netheril96

And I forgot to say this: all of your words here are ad hominem attacks. You have a condescending attitude implying that somehow if one fails to win, they don’t have the right to complain about the unfair system. An absurd notion, given that they are impacted the most.

Affirmative action definitely exists in hiring. There are racial and gender quotas.

Your logic can rationalize any kind of unfair treatment in the world and therefore an invalid argument. After all, there alway are some people who are just so good that an unfair system cannot deny them.

I don’t understand your case about Vietnamese being admitted to Harvard at all, or how I would have tears let alone crocodile tears. Your words make no sense.

Tell me more about how Asian Americans have to have better grades than Whites, Blacks and Latinos to get into the same school because they are somehow worse.

So the article is outdated I guess. The length of the chain is the same now.

I'll consider switching back to Let's Encrypt once this setup doesn't require a whitelist.

The alternative you suggest has a longer chain of certificates, and more difficult setup. Using ZeroSSL is way easier with less bytes on the TLS handshake.

> A company of 50,000 operating at a loss will eventually fire 50,000 people. If it can turn things around by firing 10,000 - why not?

This argument, true or false, is not applicable in this situation, as Google is still enjoying high profits.

I don't think that the US has the culture that employees should be grateful to their employer for providing them with a job and a paycheck. The idea of at will employment comes from the ideology of freedom rather than who owes who.

> as they do release a lot of papers, but these are essentially worthless and non-reproduceable as they hide raw data.

Well, I know at least that the transformers from Google are widely used in industry outside Google.

> despite it having no effect on your life.

How could it have no effect on our lives? It has effect when you compete against a diversity hire, it has effect when you have to work with a diversity hire, it has effect when your manager has to decide who to lay off when your coworker is a diversity hire.

During the same time the Fed repeatedly suggested that the interest hike would come soon, yet none of these companies prepared for that at all.

I prefer ZeroSSL to Let's Encrypt. ZeroSSL has no rate limit, and most importantly they have full ECC support. With Let's Encrypt, even if I request for an ECC cert, the intermediate CA is still RSA, drastically increasing the certificate size (they have their reasons of compatibility, but I don't care about that).

That’s actually a bad analogy in my opinion. People who don’t learn cryptography make many mistakes calling cryptography libraries and those mistakes can’t be uncovered by testing.

I use Chrome on Mac for several reasons:

* I also regularly use Windows and Linux. Chrome is familiar and have synchronized across all of them.

* I need a proxy extension to bypass China’s network restrictions. The extension was not available on Safari (I don’t bother to check now).

* uBlock Origin is more powerful than Safari’s adblockers. For example, uBO can skip the 90 second long advertisement in the front of some Chinese video site.

For curiosity I upgraded the kernel of my VPS running Debian 11 from 5.10 to 6.1. The networking became visibly slower. All TCP receive and send rate droped to at least 1/4 of the original. I had to restore the original kernel and the network became fine again.

I don't think it is a bug in the kernel. More likely the userspace or the host system needs to be reconfigured to work well with the bleeding edge kernel. Still I am curious, what exactly may cause this dramatic drop?

The people with the power to fire them don't care. So your threat is empty.

Ny second paragraph talked about that. It would set my career back doing nothing.

I disagree. The law can only mandate salaries during noncompete periods. It cannot mandate bonuses or stock grants, both of which can be significant.

And as an employee, I prefer that noncompete has no effect. Even if I were paid during noncompete period, I would be outcompeted by other people who are working rather than being idle. It would set my career back.

The companies are not of a single mind, especially the big ones. Every manager, from mid-level to executives, have the tendency to hire more people, because the more people are under their reign, the more power and influence they have. Therefore once the environment is friendly, they surely will go on a hiring spree, regardless of what may happen in the future.

Not if Azure or GCP never allow ESNI (in this imagined scenario).

Here in China the GFW block any traffic with encrypted SNI.

> Looking at Asia now is like what the west used to be like.

China has the political will for big projects. China also gets them done, and done fast. Yet China also has a housing problem, much greater than the West.

In China's case, the government deliberately creates a shortage of supply by restricting the usage of land. They also printed money directly into the housing market in 2015 when the housing bubble looked likely to burst. It is not a lack of ability to control housing prices. Instead, they have the ability and does control housing prices, by controlling them upwards.

If I had 200 BTCs I would use several multi-sig wallets. Stealing any single wallet would grant the hacker no access, and stealing multiple would grant them only access to a slice of the asset. Maybe 200 BTC isn't just worth much to the developer to warrant so many protections.

I know little about LN node, but a regular full node doesn’t need a wallet. The reference implementation does come with a wallet but it doesn’t need to have any balance.

You sound like that pay-as-you-go is the only model at your company. Why not both?

Actually, since any device can and does have multiple IPv6 addresses and can easily get more, blocking individual IPv6 address is ineffective. Some services choose to block /64 so the collateral damage is not reduced in any way.

> Bitcoin's emission is not that simple either with the reward halvings every 4 years. A fixed block subsidy (i.e. pure linear emission) is not only simpler, but arguably fairer too, avoiding a concentration of wealth on early miners/adopters, and leaving later generations more than mere crumbs.

The halving is probably the reason for the high tides of Bitcoin prices and the inflow of capital to all of cryptocurrency.

> Voting on both automatically destroys their stake.

Genuine question: how does that work? How does ETH mainnet know that my validator is also voting on a different chain?

It is almost the same as stackoverflow. I've seen many answers which is runnable but without proper error handling or security mitigations. They are just as misleading as ChatGPT.