eastdakota

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by eastdakota 3y ago
Do you have any idea how many customers we have?
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by eastdakota 3y ago
The association of IPs to individuals and particular services is the original sin of the Internet. At Cloudflare, we’re working to fix that sin. That doesn’t mean governments don’t have the right to regulate content on networks in their boa
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by eastdakota 3y ago
I think the use of a chopped up SVB credit card is clearly the cherry on top of this story.
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by eastdakota 3y ago
I’m smiling thinking of the reaction I’d get on our marketing team if I suggested: “Hey, I have an idea, let’s post a negative story on Hacker News so then people in the comments will say things and I can reply.” John (our CTO) and I care a
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by eastdakota 3y ago
I wish we (and the rest of the world) were as organized as it’d take to support conspiracy theories. Easier explanation probably is that I just woke up about 90 minutes ago. HN is about #9 on the list of things I check every morning. Saw th
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by eastdakota 3y ago
We’ve tried. The owner of Archive.is actively monitors and then returns bad results. This is true even if we recurse through another recursor. It’s a very odd hill to die on.
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by eastdakota 3y ago
In this particular case we truncate EDNS to protect the privacy of users because we believe 1) privacy is a fundamental human right; and 2) the original sin of the Internet is that IP addresses are too closely tied to the identities of indi
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by eastdakota 3y ago
And today it’s over 250. And the only site I’m aware of that objects to us protecting user privacy by making EDNS more private is this one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by eastdakota 3y ago
Cloudflare has supported a free IPv4 to IPv6 gateway for IPv6-only web servers since 2011: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflares-automati... If you need more than web traffic, you can use our Tunnel service.
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by eastdakota 3y ago
Think you’re supposed to be on vacation.
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by eastdakota 3y ago
The SEC could throw me in jail. And, sure, you could believe that the FBI or whoever could tell the SEC what to do. We have European and Asian investors too, so their financial regulators could also sue me personally for lying. Perhaps the
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by eastdakota 3y ago
No they don't.
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by eastdakota 3y ago
Agree #5 is the riskiest right now with the Quad9 decision in Germany and some of the cases we're facing in Italy, Austria, and elsewhere. The copyright industry has decided that DNS is their new target; never mind that anyone can setu
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by eastdakota 3y ago
I think we'd consider them "law enforcement agencies." But, for the sake of complete clarity, I'm happy to say that we haven't done any of these for the CiA or NSA or any non-US equivalent.
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by eastdakota 3y ago
I'll state right here: all these are still true. We'll get the canary updated. Checking with legal and trust & safety why it hasn't been for so long. Likely just slipped someone's mind. Will make sure that doesn&#x27
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by eastdakota 3y ago
Sorry for the delay. I was writing our Q2 earnings script rather than checking HN. And John (CTO) is in Lisbon where he's probably just waking up. Also: he's on vacation this week.
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by eastdakota 3y ago
These threads amuse me. If adamgamble's speculation were the case, I'd go to jail for things I'd have illegally signed in our SEC disclosures attesting to the sources of our revenue and any government contracts. Suffice it to
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by eastdakota 3y ago
Hmm. Don't think that's intentional. Will ping legal and policy team and make sure they get a heartbeat published ASAP.
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by eastdakota 3y ago
I was 34 when I started Cloudflare and had had every random job from bartender to LSAT test prep instructor to adjunct law professor. Eric, incidentally, is one of the kindest, most curious people I’ve had a pleasure to get to know on this
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by eastdakota 3y ago
We give domain registration away at cost. The only reason that makes sense for us is if some of the people who register use our services. Key to using our services is using our name servers. So someone who uses our registrar but not our nam
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by eastdakota 3y ago
Agree that’s the right analysis for many people. Wasn’t arguing whether you should start a startup or not. Just that if you do bootstrapping isn’t inherently better than raising venture capital. Your broader point is important too: startups
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by eastdakota 3y ago
I don’t think IPO was success. It was just another fundraising event. Another step in the journey. And, per this discussion, the end of our VC journey and beginning of our public company journey. “Profitability” is a funny term on Hacker Ne
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by eastdakota 3y ago
It’s fine if that’s your expectation. It’s fine if you’re bootstrapping and comfortable with your level of success. It’s hard if you thought you were building a rocket ship, raised money selling the vision of the rocket ship, and benchmark
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by eastdakota 3y ago
What a depressingly nihilistic world view. Certainly if you believe you are beholden to some entity’s rules you must follow then all you can ever learn is what the entity you follow is willing to teach. We took a different path. We talked t
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by eastdakota 3y ago
Yup, that’s one big reason people keep up The Slog. It’s even an honorable one. But, knowing people who are 10+ years into that journey, it can be extremely painful.
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Thank you for posting. We could never have built Cloudflare without Lee. His disease is incredibly tragic and in many ways literally unimaginable. Today he is still alive but has continued to cognitively decline. I am happy that Cloudflare’
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Agree.
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Indeed! And an honorable failure — where you learned a ton, tried your best to succeed, but it just didn’t work — is a terrific outcome. We acquihire “failed” startups quite regularly. The founders of those companies have often turned into
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You still eventually need to return money to your private market investors at some point. So that just pushes the outcomes out later. Or, again, in the super rare case that you’re generating so much case that you can pay investors back at a
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by eastdakota 3y ago
The lottery is not a very good analogy. Let’s look at worst cases. In the lottery you put in cash and usually get nothing back. You literally learn nothing because every draw is random. At a VC-backed startup someone else gives you money. W

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