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alert0··on Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
Can you get xfinity wifi without a home plan?
alert0··on Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
I am looking at doing this next year and I think the best option is to just get a wework pass. I plan to work from there week days and ski weekends.
alert0··on Z3 – ZFS to S3 Backup/Restore Tool
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alert0··on Z3 – ZFS to S3 Backup/Restore Tool
They should just swap it to ZFS3.
alert0··on In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click
The thing for me is DDG results aren't worse either though. I'd much rather support them than Google. Very often when I use the g! modifier to redirect the results aren't much better.
alert0··on The Worsening State of Ransomware
There is actually some talk in the cyber policy space about this topic. [1] In a sense, all the spam, ransomware, and banking trojans that are thrown by other nation states (or their sanctioned criminal groups) raise the noise floor for what U.S. and allies need to address. This helps mask high-skill high-impact attacks (0days) since everyone is trying to figure out how to get their employees to not click spam emails. The U.S. is kinda missing out on creating this noise for our adversaries to deal with.

1. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/october/gran...

alert0··on Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration
Ok, don't take a multivitamin then.
alert0··on RSS as a Facebook alternative
What does the authentication process on RSS look like?
alert0··on UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
Any curse words or something that a system might flag?
alert0··on The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo
I recently switched to an iPhone and am an Apple Maps purist now. A man can only be told to turn left at the Carl's Jr so many times before he snaps.
alert0··on National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence's Final Report
That's unfortunate. To rebuild our domestic manufacturing capability we should loosen on intellectual property.
alert0··on National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence's Final Report
This arises naturally from the US having been the global reserve currency for so long. Other countries' debts are denominated is dollars, so they seek dollars via mercantilism. This has absolutely cannibalized our manufacturing base. There is a case for a weaker dollar and to rebuild our exports.
alert0··on 2020 Industrial Capabilities Report to Congress [pdf]
The reason for this is that the USD is the global reserve currency. The petrodollar (OPEC only trades oil for dollars) is kinda how we solidified it. However, being the global reserve currency forces you to be a net importer. You have to run trade deficits. Running trade deficits is not sustainable over the long term [1] and we're probably nearing the end of it.

So we should continue to invest in defense because it is a massive industry for the US. To solve the trade imbalances though, the dollar should be weakened (it may occur naturally). That will allow us to rebuild our manufacturing base as our products will be more competitive on the international stage.

Additionally, right now we're in a low interest rate period of the long term debt cycle and will probably remain there for about a decade (at least). This is great because it means there is a ton of money exiting bonds looking for yield. There is a lot of capital ready to invest in projects. Combined with a weaker dollar, we're at a critical point for on-shoring and rebuilding US manufacturing.

I'm pretty hyped about the next 10 years for this reason. It will allow us to shore up the DoD supply chain as we currently rely on adversaries for defense critical parts.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma

alert0··on The US military is using online gaming to recruit teens
I played this game in high school and it is still top of my list as one of the best games I've ever played.

The matches could be incredibly slow. You could start a match and go grab a snack and you'd still be alive. On the flip side if you died it could be 10+ minutes to respawn. Sound was really important. I think eventually you could tag enemies on a minimap, but we had a ton of abbreviations for calling out locations in chat. The weapons had their quirks too.

The training and qualifications were also hella tedious. Like to get medic qualified you had to sit through this classroom lecture and take a test. The special forces qualification (opened more levels and weapons) was also really tough.

I hopped on in a later update and it was just constant respawn like any modern FPS. Anyway, loved that game. Never joined the military but I thought about it.

alert0··on Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?
I only made it a year. It was incredibly boring. I was the same way, enjoying side projects at home so I knew I wasn't over programming. I realized that I was not engaged with the work and prioritized that in my next (current) role. Now I'm doing hard technical work in my domain for a small shop. I'm working 50% time so I have tons of time off. The pay is less than FAANG but I'm not dreading my life everyday. I'm also trialing another company in the other 50% of my working time, helping them solve some technical challenges.

It sounds like you're at a much higher level than me, but my biggest advice is to decide what is important to you and prioritize that. You are in a position to do whatever you want, so just decide what you want to do and go after it.

alert0··on Ethernaut: wargame to learn about smart contract security
If you're interested in smart contract security, this repo [1] is a good resource too.

1. https://github.com/trailofbits/not-so-smart-contracts

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