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Having to serve 1000x more traffic from bots is completely unacceptable for most site owners as well. The fact that this trade-off isn't obvious indicates you haven't tried to run …

The entire blog was about how the site owner doesn't want to put it in the open. Your pontificating can't change the fact that he can do whatever he wants with his site.

It's not that simple. The stolen file has no clear text passwords and ideally, these passwords can only be decrypted on the right hardware with user confirmation. Of course, eterna…

But when you do, there are glaring holes these people uncovered.

It is hard to find the content for all of the glitzy ads on this site.

The problem with this logic is that if 80% of the salmon in the water are sterile, then the probably of a fruitful mating is only 20% of the previous rate. For most wild population…

It would have been pretty easy to use a horizontal line scanner to get image speed. In any case, it seems that using a full frame video would be much easier to post process since f…

Define "most" and "us". If us means humans living in democracies, I would say that parliamentary democracy has more supporters and constitutional republics. And even if us == the U…

Alex Pretti would like a word.

Albania and Georgia have much healthier culture of resistance than the US. The US has almost entirely lost this culture except for short moments in isolated places. Minneapolis is …

Buying a bond at a discount is no different than buying at face value and paying back with interest. Any claims that there is any important difference is sophistry.

But this partition would be visible. The OP had a version that is invisible.

Unless they disassemble this drive, a forensic dump will only show the open partition.

A similar distinction with opposite polarity, however. A public school in Britain does not receive public funding. A public school in the US is entirely publicly funded.

And make a video about how to make a dashboard (that you call Jarvis).

Wow... that took me several, uh, seconds to find. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2516491 There's your hard data.

What do you mean by "immunizing vaccines"? In the first sentence, you say that flu vaccines are not and in the second you admit they are. Maybe you meant that their coverage is not…

Pushing those vaccines saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

This is usually modulated by whether the fib is about something "material". In fact, he probably would have had the same decision with or without the claim which is the essence of …

That's a fair point. My own experience with converting unpaid customers is that it is really hard.

A bad abstraction would have caused many updates in many places because the API would never quite stabilize due to having been a force-fit from the start. A uses the abstraction, b…

I, on the other hand, have had to burn through countless cycles of security alerts because I used a library for JSON parsing that had all kinds of other features that I didn't need…

That may be true, but it is likely that the contract limits you to arbitration, forbids class action and limits the penalty dramatically.

Add in the fact that they claim 900 million weekly uniques. Pretending the growth and cost rates compound as described in the article, they will need to generate about 100x current…

Cutting out the middlemen. Getting rid of the pesky chlorophyl syndicate.