Municipal monopoly agreements DO NOT EXIST in the United States. Period. They have been banned, at the Federal level, since the Telecommunications Act of 1996. True story.
What you have is an example of first mover effect and natural monopolies. But Libertarians hate to admit to those, as they are natural market failure mechanisms, and they don't like to admit that the market can have inherent failure modes.
There's no way that we *weren't* eventually heading for that economic collapse. If human populations continued to grow at that *economically great* 2% per year (which we're totally capable of doing, humans were doing that for much of the last century), the entire mass of planet Earth would be nothing *but* monkey meat in roughly 1500 years. (1.02^1500 * 7*10^9 ~~ 10^22 people). Which isn't all that long.
The economic system of a permanently steady state barely-growing economy is long overdue. It may have to overthrow everything we know about western capital at all, but that's only a few hundred years old at this point.
+1 for 'pass' (also sometimes referred to as "zx2c4 pass").
Version controlled password vault is great.
I use 'passmenu' as an extension. Emulates a keyboard, so it doesn't wipe out my copy/paste buffer.
It's all GnuPG and Bash underneath. And I use a YubiKey to hold my GnuPG private key (and also my SSH private key, which I use to pull from Git, where I have the password vault archived).
Also works pretty well in a team mode, at least to a certain scale. My work team (4 people) has a 'pass' vault together. All the secrets are thus GPG encrypted with all of our public keys. There's also support for Ansible to retrieve passwords from the passwordstore.
As already said, if you're getting any signal at all in LTE, it's probably not the air interface that's slow. Plenty of rural tower sites, especially once you're off in the 'partner networks' part of the country, with one copper DS3/T3 backhaul (if not even less), and you'd get that speed 50 feet from the tower.
On the flip side, a stable of long-term plodding programmers can sure make for stale code. I can think of several examples still today. Software that is the standard thing in some low-revenue boring niche field. Developed and sold by some little five-person family-run shop in some suburb. Software that is just patch upon patch upon patch on some 1996-era Turbo Pascal or MFC C++. With some client-server bit bodged in here. With some 'export to HTML' kludge over here as a "web publishing platform". Software that desperately calls out for getting replaced by something newer, but the install base, data lock-in, and niche market combine to keep things just getting more and more outdated.
You could be a software developer with twenty years in one of those shops. With twenty years of writing 1996 code. And you'd be basically dogshiat on the job market.
I'd kinda disagree; you've come up with a wide spread of "Elites". Doctors, by and large are bashed by the left, who have the latest Woo treatment of crystals and odd vegetables that cure cancer and invoke world peace.
As far as I know (and I could be wrong) there are absolutely zero crystals-and-kombucha Lefties elected in the US House of Representatives. There are actual anti-vax, evolution-rejecting, "Obama was born in Kenya"-believing Republican representatives. Dozens of them. False equivalence.
Honestly, their cab and truck driving jobs are just fine for quite a bit longer. There's a substantial period where a $2/hour human > an expensive AI > a $20/hour human. There are millions upon millions of manual jobs in China that *could* be automated, but not for cheaper than subsistence workers.
At least at a couple of those firms mentioned (Alphabet, Facebook), they've boxed themselves into a crazy level of "only the best" multi-day intense interviews hiring. Can't remember every IPv6 header on a whiteboard? Can't rattle your Linux syscalls for a SRE job? Don't fully know the internals of a dictionary in Python? Don't have any TEDx talks? Out the door. Meanwhile, they backfill a lot of those very same roles with contractors who, while they don't last as long, don't go through *near* the rigor in getting in.
The original book is available as a free PDF. https://www.forth.com/starting... The second programming book I ever read... 5th or 6th grade was it... after my TI-99/4A's "Extended Basic" manual.
U2F is perfectly functional in Firefox 60+ as downloaded. But, for reasons I honestly can't get, it's not turned on by default. It worked before FF 60 with plugins.
If AMZN wanted to open 15,000 brick-and-mortar book shops in underserved neighborhoods and small towns... they would be doing so. They aren't, and aren't about to start doing that. Even if some moron writes a think-piece about how nice it would be for them to to that.
The original article from Mourdoukoutas suggesting a corporate book store with wifi, coffee shop, a community bulletin board, bathrooms and chairs for the homeless to sit and read magazines. Hmm... toss in a stupid-hot goth checkout clerk and you've just reinvented my college-era Borders from 2001. Good times. Good times. They kinda went bankrupt with that model, though...
