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Stumbled upon this gem while browsing his blog

https://boekwetenschap.org/

There's all kinds of art in it, from initials, technical drawings to art from a torture manual.

I'm in an European Union country. Personally, I've given up on even trying to invest when I saw all the strings attached.

The bank I use has a service allowing you to put money in their investment funds, configured for different risk profiles.

You need to pay some fees to opt in. There seems to be an already paid yearly(?) fee when you opt in, but you probably need to pay yearly to keep the money in the system. When you decide to cash out, you have to pay income tax.

In conclusion, from my money, the bank needs to be paid, the state needs to be paid, and I doubt their 6% (assuming this is true) yearly return rate is going to net me anything than a loss unless I pump some 6 digit sum right off the bat and leave it there for decades.

Any tips or advice for this? Preferably tuned for someone who has no friends.

The read up is very interesting but I don't understand the Sonic Wall VPN exploit and how they planted the keylogger in the first place.

Was it an inside job?

I don't think I'm nostalgic for these at all.

Near my office, kids gather all the time and play music really loudly on small Bluetooth speakers. I don't even dare to imagine the experience if they had one of these bad boys.

>Web devs have really dropped the ball

In their defense, this is what product owners want. If it didn't work into the numbers, they would stop doing it.

There's an in-game option to disable scrolling the screen with the mouse and doing it with only the keyboard.

Isn't this just addressing the symptoms, but not the problem itself?

The camp seems to be showing kids that they can do other things than play with their phones, but I don't think outside the premises of the camp they can find people to share similar activities with.

I think it's far more agnostic than that.

As long as an entity has enough money and a wish, there will be someone willing to grant it.

Aren't consumer NAS expensive?

Forgive my ignorance on the subject of matter, but aren't these credits so expensive precisely because they're handed to unreliable debtors?

There is obviously a need for such a product since it's so popular, but it can't be cheap to manage and collect them especially since they're so small.

I'm not a specialist, I just read up about it some time ago so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Basically there's two issues affecting electronic chipsets at high altitude : air density and cosmic rays.

The reduction of the air density can mess with the cooling system.

Cosmic rays contain radioactive particles which can cause soft failures to occur in solid state electronics.

EDIT : Found an interesting paper about it with more details : https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6046/529f05a65e182ac9323ef8...

I worked for about 3/4th of a year for a dating website. The market is ...unique, to put it nicely. Employees are constantly poached. When my boss told me this I couldn't believe it but it actually happened. During lunchtime, it became an often occurrence for someone to come and talk to me to try and reveal secrets.

Also they had a lot of people on payroll to pretend they're available girls on the website, in order to increase engagement and lure subscribers. One of them was a huge biker dude and it was hilarious. The truth is that on all these dating website, as someone else pointed out, the ratio is about 30 guys to 1 gal so building a dating platform is hard.

In my experience of working for corporations, all of them tend to be cult-like. Office politics: bringing down others to cut ahead, cutting deals, favoritism, etc. are the norm and your work and quality of it matters very little in the long run as long as you can deliver something on time.

The difference lies in perception. Or to put it more elegantly, if you like (or at least can tolerate) that specific flavor of Kool-Aid.

I happen to own Lego sets of pirates, which also happen to be my favorites. They have cutlass, pistols, muskets, barrels of rum, jugs of moonshine and other piratey/armada things.

It doesn't sound stupid to me. Browser features are so rich and similar nowadays that only the smallest differences swing an user one way or the other.

For example I was averse to Firefox for a long time because I didn't like the way scrolling pages felt.

There are companies that act as data brokers for other parties and there's also companies like Nielsen which buys media consumption data in bulk. It's not just about the ads.

It's also about the way in which to split the pie. (how much should go to this creator?)

Or consumer profiling. (It seems our product is enjoyed by men in their mid 40s who like sci-fi)

Or marketing research (it seems our product sells the most in winter).

There's plenty of ways to make use of this data. That's why it's so valuable. It's not uncommon to see 7 digit contracts for high profile news/gossip outlets, for example.

Sorry to disappoint you my friend, but the ads and paid subscriptions are just a small fraction of their income. The real money maker is in tracking user behavior and selling that aggregated data.

