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Suppose people make the massive move from walled media to their own websites. How long will it be until mobs start going after web hosts to demand censorship? The next security/privacy law will probably make it illegal to publish your ideas.

Its the mindset that has changed. The only way to fight that would be anonymous, secure, decentralised tech
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Can you provide some sources for this? Let's assume minimum wage, calculate average living expenses, hours spent in class and doing HW vs hours working. I know I spent at least 70hrs a week doing school.
I'm sorry to see this, I was looking forward to their Android web browser that intended to support the Dat protocol:

- https://github.com/cliqz/cliqz-concept-browser

- https://github.com/cliqz/daisy

I love Beaker Browser and its vision for a P2P web, but it hasn't had a major release in a while (despite seemingly having active development) and it appears it will be desktop-only for the foreseeable future. I don't think Dat will have much uptake until there is a solid browser on both desktop and mobile.

(There was also the Bunsen browser trying to support Dat on Android, but it seems to be abandonware and I was never able to get it working anyway: https://github.com/bunsenbrowser/bunsen/ )
The US textbook lifecycle where they are updated unnecessarily each year but cost hundreds of dollars is basically just an add-on fee that circumvents the university organisation, like a budget airline charging for food and hold baggage.
I agree, demand will remain low. I have been lucky enough to keep my job to date and I have discovered the joy of saving. The amount of money I have been able to keep once I stopped going out to eat and buying useless things is amazing. I can't think that I am alone in this. Compound this with the uncertainty in the job market and I think many people are going to be focused on saving for quite a while.
It is in a city. I'm working to pay for my living expenses and full-time university currently ongoing -- not really struggling, either. The last few weeks of each semester requires sacrificing some sleep, though.
> The advancement of knowledge is now secondary to economic growth in a university.

I will second this just taking from my own experiences.

> Students begin as customers and turn into products by graduation.

To add to this the students' parents have also wedged themselves into the customer category. They are often footing the bill or at least the loan payments and some of the more helicopter-like parents feel entitled to demand universities do more and have more for their precious children.
It'll be interesting to see what Intel looks like in performance after they get past their 14 nm node for HEDT.
Your source says "athletic departments", not football or basketball programs, which is an important distinction. Football and basketball are the only money-makers (I think hockey or baseball make money at a few schools), and all of the other sports drag down the athletic departments budget.

That's also ignoring that FBS is basically advertising. There's been a steady increase in applications (and subsequently an increase in average GPA and similar numbers) at University of Alabama under Nick Saban, and I know I would have been less likely to go to Virginia Tech if it wasn't for their football program drawing me in when I was in middle/high school.
> One pretty minor thing that bothers me is that the webcam and mic mute toggles and the hang up button are blended in and out on moving the mouse cursor during a call. I'd prefer to at least have the option to let the toggles stay onscreen as I tend to use the mute mic toggle a lot during a meeting.

Could not agree more. Also, the shortcuts to mute audio and video are multiple key combinations and differ across platforms (i.e. using the command button on MacOS and Ctrl on other OSes). Why can't they be a single key, like M to mute/unmute audio and C for the camera? Heck, maybe even use spacebar for mute/unmute since it's that key of a feature?
>IMO, acknowledging that and not taking ourselves too seriously helps keep this forum from completely degenerating into another Reddit.

Ironic, because many people here seem to believe not taking ourselves too seriously will lead to this forum degenerating into another Reddit.
Oh huh, I hadn't realized that, thank you!
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What I read was that the reason for in-state college tuition increasing so much was because of the reduction in property taxes.

Typically property taxes go towards education at the local level, and as property taxes were reduced there would be a shortfall in the budget somewhere. This typically fell on education, which then forced colleges to start raising tuition as there is still a non-zero cost to education.

There was a "print" article about this in the 70's or 80's in a local newspaper in California urging residents to vote NO on lowering property taxes citing the increase in future college education as the main reason. But the vote went through, property taxes were slashed, and then of course ten years later and so forth, tuition had sky rocketed.

Decreasing taxes is like debt. Once you are hooked on it it's hard to go back. Hard to imagine any real states or large communities raising property taxes significantly to actually reinvest in the local community.
On the other hand, I used to use both "play" and "link" symbols in past resumes, where I could have really used a proper link symbol. Ideally I wanted something universally known, but the box with an arrow that Wikipedia used wasn't as well known then, and was always a small image and not available as a character. I opted for the interlinked chain links symbol instead.

I would propose updating this SMS sniff test to a Wikipedia sniff test.
This is highly dependent on your environment. I work in finance and there is legislation saying we must encrypt all traffic on the wire.

