Yes and the most infuriating thing is the "we need to verify the security of your connection" text.
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After the PRISM stuff, folks got a lot more savvy with encryption. TLS has been tightened up a lot since then across many fronts (perfect forward secrecy, removing crap roots, certificate transparency, etc).
There's just no way the NSA can be MITMing any reasonable proportion of traffic. Possibly extremely targeted stuff, and sure, there's technically the possibility that Google is handing over keys, but if it was happening at any massive scale, people would now know.
That's why the fight has moved over to metadata now, which is what the three letter agencies are vacuuming up these days.
Sometimes you beat them, sometimes you don't. It's not always in your favor, it averages out.
If you look carefully, the numbers are different. In Gary's picture, the cliff is from $29k to $69k or so; the one above is much wider.
Also direct link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140205020059im_/http://www.aei...
(It is funny though, the picture above seems to be very much from a serious libertarian.)
I don't know what the former means and how these are calculated, but if you don't have children, this graph would look a lot less exciting.
Central planning works very well: that's how every corporation, city, and state works. It works well as long as you apply it to a small enough market and e.g. don't try to plan the whole economy.
The problem in NYC is that there is not enough affordable housing. 40k units is nothing in the housing supply, and the rent inflation has been way too high lately.
Also to add context: there are many hurdles to hitting a 1mm accuracy for a satellite based positioning service.
One can already achieve accuracy of a few cm, but it's a painful process. You basically place a receiver somewhere, keep it there for a few hours, then download the pseudoranges, and post-process on a computer. In post-processing you correct for ionosphere error and satellite ephemerides (the satellites broadcast their rough location and clock readings, but you can download much more accurate data for these later to get a much better idea of where the satellites were). You need to do post-processing after some delay, because ionosphere readings and satellite ephemerides are not available immediately (the accuracy increases as you wait longer!).
You can also extend this with what's called "Precise Point Positioning" (PPP) using one ground-station that broadcasts an extra signal to moving receivers nearby, so there are ways to get higher accuracy on moving receivers, but it's still painful.
So probably 1mm will come soon to fixed ITRF monitoring stations (basically the ITRF tries to track tectonic movements, etc as those are at the mm level), but it's very far from coming to drones or cars.
The hope is that these small improvements will lead to new insights that will then lead to big improvements. I doubt how matrix multiplication will be done will really change regardless of these theoretical results, unless something really groundbreaking and shocking is discovered.
It's all relatively pretty in the grand scheme of things.
Any source for this? Do you work there? I checked their docs and they say they don't "mine user data", so I wouldn't trust anything they say, at least outside legal documents.
However, it still makes me lose trust in Cloudflare, this is pretty clear language to me that data is not used for anything but debugging, yet here we obviously see user data being mined for analytics.
On their page however, they claim "By contrast, 1.1.1.1 does not mine user data. Logs are kept for 24 hours for debugging purposes, then they are purged." under "What makes 1.1.1.1 more secure than other public DNS services?" [0]
[0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-1.1.1.1/