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I'm not worried about abuse and have no reason to believe any is occurring in this or the other poster's case, as I wrote. If I suspected actual attempted "influence" activity etc. I definitely would've reported it instead of posting about it. I also find it unfair and unsubstantiated that other posters are accusing either of them of being supposed "shills" or "agents".

I was just kind of taken aback by the nature of their comment history and reacted emotionally, in part because of the radical defense of what I see as the Chinese government's inhumane and genocidal policy towards Uighurs. And as I wrote, if it were extremely jingoistic support of the US government and intelligence community, or QAnon narratives or something, I think I would view it similarly; though I probably wouldn't have reacted as emotionally, since my impetus was the response to the treatment of that group.

I disagree that I haven't represented their commenting history accurately. The majority of their posts appear to be either of that nature or about Bitcoin, with the plurality being of that nature. I also included a link to their comments for anyone else to verify, and I quoted each of their posts in full to ensure no context was missing. (However, I should've qualified "almost every comment" as "almost every political comment".)

I understand it violates the rules and is nasty and tedious, though. I apologize and will refrain in the future.
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You could take a filesystem-level snapshot for rollback.
> we're often spending more $/kid at these bad schools.

Source? I'm surprised to hear that.

> The distinction you're making is between de jure segregation and de facto segregation, both of which are constitutional violations.

I disagree. It is not a consitutional violation for black people to live near each other and go to schools with each other. People segregate themselves socially all the time, for better or worse, and it has nothing to do with the constitution. It would be incredibly dubious to suggest that forcing people to integrate socially would be an appropriate government action - especially if done over a long period of time.
If you closed Slack for more than 5 mins, you’d get signed out. Users would hate it, which is why nobody does this.
Yep, you can also prepare the new database by using a snapshot of the primary's volume, and use pg-rewind to get them in sync. Altogether the tooling can make migrations super easy without minimal downtime.
> But yeah most likely a process server will leave the post office frustrated. I'm not sure if that's a bug or a feature. :-)

It’s probably one of those things that starts as a feature and quickly morphs into a really, really big bug.
I unfortunately skimmed over this, isotopp's explanation helped clear things up in my head.
they might not have to work during every planned downtime, but they're going to have to work during some of them, or what was the point of the downtime?
Regardless of the pros and cons of various schemes, it's a strange omission.

For what it's worth I think the whole effort is wrong-headed except in some pretty niche areas of credentialing, somewhat for reasons you allude to; but it's weird context to ignore.
A grocery store has limited storage space, a limited amount of advertising space, limited staff, etc, etc. The amount of upkeep is also very different compared to a digital store.

I think its not really an apt point for comparison.
One thing I read about. Before the great depression mortgages were much different than they are after the New Deal Reforms.

Loans were usually interest only. You had to either pay or refinance the principle at the end of the term. Which might be five or ten years.

If you defaulted the lender would take the collateral, all of it.

Critically loans were denominated in both dollars and gold. And could be called in often at any time to be repaid in dollars or gold, which ever was highest.

You can easily see how these could be abused by banks.

If you were a small time farmer during a downturn the price your crops fetch drops, the value of your farm drops. But the price of gold goes up which increases the amount you owe. The bank would then call in your loan and because you can't pay in gold take your farm. Leaving you with zilch.

The above is why FDR closed the banks when he took office. Because banks were strategically destroying the economy.
I like Vagrant, but I don't know how I'm going to keep using it when I switch to Apple Silicon (M1 Macs). Vagrant wraps around Oracle VirtualBox; VirtualBox doesn't support M1 Macs, and Oracle has given no indication that they plan to start supporting Apple Silicon at all.

Is there any working version of Vagrant that "just works" on M1 out of the box without paying for a VM provider?

If not, would I have to pay for VMWare and then use Vagrant to wrap that? Would I use Vagrant to wrap Docker? (Why would I bother to use Vagrant if I'm using Docker?)
That's brilliant. Have the PR ready to go and merge/deploy only when that happens. Just host on us-east1 and it'll happen eventually.
Revocation would still be possible, I guess. At least it should be possible to build a revocation flow on top of blockchain.

I am not so sure this kind of authentication will really catch on - the UX of Metamask and other wallets is just atrocious for say my father.

BUT I do happen to like to connect to a site just with my ETH wallet, it is much nicer than using username/password or handing over ALL your data to Google for the OAuth convenience. It's a bit sad that the web is no longer a place for people with basic tech literacy, I'd love to use my Ledger Nano everywhere.

I also was really fond of Civic for KYC and stuff, but it's gotten awfully silent.
> Okay, but that comes out to the same thing, since I can't buy an iPhone which isn't Apple managed. If Apple offered a choice, that would be one thing—but they don't.

