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How do people know they can actually trust you or any VPN provider is private and secure?

As a computer scientist I can validate my side by using a complete open source environment. I can validate my connection to you by analyzing the VPN protocol you support. I can ensure I use TLS connections with all connections so I know my data stays encrypted even when going through your machines. However there is no way to know if logging my connections is turned on. Even if I completely trust you someone in the data center you use, developers you hire, or someone else in your supply chain could enable connection logging. How do you prove that's not happening?

What are your thoughts on the intense interviews many FAANG companies give?

I'm a senior engineer who has worked at various large tech companies. I've been considering making a change and started looking at job. Since I haven't interviewed in awhile I looked around for some practice problems and the programming questions companies like Facebook and Google give seem overly complex and not even directly related to the job. IMHO the true answer to many of these questions is use an existing library. Acceptance of these questions isn't only that they work but are perfectly optimized the first time you type it out. This isn't how I or anyone I know do software development. In the end I get the feeling these companies are filled with a bunch of people who can pump out algorithms but don't understand many of the fundamentals. For example I currently do OS development and have yet to come across a question about operating systems.

Is there a value in this interview process or is it, as a friend put it, a hazing process?

I often see people complain that heroin is the root of many peoples problems but I feel its just being used by those people to avoid other problems in their life. The main problem I see many heroin addicts have is the lack of fulfilling opportunities even if they did go clean. In a way heroin is used as a form of slow suicide. How much do you feel our society and its lack of opportunities and access to mental heath care are contributing to the heroin crisis?

My understanding of the concept of a common carrier is that common carriers such as ISPs or package delivery companies aren't liable for what goes over their network because its to costly to review everything they are handling.

Companies that filter and degrade traffic are proving that they have no problem inspecting data so why should they keep their common carrier status? It seems like it would be very effective if you could argue companies that don't follow net neutrality should lose their common carrier status and thus be liable for everything that goes over their network. This would make it effectively to expensive for any network to operate that doesn't follow net neutrality. Is there a reason to not argue this?

I'm currently a senior software engineer. In college I focused on AI and OS but my career has taken me down an OS rat whole and I haven't touched AI in about 10 years. I'd like to get back into AI but don't have the time to get a PHD as you've suggested else where. How would you suggest a senior engineer to learn modern AI/ML in their free time?