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> Do you roll your own power grid? Do you roll your own ISP + telecoms network?

> Roads, trains, water, electricity, internet

I guess the difference here is that you're (mostly) talking about physical infra, which by definition must be local to where it's being used. We allow (enforce?) a monopoly on power distribution (and separate distribution from generation) because it doesn't make sense to have every power company run their own lines. But with that monopoly comes regulation.

Digital services are different. The entire value prop is that you can have an infinite number and the marginal cost of "hooking up" a new customer is ~$0. This frequently leads to a natural winner-take-all market.

One way to address this is to add regulation to digital services, saying that they must be up x% of the time or respond to incidents in y minutes or whatever. But another way to address it is to ensure it's easy for new companies to disrupt the incumbents if they are acting poorly. The first still leads to entrenched incumbents who act exactly as poorly as they can get away with. The second actually has a chance of pushing incumbents out, assuming the rules are being enforced. And now you've basically re-discovered the current American antitrust laws.

As far as any individual company's best interests, like anything else in engineering, it's about risk vs. reward.

What's the cost of having a backup CDN (cost of service, cost of extra engineering effort, opportunity cost of building that instead of something else, etc.) vs. the cost of the occasional fastly downtime?

I have to imagine that for most companies the cost of being multi-CDN isn't worth what they lose with a little down time (or four hours of downtime every four years).
Sure, but a 1M mortgage is about 50K a year at today's rates. Let's say 30K for home upkeep, 10K to keep a car on the road, 10K for utilities, 20K for food and dining.

So 500K after tax - 90K private school for two kids - 50K mortgage payment - 30K - 10K - 10K - 20K = 290K in totally disposable post-tax income. Still not even remotely close to middle class.
Yes I give them touch screen. I admit I was a touch screen skeptic (the kind of person who became mad when someone would touch a screen so doing that on a regular basis seemed a really bad idea to me ^^) and did not get a phone with a touch screen until much later, when they were basically the only option :)
Experimental observation of non-Abelian topological charges and edge states
No problem. I'm also planning on open sourcing the frontend when I have the available resources as the value is really with the data. If others want to learn from what I've done and/or use it to integrate into their own solutions, that's perfectly fine by me.
Yes, you do in fact need CORS to set the arbitrary header in the example if it's even possible to send from a browser. I suppose it might be possible to send as `HELP xss:` which is close

Like you said, you can send requests, but not the one listed in the example and you're severely limited in cross protocol interactions to valid http where you don't need to receive a response... (which some of the example attacks require btw)

I think this is an interesting issue to consider, but the examples are based on wildly different threat models that include TLS being hijacked, maybe DNS if it was performed with rebinding, the FTP server being hijacked for one of the attacks. It is not at all concrete. Interesting, but not really worth worrying about.

The interesting cross protocol attacks that I've seen involved SSRF talking to memcached, as a classic example. Something private. In practice I think they would struggle to find a single real world instance where they can pull off an attack enabled by this behavior. Which is fine, it's academic. Just not what I expected given the coverage.
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Yes, I built a guitar pedal that was designed around JFET gain stages and the JFETs had to be sourced from a specialist. I wonder if they're still being made. Most of the discrete JFETs I see available are for switching applications.
This weird meme that Bitcoin is so beneficial to criminal activity (especially in comparison with physical cash)... I don't know where it started, but I wish its completely bad-faith nature would die. Sure, the Silk Road started, but the feds have wised up on how to trace Bitcoin since then - it's fairly straight-forward given the public-nature of the blockchain.
Actually, your second link doesn't say what you think it says. It says that people believe that Democrats believe that, not that Democrats believe that. Yes, it seems a weird thing to poll about.

Your fourth link is misleading. You've picked a link from a moment in time when Barr had released his summary of the Meuller report but Meuller's criticism of Barr's summary as being inaccurate had not been released.
Try the same test with Vivaldi 3.7, 3.8 or 4.0...
They've optimized the browser interactions quite dramatically so it's much faster than the video shows. But... It's still slower than Chromium's UI.
Colonizing Mars is probably more realistic, because of the difficulty of existing countries to invade. But many of the same problems exist, like the libertarian dystopia that they want to put in place.
Their job is to push the worth of their currency inexorably toward zero.
> Say a corporation issues equity to the wealthy, but instead of spending the proceeds on research or equipment, puts that money into a time deposit at a bank, which in turn uses it to fund a mortgage for a less-affluent household.

Am I understanding this correctly? They are saying that because corporations are saving more, the savings become money that can be loaned to people, and because there is more money to loan, the price of everything goes up, therefore hurting the poor unintentionally? That's pretty interesting.
I remember seeing an interesting Audio Engineering Society's presentation (2005) [0] on a similar problem in balanced audio interfaces. Interestingly, an old-school audio transformer is more robust, it has higher CMRR in the real world when there's some common-mode impedance imbalance in the system, on the other hand the CMRR of an opamp seriously degrades. Designs which naively rely on the opamp CMRR were responsible for many noise problems in balanced audio.

