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"why does it cost so fucking much"

Isn't it because there are so many people's salaries and companies products/services involved with the "unnecessary" overhead? The last ten times I went to the doctors office/clinic there were 3 to 5 check-in receptionists all sitting behind nice new desks and computers with no one in line. How many people at the clinic are just trying to figure out insurance coverages and costs, and how many people at the insurance company review what's submitted, and how may people's job exists to "fight" the charges? Sadly, too many people rely on and depend upon expensive health care for putting food on their table. Until we come up with a plan (free training/education in other industries, sectors, and areas of need/demand?) people will cling to what they know and their JOBS. Look at accounting and tax reform. The complicated-ness of it is by design according to those that lobbied for and those that implemented it.
There is WinExt2[0], and also WinBTRFS and WinMD. I've not been able to test them myself. Microsoft briefly allowed Windows Pro users to create ReFS volumes (can still read), but since reneged on that, and I can find no Linux implementation. It looks like WinBTRFS gets usable performance.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/
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Why radical imagination is key to winning the culture wars
The playerbase for some of their games is apparently as high as 70% China-based [1]. We can't verify this, because Blizzard doesn't release that information publicly, but if even remotely true, losing access to the Chinese market would be financially devastating.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSAlh9l-c7Q
Not to mention the splitting up of the Levant into (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine), then taking Palestine and giving it to the Jews while kicking out the local populations.
I agree with a lot of this.

The one thing that I've found with some of these "fundamental" books is that there are gems of information that can be very helpful for specific problems.

For instance, Landau and Lifshitz's statistical mechanics book has first-rate description of entropy and multiplicity. And TAOCP has an incredibly thorough discussion of combinatorics that I found invaluable.
> The interesting thing about OOB on most modern servers is that its a separate, physical NIC. Not only is that easily VLAN able

On lower grade servers OOB is using main NIC. It's still possible (in all implementation I have seen, which is not too many) to have OOB in VLAN.

> a more security conscious datacenter could even air-gap the out of band LAN!

1. If you air-gap remote management, you take away it's function.

2. It's not possible to truly air-gap OOB if servers with OOB are not air-gapped (it's theoretically possible to use server to get into OOB network by exploiting/flashing custom OOB from OS).
It's socially acceptable to hate / slander fraternity members (see the rolling stone rape case,) but it's not socially acceptable to hate hipsters, only to casually poke fun at them.
And, unfortunately, it has been deemed more profitable historically to subscribe cynically to the bigoted aspects of conservatism. Whether it's truly more profitable or not is up for discussion, but fear of Middle American backlash has stayed the hands of a good many companies who would have like to have been able to market to marginalized groups. I think it's good that they've shed that fear, even if only in the interest of profit. You make it sound like it's a bad thing that we opened lunch counters or run ads with openly gay or mixed couples; that we stopped letting backwards taboos throw a wrench in our markets.
Am I the only one that thinks Blizzard is in the right here and they are being made into a scapegoat due to the political climate? Blizzard says "don't talk about divisive things using our tournaments and communication channels." Why can't they be allowed to do so? What would happen to someone if they protested similarly at the Olympics?

If you are really upset about what's happening in Hong Kong, why don't you boycott, I don't know, all of China? But that would take too much effort for most airmchair activists.

Edit: several good responses from people, including links to actual olympics protests, and links to blizzard pushing political agendas.
It really doesn't force you into anything. You could just throw it into a savings account at your nearest national bank, lose a bit year over year to inflation being higher than the current interest rate, and have a whopper of an emergency fund. That would give you peace of mind if nothing else.

If you wanted to be smart you could invest it in any number of ways to not lose wealth to inflation, but that's by no means necessary.
Years ago, a friend of the family said "You're so smart. Everyone thought you would be a millionaire by age thirty. What happened?"

I pointed at my kids and said "They happened. And they take all my time."

I was a full-time wife and mom. This is not a career known to lead to great wealth.

So, for starters, not all interests or career paths have equal potential to lead to wealth. Intelligence in no way guarantees that your interests will happen to nicely line up with things that lead to wealth.

Everything I've read suggests that being born into the right family plays a huge role in wealth, a la the joke "He made his money the old fashioned way: He inherited it."

Health issues are another thing. Miracles of modern medicine can be very expensive and come directly out of your pocket if you live in the wrong country. At the same time, you typically will be less productive and less competent while enduring serious health issues.

Personal relationships are another biggie. My mother used to work for an heiress whose husband ran through her money. After the divorce, she had to get a job to support herself.

Divorce, scandal, drug addiction and various other personal issues can all be financially ruinous.

