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You are best off buying a “USB condom”, a USB 2.0/3.0 connector with the data pins removed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_China

Former Imgur engineer here who worked on the desktop site and helped on mobile when I could. A lot of the code that is loaded supports features that are used by a long tail of user…

They don't (currently) issue dividends because the expectation is they will buy back their stock or will issue dividends in the future. If a company never issued dividends and neve…

Suppose you follow your argument to the conclusion, and no companies issue dividends. What is the point of owning a share of a company then?

Unfortunately Dropbox recently dropped support for certain Linux file systems like XFS, BTRFS, etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732912

Article is from April 2019.

In that case you would probably still roll back to prevent further data corruption and restore the corrupted records from backups. There are certainly changes that cannot be rolled…

If rollbacks are not safe then you have a change management problem. If you have a good CM system, you should have a timeline of changes that you can correlate against incidents. M…

Private letters have long been acknowledged as covered by the fourth amendment, that is that searching requires at least a warrant based on probable cause. It’s changed over times …

You should return the data in multiple pages for example, or exempt that query from latency SLA.

People have programs that scan github uploads for AWS, etc credentials accidentally uploaded by victim and spawn images that mind crypto for the attacker’s. https://www.theregister…

Why can’t the gas tax be extended to electricity provided to vehicles (ie superchargera) rather than ownership of EV?

It’s increasing at about 1.5 ppm per year.

Sam Gerstenzang (formerly of a16z) runs Umbrella [1]. You should check it out. [1] https://www.askumbrella.com/

forward compatibility?

I would trade double digit thousands of dollars per year if I had a private office.

Logs tend to be ephemeral with limited retention.

So you can vandalize my car with chalk all you want as long as it doesn’t violate my possessory interest?

Check out this flow diagram for Varnish 2 [1]. [1] http://www.kalenyuk.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/varnis...

> the potential ability to avoid third parties taking a cut of all of your digital transactions Other than mining fees?

> If I were in that situation today, I'd see if I could find someone who would give me money at today's price and get N shares of stock in 6 months (the duration of the lockup peri…

I'm currently working on a tool that would force callers to answer a small math problem (similar to a CAPTCHA) before the service would forward the call to you. Effectively robot c…