Well, you know this state of affairs well now, so when you buy an iPhone you willingly opt in to these remote management restrictions. There are lots of smartphones you can buy without such cryptographic boot restrictions.

Many people willingly choose iPhones (even given these constraints), and would prefer a remote party manage their device's security.

Apple's argument is a legitimate one, and you should be able to operate in the market in this fashion. Nobody's forced to buy an iPhone if they don't like how the bootloader is configured or the App Store is run.
> Solar plus batteries is cheaper than fossil fuels (without carbon fees!) in many markets and use cases.

Even if you're building out for the worst case scenario?

> Is nuclear cheaper than fossil if you don't include the carbon and pollution externalities? I don't think it is.

It can be if we stop using NASA-style one-off engineering methods.
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Not to come across as a Microsoft fan boy (I work with MS focused Shops mostly), but the MS Whiteboard tool is pretty solid for a simple collaborative tool that has worked well in small teams when I've used it. I'm sure there are similar tools with more advanced features but sometimes simplicity is best, such as a real white board.
And if the doctor is getting kickbacks?

I was prescribed a very expensive new drug that I couldn’t tolerate. Eliquis, Xarelto.

Medical office went to absurd lengths to keep me on it rather then switching to a cheaper alternative. Too multiple ER visits to get them to switch.

Kept calling me a liar for saying it had side effects.

Realized later that they probably made money off it. Would love to know if true.
Well, since the user was able to gain access with a stolen cookie, these things are possibly true:

1) Slack does not invalidate sessions after a short enough period of time or inactivity (for a cookie to make it to another site, be purchased and used, probably takes some time).

2) Slack does not properly terminate sessions on logout or inactivity (allowing cookies to be reused after logout).

3) Slack is not using any more clever techniques to make cookies useless to attackers.
It will probably just be called "Windows". They've shown they wanted windows 10 to be the final release of windows that they'll just update a couple times a year and add on to. This new windows will probably be a more simplified windows that they've been trying to make with windows 10S/S mode and windows 10X. Give it a UI/UX overhaul, push the WUP and call it just Windows because its the only windows you'll ever have to worry about from now on.
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> I think the burden to support your claims is on you. Readers can't check the evidence for every comment. It's more efficient too - you already know your argument and what you've seen, and you do it once rather than every reader duplicating effort.

She is the creator of one of the biggest critical social justice anti-racist projects, the 1619 project, which is the strongest argument I can think of that she is an adherent of and an important figure in that ideology.

With that as an established fact then in the context of a traditionally liberal creed organization like the ACLU or a liberal University, its relevant to detail how that ideology is in conflict with liberalism and why it is reasonable that a top ideologue of critical social justice is not given stewardship of a liberal position.

> Maybe assume some good faith;

When you question if the creator of one of the biggest critical social justice projects is a critical social justice adherent I think its fair to question if you are arguing in good faith.
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> anonymous and hard to trace

Didn't read beyond.

Maybe the talk about another Bitcoin, than the one we know? Media seems to try to create a narrative about Bitcoin that is false.

Bitcoin is an open and public ledger - there is no easier and better way to trace flow of money and its obviously not anonymous and has never been.

In fact, ransomware groups usually add another 10+% on ransom payments if victims wants to use Bitcoin. Because there are more privacy focused (less risk for attacker) solutions.
MFA, pin code, os or tpm or browser finger printing / cookie signed to your machine, ip address or ip range lock, reauth over a short but not unreasonable time, concurrent session lock out... I would think there are few options besides just throwing your hands up and admitting failure where someone can just pay $10 for a plug and play cookie.

I don't know about a giant company like EA, but you could really screw with my company's plans if you spent any time on our Slack.

So now I need to consider that any malware could (and probably is) looking for slack cookies to exfil. So, no, I don't really believe there is always going to just be a single point of failure and it's an insurmountable problem.
> In pre-COVID-19 days, IT handling that kind of request would have required it to come in face-to-face. But since everyone's working from home, that's intractable.

In pre covid times it wasn't uncommon for people in my office (which didn't have a dedicated onsite IT person) to ping IT on slack for the person sitting next to them to ask for a PW reset.

Face to face doesn't solve anything. If there's a 2000 person company and you can get into the building, chances are you could walk up to the IT desk and say "hey my name is John Doe I'm an engineer here and I locked myself out of X, can I get a reset?" And you'd be given it without any verification
Welcome to the concept of "joint and several liability". Say you were in a phone booth and a car jumped the curb and ran you over but didn't manage to kill you.

Your attorney would sue the motorist but maybe they don't have insurance. Maybe they borrowed the car - the owner would get sued. The city would get sued because the curb was too low. The gas station would get sued because there weren't protective barriers around the phone booth. The phone company would get sued because the phone booth was too close to traffic. The maker of the phone booth would get sued because it wasn't made properly. And probably other things that I can't think of.