> Where Did We Go Wrong? TRANSFORMERS were essential elements of EVERY balanced interface 50 years ago ... High noise rejection was taken for granted but very few engineers understood why it worked. Differential amplifiers, cheap and simple, began replacing audio transformers by 1970. Equipment specs promised high CMRR, but noise problems in real-world systems became more widespread than ever before ...Reputation of balanced interfaces began to tarnish and “pin 1” problems also started to appear!

> Why Transformers are Better. Typical “active” input stage common-mode impedances are 5 kΩ to 50 kΩ at 60 Hz. Widely used SSM-2141 IC loses 25 dB of CMRR with a source imbalance of only 1 Ω. Typical transformer input common-mode impedances are about 50 MΩ @ 60 Hz. Makes them 1,000 times more tolerant of source imbalances – full CMRR with any real-world source.

> CMRR and Testing. Noise rejection in a real interface depends on how driver, cable, and receiver interact. Traditional CMRR measurements ignore the effects of driver and cable impedances! Like most such tests, the previous IEC version “tweaked” driver impedances to zero imbalance. IEC recognized in 1999 that the results of this test did not correlate to performance in real systems... My realistic method became “IEC Standard 60268-3, Sound System Equipment - Part 3: Amplifiers” in 2000. The latest generation Audio Precision analyzers, APx520/521/525/526, support this CMRR test!

[0] https://www.aes-media.org/sections/pnw/pnwrecaps/2005/whitlo...
Nice work!

Have you considered what Salesforce, HubSpot, and the like have? They use the BCC to record entire email chains and users...
I think you have it exactly backwards the cost goes down due to the area being a less desirable location allowing the poor to afford the houses there. If you analyzed the situation better it is extremely likely that there is an underlying cause that isn't poor people moving in. The economic situation in Detroit has been shit and getting shittier for years now leading to the people who are more capable and therefore able to command a higher salary to tend to move elsewhere.

A house that a doctor and a lawyer are competing to buy is going to be go for more than the one an auto mechanic and a fireman are competing for.
But there is no 16” M1 model. That’s totally unlike Apple. Is M1 16” coming in September then?
That sounds insightful, but there's no point in screwing a buyer for a tiny today payday.

Those agents work on volume, so if you think they're pushing you to not get the lowest price, it's so they can close the deal, not because their incentives aren't aligned with yours. If they're telling you to offer more, it's because they have better knowledge of the market and the game than you.

They're banking on many commissions a month, not on the fractional share of that extra $10k you don't want to fork over.
They are saying rich people are indirectly financing poor peoples' debt by owning stocks and bonds because corporations are then stockpiling cash. Not very convincing as a causal reason the middle class got buried in debt. Just taking advantage of the rich v. poor narrative
Yeah why fix anything ever? If it was bad for me it should be bad for them too right?
Wait. We have ADCs that produce floats now? That’s amazing.
fiat currency does not drop 50% in one month and is not at the mercy of other countries. If US forbids all banks to execute trades in BTC like China did, BTC is dead.
No doubt that they're poorer performance than discrete GPUs, but given the scarcity and cost of the latter I would think they would settle for integrated gpus rather than no gpus at all?
BANANA results in higher homeless rates, that means that denying any building anywhere... you're actively supporting increase in homelessness.
Wouldn't the LVT reduce property prices, which counteracts that?
Space Oddity: the weird history of the Soviet ANS synthesizer
I wonder how they plan to not become evil? It is explicitly planned or just that they are trying to offer a new alternative to the current evil thats not evil yet? Either one is fine, just wondering out loud.
BioShock was inspired by the seasteading movement.
I’d vote for Django web framework
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That is fantastic for retirement but 80% of people who live in Urban areas value above all else seemingly proximity to jobs which are driven themselves by the proximity of many people which is often driven by the proximity to desirable features like ports.
It forms a network, where transactions are routed between LN nodes/channels. You have to be in the same graph with the coffee shop. If there are small separate subgraphs, they can be connected by one common node, such as an exchange.

So, most likely the coffee shop has just one or a few channels open to popular exchanges or dedicated LN services. You open a channel either directly or indirectly to the same exchange / service.
The sweet irony, that in the end privatized pensions created a sort of socialism via capitalistic means, more thoroughly central integrating every economic branch then lenin could ever have dreamed for.

Poisoning innovation and competition, by simply owning whole industry sectors, and demanding "rock-steady" profits without disruption.

