I've read some articles online, but I still haven't managed to understand the hype around wireguard. It's lighter than OpenVPN, but has more obscure primitives? Doesn't seem like a great trade off...
Wireguard is your plumbing layer. OpenVPN is an entire application stack. Wireguard is super simple because it's low level. If you wanted to compare something (as a user in terms of feature parity, etc.) to OpenVPN a more accurate comparison would probably be nebula or tailscale (private/mesh network management tools that are built atop wireguard). I'm a wireguard fan and it's true that its crypto is much simpler, smaller, and harder to fuck up than OpenVPN but that is really only something that matters to the security hats.
It's not hub and spoke. Any existing network topology can be mirrored essentially 1:1 with wireguard. With hub and spoke VPNs the model constrains your deployment somewhat. Now I'm not saying key distribution with wireguard is easy, that's a different problem. But wireguard is literally like "let's take your existing network interface and give it modern fast impossible to fuck up encryption".
Traditionally you have a server and all clients connect to this server (Hub and spoke). Wireguard can connect clients like you would in your network. You can mesh clients if you like. The hard part is getting the keys to all peers in the network.
I'm more concerned about their interaction with addictive apps than with strangers on the Internet. I'm confident that I can educate them to have a skeptical view of the world them and exercise common sense, I'm not sure I can stop them get more and more addicted once they get started down that path.
I think that when people complain about the cost of health care, they're not talking about things which cost a lot to produce. They're taking about things that cost almost nothing to produce, but are priced outrageously because of some wonky market dynamics
Drugs cost money to produce. Pharma R&D spending has gone up by a factor of 10 since 1980, to almost $90 billion/year. And manufacturing, sales, distribution, etc., aren’t free. EBITDA margins in the industry are typically under 30%. And drugs are just 10% of health care spending. When a cancer or heart attack patient survives instead of dying immediately, they need decades of doctors visits, nursing care, etc.
I think that when people complain about the cost of health care, they're not talking about things which cost a lot to produce. They're taking about things that cost almost nothing to produce, but are priced outrageously because of some wonky market dynamics
The second pill costs almost nothing to produce. The first pill costs billions, plural, and the successful minority of new drugs have to foot the bill for all the unsuccessful first pills.
A cartoon villain, to be sure, and a legitimate target for public policy interventions, but pretty clearly not an indication of why US health care costs so much; he managed to price those drugs specifically because they were a corner-case for the pharma industry.
I hope this is a good place to ask: what do people in HN use for torrent client?
I recently learned that transmission got hacked (more than once apparently) so I decided to stop using it. The alternatives seem to be deluge or qbittorrent. I picked the latter because it has labels (and supports moving finished downloads to different folders depending on label), which is a feature I'd always wanted in a torrent client. But my point is it seems to me all the torrent clients seems very similar, barring very minor features.
I personally use qbittorrent, after ubittorrent got ads way back. I view torrent clients like a good saw/hammer, if it works and you know it well, that's all you need.
Sometimes you don't need to put much thought into what software you pick.
> Instead of talking about specific technologies/software/services, I'll give a quick rundown how you can achieve this in theory, and hopefully it can apply to whatever you're currently using.
I wish more people approached their software engineering teaching in this way.
How do you know that someone is eating up Russian propaganda? I'll tell you: if when you say "Russia did something bad" their response is "the USA is something bad". Something something whataboutism.
But what I realize is that this is the biggest evidence of what a culturally irrelevant country Russia has become. Can you imagine, if a journalist told Biden "the USA is bad because it invaded Iraq" and his response was "Russia also invaded countries"? Wouldn't that be absolutely hilarious? It would. Why? Because Russia has become culturally irrelevant. Russia doesn't matter any more.
So irrelevant that you have to pump billions of dollars into similar country forcing them to fight to death, flood EU with arms, raise food prices world wide and the senile demented "leader of free world" has no idea what's going on inspite of break neck inflation and guaranteed recession
> tend to make things worse by turning firms into forced sellers when they may have been able to ride things out
What do you mean, may have been able to ride things out? They owe money they don't have...
Oh, you mean, if you wait long enough crypto might come back up and they're solvent again? Right, after they lost more than they had on the first bet, you wanna let them bet again that it might come back up?
I've always been proud of being European, but this event is exposing how shambolic the EU can be in some situations. Fuck, I just saw the headline "Germany says it can send rocket launchers in August"...
Totally different. Yugoslavia was a deeply divided country held together by a strongman. When he died, if course it was gonna fall apart. No surprises there.
Vukovar was the parallel I was thinking of. And Osijek, and other towns.
Surrounded by invading Serbian forces (which taken over the assets of the 5th largest army in Europe), shelled mercilessly - the worst destruction since WW2. Then the defeat, and massacres - and mass rapes.
And an arms embargo on Croatia! Which effectively prevented any sort of defense.
