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Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Static routes are okay with your building, if the building isn't too big. If a router goes offline, everybody waits for the network admin to get back from lunch and fix it. For the backbones, we currently re-route in milliseconds sometimes dpending on network conditions. No waiting around for a sysadmin.

> What is stopping someone anywhere within the RPKI to lie, mislead, or be misled through layer 2 and 3 attack

Routing is in layer 3, so this is preventing some layer 3 attacks. For securing layer 2, see http://google.com/search?q=lay...
Routing protocols at layer 3 aren't supposed to address issues of layer 2.

You mean Elon hasn't invented a way to teleport the car from the factory in Fremont directly to the buyer's driveway anywhere in the world?

That looks a whole lot like logistics lots where cars are taken off trains, and loaded onto trucks for delivery.

OH NO HERE'S A LOT FULL OF CARS AT THE PORT OF PORTLAND! HYUNDAI MUST BE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS BECAUSE THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF CARS SITTING THERE!

Seriously, if this is the best you've got, just give up.

Not the whole city of ~80k people, just 1/394th of the city. 0,3km^2. Just a big pedestrian mall, really.

Why is this news?

If you look around with Google Street View at what I assume is the proper location you can see a few delivery and other construction vehicles, but otherwise it's a lot of foot traffic.

The one thing I'm curious about is residents, if the city centre is all tourist and business than you can make do with foot traffic. But do residents with cars need to park outside the boundaries?

Tesla has more than a few failings, but when it comes to them Bloomberg seems lean disturbingly far to one side of their coverage. There is a sea of articles pointing out every possible flaw, and maybe one semi-positive article I was able to find in a quick browse. I feel like I'm looking at a Fox News coverage of a Democratic candidate.

Bloomberg Tesla Articles

And I'd argue that LLVM just had brain drain to other projects (GCC). Don't know about Kubernetes, never heard of it. Meanwhile there's been a few high profile kernel hackers that dropped off the map because they got tired of harassment.

If a code of conduct is what's needed to put a stop to pointless pissing matches than I say go for it. Nerds can be abrasive, but they can also follow rules if they're laid out.

Besides, one man's "social justice" is another's treating people with respect.

Extreme example - Nazi would still be able to contribute as long as Nazi-related speech is kept out of commits, discussions, mailing list, and group events.

Wrong. That's one way to interpret that clause. But just so we're clear here, Coraline Ada Ehmke, the author of this language is on record multiple times as having the view that if you mention you work on a project on a twitter account, you are "representing the project" with that twitter account. And YES people have trawled though everything ever said online looking for references back to a project with this CoC, pointed out the linkage, gotten people kicked off projects, and waved their scalp around like a trophy.

If "she" believes that you should be kicked out of the linux community for the out-of-work personal views and guilt by association, then I'm totally fine with examining her other projects. Seriously, you need to look her up. Specifically, her "War against Meritocracy".

I think it doesn't happens (maybe yet...) It's why third party clients are needed (personally, I use the https://play.google.com/store/... on the phone, and https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ on the Desktop [at least, for now])

Reprocessing is where this will eventually go. It simply has to. Dumping "waste" that is 80-90% usable fuel is about as stupid as it gets.

As stupid as it gets is actually producing waste that you don't have a viable management scheme for. And we don't, because not only is nuclear not cost effective, but reprocessing fuel is even less cost effective. It's dangerous and expensive and requires military oversight because of the potential for misuse of the materials. It's just idiotic all over when it's cheaper to get the same kind of capacity out of battery+solar/wind, which it is.

Photovoltaic solar is absolutely the worst priced solution for electrical power generation. It's well above all other commercial methods in costs and is likely to remain so. Wind is marginally priced, but still above nuclear in costs. The absolute cheapest is Natural Gas.

So Nuclear is cheaper than both solar (by a mile) and wind by a fraction. https://www.google.com/imgres?...