Legislation aside, this also goes back to a defense-in-depth strategy; TLS proxying only works if the network behind the proxy will always be secure. You might be able to get away with running TLS on the same host as redis, but in all other cases I can think of you're going back to the 90's-era security policy of having a hard shell and a soft underbelly--anything that gets into the network behind your TLS proxy can sniff whatever traffic it wants.

EDIT: It occurs to me that you seem to be hinting at running redis as a public service. In that scenario it makes perfect sense to use a TLS proxy for versions of redis without SSL. That said, it's still important to encrypt things on your private network to ensure you aren't one breach away from having your whole stack blown open.
>That's about the same as K-12

Are you forgetting the entirely free K-12 option here that most people grow up with?

>$15k/yr is not expensive

Ok....
No, local non-US universities are generally producing their own textbooks to go with their own courses and charge their own fees.
Remember the creepy VPN stuff marketed at teens that Facebook was doing? They really wanted to see what platforms teens were connecting to and engaging with!
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I don't think I am. This writer specifically keeps writing very "lightweight" (to put it mildly) articles: https://www.wsj.com/news/author/deepa-seetharaman. I'm not sure what value they're adding after looking at some of those headlines. After reading this article I'm no more enlightened than I was previously and there are no actions I can take to help the situation in any way.
We did, too, when we were in startup mode. Now, nothing runs unencrypted internally.

Most tooling uses TLS, because when you do this at scale, you automate your CA and it is much easier to securely deal with than, eg, ssh certs. But we do use (LDAP centralized) ssh as well, mostly for humans.
We had a 50 person meeting yesterday on Google Meet and it seemed to work just fine. Most people had their video off, though.
Over a decade ago when I was applying to schools, Vanderbilt also stood out as the worst experience. Parents were placed in a separate room a told that there only purpose is to pay the bill and the campus tour felt like a ghost town on a sunny Spring Friday
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It's still possible if you go the computer science route and get a few good intern gigs, but the margins are quite tight. It's a far cry from paying for college by selling firewood, like my baby-boomer father did.
> Do people think 'I'll follow this link - oh no wait a minute it's external I won't'?

Some do, sometimes. Or perhaps they'll think 'I won't follow this link - oh no wait a minute, it's external I will'.
Disclosure: i never went to college, I went to a trade school.

Colleges really only started scaring the heck out of me when I started enjoying my career. After spending a day wrenching in a garage, we'd hit miller time and head down to the Soapbox Bar and Grill. Over the span of a month or two ordering buckets and shooting pool I learned our bartender Javon had a masters in biology and his fiancee Cortisha who bussed the tables had a bachelors in mining science. The both of them came in well below what I earned, had no healthcare and no retirement. I remember having a few too many boilermakers one night and I asked why he was serving grease monkey clowns like us instead of working on flowers. Javon just said theres no work, and the work he would get would pay about as well as a fry cook anyway. He had some massive college bills too and i didnt understand how those worked, but you cant get rid of them like you can a car loan.

That scared the hell out of me. You could waste a hundred grand on something I always thought made people into millionaires and still wind up serving suds to a drunk in a blue jumper covered in soot from a runaway 2 stroke who thinks you "invent flowers." I woke up the next morning with a hangover and anxiety.
This is true to a point. Vicious bullying and physical abuse are very real risks for children without enough supervision.
I hate it when people do energy related articles that aren't loaded with graphs, or at least the key contextual numbers.

Just to be of some use here are some:

The overall oil market was just at or shy of 100 million barrels per day prior to covid19. As of early April we were down into the high 60-something million barrels per day. Roughly a full one third collapse in demand.

US oil production reached a low of about 5Mbpd in 2010, and rose to last month (march) being 13Mbpd. That is overwhelmingly the fracking you hear about, specifically in the permian basin. As of last week that was already down 1Mbpd.

The top 3 oil producers in the world are the US, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. SA and RU have been floating in the 9 - 11Mbpd range for the last few years, and just a few weeks prior to covid had decided to increase their production by ~2 - 3Mbpd each.

So its very simple napkin math from there. Oil sands are effectively over until we have some kind of substantial long term recovery. At least half of fracking wells in the US are being shut off right now.

If this covid crisis drags on for 2 - 3 years globally, and if the shift to wfh/tele-whatever gets advanced quicker than otherwise, and the airline industry doesn't return to its old levels for years and years... then there's every reason to think that oil sands are simply done and (most US) fracking wells will run out their existing investments and also be done.
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> Will they use "external link" symbol? I would guess not.

