Is that what you see at your uncle's boiler company? People who are truly in it "for the love of the craft"?

Imagine you've instituted this ban, and some concert has face-value $100 tickets that now have $400 market value. The reality isn't going to be "there's now lots of $100 tickets available on StubHub", it's going to be "StubHub has no tickets, and some shady black-market website has tickets available for $400 with no consumer protections".

That said, I'm not totally against this world, since all of these inconveniences will add friction and make it less attractive and profitable to buy and scalp lots of tickets. But since I often find out about concerts kind of late, I'm also happy that there's tickets available for me at any price. I'd probably end up going to fewer concerts if we killed the legal resale market.

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To me it seems like we’d need new physics (not just new technology) to have any chance of pulling this stuff off.

The book dodges these inconvenient numbers with a bit of a deus ex machina plot device that I won’t spoil here :)

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Dang, feel free to let me know if this is an inappropriate use of flagging.

In fact I’d guess they’re not, since they’ve been employed on government projects since a young age.

The cooler parts of the US (e.g. the PNW) are also gradually increasing AC adoption as things heat up, but 20 years ago it was pretty much unheard of.

Most European homes don't have the kind of window that you could stick an AC in, the windows hinge rather than sliding up and down. You can get one of those floor units with a hose for probably ~€300 though.

Certainly a lot of the young wealthy people I know in Europe have AC, even outside of the really hot places.

It sounds like these two most recent exploits depend on unprivileged user namespaces, and that in fact a high percentage of LPE exploits need this feature. I use rootless containers on a couple of systems (like my dev machine server), but on most of my systems I don't, so it sounds like disabling that would be a good step to hardening my systems against future exploits.

To the security experts: are there any other straightforward configuration changes with such broad-reaching improvement in security posture? Any well-written guides on this subject, something like "top kernel modules to consider disabling if you don't need them"? I'm not talking about the obvious stuff like "disable password SSH", I'm specifically looking for steps that are statistically likely to prevent as-yet-unknown privilege escalation attacks.

In particular, the "rejection" will stop feeling awkward. I have random little one-or-two sentence exchanges with people several times per day, and usually it doesn't go beyond that, but I don't experience this as failure or rejection. I only engage further with the people who show (by words, body language, etc.) that they're genuinely interested in a conversation. For me, it's less than half.

The gym is an ok place, but not a great place, for what you're trying to do. Hiking clubs, running clubs, CrossFit gyms, rock-climbing gyms, and volunteer groups are all better options. The baseline level of socialization is very high in these places, whereas if you look around at a gym, most people have their headphones on, and are doing their own workout, so there's few natural opportunities to start a conversation.

Also, try to find people who are social and have lots of friends. If they like you they'll introduce you to their friends, which is a lot easier than starting cold. Don't be afraid to talk to women. Most of the people I know who are really good at connecting people are women.