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mgo | 9 years ago | on: AirPods are now available

I will not buy a phone without a 3.5" jack period. I'm not buying ridiculously expensive wireless headphones that are objectively worse (worse quality than wired alternatives, added hassle of charging them plus much more expensive).

mgo | 9 years ago | on: What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting

I don't think so. Is wanting to abolish marriage altogether being against straight people? Gay marriage != gay people. From what I've seen, the majority of people against gay marriage, religious people, aren't against gays per se, they just want to reserve the right of marriage for straight people. Eich didn't exactly vote to make homosexuality illegal.

mgo | 9 years ago | on: What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting

That sounds like a false equivalency to me. How is being against gay marriage being against gay people? As far as I'm aware, there were a certain amount of gay people who didn't want gay marriage either. Are they anti-gay?

mgo | 10 years ago | on: YouTube introduces six-second Bumper ads

YouTube ads are really egregious and extremely annoying, and the option to block them (YouTube Red) isn't even available in my country. So I'm forced to use other methods of ad blocking. I literally want to pay them to make them stop, but they don't want my money.

mgo | 10 years ago | on: Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe

They need to find a business model that isn't based around outright deception to survive. I have zero sympathy for them.

mgo | 10 years ago | on: Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012)

You should research all tenets of basic income including the economic side of it by getting the opinion of actual economists on it before you make your decision. If you're not properly considering an idea then that leaves room for personal biases.

Government doesn't know how to run anything well, because the tenets of capitalism don't apply to government. The best managers of business are in the private sector where the real money is and where they have the most control.

The director of the FBI for example has a salary that tops out at about $200K plus benefits. No business manager who is truly great would want that job, so they don't. They incestuously promote from within most of the time and don't seek outsiders to fill top jobs. So nobody treats any government service as a business, and they get complacent and lose sight of the real goals, plus they don't tend to be able to budget. When was the last time you heard of a government department tightening it's belt on it's own? Private sector companies do it often to stay efficient.

Proper decision making starts with admitting that you can't possible know every angle to a particular issue. You can't be a great economist, a great businessman and a great government worker all-in-one. This is why business people surround themselves with people who DO know what they're doing (such as accountants, lawyers, engineers, marketers, etc).

How many hours have you spent researching basic income? Because extremely back-of-the-napkin math would tell you that a basic income of $20,000 is greater than the entire current government budget. Supporting a concept that would instantly consume over 100% of the current government budget is absolute madness.

Taxing rich people won't pay for this, even if you tax them at 90%. You have to squeeze the middle class and the lower class as well. Literally every level of the population suffers because working is no longer incentivised.

mgo | 10 years ago | on: “Dear Zuck.” Fuck!

The only reason you'd ever lash out at a competitor for copying you is because you have an inferior product overall. If you were winning, you wouldn't care. Build something better. Getting angry about this doesn't help you.

mgo | 10 years ago | on: Never ever write software for Oculus

This is pretty damning. It's pretty amazing how Oculus will lose the VR battle despite being "first". The HTC Vive and other more open solutions for developers that aren't behind a walled garden will win with gamers.

mgo | 10 years ago | on: OneDrive reduces free tier from 15GB to 5GB

Not really, all of those things mentioned need constant security patches even if they don't receive new features. You can't have an insecure Microsoft free application on a non-EOL Windows. They patch things all the time. Sure it doesn't seem like as big of a cost as hard drives, but Microsoft needs to pay engineers and QA guys to fix those programs. Nothing is done for free.

mgo | 10 years ago | on: Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter

Have a separate domain that points to your real origin IP. This is how I do it. I have company.com and companyprivate.com (obviously named so it's not so obvious they are related). Company.com points to CloudFlare and companyprivate.com points directly to the origin. Nobody knows about companyprivate.com except the people who need to.

mgo | 10 years ago | on: Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter

A great deal of DDoS services are essentially MITM intermediaries. Akamai, Black Lotus and others do the same thing. Why is CloudFlare the bad guy? They have an exemplary record thus far.

mgo | 10 years ago | on: Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter

I don't agree at all. I think CloudFlare is almost a public utility at this point, and they should offer services to anyone and be completely blind to the content they are serving. If LEAs have a court order, then they should definitely remove them from the service but not before. This is a law enforcement problem and it should not be CloudFlare's responsibility. Banks are not generally forced to police each customer's transactions, neither should CloudFlare be forced to police their network. They are a blind intermediary and they provide an extremely valuable service.

mgo | 10 years ago | on: OneDrive reduces free tier from 15GB to 5GB

I don't understand why they need to make these cuts. It's Microsoft - they surely have access to extremely cheap hard drives through bulk purchasing. What's 10GB?

mgo | 10 years ago | on: Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter

OVH will nullroute you in about 3 seconds if you're affecting the stability of their network. I've been hit with a very large DDoS attack before, and our host nullrouted us because the attack was causing instability for our neighbors in the rack due to the switch being flooded with too much traffic.
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