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Climate change, pandemics, biodiversity loss:no country is sufficiently prepared
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> The US is the world power and it’s citizens have more rights than any other

From the GP, that is demonstrably false. Look at German citizenry. They have equal or more rights than American citizens do.

> the current flag ship of human progress.

Again, this is complete bullshit. Many other nations have better healthcare, stronger privacy protections, better educational systems, more efficient transit systems, higher air quality, lower rates of incarceration. I could go on and on. America is not "the current flagship of human progress"

> So you cannot say that what ‘works’ for some fly by night westernized counties will work for the current flag ship of human progress.

What is a 'fly-by-night westernized country'? The fuck is that even supposed to mean? It's an ignorant, nationalistic dig at other "Western coutnries" based on nothing at all.

> There is no other nation in the world which compares to the US

False. Nordic countries have better healthcare, a cleaner environment, better education, better transit, more walkable cities. The EU as a whole has stronger privacy protections than the US. There are MANY ways to compare countries to the US, and, more often than not, when compared to other "western coutnries", the US comes out behind.
See also: The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker, 1973. For a bird's eye view, skim the wiki page on Terror Management Theory.
Will it make it that long?
> from mobile apps (most of which have to be encrypted now I think)

Since the end of 2016 on iOS and since Android v9, apps have to communicate over HTTPS. I guess you can technically visit HTTP sites via a browser, but I'd bet that >90% of the traffic from smartphones is over HTTPS.
linus looks more tux every year XD

i once had a job at a state agency that was conservative enough to use CVS and subversion, so i got to see what the bad old days were like. i'm so glad git exists.

“I’m an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First ‘Linux’, now ‘Git’” --https://websetnet.net/microsoft-now-using-linus-torvalds-ope...
I used to agree until I read Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent.”

What Russia and China are doing is child’s play compared to what corporate mass media can do.
it's getting better all the time IMHO. The problem is that the reference back-end is in Python which isn't scaling well enough for the matrix.org instance / its rooms-- which is the only instance many people try. There's a project to implement that back-end in Golang which I expect to be a real turning point if it can get off the ground.
Most Linux distributions are effectively services as well. Debian (or Ubuntu, Mint, CentOS, Fedora, Slack, Gentoo, etc. etc.) are not worth much without the repositories, access to them, and updates, provided by those distributions. An extension of the notion that it's the package management that makes the distro: it's the package archive and access which make the distro.

(Details of packagers, packaging, deps resolution, etc., also matter.)

But that is a service offered, to revive an old fashioned term, not based on commerce but with grace.
I also really like this quote and his has influenced the way I work a lot. When I started working professionally as programmer I sometimes ended up with quite clunky data structures, a lot of expensive copying (C++ :-)) and difficult maintenance.

But based on this, I always take greatest care about the data structures. Especially when designing database tables, I keep all the important aspects of it in mind (normalization/denormalization, complexity of queries on it, ...) Makes writing code so much more pleasurable and it's also key to make maintenance a non-issue.

Amazing how far-sighted this is, when considering that most Web Apps are basically I/O - i.e. data - bound.
Here's the post I made this morning. I'm happy to answer any questions you have, here or over on reddit.

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Half-OT: Wouldn't a "Who searches for a co-founder?" be a good idea too?
I actually think its a great mechanism for wealth redistribution.

Imagine the following scenario:

Both Person A and Person B want a watch and will both consume one. Person A is very rich and Person B is lower or middle income. Assume Watch 1 and Watch 2 are made in the exact same factory. Watch 1 has artistic elements and is marked up 300% with 200% on making nicer packaging, manual, ad editorials, social media marketing, display case design, sales commissions with the profits left to the factory owner. Watch 2 is sold at a discount retailer. Person A buys Watch 1 and Person B buys Watch 2.

Person A has had generally the same level (maybe slightly higher) environmental impact. But in the process Person A has also enabled many knowledge/creative workers who might otherwise have been under employed to derive a source of revenue (and possibly a purpose). Basically its a pre-commissioned objet d'art that can be mass produced and can be purchased by the masses.

