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Ubuntu LTS vote from me

Proof the B-2 was built using UFO technology :-P

The best researchers are rarely the best teachers

That's a good point that it is more nuanced. The issue I think is that organized crime and unscrupulous governments are getting better at connecting these things so they are not as cleanly separated as they have been in the past. Just look at China. Essentially spyware and viruses are installed at checkpoints on people's phones and biometric tracking is becoming very commonplace. I don't think it will be long before organized crime begins to get better at this too. As such, being able to change that "something you know" is a very powerful countermeasure.

A fingerprint can be a personal password or it can be a government ID, but it can’t be both. Since the U.S. government already has something like 200 million fingerprints on file, and many foreign governments collect fingerprints whenever you travel, these fingerprints are sometimes leaked en masse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...), and because they can never be changed, biometrics aren't my personal choice for a secure method of authentication.

This is stupid. Why not give people a way to actually say thanks without cluttering up the comments? A real thank you written by a human is much more touching and encouraging than a clapping icon with a counter on it. The article starts with a beautiful image of real thank you’s, and then immediately turns around and implies that clicking a clap button is the same thing?

These kind of things are what dehumanizes the internet, they don’t make for better human connections. It’s also basically the exact same as the current upvote icon. A way to send a message to the author privately saying thanks seems much more touching. Or even a hidden “thank you’s” list of grateful words that can be expanded on the question but that is hidden by default. Either of those would be better than this weird duplication of robotic thank you’s.

The idea is not that the free market will always produce perfect results and perfect goods. The idea is that the free market will produce better results at a faster pace with less unintended consequences than government intervention.

Government intervention rarely happens proactively, just as major market changes rarely happen proactively. Supplier failure on a large scale makes it apparent that change is necessary, and only then do changes follow, either from the top down by government intervention, or from the bottom up by the market.

Good to know, thank you.

Been wondering about those. Did you use their distro or install another one on it?

Tuxedos aren't cheap, but the coolest thing about them is they have a way to preinstall Linux and setup full disk encryption with LUKS and you just set the encryption key when you first turn on the machine. Never seen anyone else offer that.

I think System76, Lenovo, or Tuxedo is a better choice than Dell XPS for Linux from a reliability standpoint. Additionally, if you plan to do full disk encryption, the XPS line has all sorts of issues. https://www.dell.com/community/Linux-Developer-Systems/XPS-1...

It's really too bad that the two rising tech countries - China and India - have such a third-world approach to censorship on the Internet. You would think they would want to mimic the US's successful formula in hopes of building their presence as a tech powerhouse, but in this area they don't seem to be doing that.

I think what happened was that the initial doctors who identified the coronavirus cases were told to keep silent by the authorities and hospital. Li happened to see some of these reports and he notified other doctors in the WeChat group. So he didn't identify it, he raised the alarm when no one else was.

What does a virus do? Makes your computer run slow, spies on you, and asks you for money

What do most antiviruses do? Makes your computer run slow, spies on you, and asks you for money

While humorous, a high percentage of these districts look this way due to rivers and lakes.

Ah nice! :)

That's a great point. One of my favorite games, Enter the Gungeon, had plans for a major release of DLC, but they canned it and replaced it with a much smaller scope of free updates because they had so much technical debt that they couldn't attempt the big DLC release confidently.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnterTheGungeon/comments/9ykpgc/onc...

The definition of crony capitalism is using government power to protect business interests. It is not impossible to watch the markets, because the invisible hand of free choice does it every day, and it punishes those who cannot compete. It's when governments try to get in the way of competition that things break down.

I'm sensing a pattern here. Earlier, you basically said, "Guys, the free market can't be trusted to provide solutions for internet access, so we have to regulate them and grant monopolies. Oh crap, monopolies cause abuse of power. Also, please ignore the solution that the market came up with to all these problems (wireless Internet)."

Now you say, "Hey guys, allowing people to not be medically treated is immoral, so let's force people to provide a service because that is totally moral."

In both scenarios, you're trying to argue for something but you're not being consistent with your logic. You're picking and choosing data points and circumstances without being consistent across the board.

That's certainly the justification that a lot of people use for these sorts of rules, monopoly grants, etc. etc.

As for me, I find it interesting that the most regulated industries always tend to be the ones that are the most dysfunctional. Your example of health care is a perfect poster child.

Abuse of position goes hand in hand with government granted monopolies. How can a business abuse their position when people voluntarily agree to buy from them? You're defending crony capitalism and then declaring that capitalism is broken.

haha yeah me too. It might actually happen while we are still around.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90268592/elon-musks-spacex-just-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=AdKNCBrkZQ4

The ISP's didn't collude with other businesses, they colluded with governments and got monopoly protections.

The issue is local monopoly laws granted to ISP's by city governments. In order to encourage ISP's to invest the necessary money to build infrastructure in their jurisdictions, many of these places granted them monopolies. It's an issue of crony capitalism at the hyperlocal level.

Lots of feel good ideas in the post, but no actual good ideas. Back when Congress created the Do Not Call Registry, and then forced law abiding companies to pay $10,000 for it, they pretty much just compiled an amazing list of active phone numbers that non-law abiding companies could acquire for a pretty good price and then sell them in batches to smaller companies that couldn't afford the full thing.

Once virtual phone services were invented, companies didn't even have to worry about dodging the Feds, they just moved all their operations overseas. Feel good laws will not solve this problem, it's going to take actual technological solutions.

Ahh yes, the ole regulate everyone except ourselves trick

Good point, it's not the exact same. But their new offering is much closer to what their competitors are offering, so I'd say it's still a move to try to better compete with the free offerings from other companies.

Github's competitors are already providing the same service for free. Github is dropping their prices from $7 / mo to free to compete.

Code storage is a free market and GitHub is not a monopoly.