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I totally disagree because in some aspects the empires were more unified, open and liberal than today.

For examples nowadays can you bring physically huge amount of cash or gold across borders without being detained? In the empire of old you really can. One of the richest men ever existed in recorded history Mansa Musa, 14th century King of Mali has been reported to travel with tons of golds on the way to pilgrimage in Mecca because apparently his empire held half of world's gold resources at the time [1]. According to historians he so lavishly did he hand out gold in Cairo Egypt that his three months stay caused the price of gold to plummet in the region for 10 years, wrecking the economy for many years [2]. This is probably the main reason modern countries do not allow bringing along your stack of cash or gold in very large amount when you are travelling across borders.

Regarding your not-so-unified under the empire arguments, the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia will not be successful for 500 years (being a main port-city rival to The City of Venice no less) and will be really stupid to pay Ottoman tributary for 500 hundreds years! Additionally these port-cities such as Dubrovnik are autonomous and not even directly under the empire administration. I'd imagine the countries or states under the Ottoman empire will be even more integrated than that in term of taxations and contributions? It will be like asking UK to pay taxes/contributions for several hundreds years to EU even after the separation from the EU. Without a unified and strong empire you cannot do that even in today's world let alone in 16th century AD.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa

[2]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47379458
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I know from experience that they might take some actions if you take too much of a DDoS on their free plan but I never heard of that on some usual traffic, especially not when it's as low as the blog suggests (sub 10 rpm).
The attacks my blog received were in the thousand requests per second area when it got suspended.
Ask HN: What Reddit channels did you subscribe to?
Then memorize a second seed which holds a small amount for plausible deniability.
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At least in London and Dubai the first category is getting murdered by members only clubs and restaurants like Amazonico, Coya and Zuma.

These restaurants just deliver a far superior product if #1 is the experience you're after.
You shouldn't assume that he is correct either; i'm a free plan user and have never experienced this
That whole thing was farce; the FBI got the unencrypted backup data from Apple. iCloud Backup is on by default for every iPhone, and is effectively unencrypted, and sends pretty much the entirety of the device's data to Apple every night when plugged in (using Apple keys).

Apple can decrypt the whole thing without any input from the user: they don't need their phone, they don't need their password, they don't need their keys.

The whole thing was a carefully orchestrated media dance designed to make it seem like the feds can't get the data off of iPhones. Not only do they have access to almost all of the data on almost every iPhone, they have access to it without a warrant or probable cause thanks to the FISA Amendments Act. Apple compromised over 30,000 accounts for the US government without a warrant in 2019, per Apple's own transparency report.
For an ordinary citizen, is there any real benefit in following 'the news?'
If countries start segregating the internet doesn't this break the cryptocurrency model?

https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/12/russia-planning-to-disco...

How would bitcoin work if, say, half the network couldn't talk to the other half?
I'm starting to lose faith in cloudflare lately - we're on the business plan and there's been some really strange UI bugs in the dashboard where it looks like state just isn't reflected properly (Access and Load Balancing being ones we see quite a bit)

Summary of things that we've had issues with lately:

- Caching of a specific route just stopped working.
I log a support ticket (nightmare to find in the dashboard) and miraculously it starts working again after the ticket gets responsded to.

- Some of our staff got locked out of part of our app because we exceeded the 5 free users of the "Access" plan. Upgraded to the 50 user plan in the new Teams part and it still didn't work. Contacted support, fixed again but no explanation. (multiple day turnaround on tickets)

We're invested in their tech a lot and I love workers - they really take some big tasks off us. If Azure come up with something compelling we'll probably switch though (assuming I can make sense of Azure's billing and product naming strategy)
I heard on a podcast recently that a trading system needs to keep logs of why a particular trade was executed for several years just in case the authority wants it. So it isn't too much effort to build a similar report or log of behaviour to explain why someone was banned.

Obviously this will also help the spammers who will use this information to get around the filters.
If you're such a high volume site then why not pay for CDN/DDOS Protection? I'm amazed so many people feel this is something they deserve for free, and then complain when there's some kind of limitation on the free thing they're receiving.
This article was pretty insipid and included some valuable insights like "The experience of WWII is that stocks generally did preserve wealth. But stocks had substantially higher returns if their home country was on the winning side. Losing the war and becoming occupied destroyed a country’s long-term return in equities." Like no shit sherlock.
If you're on free plan you have no way to know if this has happened to your website.
> there's no outbound traffic filtering to check the system isn't leeching user data and/or device identifiers

But there is the iOS sandbox FS. So if an App gets exploited, it can only every leech the data from exactly THAT app. Just the same as an auto-update might just start to leech and upload that data. Given the real-world practices, I think it is more likely an App creator choses to upload the data, than some malicious hacker doing it.

