gassius

First, of course I am talking about Socialist Dictatorships of the XX Century in an academic way, from what I have read, So I really don't know as much as what I have lived through in Venezuela.

When I talk about Ideology, I am not referring to the people, but the regime hiercachy. I would guess in the case of Czechoslovakia the regime had some Ideology alignment with the Soviets, but I truly don't know. But yes, they modern approach seems to favor the exile instead of the reclusion or so it seems

As a Venezuelan, I think the difference is not the Natural Resources, or at least is not the main difference. In 2017, the shortages and economic crisis generated by 15 years of communist policies has pushed around 4 million people out, and then, the regime "elected" a Constitutional Assembly which has the power to create a new Constitution and to overrid any previously elected organism (as it was at the time the opossition controled National Assembly).

At that point I leaved Venezuela inmediatly with my 2 minor aged kids, because for me it was a NO BRAINER that the first thing they will do was to limit the emigration and the free ciruculation. My train of tought was very simple. As any other Socialist Dictatorship before, this one needs to halt the staggering loss of skilled proffesionals like Medics, Engineers or whatever they deemed of National Security, I mean, you still need Doctors, you still need the Electricity and Water to get into the industries and houses, and specially for Venezuela, you need to keep the Oil flowing off the earth...

BOY WAS I WRONG, they never put a formal limit to the emigration and at least another 5 million people leaved Venezuela (so far). It did not matter at all that the already in shambles Public Health system collapsed, they doctors that stayed were private and they attended only the capacity that could pay for the scarse services, the basic services did not matter that much either, as people got use to get them once or twice per week, and even a country wide blackout of 3 weeks was not the end of the regime, and the Oil, well, does not matter either because what was once 3.5 million barrels per day went to be as low as 300.000 bpd.

So, what was the difference? well, for all its downfalls, it seems to me that the XX century Communist/Socialist dictatorships were guided by Ideology, they really thought theirs ideas were for the better of their people, so having no Healthcare was a REAL PROBLEM, having no public services was a REAL PROBLEM. Of course, their recipes were doomed as their political ideals, but at least they tried.

The Venezuelan Regime has no Ideology (it has some in form of propaganda, but that is different that actions) as the latest news can attest, They couldn't care less about the people and the wellness. They did not use any "Natural Resouces" to keep any level of living conditions, they just let loose the ruins of the economy they had messed so badly to let the most savage neoliberalism to correct the course while they stayed in power to keep leaching two sources of income, whatever oil they could produce and the drugs operations revenue, alongside their cut on any business their allies (AKA "Enchufados) could come up in the "liberalized" economy.

All the people that leaved the country (including me) just made them easier to keep control of whatever was left. Ever decreasing political or social opposition, less pressure of the shambles public services and so on and on...

The Natural Resources is just a part of their Income, it does not affects the hability to control or to even extract richness from the system.

Is not the phenom in itself, is the fact that someone can predict/call upon it that was surprising. The fact that they had already given esoteric meanings to the phenom previously is just the icing of the cake.

And I for one am grateful for the Enlightenment illustrating the deification of Knowledge

The story has beed reused many times in Arts. One more example is in A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court from Mark Twain (1890) and I am sure is many more examples

Diseases contagions between isolated populations is not an intentional act of agression from a bad invasor that wants to kill all the native population. There was also transmission of new diseases from native american populations to europeans without those crippling effects you might suggest are the main cause of the conquest of America.

The well established historical facts you mention are neither well established more less facts. For example, the Bodadilla report is argued in some circles to be just part of political bickering, which of course, is totally normal in the context, as it is the fact that Columbus itself has marginal control and presence over little territory for a very short period of time. To call it genocidal is still, inequivocally, for much that you dont like it, indoctrination

An unironicall one

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Still remembered, always remembered

I guess one can argue that, in North America, by the hands of anglo saxon protestant pilgrims, were some mass killing of native population over the course of 4 centuries (although calling it Genocide is a naive simplicity IMO). But this was not the case for Spanish conquered America and much less for Columbus 4 trips. The only thing you are showing saying that Columbus was continuing some general genocidal douchebaggery in 1504, with a small crew and non functional ships to his command is that you are indoctrinated. I would recommend to ask yourselfe who did this indoctrination and what is their agenda.

