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A few notes on this.

The experiment has not failed.

If you are an attractive, reasonable man in your 20's to 30's, you are going to have some very good dates with relatively serious girls on bumble.

If you are not honest with yourself about where you are in the dating pool, bumble is not so good. In particular, money doesn't really move the needle on bumble that much for initial contact.

If you are looking for hookups, tinder is where it's at, but the site is filled with scammy / scummy types as well as a result (women looking for men for fan pages, men super swiping desperately trying to get laid, bots etc).

Damn - I was the one who fought for dropbox vs onedrive which comes with our Office 365 subscription at work.

What a terrible sign!

I'll try out onedrive again, and if its good enough will start the (slow) migration.

Quick note that while my comment was downvoted heavily, it is correct - I do welcome factual responses.

Exactly. And Chinese made phones shipped overseas (ie India) ALSO often backup to china or have links that way.

Very true. And lots of debates come up about who in the tribe is in charge of this land, and even who is part of the tribe if money gets involved.

The SCOTUS cases covered two situations - a guy convicted of murder and another (the one that was deceided) was related to child sex abuse.

The decision was that congress had not disestablished the reservation as part of the Oklahoma Enabling Act of 1906, and so they could not be convicted in Oklahoma courts.

This emphasizes, not diminishes, congresses role in deciding what reservations are established or not.

Sure - it can and has.

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/STATUTE-71/STATUTE-71-Pg...

is an example. Currently however congress has tried to improve / make up for prior poor treatment of native americans - but the power is ultimately in congresses hands (with some small limits).

Trump was active in this more recently

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/31/trump-admini...

The US, through congressional action, can ultimately do what it wants including an eminent domain type taking. These used to be policy with the termination acts. That's stopped and now federally there is support of self governance, but that could of course change in the future.

Good lord - this is a HN only comment. Go ahead and use your phone from china with built in spyware! Or almost all android phones - never updated. Or use whatsup or facebook messenger instead of imessage.

It's increasingly clear that HN commentators pushing towards Apple's competitors don't care about privacy at all.

AMP so obviously was better than ginormous ad filled sites that jank and jump like crazy it wasn't even funny. The idea that there was no user benefit was just a HN view - out in the real world plenty of people learned the lightening icon meant both faster and usually much cleaner and easier to browse.

I think in part a fair number of HN folks maybe do web dev work, and having google restrict the junk they can dump on users was annoying to them. A fair bit of the anti-trust rhetoric is not coming from consumers or consumer advocates but other businesses - some of which have just horribly seedy business models (the recommendation engine searching sites with all the auto-generated fake reviews complaining of de-prioritizations etc).

No kidding. If you run windows deployments the bitlocker key backup to domain / azure / whatever is a must / lifesaver.

FAR FAR too many situations where users don't keep their keys. It can be as simple as upgrading the chip on your computer - which happens with AMD machines because they've had a long run of AM4 socket support. Boom, you fTPM is gone now, and user is complaining they've lost their irreplaceable stuff.

I've seen this on IT side with backups. They set up an encryption key on the backups (pub / private) 6 years ago. 6 years later, when it comes time to recover under some time pressure, no one has a CLUE where the key is and old staff are long gone. Absolute nightmare.

For all the folks saying managing encryption keys at scale is like tying your shoes - 100% false. To manage keys (especially ones where the private key is rarely if ever actually used) takes very very HIGH levels of care.

One solution - have encryption keys periodically "fail" so you are forced to prove you know how to recover your key - but no one does that.

Same issue used to occur with 2FA apps on phone upgrades before they made it easier to move stuff over to new devices.

Does Apple allow DNS hijacking / local override of their domains? Some security sensitive software will resolve using known good resolvers for things that shouldn't be redirected locally (ie, google may use 8.8.8.8 in some of their VPN products rather than rely on comcast or your malware infected local source?

I'm in the have high job demands and high job control situation, it's still totally miserable.

Good article.

I had this experience a few times. I used to buy outside the standard marketplaces (was an early cydia user as well).

Reality - if they can scam you they will.

1) An annual subscription with no renewal notice AND that you couldn't cancel out of the 7 day period before renewal. So because I subscribed outside the app store I was screwed. After paying another $150 for a year I didn't want the service for, spending time arguing, I had to set a calendar invite for a year away to myself, then find out you can only cancel by CALLING them at a UK number! Of course it was acres of time being on hold.

I ended up just switching off that credit card and sending them an email saying I was canceling. They still send me past due bills saying my card was declined yadda yadda.

Contrast that with apple. You get an alert IN ADVANCE that you have subscriptions coming up. If you uninstall an app with a related subscription it asks if you want to cancel subscription PROACTIVELY etc. And you seem to get benefits via family sharing on subscriptions that automatically flow to family members without having to share passwords which is nice.

So yeah, subscriptions (as just one example) I go through app store if at all possible.

And of course, this extends to everything. On my windows machine we also have that corp VPN stuff -> which they then somehow use as a marketing channel to popup notifications around security etc that I need to buy or get anti-virus etc. I'm sure there are settings to turn this stuff off, but what a pain.

My parents it is even worse. On windows all the ads and toolbars that are "helpfully" installed I am convinced are 99% adware / malware. For some reason my parents (elderly) have no problems with their ipad by contrast.

