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> On one hand, there's anonymous websites, competing VPN companies, and hundreds of Twitter bots pushing a story that is demonstratively false (just check public records).

I agree, the VPN industry is rife with shady business practices. But the story being pushed isn't 'demonstratively false'.

* TesoNet offers data mining services

* You did contract TesoNet employees

* Due to an error and unyielding policies by Google TesoNet holds your Android app signing keys in name

* There is a lot of intermingling between TesoNet and NordVPN and to a lesser extent TesoNet and ProtonVPN.

Like I already stated, it's very unlikely you are compromised. But unlike, say, a billing company that handles my energy or water provider (where I care much less if they have tenuous links to data mining) my standard is extremely high for a VPN. Internet traffic is supremely personal and for me to trust a company handling that there cannot even be the slightest sheen of misconduct.

For me to trust you you would have to completely cut out your Lithuanian subsidiary and any employees, board members, etc. that were or are related to TesoNet, as well as any reliance on their infrastructure. Obviously businesses don't operate with such 'scorched earth' policies and I don't expect you to gut your company based on a HN comment, but it is what it would take for me and many other privacy-conscious individuals to regain our trust.
Blizzard used to be my favorite gaming company. I remember when I was much younger dreaming of being able to work there on World of Warcraft. I played a ridiculous amount of WoW/Warcraft 3/Starcraft as a kid, and more recently a decent amount of WoW/Hearthstone/Overwatch.

I had been a WoW subscriber for over a decade. WoW's quality has been in decline (IMO) recently in BFA, and I stayed because I still occasionally enjoyed it, but it no longer has the same magic that I remember. WoW Classic brought back some of that nostalgia, but it was short lived for me.

BlizzCon last year made it pretty clear that Blizzard has shifted their focus [0]. There is no way they were delusional enough to expect a happy reaction to the Diablo Immortal announcement. It's very clearly targeted at the Chinese market.

Their actions in the past month (and year) are very telling - they are no longer the company I used to admire. I've canceled my WoW subscription as of last week, and I've deleted all of their games from my devices. I know that my actions alone/individually don't really have an impact on them, but I can't go on supporting them after the things they've been doing recently. Bellular has a pretty good video breaking down some of this situation as well [1].

It'll be interesting to see how BlizzCon goes this year.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/9tsy49/blizzard_get...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbPrbqE06Y4
I play sc2, which is free to play. I changed my account name for "FreedomForHK". I play on Asian servers and responses have been very positive so far.
nominative case is all over the place in the Aeneid, for example. I'd conjecture that the elision of an explicit noun, given a conjugated verb, is a convenience whose viability is contextual.
Genghis Khan was exiled and had nothing by age nine. At the time of his death he left the biggest land empire the world has ever seen to his children. You need very little of 1 to make a difference
Blizzard could have kicked him out of the tournament and said "don't use our platform for controversy" and probably nothing would have happened. Instead they stripped him of his winnings, banned him for a year, and then release two public statements one in English that was bad enough, and another in Chinese that absolutely prostrated themselves before the Mainland government. It was pathetic.
Whats with Cincinnati? There seem to be an disproportionate number of them there and all of them in a line from the south west to north east.
Thanks for this. I've heard folks refer to "replacing 'shoulds' with 'coulds'". Don't say "I SHOULD do the dishes"; it's not an obligation, it's a choice. You can let the dishes stack up. That will have its own consequences, but don't treat things like obligations, treat them like choices you're making.
Thanks! I'm myopic, have higher ed degrees, and work as a luthier specializing in restoration work (excessive close up work for long hours). I knew it was partly genetic looking at family history but had no idea that my everyday work was compounding the problem.
I don't know about you, but I don't want every entertainment platform to be consumed by political discussion. Sometimes you just want an escape and that's something video games help provide.