My team's preferred password management is basically doing that right now.
We use the standard 'zx2c4' pass program (passwordstore.org). Which is a readable set of BASH wrapper scripts around GPG and Git.
Our GPG private keys are on Yubikeys. Where the crypto processing does happen on the smartcard/dongle as you suggest. There's a step there where it's in memory, but that's inevitable (even with mooltipass emulating a keyboard).
This even works over NFC on Android (Password Store and OpenKeychain).
iow, it's baked... we've been doing this for like three years now.
I don't understand your gripe. Your mother clearly lives in a place that isn't densely populated. They aren't going to spend a half million in infrastructure to make mom happy.
They sure as all hell have taken hundreds of millions of dollars in USF, CAF, USDA RUS, and myriad state-level incentives on the "we'll install broadband next year" promise for twenty straight "next years".
See, I keep hearing this "I'm always getting called" from other people and it just boggles my mind, because it's so different from my experience. I have a pretty fleshed-out public LinkedIn profile. Some stuff in GitHub (though 95% of my commits are in our enterprise gitlab). I've been doing this for quite a while (3-digit slashdot ID), but can cover a lot of modern hip buzzwords (Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, etc). And I get a recruiter e-mail about once a quarter, maybe, and a cold call generally less than once a year.
All depends on geography I guess. Recruiters... just because there are lots of targets within 5 miles of a given major metro ZIP code, those people may be tired of hearing from you, and you might want to look in weirder places.
No one cares about classic CDMA, GSM, or basically anything that isn't a flavor of LTE at this point. What remains of the 'burner' $10 prepaid flip phone market will be VoLTE in 12-18 months.
Sprint brings to the table a whole lot of bandwidth licenses at 2.5GHz. And (going back to Clearwire days) has finally gotten over most of the regulatory hurdles involved in deploying it. Not good for classic cell service, but okay for urban nanocells and also pretty good for playing in the last-mile broadband sector (i.e., side-of-house mounted access points). Sprint hasn't had either the cash or the attention span God gave a gnat to really build out the 2.5GHz network.
No drive would work for more than a few days for that kind of wage. And all of the Uber/Lyft drivers I have had have all been doing it for a while.
Irrationality can last a lot longer that an econ textbook says it will. I have relatives who have been hawking the same multi-level-marketing garbage for 4+ years and couldn't, at least honestly, show a penny of profit from it. And they'll defend their particular MLM religiously. Hell, I've known people who sent money to African e-mail scammers for multiple years. Didn't make them rational actors.
When I think back, a lot of 'junior dev' assignments were classes of code that had clear specs and were mostly just doing CRUD on the back end. A whole lot of boilerplate code. Code that is now pretty much replaced by some MIT-licensed library in Maven/PyPi/Rubygems/NuGet, etc. At one level, it should make a junior dev more productive... "just reference the library". But, remaining tasks left are closer to the business logic, more open-ended, and generally higher-level architecture questions.
The 'getting started' pipeline problem is even more obvious in the ops/sysadmin realm. I picked up my UNIX chops through installing bare-metal servers, configuring BIND domains, Apache, Sendmail, etc. Junior dev tasks. Now... why would you run your own DNS? Make an API call to a provider, automate it, and scale x1000. Manage a giant fleet with Ansible or Puppet... great. Now, we go heavy into containers. Great.
But, I haven't met many people who were very good with containers or Puppet who didn't first have 10 years of basic sysadmin. But, those tools have obviated the need for paid entry-level jobs getting that 10 years of basic sysadmin knowledge.
Our formal education system doesn't help. I look at the computer classes on offer at my local Community College and weep. 3 hours of C++... for loop and data structure... write some itty-bitty bit of code. Great, the fundamentals. But, that's all they ever get. What I need... check out from Git, read a third-party's API definition, and add a little function into an existing large codebase based on some huge framework. Oh, and/or write a test for that addition too, please. We're finding that the bootcamps (at least, the best of them) are more connected to real-world needs than most US colleges and universities.
Uh, how many dependent males are there? Like, guys with little to no education who couldn't get by on their own because they've been stay-at-home dads and housewi... househusbands? Is that even a word? Is there a market for sugarmoms?
More than you might think at first. I know a *surprising* number of professional 40-something women (doctors, college profs) supporting educated but generally ne'r-do-well "indie filmmaker type" stay-at-home man-baby hubbies.