People go to prison for copyright violation all the time. This case is just unusual because the guy didn't pirate the movie for personal financial gain. That's an important distinction which I feel needs to be retained in the law. If you violate copyright for personal gain, then I'm ok with the possibility of prison time. But if you violate it for no benefit to yourself, then I believe the penalty should be limited to fines. Maybe with a provision for prison time for repeat offenders.

The issue isn't that people are all too willing to violate copyright. The issue is that technology has advanced to the point where copyright is all too easy to violate. This suggests that copyright is outgrowing its usefulness, and we need to sit down and consider replacing it with a different model. The reduction in cost of duplication and distribution to near zero means it's becoming more and more expensive to enforce copyright. Meanwhile, the benefit to the copyright holder has held steady, while the potential benefit to society from just giving everyone a free copy has grown. So as a whole, the cost of copyright is increasing while its benefit is holding steady. We may soon reach a point where the cost of copyright exceeds its benefit to society. So the role of copyright may be better served in the future by the way artistic works were created in the past.

Centuries ago since it was nearly impossible to enforce copyright. So a rich patron would hire artists to create works. That's how artists got paid, and works got created. Once created, there was no copyright so anyone could copy the work. You'll notice that wedding photography has already reverted to this model. In the 20th century, the photographer shot your wedding for free or for a token fee. You then paid for copies of the photos. The increasing quality of scanners and color printers forced wedding photographers to abandon this model. Nowadays, you hire the wedding photographer for a large enough fee to cover all their costs (the "patron" model). The prints (or digital copies) are given to you for a token sum, or even for free.

is that Wikipedia has articles on just about everything.

As for what I would change, bring back the 90% marginal tax rate on income over $21 million a year, make stock buybacks illegal again (Reagan legalized them in the 80s leading to CEOs paid in stock so they could use lower capital gains to dodge higher income, that wouldn't work if you couldn't pump & dump).

Money is power. We're letting too few people have too much power. To counterbalance the government getting some of that power make voting mandatory to end voter suppression and use basic mathematical algorithms to end Gerrymandering. Once that's done do away with the Senate and Electoral college and replace them with a parliamentary system.

https://play.google.com/store/...

Not as good as what you're asking for, but a decent stopgap. I admit I've been having problems with it on Pie. Just now got an update, we'll see if it's fixed.

There are others, I picked this because it was versatile and let me choose music for my alarm. YMMV.

Google, please sack all employees who
use twitter and reddit, and not GPlus.

https://plus.google.com/104629...

https://play.google.com/store/...

At least Android has the option. The app name isn't Lynx but yes it's Lynx with some menus.

I'm not even sure there's a problem. If you were to look back 10 years ago, I would imagine that the gap was even worse. There used to be a a big concern over the digital divide and that certain groups of people would be cut out of the digital economy because they lacked access to computers. Since then it seems to have been reframed (it's in the title of the URL that I can't get to load) to mean that not everyone has the same amount of resources.

I suspect that this a problem that's already being solved. Not because anyone went out of their way to fix it, but because computers (in some form or another) kept getting cheaper and more accessible. There are certainly some aspects of computing that aren't as easy to accomplish without a PC, but most people won't benefit more from a PC than having a phone with internet connection. This just comes across as a solution in search of a good problem.

Check out the rampant nuttiness of Google local guide reviews, with utterly obvious fakes like this: https://www.google.com/maps/co...

They review every business, point of interest, and yes, road sign, with made-up reviews. It's awesome, and depressing, and Google doesn't do anything about it.

> While BPA can have effects similar to the hormone estrogen, it is between 10,000 to 100,000 times weaker.

There is a lot of debate whether microdosing of endocrine disruptors can have significant effects. The author of that piece seems to have made a career as a BPA apologist because whenever a study comes out showing harmful effects, he's there downplaying it. Musgrave is clearly in the camp that believes microdoses do not cause significant effects. Others disagree.

Reply to self. I did some more research and decided to at least try SOMETHING. After reading and reading, I ended up installing this:

https://play.google.com/store/...

