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After being cheeky I wanted to make sure I circled back. I liked the article a lot. Well written, solid points. I think that client side caching, is something that gets overlooked …

not optimizing for hn.

The most common example I see is the password requirement that it must be between 8 and 16 characters... The 16 character limit is the main issue there... You know it has to do wit…

Working on one right now, will be subscription based, but won't share your data with anyone.

The only way to really fight something like this is to make GMO's and the people who produce these plant varieties into some sort of boogeyman, no? We see this happen all over the …

Just another reason for big Agriculture to create more GMOs. /s This would really be amazing. Honest concern... How does the fertilizer industry fight this? There are billions of d…

I work for a medium sized company in the commercial insurance space in PA. We have a cafeteria. They do charge for meals, but we have access to unlimited drinks. I think larger com…

This is wholly and categorically untrue. Parenting today is much different than it was 100 years ago. The way we approach children, discipline children, and help them grow into the…

Seeing talks about 2 separate fiber cuts... Lots of issues all over the US. Chicago to NY and also another cut that goes south to SC. r/sysadmin has good info

I'm on HN...seeing your update...I an connect to my employer remotely... Feels like Comcast is not the whole story...

I'm on Comcast and cannot get to Twitter and a few other places... But Netflix and YouTube work just fine. I wonder why I can get to some stuff but not others...

I am on Comcast and can get to some stuff, but not other stuff. Twitter is down, but HN and Google are just fine. Clash Royale was down for me as well.

Yeah, lots of stuff seemed down. I saw report of an S3 outage in Virginia

This is nice to see... I know we have been having internal discussions about how to best implement a system health check for our APIs as we migrate into a services based architectu…

I mean dogecoin is a thing.

That doesn't really apply here does it? My comment is only in reference to S&P500 companies, that the OP to my comment referenced.

The chart you reference shows that they are virtually the same... All of Health vs All of Tech - yes, you are right. Tech is about double. But Pharma, Biotech, Life Sciences show b…

It flowed just fine for me because I pronounce it S-Q-L in my head as well. I don't know why saying SEQUAL has always felt unnatural to me. Probably because I came across it indepe…

Doesn't the earthquake risk significantly curb LA's ability to build up as much as NYC? I think there are probably certain density limiting factors like this. Which just means that…

And the bigger problem is that there is profiteering at every step of the way... Medical Insurance, devices, private testing labs, hospitals, doctors, pharma...it all adds up. As s…

Check out charitywater.org I had the same concerns, but these guys are legit and get it done for the people who need it.

Yeah I do. They are finicky though... A lot of times when I'm scrolling down the article it will close it and take me back out to the main news thread.

This article is obviously anecdotal and not proof... But me and my wife have been experiencing very similar things and she is convinced that Facebook or Google are doing the same t…

I noticed this yesterday...I thought maybe I fell into some A/B test.