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That's sufficiently bizarre that I assume you misread the original post... (I'm applying Occam's razor).

What rubbish. The assertion that nations like Canada are comparable in terms of freedom to nations like Russia and Saudi Arabia is utterly bizarre.

Doesn't sound dangerous at all to me.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal clearly demonstrates why this is a dangerous thing. The clear solution is to unfriend everybody then delete (not suspend, but delete) your account.

Enough people do this, and Facebook's cherished network effect will be weakened enough for better alternatives to begin appearing. Alternatives that don't vomit large amounts of data about you into the public sphere by default.

Neither of these models works at all.

This is a false statement. The rest of your post is supposition and anecdote.

tldr; speed traps save lives and reduce injury.

Police and red light camera warnings in Waze always struck me as both encouragement and enablement of deliberate law breaking.

American exceptionalism and absolutely wrong.

"Your mission" is simply a placeholder for what you believe will make you happy. It's very subject to change. I'd argue that a healthy respect for what makes you happy can help you avoid a mission that you'll later regret.

Suits have become a liar's uniform. Whenever I encounter anyone in this mode of dress who isn't an obvious dandy, I'm immediately on the watch for tactics to squeeze as much money out of me as possible.

This leaves business casual and casual. As the article points out, most of those haven't seen substantial change for years. People don't get rid of clothes these days because they're out of style. Given these trends, it would amaze me if clothing sales weren't down substantially.

Wat? We're still in of one of the longest bull runs in history. The S&P 500 jumped 80% in the last 5 years. Even incorporating the minor market correction in the last week (2/3rds of which has already recovered), the stock market has done the reverse of what you suggest.

Current examples are the rapid growth of Orthodox Jews as a percentage of Israel’s population, and evangelical birth rates in the US.

My bet is that given technology to allow massive extension of fertility into older age, the fertility differences between religious groups that believe in a religious duty to procreate, and everyone else, will increase even more.

Unfortunately, when it comes to legislation and budget considerations (including education), lobbying works.

"AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel page table isolation feature protects against. The AMD microarchitecture does not allow memory references, including speculative references, that access higher privileged data when running in a lesser privileged mode when that access would result in a page fault."

In short, the speculatively executed branch retrieves a value from a kernel page (that the code shouldn't have access to) - Intel CPUs allow this, but AMD CPUs do not. It then &s the value with 0x01, and then uses the result to calculate and access an address in a page that it DOES have access to.

This results in that address being stored in the TLB (i.e. a cache that stores mapping from virtual to physical memory).

The result of the computation is then discarded, but the address that it calculated is still in TLB. Since there are two possible addresses that could have been cached based on the value of the data in the kernel page, all the code has to do is time the access to each address, and it can discern the value of the bit in the kernel page based on the relative timings.