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This kind of thing sounds great on personal projects, but doesn't scale. Like many abstractions, frameworks' biggest benefit is (arguably) making it easier for teams to work together.

I'd guess this is less of a concern than the services people are accessing being slow. E.g. even though I've got FTTH, youtube is still sometimes slow to load the front page.

Cultural changes? How would you build those? The government doesn't control the culture. How would you make it unacceptable? Bureaucrats don't have direct control over that. Also, a bunch of "we need"s about the ideal situation don't do much.

The reason the China contained it is because she is an authoritarian state. While that provides certain advantages in this situation, it comes with certain drawbacks: not being able to access many websites, inability to express your political opinion, inability to own a firearm, being tossed in a concentration camp if the government doesn't like you. This isn't a question of leadership, you're asking the government to do things it literally has no power to do, things entirely outside of the constitution.

They really should have given some actual information, i.e. how the information was stored. I want to know what algorithm was used, not how "it was securely stored so people still can't take your money" or some other corporate-speak intended to mitigate the damage.

Copy-paste from another thread, cause it's still relevant.

Urban environments aren't really "nice". For all I hear about the joys of urban living, as espoused by others, I haven't enjoyed it much. Public transportation is crowded and smelly. Fat people take half of my seat (not nice to say, but I'm not sure how else to put it). Things are small, which for a taller guy like me, is pretty tough. As in, every thing is tiny. Living spaces, shops, streets. Streets often have trash strewn on them, and don't smell particularly good. I have to keep one hand on my wallet. Sometimes, hobos get aggressive. Not as much as an issue for me, but I'd hate to be a 4'9" lady. Keeping pets is hard. Cooking food is hard. I didn't have kids, but those I knew had a hard time with them. Things are very expensive. It's loud. There's a lot of traffic. Some times (all winter and some times in summer), it's bad weather for walking. I guess I shouldn't be complaining, since I at least didn't see much in the way of human feces. This is not to say there aren't up-sides. I like the food, and there are interesting people. It's also much easier to find certain things; for instance, a few major cities still have serious "maker shops" with tons of electronic components. Smaller ones or sub-urban areas often can't accommodate them, as they are in low enough demand that serious density is required.

I like sub-urban living and empty green space. I can hardly blame people for moving out, if it's viable. The above applies differently to different cities; some are better, some are worse, but all have most of these problems in the urban core. Considering how expensive it is to live in a city rather than a suburb (especially if you're talking a similar amount of land), I don't want to pay more for less.

I agree with you in principle one-hundred percent. However, at the time that was written, there was one key difference: entitlements. Once the government started taking on the burden of providing a safety net, we lost the ability to admit every one. This was somewhat mitigated in the twentieth century by the sponsor system, but this is gone now, too.

I wish we could let every one come here and make himself successful, but I don't foresee entitlement spending ever gong any where but down. I don't take the position of limiting immigration for idealistic reasons, but because there is a limit on how many resources we have.

It's my money, why do you think the gov't should get it early? You're coming at this from the wrong perspective.

DEF CON has a lot of informational talks where research is presented. Going to villages also sometimes gives you the opportunity to join a team and learn new stuff. Research is also presented at black hat (though not necessarily as much, it's more for "suits"). Shmoocon and bsides, too.

I'm not sure if this is more security-related, but many of the top security conferences have lots of useful stuff there.

Because they would have to spend years in court litigating whether or not that was slander. Consumers have also been shown to respond better to positive causes than negative ones, and a non-profit funded by these guys is better equipped to spin it as a positive "working for a better future" type thing than them all running "Amazon bad" ads.

