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They are doing this in the US too. My local Aldi was remodeled last summer and looks like the photo.

OpenKeychain and Password-store (paired with a yubikey) is the entire reason I use Android over iOS. I really wish there was hardware GPG key solution for the iphone.

I've been playing with this, and it's mostly good. It solves the key forwarding problem in nested Linux VMs (-A forwarding is kind of bad).

I do find it a bit silly that they don't support any iOS or android ssh clients, so they only way to authenticate ssh from an iphone is to connect to a VM first where the linux client is installed.

Most agree that TARP was necessary, but QE2, QE3, and very low interest rates appear to have done little more than inflate asset markets and increase debt. They are trying to unwind that now, but falling back to the mean with this much excess is not likely to go well. We left the cast on way, way too long.

What's done is done. It'll prove out either way in the next few years.

This is actually the reason I switched back to Android for my primary phone -- complete lack of auth token support via USB or NFC.

I only do TOTP on my phone. The Yubi Authenticator app is a drop-in replacement for Google Authenticator, but it adds significant security because the keys are stored offline in the yubikey and the crypto is done in the fob. Your phone is relegated to sending the time and displaying the OTP, which greatly reduces the attack surface of a standard OTP app.

The actual usage is exactly the same as Google Authenticator with 1 more step (NFC with NEO or plugging in the yubikey 4) to get the OTP.

I don't think that the people complaining about the price of this key appreciate all that it can do. Most of those people would probably be better off with the cheaper FIDO U2F Security Key.

I haven't found anything else that manages RSA Keys, TOTP auth and U2F in a single package. I'm going to buy this because it plugs into my pixel phone and it seems like it'd be more secure and convenient than my current Neo with NFC.

The US Market 1981 to present is something of an anomaly that isn't likely to repeat. The same goes for the post WWII era. I'm not saying going long everything is a bad strategy necessarily, but like all investments, it's not guaranteed and has risks. There's nothing wrong with taking value into account when buying investments. It's very different from selling stock out of fear or because of a crash.

counterpoint: http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2016/01/investing

The criticism here is silly.

There's a big difference between timing the market and looking at p/e ratios or debt load for stocks (or entire indexes) and deciding that they are way over valued. If you also think bond interest rates are too low likely to climb, hold your cash and come back to pick up stocks when they are cheaper. There's nothing wrong with that strategy as long as you are buying and selling on value and not trying to time a crash. Let the mob chase the yield down the rabbit hole.

If no one did this and everyone was just long everything forever, the market would be immediately broken.

edit: While I think John Bogle is a hero of the investment world with advice that all investors should heed, the Boglehead-Dunning-Kruger-effect can be profoundly annoying. They are a fantastic starting point and they address the most common mistakes, but it's a wee bit more complicated than Bogle's rules if you really want to learn equities and investing.

The quality of education varies between institutions. I graduated from DeVry a little over 10 years ago. I got a decent education (ABET accredited B.S. Computer Engineering Technology) and was able to put myself through school and get a good job. I could have done it a little cheaper in a state school and a lot cheaper with a community college, but for what it was I don't really have any regrets.

My only critique is that they accept ANYONE. This leads to a large number of dropouts. You have people that haven't been able to grasp basic algebra and they bust their butts learning basic math and then hit Cal I, Cal II, Signal Processing, etc and they just can't hack it. By the time they flunk out they've wracked up tens of thousands in student loan debt.

We lost something like 60-80% of the students we started with in the first 2 years.

That seems immoral on the face of it to take advantage of those people, but at the same time this happens (albeit to a much lesser degree) in all schools, and I was grateful for the opportunity DeVry extended to me as a student with terrible grades in highschool.

It's really not all as bad as you perceive. This is more a problem with the mental state of the people in that line. The misery (if you see it as such) of vacation photos predates social media. You can go through some old family photo albums and see that. All social media does is broaden the audience. The pathology of misery might seek out social media, but that doesn't make social media the genesis of all that misery.

Without these photos, whether posted to Facebook, Instagram, or a family photo album, we tend to forget about wonderful experiences over time. A little work in the moment isn't such a high price pay as long as it doesn't consume you.

From the other end it's not all bad either. When I see my friends and family sharing pictures of their vacations, kids, and successes, it makes me genuinely happy for them. That's the only reason that I still check Facebook every few days. We don't all need to make life a contest.

...until you opt-in.

I don't really 'trust' either company, but the fact that I'm in so deep with Google already makes me less hesitant to add this one thing.

Google already knows me. I've basically slept with Google, so seeing me naked is just not a big deal. If Google uses that against me or gets compromised by a third party I'm screwed anyway and the transcripts from my living room will be the least of my worries.

I'm a big fan of hp calculators and use an emulated HP-48 most of the time.

The main point to take away from this is that very few things can be said to be all bad or all good in chemistry. The dose makes the poison.

I've been running PFSense on an old Acer Aspire (now called veriton) and it's worked decently well for home use (100 Mbit downstream internet). It's only real downside was a single gigabit NIC, so I had to use VLANs and a router-on-a-stick configuration on a managed switch.

Since the hardware is aging (and I want more NICs for no good reason) I recently found the edgerouter from Ubiquiti. It's running a modified version of Vyetta/vyos and shares its powerful CLI. It's also dirt cheap at <$100 and has been said (I haven't tried to max it out yet) to handle 500Mbit throughput.

So far I haven't found anything that it can't do. It will also POE a few Ubiquiti access points, if you are into those. Makes a really nice home setup for the home network engineer for <$200.