If worst comes to worse, they can just track your behavior on their website alone.

Considering how overworked start-up developers are, instead of calling it a feature roadmap a feature rodmap seems highly appropiate.

User tracking seems to be far more valuable than ads. I'm currently subcontracting for a specific large media trust. Ad contracts are in total about 6 figure numbers. User tracking, sponsored content and skins (custom stylesheets with a sponsor's branding and tracking) are very substantial 7 or 8 digit contracts.

While it's true his own activity isn't worth much, it's still a piece of a very lucrative pie. There are services already oriented specifically around user tracking.

I guess they're oing by the principle of individual behavior is unpredictable, but mass behavior is.

I remember at some point while playing, the main page of the dota 2 client was full of porn. I thought my DNS cache was poisoned at the time, and now, some years later I find out it was an exploit.

I fully agree with you.

I'd also like to add something that I consider the elephant in the room. Haven't tech companies already proven themselves that they're willing to bend to governments' will in order to do business?

No authoritarian government will welcome Libra with open arms. If the currency won't bend to their will, then they will simply ban it and then it becomes (at best) a black market good.

There's also another issue: how do you value it so that it becomes useful to everyone? If I'm in Venezuela getting paid in bolivars then my money already has no power to begin with.

It will also be hard to manage for a lot of people. I doubt some average Joe in a poor country will want to complicate himself by buying something at 0.0000000231 Libra. It will require a lot of cognitive power to not get scammed.

Not yet, I'm afraid. Passwords are the best of the bad solutions people came up with. For public key cryptography, the problem remains, as always, key exchange. How can one be sure you are who you say you are?

I'm currently contracting for a rather large news outlet and I had a talk with the VP of Engineering about why every media outlet is like this and he shed some light on me.

The print edition is losing money for them and business decided to start giving them away for free to increase brand awareness.

The paywalled stuff is making them modest revenue, definitely not enough to make a living for now but they're still experimenting with the model.

The ads and user tracking is where the real money is. The bidding ad network stuff is okayish, but it seems the big money is in the sponsored articles and in skins (custom stylesheet designed for a specific brand). The former two seem to make even seven digit figures per contract for them.

Looking at the backlog and their style of organizing work you can obviously tell that the users actually visiting the site are treated as second hand citizens while their partners are kings.

This leads me to the conclusion that this is what people might not really want, but it's what they got used to. Finding a sustainable high quality news media business model is an interesting problem worthy of a startup I'd say.

>In some countries you'll likely be killed if you express your non-religiosity.

Apples and oranges. You're comparing secular states with religious ones.

>In (as far as I know) no countries would you be killed by atheists if you're non-atheist.

The communist block says hi. China salutes you as well.

I was interested myself in buying a schiitstack but after seeing how messy the soldering is[1], their constant QC problems and the outrageous shipping costs to Europe I gave up and went with something else.

[1]https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/h...

Interesting addendum. Thank you.

Are there any statistics or studies regarding the becoming of these zombies? I thought that the body, if long enough under such medication, becomes incapable of producing its own dopamine, not that the threshold becomes higher.

What's the incentive for a business going cashless? I can see some upsides to it like eliminating the risk of employee theft but the intermediaries take a cut.

Funnily enough, psychiatry seems to function a lot like our field, based on trends, because ultimately the brain is a black box. You can't see how it works, you can only feed it input and observe the output, and if it's consistent enough you can record it as an observation.

Apart from the truly severe conditions that prevent individuals from even participating in society, IMHO what psychiatry seems to fail to account for is context. For example, it is said that many people suffer from depression, but instead of looking into the core causes, they would rather just pump patients with meds and hope it gets better with time. Often times though, all that happens is that the patient builds tolerance to medication, so larger and larger doses are needed. It makes me think: what if those people cannot escape their condition to begin with? Can't even know if you don't at least try.

Can you name a few such protocols?

Your statement makes me very curious because as far as I'm aware, key distribution is the core problem of asymmetric cryptography. I can generate a private key and say I'm you, and there's nothing stopping me from doing that.

The only solution I'm aware of so far is DNSSec which starts from the operating system level.