Youden

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by Youden 8y ago
As an Australian expat who's lived in all three situations (Australia with single-payer, USA with high level private insurance and Switzerland with government required and regulated), I much prefer single-payer. Pure private like the U
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by Youden 8y ago
> The reality is fine-grained democratic voting on every issue does not scale to today's world. Tell it to Switzerland. The most recent referendum included such important issues as "should the government offer subsidies to farm
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by Youden 8y ago
Is there any way to point MediaGoblin at a folder on local disk and expose it as albums? I don't believe I've found one so far, it wants me to upload everything through it, which isn't going to happen.
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by Youden 8y ago
I don't trust any service with plaintext of my photos so I self host everything. I also have a relatively huge amount of data so most cloud storage is out even if I wanted it. My setup is a Linux-based NAS with LUKS on everything and e
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by Youden 8y ago
I don't know about anyone else but I always remove DRM from my eBooks, which is trivially easy and solves two of your problems. Not sure if it's permitted to link to it here but it's pretty easy to find the tool that does thi
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by Youden 8y ago
I don't think this impacts your argument but I don't think your numbers are a good illustration of price/time. - Paris to Bordeaux by plane is $430 (380EUR) right now, 2 days before Christmas but if you look at a less interes
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by Youden 8y ago
WireGuard itself requires UDP but it's fairly trivial to tunnel UDP over TCP with for example ssf: https://securesocketfunneling.github.io/ssf/
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by Youden 8y ago
For anyone looking at retail VPN services, Mullvad and AzireVPN also offer it.
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by Youden 8y ago
I've been using it for a while and I've found it quite usable and reliable. Blows OpenVPN's iOS client out of the water actually.
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by Youden 8y ago
For those in this unfortunately position, you can run a TCP <-> UDP conversion without much difficulty: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-March/00250... WireGuard works just fine like thi
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by Youden 8y ago
> I couldn't use rsync.net though because all it's datacenters are outside of EEA Honestly curious, what's wrong with Switzerland? It's not technically in the EEA but it's part of EFTA and the single-market so ha
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by Youden 8y ago
> Library management is coming Specifically, the date is December 18. There's also a (small) discount if you buy in the next 8 days: https://skylum.com/luminar Not involved at all, just discovered this while looking
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by Youden 8y ago
Depends on your definition of "worldwide". I think IB is pretty unique in that it offers accounts worldwide access to markets worldwide. If you only want access to worldwide markets, you can probably do it with a local brokerage.
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by Youden 8y ago
I wouldn't call Interactive Brokers a "similar service" but it's one of the few brokers that offers accounts pretty much worldwide [0] and also one of the few that offers access to pretty much any market [1]. That said,
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by Youden 8y ago
> you really don’t see the difference between a foreign hostile government spying vs the domestic one doing it? The foreign hostile government can't legally do anything to me based on the information it gains. At worst it can blackm
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by Youden 8y ago
I don't think the problem you're addressing (new features being slow) is the problem the regulator had. I believe the problem was that the updates made existing functionality slower. e.g. the same Facebook app you had before the u
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by Youden 8y ago
> There isn't a single country in the world today where you can't spend a US dollar. The strongest argument I think I can construe from your statement is that every country has at least one place where you can spend a US dollar
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by Youden 8y ago
The last mile infrastructure is shared but the ISP still needs equipment nearby. Have a look at Init7's map for an example of how many you need to cover a good chunk of Switzerland: https://www.init7.net/de/infrast
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by Youden 8y ago
In Switzerland other fiber providers (such as Init7) have a dedicated physical fiber strand to your premises and a dedicated 1Gbit port on the other side. Salt uses 10G-PON, which as I understand it splits a single 10Gbit port. Salt's
830.
by Youden 8y ago
They say that in the article: "In close collaboration with Huawei we have customized Bahnhof’s powerful 10 Gbit/s router HN8255WS, and it’s finally ready to put up for sale."
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by Youden 8y ago
As someone who works with a lot of American expats, what's stopping you from opening a brokerage account at Interactive Brokers or Charles Schwab? That's what my colleagues seem to do.
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by Youden 8y ago
> mandates that airlines allow passengers to check strollers if they are traveling with small children This one is a little odd to me, especially since the law [0] doesn't mention a limit to the age of the child. I can see where a s
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by Youden 8y ago
Because it's based on HEVC. HEVC patents have a very complex (and expensive) licensing situation right now.
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by Youden 8y ago
> Equifax lost the personal data of all Americans and is doing fine. Because Equifax lost the personal data of _Americans_. Not all nations/regulators are so hands-off and Facebook is an international company with the vast majority
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by Youden 8y ago
Or, since they're taking the position that you're not buying the media but you're buying a "license", you can purchase it and then pirate a DRM-free copy. But really, when copyright is so blatantly one-sided against
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by Youden 8y ago
Really, for the most part, the talent goes to the best places to work. That's subjective but the major factors for most people are mission (e.g. charity good, privacy violation bad), working environment and compensation. Amazon isn&#x2
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by Youden 8y ago
> I'm asking because I'm torn between Xperia XZ1 Compact and the iPhone SE... As someone who's in the likely unique position of carrying an iPhone SE and an XZ1 Compact in their pocket every day (and a Pixel), I'd rec
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by Youden 8y ago
> LineageOS is also supported on the Xperia Z5 Compact. There's also unofficial support for the more recent XZ1 Compact.
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by Youden 8y ago
Definitely the former. HN doesn't take well to people making unsubstantiated assertions. If you want to make a statement like this, don't bother unless you have evidence. It's also usually better to frame it around the eviden
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by Youden 8y ago
> For another point of comparison Salt (rebranded Orange here), offers a home internet plan of 10 Gbps + 250 TV channels + a free Apple TV for $49 / month. And in Switzerland, this is a little controversial because that 10Gbit/

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