Absolutely, which is why breaking up the country geographically wouldn't work. And breaking up the country based on population density seems like a logistical nightmare.
One of my web sites is run by a "bundle exec rails s" in a tmux window on an EC2 instance. New deploy? Run "git pull" (and maybe "rake db:migrate") in tmux pane and restart the "rails s" command. Easy peasy.
I'd make it more complicated and resilient but why?
I still haven't seen a great reason to go NoSQL over, say, Postgres. I'll think about a good application but then realize that it'll be a PITA to do something slightly different than what I first imagined.
For #1, the master password gets entered in when you need to decrypt the password file, right?
Doesn't that mean that anyone who can read the input stream from your keyboard can decrypt all your passwords?
I mean, I use a password manager because it's the least-shitty way I can think of to not reuse passwords, but to me it's a matter of when and not if some bad guy manages to insert malware into the password manager code and get all the passwords.
I question whether this is really more useful. You'd have to show that advertisers noticed that data was fake, and that they cared, and that they cared enough to pull FB advertising.
To do that, you'd have to get a whole lot of people putting up false data, and to do that, you'd have to make it very easy to do. Which would probably make it detectable (you think your fake data tool will stay off their radar?).
It looks like it doesn't have to read data from a static gist file. It can read from any JSON source, and you can just have the formatting data in the gist.
But I feel like you're blaming the victims. It was actually people like Rupert Murdoch who set up the whole "our culture is being destroyed by PC run amok" thing, and they did it to gin up ratings for Fox News and to gain power.
We're all vulnerable to cultural brainwashing. I think that's part of what the article is complaining about. It's hard to be an iconoclast, especially when you're treated as an immoral person if you dare to think for yourself.
Again, the way to save the country is to call out all demonization of "the other". Of course I call it out when I see it, to the point where my liberal friends think I'm conservative and my conservative friends think I'm liberal.
First, Roy Moore lost. It wasn't a resounding loss, but he did lose.
Second, acting like an entire region as a monoculture is stupid and unproductive. We're all very, very different, and while there are some trends that are more prevalent in a region, that doesn't mean that the people who believe those things are backwards. Perhaps it means that you just haven't tried to see things from their perspective.
The lack of empathy and the unwillingness to consider that other people have different backgrounds and codes of ethics and a dogmatic insistence that "this way is the right way" is what's killing our cohesion as a country. And, as a whole, I've seen more of the "live and let live" philosophy in Atlanta than in a whole lot of supposedly liberal places.
Why are you associating those douchebags with the south? Newt I get, but aren't the rest of them in NYC?
The real divide in this country is rural vs. urban. Cities in the south are plenty progressive, and rural areas in the rest of the country are plenty conservative.
I've lived in Boston and Atlanta, and Atlanta is a much more tolerant, friendly place.
How so? Stating your thoughts with conviction ends any hope of a reasonable discussion? Maybe if you're afraid of confrontation. For me it's an invitation to debate.
So here's a nice idea I had that I don't have time to implement:
A specialized debate forum. Basically, two people decide to debate on an issue. They are the featured debaters. They write positions and submit them, and then they try to knock down the other person's positions.
Watchers can comment on specific points they make, annotating them and giving points for them. I imagine a system kind of like RapGenius.
Eventually, in the best case, the best arguments float to the top, and the more common arguments will have a home on the net where people can point to them instead of rehashing them over and over again. Leading to more intelligent discourse and a perfect society.
People should be aware that this does not mean you shouldn't meditate. At least give it a shot. The risk/reward ratio is so heavily skewed toward reward (what are the risks, really?) that you'd be foolish not to try it.
I'm one of those possibly-rare people who considers the ebook experience superior to the physical book. No bookmarks necessary, can read on Kindle while home and continue reading on my phone while out, mega-cheap if you watch for deals, hundreds of books available to read at any time...what's not to love?
As long as neverssl.com still exists so I have some way to pop up the login page from captive wifi portals, I'm fine with everyone else going SSL.
However, I basically agree that if you're just hosting a blog with no user interaction, there's really no need for it. The threats (for example, somebody hijacks the request and returns different content) are minimal.