brian-bk

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by brian-bk 4y ago
It could be intentional because the systems are too compromised, and they had to just shut it all down. Where DNS is the safest and best place to enact a kill switch.
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by brian-bk 4y ago
"Fed" as in the Federal Reserve or govt? 100% agree with you, but the Fed Reserve doesn't have that much power on the supply side.
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by brian-bk 4y ago
I think a lot of companies hopped on the "data science" bandwagon when they were really looking for data monkeys. A great data scientist may have more questions than answers, challenging assumptions and sharpening domain knowledge
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by brian-bk 4y ago
There's so many of these "k8s is too complex" blogs I have been thinking about where they come from. I feel like if a person strictly has an application-developer background, they just don't understand how much kubernete
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by brian-bk 4y ago
Yeah, if I were NYTimes, I would pay a kill fee for that op-ed too :). Doesn't matter if there's valid source ideas, its writing is so poor and voice so immature.
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by brian-bk 4y ago
I don't use Twitter, what's wrong with Twitter's search that it needs a rewrite?
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by brian-bk 4y ago
Call me petty but I'm not reading a full article in monospace font . I don't care if it looks cool it's not as easy on the eyes.
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by brian-bk 4y ago
Essay reads like a cult essay. Kinda like: 'Sorry to inform you that you are in a cult, but stay here, we'll fix you up and make you better.' It reminds me of spam saying "your computer has been infected with a virus, do
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by brian-bk 4y ago
All passenger users pay to use uber... so this is an unnecessary punch in the gut to the user experience. I wonder if there's a breaking point with internet-based advertising, where it becomes so widespread and effective at squeezing p
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by brian-bk 4y ago
You can't just "raise prices" in billing the insurance company though, and copays are often fixed by the insurance company..
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by brian-bk 4y ago
Right there at the top > Amazon said Thursday that revenue growth in its cloud-computing unit slowed in the third quarter to 27.5%, missing analysts’ estimates. It’s the slowest expansion since at least 2014, the year Amazon started repo
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by brian-bk 6y ago
That's what I thought too, 25% accuracy for public reports? That's crazy high! They just don't want to hire more people or improve their process.
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by brian-bk 6y ago
It's noted in the article, they're not forcing them out by direct competition. Rather, their squeezing their competitors profit margins and forcing competitors' prices up, but charging more prohibitive prices for content.
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by brian-bk 6y ago
Long ago, the internet streaming services lived in harmony. Then everything changed when the Disney conglomerate attacked. In all seriousness - I believe it really is pressure from Disney forcing their competitors out, that's caused th
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by brian-bk 6y ago
Good to note. But I think you're distracting from the article's talking point. I disagree with "switch to HTTPS or lose ranking", but that's an HTTP vs. HTTPS issue with Google's search ranking, not about Chrom
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by brian-bk 6y ago
It's not wrong to build whatever you want for yourself. But if you have external users on your site sending data to your site, you have a responsibility to not treat your users' data as meaningless.
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by brian-bk 6y ago
Are those >5 year OSes receiving security patches?
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by brian-bk 6y ago
There's no cert because there's no need for one in the first place. Mentioning that is pretty silly - it's obvious that there's nothing wrong with a static site with now cert, and no one is arguing against that.
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by brian-bk 6y ago
> It's possible and free for small players to use letsencrypt, that still takes some time to set up, manage and maintain over time. If you want to run a webserver but are unable to set up a cronjob that does certbot renew you