!
I've seen "infosec professionals" say they don't trust themselves to secure their own VPN server. It blows my mind...if you can't do that, why are you even in this business? How do you even use a personal computer?
I've seen conflicting reports on whether they can but that's less important than (the appearance?) that they don't.

"This terrible thing has happened in an area you're responsible for and you failed to catch/address it. Is this because you didn't have the required resources, because you're incompetent, or because you're corrupt? If it was resources, what do you need and why didn't you have it?"
2-4 are great examples of survivorship bias.

For every success story with those traits are thousands of failures.

If Bill Gates had been born and raised in Ruanda, you wouldn't know his name today. Same IQ, same hustler. But no parents with connections, no upbringing devoid of war and violence.

It's just like in sports. Usain Bolt is not the fastest man alive. He is the fastest professional runner. Within a sample set of 9bn people, there are likely ones with better genetics - but no access or chance to become a professional runner.

This is why the slogan "Billionaires should not exist" is not without merit. A net worth of 100mil still means generational wealth. But once you're in the billions, the gap to all the other employees in your company becomes just crazy - but none of the billions would have been possible without their labor.

Remember: a million seconds is 11.57 days. A billion seconds? 31.71 years.
Right, because 1 billion in China uses Blizzard products, while in the US it is only 17 people who are paying customers and are outraged.

If those “17 people” in the US bring more revenue than a billion in China, then Blizzard might want to be concerned.
Can I get a source for this? It seems incorrect, given that water is more dense than ice, so the gravitational pull of melted water on nearby water should be stronger than the gravitational pull of ice on nearby water (due to the decrease in distance due to the shrinkage when melting).
Every similar male options has, sadly, been far, far worse. I'd love a pill to render me temporarily sterile. Sadly the required chemistry seems to be... suicidal for men.