Incidentally I can't connect to HN directly from Greece, but only if I use my VPN through New York. Probably somehow related?

Not directly comparable. You can use iptables on a EC2 instance inside a VPC.

VPC is more akin to a glorified virtual switch/bridge.

As Noam Chomsky said, when asked about what he believes about people considering Sam Harris as an intellectual:

"Unfortunately we get the intellectuals we deserve".

I'm not neccessarily considering him an intellectual, I just find the points he makes about the instinctual reaction to be outraged compelling (and pretty common sense). What he's saying on the subject is not deep, but the current discourse is so off the rails that we need someone to pause and talk about the basics (realities of arrests, police violence statistics, how people interpret videos etc.)

Any source on that quote? A quick google search trying to relate that sentence to Chomsky and Harris only gives this thread as a result.

Kubuntu is, and always has been really bad, as a KDE distro. Just use the Fedora KDE spin. I've been using it for the past 10 years or so.

> Kubuntu is, and always has been really bad

Not for me. I switched to Kubuntu in 18.04 LTS (after many years of OpenSUSE, so I've got a pretty good idea of how a polished KDE distro looks.) No complaints at all. Kubuntu use to be a poor rendition of KDE but it's working great now.

I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu generally; kernel-hwe is outstanding. With 18.04 LTS you still get updated kernels; it was released with 4.15 but with "hardware enablement" updates it's up to 5.3 now.

This. Kubuntu has been my daily driver at work and home for a good number of years now. Love it.

I tried Kubuntu this week, and it’s the first time I’ve seen a desktop linux distro where everything works, and the experience is not made miserable somehow by poor font rendering or lack of suspend/resume or external display capability. I put lots of this down to Ubuntu but also a lot of it to KDE, so I’d be interested in knowing why Fedora is supposedly an improvement?

Yes, Marissa Mayer being an excellent example!

That has been fixed quite a while ago, in Go 1.10

Few things can be classified that much as pseudoscience as "leaky gut". Please don't spread such nonsense around.

Because... the higher the salary the higher the intelligence?

The problem is which of the billion _Inner worlds_ ideas to accept. I mean, isn't religion/spirituality good enough for you? Why should we pollute science with such stuff?

If you have an opinion or idea that isn't reproducible, verifiable or testable and the only thing you can do is "accept" it based on how good it sounds to your ears then it doesn't belong in science.

So please, leave that stuff out of science, it's our last barricade.

'such stuff', subjective and irrational as it is, was the foundation of all science last time i looked.

You checked in the wrong place then.

Why are you spreading such nonsense?

i know some people who think math is nonsense. turns out that they don't know any. So i must ask if its nonsense to infer that you have no experience with families and people other than your own circle, no experience with subtle factors of any kind?

if so, you'd be quite vulnerable the next time someone offers you a double bind.

Math is science, so no one cares if they don't believe in it. The above is not.

All of your remaining assumptions are wrong, so no reason to even bother.