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by Meekro 1y ago
Another argument for why it's good: if you're rich, you can either pay lots of money to an immigration lawyer to make sure your visa gets approved, or you could cut out the middleman and pay the government directly. Why wouldn&#x2
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by Meekro 1y ago
This kind of thing is not new in the US. Check out the EB-5 investor visa[1], which has been around for decades and offers a similar investment-for-visa arrangement. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa
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by Meekro 1y ago
Harvey Mudd is a college in California, mostly specializing in STEM majors.
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by Meekro 1y ago
There's one slow-motion conservative victory happening that's getting relatively little news coverage (and that's a good thing, lest there be more pushback): allowing more alternatives to public schools, funded by taxpayer do
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by Meekro 1y ago
"Poverty blended with hopelessness" sounds about right. I'd like to emphasize that it's not just poverty, since there are plenty of recent immigrant families who live in poverty but the kids are at the top of their cla
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by Meekro 1y ago
If I had a choice about whether to give the presentation, I would choose not to. If you had a choice about whether to attend it, you would also choose not to. But, alas, both of us are there -- such is the way of the large bureaucracy.
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by Meekro 1y ago
Working fine for me-- when I search under Mac Apps for "ublock origin lite" (no quotes), it appears in 1st place.
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by Meekro 1y ago
I've been searching for the perfect "old school iTunes" program for a while. I'm pretty sure it does not exist, maybe I'll try to make one someday unless someone beats me to it? Here's what I want: * Smartlists
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by Meekro 1y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! This one's the best "old school iTunes" program I've tried so far. I might stick with this one for now. I especially like how I can make smartlists with nested rules. The main thing I'
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by Meekro 1y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! I gave it a try, but unfortunately this one doesn't have the stuff that I liked from old-school iTunes. At first glance: no smart lists; search doesn't work the way I want (I want a giant excel-like
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by Meekro 1y ago
I totally disagree with the author. His main complaint seems to be this: "Games you purchased on a Windows 98 machine later had their system requirements bumped up to Windows XP, then to Windows 7, then to Windows 10." Essentially
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by Meekro 1y ago
It's interesting how, in just 10-20 years, we've gone from criticizing The Great Firewall of China to basically admitting that they had the right idea (to limit the ability of the foreign internet to influence Chinese culture) and
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by Meekro 1y ago
Ok, clearly I had no idea of the scale of it. 200RPS from a single bot sounds pretty bad! Do all 100,000+ pages have to be live to be useful, or could many be served from a cache that is minutes/hours/days old?
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by Meekro 1y ago
I've heard lots of people on HN complaining about bot traffic bogging down their websites, and as a website operator myself I'm honestly puzzled. If you're already using Cloudflare, some basic cache configuration should guara
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by Meekro 1y ago
That's definitely true, and it's a bad thing, but I don't think it's the core problem. If it was, you'd see massive differences between cities and the research would read like this: "City A is too car-centric,
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by Meekro 1y ago
The captchas are totally optional. You can turn that off and just keep Cloudflare's DDoS protection.
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by Meekro 1y ago
If Netanyahu stepped down tomorrow, apparently the most likely successor would be Israel Katz. He would maintain basically the same foreign policy.
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by Meekro 1y ago
You're right that he cheated (in some sense), but I don't think "caught" is the right word since he admitted it when he was asked point-blank. He paid someone to level up his character before he played it, not to stream
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by Meekro 1y ago
Has anyone posted an analysis of its security?
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by Meekro 1y ago
It sounds like an offhand comment that we shouldn’t read much into. Bitcoin’s creator demonstrated an impressive mastery of cryptography—- it was made to be extremely resilient (including to quantum computing) and no one has ever broken it
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by Meekro 1y ago
Some things Musk claimed have happened, others have not. For example, he promised that they would release a satellite Internet platform that was better than most of the others, and they did. On the other hand, he promised that Grok 3 would
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by Meekro 1y ago
In a nutshell: we have unclear comments from Musk and unclear statements in the FAQ (which might not have been written by a technical person). Until they release a technical white paper, we don’t know anything for sure.
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by Meekro 1y ago
No, I'm talking about Wise. I was falsely accused of some stuff, my account was locked, and they were ignoring all communications even as I tried to prove my innocence. @patio11 helped me escalate and we had it resolved really quickly.
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by Meekro 1y ago
Honest tip: When I had a Wise-related problem, I reached out to @patio11 (famous HN user) for help and he connected me with a high-ranking employee at Wise. We had the problem resolved a day later. 10/10, would escalate again.
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by Meekro 1y ago
Unfortunately, that box is going to have increasing difficulty connecting to anyone at all. TLS 1.2 was added to OpenSSL around 2010, and de-facto mandated around 2020. Any SSL/TLS software from before that will increasingly find its c
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by Meekro 1y ago
Yeah, apparently OpenSSL dropped it almost 10 years ago.
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by Meekro 1y ago
If you've never used a TLS library such as Go's crypto/tls, that's understandable-- this is stuff most programmers never need to think about. Fortunately TLS does work pretty well: both sides of an encrypted connection w
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by Meekro 1y ago
If someone's maintaining an old/obscure email client, I would expect them to be importing a TLS library under the "don't roll your own crypto" principle. Assuming it's been updated at some point in the last ~15
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by Meekro 1y ago
Can someone explain why this is important enough to land on the HN front page? Are people being inconvenienced by this or something?
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by Meekro 1y ago
Unfortunately, the smartest programmers in the world (people like Linus Torvalds) sometimes screw up and create security issues. If Linus can't get it 100% right, what hope is there for the rest of us?

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