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Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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When you flush the toilet in an airplane the contents is normally vacuumed in to a holding tank which gets emptied after the plane lands.

Then why have people died from getting hit by frozen pee icicles?

pretty sure that's never happened, it's an urban legend

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the housing allowance for a month for a parliamentarian is now ten times the minimum wage for a month. I'm almost positive that everyone in the US Congress is making at least ten times the minimum wage in this country. The "housing allowance" being referred to is separate from their normal salary in Indonesia, but still, interesting to imagine how much more seriously people there would take that disparity than in m…

The ratio between Indonesian parliamentary income and the median Indonesian income is ~18x, while the ratio in the US is ~4x. As someone who wants US congressional income to be substantially higher, it's hard for me to be upset at that on its own. There are plenty of other variables at play, though, and a direct comparison of these ones might not be getting at the issue.

Not American, but you got me curious here:

> As someone who wants US congressional income to be substantially higher

Would you mind sharing your rationale on this one? I've heard people advocate for parlementary to be a volunteer position, but never heard the arguments for the opposite take.

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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I would say there are two options:

1. (Easy, fast but someday it will be blocked, because it is relatively easy to block) Just buy vpn. Mullvad and "Private Internet Access" are ones of the best.

2. (Requires experience, not fast, but the most reliable and flexible). Get a VPS (server) somewhere and install your own VPN. VLESS is the best at this moment

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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I lived in China for a while and there were several waves of VPN blocks. Also very few VPN services even try to actively support VPN-blocking nations anymore. Any commercial offering will be blocked eventually. What I settled on for decent reliability and speeds was a free-tier EC2 hosted in an international region. I then setup a SOCKS5 server and connected my devices to it. You mentioned Cloudflare so whatever thei…

Out of all VPS providers out there, why did you chose one of the most, if not the most, expensive ones - AWS, EC2?
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