Even if you are good at earning it, that doesn't mean you are good at keeping it or growing it, a la some tagline from some magazine "How money becomes wealth."
Conversely I find it interesting how quickly discussions of California quickly morph into the implication that there is little worth considering outside of the specific economy of 'silicon valley'.

I can think of no one - from the people I've known since Kindergarten from the people I've met in the last few months at my new job - who can be described as 'super-rich' or living in 'shanty-towns'. There are plenty of working class folk living quite comfortably but their stories don't fit into our 'outrage culture' so they are conveniently ignored.
Ah, I see. Yes, that Boeing can legitimately control.
This is 1000% true. Before getting into tech, I did odd jobs for years. I worked in the restaurant industry, retail clothing, hospitals, landscaping, etc. I worked in teams where I was the only man, teams where we were all men, and teams with a somewhat even split.

Diversity was never anything more than a short HR training session, and that was it. There was no advocacy, no talk of being "allies". And everything just worked.

Even though I prefer working on diverse teams (diverse along any and every dimension), I really dislike virtually all current activism that's supposed to be about diversity. It just feels...gross.
There's also the fact that being rich isn't everyone's goal. It looks like it is a pain in the ass to be rich, actually.
The simulation is useful in the sense that they managed to obtain a wealth distribution similar to the real world based on that argument.

That's how science works in general. Build a model and make it match the observations. That model is what will be used to test the hypothesis. Without a model, it is just speculation with little value.
Some municipalities have been busted for reducing their yellow light times to get more tickets.
Does Google/Nest partner with haveibeenpwned to invalidate leaked creds and force a reset by the user? Forcing MFA would also not be unreasonable considering the sensitivity of the data collected (ie video in your home), although I get this is up for vigorous debate between product, security, and engineering.

Google defends Gmail users from malicious nation state actors [1]. Isn't Nest part of the Google identity ecosystem now?

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2012/06/security-warnings-fo...
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Which other reforms exactly?

Both the situation before ACA and the reaction to it have shown that privatised health insurance is never going to work in the US. Medicare for All looks like the only practical way forward, and it's been gaining a lot of momentum as a result. Medicare itself also still needs some fixes; at the moment the government isn't even allowed to negotiate prices. That's a law that clearly needs to be repealed. But other than that, Medicare for All sounds pretty good, and I'm not aware of any other credible proposal that looks anywhere near as good.
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Do you have citations outside of the military context? I don't mean to be nitpicky, but what makes the military efficient and what makes civilian life efficient tend to be at extreme odds quite often.
NordVPN: Official response regarding the breach of one of our datacenters
Yeah, I get it. It’s a little disingenuous of me to say that interface{} qualifies as generics, but I can’t quite put my finger on why it is different than Python. Neither are typesafe (although mypy supports generics, but has many other issues), but in any case typesafe generics would I think improve Go.
Stephen King definitely has a chance, not particularly for his craft, but his memorable characters. Carrie, It, Christine, Annie Wilkes, and Jack Torrance to name a few. Granted, movies will definitely help his longevity.
On the impossibility of unconditionally secure public-key encryption
My entire point is that you can be lucky (and smart, if I can flatter myself so) but not rich.

It can take more than intelligence and luck, it could take a desire and a choice to make money a big priority in your life, which it rarely was for me.

If Bill Gates had said "Fuck Microsoft, I don't want to do this shit anymore" and quit early on in his career, (which, if he had free will, he could have done at any point) then he probably wouldn't have wound up the richest person in the world, no matter how lucky he was.

He chose to do what he did (didn't he?), and that (in large part) was what made him unimaginably rich.
My son-in-law has lived in China and confronted me about my boycott. His position is that the content in Blizz games is kinda subversive to the authoritarianism practiced by the CCP. No other gaming company has the breadth of socially reformative messaging contained in WoW, Overwatch et.al. Should Blizz perform corporate harakiri by appeasing the angry SJW (not spoken derisively) in the West, the CCP would have no problem shutting down access to Blizz and the population would hardly notice. They would however not be exposed to the gaming content meaning the generational war with culture will be lost.

I stood firm and maintained that CCP was now fighting with plutocracy for changes to the culture in the west. An example is Marvel changing a Tibetan male monk to a western woman. His contention is that even that change was handled as well as you could expect. Even choosing the Celts as her culture is a small poke at the Chinese for their oppression of the Tibetans. Making it a woman even more so.

I'm still angry at Blizz and thinking about what he said. I will at the very least boycott past the Nov. 7th earnings call to see how deep it runs.

