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811.
by geomark 10y ago
Good luck with Thailand. The military junta is close to instituting MITM on all internet communications.[1] They don't even care that it will break online banking and every other business that relies on secure communication. I guess di
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by geomark 10y ago
The Middle East gets the headlines on this topic. But it's happening other places, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11801325
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Thai government to MITM all internet communications(bangkokpost.com)
125 points by geomark 10y ago|60 comments
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by geomark 10y ago
I wish that was true. I maintain a site for a manufacturers representative company. We want to include news from the manufacturers but few of them provide a feed. For a while I ran a "feed" created by scraping their news pages. Of
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by geomark 10y ago
I actually took an Esperanto class when I was a kid. I'm old now, so that was a long time ago, and it never went anywhere in all the intervening years. I have now learned a tonal Asian language and I don't see how Esperanto would
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by geomark 10y ago
I'm having trouble following the jump from proxies for love to the practices of Buddhist monks. Monks don't own anything (except for their robes and alms bowl) and don't prepare their own food (and don't do many other th
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by geomark 10y ago
Where do they still do that? I live in a developing country (some people call it third world) and the private hospitals here have been using all electronic medication ordering and fulfilment for quite a while, at least since 2009[1]. Doctor
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by geomark 11y ago
This is exactly the same stuff going on in Thailand. Post something on Facebook the gov doesn't like and receive a 6 years[1] to 60 years[2] prison sentence. The new cybercrime billed was just announced with harsh penalties for posting
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by geomark 11y ago
Agree. They are running a business so can charge if/what they want. I just think they were a little clumsy how they made the transition. It was particularly annoying for people mid-way through a specialization to find out that the rest
820.
by geomark 11y ago
I feel somewhat the same. I took a couple Udacity courses that were great and quite a few from Coursera. Coursera's free offerings are now partially gutted by restricting non-paying students from taking tests and submitting assignments
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by geomark 11y ago
That's different. The US gov isn't doing all that to their own citizens. So it's ok. At least that's how the US gov and a lot of US citizens feel. And the rest of US citizens don't care enough to do anything about i
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by geomark 11y ago
Yeah, I guess those are pretty good labels. I looked for a succinct definition of Corporatism: "the control of a state or organization by large interest groups." That happens in every economic system, not just capitalism.
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by geomark 11y ago
People fail to understand the difference between innovation driven monopoly and government enforced monopoly. The former is commendable, indicating that a company has developed a product so useful that it becomes so widely adopted as to bec
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by geomark 11y ago
They do it here in Thailand. Last year they set a cutoff date - if you had not registered your SIM + gov issued id by a certain date your service was cutoff and you couldn't get new service until you did. The reason was "terrorism
825.
by geomark 11y ago
After seeing how a number of Japanese acquaintances live, I've concluded the lack of personal space is a kind of paucity that makes them very poor. Barely room for a couple with one child to keep the tiniest amount of personal belongin
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by geomark 11y ago
The free option means they are crippled. You can't take the tests or submit assignments for grading.
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by geomark 11y ago
I also completed this specialization, but unpaid so did not do the capstone project. I agree with most of your take/skip assessments. The Statistical Inference course was particularly disappointing. I recommend the excellent Data Analy
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by geomark 11y ago
Would people's reaction be different if the dancers were dressed differently?
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by geomark 11y ago
Reminds me of Gerd Gigerenzer's quizzes of over 1,000 gynaecologists on interpreting mammogram results - only 21% got it right. [1] [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28166019
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by geomark 11y ago
I find it, and other non-western news outlets, good for finding the stories that western media won't cover or are trying to bury.
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by geomark 11y ago
That's a really thorough review he did in that YouTube video. Quite interesting.
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by geomark 11y ago
I'm not sure what the truth is. Some people in Thailand got arrested for saying something the government didn't like on LINE. The Thai gov said they had intercepted the offending message with LINE's help. LINE denied helping
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by geomark 11y ago
I'm a foreigner here and don't have any say in politics anyway so there's little point in drawing attention to myself by criticizing the government. Just noticing some unfortunate parallels between what they do here and what
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by geomark 11y ago
As someone who lives in one of those places somewhere overseas, I am kind of amazed at how rapidly the US is approaching the same sort of regime I live under. Over here, if you criticize the government (currently a military junta) they send
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by geomark 11y ago
Interesting read. But the repeated notion that surveillance capitalists are only taking from the people by selling off the behavioral surplus omits that fact they they are providing services that those people want. Yes, appearing to be free
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by geomark 11y ago
Couple of questions: 1. Who pays for the insurance? 2. Why is it called insurance?
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by geomark 11y ago
How do you annotate contacts? I see you can add tags to them. Is that how you are doing it?
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by geomark 11y ago
I thought this has been known for quite a while. I keep seeing articles and comments by people who have worked in this field for years saying finger-prick blood is unreliable. I'm unclear why another study is needed.
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by geomark 11y ago
That last bit of information is kind of a hilarious confounder.
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by geomark 11y ago
Yes, I know. I also live in Thailand. I'm asking about Switzerland since that's the country mentioned in the parent comment. Swiss banks stopped providing services to US citizens due to FATCA. Same for Singapore. There may be othe

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