A very good point. You can run Lineage on basically anything...
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I'm not sure why the author thinks Lineage is easy enough for a non-tech savvy person to install...I mean, if you've got this guy to do it for you then you're good I guess.
Anonymous would be like: minute-by-minute you drip Monero into the VPN in exchange for service. It could track you by your IP, but nothing else, and you can change your IP.
- You don't want your ISP to see your traffic, but don't care if the VPN provider does
- You can get pseudonymous VPN service (pay with crypto), but not pseudonymous ISP, and you want pseudonymity
- You live under a repressive regime that censors internet access and want to get out (digitally)
- ? More?
The network operator does NOT need to know who you are, even if you live in a repressive country that mandates tying ID to mobile phone lines. Get a SIM card in person and top up in cash, or use a virtual credit card, or pay in cryptocurrency for an eSIM, or get a subscription in a less oppressive country and roam.
Invisv is a great suggestion.
You must draw the distinction between correlational evidence (what this submission is doing) and causal claims, which is what most of the research you're pointing to makes.
TL;DR: Poverty doesn't cause lower intelligence. Catastrophically bad diet (to the point of stunting) will, though, in ref to your 2008 link. 2008 study is very weak and doesn't look at starvation, only correlational, they find a very small effect and it's very likely some unmeasured confounds.
Fellow humans, there are alternatives to Google and Apple! Your neck need not be under anyone's boot! You don't even need to give up any functionality:
Data service:
The simplest thing is to buy a prepaid SIM and top it off with cash. The lovely people over at /r/nocontract maintain a big spreadsheet so you can filter by various properties of the available contracts.
Another way to go is to pay for a postpaid plan with a virtual credit card (VCC) like at privacy.com. It won't be linked to your name at the telco, but of course privacy.com knows who you are. There is also Abine Blur, and some others.
Yet a third way to go, which is nascent, is buy an eSIM with crypto. You can also buy prepaid VCCs with crypto.
An interesting new choice is PGPP https://invisv.com/pgpp/ who rotate your IMSI and do some other cool stuff. It works by e-sims.
All these methods make you /pseudo/nymous, but obviously you're still identifiable by subscriber number and possibly IMEI, to put aside correlational things like your traffic profile. You can help this problem by routing everything through a VPN. Then you're pseudonymous but the cell carrier knows nothing about you other than that you use a VPN. Pay for the VPN with crypto. Of course now the VPN provider knows your traffic, but you're much more anonymous to them than you are to a telco. You make your choices. Defense in depth. Etc.
OS:
GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ Very much like Calyx, but extra-hardened and with no MicroG. No involvement with Google at all by default. You can make a secondary profile in which you install Google Play Services to set up an environment where you can run unprivileged Play services + whatever crapware you need that requires them. Unprivileged here means it's like any other app: if you don't give it access to your location, it won't know where you are. If you end the profile session when you leave, Play Services stops running and stops talking to Google.
CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/ Privacy-respecting Android distribution that replaces Google spyware with MicroG, so you can have your cake and eat it too. Most everything will work as you're used to, but it does still talk to Google to make that happen.
LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ The successor to CyanogenMod, will work with many different phones. More privacy and control than stock Android.
There are also many others: Sailfish, Replicant, e
Hardware:
CalyxOS and GrapheneOS run best on Pixels. The path of least resistance is to get one of these phones and run GrapheneOS with Google Services installed in one profile or other.
You could also buy a Librem 5 https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ If privacy and security and hacking are really important to you.
Or a pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Neither work very well by regular standards, but they're cool :-)
"...part ways with you..." --> "We've decided to fire you."
"...Rosie might be better to explain the process of who's giving this information..." --> "Rosie can talk about why it's us vs. your manager."
"...this is a collective calibration for Cloudflare..." --> what the fuck?
"...if you can respect that. We can totally respect that..." --> at a loss
"...meet the expectations that you're communicating to us..." --> "...tell you what you want to know..."