He does have a point about the greater good. This might be the wrong target for outrage.
HPE iLO also had critical vulnerability: CVE-2017-12542.
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I never thought of family care as something that needs to be paid. Should I pay my wife for doing that work? In that case should she pay me for shouldering the burden of working hard in a job I don't like making money I don't spend myself?
All this doesn't sit well with me. It's too individualistic.
> You are on a known-hostile network

Which is precisely the use case I use a VPN for.

I'd rather trust an at least somewhat trustworthy VPN provider with my data than a random coffee shop and clients who happen to be on the same network at the time.
J and Z at least.
Half a yard an hour wins my award for the least intuitive way ever to describe printer throughput.
According to the story (which may or may not be true), he did tell her, but she didn't understand.
I also want to mention that I don't agree with whoever flagged the above comment. Silencing and/or hiding people with different opinions is never the way to go.
This is hideous. Congratulations! :D
They deserve to have lost it already, the company that built up that loyalty is dead.
The way Blizzard handled the situation was absolutely tone deaf and seemingly malicious. Of course they are going to be a lightning rod for a greater outrage.
> Blizzard says "don't talk about divisive things using our tournaments." Why can't they be allowed to do so?

Because they built their entire empire upon appealing to equality/wokeness/justice.

There is a plaque outside Blizzard HQ that reads "Every Voice Matters". That is the foundation of their success. They don't get to yank it back without blowback when the CCP throws some cash at them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification#Historical_I...

I can't find a particularly ironclad source, but I read recently that the test structure is such that scores over, for example, 175, are not meaningfully variable. At that point, the test isn't capable of or effective measuring further differences.
The internet gaming community is addicted to outrage. This is probably the most substantive outrage of the past few years because there's actual international geopolitics at stake, but the target of ire usually changes month-to-month. Last few months it was Epic, next Month we'll probably be back to EA or Ubisoft, and this saga will fade into the background.
Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salu... ?
Just curious - why do we need to sync to Dropbox if they are already hosted in a Git repo?
1+ billion people in China vs 17 people on the internet boycotting Blizzard? I know which side I'd choose if I was running the company.
I usually use this way of exporting Notebooks for personal accounts.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/export-and-import-o...
Huh, this idea is new to me. Could you help out with a link? I only found two articles that talk about icebergs and gravity, one from NASA that only mentions taking measurements with a gravimeter [0] and a popsci article from 2011 [1] that mentions the geoid and irregular gravitational field of earth, but only sourced its “sister site” which appears defunct and simply redirected to its own front page, which looks like a garbage fire of pseudoscientific advertisement. I also found a BI article (to which I link with great trepidation) that mentions I think the same iceberg as the NASA article but mentions it is not expected to contribute to sea level rise in any significant way [2].

[0] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2017/11...
[1] https://www.livescience.com/amp/15605-melting-glaciers-alter...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/antarctica-larsen-c-iceberg-...
>Am I the only one that thinks Blizzard is in the right here and they are being made into a scapegoat due to the political climate?

I feel it'd be one thing if they had just asked for no politics to be brought up on their official channels, but based on events that have happened in the past week, it seems quite obvious to me that they're very cozy with the Chinese authorities.
No, it isn't a bad thing. But organizations shouldn't be lauded for meeting the minimum basic standards of not being terrible.
So the brutality experienced by the Congo is okay because they left roads afterwards? That's a hell of a viewpoint.
There's also "woke for the talent", which in the current skill economy is non-negligible.

If you're having a hard time finding international software developers to work for you because you're sponsoring US border militias (to use a ridiculous example), then you're materially hurting your bottom line via political speech.

And while that's an example of active speech, there are similar examples of lack-of-speech. E.g. employees at cloud companies disagreeing with neutrality regarding ICE contracts.

It's sad that only a relatively small subset of labor has this much bargaining ability, but it does seem healthy in making companies responsive to popular (for some definition) demands.
Safari user here. For some reason the navigation arrows are missing and I can't get past the first page...
Even more luck is required with the way a lot of people on this site are trying to get rich (startups).

Want to require less luck? Open some kind of store/service yourself and it'll pay off faster than investing in a startup most likely.

A friend of mine runs a shipping office, single location. Not a giant or complicated business with 99.999% uptime. He always has much nicer race cars too.... :)
They’re also not based in a Nordic country, which I find misleading.
I only use NordVPN to get around GeoIP blocks on a couple of streaming apps. So I'm not too worried about my data being compromised, but I don't like the way they handled this. Think I'll start looking for another provider?

