https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/ Here you go! Insert credit card here.
At one point Mozilla was literally selling a VPN subscription. That point is now - you can go buy one today. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-vpn-and-ho... You can even donate money today:…
I suspect you will find that in many cases, people whose brains have been hijacked by chemical dependency may experience some difficulty in behaving as a stakeholder in society. It will often not stack up favorably…
People espousing this theory usually point to rat park. Unfortunately, rat park is in no sense good or useful science. It's more useful as a litmus test for how sincerely someone tests their beliefs.
Individual capacity enables community resilience. If you have resources that can be shared, they can be shared with your neighbors. Otherwise, we're either asking local government to invest in resilience or reinventing…
I agree. There's no moral or ethical difference in any way. Unfortunately for us, the law routinely does see a substantial difference and treats them as such. Due to that, the SCOTUS sees them as different and judges…
This article readily conflates niceness and kindness. It would be very easy to read this and take away the understanding that critical feedback that leaves a person feeling in any way negative is not kindness.
There's a great deal of nuance to how kindness is defined. It's very easy for one set of actions to be either very kind or very unkind, depending on definitions. Listening, being respectful, and being empathetic may…
San Francisco is an instructive example. Prior to Uber, calling a taxi in SF gave you a 50% chance of one showing up in some functionally unknowable amount of time. 50% is not an exaggeration, it was sometimes below…
I think you will find that for the vast, vast majority of scientific papers there is significant negative expected value to even attempting to have layperson reviewers. Bear in mind that we're talking about papers…
Search systems aren't real people or real businesses either. Never mind details like how you define and enforce "real" in a decentralized way across N legal systems with wildly varying ideas of what it means to be a…
If you look at sibling comments, you'll find a whole discussion where users talk about the major significance to many people of a different numerical estimate. With that in mind, I think that for many people the issue…
OK. Let's assume that the rest of the C-suite combines to give that number a solid 5x multiplier. How accurate that is is left as an exercise to the reader, but be aware that the CEO is almost always the highest-paid…
I think a discourse that runs: > Assertion one > Assertion two, claiming assertion one requires asserter two to be a liar is one that can benefit from being grounded a bit. On a personal level, I do not believe that the…
I'm not implying anything of the sort. My point is that an unsupported assertion should not be treated as a well-supported truth. All we know right now is what a single person believes. I am not questioning what…
Every contract with a national government buying whole data centers for cloud services is a major one with big numbers attached. This is not a small amount of money and the backlash to date has yet to be impactful. If…
Decades of policy designed to promote detached single family houses, discourage density, and make it easy to object to construction have combined with tax policy favoring stasis to create a political environment…
The fine is not the punishment. The bans are the punishment. They gut the business model, likely shutting down the business entirely in short order. Making people whole is what civil lawsuits are for. Which, if I…
The GS schedule has location adjustments. They don't always keep up with the actual cost of living in a location. The NYC area means there's a 37% boost to pay, but NYC is not just 37% more expensive to live in than…
You're absolutely right. The token is clunky. The rest - a VPN to a virtual desktop - is entirely reasonable.
Yes. Generally it can be summarized as "What data security?". Snark aside, there's usually a reflexive assumption that more data is always better and that anything that gets in the way of more data is bad. Anything that…
As a security person trying to work with marketing and data engineering teams, I've often found them very resistant to learning how to secure things. They generally want to use the tools they know, in the way they know,…
That's only possible when the regulatory environment allows it. If your insurance regulators won't allow that kind of flexibility, then they have to look for other options. This is often approached through the lens of…
In the US, it's a requirement of mortgage lenders. This makes it less of a legal requirement and more of a de facto requirement, as most homes are purchased via mortgage in the US.
At the risk of being callous, the goal of home insurance is to assess and manage risk. Choosing ignorance in the interests of giving some people a subsidy on the assumption that they may be poorer does not further these…
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/ Here you go! Insert credit card here.
At one point Mozilla was literally selling a VPN subscription. That point is now - you can go buy one today. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-vpn-and-ho... You can even donate money today:…
I suspect you will find that in many cases, people whose brains have been hijacked by chemical dependency may experience some difficulty in behaving as a stakeholder in society. It will often not stack up favorably…
People espousing this theory usually point to rat park. Unfortunately, rat park is in no sense good or useful science. It's more useful as a litmus test for how sincerely someone tests their beliefs.
Individual capacity enables community resilience. If you have resources that can be shared, they can be shared with your neighbors. Otherwise, we're either asking local government to invest in resilience or reinventing…
I agree. There's no moral or ethical difference in any way. Unfortunately for us, the law routinely does see a substantial difference and treats them as such. Due to that, the SCOTUS sees them as different and judges…
This article readily conflates niceness and kindness. It would be very easy to read this and take away the understanding that critical feedback that leaves a person feeling in any way negative is not kindness.
There's a great deal of nuance to how kindness is defined. It's very easy for one set of actions to be either very kind or very unkind, depending on definitions. Listening, being respectful, and being empathetic may…
San Francisco is an instructive example. Prior to Uber, calling a taxi in SF gave you a 50% chance of one showing up in some functionally unknowable amount of time. 50% is not an exaggeration, it was sometimes below…
I think you will find that for the vast, vast majority of scientific papers there is significant negative expected value to even attempting to have layperson reviewers. Bear in mind that we're talking about papers…
Search systems aren't real people or real businesses either. Never mind details like how you define and enforce "real" in a decentralized way across N legal systems with wildly varying ideas of what it means to be a…
If you look at sibling comments, you'll find a whole discussion where users talk about the major significance to many people of a different numerical estimate. With that in mind, I think that for many people the issue…
OK. Let's assume that the rest of the C-suite combines to give that number a solid 5x multiplier. How accurate that is is left as an exercise to the reader, but be aware that the CEO is almost always the highest-paid…
I think a discourse that runs: > Assertion one > Assertion two, claiming assertion one requires asserter two to be a liar is one that can benefit from being grounded a bit. On a personal level, I do not believe that the…
I'm not implying anything of the sort. My point is that an unsupported assertion should not be treated as a well-supported truth. All we know right now is what a single person believes. I am not questioning what…
Every contract with a national government buying whole data centers for cloud services is a major one with big numbers attached. This is not a small amount of money and the backlash to date has yet to be impactful. If…
Decades of policy designed to promote detached single family houses, discourage density, and make it easy to object to construction have combined with tax policy favoring stasis to create a political environment…
The fine is not the punishment. The bans are the punishment. They gut the business model, likely shutting down the business entirely in short order. Making people whole is what civil lawsuits are for. Which, if I…
The GS schedule has location adjustments. They don't always keep up with the actual cost of living in a location. The NYC area means there's a 37% boost to pay, but NYC is not just 37% more expensive to live in than…
You're absolutely right. The token is clunky. The rest - a VPN to a virtual desktop - is entirely reasonable.
Yes. Generally it can be summarized as "What data security?". Snark aside, there's usually a reflexive assumption that more data is always better and that anything that gets in the way of more data is bad. Anything that…
As a security person trying to work with marketing and data engineering teams, I've often found them very resistant to learning how to secure things. They generally want to use the tools they know, in the way they know,…
That's only possible when the regulatory environment allows it. If your insurance regulators won't allow that kind of flexibility, then they have to look for other options. This is often approached through the lens of…
In the US, it's a requirement of mortgage lenders. This makes it less of a legal requirement and more of a de facto requirement, as most homes are purchased via mortgage in the US.
At the risk of being callous, the goal of home insurance is to assess and manage risk. Choosing ignorance in the interests of giving some people a subsidy on the assumption that they may be poorer does not further these…