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So why do the experts estimate the planet can support between 8 and 11 billion people?

2 hands to produce it? No. Modern agriculture relies on machines for most things. The high yield monocrop pattern is how we feed so many already. I firmly believe that increasing people will decrease suitability.
The US is pretty unique in having iMessage as it's primary message platform. Something like 70% of US smartphones are iPhones. Everyone else in the world is using cross-platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.
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Oh yeah, Gutmann actually explains this history in one of his writings, and then the certificates kinda start making sense.

Also, remember the OSI model? It was not supposed to be just a model — and it's a failure of the model anyway, real network protocols just keep piling up application layers on top of each other, the upper ones using the lower ones as their transport layers, — no, there were supposed to be actual separate protocols for each level, and actually there are! Of course, nobody sane ever uses them.
You have put your finger on it. I AM bitter about it. It used to be really cool, and really nice to use, before the Taylor/Pao dustup, and the redesign.
> Indeed, it may be one of the advantages of capitalism that it encourages such rewriting. A company that needs software to do something can't use the software already written to do it at another company, and thus has to write their own, which often turns out better.

I think this is a great insight, and perhaps this is the reason why open source libraries aren't a panacea. By building your own stuff from scratch you get something that makes sense for --your project--. When you glue libraries together you get something that works, but the parts never quite fit and product quality suffers. And the sheer enjoyment of building something entirely from scratch combined with having a lean and mean thing that works exactly the way as intended is absolutely worth it.

The next time you're comparing libraries and none of them suit your application perfectly, maybe ask yourself if you should just re-invent the wheel, and thereby make it "a project of one's own".
Some people are claiming online that this is a cyber attack. I contract for the UK Gov and I'm hearing reports that traffic is going through the roof right now.

Anyone know if there is any legitimacy to this?
It appears the mention of "Mediation" was made very recently, likely in response to what's currently going on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guru_Meditation&d...

And it seems to be incorrect, since this "spelling variation" is only used by Fastly and not part of Varnish?...
Only a world-wide revolution abolishing profit and money can put an end to this. 150 years later, the Commune lives on! :)
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So no taxes if you don't own land?
You know which one’s worst? Japan... still reservation based and for 65 and up only!
Scummy but pretty smart setting up such a network of sites. Even more reverse figuring it out. Bravo to the author.
I hear that you're suggesting that those involved shouldnt feel bad because its a systemic / just a job / etc. But the reality is that incidents like this can be very traumatic for those involved and thats not something they can control. If it was that simple to manage, depression and anxiety would not be a thing.

Think its best to show a large amount of support and empathy for the individuals having a really bad day today, and how awful they may feel. Some will probably end up reading this thread (I know I would).

And of course, still hold Fastly the business accountable for their response (but objectively, once we understand what the root cause was, and the long term solution).
I did not realise fastly adoption was so wide-spread. Can anyone more enlightened tell my why or have some resource on which use-cases fastly is superior to other CDNs such as CloudFlare?
This is by design though, the gap between the two doses is higher here.
Apache's thread-per-connection model used to run basically the entire internet until nginx came along and demonstrated 10k simultaneous connections on a single server.

If you only have around 100 concurrent confections, a separate thread per connection is entirely feasible. A whole new process is probably fine on Linux, but e.g. Windows takes pretty long to spawn a process
A fork having activity doesn't imply it is a publicly maintained fork that people can rally around.

Many of forks are made for personal purposes, experiments, one offs to patch bugs, to keep an eye on a project, or other reasons.

I'm thinking of the opposite of "archive" -- a setting that means "I nominate myself to become the lead repo for the community to rally around should the community be interested.

On this repo, can you tell me which fork the community moved to for this dead project?

https://github.com/lightbody/browsermob-proxy/network/member...
And that's why we use Jitsi, Conversations, Jami... that is pieces of software that were designed to interoperate, not just work in a very specific set of circumstances on particular hardware, with a certain OS version and when the weather is right.
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Yeps it is still there (Map data 2021) : https://www.google.fi/maps/@60.0886319,19.7968492,371a,35y,3...
1. Here in CT with our abundance of trees, a large fraction of the state loses power for the better part of a week every couple of years when a windstorm comes up the coast.

2. Batteries need not just be for power outages. Net metering, granular demand-based energy pricing, etc are all reasons to get a battery for your house.
You don't access the money directly. You access loans against the value of it, which, when well-collateralized, have very low interest rates that are more than made up for by the rise in value of the underlying asset.