I think the reasoning is this. "I don't really have the assets/looks/personality that men above or even paralleling my social status want. If I marry someone a little below my station (university staff, male nurses, etc), there'll always be a lot of unspoken tension about that power imbalance. But, if I marry some good-looking 6'2" drifty-doofus who is good with kids, we both know where we stand".
At one level you might think it. But, I've talked about it with a number of Indian co-workers. At least, of the castes that end up working in America, there's some *stupidly* expensive wedding expectations, *stupidly* expensive rings and gold, and you'd f-ing well better have the house and car figured out before the wedding. Because your mother-in-law is moving in. These nice cricket-playing engineers were all working themselves silly over this stuff.
When I suggest to them that they just elope and have a $50 civil wedding (like I did), they just don't even fathom how that's a possibility. Trust me, the Indian system sucks, just in different ways.
Underlying factor--there are quite a lot of 25 year old women (especially those who are single moms already) willing to become a 45-year-old middle manager's second wife. There are exceedingly few 25 year old men (especially who would like to be fathers) who are willing to become a 45-year-old elementary school teacher's second husband.
Want to improve AAAA adoption? Easy. Google gives you a ~5% PageRank boost for working dual-stack on your server. Like they already do for SSL, ARIA accessibility, and mobile-friendliness.
You'd be shocked at the number of people *PLEADING* for a 3-6Mb ADSL connection. In houses that *HAD* a 3-6Mb ADSL connection. And, when the ownership of the house turned over, AT&T (and other incumbents) said "Sorry, no more ADSL" (which equals... no internet).
I'd survive today with a 3/1 Mb DSL connection. Enough to stream SD. Enough to adequately RDP to a cloud service, which is how I'd do all my development were I so unfortunate. But, for a lot of people, and we're not talking super-rural... we're talking suburban subdivisions here... there isn't even that.
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Municipal monopoly agreements DO NOT EXIST in the United States. Period. They have been banned, at the Federal level, since the Telecommunications Act of 1996. True story.
What you have is an example of first mover effect and natural monopolies. But Libertarians hate to admit to those, as they are natural market failure mechanisms, and they don't like to admit that the market can have inherent failure modes.
Ninety years ago, companies were figuring this out.
Nixon ran with it 65 years ago.
But, what a CRAAZY idea, am I right?
There's no way that we *weren't* eventually heading for that economic collapse. If human populations continued to grow at that *economically great* 2% per year (which we're totally capable of doing, humans were doing that for much of the last century), the entire mass of planet Earth would be nothing *but* monkey meat in roughly 1500 years. (1.02^1500 * 7*10^9 ~~ 10^22 people). Which isn't all that long.
The economic system of a permanently steady state barely-growing economy is long overdue. It may have to overthrow everything we know about western capital at all, but that's only a few hundred years old at this point.
+1 for 'pass' (also sometimes referred to as "zx2c4 pass").
Version controlled password vault is great.
I use 'passmenu' as an extension. Emulates a keyboard, so it doesn't wipe out my copy/paste buffer.
It's all GnuPG and Bash underneath. And I use a YubiKey to hold my GnuPG private key (and also my SSH private key, which I use to pull from Git, where I have the password vault archived).
Also works pretty well in a team mode, at least to a certain scale. My work team (4 people) has a 'pass' vault together. All the secrets are thus GPG encrypted with all of our public keys. There's also support for Ansible to retrieve passwords from the passwordstore.
CLion from JetBrains? Not free, but not very expensive at all if you're actually making money coding. And works as well in Linux as anywhere.
As already said, if you're getting any signal at all in LTE, it's probably not the air interface that's slow. Plenty of rural tower sites, especially once you're off in the 'partner networks' part of the country, with one copper DS3/T3 backhaul (if not even less), and you'd get that speed 50 feet from the tower.
On the flip side, a stable of long-term plodding programmers can sure make for stale code. I can think of several examples still today. Software that is the standard thing in some low-revenue boring niche field. Developed and sold by some little five-person family-run shop in some suburb. Software that is just patch upon patch upon patch on some 1996-era Turbo Pascal or MFC C++. With some client-server bit bodged in here. With some 'export to HTML' kludge over here as a "web publishing platform". Software that desperately calls out for getting replaced by something newer, but the install base, data lock-in, and niche market combine to keep things just getting more and more outdated.
You could be a software developer with twenty years in one of those shops. With twenty years of writing 1996 code. And you'd be basically dogshiat on the job market.
