For American workers, it is better to let wages rise than to import foreign labor (which would ultimately suppress wage growth).

Therefore, importing labor does suppress wages — as you've essentially demonstrated yourself.

Never found out the reason. In the end I divorced the wife and she got that notebook.

Wifi is weird.

This almost got me into trouble a couple of months ago when I was driving from Odessa to Chisinau. One route goes through Transnistria which is currently controlled by the russian military.

I'm not sure if Google is aware that there is a war on currently, but I don't fancy getting shot just because California product manager guy believes he knows best.

Typically a logging library has one job to do: swallow the string as if it's some black box and spit it elsewhere as per provided configurations. Log4j though, doesn't treat strings as black boxes. It inspects its contents and checks if it contains any "variables" that need to be resolved before spitting out.

Now there's a bunch of ways to interpolate "variables" into log content. For example something like "Logging from ${java:vm}" will print "Logging from Oracle JVM". I'm not sure but you get the idea.

One way to resolve a variable using a custom Java resolver is by looking it up through a remote class hosted in some LDAP server, say "${jndi:ldap://someremoteclass}" (I'm still not quite sure why LDAP comes into the picture). Turns out, by including "." in some part of the URL to this remote class, Log4j lets off its guard & simply looks up to that server and dynamically loads the class file.

The fix has introduced ways to configure an allowed set of hosts/protocols/etc and forces Log4j to go through this configuration such that these dynamic resolutions don't land on an random/evil server.

It is not just tech. It is pretty much everything else on the internet and media. No one is telling me the pros and cons anymore. After I read the pros I have to go and dig up my own list of cons or vice versa. No one is finishing the sentence with "having said that" and round off with some counter argument. Most are so consumed by their own ideology they fail to see anything else.

>It's worth considering if exposure to FB is what is causing the userbase increasingly "low rent". Yeah, FB didn't invent partisanship, misinformation, nor authoritarianism, but I think likely it is worsening it.

I would argue had any other Social Network raised instead of Facebook during the Web 2.0 era the effect would had been the same. I once try to make a smaller social network to force an opposite view on their feeds to try and balance things. Holly mother of god the backlash were insane. My conclusion was that this sort of extremism is a function of human nature. Before social media people would buy news paper they prefer or fit their own ideology.

"The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers' prejudices."

- Sir Humphrey Appleby

Internet "press" is no different to press in the 80s. Only at a much greater scale and fully automatic.