Fortunately for gas stations there basically aren't phone booths anymore. But be careful loaning your car or gun to somebody else.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/j/joint-and-several-liabi...
I agree that the reason does not matter and is irrelevant to the end-user. I was just speculating as to why they have not "just fixed it". However, I disagree that Windows is more polished. Windows is made up of a mixture of UI frameworks/controls/apps, some going back decades. Much of this legacy is poorly integrated and even basic things like drag-and-drop doesn't work consistently. At least Gnome is consistent and they have a vision.
> In FIAT govt control flow of money. In bitcoin, you give that control to some private companies who manufacture mining rigs and energy producing companies.

You forgot Elon Musk's tweeter account, which seems to have a lot of sway for reasons opaque to me. Then again, I think those fraudulent bitcoin-giveaway bots that pretended to be Elon primed the pump for him
Well discord has fake loading messages too, and I think they're funny. Though it's a bit different since discord is not aimed at professionnals, the geeky jokes match better with the gamer audience
And the ability to wire money between countries makes it easier to kidnappers to get paid random. Should we get rid of money wiring?
The VMWare plugin for Vagrant is now OSS and free as well.
Technically, no, but you'll be repetitively bothered by modal popups until you do.
I used Vagrant extensively when I managed infrastructure at a company that was almost entirely private cloud based. I would create Linux VMs in Vagrant to test our infrastructure automation. The automation would then be deployed into VMware to create the platform used by the developers.
No, they just need to exchange it at the very end.
This was the old scare scenario for "Plug Computing" way back when. It was new that you could fit a capable linux system (>1GHz core, >.5GB RAM, network interfaces, bluetooth etc) into something that hung off a socket and looked just like any other power supply or dumb device or whatever.

Of course that was forseeing malicious placement of something that would be scanning for vulnerabilities, rather than a remote exploit of an unsecured device on a secure network.
> completely misses the point of the good question about free silver

Oh the irony... talking about missing the point. I didn't miss the point. I just had nothing to say about that point.
>selling its own products

The Files app is bundled with the OS, but not installed by default. It's not exactly "sold" as it's free and isn't ad supported either.

It's hard to find a profit motive here.

Google, on the other hand, has long allowed you to bid on your competitor's product name so you will show up ahead of them in the search results.

They also have a history of scraping other people's content and then more highly rating that scraped content on their own sites in their search engine.

It's easy to find a profit motive there.
The cookie is an authenticated token to log in to the EA slack. They put the Cookie in-place on their machine and as far as slack is concerned they are the person who the cookie came from.
I would not make that assumption if they use proper security practices.

You can make cookies unusable (or harder to use) by anyone but the initial owner a few different ways. You could include a hardware or ip fingerprint in the cookie that has to be validated server side, for example. You can time out cookies after an hour. Etc.
So her “confrontational” behavior consisted, in your description, of saying heretical things; things that she believed to be true. Got it.
Sure. Maybe. His parents were both doctors and he had four siblings and an adopted sibling that all see to have done fine. But There certainly could be something I'm missing.
Ransomware attacks used western union before they used Bitcoin.

Because Bitcoin is a relatively convenient way to perform international payments (emphasis on relatively) -- you can probably make a case that its existence increased the number of low value randsomware attacks. ... but so would other low friction ways of paying people in other countries.

But when you talk about $11 million dollar payments for ransomware hitting major institutions-- a way would be found to make the payment, bitcoin or not. Insecure systems, software, and practices (including inadequate backups) as well as the almost complete lack of enforcement against international electronic crime are the root causes and nothing short of fixing them can prevent extremely high value ransomware attacks.

Even in a fantasy world where the payment couldn't happen-- which is certainly not our world without Bitcoin-- attackers could get compensated in other ways: They could demand the release of prisoners, the shuttering of business locations, the divulging of information-- it doesn't matter if its inefficient, because the cost of the attack is extremely low.

If you're talking about money laundering, Bitcoin doesn't even hold a candle to the activities major international banks engage in (and are sometimes penalized for) regularly.
I'll strongly agree with #2. Physical presence is tough to beat in forming a relationship. But I do think spending lots of time communicating with someone online can form fairly good relationships.

#1 I'm curious what you've used & where it's come up short. I have had good luck there.
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What you said does not make any sense. What's the problem if the law is overlapping ?
I think we should just have some pretty clear literature that if you modify a device, the manufacturer is not responsible for any injuries it might cause you.

Modify a dishwasher and now it fills your kitchen with soap bubbles? Modify a CPAP machine and get killed by it? Not the manufacturer's fault.

