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Netflix is horrible even if you disregard all the content and licensing issues.

It's so sad it's almost funny, but I actually subscribed to Netflix purely to watch House of Cards Season 2 - and had to download the pirate rips since Netflix was way too resource intensive and dropping frames like crazy with the HD quality stream.

My laptop, a 2011 Macbook Air, isn't exactly the fastest computer out there, but it can watch 20Mbps+ 1080p x264 files in VLC and MPlayerX without any issues at all. However, Netflix, due to their stupid Silverlight solution couldn't even play 720P quality without stuttering a lot and losing audio/video sync within a few seconds.

It's pretty sad that Popcorn Time, a torrent streaming desktop app built with Node.js(!), with just a couple of weeks of unpaid open source development has become a solution that is both prettier, faster and higher quality than what Netflix has been able to do on the PC with years of development.
Zuckerberg phones Obama for answers about NSA spying
Sadly, I'm one of those panicked conversions. I tried the site out initially and paid for a full year. It ended up being too damn buggy so I switched to something else. I completely forgot all about it until yesterday, when I got a recurring charge automatically and without notice on my Paypal account.

It's kind of shitty they didn't send out renewal reminders to give people a chance to cancel.
Is it really "lower priority", or are they artificially holding it back as a way to bring value to their paid shipping options?
A related blog post - http://socialtriggers.com/annoying-popups/
Their Pages hosting feature uses Fastly -- I would assume they use the same service across their infrastructure.
That is correct. I am not endorsing vigilantism. I am saying that it has happened a lot in the absence of law.

What does it mean for bitcoin to be unregulated? Do people want bitcoin regulated and how?

Is someone stealing your bitcoins illegal? What if an exchange steals your bitcoins? What if you conduct a transaction in bitcoins and you never receive the bitcoins? What if someone conducts a ponzi scheme with bitcoins? Would front running and faking trading activity be legal?

EDIT: Note I hold no bitcoins, never have, nor am I shorting them so I have no skin in the game.
This complexity, my technically oriented friends, is part of the reason normal people do not use Linux.
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I agree that a CDN introduces a potential point of failure. Another reason I host locally is that I compress and minify my CSS and JS into single files (e.g. application.js and application.css in Rails).
Referencing C10k implies yes. Threads cost.
That was one of my favorite Magic SysRq keys. It's the Linux analog to Windows's Ctrl-Alt-Del.

It's the "Secure Access Key" (SAK): You press that key and it kills all programs hooked to the TTY (incl. X, in your case) and displays a proper login prompt so that you can know what you're about to login to was run by the system and not a clever malware trying to steal your password.
I was pretty much like the OP (from Georgia Tech too), although I graduated with a masters in CS, so I had that to back me up at interviews. I hated programming as I worked at companies large and small writing code in java (mainly tweaking spring configs) and have spent the last few years trying out for different product management positions with no luck.
I realized that I did not like it much, was because I was fighting the system every time as I did not have the basics right. (I barely could get myself round a linux box). I have since made it my priority to get my fundamentals right and started reading the basics of everything as if I was getting into programming from scratch. I feel it has helped.
Also it happened that my current job required me to learn to code in python. Ever since I started working in python coding has been very pleasurable and fun. Also the ability to quickly have an impact and be useful gives me the thrill rather than just writing a bunch of integration tests.
Anyways Im not sure why this is relevant, but felt like putting this out anyways.
fraud or a fiat
I'd month-normalize this chart. Otherwise it looks to support the opposite conclusion of what you are trying to say.