You don't have to sell shares when you can take a loan out against them instead.
no, it's just that the incident has just been fixed by fastly https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
Hackers on the internet are lawless because they're in Russia or wherever, but somebody looking through your walls with wifi will be personally present in your street where he's at risk of being caught so it's a completely different kind of risk.
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Good job Fastly for getting the issue identified and resolved so quickly. < 1 hour to identify, <13 minutes to fix (assuming status is accurate).
Archived versions: https://archive.is/jtJvK

https://web.archive.org/web/20210608102417/https://webcache....

(Since, as we all know, Google’s webcache won’t last)
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Even so, mediation makes sense in this context given fastly's business model.

It could be a typo or an attempt to be clever.
Belarus is Lukashenko's country, an increasingly isolated regime
Right, I get the same impression from Replit. I don't know why I got subscribed to some weird accelerator newsletter they started and the wording is akin to the nigerian prince scam (and as a side note a REPL website creating an accelerator for sure gives me some dotcom bubble vibes).

I'm sure there are a lot of incredibly clever startup founders out there but I get the impression that more than not you attract founders that are more interested in the status rather than the innovation aspect. I said status not money as a lot of the time these folks don't really care about money as long as they can add a "Founder of X, an YC funded company" on their profile and share their next viral tweet, with lots of adjectives, lots of buzzwords and no depth. Startup funding became a game of convincing others that you as a person deserve the funding, not the company itself.
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That was me, though perhaps less proficient, until I realized that all the work was basically worthless trash and there's little point in putting my employer before my own interests. Now I can't figure how to do that again!
This seems to be just a messaging app, but is there a market for more full-featured ERP, CRM and project management software for criminal enterprises?

I'm sure they would benefit from those just the same way legitimate enterprises do. The only difference is that they do more illegal stuff and use more violence, but the fundamental business dynamics should be the same.
The same outlets that publish those headlines also publish ones like “Company XYZ made billions in revenue and paid zero in taxes”, completely glossing over payroll tax, deferred losses, and credits for capital investment.
The only reason anyone buys those assets is because of the divine share buybacks. Anything else is purely speculation and always reverts back to the mean.

Over the long term effectively 100% of all stock market returns comes from either dividends (and buybacks) or the companies increasing ability to pay dividends (through earnings growth).

I'm not sure why you think having a place to live ( or to rent to someone else) is not productive... mind explaining?
Fastly has already crashed half of the internet. A real-world Chaos experiment
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it seems to be up now
I think wealth coffers are past the upper limit of what can be construed as reasonable even in the most anarchic of capitalist societies.

Just like on the monopoly board, one cannot win when all the spaces are already owned - that’s the situation we fundamentally have. A wealth tax is necessary.
Second reply: I saw that you work in applied cryptography and blockchain technology @ Cryptography Services (NCC Group) so you might be familiar with somewhat Grey Hat russian forum InsidePro; back in the day I saw people there requesting Bitcoin private key recovery for their lost private keys or if they encrypted and/or hashed wallet private keys and couldn't recover plaintext anymore and I can say that amateur crackers could recover private keys pretty efficiently and I can only wonder what professional law enforcement agency can do.

If FBI could crack smartphone encryption/protection from multi trillion dollar company I'm speaking about Apple and that terrorist's Iphone then they do pretty much anything.
Even so, why would I want to support this behavior? There are plenty of other headsets on the market.
Unless you're about to finish it today, you should probably post it as a "Show HN", otherwise almost nobody is going to see it.
Just take a loan against the assets to pay for stuff.
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There are clever ways of addressing gaming, for example, to counter undervaluation there could be a rule that says that if you value your land at $X then anyone is legally allowed to force you to sell it to them for $X.

This works both ways. If the government overvalues your land at $X then you can force them to purchase it from you for that much, for example.
Good to see this project make progress -- well done to the development team. Whatever you think about pgp, it's not going away anytime soon, and a new implementation is an opportunity to brush away some cobwebs and even improve the ecosystem[1].

[1] https://sequoia-pgp.org/holistic-approach/
I use uBlock Origin with default third-party blocking, so I see such trends happening as I browse. The strong consolidation on fastly feels like a recent development (last year, at a guess). Before that it was edgekey for a while.

Maybe we need a crawler that keeps track of the hidden centralisation of the web. Or is someone doing that already?

Cloudflare, AWS, fastly, etc. It’s not quite all eggs in one basket, but the amount of baskets is small, and the amount of eggs in them is growing. This is a timely reminder of that.
I think replacing income tax with a progressive consumption tax is something worth considering (or at least modeling out). Currently the bottom half of W2 earners in the US don't pay any income tax and the wealthiest only pay capital gains.

