Little bit of an aside: Why do most infosec practitioners prefer conferences like BlackHat and RSA to Bsides and Def Con? The price differences are staggering.
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For instance, I always access HN via a public VPN service, and I suspect coming from a shared IP may have an impact (I'm guessing, anyway). If this is a criteria, it would be nice to know.
Again, thanks for the clarification.
Top-level comments that are literally seconds old are typically posted about 2/3 down the page. None of my votes appear to actually count. It's been this way for several months.
I'm used to it, but it's still very annoying and I wish HN would actually acknowledge they do this.
Choice and agency is the standard by which most people draw the line between generic prejudice and hate. It's no coincidence that gay rights dramatically improved along with widespread acceptance that, regarding sexual orientation, "I was born this way".
US empire is defined more by squashing incipient threats to its global hegemony than by UK-style colony management.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/chargeoff/delallsa.h...
From this halcyon point, there's more downside risk than upside going forward. Unless the cyclical nature of debt defaults suddenly stopped after centuries.
One problem is that glucose without fructose really doesn't taste very good at all. One option might be replacing sugars entirely with sugar alcohols with low intestinal distress, like erythritol.
Of course, we could always work to become a less decadent society, but that won't happen.
But I think it's safe to say that he's been proven wrong. Alternative energy technologies, mainly PV solar, really are tracking along Kurzweil's exponential growth curve, such that energy supply will not be appreciably impacted by the restriction of fossil fuels. (Not to mention he was also wrong about those constraints as well, given fracking of source rocks).
Being in the doomer echo chamber is fun, for a while. But at some point, we all have to leave, as Ran Prieur did, and recognize that the cornucopians are right.
Yet somehow, the PCI SSC accepts their scan results as actionable for Level 1-3 compliance.
It seems that sama needs to listen to the Nixon tapes.
Human organizations always scale to accommodate available resources, not required functionality.
Around here, $50k entry and $90k 10y+ senior for developers is fairly standard.
You may not agree, but this is an important psychological factor when discussing this particular community.