Investing in ever larger centralization schemes aka disruptions were external organizations protected enterprise-profits. (Taxis)

Eating even the black-market, by dragging "dead-money" from tax-havens and criminal enterprises into investment bubbles like the housing market.
This is literally just revoking Trump’s cyber security actions against TikTok, WeChat, and Huawei, and ordering agencies to deliver a report in 180 days.
Why intentionally spread misinformation?

Fees are currently $1.17 and were as low as $0.30 recently.

https://mempool.space/
Do you know any books or articles that go into more depth on this, giving more examples, etc?
And that crypto would be?
Circadian rhythm gene in mice discovered
Who needs this?

I also see some technical problems. The watch can be detached from the frame on the wrist. It does not seem easy to design a robust and small mechanism for this. Also it has to deal with sweat and dirt.
Old retired couple have a 6-bedroom house for their former 4-kids (+masters bedroom + guest bedroom). All their kids have moved out, and they're tired of vacuuming so many empty rooms. They want to move to a retirement community.

New up-and-coming couple not only have 4-kids, but one more is on the way. They suddenly got an opportunity to work in... Chicago (or insert any other city here), and are looking for a new home to raise their kids in.

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The old-couple will likely be willing to sell the house below market value, while the younger couple may be stressed out and otherwise willing to pay above market value.

Clearly, value will be created as the new couple buys the home from the old couple. The majority of transactions between rational individuals are of this nature. The only detail remaining is how to proceed with negotiations, but assuming they're rational, the two sides will come to a price point that's favorable to both sides.
Large size and poor thermals, if I had to guess.
> Wouldn't the LVT reduce property prices, which counteracts that?

1. Don't assume

2. If you are poor, which do you think is easier? A higher initial capital expenditure? Or a higher upkeep cost?
Right, I'm pointing out that it's a nonsense comment. "The negative externalities should be properly priced in" implies government intervention, and indeed the market cannot do it. At best you're violently agreeing with everyone in the thread.
I suppose Corbyn was the right wing candidate in the last general election then!?
In fact, I'll actively try to make things worse for them to try and eke out a little profit.
I feel that you've missed the joke. Also, there is no way, at all, that they are going to revoke nearly all of their certs because they were valid for 1 second longer than they should have been. It would mark the end of Let's Encrypt if they did.

We've lived with certs that were valid for a second longer than they should have been since the inception of Let's Encrypt, and three months won't kill anyone.

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When they revoked 3% of their certificates, not all of them were able to renew in time due to physical server limitations. The renewals required server administrators to forcibly renew their certificates, and the email address associated with the certificate was contacted to let them know. It would be an unmitigated disaster if 185 million certificates were suddenly revoked.
I'm referring to block rewards, the miners will get block rewards until 2140, price of Bitcoin doesn't matter.
You must be joking? There is a trivial way to hide the traces by using mixers. Why do you think ransomware and black markets today exclusively run crypto not fiat?
It's the first time that I see someone using left indentation for code.
> fiat currency does not drop 50% in one month and is not at the mercy of other countries.

Fiat currency not controlled by major economic powers has been know to do that (and there are a few cases for major powers, too, in conditions like just after losing major wars with other such powers.)

Conversely, if you aren’t a major economic power, a fiat currency that is controlled by one is at the mercy of other countries. (And, even if you are a major power, your currency has some exposure to your relationships with othe countrieds, though “at the mercy of” may be too strong.)

Not all fiat is “the USD from the perspective of the US”.
Mining isn't free. You need to pay for space and power (especially when we're talking about the large scale miners capable of making an impact on the hardware supply). With most bitcoin like coins, the hashrate of the network has diminishing returns as the difficulty increases and the amount of compute resources needed to mine blocks at a decent rate increases. If your computing capabilities are worse than your competitors, it's unlikely you'll make a profit (which is part of why bitcoin mining is the land of ASICs these days, gpu/cpu mining of bitcoin doesn't happen, most gpu miners mine ethereum or monero, then if they want bitcoin sell that and buy bitcoin).
What's the connection between Let's Encrypt and KIR here?
That doesn't make any sense, the channels are p2p, you can open and close channels with whoever you wish and your channel counterparties don't actually hold your funds, you hold them.
The coins are essentially allocated to being on the lightning network, and cannot be used on the blockchain until the two are synced up.
Rearranging displays to match their physical placement is incredibly annoying. I'm so happy Apple finally decided to innovate here.
It wasn’t an argument

I said how it works
It seems just fine? As it's my secondary account it's mostly SMTP idle so I can't give an honest opinion about delivery (like emails from your bank) but it seems to be doing very well as a service. Like Fastmail, they have a detailed domain setup wizard to ensure all your DNS for SPF/DKIM/dmarc etc. is all properly configured for best results. I have no complaints for what I use it for, really. I do wish that I had finer grained app password control like Fastmail but it's not a deal killer.