"...give you the data that was calibrated..." --> ...how do you calibrate data? FFS.
"...extremely traumatizing for people..." --> ha ha ha...goddamn snowflake. You're getting fired, it's not fun, but it's not like watching your buddies get blown up in front of you and waking up in bed screaming for the next forty years.
"...I cannot speak to what your manager has communicated to you directly..." --> "I don't know what your manager said"
"...I hear you and what you're saying..." --> "I understand"
"...from a process perspective, your questions are valid but this isn't going to be the forum and situation where..." --> "We aren't going to have that conversation with you now"
"...I don't think there's anything we can say in this moment and today..." --> "Sorry"
In particular, what's up with the duplication? "this moment & today", etc.? I hear it from people with a low bureaucratic position a lot. Think firefighter making an announcement, HR drone, etc.
Archaeology / Anthropology have a very fraught relationship with science and reason, sadly.
Rayon / viscose is basically: you take some cellulosic material (wood pulp, could be bamboo pulp, whatever) and dissolve it in a strong basic solution. You now have cellulose in solution. Then, you shoot it out of tiny holes to make almost 100% cellulose fibers of whatever diameter (the hole size). Then you make this into yarns and weave it into something. You can make it seem like silk, cotton, wool, whatever.
I don't think the feedstock has much to do with it (though lignin-containing vs. not is an issue).
Anyway, I've done a deep dive into the numbers. Murder rate data from the FBI has a large "unknown" category, so I'll handle that in a few ways for simplicity. Focusing on murders rather than other violent crime is the best thing to do because, while there may be a lot of ambiguity about what constitutes "assault", how often it's reported, etc., there really isn't much ambiguity about murder. We don't lose track of bodies very often. Here's the murder rate in the U.S. broken down by race. All numbers are murderers (offenders) per 100,000 people:
White (simple, ignoring "Unknown"): 1.8 Black (simple, ignoring "Unknown"): 13.3
White (assuming all "Unknown" are White): 3.7 Black (assuming all "Unknown" are Black): 23.2
White (splitting up "Unknown" by existing proportion of total): 2.6 Black (splitting up "Unknown" by existing proportion of total): 18.8
The difference is stark. Using the 2.6 vs. 18.8 raw numbers, probably closest to the truth, Black people in the U.S. are about seven times more likely to murder in a given year than are white people on average. The number becomes even more stark if you compare Black to non-Black (because Asians are less likely to murder than Whites), and yet more stark if you just look at men (women murder at something like 1/8 the rate of men, so having them in the system dilutes all differences). Hispanics are also included in "White" by the U.S. census (and they murder at higher rates than non-Hispanic Whites). Insofar as cities don't report to the UCR (like New York), if they were to report it would make the Black murder rate go up. Murder clearance ("solved") rates are abysmal in the U.S., 60-something percent on average, but are low where young black men do a lot of killing and higher elsewhere; Black Americans are more likely to get away with murder than non-Black Americans, so adjusting for that drives the Black murder rate still higher. It depends on your assumptions, but Black American men 15-35 murder at something like 50x the rate of the rest of the population.
FBI UCR murder offender data: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-... Census data: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-kits/2020/population-e...
The same attitude doesn't make much sense if your government is a bunch of untrustworthy criminals with unchecked (or unevenly-checked power). Imagine being from Nigeria or China and wanting those governments to have more power and visibility! Nah.
DDC: Detroit Diesel Corporation
CI: Confidence interval
Put differently, it breaks up the stain molecules into smaller molecules and causes other reactions that change them, it doesn't just dissolve them. You can dissolve resinous stuff with various solvents, you're right about that. Stays mostly the same, just goes into solution.
It's resulted in graphs that look like this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/576081/number-of-sexual-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Denmark#/media/...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/576081/number-of-sexual-...
Anthropology is divided in two: "biological" anthropologists take evolution and biology seriously and see themselves as scientists, while other types (most notably "cultural") are much within the tradition of postmodernism, and don't aspire to do science (or only pretend to). These second kind aren't concerned much with communicating objective truth (because they don't believe in that); their politics informs their work to a great extent on average.