In that way, it would be no different from 99% of unicode characters then.
> Cliqz lost the fight against Google. There’s no way to sugarcoat this.

> A cynic might say that Cliqz failed because of our strong passion for technology and a missing drive from business development.

A cynic might also say that you were dishonest and masqueraded as something different than what your business model represented, so people had no compelling reason to switch over from Google, which does a much better job at offering quality products and deceiving its users.

I hope Brave Browser is next. Brave is the kind of company that exploits people's desire for privacy to become a rent seeker for creators and publishers, sprinkled with some crypto tokens as bait.
A little biased don't you think?
How about a slow release exercise pill?

Or hit by an acoustic or EM signal?
> Basically we need to moderate both opinions which effectively work together: the "there's no problem to begin with" group feels validated by the "the world is ending" group being way off the mark.

I agree. Do you have any idea what approach could be taken to accomplish this though, even where dealing with a single, otherwise logical person?
Thanks to 9/11 it's already been studied, and surely this pandemic will add to that body:

https://news.psu.edu/story/361041/2015/06/18/research/jet-co...
There are plenty of 10x developers who are socially inept but do very well doing work by themselves, and then there are 10x managers who can deal with those devs well enough so they can work effectively enough in team environments. Unfortunately, good 10x managers are rarer than toxic 10x devs (and a real monster is a toxic 10x manager).

There are also devs whose technical skills have outpaced their social skills temporarily, but they get better later...
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Ah interesting. But I imagine that token-based macros don't give you access to the types in the program being compiled do they? i.e. a c++ template can tell when two types are the same but a token level macro wouldn't be able to do that I think.
That's a lie that you've been told. More will die from shutdown-induced famine etc than the cronyvirus. To see real numbers look at Brazil, look at Sweden. Not so bad.
Universities have to do all this proxying for a good education because they are unable to demonstrate the primary value: making you valuable to society.

If they did, they could simply publish "Median income distribution for graduating students by degree achieved". They currently sell a common lie: that there is a roundedness or completeness to education. This is common wisdom and false.
I see Redis as a toolkit that collects a number of solutions to hard distributed system problems in a single tool. It is great for developers that have a number of use cases for these kinds of things but for which there is no need or justification to spool up yet another cluster of containers/vms/servers/load balancers/etc to support it. Redis already has to do these things to be reliable and consistent; directly exposing this ability to clients and modules is a very logical thing to do. Like it or not, Redis is a platform now.

If you really just want fast data structures in memory, use memcached. If you somehow feel that Redis is a better solution for you, perhaps you should carefully consider that you may be placing more weight on its platform features than you realize.
There's a GitHub repository for such stories [1].
I've even contributed one of my stories: "Script crashes before 10 a.m." [2]

[1]: https://github.com/danluu/debugging-stories

[2]: https://darekkay.com/blog/script-crashes-before-10/
Whoever manages this time line, that is some smooth large scale social engineering. Congrats =)
>The job can be done better for much less.

First and foremost, the lecture part of education is extremely inefficient. I know "watch the video" just doesn't work for some people, but charging for a live rendition of a repeated script, and then not valuing the person who watched the same recording equally, is absurd.

Education needs to acknowledge a couple things. 1) Theres probably a "best" lecture or lecturer out there for each topic. That's an overstatement, and a more documentary style edit of the best lectures is more realistic. The point is, there should be a collaborative way for lecturers around the country to contribute to a shared curriculum, and a group of people editing out redundancy. The amount of people in the country delivering roughly the same speeches is astounding. An open and shared processes for editing would allow for competing edits to exist simultaneously, a la forks and branches. 2) School needs to flip a bit and focus on the parts that need more individual attention. Discussions, Labs etc. Using physical space limitations in lecturers to create scarcity benefits only the schools. Anybody who has been in a 300 person lecture knows how little question and answer interaction there is with most professors, during the lecture. 3) a large portion of the value of school is networking. who you meet, who your environment is and who you absorb. is that the actual thing being sold, elitism? how do you fix that, when the product being sold is club membership under the guise of education? it's a way to manufacture class/caste divides there otherwise wouldnt be, or that would be even more nepotistic. its very much a "i had to do it to get in the club, so the next generation should too."

tldr: "school" is an artificially scarce elite caste membership. just because you pay the membership fee, doesnt mean you actually make the club, but getting in the lobby is a prereq to full membership. make school about education.
It's not offering all the other benefits of exercise (ie. building muscle and cardiovascular health). You're not going to not get fat doing this, and I doubt it'll keep you from being out of breath while climbing the stairs.
Not sure what the argument is here. Many systems _do_ have TLS in process. Also, there are plenty of regulations/certifications that require encryption in transit. Terminating at a load balancer means you have an unencrypted hop.