Some quick backstory as to why I just posted this: I originally submitted it almost three months ago [0]; it was quickly flagged down as a "conspiracy theory". I don't necessarily agree with everything here, but don't think it's that. I'm posting again in light of rms' recent expulsion from almost everything, because I think the increasing "corporatization" of OSS stuff will lead to him eventually being kicked out. I'm certainly not sure of any of this, but I think recent events make this article particularly pertinent.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325213

Maybe it's because urban environments aren't really "nice". For all I hear about the joys of urban living, as espoused by others, I haven't enjoyed it much. Public transportation is crowded and smelly. Fat people take half of my seat (not nice to say, but I'm not sure how else to put it). Things are small, which for a taller guy like me, is pretty tough. As in, every thing is tiny. Living spaces, shops, streets. Streets often have trash strewn on them, and don't smell particularly good. I have to keep one hand on my wallet. Sometimes, hobos got aggressive. Not as much as an issue for me, but I'd hate to be a 4'9" lady. Keeping pets is hard. Cooking food is hard. I didn't have kids, but those I knew had a hard time with them. Things are very expensive. It's loud. There's a lot of traffic. Some times (all winter and some times in summer), it's bad weather for walking. I guess I shouldn't be complaining, since I at least didn't see much in the way of human feces.

This is not to say there aren't up-sides. I like the food, and there are interesting people. It's also much easier to find certain things; for instance, a few major cities still have serious "maker shops" with tons of electronic components. Smaller ones or sub-urban areas often can't accommodate them, as they are in low enough demand that serious density is required.

Maybe this is just NYC. I didn't live there a really long time, and I guess I might have gotten used to it? Still, I like sub-urban living and empty green space. I can hardly blame people for moving out, if it's viable.

So, like the ultimate SDR?

It might just be the easiest way to do it. It's also possible that Intel didn't have access to samples of enough AMD stuff to test, or the wrong department had it, or they couldn't get approval to take the time it would require. The GCC guys almost certainly lacked the hardware, time, and inclination to do this instead. It's not malice, I don't think, so much as practicality. I'm sure they'd accept an AMD patch enabling this where available.

Venmo and zelle are two apps that allow instant p2p payments. Venmo was first; zelle is the banking sector's answer (a whole bunch of them got together and agreed to support it). Both are widely compatible; zelle has no transfer fees. That sounds just about as good as anything else I've heard of in NZ, and it has the added advantage of having an external competitor (venmo) pushing the banks. In other words, not everything is under one roof, and I believe this will actually drive innovation in the long run.

It seems that while banks themselves do fewer things around p2p payments (which seems to be the over-arching issue you have with American banks), other private companies are greatly improving on this. The banks also banded together and launched their own knock-off, zelle (no fees even across banks, and most banks work with it). Not perfect, but not as bad as others have made it sound. Venmo, the competitor which prompted banks to make zelle, is also alive and kicking. Importantly, it's not owned by the banks, so it's an external competitor which will help drive innovation. I believe that having a non-bank as a market leader will help push American banking ahead better than the NZ banks deciding to implement something out of benevolence. Certainly not as bad as having to get a physical machine to do online banking; my Lord but that's byzantine. I wonder if some one could emulate the hardware device.

Still use vim. You can use something like "5db" to delete the previous 5 words. For more precision, "5X" will delete your last five characters. And if you have a very specific use case, macros are a big help. If you have a very specific and recurring use case, you can script in vim script, ruby, perl, python (2 & 3), tcl, racket, and lua. There may well be support for others of which I am not aware.

Right, but all the others still have jobs. That's the point of the 2.4 million: there are the ones employed directly, then those employed by suppliers, suppliers of those suppliers, etc.

The feds make ISPs spend money on rural areas which aren't really profitable; that's likely a part of it. But there's no competition because there are a limited number of lines available; they can't tear up the street for every one that wants to.

Most of them are much smaller, meaning there is significantly less distance to cover. Of course you can get fiber to the home every where when you have a small nation. Let's look at larger nations:

Canada has worse broadband but better mobile [0][1]. I'd attribute this to population density: most of their population is fairly close to our border because the rest is a frozen wasteland.

Russia has worse speeds by far, and the certain things simply are not accessible due to being blocked.

No, we're not South Korea, but S. Korea is small with most people living in a very concentrated area. Again, no other nation has companies with excellent chances of setting up satellite network infrastructure, which is a good solution for a nation as big and spread-out as America.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2016/09/15/compari...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_...