I don't know which kind Salmond is since I don't know her work, but it's entirely possible to collect all first-hand accounts from pre-$SOME_YEAR and search them for references to how children were treated. Then, assign each one a score based on some measure of how well the children were treated (note: "how well" is in direct reference to the moral system that modern Westerners have, and Salmon takes the same stance without mention in the article). Look at your data. This'll tell you how the people writing thought of it. You should probably also model year of writing and what that means for the writer's baseline, at minimum.
Either way it's interesting. Thanks for sharing!
The two critical things Monica / Chandler are missing are: zero-knowledge E2EE (I want to put very personal things in there and not worry about breaches), and no integration with phone contacts / CardDav (I want to be able to use CRM to manage contacts, ofc!)
Etesync may be useful for hosted zero-knowledge E2EE; it should be pretty plug-and-play.
While the way 1700s British acted would not meet modern British standards, it's a hell of a lot closer to them than Maori behavior and values of the same time period. In the mid-1800s some Maori invaded the Chatham Islands and enslaved, killed, raped, and ate the population (called the Moriori). Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
A Moriori survivor recalled : "[The Māori] commenced to kill us like sheep.... [We] were terrified, fled to the bush, concealed ourselves in holes underground, and in any place to escape our enemies. It was of no avail; we were discovered and killed – men, women and children indiscriminately." A Māori conqueror explained, "We took possession... in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people. Not one escaped....."[38] The invaders ritually killed some 10% of the population, a ritual that included staking out women and children on the beach and leaving them to die in great pain over several days.[34]
If you're interested in learning more you could read some ethnographies of modern-day (or close to modern day) primitive peoples. The Yanomamö work thinks a lot about violence because people (the antrhopology community) couldn't even believe how violent they are. The other way to go about it is to think about the development of morality in humans (like moral universals). One theory goes small gods who are fallible and many --> big gods who always watch and are few --> the kind of normative morality software you have installed right now, which doesn't depend on gods.
It uses an age range of 1-19, excluding children 0-1 years old and including adults who are in their 18th and 19th years. So sure, when you do this bullshit maybe you can produce the answer your audience wants to see / which will play well in the press / which will lead to clicks. But it's not honest. The honest statistic for the U.S. is 0-18(exclusive) years old, and when you do the honest thing you see that death by firearm-related injury is not the leading cause of death for minors in the U.S.
The deliberately deceptive statistic is driven by including as many 15-35 year old males as possible. This is the age range when males in gangs are extra killy.
This ruling in the 5th Circuit (so it only applies to the 5th Circuit?) is bad and reduces the U.S.'s standing with regard to how strongly it protects you against unreasonable search and seizure, but the U.S. still does a pretty good job overall. The 100-mile thing is, in practice, not a thing for U.S. citizens in the U.S. It's still very bad. But the border police aren't the people seizing and searching your phone if you're already in the U.S., it's the local police or the FBI and they have to get a warrant.
It's a similar situation with strong protections of other rights, like the right to free speech. Denmark is considering making public Koran burning illegal, for instance, or the right to peaceably assemble / protest, which the U.K. just got rid of. Part of it is the very concept of "rights" as instantiated in the U.S. Constitution.
>Oh right, so this doesn't apply to people who the advice was addressed to. You were just having a nationalistic knee-jerk reaction. Good to know.
The notable part of the article to ME was that the border police can search returning Americans' phones without a warrant. I think the default situation in developed countries is that if you're a foreigner trying to get in the police can search you without a warrant, and maybe that includes phones? It's a shitty situation, but that's how it is.
As it turns out, I have a passport from somewhere other than the U.S. :-)
You also might consider that usually these protections don't apply to you if you're a foreigner who's trying to get in to a country not your own. They have no obligation to let you in and they can ask anything they want in exchange for access.