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john_minsk··on Techcrunch Redesign
What do you do about websites that don't provide full articles in RSS?
john_minsk··on U.K. unveils plan to penalize Facebook and Google for harmful online content
The act is illegal. Should we penalize police for not being able to stop this action?

How is the information about the act illegal?

john_minsk··on VPN – Very Precarious Narrative
4K video: possible on VPN, impossible on TOR. Agree?
john_minsk··on VPN – Very Precarious Narrative
The articles like this are disastrous. So many people are using VPN to bypass government restrictions, protect themselves from ISPs, which are no longer run by idealists dreaming about uncensored access to information, but by managers, that will share your information with any agency the minute request shows up in their inbox. And these people don't always have good knowledge of how security works, and who this article can greatly mislead.

I subscribed to a small VPN service 5 years ago for one reason: I needed static IP address for work, but my ISP at the time wasn't selling them to private individuals (freelance).

And I couldn't be happier! Wherever I go I don't have any issues with access to my resources or worries that local government will fine me for watching porn (check out UAE or Saudi laws).

Hell, even Skype is blocked by a lot of telecoms around the world since you don't pay roaming fees when calling through it. How ridiculous is that? On VPN it worked everytime.

HTTPS is great, but it is by no means private enough. ISP knows which service you are requesting, they can do SSL inspection and all kind of shady bullshit without your consent. With VPN they only see that I talk to 1 IP address somewhere in Netherlands and that is it!

john_minsk··on VPN – Very Precarious Narrative
>Class suit of this kind is easy.

...in US

john_minsk··on Daydreaming about the future instead of doing work today
Todo lists are useful to keep track of all the tasks in one place and not to hold them in your head.

I heard of businessmen who as a rule of thumb delegate or delete tasks after not being able to start within 3 days.

So it is matter of your system how you use your todo list

john_minsk··on Why Google can’t technically do customer support (2011)
There are 7+ billion people on earth. No way every 6th of them has apple device.
john_minsk··on Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012)
Why are we still discussing it?

JAVA is used in most companies in the world. Lisp on the other hand - is not advised to be used in production.

To me it looks like long lost battle

john_minsk··on Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any car tested by NHTS
The priority is quite high, given that you can go to jail for hitting a pedestrian
john_minsk··on L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (2008) [pdf]
Link?
john_minsk··on L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (2008) [pdf]
Belarusian here. We use milk with honey. I don't think it kills virus, just helps with the soaring throat and "softens" the coughs. Another popular medicine: vodka with pepper

Never liked either

john_minsk··on Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
And yet, any search on Apple devices is super weak
john_minsk··on Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
If they have good batteries and enough nuclear power, charging vehicles will take care of extra electricity produced during nights.

Win-win

john_minsk··on Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
Th website had "Freedom of Information" sign at the top....
john_minsk··on Time to rebuild the web?
And let government track your each step... I trust google more
john_minsk··on Time to rebuild the web?
I feel you. But my 2 cents on this:we just got old, lazy and wise...
john_minsk··on Tesla Q1 2018 Vehicle Production and Deliveries
How do you know that?
john_minsk··on Rental car companies have been waging a quiet legislative war against start-ups
These are 2 different business models. Centralized one with scale effects and decentralized one where participants take care of different aspects of car maintenance on their own and platform creates network effect. You can't apply the same rules to these systems as regulation mechanisms are different.

Funny bit: we trust Uber's driver rating MORE than the fact that official taxi drivers are "pro" and comply with regulations i.e. the value of this regulation is negligible. So enterprise car rentals need to ask following question: where in the process of making money we forgot about delivering value to customers.

john_minsk··on Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted
Kind of. When everyone is writing articles AGAINST Facebook, it will be very hard to 'sell' article which SUPPORTS Facebook to the editor (because of the potential PR nightmare when potential 4chan starts attacking you)

Article can't go through editor -> article is not published

john_minsk··on Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted
The funniest part of it: All the media hype around the topic is generated... BY DATA collected by NYT/Bloomberg/Techcrunch/you name it. Those articles generate additional views and they just continue to ride this wave. And all those publications share this data with 3rd parties (ad networks, analytics providers, cpa networks)

On top of that, you know what else do they measure? SENTIMENT. So until kicking Facebook generates more revenue - the articles will paint Facebook as a world's main evil. But the day sentiment changes you will see all the articles about Facebook following best practices.

And in the end? Some EU commission will be created and make a law which oblige to "show cookie usage disclaimer", because of which 90% of sites welcome you with ugly popup and ruin the experience providing 0% advantage in managing your privacy...

john_minsk··on Elon Musk said SpaceX's multi 1000 satellite Internet service will be IP-less
Agreed. Or Musk will have to agree to filter traffic.
john_minsk··on Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
I read the whole thing and was awaiting Ethan to send "just watch" to the thread and transferring all IOTA to his wallet (or whatever is relevant for IOTA)
john_minsk··on Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names
PopcornTime for Sci-Hub?
john_minsk··on Start Your Own ISP
If you can't figure this out - don't do business...
john_minsk··on Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
While this is a great suggestion, it doesn't defeat the idea of the article.
john_minsk··on Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers
Could you advise any good resource to discover interesting articles?
john_minsk··on I Quit Facebook
Nice one. But how do you look at Twitter only once in a couple of days? Twitter is useless this way if you ask me.
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