Where it somewhat falls apart is if the marketing is so good that Person B buys Watch 1 and goes into debt in the process.
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Can you run it with Bluetooth off logging locally and then sync periodically? I doubt it but haven't dove into it
Vim never ceases to amaze me. Opening remote files over scp, splits, file explorer, and the built in cli w/ 8. Such a beautiful program.
> small town high school football star

That's odd thing to call the biggest software company* in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_software_c...

* Alphabet
Now you are comparing Apples to Lemons.
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It's not much easier to read on a 24" monitor either, honestly.
While that is correct, I'd argue that the military value lies more in force projection than actual force itself. Sure it's predicted that if the US were to enter into a proper engagement with either China or Russia that every carrier on the seven seas would be under water within a few hours.

Within those few hours however those carrier groups could deal a good bit of damage. That threat of force is an effective tool in maintaining the peace and keeping the world stage from getting too exciting. This tool is even more applicable with regard to organisations or states that lack the capacity to effectively engage the US Navy with even a slim chance of standing their ground.
Sounds like IP fragmentation. This is pretty normal with any VPN or tunnelling protocol unless the MTU is set correctly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_fragmentation
Teach me please. I need this.
On that malicious company note - have you ever considered a replica Eames Lounge? A genuine Eames goes for $5k+ new.

Searching for reviews of replicas, usually around $800-1.5k, will get you a bunch of similar reviews on subs like /r/malelivingspace. There are 2-3 big replica makers but I think the chairs are pretty much the same, cheap Chinese ripoffs with shoddy materials. For some things, you have to become a seasoned gumshoe to figure out if a review is legitimate or not. I assume there are other niche industries that are using similar marketing techniques.
Haskell support is planned. The idea is to cover as much surface area as possible. Help would be appreciated too.
To get a similar result, since I have Google drive setup, I created an envar $HED that points at a markdown file in gdrive

Dropbox or anyone else that makes it so the remote location appears as a local path to the OS would work I imagine

I can open it in neovim, grep, cat, etc
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I have not heard of this project. While as a european I appreciate the intent, I have zero expectations that this will result in anything other than some pointless spending, on the lines of the "google-killer" quaero[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero
American private companies aren't forced to censor these things by the government, they are leveraging their own freedom to operate their business with respect to their own prerogatives.
According to https://an.undulating.space/post/181227-er_alternate_firmwar...

Wireguard is just as fast as hardware accelerated IPSec on both the Edgerouter X and Lite. With Openwrt on the Edgerouter Lite Wireguard is ~2x faster than hardware accelerated IPSec on EdgeOS.
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Are you saying this because you know this or just to get a giggle from people reading?

When did the quality of HN comments go down so much?
Many mailing list software returns header information (including, most importantly, From header) while making some modifications to the message (e.g., adding a footer or prepending some text to the Subject header).

A lot of owners reconfigured said software to rewrite the From header since Yahoo changed their DMARC policy to a hard fail and broke quite a lot of mailing lists in doing so, as the resulting backscatter caused the software to unsubscribe people from the mailing list when delivery failed if someone sent a message from their Yahoo account.
> all extensions to be available only from Add On store, (similar to Chrome)

...You absolutely can install extensions from outside the Chrome extension store, though?
What amazing innovation has been happening on the web?

Technically, the last two decades can be summarized as "playing catch-up with mobile and the desktop".

The business plan of most web entrepreneurs is to collect then sell user's data while burning VC money and hoping they'll be bought soon.
1. Rebuild cost is often far in excess of $TOTAL_HOME_VALUE - $LAND_VALUE due to a combination of depreciation and very high construction/permitting costs. My HOI coverage seems absurd for my house, but all people I have consulted indicate that it's about right for rebuild costs.

2. His $345k from HOI needs to cover all lost possessions as well. Even with a car or two, it's probably not over $100k though.
Amazon likes 3rd party sellers because they basically give them free credit (3rd party seller pays for product, Amazon only pays them after the product was sold).