> It's trivial to make an app that leeches a user's contacts regularly to a server

On iOS this is not possible - either the App requests access to the contacts list then I have to consent via iOS sandbox features, or it doesn't get access. And if I didn't give this consent, any security hole that exploits the App will need to get that consent too (at which I will not give it).
No. A few hundreds US dollars for US citizenship is beyond worth it. If anything, this coronavirus pandemic has showed us that citizenship does matter and it's actually worth a lot.
This applies to any safe-haven asset, so why is it relevant? :)
There's no scarier company online than Cloudflare. Blissfully allowing it to MITM your traffic is just swell.

In this case I suspect the monetization algo kicked in. Considering it just produced $40/month, it did well.
If you use a third-party builder like Paketo you can use buildpacks anywhere you can use docker images

https://paketo.io/docs/builders/
I guess there is a gamble/risk
Performance is the challenge. Caching node_modules in Docker is a little tricky. The alternative is adding minutes to your build and deploy vs seconds.
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While we are on the subject of rate limiting and such, does Cloudflare allow using its service for serving video files for a media heavy social media app where we store the videos on Backblaze B2?

I’m working on such an app, and am hoping to use Cloudflare + Backblaze B2, because of the bandwidth alliance. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/bandwidth-alliance/

However, the Terms of Service say:

> 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content

> The Services are offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Services solely for the purpose of (i) serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other functionally equivalent applications, including rendering Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other functional equivalents, and (ii) serving web APIs subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.8. Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service. If we determine you have breached this Section 2.8, we may immediately suspend or restrict your use of the Services, or limit End User access to certain of your resources through the Services.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/terms/

And I am wondering what kind of subscription would be appropriate for my use-case if any, that would allow me to host the files on Backblaze B2, and serve these files through Cloudflare.

(Cloudflare would also be hosting our API, so it’s not just video files that we want to serve via Cloudflare.)
I have two domains with millions of requests a month and hundreads of GB of bandwidth, both of them work quite well even in free mode.

However today and few days ago too it seems requests going through Cloudflare are just timing out. So we finally move to paid plan

We're monitoring both endpoints (CF and the origin)
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I am taking responsibility for what the customer is reporting here.
Blaming the violence on the race of dog tells us more about the reporter than the news story.
Also no rich text so it would be difficult to indicate what text was removed, added and unchanged in a readable format without the image.
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I did like idea of this until I actually owned one.

This texture just seems to grate the gunk off my hands and leaves the controller with grey patches which is obviously unsightly on a white controller.

I've not had this issue on any other controller, and I'm a fairly clean person (especially with all the excess hand washing due to covid)
Is this a response to the "Don't offer a free plan" article floating around here somewhere?

Reading them both, it seems the other one is written by a developer and this one is written by a marketing person. The marketing person probably knows more about this then a developer would, but it is fun to see their perspectives. The developer doesn't want to deal with free users demanding resources and the marketer wants to position the product to be profitable.

Personally I trust developers more than marketing people, and I generally have a bit of disdain for marketing folks. They market their trade as exposing the right product to the right audience, but usually what it amounts to in substance is manipulating people. Still, the marketing person's perspective on this particular topic is important to consider.
It's not a data breach, but it is fraud and should be treated as such.
More info on sources for calculating the mentions?
You'd have to make sure you deposited to the secondary wallet independently from your primary wallet or anybody remotely block explorer saavy could determine that you probably had another account with more crypto.
I grow, manage and monitor my blog (Blogs for Devs)
NodeChef. https://www.nodechef.com/ - Supports all Cloud Foundry and Heroku build packs.
Bitcoin, and probably any other cryptocurrency, uses flooding [1] to propagate transactions.

So it would be very difficult to prevent transactions from leaking out of or into the isolated zone:

A single peer in the whole country which is connected to the outside would be enough to leak all transactions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooding_(computer_networking)
I pre-order food to protect the people that work there from infection, as recommended by a variety of agencies and retail policies. It's not out of convenience, it's consideration. If I was lazy, I would have it delivered instead of walking down there.

I'm sorry you saw this as complaining. I work in tech and considered it a thought exercise. It's the kind of thing that Wired used to write about to illustrate the impact of modern technologies. I genuinely thought others would have contributions about what kinds of systems support these services.

Since this is the first personal attack I've gotten on HN, I'm not even sure how else to respond.
This resonates with me. It deeply disturbs me that other animals still don’t have rights on parity with humans.

