quazeekotl

So you would be perfectly fine with Hitler at least being elected then, and anyone who tried to stop him would be a bad person?

Do you really think people at large didn't know about hanging, slavery, human sacrifice, and ideas about a flat earth in societies where these ideas were applicable?

Maybe, but the argument is that mere public existence of an idea effectively promotes correct ideas and demotes incorrect ideas.

That is absolutely not in evidence.

Most of those ideas didn't die out because one day people found out about them, and then we put an end to them.

Most of them _everyone_ knew about for thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, why didn't this "sunlight" disinfect them?

How many non-complicit-with-the-government North Koreans do you think have safe, unmonitored access to computers and the internet, and so can safely (or even unsafely) use cryptocoin? If the number is not 0 it is very, very close to 0.

We already know that the North Korean government is using cryptocoin tech to evade international sanctions to fund their missile and nuclear programs.

How many North Korean non government officials do you suppose were permitted to attend this conference?

Actions like this absolutely enable this terrible regime to perpetuate itself and its horrific actions, they do little or nothing to aid any ordinary North Koreans.

This is a bad excuse for the really flakey nature of nfs, other network filesystems do not have its issues.

I don't think having a system sit completely unresponsive to anything for a huge amount of time is exactly optimal either.

nice! was not aware of that syscall, however, patching the entire world remains...

Unfortunately enabling swap in linux has a very annoying side effect, linux will preferentially push out pages of running programs that have been untouched for X time for more disk cache, pretty much no matter how much ram you have.

This comes into play when you copy or access huge files that are going to be read exactly once, they will start pushing out untouched program pages to disk, in exchange for disk cache that is completely 100% useless, even to the tune of hundreds of gigabytes of it.

Programs can reduce the problem with madvise(MADV_DONT_NEED), but that only applies to files you are mmap()ing, and every single program under the sun needs to be patched to issue these calls.

You can adjust vm.swapiness systctl to make X larger, but no matter what, programs will start to get pushed out to disk eventually, and cause unresponsiveness when activated. You can reduce vm.swapiness to 1, but if you do, the system only starts swapping in an absolute critical low ram situation and you encounter anywhere from 5 minutes, to 1+ hour of total, complete unresponsiveness in a low ram situation.

There _NEEDS_ to be a setting where program pages don't get pushed out for disk cache, peroid, unless approaching a low ram situation, but BEFORE it causes long periods of total crushing unresponsiveness.

The fine is 5 billion dollars because Facebook flagrantly violated the 2011 agreement with the FTC, as bad as Equifax is they haven't essentially gone "so what are you gonna do about it" to the regulators.