Is funny, because that kind on unscientific unrational thinking was the main handicap the native population of America had against the Europeans migrants and the moral of the story in question is precisely that the power of knowledge and rational thinking can help you survirve some very long odds stacked against you

I don't know the parent's brand but I have a CECOTECT CONGA 11090 that fills exactly the description. CECOTEC is a spanish brand tho, and may not be available everywhere, and almost sure they manufacter the hardware in China so very possible the same specs are offered by other brands elsewhere, but those are my two cents

> Imagine if the car in front could warn the car behind of an incident

They can, that is why cars have all this pretty lights in the back! They can warn of several things, like intention of turning, braking, accidents, is amazing.

And it works wonders if the human driver focus on the trafic ahead of the car just in front

Every time I find some idealized piece about the 30s and 40s, and specially in USA, I wonder what kind of history was taught to the writer and by whom was taught, what was the agenda behind this history instruction?

I really hope we don't get back to any of that in 1, 2 or 100 generations

Rule of Thumb comes from ancient measure systems (its basically an inch)

AKA "bad trip"

The risk of having one can be reduced with a good Set and setting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting

Thank you, yes, I missed the ECDSA vs RSA key part. Makes sense now

Thank you. It makes sense

And sorry to reply to myself but this is not great at all

I manually added the new RSA SSH public key entry to my known_hosts file (like they say in the blogpost)

Then ran ssh -T [email protected] and got

Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '140.82.121.3' to the list of known hosts. Hi gassius! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

Then, when trying a git pull, I got this:

Warning: the RSA host key for 'github.com' differs from the key for the IP address '140.82.121.4' Offending key for IP in ~/.ssh/known_hosts:63 Matching host key in ~/.ssh/known_hosts:64

So basically, the Offending key is the one I added manually as per blogpost?

Ok, I am in Europe, and this seems like an issue of global distribution network or something, but this is not great AT ALL, either the blogpost information is not complete or something fishy is going on

UPDATE: The replies makes clear what I was seeing those errors and make sense. Thanks

EDIT: Formatting and Acknowledge of the situation per replies

Actually I am not seeing the fingerprint they announce in the blogpost

When I tried to pull from my repo I got the warning message, right

I removed the old keys with ssh-keygen -R github.com

Then, trying with `ssh -T [email protected]` I see this

The authenticity of host 'github.com (140.82.121.3)' can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:p2QAMXNIC1TJYWeIOttrVc98/R1BUFWu3/LiyKgUfQM.

So, first thing of course, is that the fingerprint does not match the one in the blogpost which is SHA256:uNiVztksCsDhcc0u9e8BujQXVUpKZIDTMczCvj3tD2s

Second problem, is that ip 140.82.121.3 seems to be reported as HIGH RISK[0]

So basically, how should I proceed? I am not security expert but I would say I am not an illiterate on this, and I have no idea. I guess the majority of users would you accept the new key, but is this the right move? I would need to do it if I want to do some work, that is for sure

EDIT: Formatting

[0]https://www.ipqualityscore.com/free-ip-lookup-proxy-vpn-test...

Slightly off tangent, maybe... but boy do I miss Macromedia Director. It was a big part on the beginning of my career.

Director allowed quick development of Multimedia catalogs and even games. I wonder nowadays, what has taken its place? Let's say that I want to throw together some media assets, sincronize it's behavior, add some functional logic and package it all as a standalone binary to distribute, what should I use? An Engine like Unreal o other? Is there any authoring tools for that?

This are totally honest questions. I don't know the "state of the art" nowadays and if is even possible with an acceptable learning curve for someone to do that kind of things we use to do with Director

Thanks. We are all as good as we can be now, Life, aside of finding ways, continues.

Life finds a way. My wife had generalized tonic-clonic seizure for an entire year (non previous seizure history) without any cause being detected by multiple MRIs. She was taking increasing doses of Levetiracetam that somehow controlled the scope of the seizures but not avoid them completely. After a year of this, we go for another ER visit after the latest one and she ask, somehow randomly, to have a pregnancy test, it comes negative but, finally, the root cause of the seizure does appear on imagery, at that point a low grade astrocytoma. She went into major brain surgery to try to remove it and pathology confirms the low grade astrocytoma, and after a month of recovery, the oncologist recommends to start a chemo and radio therapy treatment.

As the low grade astrocytoma is treatable and with high long term survival rate, he recommends that we might extracts some ovules if we decide to have another kid in the future, as the chemo had a high chance of infertility. We had one son, and being both on our middle to late 30s, we agreed.

