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> they are just not very security minded (or knowledgeable)

I argue that they are definitely knowledgeable and capable of security. The nuance is they care about their own security, not the users'.

Case in point: Their MacOS installer abuses the pre-installation step to fake a System prompt to obtain root, very much like malware. Before you actually click install, it's already done [1].

In this case it was merely a shortcut to reduce the number of clicks to install, but it clearly betrays their disregard for user control & security.

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/zoom-mac-one-click-i...

* SEO Bonus: I couldn't find this article on Google no matter what I queried for. But DuckDuckGo found it on my first attempt.

Guess abusing SEO to hide negative press is among their tactics as well.

Sadly Amazon doesn't respect the NOT operator anymore:

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20069/is-there-a...

If you mean that a game license can be sold as a NFT and they can verify you own it, sure.

But then, nothing stops the central hub (aka Playstation, XBox, Steam) from invalidating your license. In this case, your NFT only serves to prove you paid for it, and your access has since been revoked.

"home" is a bad analogy. Online services can easily become central to your life:

The prime example/offender is GMail. There are numerous stories of users who were suddenly left without access to their account, with no explanation or recourse given.

Some people get lucky and manage to reach an influential Googler through offline channels, and have their access reinstated.

Average Joe on the other hand, might suddenly lose access to services linked to their GMail account, such as online banking, communications with important contacts, services that bill his credit card on a regular basis but that now Joe can't close the service or dissociate his card, due to having lost access.

How does Joe lose access to linked services? (a) if he signed up using Google SSO, or (b) passwords were saved in his Chrome account that he no longer has access to, and (c) can no longer recover passwords that were registered with the GMail address.

Yeah, Tinder/Fortnite are typically much less central to one's life, but for some people, due to social/health factors, these services are a gateway to an important part of their lives.

Number one I can think of is we're still in a pandemic, and whether because many cities are still observing lockdowns or risk-averse individuals still prefer to isolate, people are being driven towards online services that facilitate social activities such as dating or playing some variation of virtual cops & robbers.

A subtle nod to the fact this was posted on hn

GP explicitly referenced the drug's Wikipedia page:

> "The emergency use authorization was only narrowly approved (13-10) because of questions regarding efficacy and concerns that molnupiravir's mutagenic effects could create new variants that evade immunity and prolong the COVID-19 pandemic."

The quote above has its own citations in the Wikipedia page posted by GP.

You're likely pressing too hard. Look for pens that don't require force to dispense ink, such as a fineliner. Crummy ballpoint pens would be what you want to avoid if this indeed is the cause.

Sorry but there was enormous international pushback against it (curiously this is when they started calling French Fries "Freedom Fries"): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governmental_positions_on_th...

I'm sceptical that the population that was "tricked" back then wouldn't be just as easily swayed nowadays. Political affiliation is largely an emotional matter to a great mass of people, and rationality has a limited role in it.

Easiest and literally takes seconds -- surge.sh

And that is why I rarely watch FIFA games these days. Punishment for this behavior should be way more strict, it's ruining the sport.

Neymar certainly didn't invent it, nor is he the only one, but he's infamous for these shenanigans. Can't wait for him to retire.

Curiously, women's soccer has less of this behavior, making for a better show of sportsmanship.

As of Python 3.6, Dictionaries are ordered.

The operative keyword there is "hardcore", and it applies for either political direction:

I guarantee lots of conservatives also walk on eggshells around hardcore leftists for the sake of cordiality, just as cordial lefts walk around eggshells near radical conservatives.

Naturally, cordial people's politics are harder to tell, especially near a radical.

For business? Absolutely

I turned my loser life around at 27. I actually had spent years trying to optimize it, seeking success and happiness, but I was stuck.

What was the big move? Little did I know it back then, but the solution has many parallels with non-convex optimization: I got the heck out of the local minimum I was stuck in life - moved continents, changed careers, changed the people in my life, changed the culture around me.

Concretely, I went to grad school abroad and settled there. It took adjusting and lots of work, but I now make multiples of my previous salary, dated beautiful women I never would have in my local culture and had a choice of awesome people to become my close friends.