Because apple provides a tradeoff - a VERY trusted ecosystem that folks are happy to spend big money in knowing they are pretty safe (no impossible to cancel subscriptions).

The ecosystem as well is pretty aggressively updated - even old devices (by most company standards) remain supported AND updated - so your development target is not terrible.

So in short - you can make good to great money on the apple ecosystem as revenue per install is higher and ecosystem support costs lower.

Isn't it supposed to be read only for security - that's at least a big benefit in my book. Ideally without dynamodb query permission either. etc

I wish they just did a bunch more data structures in the language and called it good.

I'm pretty convinced they could have added some additional structure libraries to the standard library and called it good. Some map stuff / set stuff etc.

For many its really not a big deal not having generics, and makes code SO much easier to follow (and compile / debug etc).

ADL has had some really interesting statistical analysis of gab (which cloudflare provides services too) illustrating just how weak their processes is around content management. Any cloudflare statements on gab.com?

Quite a few - a big part of working out and sticking with it is social aspect for some - if you can get that - fun workout group - you are golden and chance of sticking with plan goes way up.

Plenty of studies back this up [1]

Comments that downplay this may not be from folks with fun and healthy workout patterns

Anyways - at least for me it’s been disruptive

https://experiencelife.com/article/strength-in-numbers-the-i...

Ahh - govt budgeting - I've been there.

What is a bit funny is after fighting for $1,000 during the year, some budget manager calls in a panic near year end - how fast can you spend $150K - on anything you want. Turns out - as Amazon has noticed with cheap stuff, whoever has stuff in stock and can ship quick gets the deal - price totally irrelevant.

There was a while during the stimulus spending where politicians were I guess getting heat for not spending stimulus money fast enough, so the pressure to spend got pushed down big time. Every layer was trying to push spending out as fast as they could.

For those not familiar with this area and wondering why a higher level agency would push spending rather than trying to save money?

A lot of govt budgets between appropriation and final vendors are based on % of allocated spending. So a state agency will take 10%, a local agency will take 10%, and then it ends up in the hands of whoever does the work. Everyone above has built their budgets on all the money being spent. They've staffed for that.

So if you show up and spend 50% of your allocation, now they only get 50% of their 10% and can be in a real jam, particularly if they have already spent their entire expected amount or committed to spend it (staff have been hired). It can be hard to re-budget amounts between vendors / recipients so the pressure on whoever didn't spend all their money can be intense, because it's messing up a whole chain of other budgets.

Again, journalism is so horrible these days.

1) The picture in this linked article is not the Hubble picture, which is here:

https://imgur.com/a/UwD49Dr

2) The value claimed obeys no known concepts of supply and demand.

3) There are 7.5 billion people on earth, not 7.5 million.

I've been very inactive, in the older age range. That's a big shift. It was driven by the move to just constant clickbait controversy / political shares in news feed and other factors. Way back in feb I made a post suggesting masks might be a low cost / useful way to reduce spread of covid, that was attacked by everyone as not recommended and that they don't work, and so I just gave up on facebook at that point.

I actually always made the name part big if I could - not to remember it but for the visual sort of like a face.

Note: I've also seen that for minority / female hiring, a face can really jump your resume up as it makes clear you may help add some diversity to a team.

False - they may just be using the FREE version for "individual or small businesses". This has limits.

Google will stop analytics if you are on just the free account and start going over their free limits. This does not mean google analytics has broken.

Is gov.uk an "individual or small business"? Or are they paying for 360?

I'm starting with whoever wrote the headline here.

Gov.uk site did not break google analytics. This is standard click-bait / shock value type headlines.

If folks think this load broke analytics please think again. Is there no critical thinking left out there in journalism? Do folks understand the scale analytics operates at?

Some quick questions

Did they actually pay for analytics 360?

If not, did they do 10 million hits in a month for a property? if so - they may be over the limit of 10 million / month.

More on differences here: https://blog.littledata.io/2018/02/28/google-analytics-360-v...

Analytics 360 runs 12K+/month from memory, but someone probably has more recent info.

Not a linkedin fan and I like the idea of focusing on what people use / want and not on what they don't.

That said, I suspect you underestimate the importance of pictures in terms of memory building and many other networking steps.

I'm not sure that's true. I'm on spend side and the on platform performance of instagram, facebook newsfeed and google adwords marketing seems undeniable. You can (and many have) gone direct to consumer on whatever brand / product your pushing very successfully with clear ROI.

Another niche. If you do anything highly variable / custom - think music concerts - you can target very specifically towards demos for that artist and get amazing ROI. Run the campaigns for one artist, take a similar artist, no digital promo - FAR fewer folks showing up.

Now in terms of third party stuff - total trash. There is a reason google wants to track you on the web. My guess is as the privacy push gets stronger, that third party network stuff, which is already weak, will fall through the floor, because the tracking is not only for ad targeting but some is designed to help (a bit) with fraud prevention - which is a massive issue on third party networks (and I include Facebook's non direct advertising etc here).

Having dealt with this at some scale.

Simplicity is everything. Skip the encryption - seriously. Or do what Microsoft does and send the keys somewhere you can absolutely get them (bitkeeper can be forced to backup into AD).

You want good access control and fantastic ability to recover. Your transfer will be over a secure link.

I did the client side encryption. I'm not convinced it's worth it or I have secrets so important that I need to worry about someone at AWS reading my S3 bucket (which has its own encryption).