Heh. I like the idea of using the term "pro-Caucs" for these dicks.

The way you quoted your original comment made it seem like you were saying the opposite.

I was suggesting that the person running the app on their LAN register a domain name and get an SSL cert for it. That means the domain would have to be publicly accessible for the Let's Encrypt registration process, but wouldn't need to stick around indefinitely, nor would it be required to host the app publicly: the LAN's internal DNS server could resolve that domain to the app's internal IP, even if the domain resolves to a different, public IP outside the LAN.

Also, not all cert issuers require the automated verification step (they verify your identity via other, non-programmatic means) and thus don't require the domain to every be publicly visible.

Installing a cert into a browser is not actually hard, but just because the domain name is public doesn't mean the web-app has to be. You'll probably want a nice domain name for your app anyway, so running an internal DNS server is going to be desired anyway.

If the channel is compromised during registration, it would be trivial to MITM the phone number as well. I.e., send the attacker's phone number to Yahoo instead of the user's, and forward the verification code to the user. There's not a reliable way for the user to verify the source number of the text, and there are ways, such as using an internet-SMS gateway, to mask the attacker's number from the user.

It's more like a lot of people have Schrödinger boxes, and they have noticed that the boxes are different sizes. This group is claiming that the difference in sizes is tied to the probability of the cat being alive or dead; i.e., if you open a smaller box, you're more likely to find a dead cat, though it is still not certain. You would think that maybe there are just different sized boxes from different manufacturers, but they claim that the box size is continuous and matches the probabilities of living vs dead, and they have an explanation for how being able to see the size of the box doesn't violate QM or collapse the wave function.

I don't think the assumption was that the universe "solves" the equation to "compute" reality. Rather, I think the point was that the "breakdown" of quantum behavior into macroscopic behavior seems to happen around the same scale that the interactions described by Schrödinger's equation start to run into fundamental limits of computability in the form of the Planck Length, and that this can help "explain" the transition to macroscopic behavior as simply being the point at which the system becomes too complicated, in a fundamental complexity theory sense, for Schrödinger's equation to accurately describe it any longer.

Distribution (a.k.a. land area or population density) probably plays a large role in the disparity. Europe has a much smaller land area than the US. It would be interesting to see emissions stats per capita adjusted for land area.

Grues are really terrible neighbors.

Tell me about it. Seems like I've been dealing with time and space forever. No matter where I go, all hours of the day, it's time and space! Even on the weekends, time and space! I just can't get away from it.

Yeah, for the most part TMO has really great customer service and plans. But coverage depends heavily on your area. I live in Gainesville, FL and I get "3G" coverage that caps out at around 750Kb at full bars, and much of the city doesn't have coverage at all. When I was in Austin recently, tho, I was getting upward of 4Mb rates. I think they're much better on the west coast. I really wish it were not the case, but I will probably have to give up my N1 and switch to another carrier with decent data rates and coverage here.

If NASA times it just right, we could put people on the moon, launch the moon at Mars and have people walking on Mars just months later.

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Next, we use the tide from the sun to travel to Alpha Centauri.

Wait, are you suggesting that we ride the sun to Alpha Centauri, or put kites in the tides on the sun caused by Earth and launch Earth toward Alpha Centauri?

Yes, but that doesn't mean all dogs are capable of getting a degree.

The recent joke, however, will never be novel or funny again.

This fails to explain running gags. Even regular jokes are, in fact, often funny again (even if no longer novel).