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gtech1on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market

You seem like a level headed dood and we seem to agree that their current strategy is incomprehensible apparently to both supporters and non-supporters alike.

You mentioned he delivered/will deliver on roughly 60% of the things you were looking for.

Do you draw the line somewhere and say, even if I get 60% of things I want, the other 40% could be/are a real dealbreaker ?

It's a very common thing for politicians to deliver on some things that are inconsequential while pursuing their own private agenda for other things.

In my home country there's a saying about politicians: He stole, but he also delivered. The social contract is that as long as the politician does 10% common good, (usually highly visible, populist, short term stuff) he can pursue his own interests be they short term, or long term, even if they are detrimental to the society as a whole - as long as he delivered some short term results.

gtech1on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market

See, even the way you explained it is miles above what they said. Claiming the trade balance is unjust but leaving out a major component reeks of dishonesty. How can anyone trust them ?

gtech1on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market

yep. I liquidated my TFSA ( tax free savings account in Canada ) 2 weeks ago. 90k. Invested in risk-free 90 days GICs instead. No way I would have watched it lose 10-20% of its value in 2 weeks

gtech1on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market

alright, can you try and answer #1 for me ? Why weren't services included in that chart ?

gtech1on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market

I'm willing to believe this administration is acting in good faith, but two things seem to contradict that, although maybe I'm wrong:

1. Why didn't they include services exported by the US in their 'tariff chart' ? The EU for example, imports a lot more US (tech amongst others) services than they export to the US. It seems disingenous

2. Why couldn't this tariff strategy be implemented in a more calculated, predictable, slow way to give everyone time to adjust, at home and abroad. What's to gain from doing it this way over the one I mentioned ?

gtech1on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

http://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports/tunisia

and imports:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/tunisia

gtech1on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

From what I've understood from that chart, the "percentage" is just a difference between imports/exports with the USA. It's not actual tariffs in place by Tunisia ON USA goods. Am I right/wrong ?

Or is Tunisia tariffing the hell out of US Olive Oil in order to protect their local production base

gtech1on Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence

Mind you, it also can'y answer this: who really goes to heaven or hell ? Your spirit as you were at 10, 20, 30, 50 ? what if you have a stroke at 60 and die as a vegetable at 70 ? Which one is the real you ? Because if it's as you were when you die then it's pretty silly

gtech1on FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

So basically like Microsoft ?

gtech1on Does current AI represent a dead end?

I find this comment to be completely shortsighted.

We now have western societies with a growing population of homeless people, that despite having access to tons of resources at their disposal, still can't get their shit together. A great majority are doing drugs and smoking/abusing alcohol.

And it's enough to have 20 crackheads to destroy a neighborhood of 10000 hard-working, peaceful people.

gtech1on After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code

I'm actually 'stuck' in this situation right now. Make about 350-400k/year with no prospect to clear (much) more or exit. I mean, why should I exit ? To risk doing something else and 0.1% chance of making millions, or go along this way a few more years while building my investment portfolio.

gtech1on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round

Yep, you've stumbled upon a 'secret' fallacy that most know. People can be made to believe anything, or you can arrive at any conclusion you want from pretty much any premise. Not even in science is there consensus.

What kept things in check so far has been that in the West, the elites have been benevolent. But now the masses, thx to social media and global comms, can be influenced by others.

Welcome to our post truth planet.

gtech1on Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981

Ibm was not in the punch card machine making business. It was in the data processing business, and still is.

gtech1on Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor

I'm curious how they were able to locate the origin of the spoofed packets (?)

gtech1on Trump wins presidency for second time

Then why do republicans call them communists because they want to provide (free) services to ... who exactly ?

gtech1on Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?

Math. I'd do math and let my curiosity take me wherever it goes in this vast field

gtech1on Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird

Office 365 is dead too.

gtech1on Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird

nobody supports 2fa on every mail request, that's just silly.

Even MS's MFA is nothing more than a token that gets stored locally ( aka, a password ) and which can be stolen and be used elsewhere ( like a password! ) by hackers.

https://mrd0x.com/stealing-tokens-from-office-applications/

gtech1on Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird

Em Client (www.emclient.com) has supported Exchange for a while I think

gtech1on Proton Mail says Outlook for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service

also Outlook for mobile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook_(mobile_app)

Security Outlook Mobile temporarily stores and indexes user data (including email, attachments, calendar information, and contacts), along with login credentials,[28] in a "secure" form on Microsoft Azure servers located in the United States.[29] On Exchange accounts, these servers identify as a single Exchange ActiveSync user in order to fetch e-mail. Additionally, the app does not support mobile device management, nor allows administrators to control how third-party cloud storage services are used with the app to interact with their users. Concerns surrounding these security issues have prompted some firms, including the European Parliament, to block the app on their Exchange servers.[30][31][32] Microsoft maintains a separate, pre-existing Outlook Web Access app for Android and iOS.[32]

gtech1on Proton Mail says Outlook for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service

If you configure any IMAP account in Outlook, it will store your password and cache mail data in Azure.

gtech1on Proton Mail says Outlook for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service

I fully ditched Outlook because of this crap. Been using eM Client (emclient.com) for a few months now and love it.

gtech1on A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024

Roughly 50% of my daily Spam comes from @gmail & @hotmail/@outlook accounts.

What exactly are they doing about that ?

gtech1on Medellín's Green Corridors

I dunno man, I'm a nomad, I looked long and hard at where to spend a few months this winter and Medellin sounded attractive...until I read more about it.

In the end, I opted for Europe.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12164423/Moment-gan...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-british-to...

No thank you. 35 deaths is the worst possible outcome. I don't want to leave the house in fear of getting mugged at knife/gun point and I'm sure those stats aren't even remote to being listed/accurate anywhere.

gtech1on Medellín's Green Corridors

because guess what...you're a local.

local thugs can smell expats a mile away. Just Google : medellin violence and tell me what you find

gtech1on Medellín's Green Corridors

Yeah but then you get mugged on the street daily if you flash your phone. What's the point of life being cheap...if your own life isn't worth anything

gtech1on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

https://youtu.be/5DlTexEXxLQ?si=pFtIMz5UKdA91aFb

gtech1on Winding down Google Sync and Less Secure Apps support

all of them.

instead of sending your password as johndoe, you send johndoe123456 where 123456 is the code

gtech1on Winding down Google Sync and Less Secure Apps support

It's trivial to add 2fa to smtp/pop/imap.

Take your preferred auth module in Dovecot and modify it to read the input password as: pwd+otp code. If the user is 2fa enabled, read last 6 digits and compare against totp.

If match, allow the IP through for x minutes or whatever other policy you want.

It works surprisingly well

gtech1on A coder considers the waning days of the craft

I thought you would go for gold and ask it how to reverse entropy...