Lots of people who travel abroad use a VPN service because various corporate sites are geoblocking countries for various b2b and other small scale portals. I see this pretty regularly.

Lots of people who travel abroad use a VPN service for some peace of mind in sketchy internet cafes etc. It ensures you are using a known DNS provider, all your non-encrypted traffic is opaque, and you can use 'nearby' endpoints so aren't running packets around the globe.

Another significant use for VPNs is to route around censorship blocks. And log-less VPN services can be used to drop leaks to journalists and stuff... assuming you trust the vpn service.

Some people just want to confound potential tracking and profiling by their local ISP... in exchange for potential tracking and profiling by their VPN service... but maybe they know the ISP is selling their data, and they trust their VPN isn't.

"minimum publishable unit"

You're right, it's a long-recognized problem, but a viable alternative has yet to surface.

Well, computer science has sort of deserted universities into corporations, where most impactful R&D is now conducted, and work is judged by people's willingness to use it (open source), or to pay for it (commercial). Does it really matter whether Hunggingface publishes a "scientific paper" or a good postings on a blog? Doesn't seem to...

is a thing.

In order to get a job in journalism, you are required to fail a test, showing you have no clue how units work in physics.

Good point. An army that sees all others as subhuman and sees only the next death is one that has to keep fighting. It has no choice. It's the only thing it knows. It can keep conquering more territory outwards, or it can slaughter its own government inwards. History shows those are your two options.

Whether or not Russia conquers Ukraine, it will attack other countries - vast numbers of bored, underpaid soldiers would seek entertainment elsewhere if they didn't.

A flamethrower negates this... Like instantly.

Which reminds me, almost never should you write a serious response to what at first appears as a genuinely clueless AC.

I wonder what are the comparable figures for manpower? It's not like only drones are dying...

It's like trademarking Osama Bin Laden's Bagel Store.

Oh jeez, that guy. It figures.

That's what said, Nimbyism applies to any kind of development, energy generation or other.

Whereas with, say, nuclear, there are a significant number of people who just don't think it should be done anywhere, whether or not it's within 100 miles of them. Same with oil. Same with coal.

I can't think of any protests against solar in general. Although I'm sure there must have been some conflict about developing particular sites, same as if they were going to build apartments or anything else.

If nothing else, they are re-telling it for each new generation, in the current movie-making style.

Although such a big box office implies a lot of other viewers too.

This is what I'm going by:

The report said that in December 2018, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a special airworthiness information bulletin based on reports from operators of model 737 planes that the fuel control switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged.

The airworthiness concern was not considered an unsafe condition that would warrant an airworthiness directive – a legally enforceable regulation to correct unsafe conditions.

The same switch design is used in Boeing 787-8 aircraft, including Air India’s VT-ANB, which crashed. The report added: “As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory.”

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fwo...

>You cant convince daytraders that they’re gambling.

I know I'm gambling, but with the odds very much better than at the blackjack table. You can manage risk in multiple ways.
As for patterns, the are statistical things that are less like patterns but more like low or high entropy states which you can identify if you know how. See my book referenced in my sig for evidence I might have a clue in this regard.

I got a year's wages when I left Intel. I set a goal to survive 1 year and keep my capital. The year is up and I'm doing better than the goal. The alternative is to get a proper job. I'm consulting to keep my brain active. My stress is down and life is better. So I'm motivated to keep on going.

>Please track your performance net of fees and taxes against the same capital allocated to a low expense ratio index fund.

YTD I'm making 62% return in Robinhood. That is from March when I switched. I made some more in Fidelity before March but that number is harder to find because Fidelity sucks. Right now the S&P500 is up 6.43% YTD. My pot of cash started as the payoff from Intel's layoff. It's now a bigger pot of cash and I've also been paying myself out of that pot.

I am fully aware that others have better information, but my trading strategy includes methods to address that imbalance.

The biggest information imbalance is that market makers have full visibility of the options they sold and they can manipulate the market price of stocks to optimize their side of the options trade. This is why stocks land on round numbers at option expiry time.It is to render the maximum number of options worthless.