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Problem is that many services denylist “data center” ip ranges, making these vpns neigh unusable for things like watching Netflix or in some cases even logging into eBay and such.

I’ve run a private vpn for extended family off of my residential connection for this reason. It helps them and me.

To lighten the mood a bit, any bets on you outliving Google Inactivity Manager?

The problem with the logical conclusion of this argument is that it’s networks all the way down. Remember verisign site finder? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder

That’s the sort of crap you end up with when every network operator asserts their “right” to modify traffic.

Don’t get me wrong I do dns filtering on my home network and block public dns over http endpoints, but there is some balance to be had here imo.

Also I would not attribute https uptake to google only. A slightly less than trillion dollar organization - let’s encrypt - is really imo responsible for making https as ubiquitous as it is.

For no frills dns and dynamic dns update via api, try hurricane electrics dns service: dns.he.net. Not a registrar but free dns hosting. Happy customer for more than a decade now.

Curious to hear success stories you can share from leveraged buyouts.

Believe me, these people don’t give a shit. I am well aware of cultural differences across regions. They see your meddling questions as just another annoyance in their day and the faster they can get you to go away the better. 99% of their patients don’t know to ask, so you are just seen as a pedantic pain in the ass.

Your point of cognitive dissonance is an interesting one. But ultimately it doesn’t matter what their state of mind is; if you are treated badly as a patient you will just give up to save your own mental energy. After all you’re seeing a doctor because something is wrong already. Why am I layering on managing the precious feelings of the doctors back office personnel on top of all that too?

I love what you say, but how does one realistically implement this today? I can’t exactly call up a hospital and say “cut the bullshit. I need a single price for procedure x”. They’ll just laugh and hang up the phone. (I’ve tried- most recently for a vasectomy). As you say, the industry is fat and happy and has no reason to bend to my will no matter how much sense it makes in the long run.

My point is that we have a whole bunch of policy nerds hand waving this complexity away and saying “enjoy your hsa- go forth and price compare as the invisible hand of the free market will provide!” Unless there is force from above, there certainly is no way the masses can navigate the system and force change themselves.

And the truth is that stuff does happen that’s not anticipated. My wife’s surgery was supposed to be routine. I would have had no idea ahead of time that there would be a lingering internal infection afterward. Multiple subsequent visits where we shared complications with the surgeon were handwaved away as “you’re just not used to recovery from surgery”.

If a tradesman screwed up a plumbing job, he would be called back to fix it at no cost. Instead I’m (or in this case my insurance) is stuck with >$100k of bills from the ICU to bring her back from the brink. I consulted with several malpractice attorneys who basically said unless the surgeon was drunk and slurring his words while operating, there is no case. The standard of care is so low.

I’ll be honest when I don’t have an urgent issue it’s hard to layer on additional mental load to compare prices. When my wife was diagnosed with cancer, how do I realistically compare prices? What services should I ask them to quote? How do I know what to ask for? How do I realistically compare two offers? What if they left out an important part of care that the other side included? What single entity even has all the information I need? For example even for a single outpatient surgery you have to include the hospital cost, the surgeons cost, the anesthesiologist, and that’s just what I can think of off the cuff. each one of those entities has their own billing department, costs etc. so who do I call?

I am trying to not take your comment personally. I understand that many medical services are not urgent. Part of the problem in the US at least is that ERs are obligated to stabilize any patient that walks through the door, regardless of ability to pay. So you end up with people misusing the ER for chronic non urgent care.

I have sat in an ER for hours. I’ve also had nurses at an ER clear the floor for my family when my wife was in septic shock due to a botched surgery, or when my son was run over by a car (both are fine now, not looking for sympathy just pointing out I have experienced this before)

The problem for me is emergency care is where I’ve easily spent the most healthcare dollars.

Providers already treat you with disdain and the back office in most doctors offices can hardly function as it is. When you ask how much something will cost, you will get somewhere between a blank look - if you’re lucky - to outright disgust that you could ask such a pedestrian question. You wouldn’t understand how complex medicine is and what could happen, you pleb. So how could we do something like give you a dollar amount?

I’d love to see the shopping around that you can do when you need urgent medical care.

“Hold please 911, I need to first get three competing quotes for ambulance service”

Of course not. But for a low price of $8 per month per drive you can subscribe to the new WD+ service, which will remove those pesky warnings, unlock your drives performance for streaming workloads, and give your management a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that your storage is protected. /s (or is it?)

There are several examples of “ghost planes” where the flight crew is unconscious due to the cabin depressurizing. The flight then continues on autopilot until the fuel is exhausted. By the way, one of the initial side effects of hypoxia is euphoria. You can find examples on YouTube and there is a great video by 74gear demonstrating this - see https://youtu.be/nz5d4Q_ykFc.