I'd kinda disagree; you've come up with a wide spread of "Elites". Doctors, by and large are bashed by the left, who have the latest Woo treatment of crystals and odd vegetables that cure cancer and invoke world peace.
As far as I know (and I could be wrong) there are absolutely zero crystals-and-kombucha Lefties elected in the US House of Representatives. There are actual anti-vax, evolution-rejecting, "Obama was born in Kenya"-believing Republican representatives. Dozens of them. False equivalence.
Honestly, their cab and truck driving jobs are just fine for quite a bit longer. There's a substantial period where a $2/hour human > an expensive AI > a $20/hour human. There are millions upon millions of manual jobs in China that *could* be automated, but not for cheaper than subsistence workers.
At least at a couple of those firms mentioned (Alphabet, Facebook), they've boxed themselves into a crazy level of "only the best" multi-day intense interviews hiring. Can't remember every IPv6 header on a whiteboard? Can't rattle your Linux syscalls for a SRE job? Don't fully know the internals of a dictionary in Python? Don't have any TEDx talks? Out the door. Meanwhile, they backfill a lot of those very same roles with contractors who, while they don't last as long, don't go through *near* the rigor in getting in.
The original book is available as a free PDF. https://www.forth.com/starting... The second programming book I ever read... 5th or 6th grade was it... after my TI-99/4A's "Extended Basic" manual.
U2F is perfectly functional in Firefox 60+ as downloaded. But, for reasons I honestly can't get, it's not turned on by default. It worked before FF 60 with plugins.
about:config -> security.webauth.u2f true
If AMZN wanted to open 15,000 brick-and-mortar book shops in underserved neighborhoods and small towns... they would be doing so. They aren't, and aren't about to start doing that. Even if some moron writes a think-piece about how nice it would be for them to to that.
The original article from Mourdoukoutas suggesting a corporate book store with wifi, coffee shop, a community bulletin board, bathrooms and chairs for the homeless to sit and read magazines. Hmm... toss in a stupid-hot goth checkout clerk and you've just reinvented my college-era Borders from 2001. Good times. Good times. They kinda went bankrupt with that model, though...
My team's preferred password management is basically doing that right now.
We use the standard 'zx2c4' pass program (passwordstore.org). Which is a readable set of BASH wrapper scripts around GPG and Git.
Our GPG private keys are on Yubikeys. Where the crypto processing does happen on the smartcard/dongle as you suggest. There's a step there where it's in memory, but that's inevitable (even with mooltipass emulating a keyboard).
This even works over NFC on Android (Password Store and OpenKeychain).
iow, it's baked... we've been doing this for like three years now.
I don't understand your gripe. Your mother clearly lives in a place that isn't densely populated. They aren't going to spend a half million in infrastructure to make mom happy.
They sure as all hell have taken hundreds of millions of dollars in USF, CAF, USDA RUS, and myriad state-level incentives on the "we'll install broadband next year" promise for twenty straight "next years".
See, I keep hearing this "I'm always getting called" from other people and it just boggles my mind, because it's so different from my experience. I have a pretty fleshed-out public LinkedIn profile. Some stuff in GitHub (though 95% of my commits are in our enterprise gitlab). I've been doing this for quite a while (3-digit slashdot ID), but can cover a lot of modern hip buzzwords (Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, etc). And I get a recruiter e-mail about once a quarter, maybe, and a cold call generally less than once a year.
All depends on geography I guess. Recruiters... just because there are lots of targets within 5 miles of a given major metro ZIP code, those people may be tired of hearing from you, and you might want to look in weirder places.
No one cares about classic CDMA, GSM, or basically anything that isn't a flavor of LTE at this point. What remains of the 'burner' $10 prepaid flip phone market will be VoLTE in 12-18 months.
Sprint brings to the table a whole lot of bandwidth licenses at 2.5GHz. And (going back to Clearwire days) has finally gotten over most of the regulatory hurdles involved in deploying it. Not good for classic cell service, but okay for urban nanocells and also pretty good for playing in the last-mile broadband sector (i.e., side-of-house mounted access points). Sprint hasn't had either the cash or the attention span God gave a gnat to really build out the 2.5GHz network.
No drive would work for more than a few days for that kind of wage. And all of the Uber/Lyft drivers I have had have all been doing it for a while.
