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Also, there are APIs for acquiring real-world mailing addresses inside of "subdivided" warehouses. The only way to verify that a person isn't a bot is to make babies with them.

When you take away everything that is perceived as toxic, are you left with anything other than confirmation bias?

I'm sure Azure has great stats on paper, it's not the simple, easy-to-measure data that concerns us. I'm also sure that Azure is currently treating their clients really well, in th…

In Qatar, which has a national firewall, I was able to use Tor to browse torrent sites, and then use a regular bittorrent client to fetch the contents of the magnet links (encrypte…

A CEO once told me, "If you owe someone $1 million, then they own you. If you owe someone $1 billion, then you own them." I think that the orgs who are owed by US are primarily con…

It reflects poorly on us that this is being downvoted. The parent shared a simple cautionary tale without baiting or flaming or anything like that. It is a good thing, to be aware …

Yep, and personalization and A/B testing can be accommodated with query params. By whitelisting those AB params in the caching layers, you can mostly prevent a performance differen…

Yes, just like Intel. We engineered our way into this, we'll engineer our way out, and then smooth it all over with more engineering. Entropy wins again.

I've been ranting here occasionally about the infuriating unprofessionalism of a web app that can't operate without JS. There is very little that you can do with JS that can't also…

The parameter you are looking for is delta-V, the total change in velocity that the craft can accelerate to. It relates to inverse specific thrust, which is the parameter discussed…

Yeah, we should probably not do this in LEO, where orbits decay and half of the potential acceleration vectors lead back down to Earth. Fortunately, it takes a lot of energy and pr…

In a small toroidally shaped universe, your radio is also your memory. All emissions eventually return to their origin, but you can reorder memory transmissions by moving while the…

Wow, just thinking about C++ while slacking, was enough to inspire a solution to a race condition in my Clojurescript project. Earlier, I made some notes and walked away from the p…

The missing back story to Apollo 18!

I thought that it was going to log transactions to a blockchain, as a sabotage-resistant backup strategy.

Yeah, but a good weld is stronger than the metal around it. Win!

Docker. I need/want 64gb in my next laptop, so that I can run deployment simulations.

DNA is already digital.

Dude. That redirects to a picture of a scrotum in a cup, if you arrive with an HN referer header. I'm guessing you got pranked, lol.

They could do it in ASCII, on IRC.

Hah, same. I still haven't signed up for an account, but I've been getting a fair bit of my news there since around 1998, before people bragged about UIDs. As a child, I learned a …

It sure is frustrating that a site whose only purpose is to serve documents, and is created by people who advocate Tor, requires JavaScript for all navigation. Even the "about" anc…