As someone who grew up in Kentucky but now works in the Bay Area, what is the tech scene like back home these days?
In northern KY it's about as you would expect. Limited, but there are a handful of companies doing interesting things.
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#32Geoblocking? I am in Brazil and all I see is this: The request is blocked. 0kEE0YwAAAADSrOoEHVCAQrfsFyH2VJaQR1JVMzBFREdFMDgyMQBjZTgwMzljZS04NTZjLTRkYzktYjgwZC02MzlhMDg1MmY4Mzk=
Since it is a government website, I suspect that foreign IP have a strong historical correlation with mischief.
Particularly because mostly forgotten webpages like this one are an attractive nuisance for black hats, banning foreign IP’s was probably a best-practice argument.
There’s also the possibility that a sudden uptick in activity (HN slashsot effect) triggered an internal mechanism.
And politically, I suspect there wouldn’t be a lot of pushback to any of it.
But I could be wrong.
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#33For geology lovers:
https://kgs.uky.edu/kygeode/geomap/
Two meteor craters are visible as "broken windows". Middlesboro crater in the extreme southeast and Jeptha Knob near Frankfort (north central).
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#34If you're interested in the magic of Kentucky: http://kentuckyroutezero.com/
This is such a fascinating and engaging game! I don't recall where I found it, but I definitely agree.
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#35Got to love Geoblocking, especially this one.
what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site?
Isn't the core point of state sites like this to attract tourists? Does geoblocking them help with this goal?
Some years ago Arizona paid to put very large advertisements in downtown Toronto (Canada) to attract cold candians in the winter... things like that may work, geoblocking certainly wont.
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#36Sitting in Louisville, KY hacking away on some Python and Typescript this morning. AMA.
By which factor greater than 1 is Lexington superior to Louisville? I’d say 5x but I’m curious to get a Louisville resident’s opinion.
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#37As someone who grew up in Kentucky but now works in the Bay Area, what is the tech scene like back home these days?
Lex here, not bad for remote work, low cost of living, access to surrounding metro areas (Lou, Cinci), and Lex usually has something going on. Just got access to gigabit fiber so you're not disconnected from the rest of the world either.
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#38Got to love Geoblocking, especially this one. what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site? Isn't the core point of state sites like this to attract tourists? Does geoblocking them help with this goal? Some years ago Arizona paid to put very large advertisements in downtown Toronto (Canada) to attract cold candians in the winter... things like that may work, geoblocking certainly wont.
> what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site?
Avoiding GDPR compliance problems?
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#39Sitting in Louisville, KY hacking away on some Python and Typescript this morning. AMA.
By which factor greater than 1 is Lexington superior to Louisville? I’d say 5x but I’m curious to get a Louisville resident’s opinion.
They've got us on the beer factor and higher education. Not sports, but eff college sports anyway. Looking forward to going down for Lexington SC some though.
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#40Got to love Geoblocking, especially this one. what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site? Isn't the core point of state sites like this to attract tourists? Does geoblocking them help with this goal? Some years ago Arizona paid to put very large advertisements in downtown Toronto (Canada) to attract cold candians in the winter... things like that may work, geoblocking certainly wont.
> what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site? Avoiding GDPR compliance problems?
A state tourism site complying with GDPR shoudn't be that challenging:
The UK GDPR sets out seven key principles: - Lawfulness, fairness and transparency. - Purpose limitation. - Data minimisation. - Accuracy. - Storage limitation. - Integrity and confidentiality (security) - Accountability.
Dont keep track of any user info and you should be OK?
Many of the blocked countries dont have GDPR regulations, so there is that.
There is also the vast majority of US government sites which are not geoblocked.
https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx - works just fine from Canada?