Those discussions are worth having but there are already plenty of platforms available to have them on.
You can do both. If people do nothing but complain and their bottom line isn't affected at all, it just tells companies they can ignore their audience.
Maybe they should spend more money on security than throw at people like PewDiePie to advertise them ... by also giving false claims like protecting you from hackers and making you magically "secure", whatever that's supposed to mean. Doesn't give the impression they know what a VPN actually is. Considering that most likely the phrasing comes from NordVPN themselves I always questioned them as a whole. Good to have some positive feedback (from my point of view) on that now.
If you were looking to upload anything you limited your modem to 36k6 anyway as the higher options were asymmetric with upload rates half that of download. When I connected to my ISP at the time with no limits set I'd get between 38K and 41K which gave 19K-to-20.5K up, but I could reliably get a 36k6 symmetric link both ways if I told the modem not to bother trying for faster. Of course for most uses this is fine as it is with asymmetric connections today: most users download a lot more than they upload. There was also extra latency with the faster connections IIRC, so gamers would stick to 36k6 too.
You and millions of others in the West, sadly.
I’d guess that the DC got owned, no need for iDRAC exploits when lazy VPN company staff never changed the pws.
>People forget that until defeated, Nazi Germany was not 'the bad guys'.

That's a good thing to highlight. Many people in the world were Nazi sympathizers prior to, I'd say France doing a surrender. The world was rather fine with the Sudetenland being invaded before the war started. Hell, the war didn't really "start" until they invaded Poland. But they already steamrolled tanks into Czech in the summer. People were also pretty okay with Poland being overrun. I'm not even involving all the "laws" to displace and oppress not just the Jews, but the gypsies and others in Deutschland. That started even before the war.

That's the sad part. It wasn't as clear cut of an issue as it is today. Back then, there was a lot of shrugging and "as long as they stay within themselves".

And that's the lesson. It won't "stay there".

But let's be fair, communists make fascists look like amateurs when it comes to genocide and oppression.
Did you read the survivorship bias portion of the post? Since it is making points in support of the direction taken here and you didn't respond to them I assume not, but in particular it gives an interesting exasmple of how Elm evaluates feedback from language users (it collects data on the error messages they get automatically using elm/error-message-catalog).
thanks will check it out
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Yeah, my wife and I used to spend $500* per year on Blizzard stuff. We cancelled everything when the news came out.

*Two WoW subscriptions + me buying Hearthstone cards.
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If people were selling expired or near expired items, clearly marked and identified, at deep discount, there would be little issue.

But that's NOT what we're talking about here. That's a different discussion.
As I've said before, I think traffic engineering is probably the most intellectually dishonest profession there is, at least in America.
FakeSpot apparently rates it as a "D" grade. Take that as you will though.

https://www.fakespot.com/product/teavana-beach-bellini-2-lbs
Is Hennesy & Patterson, "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" still used in universities?
You don't even need to have high speeds or heater usage. 1st gen Leaf's have 60mi range pretty consistently just because of how small the battery was, and how degraded they are.

In general the Leaf seems to be a bad buy, IMO, just because they do not have any liquid cooling. I don't know why they think they can get away with it... but literally every other EV manufacturer decided liquid cooling/heating is necessary for operating... but not Nissan.
For me it was the scope creep. Systemd is turning "init" into a framework of all the vulnerable and bad ideas that Microsoft moved away from after Win95/XP. binfmt mount, intercepting and changing the behavior of DNS, polkit implementation, changing user authentication, so much more than I could put here. There are many desktop concepts being shimmed into servers that are simply not appropriate for a lean mean web machine.

The good bits that systemd brought into the mainstream such as cgroups and lxc do not require systemd. They can be implemented independently. The watchdog timers and unit files were not a new concept either and did not require systemd.
Off topic a bit, what what other VPNs are people using. I have been using ExpressVPN and am very happy with it.
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I absolutely did not do that. Who would?

It’s possible that what you’re describing happened, but I’m not investing the time and energy to try to “trap them” like this. I also don’t think it’s terribly likely. I believe it was also FBA so they don’t have control over what item gets sent to which customer.
I would like to figure this out.

I visit a cabin that has a POTS line that is active but rarely used, and would love basic connectivity.

