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Montana has some odd liquor laws, so that's likely the largest reason for the price. There's a quota system in incorporated cities and counties, meaning supply doesn't hit demand inflating prices. The system should be done away with, but alas.

We do three backticks at keybase and it feels natural.

I'm sorry for your loss. Teams is truly a horrible experience. "It's like SharePoint for chat" said no happy person ever.

Dan is a great resource to reach out to, he's on Keybase Chat https://keybase.io/drz and more than happy to help people in the policy realm. Our naive first bill is well organized with some of the things we felt necessary to enable an individuals right to privacy and can be found here https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2013/billhtml/HB0400.htm

In Montana I've been working on privacy legistlation with my friend and State Representative Daniel Zolnikov for almost 10 years now. Initially we tried to pass too much (something like 40 pages in a state where most bills are 1-2), then Dan decided to break out individual ideas from the initial bill and pass smaller chunks or create specific bills targeting abuses.

The Montana state constitution provides citizens with a right to privacy but attempting to enumerate it in law is an uphill battle. At the last legislative session the national Charter public policy guy flew in and spoke against the bill saying it would be an incredible burden on his company to allow customers the right to privacy (conveniently ignoring they're up to the task for collecting and storing DNS, usage history, a multi-billion dollar company etc.). They were able to spread enough FUD to get the bill killed.

Corporations are stifling privacy at the national level and willing to spend the money quashing attempts by the states to take it back. Privacy will be a hard-fought battle most likely won with technology and user choices vs policy.

I've always gone with the maxim, a product shouldn't be priced at what it's worth, it should be priced at what people will pay for it. In development this is best seen in Fortran salaries.

Keybase Chat would make a solid choice as well. *I work for Keybase, but chose to work here because I love the mission / product.

Other peoples boxes /joke

LostboY always included a Vigenere cipher in his mystery challenge at DEFCON. It’s worth searching for team write ups of his challenges; they were some of the best and most difficult.

I believe 200 years ago people were asking if books were destroying a generation.

My parents generation wondered if video games was destroying mine.

Now it's smartphones.

This article reminds me of tracking corporate jets and seeing if they were doing tarmac M&A talks. There are a lot of interesting opportunities for 'corporate information side-channel' attacks and it would be a great opportunity for a new information based corporation to corral this information and sell it.

Fair. My NDAs that lasted 7 years are expiring and I still remember a number of them. Buuuut I was also hoping to hear other's experiences.

I honestly thought Trips was a nice product. Hopefully the usefulness of the application lives on somewhere in Google. When I went to Shanghai the fist time it was incredibly useful to have downloaded reservations as my Google Fi SIM wasn't working well the first few days.

I did a penetration test for $NATIONALINSURER and they had an FTP site with weak credentials where all the remote offices uploaded claims. Millions of records and scans of SSNs, home addresses, bank information, etc. Their mitigating controls were: we put it behind a firewall.

Then again I didn't expect much, their MSSQL in prod had SA/SA credentials active.

While the CNN list feels somewhat variable, I'd highly recommend visiting countries that aren't on any "top destination" lists. I just got back from a trip that included Kyiv and Minsk, and I'd have to say that Minsk in particular exceeded any expectations I had. Clean, beautiful, a feeling of safety in the downtown, and plenty of sights (and alcoholic beverages) made for a great visit.

It's been discussed before, but what 3 words had a ton of flaws compared to other systems like pluscodes. What they do have is a great PR person who gets them fantastic advertising article like this one.

https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...

No thank you. When I use WeChat I make the obvious assumption that: everything is monitored, my location is tagged when I use WeChat wallet, my location is monitored via the app constantly, my social graph is analyzed, and more. But now that I think of it, Facebook is already doing that. They are just missing the payment property.

Cloudflare is a MiTM on the internet at large.

Is it just me or does there seem to be a mainstream media narrative trying to stoke the fires of nationalism against China with Huawei being the current lightning rod?

Sounds like Microsoft in the 90's https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_...

Ah sadly it's $10K plus. At this point I'm just opening an account in Hong Kong. They do CNY conversion and wires now which is amazing.

Transferwise enables me to be successful working in Asia. The only downside is that they don't do CNY yet, otherwise I'd use them exclusively. Using banks internationally is incredibly painful and ripe for disruption.

I do low latency network architectue for HFTs; I'm not sure there's a real world application for shaving 50us off a latency for a route outside of this industry. That said I've been impressed with Cloudflares consistent global low latency while traveling. It's a habit to ping 1.1.1.1 and see if it goes above 15ms.

I was playing the, "Is it my third world internet or HN" game for a second.

And so the count down to this services death begins. /Sarcasm

Non Paywall link: https://outline.com/http://www.wsj.com/articles/where-does-t...

I buy Huawei gear and dislike my government attempting to limit my free market choices. Cisco was (is) just as vulnerable, people just don't talk about it because they have so many lawyers. https://artkond.com/2017/04/10/cisco-catalyst-remote-code-ex...

I agree on the variable engineering quality; something endemic to any company with more than 1 engineer. It would also be important to consider a well placed bribe or spy could maliciously change code at multiple points in the process.

Largely the allegations against Huawei could be leveled against any company, thus it feels like a competitor has hired enough lobbyist firms in DC to create the FUD necessary to sanction specifically Huawei.

I haven't seen much about the 'hacks' taking place. Are investigators seeing actual backdoors? Or just poor code being exploited in the wild? If it's the latter then the US could be accused of the same with Cisco in the early 2000's as exposed by FX.

I'd check out RISK-V, I think it will be a bigger player in the coming years https://riscv.org/