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Do you live there? Is it that bad?

> which is obviously nonsense. I think I've observed enough of this sentiment over the years, from some very smart and successful people, to come to the conclusion that, if it is n…

Well, it seems ridiculous to say that, because there have been 3g microcells (openbsc, for example) forever. It seems bizarre that we couldn't have a switch in every truck that tur…

It seems that perhaps you have some idea of what these perverse outcomes look like. D) seems to be "a company reinvests in its employees (training, etc) and E) is someethign like "…

If you are interested in the context and generally unfamiliar with the W3C, maybe these articles will help: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-con... https://…

Here is an interesting and recent article which captures some of that motive: https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/coca-cola-recycling-plas... . The truth is, that these businesses …

> the lenders will only lend up to 80% of the value of the house (an ordinary bank loan must be used for the remaining fraction) From olau's explanation, it seems that there is eno…

If you've never heard of it, not far from Atlanta, there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithia_Springs,_Georgia . Interesting history there, about "restorative" lithia water…

In my limited experience, stock options have significant differences from other typical investments in the following ways: 1) You can be prevented from effectively selling stock op…

We actually had Marat come to the Go meetup in Atlanta when he was finishing up his PHD at GT. He had done some preliminary work on SIMD. It was a small meetup ( I think only ~6-7 …

Link to archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20181127021739/https://blog.mozil...

> The forgotten / underestimated cost is the salaries of these people to set things up well in the first place, be on call to fix things when they break, and perform those upgrades…

A Voigt-Kampff machine?

I think IP ownership does = stewardship of all domains using that IP from a DV certificate perspective. The moral of the story is don't point a domain you value at a sketchy host's…

Ok, in this scenario, we have a web host with an adversarial entity on its server, that commits a crime. By the same token, if that web host were hacked and used to obtain a nefari…

So would a whitelist of providers/ip's be sufficient? Whitelists can be much easier to maintain.

I came here to say this. What's more, the spec was agreed upon, in relatively public forums, with a voice from the community. Crappy shared hosting providers are going to mostly ig…

> You're assuming you can scour the internet and find every shared hosting provider affected, and add them to a list. And then you're also going to keep that list updated. That's c…

Came here to say this. Load up on $20 2TB SAS drives in an R510 or something like that, and you'll use a little more power, but also be beating the pants off AWS for cost/GB purpos…

Right, in many cases, small is beautiful! I think that's what contributed so heavily to the massive success of the Xen platform. Is that what you mean?

How is this better than using rkt with an lkvm stage1[1], which also uses the work done by the Clear Containers team? It looks like Kata packages QEMU as well, which seems a bit ov…

I agree that the idea of mindwandering while paying attention is foreign. I think I had a slightly different response than the grandparent, which is to drag the rest of the people …

You could set the rate for lending new money algorithmically based on a set of other observed statistics of the credit markets. Then it would not be artificial or fiat. The algorit…

> They literally say that a Dockerfile isn't necessary in the same sentence as the broken link you mention. They say "It has been four years and we still have to use Dockerfile, wh…

I mean, if you have a $100,000+ vehicle, you probably also have a couple other $40k-$60k vehicles you can drive for that month, right?