You might be stuck in a local minimum too - starting anew can be good for you if you manage to do it. Maybe you won't even need to go to a new continent, but the lesson is, make big changes!

Hi, immigrant here. I'm literally an "alien" from/in this planet.

Canadians are very nice, but their famous agreeableness (and passive-agressiveness) often prevents me from realizing when I've committed a transgression, and makes it so much harder to integrate into the culture.

Negative feedback is very useful and I would be grateful to get it instead of receiving a veiled response.

> The USA is the only country where you can move to and say you're from.

North of the border there's a vast, mythical place called Canada - about 20% of Canadians were not born there [1].

Yes, this feeling of "acquired origin" is not true of every country, but the US and Canada are seldom the only place.

In my experience, the same would happen in many South American countries if one is successful in integration - there's no snobbery about not being born there.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-s-foreign-born-populat...

Moving 100 miles is one thing. When you move countries/continents, language, work culture & social norms needs to be taken into account, even if the timezone is the same.

It shouldn't matter who I am, but I say this as someone who immigrated into North America after having worked several years in South America. There are real barriers to collaboration that prevent outsourcing from being a silver bullet. They don't make collaboration necessarily impossible or difficult, but these barriers need to be taken into account.

It's hard to ignore the externalities of these crypto adventurers.

1. The enormous carbon footprint spent on something that is 90% a pyramid scheme is absolutely everybody's business. I don't care that you legally paid for the hardware and the electricity bill, it's about the amount of waste generated on something that barely provides a net benefit to humanity.

Yes, there are other industries that are guilty of the same, but it doesn't mean cryptocurrencies get to evade the criticism.

2. It's hard to ignore the fact that I can barely get a decent GPU these days to carry out my research. It's not the sole fault of crypto, but it adds to the problem. Depending on how Chia goes, the market for storage might be affected as well.

3. When we as a society allow scams to thrive, we undermine the general level of trust. Trust has a very real monetary consequence, and we see the effect of this in different societies.

This is just an instance of Conway's Law:

    Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.
    — Melvin E. Conway

If only that were a practical solution. The open-source community doesn't have everything, sadly, and some of the best applications are only available in the Play Store, behind a pay wall.

I like drawing and note-taking with my S-Pen enabled tablet. There's no good open-source alternative to Artflow or Nebo (both paid apps).

Sure, you could pirate it... even with morality aside, I'd rather trust Google than random APKs acquired from the dark corners of the Internet.

And with this setup, Google doesn't really have much information about my person, so I don't care if they have info on the device (assuming you take proper steps to keep the device anonymous).

At the risk of stating the obvious: you can always set up an alt Google account without a phone number or credit card...

Any purchases can be paid for with gift cards.

So this is StumbleUpon, with extra steps.

I liked StumbleUpon, and I think there's a place for it. Perhaps not as its own browser.

> mobile internet repeaters for tunnels are a solved problem.

True. Unfortunately in Canada (Toronto at least) the big 4 telco oligopoly can't agree on pricing for this one. The result is a single company offers subway coverage!

Nevermind that data here is more expensive than even the US.

Where's that Silicon Valley disruption spirit for the telco oligopolies worldwide?

I'm looking for something similar (large storage, low bandwidth, hopefully with a VPS). Can you point me to the provider?

At least when I considered it a year ago, it was a huge hassle to get it working, so not really a solution for everyone.

Fun fact: those screensaver photos are taken by Google employees!

Can't find a source for that, but have many times corroborated that through a Google search. Peter Norvig is one of them.

Can you concretely explain how these domains share the same skills?

Don't put yourself down, hiring is broken. Very few recruiters actually understand the requirements that are in demand for a given position, and many will discard you for irrelevant reasons: e.g. they dislike your CV formatting, or you have extra unrelated experience in the CV (thus you're not specialized).

It's mostly a numbers game, so keep putting in the time - but not mindlessly: keep optimizing your CV/presentation/skills and it will eventually happen.

There's a curiously large amount of people that just don't understand the second order effects.

I think a lot about this. Modern society is very different from what our ancestors grew up with.

Any other recommendations on how to do well?