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The title is written from the perspective of the original problem, not from the solution. It then leads the user through the process of discovering why the bytes were 'disappearing.' From the perspective of the original users the bytes were disappearing.

Sounds like the real issue is "we are replacing X with Y" and there are use-cases for both X and Y to co-exist.

There is plenty of information that you wouldn't necessarily want to publish, but wouldn't be the end of the world if it were leaked either.

Gen Y == Millennial

This is why there is a Generation X/Millennial "transition" group of people that is sometimes referred to a Xennials[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

> Very few people walk around with that amount of cash today.

... because the cops would stop him, insinuate that the money probably had something to do with crime, and then seize it to line their own pockets cough cough I mean "bolster their budgets."

> I'm fine with anything non-ionizing

Marie Curie was also fine with working with Radium... until we found out that it wasn't good for you. The thing about stuff like cancers is that it's really difficult to say "this person's cancer was caused by X." The best we can do are wide spectrum studies about cancer rates, and try to use statistics to limit the variables.

You know that saying controversial things about Apple has basically always been his schtick. It drives pages views when people get all upset and flood into the site to read the article so that can go back to Hacker News/SlashDot/Reddit/Digg/Fark/Facebook/Twitter/whatever to argue about it.

> not really all that different from many things that Dvorak has written over the years

Dvorak's writing has always been about being contrarian and kicking up controversy.

> Right, and such a concession to be agreed on by Canada would require an equally beneficial concession made by the U.S. no?

The way that Trump likes to negotiate that's not necessarily the case. He may think that he can get huge concessions without giving anything in return by just "playing hardball" and issuing threats to terminate negotiations if they don't go his way.

We're sort of focusing on digital here, but some of the IP rights stuff in the agreement would make certain generic drugs available in Canada illegal... so the prices of medication would go up since you could no long buy the generic brand. I would not say that's a win for Canadians.

That's what the article is claiming, but not what Tesla is confirmed though, which is what this thread started with. Tesla's statement says no such thing.

> High prices isn't a signal that we have run out, it is a signal that more mines are needed. It is likely the market will heed the signal.

It is a signal that there is a high demand, and not enough supply (whether naturally or artificially -- e.g. diamonds) to meet that demand. That's it.

Building more mines can only happen if the resources exist to mine. This idea that "the market" is a magic wand to wave at problems really needs to stop. As far as "the market" is concerned, the electric car industry could collapse because it failed to innovate past resource shortages.

> - Tesla declined to comment on the specific memo, but confirmed that it had asked this of some suppliers.

Tesla confirmed that it was seeking "price reductions." Tesla's statement is not confirmation that they are running to suppliers asking for refunds.

IIRC, Colloquy (a macOS IRC client) used to do this. Each IRC channel was basically an XML feed, and the theming was just XSLT applied to the XML feed and the output displayed in a WebView widget.

I'm thinking it has more to do with spread than concentration. Trace amounts distributed over the entire universe, vs trace amounts in a localized area.

Not everyone hears about the name change because it doesn't make the same headlines as the original controversy. So people still associate the controversy with the old name, and have maybe never even _heard_ the new name yet.

There is no one to point the finger at (i.e. blame) when something goes wrong.

> I would guess that with antibiotics, meat production can be like 20% more efficient, maybe somewhat more.

But at great cost. The farmer makes more short-term profit, while offloading the externality of dealing with the consequences (breeding antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria) to the future[1] or just someone else entirely[2]. Are these costs really worth it for you to get cheap cuts of meat at the grocery store, or to ensure that the farmer makes more money (or remains profitable at all[3])?

[1] Antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria make cattle farming impossible.

[2] Antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria enter the general human population generating a significant health crisis.

[3] If the livestock industry can't stay afloat without these low-dose antibiotics, then maybe they should either charge more (meat becomes a luxury item), or they should just end livestock farming altogether. The production of meat isn't as essential to the functioning of society as people think. It's definitely not worth the risk of creating a health crisis just because "the meat must flow."

This has been known for quite a while. I'm sure you could come up with quite a few sources if you really wanted to, though I'm not sure how well the phenomena has been studied (seeing as we still don't know what causes it).

Most of these devices are insecure not because the attackers are hyper-sophisticated, but because the software is rushed and a second-thought to the hardware. There is no one (in power) at these companies that cares about crafting quality software. They just care about crafting the bare minimum to make their devices work.

I wager that "security" is something fairly far from their mind when they craft this software, which I consider especially negligent for any company that is dealing in networked devices.

One thing that I realized is that in the past whenever I've had to replace my power adapter for an Apple laptop, it's always been the small cord from the adapter to the laptop that gets damaged... which requires the entire power brick to be replaced (~$100). With the power brick + USB-C cable combo, the cord between the power brick and the laptop can be replaced for ~$25 from Apple while the power brick itself remains at the ~$100 price point. So now wear-and-tear damage, which mainly happens to the cord isn't such an expensive prospect to fix.

Just my 2¢...

The part you're missing is:

  ... to third parties.

They aren't spoofing the domain, they are just making sure that outside parties to an SSL connection will have a difficult time determining where that SSL connection is going. The two parties creating the SSL connection are not lying to each other, though.

How do you propose that they implement domain-fronting to circumvent censorship from their own servers?

> They are under no obligation to give out something for free just because others think they should

In the same vein, they are under no obligation to _not_ give it away from free. Their actions are purely a choice, free from obligation. That said, lack of obligation does not act as a shield from criticism. Quite the opposite.

"Coming from a rich family" or "part of a Native American tribe" is not a wide enough distribution of people to draw conclusions. Any failures / successes could be down to the environment and may not be able to be extrapolated to the rest of society at large.

Git has something similar called git-notes, but at the time I tried using it, it was really early-days. No idea how support is working for that now. You could also make an annotated tag, which has it's own "commit message", but it will show up with all other tags.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes

> Animals often fuck without consent (although most other mammals have mating sessions that last less than 15 seconds).

... are you advocating non-consensual sex should be legal?[1] I don't think so, but I'm not really sure how "animals have non-consensual sex" really supports anything related to this argument.

[1] To be clear, there are people on various places on Reddit that do advocate for non-consensual sex to be legalized... as a measure to "prevent rape." I kid you not.

> So far, all of the gloom and doom scenarios from the repeal of net neutrality have failed to emerge

How quickly do you expect these things to happen? Overnight?

This isn't Hollywood. The moment the decision is made storm clouds don't appear overhead to signify the ominous direction that things have gone.

Both Google and fastmail support IMAP (and IIRC POPv3). There are a great _many_ clients (and backup scripts) that support these protocols. In light of this, how is Thunderbird the last way to download emails?

I was commenting more on dismissing the issues of others because you have not personally experienced them. There could be numerous examples used in place of the BSOD.