I went with Fastmail as my primary due to the enhanced feature set and crazily enough - the Notes and Files feature in their mobile app. I can take a picture, toss it into that folder and get it on my desktop quicker than finding a USB cable or running a foldersync - the Notes are similar, I replaced Google Keep by just using the Fastmail Notes functionality.
I'm not, maybe you should brush up on the rest of the world existing
EU Warns People About the Risks and Damages of Piracy
Most criminals use cash. USD to be exact.
When I was looking at homes a year ago we looked at a few foreclosures and they were usually pretty rough. Not always because someone was destructive on the way out, but because there was something else wrong in that person’s life and the house became a reflection of that.
Great, well then I suggest that we just repeat this process whenever a new presidency takes over. Wonder when it's Denmark's turn again - we really missed the opportunity in 2012 by being so darn agreeable all the time.
A charity that is receiving $300mn+ a year in untaxed dividends spends $125mn of that on:

Personnel and other operating expenses attributable to administration + Financial expenses, depreciation and amortization, and changes in provisions

and you're just cool with that?
None of the federated social networks seems to have reached the scale of the biggest centralized social networks.

Which leads me to believe that economics and incentives favor big, centralized social networks.
I don't really agree. Japan has had very easy money and QE for ten years longer than the West. Yet, it's one of the few housing markets in the world where prices have not risen in 25 years.[1] Runaway housing costs are everywhere and always a phenomenon that results supply constraints. Usually entirely zoning/regulatory driven. Usually due to NIMBY activism.

Given supply constraints, I agree that easy money probably does drive up prices. But without artificial constraints, any rise in price would just dissipate back into higher supplies. That's why you see QE result in higher housing costs, but not higher car prices.

[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-housing-crisis-in-japan-ho...
> It's like they are throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bags full of hundred dollar bills over your fence and you are complaining about income tax.

They aren't throwing dollars over the fence, they're throwing debt over the fence.

Sure, my property is on-paper worth more. If I cash that out, I just have to spend it all (every other house got more expensive by an equal amount, and I have to live somewhere). And the new person who buys it now has to cover all that extra debt directly in their mortgage, they get soaked too!

Property values are not real wealth, it's not real money. It's fake. Coastal folks can treat it like it's real, because they can play markets against each other, they can depend on moving to some "low COL" area as their cash-out-to-real-money exit strategy. Those of us in low COL already (or who can't play markets, because they have to stay here for family/work reasons) don't have similar luck, the chain ends here, there's nowhere left to go.

> Presumably if someone did something like build a crack house and halved the value of your property you wouldn't thank them for halving your tax bill!

I would thank them, actually. Property should depreciate. It's the only way housing will ever get affordable for real humans again. I don't expect to get every dollar I paid for a house, back again. No one should.

> locals have interests that are almost always out of alignment with the rest of society.

Locals are the "rest of society". Locals don't all own property, half of our locals rent. Locals who own, still often have kids who need to buy houses, and they want them to be able to afford to live near them. The selfish behaviour seems to be coming entirely from developers or 'urbanists' who think if they just keep ignoring the ramifications of their actions, they can strongarm society into accepting forever-increasing housing costs. Why you paint "Locals" with that brush, when Locals carry every penny of those increased costs, I have no idea.
Do you think advertisement works? It is certainly possible, using advertising, to convince many people that NOW is the special time when taking on debt is actually OK, because rising house prices lift all boats. (Not really that different from any other gold rush..)

Which is what happened before 2008, when there was very little oversight in borrowing (e.g. NINJA loans). We know empirically that if the lenders are not obligated to make sure that the loans can be repayed, predatory lending will occur and cause social problems.
Before all the hate brigade from people who have never set a foot outside the states.

As someone who interacted with troops in combat before (in Iraq before immigrating), I am all for anything helping soldiers do their job more effectively and modernizing their tech.

No they aren't seen as an Imperial force, in 2003 they were seen as liberators by most people (I was against the war, it was dumb, replaced a dictator with 500 mini dictators with no real plan besides theft). In 2013, realistically, without the US support ISIS would still be a threat on the ground. And now majority of the population would want more US intervention as a hedge against being an Iranian puppet state.
My point is that right now Russia does not have to choose between blocking entire CDN or allowing all websites. Unencrypted SNI allows to selectively block some websites while keeping CDN for other websites untouched.

Russia's situation is far from China, AFAIK.
Nah... That's just ignorance.

It's like the American opposition to pedestrianization of blocks. Pedestrianized blocks increase local business footfall and increase high margin economic activity.

New developments in your community increase value of your home, far better than restricting development.
Nobody is forced to do anything. They can certainly leverage their significant equity in the home to pay those taxes, they can take a lien like many other states allow for in these situations, etc.

But frankly I don't understand why a retiree who is living off of social security would sit on a multi million dollar asset, rather than cashing out and increasing their standard of living many times over by moving. And I don't think they are a victim by having generated 10-20x returns on their home