It doesn't seem fair that the upper middle income earners carry so much if the tax burden (at least as a percentage of their wealth). We also need to get away from the idea of taxation "as punishment" and think about it in terms of "what does funding the system actually require".
Also, why has this been allowed to happen? Billions of dollars lost because of this one company?

I don't understand this.
At least that's accurate. "Degraded performance" would imply to me that things are functional, but slow. increased error rates can be anything from "try again" to ":shrug:"
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I don't understand why so many people applaud hefty inheritance taxes, with some far-left voices demanding inheritance taxes well above 90% or even 100%. It feels to me like this is sending the signal to "use it or lose it". While everyone is talking about cutting unnecessary consumption you're effectively telling people to spend all their money on frivolous luxury items because they can't pass it on to their children anyway. As someone with children, my main motivation is living within my means and keeping the rest of my assets as a retirement/rainy-day fund, or, after my demise, to have it passed on to my children. If you tell me I can't do that I might as well just buy an expensive sports-car tomorrow...
I HAVE FLUTTER EXAMINATION TOMORROW BUT STACKOVERFLOW IS DOWN. SHIT :)
For self employed devs Slovenia has 80% expense flat rate, so final tax is like 10% under 100k with zero administration. Bulgaria has LLCs with 10% income tax. If you have to buy property to get residency, there is Greece, Cyprus, Portugal...
Does Shopify do that much when the US is asleep?
Users they care about = Not in the Mainland
I HAVE FLUTTER PROJECT FOR MY EXAM TOM AND STACKOVERFLOW IS DOWN. SHIT :) I'M FCKED
I think so, Fastly seems to have a few huge enterprise clients while Cloudflare seems more balanced (and larger)
What right do they have to the sweat of my brow?

What's in it for me to sustain those who provide nothing of use?
Yes, because they're all just repeats of this one.
Google's Firebase platform uses Fastly so that's a significant chunk of the web.
I'm going to try with my toddler. What is the pedagogical framework / approach you used?
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that today is Patch Tuesday.

:-|
Sure, but you can't just classify everything as a business expense.

And regardless, that's not really a carve out for the wealthy, that's just a policy we have because we think it encourages business growth, which is generally a good thing.
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gasp you're absolutely right...!
I don't think that was the story.he fled to Cyprus and escaped prison there.
Someone somehow got him to believe the app is safe, he took kickbacks for the distribution, even.
My main question is, how is this man living free in Turkey despite there being an interpol warrant?
Somebody has to pay for this, definitely Fastly. I want a full investigation and an elaborate post mortem of the most intricate of details.

No stone unturned, lots of people lost billions because of this.
The lack of a wealth tax means they just get to pick and choose when they take their income out of their assets, always at the most favorable time. Capital gains going up wouldn’t make much of a dent in someone paying under 5%.
pinterest.com would clean up another large chunk of crap
Fascinating. So those rates are including only ages 30+, which means that once it’s unrestricted the UK should have a very high vaccination rate while ~15-25% of the US will still remain unvaccinated entirely by choice. Wow. So you’re absolutely right, the UK is in reality far far ahead and the US is completely broken as far as public health is concerned because of willing ignorance.
Depends on how you look at it. GPL is more permissive in that it allows you to contribute to and benefit from evolutions of the software. While MIT doesn't permit you to reuse code that was expanded on by huge corporations.

Of course, you can frame the debate the other way around, i'm just making the point that "permissive/restrictive" means very little in this context and what matters really as a question is "do you wish huge corporations to benefit from your free-software work and expand on it to develop their own business, without EVER contributing anything back"? If yes, choose MIT and you'll probably regret it like so many open-source maintainers. Otherwise, choose (a)GPL and you probably won't regret it (at least i've never met someone so far who regretted choosing copyleft for their works, but it may exist of course).
For-profit education does not get a free pass in fair use.

> transforms and integrates with the content in your browser

"Integrates with" and "browser" are irrelevant technical details.