Looks like you can side load OpenVPN onto a FireTV. Maybe I'll go the roll my own this time.
What stands out about this book for me is how it starts with absolute basics like what electrons are and linearly builds complexity. It never lost me for a moment and I thoroughly enjoyed its lighthearted tone. This is a perfect book for those who had no formal CS education and are starting out with computers and programming.
Multistage builds do not squash at the end.
No he doesn't. Some good deeds don't erase your bad deeds, especially when those bad deeds were done in what now appears to be bad faith.
Do many people interact with China on a daily/monthly basis?
> "Switzerland and Netherlands is fully private."

Private insurance in those countries works because those markets are highly regulated, and they don't have a corporate culture of trying to rip off people as much as they can.
And it's run by internet activists, support them, support the cause!

https://airvpn.org/mission/
> Such a talent is not a core competency of any firm

No it's not, which is why agile processes have less risk than waterfall processes. You're not making the argument that Boeing should keep all of their manufacturing in-house, you're explaining why Shenzhen has become the hardware manufacturing capital of the world. Shenzhen isn't controlled by a single company, and the ability to quickly order parts from other manufacturers in the Shenzhen area allows hardware manufacturers to respond with the agility you describe. Who controls the individual manufacturing processes is less important than the speed of the feedback loops.

> the idea that you can actually manage risk in a quantitative way is not something borne out by experience

Well, Wall Street would disagree with you.

> We just exited a massive financial crisis

2008 happened not because the underlying risk models were wrong but because people were sold high-risk instruments on the fraudulent premise that they had almost no risk at all, and the rating agencies which mislabeled the risk hid behind the First Amendment. If the high-risk instruments were honestly represented at sale, they wouldn't have been purchased by people seeking low-risk instruments, and the portfolios of most market players would've been well-diversified as planned and able to withstand those kinds of shocks. That the rating agencies were able to hide behind the First Amendment (risk assessments are not political speech) and that nobody went to jail for the fraudulent risk assessments remains a great injustice, in my opinion.

> we see security breaches on a massive scale

Because law and regulation do not set sufficient financial penalty for insufficient security practice and the market at large has shown not to care enough about security to punish players with poor security practice, so the financial risk of a breach is (in my opinion, unacceptably) too low to cause a change in corporate behavior. Again, not an issue with risk management, just people responding to systems as designed.

> Putting together a bureaucracy to control something doesn't mean that it's controlled.

Sadly I actually agree with you on this, which is why I wrote, and I quote, "competency at shifting numbers around on bean-counting accounting sheets is not the same thing as competency at outsourcing".
I didn't think HIBP did password hash sharing?
You are conflating so many issues here. 1) your experience in DC - you are ignoring the whole history of segregation and white flight and residual racism that makes DC what it is. These are not issues in central Texas 2) what you experienced about big box store and middle class people is not unique to Texas and is as common in Virginia or New Jersey or Sacramento 3)Have you double clicked your experience as it relates to deep social issues - Texas has the lowest rate of insured for example. Or protections against LGBT rights or incarceration rates ? 4) California housing is the opposite of central planning. It is an outcome of intense democracy and a patch work of very local zoning laws. Thus you will cities like Dublin and Hayward that build a lot, while other cities like Palo Alto which doesn’t build anything
I would hope that isn't what they thought and I'm sure it's not what they thought.

Launching a personal-use ephemeral cloud instance running OpenVPN to hide your personal traffic from your ISP is absolutely nowhere the same as running a paid VPN service for millions of users across the world.
That's contributing to the death of torrent ecosystems in the same way as Popcorn Time: all leeching, zero seeding.
AWS isn’t killing your business
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But how can a DIY VPN serve you if you want to, say, avoid geoblocked pages? usually with those VPN services you can choose where your exit node is. I don't feel like using a multi-region setup for this (well, now that i think of it using Terraform + Algo it could be neatly automated...)
News flash: Every company that says "Every Voice Matters" is only pandering and never sincere. They just want your money. Right now, touchy-feel-good stuff is in vogue.
The story of three envelopes is a business classic for dysfunctional organizations. It starts with an incoming manager replacing a recently fired outgoing manager. On his way out, the outgoing manager hands the new manager three envelopes and remarks, "when things get tough, open these one at a time."

About three months goes by and things start to get rough. The manager opens his drawer where he keeps the three envelopes and opens #1. It reads: "Blame your predecessor." So he does and it works like a charm.

Another three months passes and things are growing difficult again so the manger figures to try #2. It reads, "reorganize." Again, his predecessor's advice works like magic.

Finally, about nine months into the new job, things are getting really sticky. The manager figures it worked before, why not try again. So he opens the envelope drawer one last time and opens #3. It reads..."prepare three envelopes."

http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Prepare_three_envelopes
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You are quoting a blog entry from 2016. The report I was referring to was from march 2019. They debunked their own blogpost.