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by mseebach 9y ago
I vaguely suspect that GP may refer to the fact that certain corporations block access to the Gmail web interface (and the other big providers) from their network, typically for auditing purposes, in a way to a personally run mail server mi
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by mseebach 9y ago
> most ardent free-market defenders claim it doesn't exist Yes, and the people on the other side of that debate are perfectly reasonable, dispassionate truth-seekers.
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's nothing about this that will allow a single, monopolistic entity to emerge. There are probably hundreds of "Uber-ripoff" apps out there by now. Sure, as long as someone is willing to pour VC money into it and give peo
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by mseebach 9y ago
Sounds like you want something like syslog-ng paired with Nagios. The "big" solutions require some hardware because they do a lot more than merely collecting your logs.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yeah, that seems rather unlikely. Do you have some references for that claim?
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't remember the details, but it probably didn't become misconfigured, it would always have been misconfigured, just one particular combination of factors that hadn't been seen before suddenly got caught. I remember at
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by mseebach 9y ago
Long time self-hosted email user, then long time Gmail user. Playing with your own server is fun, and I really enjoyed it. But things do go wrong, and they go wrong at the least convenient times. I've lost a whole day of a holiday tryi
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by mseebach 9y ago
Or if you just use the provided router, either in bridge mode or in regular mode, the only device it will ever see and report on is your own router, which is hardly a critical leak.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Having the wire, especially if it's fibre, between your home and ISP encrypted is probably of extremely limited value. Your ISP has access to the (unencrypted) endpoint anyway, and any adversary with the resources to actually tap your
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's a special case on housing expenses. There aren't enough housing units in many areas for everybody who wants to live in those areas. So, the price goes up, and this acts a as a crude filter for how bad you want to live in a
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by mseebach 9y ago
For compound interest to make a difference, you need to leave the money alone for quite a bit of time. That does not seem to be be plan here. Sovereign wealth funds are generally endowed with some kind of income stream, typically the revenu
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by mseebach 9y ago
Hold your horses. The thread is a response to a comment suggesting the ability to speak to someone in Australia over the internet as reason to get into HAM . Nobody is "invalidating" anything.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Companies aren't "evil" as such, but they can get complacent when not exposed to sufficient competition. Once SpaceX is a viable competitor, Comcast will probably fairly quickly "forget" that they are evil. I seem t
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by mseebach 9y ago
For (practically) any given interest, there's a way to find someone else with the same interest somewhere else that you can ask to Skype with.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Then why don't you just use the internet in the first place, and skip the license and expensive equipment?
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by mseebach 9y ago
HFT is a subset of algorithmic trading, but algorithmic trading isn't all HFT. For an example, a value based investment strategy can be implemented as an algorithm.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I have a personal domain on Gmail, and my spam folder currently has 105 messages in it from the past month. Two are mis-filed mass mailings and one is from a mailing list that I think I was once legitimately on, but which has refused to uns
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by mseebach 9y ago
A shakedown usually involves an opportunity to pay to avoid the consequences. At the very least, it certainly isn't "hilariously transparent".
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by mseebach 9y ago
Google/Microsoft didn't kill email, spam did. Google/Microsoft then salvaged from the abyss something largely similar to email, but with some limbs all but severed.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Microsoft did a lot of ruthless things and even some illegal things, yes, but it requires a very unkind reading of history to deny the absolutely huge role they played in bring about the world we take for granted today. It's a common,
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by mseebach 9y ago
... to be read by the recipients secretary who then discards all the niceties and just tells the recipient "Acme said no on the Foo".
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by mseebach 9y ago
But that would not be a politically acceptable outcome. There will be so unbelievably many free votes for the "Bring Facebook back" party that they will barely need to campaign. Also, by the way, this won't bring about the de
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by mseebach 9y ago
> the GDPR seems fine, as well as quite defensible. So, that's the thing. Either, it's fine and defensible, and the Facebooks of the world will just comply, and so won't be a trade barrier, or it's not. It can't
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by mseebach 9y ago
If you can't think of a more wasteful and inefficient way to do that, you need to hang out more with government contractors. You ain't seen nothin' yet. Also, this is unlikely to be more than a trickle. He talks about spendin
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by mseebach 9y ago
> The winners are pretty much everyone. You don't know that yet. There is not a great track record anywhere for implementing radical reform without significant unintended consequences. It's totally reasonable to be cautiously o
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Wait until GDPR is in place in May and German and other EU courts will rule FB to death. If indeed GDPR will enable those courts to "rule FB to death", and not, as repeatedly promised, be entirely reasonable to comply with, i
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by mseebach 9y ago
> I have noise coming from Slack that I'm expected to respond It's the external expectation to respond that I interpreted as "being a team player as measured by always being on Slack". Being a team player, broadly def
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by mseebach 9y ago
Then I don't understand what you meant by this: > > But as for Slack, you DO have to be a team player.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> might require faking some plane tickets > who says they are there for tourism I'm not a nomad, I guess I enjoy nesting too much for that to be an effective lifestyle for me. But I'd be very cautious about choosing a profes
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by mseebach 9y ago
Well, there's also organisational discipline to consider. If the company values "being a team player" (as measured by always being on Slack) over getting work done, then the organisation has a discipline problem. You don&#x27

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