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It doesn't. My server is appropriately engineered to its task.

Yeah, I think there's a misunderstanding somewhere. Some people think I believe a $5 computer could handle amazon.com's traffic, which is clearly preposterous. I know that almost a…

It's a lesson in overengineering. At this point my $5 Pentium 3 server has a greater uptime than Amazon.

FWIW, Obama and Romney have both lived abroad. I think it takes a certain kind of person to want to be president, and the effect of travel is different on a person like that. For t…

I compared US-based carriers with non-US based carriers. Southwest, a US-based carrier, competes with other US-based carriers. You're right, Southwest is a great choice if you're f…

Just a general comment on airlines: With US-based carriers, expect low prices, inflating awards points/miles, and bottom-level service. With non-US based carriers, expect higher pr…

The market is capitalized at $2.5 billion, but what does that mean in an economy with no production? Does the author define "production" as manufacturing where the exclusive curren…

Recently I was offered a free flight for a weekend trip. I declined, citing the myriad displeasures of flying. Now, should we initiate a behavior recall? Take the number of McDonal…

How is this possible?! In any sufficiently large organization, the people who make the decisions and the people who enact those decisions are separated by distance, background, exp…

Earlier today this had 135 comments. Checked later, 200. Now 350! OMG BUY! BUY! BUY!

The Open DNS Resolver Project has a list of 25 million open resolvers. You can query their database for your IP address or up to a /24. Their site also has information on how to re…

Once you got black-listed getting removed wasn't always an easy process no matter how quickly you tried fix whatever caused it. I took a job in the year 2000, at a company with 300…

Good point; I think both of our statements are true due to ambiguous wording upstream. I also took it literally, "any filter relying on the SBL" -- I use the SBL (via ZEN) but don'…

any filter relying on the SBL is now marking email with the url "paulgraham.com" as spam. Impossible. The SBL lists only IP addresses; there is no content filtering at all. http://…

In some countries, like France, asking someone you barely know "What do you do (for income)?" is considered vulgar. There, you ask what people are interested in, what they like doi…

Any ETA for allowing to block Referer header from being included in cross-origin requests? This feature has been supported in Firefox for a long time, but you have to set it in abo…

Run your own resolver on 127.0.0.1, and your own authoritative nameserver on 127.0.53.1, and configure the resolver to ask the nameserver (returning NXDOMAIN) for * facebook.com * …

I did this once, too. It's so nice to hear other people appreciate the approach! The "CMS" I wrote was about 75 lines of sh, and had slightly fewer features than the one linked her…

One of bitcoin's strengths is decentralization, and you just told people not to manage their own wallets. How do you accept bitcoin? Please enlighten us.

I've lived/worked in both the USA and France, and this guy's comments are so transparently uninformed. To simplify things greatly: In France, there is more time off, but people are…

Ahhh.... I wrote a response wondering out loud why this doesn't work on my browser, then checked the source, and it's javascript. No wonder, I browse without it! "Yeeaahhpp, with e…

They will need a stunning amount of marketing and advertising for this to become socially acceptable. Well, according to the already existing marketing, if I buy one of these thing…

Before I can respond to that, I think there's a misunderstanding about what "public service" means. HTTP is a public service: you open it up to the world, and want anyone to be abl…

SSH is rarely a public service. What's the motivation for making it so public?

email is absurdly involved if you want to make sure that gmail etc. accept your messages as non-spam. I've self-hosted DNS, mail, web, etc. for years, and several people have poste…