Kalium

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by Kalium 6y ago
Remember the big Dyn outage? Or when AWS-US-East was severely disrupted by a hurricane? It may perhaps be an exaggeration to say that there are not other providers that are similarly critical for a significant percentage of the internet.
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by Kalium 6y ago
As far as I can tell, there isn't a clear consensus on the precise causes underlying depression. It's challenging to treat causes when you lack a mechanistic understanding. So, yes, they've developed treatment protocols that
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by Kalium 6y ago
It's worth bearing in that that beer specifically often does not travel particularly well. Dry goods might be a better option.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> - finally we come to the bread vs rice - once rice leaves a farm, it is storable and needs no further professional processing - you just cook it. But wheat needs grinding and usually baking was a specialty procession. This actually arg
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by Kalium 6y ago
I think there's two things that change in those years. One is practical experience. The other is life. Perhaps it takes both. I've definitely seen people who have the one but not the other fail to appreciate the value of theory.
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by Kalium 6y ago
Please accept my apologies. I can see I have been unclear. It's been my experience that when attempting to communicate, people use the vocabulary they expect will do the job efficiently for the task at hand. As you say, for many thin
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by Kalium 6y ago
Generally no, because they do not have large populations of self-taught professional practitioners who never learned theory. Least common denominator writing is very useful for a great many things. It is wonderful and ideally suited for ite
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by Kalium 6y ago
That's an excellent question! It may be worth considering that the answer may not be as significant as some might guess. GATE is an exam that tests if you're ready for graduate school. Part of being ready for a specialized field i
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by Kalium 6y ago
A man who runs an incubator in Portland once told me that anyone can run an incubator one year. Almost anyone can run it two years. It's years three and beyond that make all the difference. With that in mind, I'm exciting to see w
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by Kalium 6y ago
Be concise. Be forcible. Have a plan to kill every sentence you meet. ---- This is my preferred summary of Strunk and White.
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by Kalium 6y ago
I'm a very strange person in many ways. I personally prefer to be able to make my own choices about how I waste away my free time - Netflix, books, biking, walks, prayer, meditation, yoga, etc. Trading that in for spending more time to
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by Kalium 6y ago
OK. Let's say a magic wand is waved, and all of us Americans have bikeable and walkable cities with excellent public transportation. Let's say this happens literally overnight. How do you expect this would change Amazon's log
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by Kalium 6y ago
Governments and regulators don't always act in a clear-headed way when a company seen as a national champion is involved. Often the fear of bringing down political wrath, making a mess of national prestige, and more crop up even when e
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by Kalium 6y ago
A Labor party should understand that the ability to organize and direct the labor of workers is itself exceptionally valuable labor. The value even scales up with the number of workers involved, the locations involved, the number of other w
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by Kalium 6y ago
I expect any differences to manifest in the student's life over the subsequent years. Many people build a significant chunk of their social network in those first two years of undergraduate college
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Insurance is NOT a financial instrument. Insurance is supposed to be a safety mechanism that protects you if something bad happens. Insurance is fundamentally a financial construct designed to manage risk. And if it's priced too l
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by Kalium 6y ago
Depending on the state, education might not be the city's job at all. It might be a separate level of government entirely. It's hard to make comparisons like this because obligations and reporting methodology can vary wildly.
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by Kalium 6y ago
I mean, they managed to IPO so the founders probably made out alright.
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by Kalium 6y ago
A lot of people, sooner or later, discover that the margins on morality are shockingly poor. They make their own choices from there.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> The way we consider ‘work’ has changed. Working for remuneration is necessary to exist. This wasn’t so a hundred years ago...’work’ is the new normal. Is that necessarily a good thing? In the history I am familiar with, in many places
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by Kalium 6y ago
It's been my experience that a good chunk of the researchers on HackerOne are exactly what this point would lead you predict. I recall working with some in Morocco, Pakistan, and Romania. This was admittedly a few years ago. No idea if
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by Kalium 6y ago
> I believe the sentiment most people are expressing when they say you cannot separate the "trip" from the beneficial effects is that they both have the same origin or causative agent. Perhaps I've swallowed too much propa
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Anyway, are people making lucrative careers out of bug bounties? I'm pretty sure a reasonable number are doing quite well for themselves after currency conversions. It would be quite challenging to replace a typical Bay Area secur
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by Kalium 6y ago
Publishers can, and should , always make visitors aware of how many third parties are positioned to see all visitor data. We are, unfortunately, a long way from this being normal. Even as third parties doing things like running CDNs or doi
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by Kalium 6y ago
When I read something like this, I come away feeling sad. It's a well-intentioned essay, written by someone who understands why websites are slow. It pleads with readers to not make their websites slow and preserve their sovereignty on
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by Kalium 6y ago
I understand that a lot of people genuinely do not trust Google. It's been their experience, and thus their priors, that Google is attempting to assert control over all aspects of the web. Perhaps someone can find some evidence that al
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by Kalium 6y ago
Yeah, as near as I can tell signed exchanges are essentially a caching proxy. With integrity checks, so that you don't have to trust the proxy all that much and its agency is much reduced. I'm reminded of apt. The calculation appe
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by Kalium 6y ago
That's definitely a scary thought! Can you share any details of what must be public plans to strip everything non-Google of branding? Surely there must be something out there beyond the IETF docs for the protocol, where I don't se
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by Kalium 6y ago
Previously, Hong Kong had a status that let it trade with the US under terms very different from those mainland China is subject to. Clear consequences have not, as near as I can tell, be spelled out yet. The gist is that US trade policy wi
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by Kalium 6y ago
As I understood signed exchanges, a correct implementation makes it impossible for the intermediary to inject, alter, replace, or otherwise swap out any part of the page without failing verification. This would mean the original server gets

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