Calls Blacklist - Call Blocker by Vlad Lee

10,000,000+ installs, very high rating, lots of positive reviews and articles. But it has some annoyances, like asking to be the default dialer/phone app EVERY TIME you look in the log (since I don't want it to have that ability). But the powerful feature is there is a single click in settings that blocks all calls EXCEPT those in your contacts and whitelist. And it does seem to work (I have been testing it). There are some issues and limitations:

1) Sometimes one ring will go through
2) It can't prevent voicemail options
3) It seems to want to leave a persistent notification else it is "slow to react"
4) Has ads on the log page, but that isn't bad, plus there is a "pro" (paid) version if that annoys or you want to reward them.
5) It will block your own landline, even if you the number listed in the Android hard-coded "Me" contact. So you will have to add yourself again, as another contact and list your home or other "own" numbers there (I tested that it works).

The important thing is that you really have to remember to add anyone you want to allow calls, and any number they might use, to your contacts OR the whitelist. That won't work well for people who give out their number to businesses or for casual use. But since I don't do that, and rarely give out my cell number, I should be OK, as long as I remember for those few exceptions. Of course, at least voicemail will work in those cases.

For those who can't see past the paywall, there are some pretty good images of the road sections here.

A wide ranging tale by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the journalist who broke the story of both the My Lai massacre and the US torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib..

Some reviews:

Reporter by Seymour Hersh review – memoir of a giant of journalism

Amazon

Google

WTH's with that picture? It just appears to be the backside or maybe a charging cradle. Ignoring the low quality, it doesn't even show the front of the device.

They've trained an AI to navigate the balloons by making them follow the weather patterns to stay in position.

It's actually quite impressive!

https://plus.google.com/+Proje...

https://www.engadget.com/2016/...

https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

if I didn't have google.

You have selective memory then. I recall people thinking he was not very intelligent but the Hitler comparisons.. nahh.. Cheney was the evil one during that administration.

Google thinks you are wrong

https://www.google.com/search?...

No, more like they took a big crap on him and then set it on fire. He posted his wanna be programs there, got called out for being a spammer, threw a shit fit, and eventually got kick out. Just search for AlecStaar and ArsTechnica and you can see for your self. He was a wanna be then, just like he still is now.

Obligatory Niel Gaiman quote.

So, just like the USA's "Pray away the gay" camps, then?

https://www.google.com/search?...

You didn't know ?!? Typing "news" in google has given the google news site forever and while there used to be separate news.google.tld sites they all map unto https://news.google.com/ with the arguments ?hl=$LANG&gl=$LANG&ceid=$LANG. Given how the younger generations type EVERYTHING into the URL bar (including complete URLs) & that's sent to google, it's clear that anyone typing "news" into a browser that uses Google for search, the vast majority of people looking for news are going to news.google.com.

Thus news.google.com is how much of the world looks up their news & is the #1 target of the media conglomerates that lobbied the EP into passing the libertycide regulations TFA, the EFF, etc are denouncing.

Interesting that you are from Germany, The legislation passed is an attempt at keeping you from changing your news source.

If you don't take care of yourself it is bad for people that depend on you. Obviously you haven't the slightest clue about morality or mental health.
here is a primer for you:
https://www.google.com/search?...

I don't know anyone who reads "news.google.*" ... I did not even know that google has a "news service".

But here it is: https://news.google.com/?hl=de...

Interesting ...

I seem to recall some orange-faced liberal from New York City telling us he'd force drug companies to lower the price of their drugs. You know, use the power of big government to dictate to private companies how they should run things.

He wasn't lying when he said that, was he?

Hmm; he doesn't look orange to me ... sure you don't have some latent hidden subcutaneous dog whistling racism there, buddy? ;)

We've already been cut off from many news site in the U.S. who saw little benefit and many potential downsides of conforming to the GPDR.

Go to https://news.google.com/ because you want to see the american point of view on the news. Click on many articles and discover that we are locked out because the publisher (like the L.A Times) has deemed that readers from Europe aren't worth the effort.