I think (outside of the other effects mentioned related to being health conscious) that protein restriction has something to do with it.

Autophagy may be an important cellular cleanup process that never happens with three square meals a day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy#Autophagy_and_caloric...

The idea is plausible and there is some early research on this, but there's definitely not a consensus. I personally try to fill this void with intermittent protein fasting on a diet that is otherwise composed of meats, fruits, and vegetables.

tweet was deleted for some reason. Here's another from the thread: https://twitter.com/stevebarnhart/status/472192457145597952

Also, it appears someone finally got a hold of a Truecrypt dev. The project was just shut down from lack of interest. No drama about auditing or, crazy NSA conspiracies after all: https://twitter.com/stevebarnhart/status/472203503478509568

Edit: That tweet was deleted for some reason, but the rest of the thread is still there: https://twitter.com/stevebarnhart/status/472192457145597952

It's difficult for me to empathize with publishers in the same way that the author has done. Wasn't this entire situation created by book publisher's love for walled gardens and DRM?

Concentrated power seems to me to be the logical result of that kind of strategy.

I agree completely that corn subsidies are out of control, but it's not clear that getting rid of corn would solve the health problem. It would likely be replaced with 'high fructose' <some other starch>. Fructose has properties (very sweet, doesn't crystallize like sucrose, etc.) that junk food purveyors love and corn doesn't even contain any fructose naturally.

Any starch + amylase makes a syrup (my personal favorite is rice syrup). An extra process turns part of the glucose to fructose making it very sweet.

Sorry to crap on a point I mostly agree with in the name of technical correctness :)

Wow. I think you severely miss-read my comment as some formal argument and you are holding it to a much higher standard than your own comment.

Your first paragraph is an ad hominem attack that is subsequently withdrawn adding nothing to the conversation.

I think you might have misread my questions for arguments. Questions have a symbol at the end: '?'. Also, sentences starting "I thought" are not formal arguments, but a highlight of the contrast between my past understanding and the article.

Also, in order for me to make such a contrast, wouldn't I have to read the article?

And just in case the attack at the beginning was serious, I would like to point out that the questions at the beginning of my post proposed two mechanisms whereby HFCS would be worse for you than sugar, which is what this study's results imply. That's hardly something a 'paid shill' would do.

The only argument I made, if I made one at all, is that just because HFCS is worse than sugar (as proposed by the article) doesn't mean that other sweeteners are good for you. This is likely an important thing to remember for all of those that will use this data when making decisions in their own lives.

I don't understand the mechanism here. I thought sucrase, the enzyme that breaks down sucrose (table sugar) into 1 fructose and 1 glucose (same as HFCS), acted almost immediately -- at least on the timescale of nutrient absorption. Is it just short circuiting our sense of satiety? Maybe the raw fructose makes things sweeter and stimulates reward centers better?

I wonder where honey falls in all this since it has higher fructose than the most common 55% fructose HFCS blends.

We seem to know so little about all of this, but I think it's safe to say that both sugar and HFCS are bad in quantities that the common american is accustomed.

I find it's best to just avoid sweet foods all together, but if forced to choose I would take HFCS over artificial sweeteners any day of the week. Our bodies have been dealing with glucose and fructose for a very long time -- even on evolutionary time scales. The same can't be said for Sucralos, aspartame, or Acesulfame potassium.

Everything in the world is either overtly or subtly poisonous; the only question is, at what dose?

I wanted to Cancel Netflix for using SilverLight, but I was too busy canceling Time Warner and AT&T for being evil overpriced monopolies.

Now that Netflix has gone to HTML5 things are better. I'm renting the content so I don't really care if they want DRM or not. To me, it's only unacceptable when buying video.

I suspect Snowden has the data encrypted meaning that copies are not of much use anyone without the key. If you are suggesting that Snowden gave up the encryption keys to Russia or China, that is a very serious accusation without any proof behind it.

It would also undermine everything Snowden has done so far, so unless they tortured him or he is completely insane I seriously doubt he did that.

There is quite a big difference between what a spy agency might have access to and what it releases in an AP article. The latter is motivated by self preservation. Truth, when it happens, is a coincidence.

I've only been registered for about 15 min, but so far it's good. It's very basic with a decent layout, but it's really fast. That might just be because no one is on yet, but the UI seems faster than reader.

I also agree that less whitespace would be nice.

Yet another example where perverse incentives lead to unintended effects.

The problem with Obamacare is that it doesn't address the primary problem: health insurance is tied to employment.

Until we get past that we are going to have a broken system where the customer is not the customer. The insurance company and then your employers are the customer.

I really don't see where all of the Linode hate comes from. That last hack was a pretty messy situation the way that I read it, but they seemed to do what was best for their customers when the shtf.

I've also had very few network outages or performance issues in Linode's Dallas datacenter, multiple uptimes of > 1 year on instances and I've only had one unscheduled reboot/failure in almost 7 years of being a customer.

I don't know that this is as cast iron as you think. It really depends on what the market does, but I would rather have a large lump sum in a diversified investment than a fixed monthly income. Generally investments return at higher rates in times of inflation where a fixed monthly income will only lose value more quickly.

That said, $5,000 a month is $60K a year, or 6% of $1,000,000. I'd probably take the $5k also since it's a reasonable (and 100% guaranteed) rate of return on the lump sum. I wouldn't feel much safer because it's "cast iron" -- it could still be worthless in 30 years. It's just a slightly better deal in your example.