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Even if you could solve aging, you could never solve death. Probability and entropy will catch up with you eventually. I think that most people over a certain age are quite aware o…

> Use a search engine that suppresses spammy sites and lets you customise what you want it to surface. Can you give an example of such a search engine? Which one(s) do you use and …

It depends a lot on the car and the engine. If you want a high-performance engine that meets modern emissions requirements, you're probably going to be looking at EFI and turbochar…

That wouldn't test the software, assuming cheating wasn't an issue

Correct, but in this case, it sounds like you didn't need to use the ISP router as your VPN gateway. If I understand the DNS rebinding attack reference correctly, you could be runn…

Given HTTP pipelining and fetch() promise semantics, I'm not sure there's a practical benefit to pushing results instead of "blocking" the original request.

Are we about to come full circle to Mt Gox?

What is the advantage of dbus over Unix sockets?

or people will just create a shared email account, or set up a forwarding rule for the verification emails... I agree with another commenter. This seems targeted at people who are …

> On Wednesday Melvin said it had exited its bet against GameStop and repositioned its portfolio. The firm moved to reduce risk in its investments following a turbulent start to Ja…

> There are 100 shares. A owns 90 of them, B owns 10. A lends her 90 shares to C, who shorts them all to D. Now A owns 90 shares, B owns 10 and D owns 90—there are 100 shares outst…

IANAL but I believe that some clever lawyers have used this to the advantage of the victims by essentially creating a DOS attack on the company, flooding it with binding arbitratio…

> 207.60.36.176 - 207.60.36.183 Chris Pet Store Peculiar on many levels...

Boeing isn’t a remote company, so it’s not a contradiction. If you read into most of the arguments for remote-friendly workplaces, step one is cultural changes.

You say that having private keys on servers is bad, and you say that using SSH agent forwarding "is the devil." How, exactly, do you expect people to do things like use git or pivo…

That implies you are going to be running prod in the cloud. Unless you're developing against purely synthetic data, the data transfer costs are potentially astronomical.

> Argo Tunnel offers an easy way to expose web servers securely to the internet, without opening up firewall ports and configuring ACLs. Argo Tunnel also ensures requests route thr…

Dropbox is in a relatively specific situation wherein their cloud costs would be extremely high (storage, bandwidth) and their in-house technical skills are probably quite good.

> It's only through politics that we can make sure that the gains from trade are evenly split. The math of markets doesn't define it. That's clearly not the case since my employer …

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the way to avoid an explosion: "don't pull the control rods all the way out" It would take a very specific kind of war or natural disaster to pul…

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I don’t disagree with your goal but I think you ought to elaborate on your arguments. The electoral college balances geographic diversity against raw popularity. This is just one o…