What will likely happen is that all the european sites like news.google.fr, news.google.sp, news.google.it, etc become less and less informative and unless one uses a VPN to escape to a freer part of the Internet, we will be walled away from information.

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Ads in videostreams
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~16mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> Try THIS instead (hosts files) https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (multiplatform)

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Ads in videostreams
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~16mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> Try THIS instead (hosts files) https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (multiplatform)

Your post should also be removed for copyright infringement: https://www.google.com/search?...

You're either being deliberately obtuse or intellectually dishonest. Premiums have increased every. single. year. since its inception and have more than doubled since 2013. So, sure, "bro," whatever.

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Ads in videostreams
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~16mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> Try THIS instead (hosts files) https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (multiplatform)

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Ads in videostreams
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~16mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> Try THIS instead (hosts files) https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (multiplatform)

They are.

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Ads in videostreams
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> Try THIS instead (hosts files) https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (multiplatform)

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Ads in videostreams
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> Try THIS instead (hosts files) https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (multiplatform)

Saiy looks pretty good. Especially this:

"NONE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS UPLOADED TO EXTERNAL SERVERS! Any permissions Saiy requests are for device level ONLY. Please see our Privacy Policy for full details."

Offsets just move the pollution of manufacturing to somewhere else to another city, state, country, or another hemisphere.

Well, I'm glad to see you acknowledge CO2 as a pollutant, but the fact is that the concentration of it in the atmosphere is sufficiently low that it becomes fungible. It doesn't matter where it's emitted or where it's sunk. That's a valid concern for NOx, or HCs, or particulates, but not for CO2.

I can't imaging swapping out batteries packs weighing 2000lbs being very practical in time or money for farmers in their fields.

That's because your imagination has atrophied, or because your ignorance is both broad and deep. Most farm properties of any noticeable size have a forklift.

There are reasons why we don't put human feces, raw or treated, on the vegetable crops we eat.

There are reasons why we don't put raw human feces on the crops we eat, but we absolutely do put treated human feces on that food. It's called sewage sludge. In fact, the origin of the organic movement was a man noticing that community health was tied to soil health, and that soil health depended on returning feces to the fields. Actual organic farming (not "USDA organic", but the real thing) involves cyclical systems, not just a list of what you can or can't put on your crops. You can look all of this up on Wikipedia if you're still confused. Further, all you have to do to make human waste into 100% safe soil is to let it sit for a year, and occasionally aerate it. It will "cook" itself. You can read about a simple toilet based on this principle in The Barefoot Architect by Johann Lengen.

But substitute "mindfulness" with "prayer" (which itself could be seen as a form of mindfulness), would the study be taken seriously by the medical community?

It might

https://www.google.com/search?...

You seem really, really confused about the technical details. [AMP] isn't a cache. [...] A cache returns the thing cached [and a] proxy alters the data for each user [and] is not a cache at all.

It's always such a treasure to find someone who pokes fun at another user's technical knowledge only to absolutely fail at their own attempt at an explanation. Slashdot really is a mythical place, where users feel entitled to talk down to their fellow readers regarding topics they have absolutely no fundamental knowledge of.

First lets look deeper into your understanding of the most basic of terms: "cache" and "proxy". You do realize that a "cache" and a "proxy" aren't mutually exclusive, right? There are, in fact, proxy servers that also perform caching responsibilities (making such implementations both a "cache" and a "proxy"). It is entirely common for software to act in both compacities, or for two or more discrete services to work in tandem to provide said set of features. As it doesn't appear you have any first-hand experience working with this types of software, you may want to reference Wikipedia's articles on caches and proxies before taking another stab at commenting about AMP or any similar technologies.