Irrationality can last a lot longer that an econ textbook says it will. I have relatives who have been hawking the same multi-level-marketing garbage for 4+ years and couldn't, at least honestly, show a penny of profit from it. And they'll defend their particular MLM religiously. Hell, I've known people who sent money to African e-mail scammers for multiple years. Didn't make them rational actors.
When I think back, a lot of 'junior dev' assignments were classes of code that had clear specs and were mostly just doing CRUD on the back end. A whole lot of boilerplate code. Code that is now pretty much replaced by some MIT-licensed library in Maven/PyPi/Rubygems/NuGet, etc. At one level, it should make a junior dev more productive... "just reference the library". But, remaining tasks left are closer to the business logic, more open-ended, and generally higher-level architecture questions.
The 'getting started' pipeline problem is even more obvious in the ops/sysadmin realm. I picked up my UNIX chops through installing bare-metal servers, configuring BIND domains, Apache, Sendmail, etc. Junior dev tasks. Now... why would you run your own DNS? Make an API call to a provider, automate it, and scale x1000. Manage a giant fleet with Ansible or Puppet... great. Now, we go heavy into containers. Great.
But, I haven't met many people who were very good with containers or Puppet who didn't first have 10 years of basic sysadmin. But, those tools have obviated the need for paid entry-level jobs getting that 10 years of basic sysadmin knowledge.
Our formal education system doesn't help. I look at the computer classes on offer at my local Community College and weep. 3 hours of C++... for loop and data structure... write some itty-bitty bit of code. Great, the fundamentals. But, that's all they ever get. What I need... check out from Git, read a third-party's API definition, and add a little function into an existing large codebase based on some huge framework. Oh, and/or write a test for that addition too, please. We're finding that the bootcamps (at least, the best of them) are more connected to real-world needs than most US colleges and universities.
Uh, how many dependent males are there? Like, guys with little to no education who couldn't get by on their own because they've been stay-at-home dads and housewi... househusbands? Is that even a word? Is there a market for sugarmoms?
More than you might think at first. I know a *surprising* number of professional 40-something women (doctors, college profs) supporting educated but generally ne'r-do-well "indie filmmaker type" stay-at-home man-baby hubbies.
I think the reasoning is this. "I don't really have the assets/looks/personality that men above or even paralleling my social status want. If I marry someone a little below my station (university staff, male nurses, etc), there'll always be a lot of unspoken tension about that power imbalance. But, if I marry some good-looking 6'2" drifty-doofus who is good with kids, we both know where we stand".
At one level you might think it. But, I've talked about it with a number of Indian co-workers. At least, of the castes that end up working in America, there's some *stupidly* expensive wedding expectations, *stupidly* expensive rings and gold, and you'd f-ing well better have the house and car figured out before the wedding. Because your mother-in-law is moving in. These nice cricket-playing engineers were all working themselves silly over this stuff.
When I suggest to them that they just elope and have a $50 civil wedding (like I did), they just don't even fathom how that's a possibility. Trust me, the Indian system sucks, just in different ways.
The key words in the story were "singles 25-35".
There are a statistically significant surplus of single men 25-35. There is also a statistically significant surplus of single women 55-65.
This visualization is fascintating. http://jonathansoma.com/single...
Underlying factor--there are quite a lot of 25 year old women (especially those who are single moms already) willing to become a 45-year-old middle manager's second wife. There are exceedingly few 25 year old men (especially who would like to be fathers) who are willing to become a 45-year-old elementary school teacher's second husband.
Government is way overkill for this.
Want to improve AAAA adoption? Easy. Google gives you a ~5% PageRank boost for working dual-stack on your server. Like they already do for SSL, ARIA accessibility, and mobile-friendliness.
Nothing would move the IPv6 needle faster.
You'd be shocked at the number of people *PLEADING* for a 3-6Mb ADSL connection. In houses that *HAD* a 3-6Mb ADSL connection. And, when the ownership of the house turned over, AT&T (and other incumbents) said "Sorry, no more ADSL" (which equals... no internet).
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
I'd survive today with a 3/1 Mb DSL connection. Enough to stream SD. Enough to adequately RDP to a cloud service, which is how I'd do all my development were I so unfortunate. But, for a lot of people, and we're not talking super-rural... we're talking suburban subdivisions here... there isn't even that.
The point of a computerized system is scale. I.e., the bot would be monitoring your displayed emotion every second of the day.
Crazy? When you're distinguishing your commodity through affective labor (a Pret a Manger), it almost seems inevitable.