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Double IPA level of hop

Especially in a <10 person team

The conspiracy theory is the one that he will be extradited to the US on "secret charges" as soon as he is arrested in Sweden. Some others in this thread compared it to other CIA g…

> Safety officials are still investigating how safety checks failed to spot that the calibration data had been deleted. So I guess the checks for checking the checks of the data fa…

Reminds me of SK751 [1] where an automated system prevented the pilots from powering down a broken engine, resulting in both engines failing and the plane crash landing in a field …

Programming is a skill just like management. I would argue that if you spend 5% writing and 95% reading you won't be maintaining that skill. If you come from a strong technical bac…

But if he's worried about the Swedish police violating Swedish law, why would he care about whether or not the case is closed? If the CIA/Swedish police were to snatch him, in blat…

The fact that he was in Sweden already? And the fact that he fled to the UK, the closest ally of the US in Europe as well as a NATO country, unlike Sweden? And perhaps the fact tha…

Amazon has employees as well, yes? Employees with access to data centers? Employees that may be convinced to make some "mistakes" in the disposal of old disks combined with the ear…

It does not but it limits the possibility to prosecute which is what the prosecutor came to terms with, at least according to her comments on the Swedish evening news. Basically th…

Do you have a source for this verdict?

And so he should, after all at that point he would be a convicted rapist, no?

It's one of the fundamentals of the Swedish legal system, you can't be sentenced in your absence or at least not without being heard

Yep, it's not foolproof but it's better than nothing. And considering that the number of people using it aren't that many (I guess) spammers wouldn't bother

Actually my experience is the opposite :)

At rest basically means on disk. People might not think about this but AWS actually has a physical disk somewhere which someone could yank from the data center and read from. Not t…

I do the same with Gmail, just add + at the end (As in username+docusign@gmail.com). Of course this has the drawback of some sites being to restrictive with their checks for valid …

I find it interesting that they didn't randomize a couple of long strings and tried to resolve those instead like the article mentioned has been done in the past

Paywalled article

My feeling exactly. Feels like a very clickbaity title

I feel like the biggest problem would be all the ISP's DNS servers, ISPs are notorious for breaking all kinds of stuff and this would probably be just another thing they break.