Also, 3rd party sellers shoulder a lot of the risk. If a product doesn't sell, or needs to be recalled, etc., Amazon doesn't care -- it's the seller's responsibility.

So I think Amazon really likes 3rd party sellers. They probably only want to get rid of them if a product gets popular enough (they want to sell it themselves) or if a product category comes with too much issues (counterfeits).
This seems very cool. Nice work!
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Thanks! It certainly sounds challenging. Is it safe to assume these will be listed on Intel's website?
I actually just set up SSL on my EC2 instance after reading this comment section. It was stupid easy, and I can't believe I didn't do it before
> This seems to suggest they won't recommend a product if they can't make an affiliate deal off of it, which is not the case.

It goes beyond and deeper than that.

Affiliate-based ad-model is beholden to Amazon for revenue. If Amazon launches their own review site (ex: leveraging the Washington Post brand, as a hypothetical), then you can almost be assured that Wirecutter would be killed off. All Amazon has to do is stop paying paid affiliate-links and instead offer review services through Washington Post (and ONLY Washington Post).

We're beyond the point of simply having websites "function". We're at the stage of the internet where we need to consider how to build web-businesses / web-organizations that last for longer than 10 years, even in the face of unknown changes. Too many websites make short-term assumptions (such as "We can trust Amazon to keep giving us money perpetually"), and end up getting swallowed or shut-down as soon as those assumptions fail.

True: Amazon Affiliate links still are a decent source of money. But just two years ago, most people probably thought that Google Adsense money was good enough to be sustainable also. The collapse of the banner-ad money (as money has shifted to Youtube ads instead) has especially hit online sites (especially those without a Youtube presence) extremely hard.
> So we shouldn't make assumptions about what "Chinese people" are like

Again, no one is condemning the Chinese people here.
Honestly, it's a fair prediction. Google has too many cooks in the wrong kitchens.
Dappkit, Firebase for Web3 Launches in December
It’s official: Google is buying Fitbit for $2.1B
> If it's a Chinese company, why is TikTok saying that China has zero jurisdiction over the app?

ByteDance is trying very hard to run TikTok and Douyin (抖音, the Chinese version) as separate companies that happen to share the same code but not data. For one, this is because they're well aware that Western governments are suspicious of foreign companies having access to their citizens' data. Secondly, having Chinese and international users on a shared platform also makes it more difficult to maintain the narrative mandated by the Chinese government, as each cross-border interaction is a potential hole in the Great Firewall.

After the lack of data separation effectively killed Grindr, they can only hope that they've done enough and won't suffer the same fate.
"Google just doesn't know what it's about anymore."

Isn't it an organization optimized for enabling engineers to increase leverage?

That's why things get rewritten into [language/framework du jour].
I found an openvpn docker image that simplifies it down to a few commands. That’s what I use at home. Took 5 minutes and my phone can access all my internal services on the road.

That being said I pay the $40 a year for PIA since I torrent all my movies and tv shows. I use that VPN 99% of the time.
Likewise, Git has been steadily improving on the user interface front for years. It's much better than 1.0 was, but it's still not the easiest DVCS to learn.

In my experience, saving a little on runtime doesn't make up for having to crack open the manual even once. UI is a big cut.

From an implementation POV, it's also generally easier to rewrite core parts in a lower-level language, than it is to redesign a (scriptable, deployed) UI.
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You're going to need a raft of evidence to justify this claim.
I am no expert, but I think the value of art is based on what someone is willing to pay for it. Art collectors and galleries will estimate this value based on a variety of factors like: How wealthy are the potential buyers? In what context is the artwork being released? Have there been other works by artists which went for a similar price? Etc. etc.

Also, art can be looked at as a science experiment where the artist performs an experiment and shares their results with the world. Expressionism is one such "field of research" with Jackson Pollock being a prominent researcher. His body of work is like a groundbreaking experiment and each painting is an artifact of that experiment. In other words buying a Jackson Pollock is sort of like buying one of Einsteins papers.