I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not sure, but for example Grand Theft Auto's publisher shut down efforts in the computer vision industry to use their game as a training data generation engine for self-driving car research. That's why I'm also wondering how the law deals with using things you have a license for in different ways, for different purposes than originally intended.
What a shame there is only one available Romanian title, since that's the language I'm learning.
Who makes billions per hour through their website? (but apparently couldn't be bothered to prepare for this?)
It's disappointing to see how these sort of articles mix "wealth growth" (i.e. a paper gain such as the increase in the value of your house), with income tax. How easy it is to mislead people to take a side on the rich vs poor politically-driven fight.
I think what you said is exactly why people have different opinions on this topic: what counts as "gross negligence" and what doesn't? Different people draw lines at different places.
github is back online.
SSO too.
old.reddit still a thing and there is a plenty of educational subreddits with really nice community around them, it's just like the internet just pick the things that suits you.
I've been reading a lot about these "encrypted phones recently".
What really shocks me is how in the last years police has been going after operators of such services under the premise that they would help criminals.

- Sky ECC (Shutdown, owner is facing criminal charges)

- Phantom Secure (Shutdown and owner got 9 years in prison)

- Encrochat ("Hacked" by french police)

So it seems like those "Encrypted phones" were very effective for Law Enforcement to put such an effort to go after them.

I think that criminal organizations will now rely on a do it yourself technique. Not buying phones online which is a very bad idea as law enforcement could just trap the phones at the postal facility, something they already do.

Going to an old fashion phone retailer, then removing the camera and GPS module yourself and installing some encrypted open source software.

Probably they are also going to fake messages. For 2 purposes:

- Talk about a fake huge drug deliveries or an imminent mass shooting to verify if the network has been compromised, I am pretty sure police has no choice other than to act in such a situation.

- This could be used as a strategy defense, if some messages turn out to be fake, then they can use plausible deniability on the others. And perhaps even claim police has faked them.
The mirrors still work though, and cabal will just fall back to those
Interesting idea.

Also funny that Google Page Speed Insights was complaining about the Google Analytics JS and its caching duration.

Probably different teams and competing in a strange manner with each other.
I read about the Candela C7 boat last week. See https://candelaspeedboat.com/
Maybe some IBM consultants can help them sort out their tech business strategy.
SSO and github are back online now
This is awesome. And also exposes how broken the US is with its anti-vaccination trend
Ah down voters that probably think "meme stock, stupid suggestion".

GME will release its 8k SEC filing within a week and it will likely contain vote counts. Votes equate to shares and there is a high probability the vote counts will be higher than the number of shares ever issued. The Naked Short Selling loophole has led to this, for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling and an interview on Fox Business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRVBbNYfAOM describing the problem.

This is a simple supply/demand problem that should correct itself in the market.
This is the most HN argument I've ever seen.

Personally, I defer to you, the person who actually understands the industry from the inside, in terms of having an opinion based in reality.

So often, these hand-wavy solutions which boil down to "we must remove the bad people preventing our utopia" (ie scapegoating) are masking wicked problems (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem) that cross multiple thresholds of responsibility, incentive and jurisdiction.

Declaring hard problems to be caused intentionally by evil people has led to some of the most despicable acts in history.
That's really cool! What's the business model here? A lot of artists, especially in free-software/free-culture communities could use tooling like that.

If you're willing to make it a proper donation-run project with a commitment to free-software, i'm sensing a great future like GIMP/Blender has :) Good luck on it, can't wait to try it out once it's packaged on Debian
There is! That paper I linked does exactly that. It uses light to illustrate the point because it's particularly easy to calculate the comparative amount of utility per unit of cost regardless of technology, and show how it diverges from what naive price indices would show.

It's harder for something like batteries, where there are multiple relevant performance parameters to reduce to one utility heuristic. And good luck when the utility is subjective (clothes), still under study (food and nutrition), or ill-defined (media).
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing. Do you actually practice them? Or what's your approach to using them? I add vocabulary to Pleco faster than the space repetition shows them so it doesn't seem like an effective way to use them.

Also searches don't seem to access stored vocab first so it doesn't actually make searching that much faster either.
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Trello?

The only aspect that would stand out to use a "criminal specific" CRM would be hosting & security.
And it's worse than just 'assets not cash' - Amazon might not be the best example, but even so there's no way can dump ~1/10th of it without moving the price; even ignoring disclosure requirements and the effects of insider selling, it'd be way down just on that volume (10x 30d average).
Duo uses AV1 for very low bandwidth calls. And then a mix of H.264 / VP8 / VP9 etc.. depending on many parameters. Disclaimer: worked on the product. https://blog.google/products/duo/4-new-google-duo-features-h...
You're being obtuse. The point is that it's perfectly reasonable to be willing to pay more, but only if all the other rich people do too.
i feel like making breakout rooms at this point is not as hard as making FaceTime for web/Android. they can basically pick and chose the features they like at this point.
The 590k lives lost are not just numbers- What happened to US Covid response?