> dead hand

I assume you are referring to "dead man's switch"? If so, we've had the concept of mutually assured destruction for a long time. With our radar capabilities etc. we can see bombs coming long before they hit. Plenty of time to launch our own. Same goes for the Russians.

With respect to militarizing space, the French are doing it too, and I don't hear the same issues being raised. It's better we get there before, say, China or Russia. https://www.ft.com/content/a479bcb6-a628-11e9-984c-fac8325aa...

I'm not sure how any of this contradicts my comment. Or were you agreeing?

> internet availability

Remind me again, which nation has produced companies with a realistic chance of delivering satellite internet to every one?

Not exactly. In America, distances are too long for bikes to effectively cover in most places that are not the east and west coasts. However, this also means that when inconsiderate bicyclists max out at 20-25mph on a 55mph road, they slow every one else down too (even those in cars). When you fail to drive the speed of traffic and slow every one else down, you have no business on the road and are a hazard. Bicyclists ought to stay off roads faster than they can ride.

> It's due to the lack of sufficient domestic expertise in designing, managing, and building such large scale works.

> Because we don't build that scale of project frequently in the US, when we do it, we don't do it as efficiently. A recent example would be the use of the incorrect grade of steel in San Francisco's new Chinatown subway line.

No, it's because the government doesn't do it often, because the government is slow and inefficient. Private companies can do it fine; let them do it rather than sending the work to corrupt union shops owned by some one's brother-in-law.

Union contractors and brothers-in-law are most of it. I lived in Houston for a while, which is a very large and bureaucratic city. They can't get infrastructure done right. In the area are a few small towns which incorporated before being sucked up by Houston, and are much more efficient. They are called the Villages, and banded together to run their own police, fire, public works, etc. Instead of dealing with stupid unions, they hire normal private contractors and get things done quickly. Get rid of your horrible union agreements, and be more like the Villages.

And yet, public transportation is not the same. Americans love their cars because we are a very independent people who appreciate the ability to go where we want, when we want. An EV could at least conceivably be a replacement, though that will be difficult until they can charge in a time comparable to that of a gas station fueling and go as long or longer. I don't want to have to plan around some schedule set by a committee.

Issue number two: other people. Public transportation is not as nice as a car because you are not insulated from others. I can run my AC nice and high and listen to a pod cast in peace and quiet in my car, even if I've got to deal with jostling cars on the outside. In a train/bus/etc, you never know what you'll get. Half the time there's some one with music blasting, or cussing loudly. The other half they guy next to me smells awful or takes two seats because he's a land whale. If by some miracle neither of those things is true, all the seats are taken. Public transportation sucks,

I like my car, and see no personal reason to switch to a less-comfortable and less-available form of transportation for the sake of some one else's political win.

That depends to which tier of hospital you go. On the other end, of course, I have a friend who had to get treatment in Italy and was required to bring her own needles. This was in-patient surgery. Also, the nurse tried to re-use them and called her a "wasteful American" when she told her to get a clean one.

> What are the odds that your 20 subscriptions and my 20 subscriptions will overlap?

The odds that they will completely overlap are low. However, most people don't have 20. Even those who do mostly read a number of prominent sources: nyt, wapo, wsj are the big three for news these days. Most people subscribe to one, maybe two and read that. This is arguably bad for competition and bad for "indie journalism".

Also, I take issue with some of the points of view espoused by the nyt. Their news content is fairly good (if biased), but my subscription would also go to pay their editorial board. I don't want to purchase that news, because I don't want to fund its production. I wish I could buy a news-only subscription: no "lifestyle", no "fashion", no "editorial", etc. I don't want that stuff. Just news.

Correct. Some gists were still up yesterday when I looked (her github was down, though), and it seems she had a habit of posting logs of stuff, text snippets, etc. there.

Miss Thompson wins the Darwin Award for black hats. Seriously, she did a horrible job. Clearly a supremely over-confident script kiddie who went around talking about being such a 1337 h4x0r... until the cops showed up.

Serves her right, any way. You've got to be a pretty bad person to put the information of that many people at risk.