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For example because Chrome treats Google cookies differently [1]? This is a red flag for people. With Firefox you at least know what you get. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

This comment seems a bit US biased. Other democratic countries, with semi-good political leadership, more educated population and social pressure regulated the spread of the virus …

Exactly, by saving us, science might do more harm than good. Finding a cure to covid-19 could also be seen as an human intervention into nature's attempt to regulate the human popu…

It depends on the perspective, in case of SQL I would argue that sanitizing the input is the same as escaping the output, because the query you are sending to the database is the o…

10 years is a long time, maybe until than its bought back to non-profit, you never know. Also it allows you the luxury of starting worrying about your migration later. If you could…

That is because most people found it appealing to have _one_ internet (read as domain name system). So the only option is to use the existing one. Given that, there was not really …

Wait, if you can no longer trust ICANN, does not that mean you cannot trust the whole internet (domain name system) anymore?

If the original commenter would have meant that, he probably would have recommended using https://tools.suckless.org/sic/ and not some web application which is categorized as "stuf…

German authorities call this 'Ping Call', and ordered telecommunications providers to make pricing transparent via voice announcements prior to calling, due to ~14.000 complaints i…

I think "popular" is the wrong adjective to describe what these numbers really indicate. For example I believe electron is being discussed more, because its more controversial than…

I rather have to wonder: who are these magical consumers who are willing to consider shelling out for an i9 and yet are still playing at 60Hz? If you want to achieve 144 fps (const…

For me also the overhead played a big role, to just get a bare kubernetes cluster you already need 3 nodes + 1-2 load balancers. In case you are using GKE, you actually need two in…