I can play devil’s advocate and make the ethical argument that animal lives have more intrinsic value than human lives. For one, they are innately innocent due to their (as we currently understand) more limited capacity for reasoning. This limited reasoning dismisses blame when they do things we see as wrong (similar to the way we do for children) and also limits their capacity to cause significant harm to the planet.

I will always side with other animals over man. If I could only rescue one organism from a burning building and had to choose between a human or another animal, I’d choose the other animal. If I had to choose which species becomes extinct tomorrow, it would be humans. We are a plague to this planet and solar system.

Selfish humans, obsessed with self preservation, will easily disagree with this judgement.
Thank you to share. If you have time, can you add links to other stories that caught your attention? I would like to read more!
We have a similar system is AU. It’s not really enforced all that well. But most people cooperate and life is generally back to normal. You also only need to do it in enclosed areas like shops. Mask wearing is still mandatory on public transport.

Unfortunately very low cases doesn’t mean the virus is gone. Occasionally there is a case and if you want to clamp that down as fast as possible, you need contact tracing. Which means we need to know where you are.

For most people, no extra information is being leaked. Facebook and google already know where they are and they are far more malicious than the AU or NZ government. The tin foil hatters like you can take extra measures I’m sure.

The US has over 25million cases and over 400k dead. That’s literally the entire population of Australia infected. So I’d argue that NZ and AU are objectively better and we shouldn’t worry about “overreach” just yet.
Within Google Takeout, you can setup monthly backup to another service (I chose OneDrive with 1TB storage)
I think two things: one, that it is indeed a hypothesis that fits the data, and in a way a very exciting prospect. As Sherlock Holmes said, once you eliminate the impossible, whatever is left must be the answer.

The other is, there must be possible explanations we haven't thought of (even if not actually correct). Furthermore, I'm in no doubt prof Loeb is a great scientist, but as for this being a key justification for the findings, there was a host of great minds holding crazy and unsubstantiated beliefs only vaguely linked to their core expertise. Some of these crazy ideas turned out to be true, but not all.

All I'm saying, this is cool and I'll follow that, but I'm not kitting out the anti-alien survival shelter just yet.
Probably similar to AWS/GCP's grey listing systems, which increase quotas slowly over time.
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>Keynes famously went on a mission to Paris in the spring of 1940 to buy, to the sound of howitzers, two Cézannes and two Delacroix that subsequently appreciated 40x in the next four decades.

This is 9.66% per year, on par with the Dow Jones which gives 9.48% per year from '40 to '80 (dividend reinvested). Not that I wouldn't like to own a Cézanne or two...
Have you talked to support about this problem?
That's unfortunate. The silver lining is that there will be more people talking about this here on HN than actually affected by not bringing some game to Stadia.
Sounds similar to podman [1] which also doesn't require a daemon (though you can run it with one if you like).

[1] https://podman.io/getting-started/

Back to the original article, I prefer dockerfile-based builds as it allows me to run my own tests easily on the image locally before uploading.

Can this be done with buildkits?
That would be an awful system, although we have a constituency list anyway.

Labour could put up a dead dog in Bootle and would get elected. Conservatives could put the same up in Christchurch and win.

To implement PR,

First, you make the constituencies larger - about 5 times the size now. For example instead of having 4 constituencies on the Wirral you have 1, or 1 in Cornwall instead of the 6 now. Those constitutencies elect more than 1 MP (4 in the Wirral, 6 in Cornwall)

Then you number them in preference order.

This results in the people electing individuals (so preferring a locally popular candidate over a parachuted candidate), but also ensures that if 54% of Cornwall constituency want Tory, 23% want Labour, 19% want Lib Dem, 4% want others, you'd end up with something like

3 Tories
2 Labour
1 Lib Dem

Which is far more representative of the wishes of the people of Cornwall than currently, where 6/6 MPs are Tory on 54% of the vote.
The negativity is coming from those who are ideologically opposed to giving a Tory government credit where it's due.
Whether to go with a freeium model is another "it depends" topic and there's too many factors to give general advice, the same for questions like "How much should I charge for my product?", "What's the best way to market my product?" and "What framework should I use to code my product?".

I run a freeium Chrome extension (https://www.checkbot.io/) for checking website SEO, speed and security factors where I have the free plan without sign up for multiple reasons 1) low friction so users can try it out first 2) users may be more likely to share and recommend it for quickly checking website issues 3) there's free tools in this space so it may be harder to ask for payment upfront. I'm generally not finding the cost of the free users high.

