heyjudy

Upton Sinclair effect right here. Let's keep supporting a major source of climate change, obesity, antibiotic resistance, animal cruelty and heart disease because you want a hamburger... nothing else is good enough for you, focus on the negatives, discard all of the positives.

Wow.

About 30 years ago, my now departed grandmother was at her favorite Italian grocery store comparing sirloin to ground sirloin and noticed a price difference. She asked the butcher about the truth of what was in the ground sirloin. "We couldn't sell it at that price without adding things to it." From then on, she bought only sirloin steaks and ground her own at home.

In the absence of sensible government regulations and enforcement, cut-throat capitalism drives individuals and corporations to cut corners and keep cutting more corners until Bhopal or Mad Cow Disease happen.

Disclaimer: I don't eat animals.

Only one? My official impression of k8s from many sources, bug reports, first-, second- and third-hand experiences is that there's quite a pile of mud with steam rising from it. There may or may not be viable alternatives, but on its own, quality is a qualitative quality that appears to yours truly to be seriously lacking on multiple fronts.

There was a documentary where eating quality small, oily fish were order(s)-of-magnitude more effective than fish oil pills. Furthermore, fish oil pills can often go rancid and instead contain more omega-6 than omega-3.

IIRC it was Frontline's "The Fish on My Plate" but it might've been another doc

Yes. At a meta-level, it's dripping with contempt, judgement, criticism and antagonism to an extreme degree, plus combative use of redundant personal pronouns to drive a wedge of distance further between parties. "Refuse to allow this type of behavior when it happens or avoid such sources of drama, manipulation and abuse sooner" would be my humble recommendation if I had two cents to chip in.

Cannibalistic theft in a business suit. It's always sold as cheaper and then charges citizens as much as possible later because the state-subsidized monopoly is a business first, not a service.

Yes. Let corporations in to cannibalize and strip-mine the public commons (common-wealth) with perverse incentives and gamify things too important the government should be doing.

Btw, do you ever watch TRNN or Economic Update?

You're stuck in an utopian delusion not dealing with reality. When you privatize government, you create perverse incentives for corporations to extort citizens by charging excessive prices and fees, provide shoddy service and tie them to other things they don't want or need.

Netherlands extremely rarely gives anyone an actual life sentence for anything. Plus, it's a property crime, and depends if she had knowledge of their value and intent based on that. Also, you'd need to lock-up half of the European aristocracy and most galleries for taking, and not willingly-returning, works taken from WW2 Holocaust victims and survivors. So in the grand scheme of things, she's, at most, a committer of criminal mischief.

Then we don't need most mainstream human news reporters anymore: same level of research and knowledge on topics.

It's when AI can do hard-hitting investigative journalism that we should be really worried.

True and it's true the title is a clickbait overreach without direct evidence in hand, however it's still true that America's decline has been a mostly gradual one and the rich have captured politics and media to lower their own taxes and make regulations favorable to them. As it gets worse, privatization, including public-private partnerships as just the beginning, comes in and takes the valuable and vital parts of communities and society, and sell them off to semi-corporations to charge people for what their taxes already paid for. With time and worsening conditions, vampiric, cannibalistic strip-mining of parts of civilization needed to function ordinarily are sold off, destroyed or replaced with more expensive, substandard substitutes. Today, you're hard pressed to find a water fountain or apart from a library, find anywhere convenient for a public meeting that doesn't require commercial activity. Parks are fewer and farther (except maybe the mandatory public spaces in NYC, that are often in/on top of sterile buildings).

I don't want to sound like a sky-is-falling doomsdayist, but when/if it gets nearer to such a perceived fall of empire, there will likely be overt theft of public and government resources committed almost exclusively by the ruling class, as happend in the Soviet collapse.

Beware the era when the politicians in countries like Brazil or the US, who listen almost exclusively to their rich supporters, stop listening to average citizens and many people stop voting. The French Revolution was also itself a failure of empire due to extreme inequality, and the Yellow Vests are a modern, more mellow resurgence "relief valve" release of dissatisfaction that is by no means an isolated occurrence: Occupy, Brexit, Trump, etc. And as the world becomes "flatter," there will be more and more similar situations happening across countries, and far-right autocrats, rising nationalism, rising xenophobia and populist revolutions are currently some of the most widespread phenomena. Nationalism is especially concerning because it's a leading indicator of another global war.

It also replaces ssh-agent. I also use monkeysphere to store SSH keys in GPG. It's a far better solution than ssh keys lying around requiring management.

HC was an enhanced Campfire clone. I still like FlowDock better than Slack or HC.