LTE is not available in that area.
$ foo bar baz<cr>
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That's three keystrokes less - even for the history (!!) version. :-)
Nobody says the savages had it coming, but whenever you have the equivalent of a government or society of serial killers, human decency has certainly a right to tear that structure down. Being "indigenous" is not a get out of jail free card. If it were so, the germans would never have been prosecuted for war crimes.

If you believe that "home grown" totalitarianism or serial killing is okay as long as it's "home grown", I can't help but feel bad for your awkwardly backwards "nationalistic" views.

This is not to say that all indigenous are serial killers, but some regions are well known for such behavior among their indigenous.

Edit: I don't believe in racism. Only genetics and statistics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
If the action is in support of morals I (and much of the US) believe in, absolutely.

Money is not everything. I think it's a shame that so many are willing to support a company who will ditch their morals for just a bit more profit.

EDIT: This isn't just a hypothetical either, ATVI is on a blacklist of stock that I will not purchase. I hope others will do the same.
I can understand how diversity in experience and personality can be positive from a business perspective, but why can't the inverse be true as well?
"Microeconomics classes in America teach undergrads that 'rational' people only care about increases in wealth and do not care about non-wealth-increasing activities."

This is not true, (or if it is being taught, the professor doesn't understand what he is supposed to be teaching.) What first year economics courses do teach--what is meant by the term 'homoeconomicus'--is that in aggregate, people rationally pursue their own self interest. 'Self-interest' is defined here as a subjective utility threshold. So, for example, if someone cares about their children, they will work hard and make a lot of sacrifices to support their children. The idea is that the market follows the aggregate self interest of people and so we don't have to worry about the miss-pricing of goods because the market will take care of that.

The difficulty with this idea isn't that people have wrong values--modern economics presupposes that values are inherently subjective and thus cannot be judged--it's that people are capable of making consistently rational decisions in pursuit of their subjective goals despite information disparities and cognitive biases.
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> What's wrong with babyfood that must be consumed within 2 months.

Maybe the customer saw a good deal, or had a visit from a rich relative who wanted to do something nice to help them out, and knowing the product lasts 6+ months, ordered a 3 month supply.

If the stuff that turns up has a shorter life than they expect, they're going to be disappointed which is bad for your reputation, and they may get a refund causing you to make a loss on the order.

The same applies to a loaf of bread or a pack of batteries or almost anything else with an expiry date.

Of course if you were explicitly listing the product as discounted due to short shelf life, and your website was clear enough users couldn't overlook that by accident, it's fine - but AFAIK Amazon doesn't have different listings for different shelf lives of the same product.

> And note that it doesn't turn toxic after it's expiration date

Sure, but there's a market rate for expired goods, and it's way lower than the market rate for non-expired goods. If you're selling expired goods to customers who thought they were getting non-expired goods, you're ripping them off and it's fair for them to want a refund.
Documentionless? https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/ and you have it locally and offline too when you need it. Like in the 80s/90s unix way.

And it's way more documented that your average init script sourcing distro-specific bash/sh libraries where you have to dig into and read the code just to understand how that thing works
Expired products I feel a lot less strongly about than counterfeit. Expired products have a label on them that the consumer can look at and check. As long as Amazon is honoring refunds, they are financially incentivized to do what makes sense to fix the issue.

If Amazon insisted on shipping an identical product out of a west coast fulfillment center to an east coast customer for which they had a fulfillment center 20 miles away holding the same SKU, they would not be able to offer the kind of service that they do.

“Comingling” is the fundamental basis for them to leverage their scale to provide unmatched service. It’s essential to their business model precisely because how enormously valuable it is to Amazon and to its customers, and the way it gets better with scale, despite the concomitant lesser inconveniences.

Fundamentally, Amazon still knows exactly which seller provided each buyer with each item, despite there being only a single shared product page. So they already have all the data, and of course they are using it internally to track per-seller review scores, refund rates, etc.
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Meanwhile http://without-systemd.org/ (linked from the post) throws database errors. Maybe they forgot to 'enable' their mysql systemd service?
> but does commingling mean they can't trace it back to which seller sent it to them for FBA? If they can, they can penalize that seller...

Correct, they can't trace it, so they can't penalize.