For another product though, all these factors might be weighted differently which would tip the balance on a free tier making sense. It depends on too many things e.g. marketing budget, competitors (how entrenched they are, how much they offer for free), how much a user needs to try out your product before they realise they need it, differences between free and paid plan, if your product appeals to teams or individuals, support costs.
I would assume the very wide CI mentioned above means that, since it includes 0, we can’t say there is a statistically significant effectiveness (it is not significantly different from 0% effectiveness).
On my home WiFi, my phone is on IPv6, and therefore not behind NAT (it is on a NAT address for IPv4, though). I've not done any super-geeky things to enable this, it's a standard router from a mainstream internet provider.

Pinging the IPv6 address from outside doesn't seem to work - I guess there is some sort of firewalling going on.
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This TV Remote exactly clearly gets to the point: What do you think is more likely, a malicious hacker driving a van and parking in front of your house? Just to exploit the TV remote via Bluetooth, a device that has no sensitive data, is not connected to the internet and can only be used to make TV inputs like switching channels? Or rather that your TV vendor like Samsung or LG decide one day that they offer a firmware "update" that will log what you watch on the TV, upload screenshot of the device and installed App to the cloud and sell to 3rd parties? My bet is on the later, and it exactly makes the point that auto-update is more dangerous than having a security flaw in a bluetooth TV remote.
The OR ELSE part or 'moderation procedures' probably didn't need to be written down.
The value is that rehab programs frequently stop people from being addicts so that they can solve their life problems themselves.

They work. Also, it's the same program - whether it's mandated by the court or volunteered for.
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With the small difference that on Windows the other stacks are available and usually require no user setup to get going.
Today there was a topic on HN about customers who complain about limiting free tiers. That’s a great example of it, especially from someone who provides paid SaaS product.

Free tier is awesome for small websites, keeping domains and many other things. But if you run business who earns, then just pay for that god damn thing, and stop ranting. :-)
"Plain text" writing using a "text editor", is much more limited in its expressiveness than writing on a piece of paper. There is no reason to believe that a character grid somehow is the pinnacle of programming.
my money is on "there's some piece of this guy stack that's causing cf servers to timeout on reads"
If recommendations are useful here, both EasyDNS (easydns.com) and Hover (hover.com) seem ok.

I've used both over the years, though the EasyDNS UI is a bit harder to work with. They seem more technically competent than Hover though, who are decent but not fantastic. ;)
> [2] http://www.thedarksideof.io

Wow, didn't know this story. Imperialism at its finest from the Anglo-saxon world (well, actually started by the French with slavery but that was >200 years ago, I found way worse the decisions took 50 years ago).
This kind of thing is fascinating to me. I don't think we really know the extent to which primate behavior in relation to ours is cultural vs. genetic; after all, things like this haven't often been tried! Obviously the genetic differences are huge, but stories like this make me think that our cultural development over time may be a bigger factor in the difference between our species than many assume.

And humans don't do much better absent human society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child
Cloudflare might have other issues from time to time, but I've never experienced the similar problem.

I'm running around 40 domains on Cloudflare Free plan. About 20 of these domains have some traffic.
Is it possible that this person's free-plan traffic was routed through a POP that was under attack? Then, upon upgrading to Pro the routing rules for the account were modified to avoid under-attack data centers.
It's not, the US left is represented by papers such as Jacobin, intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky, and politicians like Bernie Sanders, (who has only recently - ~last 10 years of his half a century career- joined the Democratic party), and organizations like the Nurses Union.

Sure, it's true that the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, and that there are actual leftists in the DP, such as Bernie or AOC, but the vast majority of the party is centrist at best, especially on economic issues.

On many economic issues, Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi are on the right of someone like Marine LePen or Viktor Orban.
It's not the criticism being levelled here, that Google has no support.

I'd also say that it's not a particularly useful end of the market. If I were to judge a cloud provider purely on their "day 1" experience I'd just go to Digital Ocean, it's far better than AWS at that level.
So you watched some videos, and now you know much better how the animal behaves than those who have lived with it for its entire life?
Google Gsuite/Workspaces has an SLA.
Or used Monero.
> Because honestly, the amount of spam and abuse that are likely happening on these platforms has to be mind boggling high.

So hire more people. You can't argue that you can't do your work properly because your AI is not yet up to the task.
For point 4, I'd go further and use a separate user account/computer. Nothing private on work account, not even email or a single news site. That has helped me draw the line easier: to procrastinate or answer any private message I have to either use my phone or boot up another computer.

On the water jug I disagree though, I think it's good idea to get up from the chair every now and then even if only to fill the water glass.