Depressurizing the cabin to incapacitate the other crew is definitely a possibility and I think the leading theory for what happened. Like you say there is no proof either way - so we may never know with 100% certainty.

In the Authenticode spec, there is an unauthenticatedAttrbutes structure, the contents of which does not affect the resulting signature.

Dropbox’s installer used it a while ago (maybe still, haven’t checked): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204454

Wow. That escalated quickly. It has nothing to do with the fact he was Muslim and everything to do with the fact that there were no attempts to contact other planes or atc for help. I do not appreciate your false assertion and encourage you to retract your statement.

I am not an expert in the 777 electrical systems but the two minute delta between the last radio transmission - where there were no audial warnings and the pilots were calm - and the transponder ceasing to transmit seems unreasonable for a catastrophic event to take out these systems.

It’s obvious that we cannot know for sure since we have not found the wreckage, but no other theory I’m aware of can fit the facts as we know them.

Thank you. I can’t edit my post now to correct myself unfortunately.

I had a feeling someone would try and do this calculation. :) I would calculate it instead based on the number of flights rather than the number of airmen. It doesn’t make any sense if the units for the numerator are “number of successful suicide flights” and the demoninator is “number of airmen”.

I would not count the four flights in 2001, personally. Those are not suicide by flight personnel.

If you look at an average of say 25m flights per year since the year 2000, then you would have about 550mm flights. Even if you include the 4 tragic flights of 9/11 in the numerator, my 7 nines are very conservative.

Right- in the FedEx case it was a last ditch effort to literally knock the suicidal flight crew member off his balance and regain control of the aircraft. If you have a 'nanny' computer telling you that you're unable to do that, those crewmembers may have ended up dead instead.

Point being, in an unforeseen emergency, allowing crews to override the normal safety mechanisms may in fact save lives.

Yes. This is dangerous because pilots are afraid to disclose depression, anxiety and other mental health conditions for fear of losing their livelihood. For example, the FAA automatically considers an ADHD diagnosis disqualifying for airline pilots: https://pilot-protection-services.aopa.org/news/2018/februar....

This results in a “don’t ask don’t tell” situation which can be even worse.

One could say that about all sorts of capabilities in an aircraft that, in normal operation, seems insane. Is there ever a valid reason to fly a cargo plane inverted? See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705 for the answer.

… which then extends the critical flight controls security surface area to entities on the ground that have no vested interest in my safety? No thank you, I’ll take my chances with the flight crew which in 99.99999% of cases are also interested in arriving home safely.

The difference is that the mh370 pilot deliberately took actions to avoid tracking. At some point if you can’t trust the captain of your vessel, that person can disrupt or disable most any system put in place.

If the captain of the titanic intended on sinking the ship without a trace, he most certainly would have succeeded as well.

A more apt comparison would be AF447, which took a few days before the wreckage was found. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

You’d be surprised how many “virus scanners” are implemented with poorly coded C parsers running as privileged user with no sandboxing… just saying, kind of asking for trouble.

Without active authentication, you can copy the electronic data from one valid passport to a cloned document. As far as I know, AA is not widely implemented and passports have ~10 year lifespans.

100% agree. They are trying to deflect blame onto "old lawyer scared of scary new technology". Why they thought they'd get away with making up entire cases out of whole cloth, who knows...

No need for cynicism or a grand plan, this is just a few lawyers who could find no case law to justify their argument, so they made something up and proceeded to blame ChatGPT for it. They had several opportunities to "nope" out and apologize to the court, and they doubled down EVERY time. These lawyers deserve to be disbarred, no question.

I'm pretty sure that's not what Section 230 says - in fact, the opposite, which is that reddit cannot be held responsible for the content on the site, even if reddit employees are moderating content. Sounds to me more like reddit trying to spin a false narrative (if that in fact is what they've said) to take advantage of free labor.

Adding noreferer tag is “tasteless”? What’s tasteless is jwz for example silently redirecting visits from this site to goatse. This just reminds me of the clueless businesses in the early days of the web asking for “license agreements” to link to their content.

I’m confused by this comment. I follow the asahi Linux developments here on hn and read the comments. In this thread alone there are several high rated posts to the effect of “this project rocks!!”

The only reference I can find to trans- anything is basically this comment. Quite honestly, I recommend a thicker skin. Some people will be assholes, whether you’re trans, straight, bi, whatever. Pretending that assholes don’t exist will just make you angry… you can’t just wish away the assholes but you can ignore them and prove them wrong by being awesome (which in this case the asahi linux developers work speaks for itself!)