> AWS and GCP don’t even give you a way to install a certain yourself.

If you mean as a service they provide, well, that’s what ACM[1] is for, no? I assume Google Cloud has something similar.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/
It wasn't "outsourcing", Zoom literally has 1/3 of all employees in China.

Yuan was born, raised, and educated in China. Given the recent "oversights" at the company that laid a foundation for Chinese espionage, I don't think I'm being too paranoid in entertaining the idea that Yuan might be a Chinese state actor.

It's also a well known fact that Zoom has substantial foreign investment from China. Legally, Zoom is a U.S. based company, but in practice the company has a Chinese "heart".
If the VM is in Rust could it be compiled to WASM?
Yeah, SF is probably the problem here... get out to a cheaper state... come down to florida and sling some code for insurance companies... it will be boring but alcohol exists.
North America had 60 million bison before they were replaced with cattle. The necessity of having vast herds of large ungulates in western North America to prevent ecosystem collapse is well understood. If we stopped raising cattle, we'd have to replace them with bison, which have a similar footprint.

It may be a smaller herd, but it will be a very large herd nonetheless. That aside, at no point in the foreseeable future will people stop eating meat and dairy, so total elimination is a bit of a moot point.
> they also do things like using 15 different languages on the tech stack

Teams have a lot of flexibility to choose the best tool for the job. It's not surprising that you'd have those options if you're tackling everything from UAV avionics to distributed systems to facial recognition.
That idea about accidentally inserting advertising. I like that.
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This question has an answer:

Hospitals and other resources take a finite time to construct and they can only be constructed in linear time. That is to say, the number of new hospitals is not a function of the number of existing hospitals.

Now, in contrast the virus grows exponentially and is further aided by a period before symptoms appear and by asymptomatic carriers.

As such, when it overwhelms you there is very little you can do to catch in the middle of the fight up without taking draconian methods and accepting enormous number of deaths. Italy and NYC.

As such, the prudent course of action - especially for a wealthy country - is to build the additional hospitals and capacity ahead of time, even if - horror - they are never used.

A similar comparison is the ridiculous amount of military hardware that is procured and mostly never used.

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They're not free, they're differently funded.

My kids' school spends $21k/pupil/year.
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Embedded development is safe from the young turks in the US. Nobody is being taught how to competently develop in C and work with hardware. There is no apparent ageism where I work because older devs are in demand for skills that aren't available in a younger cohort.
Redis is painful to use in a highly regulated environment where all data must be encrypted in transit, all access logged and audited, etc. Personally, I think the requirements are over the top and focus on the wrong things a lot of the time. But it is what our compliance people say we must do.

We've spent hundreds of hours cobbling together a system that meets our regulatory requirements and still performs well. These features go a long way toward addressing this pain point. I think they've done a decent job making the extra complexity optional, too.
What would you require in order to move from your position?
I'm sure! It sounds like a good service, since app folks are boxed in by the current paradigm.
One of the things no-one may tell you in 1:1s: they find them awkward, annoying, and low value. Especially if they're very frequent and the duration is fixed.
The thing is I want to eat. Not the op.
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One solution I heard is changing the loan requirement to be a fixed price sole payment accepted with zero required additional bundling. They can have scholarships but none of this "must stay in our dorms the first year and meal plan, books must be bought from here now suddenly several thousand each" mark up smuggling opportunity bullshit. So there would be a driven for efficiency. You want federal money for education? It is accept $35K/yr per student or get bent.

There would be fine tuning in the numbers and parameters but that would kill price as a signal as a good thing as it forces either public rates or exorbitant private school which thinks they can actually make more without the massive prime consumer pool.
"a bureaucracy isn't trustworthy"

This kind of rhetoric has been popular in California at least since the 1970s and it has consistently played the same role, which has been to disguise reality. Bureaucracy is expanding because complex societies need complex bureaucracies. This isn't new. You can trace this far back in history. In some sense, the era of bureaucracy began around 3,300 BC when the first Pharaohs wanted to put up the first pyramids and found that they need hundreds of scribes to keep track of all the material, and payments for the material. And bureaucracy has gotten a lot bigger since that time. There are some totally legitimate criticisms that you can make about civilization, especially the way a complex civilization necessarily infringes on some of our basic rights, and the fact that there is a certain kind of inefficiency to bureaucracy. All the same, bureaucracy also has a kind of efficiency to it, especially when organizing things of immense scale. Lazy libertarianism is popular but it is not an accurate guide to the changes happening in our society or our economy.