> I'm assuming Amazon has a unique id for every individual item in their warehouses.

They don't. If they did, there would be some kind of unique bar code on every item you received from Amazon.
Many of the traffic lights in Boston seem to have significantly shorter yellow light durations than the rest of Massachusetts--roughly a single second. It's just one of the many factors that makes driving in Boston feel like a constant battle for survival.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world apparently considers 3 seconds to be too short. I'd be quite delighted if Boston followed suit.
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Yeah, of course. If the chances of some success are distributed geometrically, so that "winners" are randomly chosen at e.g. 0.001% per year, then somebody who wins the dice roll looks pretty smart to themselves and the rest of the world, having done something seemingly difficult. However across a population of a million individuals, 10 or so will achieve that success in the first year.

What is usually achievable through hard work, and worth achieving, is an honest life, a home of one's own, and for some, kids. These are things that bring contentment and happiness. Wealth and power beyond a reasonable measure only endangers these things.
> Blizzard is perfectly fine with politics if they think it won't hurt their bottom line.

This applies to most business unfortunately.
Mathematics has a (mostly linear) historical progression, not logical progression.

It very often happens that the shortest, simplest derivation is discovered a century after the original discovery.

E.g. if you define exp(x) as \sum_0^\inf \frac{x^n}{n!}, a crazy amount of things that (historically) took a lot of effort to derive, become exceptionally simple and straightforward.

Now, historically, it didn't make sense to define it that way (especially because limits and infinite sums were only rigourously defined much later). But complexity wise, it is much simpler to first define limits and only then the exponent as an infinite sum.

> But you quickly head into patterns and conventions that started out as someones opinion on how things should be set up, rather than some fundamental principle.

That's not computer science. That is indeed philosophy, specifically software engineering philosophu. Science, it is not.
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Startups pay less money in fact significantly less than established companies. That is known.

Thirty five year olds rarely agree to work for the amount of money twenty year olds agree to work for. That is also known.

This means that a thirty five year old going to a startup of twenty year olds is going to take a paycut.

Startups push people to work more hours. Young people are OK with that because they do not have a social life apart from finding someone to have sex with and having sex with that person. That is also reasonably well known. That means their life is sleeping/working/having sex with people. Long hours at work by people who do not have anything else to do act as a filler. That's why startups that have lots of young people working in them tend to push long hours. If you are there just to get a paycheck then it would mean getting an effective pay cut.

> Socialization outside of working hours is nobody's business, and reaches into illegal land (I don't care if one doesn't socialize with old/black/other gender people; but making hiring decisions based on that is illegal).

If you are working 14 hour days with group of same people those are going to be people you would be socializing with. It is the case everywhere -- be that oil rigs, armed forces. It is a matter of proximity and logistics.
FWIW these do not sound very fun, at least for most people. Gamers tend to say that they want more complex systems but when games with complex systems come out most players either dislike them and/or go only for the most simple and straightforward approach while ignoring the rest (even if that approach isn't as fun as the more complex stuff).

So most games tend to go for simple systems presented through enough smoke and mirrors to give the illusion of complexity.

Also keep in mind that games aren't made in isolation, instead they have tropes that players are heavily relying on. A very common example is the "red barrel = explosive barrel" trope. That trope is mostly harmless in that if it doesn't apply (ie. the game has red barrels but they do not explode) then nothing bad happens. But what you are describing with blood trails sounds like the regular cosmetic blood decals almost every action game has that can be easily be missed by players.

But note that i'm talking about the generic action game here, not a game designed explicitly around one of these mechanics - that is another matter since you expect it to be like that. But if these mechanics you mention are used like any other "secondary" mechanic in a game (and especially if it is a game that offers alternative approaches) then it'll fly over most people's heads and be ignored unless the game explicitly mentions it every single time.

And this is normal, there is only so much you can keep in your head while playing (especially if you consider how long some of these kitchensink games are and how little time per day/week some people have).

Hence simple mechanics, smoke and mirrors.
That's been my experience with my new t480. I wonder if there's some other drivers that could make it smoother?