Worked in nuclear industry in the late 90's. Most *WR designs are inherently not fail-safe, complex, require dedicated teams, are nearly impossible to insure and require a massive capex investment. This isn't necessary. Modern MSR/LFTR designs tend to get around most of these problems by being smaller, simpler and most robus, similar to what some startups, Taylor Wilson proposed and partially what ANP/ASTR/MSRE/DMSR proved. Downsides to many small reactors include more, smaller sites needing physical/SCADA security and more geographically-diffuse waste handling. Upsides include no exploding containment vessels and consumption of HEU down-blended.

There are some hillarious 419eater meet comedy answering apps that direct random pre-recorded skits to the scammer.

When real-time natural speech synthesis arrives with unique accents, coupled to hardware-accelerated machine-learning, it would be within the realm of possible to direct a Turing-test-capable bot to waste a scammer's time with a generated situation and personality that meets various plausibility, social, customer qualifiers and scam-delaying constraints. Also at said point, the "are you a bot?" question non-IRL will be even more worthless but possibly comical.

On VOIP landlines with nomorobo, one ring means a sad day for another scammer. :D And it's free.

Haven't tried the paid mobile version, has anyone tried it?

NoMoRobo is free for landline VOIP in the US (maybe Canada too). Works like a charm in 98% of the time.

For cell phones, you'll usually have to pay for such an app that can intercept calls and check RBLs of naughty numbers.

NTLM doesn't use a salt. It's 128 bits. That's within the realm of nation states and there's at least one public sparse NTLM rainbow table. And I said, "if you have the storage," which you dishonestly ignored. Nice try, bucko. Got any more red herrings that aren't relevant?

Legend has it Patrick Moore is still offering to drink it to this day.

Yeap. There's only so much people can or will give without feeling used, resentful, bitter and/or bored of being overworked and told to work harder. It's also another example of why not to take on investors: their interest aren't ever aligned with the founders. Their goal is to make lots of money soon, and they don't care if they stress and burn-out 1000 people to get there. If you want sanity, move with some impatience but workaholism isn't healthy.

UBI, livable wages, raise estate and corporate taxes, operable unions without "right to work" (for less) / union-busting laws, more worker-owned co-ops and integrated standard-of-living net that lifts instead of treating people like criminals.

But first, getting rid of the corporate capture of both major political parties, elected officials, government and policy-making is a precondition to do anything to reverse the neoliberal, cannibalistic anarcho-capitalism inverted totalitarianism being forced on us.

Ass and umption.

Just use that GPU power to generate rainbowtables once which then can use the space/time tradeoff to perpetually find passwords in seconds without a GPU. Bruteforcing one hash at a time is pointlessly wasteful if you have the storage.

Rust

No, sorry, you're completely wrong. Doctors and other professionals have the option to be independent businesses whereas a coal miner or firefighter doesn't. Unions compel working conditions and fair pay where individual or government effort to accomplish the same would/did fail. The better alternative to unionization or professionalization are employee-owned co-ops where the workers also have a vested interest in helping the company and tend to earn base pay and bonuses according to their work and the overall success of the venture. And besides, anyone can code, the only situation where Professional/Chartered Engineers are needed is when public safety or large-scale cost are involved. There's no reason to put up BS barriers to exclusify an industry that is growing like mad and will likely be put almost out of existence by self-programming systems that use AI/ML/DL to make what users want thousands of times faster than any human team ever could. And then, at some point, compilers, packages and hardware will be developed by algorithms and gradually replace humans... because there's very little special that a deep learning algorithm couldn't do better than the best human ever in a few weeks.

Come to the SF Bay Area and drive around the highways or take a long-distance railway ride: there are hundreds to thousands of people living rough. It's like a diffuse favela, and most people don't care and a number of people actively hate people, and express violence, for them being poor. This is the result of Nixon and Reagan defunding JFK's community-based mental healthcare centers because they couldn't, or didn't want to, relate to people in different circumstances.

Maybe you should get out of your ivory castle, look around and show some empathy for your fellow human beings. There's people living on highway on-ramp embankments and Skid Row in LA almost doubled within the past decade. You don't seem to see that there's a lot of people hurting because they're broke from automation and productivity gains, like the rest of the neoliberal inequality denialists.

It's Bloomberg's libertarianism/anarcho-capitalism agenda pushing.

On one-side: Wouldn't it be simpler and more effective to just have a link to a public key and email address for security reporting?

And on other other: what's with this domain-specific metadata? If semantic metadata were the issue, why not solve it more generally with RDF or something that's a part of a greater, more uniform solution that people actually deploy and people actually use? All these little extra files and custom formats creates a hodgepodge of muck.

If anything, downloadable artifacts and contact information especially, through metalink or RDF, need to be annotated with public keys and/or cryptographic hashes where available. And what about a standard for contact phone numbers given a website? The list of metadata idea is endless, hence the need to complicate the web the least and to do it thoughtfully, in a standard manner.

It's nice when a website is well-laid out and everything is where you expect, but having semantic metadata in a mechanically-queryable form is even more valuable... a data "API" for assembling public information uniformly reduces work for almost everyone.