martinlaz

I agree with your point, just to add a little detail to your example- USSR & Co called themselves “socialist”. They considered socialism to be an imperfect intermediate state en route to communism.

Absolutely, but it seems to me that changes in the environment alone could explain the differences in character between siblings.

OK, but the claim is that siblings are different, despite growing up in the same environment, because they have their "own nature and character by birth".

I guess what I'm saying is that they might become different due to the environment necessarily changing in pretty significant ways for each of them.

> All Siblings are different despite having same parents, same upbringing, same environment at home.

I think none of these are the same because "everything flows". With each child the environment changes significantly. The first child doesn't have any siblings to grow around, then it exerts huge influence on the second child, the third child brings in yet another dynamic. Parents also change a lot with each new child. So, except for twins, nothing is really the same.

This seems to be the source code of the original: https://undone.se/misc/blastar.txt

> A website can track users across browsing sessions by storing a tracking identifier as a set of entries in the browser’s dedicated favicon cache, where each entry corresponds to a specific subdomain. In subsequent user visits the website can reconstruct the identifier by observing which favicons are requested by the browser while the user is automatically and rapidly redirected through a series of subdomains.

> The caching of favicons in modern browsers exhibits several unique characteristics that render this tracking vector particularly powerful, as it is persistent (not affected by users clearing their browser data), non-destructive (reconstructing the identifier in subsequent visits does not alter the existing combination of cached entries), and even crosses the isolation of the incognito mode.

>> German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called for creating a European Union army, stressing that Europeans can no longer merely rely on the U.S. for their security.

Source? She said that two years ago [1] but on Tuesday her defense minister sounded much less enthusiastic about it [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/13/merkel-joins-m...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/german-minister-to-macron-eu...

Snowden: It turns out "Hey Alexa" is short for "Hey Keith Alexander." Yes, the Keith Alexander personally responsible for the unlawful mass surveillance programs that caused a global scandal. And Amazon Web Services (AWS) host ~6% of all websites.

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1303829551999602688

I can't really tell if this is truth or fiction but either way your comment warmed my day.

Nice analogy. Although it's very unlikely that PHP will ever be as highly regarded as are C and Unix today.

Awesome. So we can just scroll to the bottom and fish out some of the truths visitors from the future better be careful not to say.

> We could refer to the stack as LP (Linux Prolog).

Nice pun (not sure if intended).

Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense now. And that's ... depressing.

Is it really that bad? I surely hope it's not.

I noticed that even Wikipedia is reported as having some trackers. But when I looked closer I noticed that most of those belong to the Wikimedia foundation, which is fine. I mean, I don't mind site owners tracking what I do on their site, I just don't want to be followed across the whole Web.

The rest of the Wikipedia trackers are supposed to be Google fonts and statics, but I couldn't witness any calls to those. Maybe the stats are not quite up to date?

If such a score is to be given, it better be fair and reflecting the current state of affairs.

> we are flirting with the idea of providing a mode where the ranking is informed by the trackers in the destination site. Would love to hear your thoughts on whether you'd like smth like this.

That's definitely the right way to go. I would also very much appreciate an option not to show in the result list sites/pages having any trackers.

The point is that these extra Euros, if they were any significant amount, in the local market would drive the demand for goods up, along with their prices. And then we'd be buying the same amount of stuff, just more expensive.

Surely things like rent take longer to reflect an increased demand but they do eventually catch up.

> If the Euro was stronger, which it would be if it were only the currency for Germany, I'd get less Euro when that conversion happened, and I'd have less local currency for things like rent, groceries, etc.

But wouldn't you be able to still buy exactly the same stuff with less (but stronger) Euros?

The said interview:

https://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=19

> We offer a new metric for big data platforms, COST, or the Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread.

> In this paper we take several recent graph processing papers from the systems literature and compare their reported performance against simple, single-threaded implementations on the same datasets using a high-end 2014 laptop. Perhaps surprisingly, many published systems have unbounded COST—i.e., no configuration outperforms the best single-threaded implementation—forall of the problems to which they have been applied.

Well, that's a good start. It even already includes cool stuff like Hacker News and Wikipedia. From there on, site owners need incentives to enter and remain in the "cool" zone. No idea ATM how/if that can be realized but there seem to be enough bright folks out there wanting it to happen.

> I'd rather just try to block the Google domains themselves.

This works to some extent but falls short of really penalizing the site owner for installing the trackers (of course, they probably lose some revenue but that's not enough).

If sites had a rating reflecting how "tracky" they are, then, given a choice, people who care would tend to pick the less tracky one. Benevolent browsers, search engines, and other tools can enable them to make this choice.

> Google collects so much absurd amount of data - that all the Proton-mail, DuckduckGo, Wire/Signal, Firefox (loaded with adblocking and tracking plugins) apps in the world can't keep you totally from it as long as you're on Android. You disable things, you opt out of stuff and it just keeps on collecting anyways.

There must be some kind of way outta here.

How about carving out a Google-free chunk of the web, and then only visiting sites for which you're somehow certain there's zero Google in them (no Google Analytics, no DoubleClick, no fonts, none of the other junk they use to track you). Otherwise you'd be slapped in the face by a dire warning akin to those for the expired SSL certificates.

Would that be crazy?

Could be... But then again, I find it hard to believe that if Alibaba ever starts overtaking Amazon in the US, the government will just stand and watch.

Cool name :)

Julia code that accompanies the paper: https://github.com/arbenson/cflp

Any chance OP is referring to "integer programming" (aka discrete optimization), which came about 20 years later?

I don't think it's on the same level with "considered harmful" quite yet but definitely heading there. BTW, two more for your list:

  - Everything you always wanted to know about X (but were afraid to ask)
  - X, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Y

No idea but I would put my money on "Tony", given that in the video he introduces himself by "Hello, I’m Tony Hoare".

> Annette Schavan resigned two years earlier because of plagiarism-accusations, so his wasn’t the first case, even when only looking at recent cases.

Schavan resigned in 2013, two years after Guttenberg.

The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05256

can you really?