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Layman here. To your second bullet, yes, the universe can be infinite but also be expanding. A rough analogy I've heard is that there are infinite points on the surface of a balloon, but if you blow it up more, the distance between any two given points will be greater than it was, so it has expanded. I don't think we know if the universe is infinitely large or not though.

I was struggling with your use of "opportunistic". That word typically implies unethical behavior. Is that what you meant?

Yes, that's worth a read. Lots of thinking about how to deal with people moving to cash and how to deal with that or prevent it. The section on "Using Communication Tools to Overcome Political Challenges" is interesting as well.

There have been a lot of papers on this topic over the past few years, many of which are listed in the references of this paper.

Yes, it's mentioned in the first reply to the linked tweet.

https://twitter.com/taylordotbiz/status/1172260257613123608

Last week another member of the organizing committee, @ClarissaRedwine was also fired, and today a third prominent member of the union was told there is no place for him at the company. I stand firm in solidarity with my friends and colleagues.

3blue1brown has an excellent and concise video explaining this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0YEaeIClKY

Discussion of Part 1:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20912380

Lanny Breuer and his then-boss, Eric Holder, both returned to Covington & Burling following their stint at the DOJ. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and UBS are clients of the firm.

Breuer was estimated to take home $4m in compensation in his first year back.

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/once-more-through-th...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/business/dealbook/eric-ho...

I've always understood user-scalable="no" to apply only to mobile/touch devices and their pinch-to-zoom functionality. I can't remember an instance where Ctrl + scrollwheel and Ctrl + -/+/0 didn't work on desktop browsers.

I think there are laws stating that certain kinds of German institutions must buy German bonds, but I'm not sure.

> Good book on how things went down and my who is Crashed:

Incredible book. Tooze's interviews and lectures on the subject can only scratch the surface of what the book covers, but they are worth a listen too. I can recommend his appearance on the podcast Talking Politics:

https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/113-crashed

A chain of video rental stores in the US

edit: US and elsewhere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_LLC

> I can't imagine how many people are stuck in jobs they hate just because they are afraid to be without insurance. It can't be good for anyone.

It seems like it is good for employers for employees to be more precarious and dependent on them.

In theory, yes. But IMO a job search and all the accompanying tasks (resume updates, cover letter writing, studying for technical interviews, etc) takes a significant investment of time and energy that people don't typically have during a stressful crunch.

In theory, yes. In practice, many people will flinch and sell, maybe even near the bottom.

edit: (But also, you should probably not own a ton of stocks near your retirement date)

100oz or 3L most days.

> Let the computer you used for encryption and uploading at home.. Take an empty/new notebook/smartphone with you to show at the border?

This is certainly safer, though maybe not possible on the return trip (where you're returning from someplace where you only have access to your laptop). If you need to be this careful, maybe it's best to do your work after livebooting into tails or something like that.

> edit: place a big random data file, which looks like encrypted data on your alibi notebook. Refuse to give password and let the government lab try to find the password..

Funny, but unnecessarily risky if you ask me.

If I'm understanding vbezhenar correctly, the implied step after uploading the encrypted file to a cloud storage service is to securely delete it from the computer you're carrying. Then, the authorities won't know that there is anything to beat out of you with their $5 wrench.

Certainly, but let's not forget that there exist other places to live :)

Normalize end-to-end encryption, increase the amount of encrypted target traffic for attackers.

And I think it's not so binary as care/don't-care about being hacked. You might care a bit, but how much do you care? Just as important, what is your threat model?

> It takes less time to decide where to put print statements than to single-step to the critical section of code, even assuming we know where that is.

Stupid question - did their debugger not have breakpoints? Not that that would make using the debugger superior in all cases, but would eliminate time wasted "single stepping to the critical section".

I do agree with their overall point.

This seems to be relevant background: https://www.thenation.com/article/wikileaks-haiti-petrocarib...

Urgent care might be a good option where it's available. Even here though, I've been told I just need to pay my copay, which I did up front, then been billed a couple months later for some additional amount. I was lucky that the amount wasn't high so I just paid it rather than dig in, but it's very unclear how or why I was billed extra. This happens all the time.

Warning: this hard locked my MBP. More detail after I’m back at my machine.

Edit: System details

Retina Mid-2015 15" - MJLT2LL/A - MacBookPro11,5 - A1398 - 2910

Firefox 65.0.1 (64-bit)

The hang occurred when running the benchmark with Texture Mode enabled. The spinning gear froze after a few seconds, then the display went black and the fan was maxed.

It was a pain in the ass to recover: my only option seemed to be to power down and power back up again, at which point OSX helpfully remembered the state my machine was in and dropped me back into the blacked-out display and maxed fan. Some combination of NVRAM reset, SPC reset and safe mode was required to get back in.

The appeal of the Warrant Canary design is that the operator simply has to take no action (i.e. not update the page) to signal that they've been contacted by law enforcement, in theory making it safer. It's still a risk though.

> I think Flightradar and Flightaware dropped the 5 minute delay they used to have

I was using Flightradar yesterday and visually tracking planes, seems like about a 10 second delay.

Why is the computational and speed overhead sometimes negative for HTTPS?

I just happened to listen to that episode yesterday, it's a good one. I didn't know Hickel before, but he's one of the best guests they've had.

Ha, not as hard as I expected but still like 4-5 steps with a bunch of dark patterns (highlighting the buttons that don't downgrade, etc). The screen that's like "OK, you want to downgrade, but tell us why" gave me flashbacks to that nightmare Comcast cancellation call[0].

[0] https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service