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by mrkurt 6y ago
I'm all for anonymous publishing, I think it's a powerful and useful. Retconning SSC as an "anonymous" publication is silly, though, and really dilutes the efforts of people who truly want to or need to remain anonymous.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Is the bar for doxing really that low now? My last name is not private. Nor is Scott Alexander's. My implied wishes (and really, his wishes) aren't terribly important. If either of us do something newsworthy, it's not doxing
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Personal information that Scott Alexander _already published_ was going to be republished. He's published all his own personal info repeatedly for years. Deleting a site you've posted on thousands of times is a quality tantrum.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
My last name is easy to find. My first name is Kurt, I live in Chicago, I work on startups. I've published with my last name within the last decade. Scott Alexander's last name is also easy to find. His first name is Scott, his mi
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I'm not sure how directly the cancelling is affiliated with SSC, but the #ghostnyt hashtag is a pretty good cancellation motion. The only thing that's really reached my bubble has been outrage and cancellation, though. https:&#x2
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Watching people who hate cancel culture try to cancel the NYT is hilarious. Watching them try to cancel individual NYT writers is gross. All because Scott Alexander retroactively decided his last name is private information and threw a tant
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by mrkurt 6y ago
You read the sourced paper then and your mind has been changed due to new evidence?
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Immigrants create economic growth though. They come here, spend money, start businesses, and generate more demand for the things that create jobs. In fact, preventing immigration reduces jobs. Companies will happily offshore any position th
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It didn't really start as a volatile cache, it started as an in memory data structures server. It's useful for all kinds of stuff memcached isn't (and has been since day 1).
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by mrkurt 6y ago
That is a fabulous article. I also love Caddy. In fact, you can run it on Fly.io (and even opt out of our TLS/cert stack). I would love it if it could just put certs in Vault, though.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Yeah that's feasible, although it still sounds more complicated than doing per connection protocol negotiations to me. But I like ALPN so I'm biased.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Ooooh I love Wireguard, we'll have an article about this in the next couple of months. We picked it because it's really simple to manage, and we wanted to ensure traffic between datacenters was always encrypted. We have a little t
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by mrkurt 6y ago
We actually run into problems that are similar to what you'd have with SRV records. Fly.io apps can define different service "handlers" (like TLS and HTTP). If you want to, you can accept TCP connections and bypass our logic.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I have the opposite feeling, the clever "hacks" people use to build very useful stuff that bypasses most problems with legacy infrastructure are pretty exciting. It's very much like watching a complex organism evolve into som
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It's probably better to compare Fly with Lambda or Fargate. It's not really meant to be cheaper than AWS, though, the real value is being able to run app servers all over the world without spending time maintaining servers or wran
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It's seriously the bomb.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
"The death of the private citizen who publishes publicly with their own personal information attached". First name + middle name + occupation + city isn't "private".
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by mrkurt 6y ago
"In this day and age" we can distinguish between someone being racist and systemic racism.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
So what you're saying is kind of the opposite of a marginal cost. If they are recouping their costs, it's a capital expense, and works differently than a marginal cost. AWS's networking was extremely expensive to _build_ but
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Right. We glamorize "management" in every way, even going so far as to label devs "individual contributors". As if they only contribute 1x while managers contribute multiples. I have this gut wrenching feeling that tech
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Margin calculations include all that. And I suspect most of AWS's marginal cost is _still_ hardware. The marginal cost of VPC is basically 0. Otherwise they couldn't sell tiny ec2 instances. The only cost differences between t3.mi
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I think they mean: discriminating against corporations is entirely different than discriminating against people.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I think you're underestimating the effect of corralling people with bridges and police lines. And then shutting down CTA. It's subtle escalation, but it's escalation. There's a very blurry line between "control the
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It wasn't an actual budget cut, it was a cut to a proposed future budget.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Sure. Large companies make things free because they can subsidize them with other products. The question is: did they do this to win market share? I think it makes _total_ sense for MS to make a bunch of GitHub services free. I also think i
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Well, they did just make a bunch of previously paid GitHub stuff free. That's something only a company the size of Microsoft can do.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I prefer TypeScript to Lua and there are a lot of interesting JavaScript libraries I would want to use.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
OpenResty is pretty great, I think people would abuse the heck out of it it weren't so heavily Lua but when people do find it they build some amazing stuff (like Kong). We have a fair number of people running OpenResty on Fly.io. It&#x
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It costs the company more. It also provides value benefit to an employee with a family. I'm not sure that distinction really changes anything. :)
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by mrkurt 6y ago
That sounds like open source to me, I bet they're just being really conservative about saying "open source" because there's been so much backlash at MongoDB/Cockroach/etc for similar restrictions. It's res

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