We go to her OG for this, and as he is performing an preliminary echography... a heart beat start blasting on the speakers, over two months of his negative blood pregnancy test, after major brain surgery, after major doses of meds of all kinds, she was, indeed, pregnant. We knew exactly when she got pregnant, it was 5 days before that ER visit. She "knew" it that day in the ER, that's why she asked for the pregnancy test (that, once again, came negative).

She decided to have the baby, no matter what the risk for her it was, no matter what risk for the baby it was. Chemo was out the question and radio treatment was a high risk and had to wait for at least another month. 6 months later we had a healthy baby, who is now a healthy 10 year old girl.

Sadly, some months after given birth to her, my wife had a relapse, the brain tumor came back, this time as GBM, a month after the girl second birthday, she passed away.

Life found a way, tho, and my wife never had any remorse of the decisions we made and she would be proud of what her sons are coming to be

There are extractors that work without a vent, they filter and release on the same space. I am not saying that was your case, or even if it was, the filters were properly maintained, just saying that those hoods exists. Searching for Recirculating Range Hoods would give more info about those

No.

Venezuela had 'sanctions' starting on 2016, last year of Obama presidency. The scope of those sanctions is very limited to SOME individuals either in the Government and some business associates. There is no general embargo. And while the political scenario seems to no have changed very much, at least on the name and faces, the sanctions are the clear starting point on a big economic change that happened on 2018, where the economy opened up and was unofficially dollarized, probably by those who were not longer able to easily extract those dollars and euros into the US and EU (and fiscal paradises)like they were use to do. In this case, the sanctions had improved millions of lives and I guess that is good enough

No. Not "equally" hostile AT ALL

If the spokewoman that asked spotify to "do more" works in the White House, then yes

I would say this, as someone who was deep into Bitcoin until 2012 or so, got out but still use it ocasionally as payment method.

For me, coming from a country ravaged by corrupt politicians, that controlled the Central Bank, and destroyed the country with years of hyperinflation, among other tools of destruction, the biggest problem Bitcoin seems to solve is Economic Dependency on Public Policy

Well, is not like I know how to switch to it, but Datadog came back for me, probably because of that

Funny enough, datadog, which I was using to investigate on of my vercel sites, is down too

Yeah, Vercel is running some GCP services it seems

It's an ongoing process, for sure. Even for me at 44, it is. But I think is worth the try, we all need to rationalize and interiorize the dark side of "tech addiction" instead of just rely on tools to control our compulsions

My kids' school use Google Classroom. I do block access to YouTube at `/etc/hosts` redirecting www.youtube.com to 127.0.0.1, and it does work. But some assignments include videos and so it's cumbersome (although it can be scripted).

Anyway, what I decided to do is, while keeping the technical option (and using it when necessary) is keep hammering into the kids the need to work on self control, to recognize what behavior helps them to be productive and what doesn't. Do your job, then enjoy and also important, most of the joy is offscreen.

I try to use the same message on me because I can also use it A LOT OF TIMES

Yeah I didn't intend it like an antagonistic answer, because actually is not a binary issue. Price takes in account many consideration, fluctuations in production and/or demand are one, monetary pressure is other, but there are many others (expectation of future behavior, for example). I would guess that, at this time, the larger the increase ratio, the more probable is that transitory elements are affecting the price.

Just a minor caveat I would have with your answer is that inflation cause price increase, when for me the price increase is just an indicator of inflation, not a cause or consequence of it.

I don't know anything about lumber market and it's transitory conditions and fluctuations (other than a last week news where I live, northern Spain, that said that woods price are at all time high supposedly because demand is also at records high, from international markets including japan) so it may very well be a transitory price fluctuation because WFH or whatever.

That being said, taking out the "runaway" adjective, inflation should be expected as a logical consequence of the monetary policy at least in US and Europe, and as a matter of fact, consumer price index are already up all across the board and both Fed and ECB had already adjusted their inflation target up. This should surprise no one, you just cannot increase the monetary mass by trillions in the year where the global economy shutted down due a global pandemic and not expect an inflationary spike. The global public debt won't be "paid" without an increase on inflation.

And this is not a criticism on the political behind this. The decision was made to ease the economic impact of the pandemic both in the general public and the private sector and in most cases this was achieved, but that doesn't mean the impact does not exist, is just that is being spread out in 20 years, and part of that would be on inflation.