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ggg2 commented on Science of Science science.sciencemag.org/co... · Posted by u/benbreen

ggg2 · 6 years ago

this sounds like a forced meta analysis field that could easily fall with existing ones under work/education studies.

if you want the real deal for the title, see STS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology_and_societ...

ggg2 commented on Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people qz.com/1591563/the-danish... · Posted by u/rohmanhakim

jacobush · 6 years ago

Ok I'm Swedish, but my reading is "friend of someone" combined with "friend of you". It's hard to explain but it holds these 2 meanings very closely.

Plus the pun of "valve" in the same word, which is also fitting, for letting out steam.

Besides it sounds great in English. Sounds like a new expensive drug. Imagine the TV commercial: "Contact your doctor to learn if Ventilen is for you. May cause hair loss, liver failure and bla bla bla. "

ggg2 · 6 years ago

but do you still think of "friend to one/you/someone" when it is spoken "ventilen" as one word?

ggg2 commented on Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people qz.com/1591563/the-danish... · Posted by u/rohmanhakim

Razengan · 6 years ago

> As a loner, I avoid this by making sure I walk 10,000 steps a day.

Can't recommend this enough, though you need to be in a "walkable" enough city. It's one of the best breaks you can take especially if you sit at a desk most of the day.

I love discovering urban nooks and crannies that I would miss if I took a car or train. The Apple Watch or any other tracker that can map your route etc. can help with that a lot.

ggg2 · 6 years ago

what do you mean walkable city? a walkable city you do 10k steps without even noticing! a US city that is not NY or boston in summer you have to drive to a park/beach like you would to a gym, do your steps and drive back home.

ggg2 commented on UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS' zdnet.com/article/uk-isp-... · Posted by u/katzeilla

Ericson2314 · 6 years ago

If the UK disapproves I'll be sure to use it! Only gotcha is screw this per-application stuff, will want the whole computer doing it. But that shouldn't be too hard to rig up on Linux.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-huitema-quic-dnsoquic-05 oooo.

https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy does a few good protocols.

ggg2 · 6 years ago

so true. the fact that browsers have dns resolvers is weird.

to me only the kernel could do it, and it would limit outgoing port 53 by default to every other process.

if I want to set configuration on my hosts file I damn sure want everything to follow it, not have to worry about thousands of applications that might or might not use it.

ggg2 commented on UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS' zdnet.com/article/uk-isp-... · Posted by u/katzeilla

tremon · 6 years ago

So they nominated Firefox for implementing DNS over HTTP but not Chrome? Does anyone know their rationale for that?

ggg2 · 6 years ago

less lawyers on retainer to establish a precedent?

you are talking about dirty politicians, who are standing against something initially designed to twart oppressive regimes such as China's great firewall... any dirty trick in book is fair game to them.

ggg2 commented on YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube boingboing.net/2019/07/03... · Posted by u/KirinDave

kdbg · 6 years ago

I'll actually be a counter example to that, I recently started a security podcast with a couple friends, talking about the latest in exploit development and mitigations, and whatever news we find interesting.

Shortly after we uploaded our 4th episode we were banned on Youtube. We appealed the ban and were allowed back on pretty quickly (hours) and we are by no means a large channel even now (~50 subs).

ggg2 · 6 years ago

I'm happy for you that you speak a language google happens to have support in, and that you have the time to besides creating and uploading content, to monitor it is not censored at a later, random, date by google. And that you were able to provide the US based documentation they required and that your videos content happened to not be in the blacklist of any nation state.

/s (I guess)

ggg2 commented on Why Our Postwar “Long Peace” Is Fragile (2018) nautil.us/blog/why-our-po... · Posted by u/dnetesn

ggg2 · 6 years ago

gabage article IMHO.

someone who analyzed 200 years of data is criticizing people who analyzed 50 years of data before. and both think they can extrapolate to events that are assumed to cycle every 900-11,000 years!

all sumarized by a writer who uses star war analogies.

spare your time. don't bother reading this. Go read Foucault instead if you care for this topic.

ggg2 commented on Why Our Postwar “Long Peace” Is Fragile (2018) nautil.us/blog/why-our-po... · Posted by u/dnetesn

PaulAJ · 6 years ago

I'm more optimistic. WWII was the last attempt to capture the wealth of developed nations by invading them. These days such a strategy is a complete non-starter because no developed nation can withstand an invasion.

Think of it like this: Silicon Valley is probably one of the richest bits of America. So imagine that some dictator decides to invade it, and that the US military try to stop him but fail in some improbable way. So this dictator now controls a bunch of ruins with no electricity containing broken computers. His troops are herding the geeks who used to program those computers into internment camps. How does this make him any richer than he was before?

If you conquer a third-world country then you can exploit its raw resources: a semi-literate population, farmland on which they can grow food, and maybe minerals they can dig out of the ground. That was essentially the thinking behind the Heartland Theory (see link). But it just won't work any more. These days the real wealth comes from brainpower, but you can't capture that wealth by pointing a gun at someone.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-heartland-th...

ggg2 · 6 years ago

you mean, excluding actual capturof wealth after ww ii, like Crimea? Or soft ones like belt and road taking over Africa's infrastructure or the fight to keep Venezuela under US control?

ggg2 commented on Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments techcrunch.com/2019/07/02... · Posted by u/mindgam3

ggg2 · 6 years ago

only took them 5 years.

ggg2 commented on Blockchain takes us back to medieval times ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/... · Posted by u/hhs

hash872 · 6 years ago

While I'm in general a blockchain & crypto skeptic- worth noting that FT Alphaville are not arguing in good faith, they are self-proclaimed contrarians who are fanatically anti-tech, anti-tech companies, and in particular anti-US tech companies. They are especially obsessed with blockchain and Tesla/Musk. They churn out 1-2 anti-crypto or anti-Musk or anti-Silicon Valley opinion pieces like this literally every day, apparently for a British finance industry audience. I used to enjoy the blog, but it's veered into anti-tech (and frankly, borderline anti-American tech) zealotry. (None of this is meant to be an endorsement of blockchain, but I can be skeptical while still examining the system in good faith)

ggg2 · 6 years ago

to be honest, generating 1-2 real and credible articles per day talking bad things against kleptocurrencies and elon musk, is a very banal feat.