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outsb

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    Comment #31051049

    Spamming "$$$ $TSLA to the moon! Get latest tips on my free Discord bit.ly/ocozxc #TWTR #GOOG #AMC #GME $$$" thousands of times for days before suspension is hardly the hardest pro…

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    Comment #31047403

    There must be some expectation about the rate of share issuance, I think that's what the parent comment is getting at. ESOP pools are well understood (and IIRC defined upfront). Th…

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    Comment #31044619

    Because he's a near-10% shareholder and accounts like his are a major driver of new account growth. I wonder if this episode has impacted growth or engagement metrics any. Hard to …

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    Comment #31025504

    It is a bit like coal mining.. even the default new account experience encourages subscribing to a bunch of spam, when what is needed is mining one seam in that mess containing jus…

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    Comment #31025228

    > easily build a much better rival Bootstrapping a network the size of Twitter is nothing like easy, and might even be impossible this late in the game. Gold rushes of new users te…

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    Comment #31010081

    > It means absolutely zero whatsoever I know you're being dramatic, but at least charities in the UK do have vastly different treatment by HMRC, and much more granular financial re…

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    Comment #30997946

    Just a suggestion, but please lead with what the company does, not a link to the blog of some engineering micro-bubble. That really gives a bad impression. Many folk here are scann…

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    Comment #30994853

    This is an expensive lesson I think everyone gets to learn at some point. There's no such thing as a file worth excluding from a backup, it always fucks you, some (like me) more th…

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    Comment #30972844

    Signal's insistence on doing the wrong thing for 99% of users (storing media blobs in SQLite) drives me crazy. Protect our metadata over the wire, fine, but there is almost no addi…

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    Comment #30964176

    I played around with Matrix, but it seemed to have a far too disproportionate number of furry porn channels for anything I'd want anywhere my e-mail

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    Comment #30963776

    I'm probably slightly tempered from just having read this article, but curious how anyone could confidently arrive at an economic estimate of the global trade in CSAM

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    Comment #30940552

    The BBC article is only talking about generation time, specifically not download time (including linked assets), and we have no idea about dwell time. It only takes a 3G connection…

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    Comment #30938132

    The CPU throttling of the lower memory settings is often easily visible in a user-facing request, even simple requests just doing some DB IO. I rarely use less than 1024mb for anyt…

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    Comment #30878631

    I upvoted it as a curiosity. The idea of a cultural agenda-signalling bot loose on GitHub actively breaking code and documentation sparks quite a few feelings. Some questions arise…

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    Comment #30855356

    Given Victoria Metrics is the only solution I've seen to make data comparing it to other systems easily accessible as part of official documentation, it's the only one I pay attent…

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    Comment #30844694

    Over half a billion in assets and.. > We discovered the attack this morning after a report from a user Fuck me.

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    Comment #30780084

    Thanks. It seems extremely reminiscent of e.g. the Cobalt RaQ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_RaQ ), but maybe "AWS Outposts for the rest of us" might be a more suitable con…

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    Comment #30779701

    Can anyone explain Oxide's product beyond the (fairly terrible IMHO) site? Seems like some kind of prepackaged VMware-alike including rack + hardware + networking fused into a sing…