Regarding AMP specifically, your statements are again incorrect. Don't take my word for it though, you can check all of the following resources to verify my assertions, if you feel so inclined: [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5]. To save you some time, here is a brief writeup from the developer documentation regarding the caching mechanics of AMP:

When a user requests an AMP document from the Google AMP Cache, the cache automatically requests updates in order to be able to serve fresh content for the next user once the content has been cached. With this model, updates to AMP documents propagate automatically and quickly; few users will see the non-updated version after your update. The cache follows a "stale-while-revalidate" model. It uses the origin's caching headers, such as Max-Age, as hints in deciding whether a particular document or resource is stale. When a user makes a request for something that is stale, that request causes a new copy to be fetched, so that the next user gets fresh content. To limit the amount of load it generates for publisher sites, the Google AMP Cache considers any document fresh for at least 15 seconds, and any resource fresh for at least 1 minute. Note that those numbers may change in the future, as we tune the cache for optimum balance between freshness and load on publisher sites.

-https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/overview#google-amp-cache-updates

It is important to note that AMP doesn't require use of Google's cache component. Those looking to implement the AMP specification have a broad array of choices regarding behavior of their content.

You seem really, really confused about the technical details. [AMP] isn't a cache. [...] A cache returns the thing cached [and a] proxy alters the data for each user [and] is not a cache at all.

It's always such a treasure to find someone who pokes fun at another user's technical knowledge only to absolutely fail at their own attempt at an explanation. Slashdot really is a mythical place, where users feel entitled to talk down to their fellow readers regarding topics they have absolutely no fundamental knowledge of.

First lets look deeper into your understanding of the most basic of terms: "cache" and "proxy". You do realize that a "cache" and a "proxy" aren't mutually exclusive, right? There are, in fact, proxy servers that also perform caching responsibilities (making such implementations both a "cache" and a "proxy"). It is entirely common for software to act in both compacities, or for two or more discrete services to work in tandem to provide said set of features. As it doesn't appear you have any first-hand experience working with this types of software, you may want to reference Wikipedia's articles on caches and proxies before taking another stab at commenting about AMP or any similar technologies.

Regarding AMP specifically, your statements are again incorrect. Don't take my word for it though, you can check all of the following resources to verify my assertions, if you feel so inclined: [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5]. To save you some time, here is a brief writeup from the developer documentation regarding the caching mechanics of AMP:

When a user requests an AMP document from the Google AMP Cache, the cache automatically requests updates in order to be able to serve fresh content for the next user once the content has been cached. With this model, updates to AMP documents propagate automatically and quickly; few users will see the non-updated version after your update. The cache follows a "stale-while-revalidate" model. It uses the origin's caching headers, such as Max-Age, as hints in deciding whether a particular document or resource is stale. When a user makes a request for something that is stale, that request causes a new copy to be fetched, so that the next user gets fresh content. To limit the amount of load it generates for publisher sites, the Google AMP Cache considers any document fresh for at least 15 seconds, and any resource fresh for at least 1 minute. Note that those numbers may change in the future, as we tune the cache for optimum balance between freshness and load on publisher sites.

-https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/overview#google-amp-cache-updates

It is important to note that AMP doesn't require use of Google's cache component. Those looking to implement the AMP specification have a broad array of choices regarding behavior of their content.

You seem really, really confused about the technical details. [AMP] isn't a cache. [...] A cache returns the thing cached [and a] proxy alters the data for each user [and] is not a cache at all.

It's always such a treasure to find someone who pokes fun at another user's technical knowledge only to absolutely fail at their own attempt at an explanation. Slashdot really is a mythical place, where users feel entitled to talk down to their fellow readers regarding topics they have absolutely no fundamental knowledge of.

First lets look deeper into your understanding of the most basic of terms: "cache" and "proxy". You do realize that a "cache" and a "proxy" aren't mutually exclusive, right? There are, in fact, proxy servers that also perform caching responsibilities (making such implementations both a "cache" and a "proxy"). It is entirely common for software to act in both compacities, or for two or more discrete services to work in tandem to provide said set of features. As it doesn't appear you have any first-hand experience working with this types of software, you may want to reference Wikipedia's articles on caches and proxies before taking another stab at commenting about AMP or any similar technologies.

