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The goal was to disrupt government bureaucracy. Saving money was never the real objective, even though it was marketed that way.

Anyone who knows how to use Excel understands that entitlements and defense are the biggest issue (60%) when it comes to government spending.


On top of that 60% is ~13% on net interest payments.


As a normal user: why do I need IPv6?

As far as I know, the majority of websites (about 70%) do not support IPv6.


I don’t think that’s true. But of course it depends how you’re measure the majority of websites.

Most of the figures I see show 60-70% of the top 100 sites do support it. But maybe that does not reflect your usage.

Why do you need it? Maybe you don’t right now since ipv6 only sites are niche. The most tangible advantage I’ve seen is avoiding CGNAT. Gamers in particular don’t like that because it introduces latency. Services like Xbox live definitely do support ipv6 for this reason.


Depends on your ISP. If you live in a place where there aren't many IPv4 addresses available, CGNAT is the reason you're seeing a lot of Cloudflare/Akamai/Google CAPTCHAs everywhere, and IPv6 fixes that.


same reasons northern europeans had to invent all sorts of fancy food preservation and complex power struggle societies revolving around crop limitations and war.

Meanwhile closer to the equator, much less progress was needed to live and let live.

In short, Americans are native tribes. we have plentiful IPV4 and couldnt care less about SLAAC or whatever other complex moon sun and seasonal tide gods, salted codfish and salt mining operations. we just dont need to care about long addresses, they're plentiful here.


You need it because there aren’t enough IPv4.

If you have a mobile device with data, you’re likely already using it.


Do we really need all the mobile phones and IoT devices of the world to be publicly addressable? Is that even a good thing?


If you want to use the internet, you need an IP address.

You can share that IP address by putting multiple hosts on the same local network and using parts of the transport later. NAT was invented because of lacking enough addresses.


CGNAT is a guarantee that you have plausible deniability on the internet. NAT is also a guarantee that you are not addressable from the internet.

It’s a feature.


Until it isn't.

If I want to send you a message (an email), I have to go through some other party.

If I want to see what my home security cameras show, I have to go though some other party.


I am old enough to remember when string theory was expected to explain and unify all forces and predict everything. Sadly, it failed to deliver on that promise.

And there is no known single real world experiment that can rule out string theory while keeping general relativity and quantum mechanics intact.

More accurately, string theory is not wrong (because it just cannot be wrong). Because it does not predict anything and cannot invalidate anything, it does not help to advance our understanding of how to integrate general relativity and quantum mechanics.

It should not be called theory - maybe set of mathematical tools or whatever.


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You can't really show it's wrong because there are dozens of different theories but using the Wikipedia definition "point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings" it's possible that particles are not strings. I guess it would then be like fairies at the end of the garden theory. Good from a literary fiction point of view but not reality.


Tragic.

We should not make any assumptions here.

I remember that about 20+ years ago a famous biologist was killed, and there were all kinds of speculations about terrorists, the government, and so on. A few years later, Snapped episode was released.


We should ask questions. When it comes to this, or Epstein, not speculating or asking the right questions makes us destined to subversion by an enemy. Remember the words of Lincoln. Foreign nations cannot win, unless they are aided by an enemy within.


Asking questions is not enough, because there is an unlimited supply of them. You can keep asking question after question to sustain endless doubt or to avoid certain conclusions.

Questions alone are not productive. Asking questions and being willing to deal with delayed, missing, incomplete, unexpected and unwelcome answers is where it's at.


I’d add that there is a difference between honestly asking questions and phrasing articles of faith as questions.


Foreign nations would also like it if our shared narrative and culture breaks down due to everyone questioning everything all the time. How can we co-operate and co-ordinate if we agree on very little?


How can we solve this problem?

The only idea I can think of is a law that requires companies, once they reach a certain number of users or market share, to provide a formal process to restore accounts that are a certain number of years old. This could include paid arbitration or a similar mechanism.

I doubt such a law could pass at the federal level, but if it were passed in California, it would probably solve 80 percent of the problem.

Or is there a better solution?


Let me ask you this way: How do you think they make money?


I believe you may be missing the sarcasm of the post you are responding to.


He may have understood it, but the feelings of anger about it are so overwhelming he had to post anyway, even if it didn't perfectly flow with the conversation.


I’m here to inform you that you perhaps missed the second-order sarcasm of the post you responded to. Hopefully the chain ends here.


I am afraid you may have missed a third order of sarcasm. It sometimes called Incepticasm.


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What sort of argument is that? Just because I need to eat (also let's be real the developers/owners behind this app are not struggling to get food on the table), does excuse me doing unethical/illegal things (and this behaviour is almost certainly illegal in the EU at least).


There is a “contradictions” section that clearly explains why this is a scam of the highest order.

There are honest ways to make a living. In this case honest is “being transparent” about the way data is handled instead of using newspeak.


The guy that holds up people for money in the alley is a human too, people forget, and needs to pay for food and a place to live. Of course they do too.


I just want to point that buying gift cards in order to participate in gift-card arbitrage violates both apple rules and payment provider rules.

If you are buying large amounts of gift cards and then redeeming them, it is critical that your purchasing patterns do not look suspicious, such as buying more things that a normal user might need: multiple iphone wallets, multiple iPhones, or similar items.


So let me this straight. I will need an ID to go on internet but not to vote. He even talked about how requiring ID makes thar certain people are trapped in vicious cycle.

This is the exact policing we don't want government to do - but it is to protect children. So I guess we will go with it.


Yes. The stakes of getting it wrong are different. Social media ≠ voting.


This is definitely illegal in California: California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.2 BPC. It can result up to one year in jail.

I’m not sure how this article is true but seems like as a push to pass a similar law in North Carolina and New Jersey.


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