The US is too litigation happy as it is...
I interpreted the boy scout rule more like cleaning up a bit, fix typos, correct comments, extract methods. But only that won't help if you are stuck with spaghetti code
This is a complex task, fraught on any platform. Most systems base such clustering on a shared filesystem, which is obviously orthogonal to the shared nothing designs most try to pursue.
Yeah, everything in this space is so horrible. I have a laptop with an RGB keyboard. Its default settings are bright blue LEDs for every key. The only way to turn it off is to boot Windows 10 and start an incredibly shitty manufacturer program that takes over one minute to display a window on the screen and even longer to become interactive.

It was so bad I reverse engineered it in order to make a Linux version. Couldn't figure out how to intercept the I2C/ACPI/EC stuff but it turned out the LEDs were implemented via USB. Wireshark gave me all the data I needed to write a free software replacement.

There's a feature on the keyboard that lights up keys when they're pressed. I thought it was implemented in hardware... I was wrong. They made a driver for this. It runs in kernel mode, intercepts keystrokes and sends commands to the keyboard telling it to blink the specific LEDs. It's such an insane design, I have no idea why they'd do such a thing.
That depends. I do feel somewhat more comfortable installing apps from the App Store due to their vetting process.
Or the "Hedgies"
How do you train newer models then? From what I read you use public datasets to train your models but what about in future? You would need some kind of data collection mechanism?

Gpt-2 and gpt-3 are great but the datasets they are trained would soon get old.
I think all of this is completely upside down.

It's a wildly irresponsible financial move.

1) It only takes a bare minimum of competence to create a currency that has integrity, and is stable.

2) Extending that digitally, should not be a hard.

3) Using energy supplies to calculate made up numbers seems like a giant waste of energy - that energy could be used to heat homes and power other things.

4) BTC is wildly unstable, since El Salvador depends on imports - and - nobody accepts BTC for payment - it's going to be a wild ride.

5) Nobody is going to be issuing debt in BTC so that part is moot.

6) BTC is inappropriate for 'unbanked' people - they're going to be the target of hackers worldwide. Sure, you could make a 'government wallet' that protects them from that ... but then why not just do regular banking.

6) For a currency ... if for some reason you can't do #1 ... the best option, by far, is to use USD. Prices in USD are stable. They're accepted globally. You don't have to issue debt in USD, but you can if you want. You can also digitally bank in USD if you want, it's not that hard.

7) If you really think that the best way to leverage volcanic heat is to mine BTC ... then fine. Do that - and exchange it for whatever currency you need.

This whole concept is fairly insane, regular people I feel are going to pay a heavy price.

Lastly - the problem is not 'finances' - it's the fools managing the country. If they acted with a modicum of responsibility, you'd be able to have all of the normal things other countries do i.e. a currency, basic banking. None of that is actually that hard.

A better solution would be to approach an established bank somewhere: US, Canada, Brazil, UK, Germany and ask them to provide online banking for your citizens, probably in USD or a mix of USD and local currency.

Do the BTC mining if you really want to, but as a secondary thing.

Final Note: this already has the stench of corruption. My bet is that the leadership already has a big stake in BTC and are 'Doing a Musk' by propping it up and they will be grafting off the top of the mining activity.
Will it? As a former Android user, I never installed third-party app stores because they all sucked — whether it be poor app selection, poor curation, or just trying to shove their apps down my throat (looking at you Amazon Appstore). Likewise, even if Apple does have to open up their platform, I will not install another app store. I will trust Apple over anyone else to run a reputable store. Sure, they're not without fault, but I expect most others to do a far worse job.

I think it'll be a performative action at best. It's good policy to not allow platform monopolies, but I don't think it'll be the downfall of Apple's commission that everyone thinks it will be.
We need to re-evaluate what "rights" mean in a digital age. Apple should not have a monopoly on digital stores on iOS. "Apple made it so they can do anything they want. Take it or leave it" - is not an acceptable position (in my opinion).

>By that logic costco has no competitors whatsoever that sell kirkland signature products.

Can you explain how you came to that conclusion and what 'that logic' is?
The profit motive is keeping users in their ecosystem
Ongoing discussion here:

Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27473907 - June 2021 (105 comments)
What is the equivalent for MySQL?
For sure. I have met a few people who have these weird expectations around who they are and what they expect from life. As far as I'm concerned I'm playing with house money. I got lucky.
Would that be similar to having an iPhone never connected to the Internet?
Same here. It isn't easy. I dropped Prime a couple years ago. I think I placed five total orders last year, pandemic and all.
Like guns, absence of criminal activity in crypto would imply the stated value proposition is illusory.

And like guns, this value proposition flips in favor of the good guys when the bad guys wrestle sufficient power over them.
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Explains how "ciao" comes from "servus" via "schiavo", meaning slave or servant.

It's also related to words in other languages meaning fame, word, and language.