Regarding AMP specifically, your statements are again incorrect. Don't take my word for it though, you can check all of the following resources to verify my assertions, if you feel so inclined: [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5]. To save you some time, here is a brief writeup from the developer documentation regarding the caching mechanics of AMP:

When a user requests an AMP document from the Google AMP Cache, the cache automatically requests updates in order to be able to serve fresh content for the next user once the content has been cached. With this model, updates to AMP documents propagate automatically and quickly; few users will see the non-updated version after your update. The cache follows a "stale-while-revalidate" model. It uses the origin's caching headers, such as Max-Age, as hints in deciding whether a particular document or resource is stale. When a user makes a request for something that is stale, that request causes a new copy to be fetched, so that the next user gets fresh content. To limit the amount of load it generates for publisher sites, the Google AMP Cache considers any document fresh for at least 15 seconds, and any resource fresh for at least 1 minute. Note that those numbers may change in the future, as we tune the cache for optimum balance between freshness and load on publisher sites.

-https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/overview#google-amp-cache-updates

It is important to note that AMP doesn't require use of Google's cache component. Those looking to implement the AMP specification have a broad array of choices regarding behavior of their content.

You seem really, really confused about the technical details. [AMP] isn't a cache. [...] A cache returns the thing cached [and a] proxy alters the data for each user [and] is not a cache at all.

It's always such a treasure to find someone who pokes fun at another user's technical knowledge only to absolutely fail at their own attempt at an explanation. Slashdot really is a mythical place, where users feel entitled to talk down to their fellow readers regarding topics they have absolutely no fundamental knowledge of.

First lets look deeper into your understanding of the most basic of terms: "cache" and "proxy". You do realize that a "cache" and a "proxy" aren't mutually exclusive, right? There are, in fact, proxy servers that also perform caching responsibilities (making such implementations both a "cache" and a "proxy"). It is entirely common for software to act in both compacities, or for two or more discrete services to work in tandem to provide said set of features. As it doesn't appear you have any first-hand experience working with this types of software, you may want to reference Wikipedia's articles on caches and proxies before taking another stab at commenting about AMP or any similar technologies.

Regarding AMP specifically, your statements are again incorrect. Don't take my word for it though, you can check all of the following resources to verify my assertions, if you feel so inclined: [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5]. To save you some time, here is a brief writeup from the developer documentation regarding the caching mechanics of AMP:

When a user requests an AMP document from the Google AMP Cache, the cache automatically requests updates in order to be able to serve fresh content for the next user once the content has been cached. With this model, updates to AMP documents propagate automatically and quickly; few users will see the non-updated version after your update. The cache follows a "stale-while-revalidate" model. It uses the origin's caching headers, such as Max-Age, as hints in deciding whether a particular document or resource is stale. When a user makes a request for something that is stale, that request causes a new copy to be fetched, so that the next user gets fresh content. To limit the amount of load it generates for publisher sites, the Google AMP Cache considers any document fresh for at least 15 seconds, and any resource fresh for at least 1 minute. Note that those numbers may change in the future, as we tune the cache for optimum balance between freshness and load on publisher sites.

-https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/overview#google-amp-cache-updates

It is important to note that AMP doesn't require use of Google's cache component. Those looking to implement the AMP specification have a broad array of choices regarding behavior of their content.

Sure, if you pay close attention to what they're doing (tariffs, imposing regulations on states to protect corporations in defiance of the 10th amendment, record H1-B labor imports, etc, etc). But if you don't care about policy (or only care about the two big wedge issues, gun control and abortion) they're still on point. They still use rhetoric of low taxes & small government.

The trouble is swing voters. Swing voters don't usually pay attention to policy, they pay attention to how the candidate makes them feel. That's why the beer poll exists and why it's damn near impossible to win without it. And it's why we got Trump (well, that an Hilary was the worst campaigner in human history).