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This article [0] covers its fascinating history and adoption by somewhat unsavory characters. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be...

> I think very few people realize that many parts of it are closed source Which parts are closed-source?

> So – this made me wonder. When we do high performance networking – why do we bother using the Linux kernel’s TCP stack at all, if it’s so expensive? What makes the Linux kernel T…

This is super useful! I've been hacking recently on qdisc classifiers, and trying to set a filter up with BPF, but there's a paucity of documentation on the subject. The tc tools a…

I do wonder whether the electoral college system somewhat insulates the US from election tampering or voter fraud. The current system disaggregates election certification to the st…

It looks like several of the images in this post are taken (without credit?) from Cloudflare's primer? https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-...

Build Impossible Programs - Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/18/build-impossible-programs/

Hm.. Is Functional Neurology (the journal in which this published) related in any way to the field of functional neurology? I think the latter is a rebranding of chiropractic neuro…

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Can you explain a bit more more about why you believe Delaware is the proffered place to register a corporation?

> That said, I didn’t want to mislead people. So we chose to be clear to them that there is a technical term; it’s just not going to be important for the rest of the content.

Maybe I missed something in the article, but how do you know the phone app is transmitting data to the insurance company?

My understanding was that GDPR requirements apply to all citizens of the EU regardless of where the company is located. Someone else can chime in if that's not accurate!

I'm hopeful that Zuckerberg has matured at least slightly in the intervening 14 years.

Oh my god. And Starcraft, and Axis and Allies, (original) DOTA. I was even a WOW player back in the day before I got fed up buying expansions. Man, the hours of productive time I w…

I don't know. I grew up in the XP era and I played a lot of brainless games (3D pinball was where it was at) and read a lot of mindless Wikipedia articles as a kid. But then I got …

I credit much of my current aptitude with (and interest in) computers to getting to use one throughout my childhood with no restrictions. I understand it can be nerve-wracking for …

What do you believe defines terrorism?

This seems very cool, but it's hard to imagine myself ever using this for anything. What use cases do you imagine this has or have other people found for something like this?

How does the JVM determine the number of cores on a Linux system by default?

Sorta. The JVM provides portability but has less fine controls for things like disk, network and CPU isolation and limiting.

The ad in question was of course totally tasteless and tone-deaf, but I'm curious as to whether Snap is uniquely susceptible to price fluctuations based on the comments of social m…