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The next question is: will I be alive to see the first quadrillion dollar company? Or maybe a 100$ banana?

I think your assumption that Texas cares about its porn industries is incorrect. Pornhub is a Canadian company. Afaik it's the #1 porn site, I could be wrong. I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas. Registries of porn sites are readily available. (I use them in my hosts file blocking). So, my guess is that the likely step will be block all of them until they prove they have ID enforcement.


> I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas.

I'm guessing you mean blocking their entire NS host. It would be a massive overreach and would block every site they're authoritative for.

It's one more thing on the rapidly growing Unconstitutional=Okay stack. Cherry-picked courts are routinely fine with that. But it wouldn't stop lawsuits from registrars, site owners and other parties harmed thru collateral damage.

Just blocking PH's current IP would take down over 40 sites.

ref: https://bgp.he.net/ip/66.254.114.41#_dnsrecords


> if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked

Actually they've already pre-emptively blocked themselves. If you try to access their site from anywhere in Texas, you get a wall of text urging you to call your congressman and oppose this law (or so I heard from a guy).


Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship, but in practice they want to build a Great Firewall of Texas.


> Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship

What they hate about Chinese internet censorship isn't the scope and pervasiveness, it’s who specifically controls it and what specific decisions are made.


I think all 3 of these things are valid concerns.


You do, but lawmakers generally don't.


My first thought was it could scan the WiFi names. I think there's many ways to determine location without GPS.


Apple restricts this as part of the location services permission though, and to clarify, it’s always happened very shortly after touchdown, just as we started to taxi, where probably the terminal WiFi is not in range.

After thinking about it more, I think they somehow know what flight I’m on and are using flightaware or a similar service to know when the plane touches down.

The question then is how they know I’m on the flight. They can do this if you share your calendar with them, but I don’t. The only thing I can think of is either the airline is selling them the data or they’re getting it from my credit card company. Airline flights are unusual on credit cards in that the entire itinerary is on your credit card statement, not just “American Airlines” or whatever.


I wonder if it uses Significant Location Change monitoring—which apparently works around “Always Allow” location permissions, and would be consistent with allowing location “once” or “while using the app” (which Lyft, I believe, requires as part of delivering its actual service). It also might explain why only SFO: is SFO one of your Apple-determined-and-enumerated “Significant Locations”?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation/clloc...

(Edit: annoyingly, the parentheses are part of the URL. I don’t know how to encode them to make HN’s link parser happy, so you may have to add them by hand if you follow the link.)

(Edit 2: fixed, duh--thanks @akovaski!)



I wouldn't assume this is how it works. But it could know your time zone changes and assume departure/arrival times based on it not being able to ping a server, then link this between possible airports based on time zones then possible flights based on the times.

But I suspect the false positives on this would be huge and if you felt so compelled could easily test while at your desk.


expanded receipt data is totally a thing, but then why would SFO be the only airport you've experienced this at? seems more likely there's something SFO is doing to see cell phone subscriber info, and selling that information to Lyft.


"Over one-third of the ‘normal’ matter in the local Universe – the visible stuff making up stars, planets, galaxies, life – is missing"

How was this determined?



I recently migrated to the USA from Canada. I make 2x the income I made in Canada. My work is about the same as it was. I was also able to get competent medical care in the USA but in Canada I was on a waitlist for 2 years. I had to jump through a lot of hoops and the GC process was shitty, but my life is good here and I am glad I came.

I think economic freedom is a powerful motivator. Unlocking a social media account is hardly a deterrent.


This is a great point to highlight how the current ability of America to produce outcomes like yours, is downstream of their ability to maintain institutional fitness.

These instructions are symptoms that show that the institutional fitness is degraded.

Good planning would be to come to America, take advantage of the increase in pay or opportunity, and several years later, leave once the inevitable co-morbidities become too much.


I see this argument a lot. It works if you don't mind being surrounded by people in much, much worse condition than yours, for no reason other than policy cruelty.


> I think economic freedom is a powerful motivator. Unlocking a social media account is hardly a deterrent.

Sounds like an amazing place if you're healthy and able to work, the two things that are not guaranteed day-to-day, and will inevitably decline with age.

> Unlocking a social media account is hardly a deterrent.

I'm always reading on HN that America is inherently destined to out-innovate China because of "Democracy" and "Free Speech" - but here we are, with first amendment rights being chilled[1] in blatant ways. I wonder how those HNers see the future of American innovation.

1. Historically, the American government has always been hands-off with the KKK and American Nazis because of their 1A rights. Rights that don't seem to extend to vocal brown university students criticizing a foreign government.


Cool. As long as you dont care about LBGT persecution, children being forced to give birth and minorities being sent to El Salvador, enjoy your economic freedom. Seems like your values and what you look for in a society are a match with the current state of affairs in USA.


Friendly reminder to everyone that this isn't Reddit, although comments like this make it seem so.


I hope they tweak the opacity before they go live with this because I find the shared image quite unpleasant. I have no issues with the current design. Kind of like the camera button and the touch bar, I hope this goes away fast.


Nintendo is going to be getting 80$ from me, that's for sure. Mario games are most of the funnest games I've played. I've been playing Mario Kart since the n64, and I've liked every version since. I have high hopes.

As Peter Thiel said: if you double your price and don't lose half your customers, you're making profit.



Practical Engineering YouTube channel black start video: https://youtu.be/uOSnQM1Zu4w


In my experience, rewriting software doesn't work. You should replace the components iteratively in Homebrew itself if you want your ideas to succeed. I doubt your software will see any major adoption just because you wrote it in some other language. The word Homebrew is culturally significant in hacker groups as well and sapphire is not.


Yeah that’s not possible.


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