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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
How they do this is basically to send google.com in the TLS SNI then when they get to the HTTP level send

Host: signal.org

This will only work with compatible servers. In Signal's case they use AppEngine which is behind Google's network and the servers for google.com are able to connect to their app servers when given the appropriate Host header.

Comment · 8 years ago
I don't think so - over-prescription of opioids and more common usage of fentanyl seem to the be the key factors in the death increases. Nothing to do with underlying socioeconomic conditions nor societal problems. I don't understand how you're making that leap - care to elaborate?
Comment · 8 years ago
That some tiny portion of the deaths in your country are from opioid overdoses? People voluntarily injecting themselves with drugs and fucking up? Why exactly does this concern you so much? It's hard to see it as representative of a larger systemic problem beyond the American drug enforcement and medical systems resulting in over-prescription of opioids and fenantly entering common usage. Not much beyond that, is there? I don't see a larger trend to extrapolate from that.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'd advise reading the article I linked, the increases are far from modest in many cases.

I'll agree with you on the environmental issues, but I think we're well on the way to solving those too and largely via the same mechanisms, Chinese solar is close to pushing coal out of business on price. That's not to say there's no role for regulation in the environmental direction though, I certainly think there probably should be, but how to do so globally and fairly is a bit of a catastrophe.

Comment · 8 years ago
That's a very niche problem in comparison - we're talking hundreds of millions of people leaving poverty across the globe compared to under hundreds of thousands dying of opioid overdoses. Perhaps it's because I'm not American, but I just don't find it that concerning when put into the larger picture.
Comment · 8 years ago
There was a whole push for netbooks like the Asus EEE PC that happened around the same time as the original XO.
Comment · 8 years ago

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