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Estragon··on A Primer on DarkNet Marketplaces
It seems likely that the NSA is running a large fraction of tor nodes, and doing exactly what you suggest. It would cost a trivial fraction of their budget, and yield huge amounts of relevant information.
Estragon··on Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11
You only need to change a few words:

"In other words, they simply didn't test their (global!) custom route announcement management software. An edge case was triggered in production, and unsurprisingly they automatically went offline."

Estragon··on Executable code snippets in Bing
No code returned. :(

https://www.bing.com/search?q=solution+to+halting+problem

Estragon··on Squash your commits

  ultimately I lose a bunch of work.
Take a copy of the entire repository before attempting anything potentially destructive.
Estragon··on Squash your commits

  man git stash
Estragon··on Wow, Perl 6 [video]
I have no problem with lazy lists. It's the "0, 2 ... \infty" expression which offends me.
Estragon··on Wow, Perl 6 [video]

  > There are some people who appreciate games that are very abstract and with
  > simple rules from which complex behavior emerges, such as a game like Go.
I love Go, but I despise perl. Perl is not built on "very abstract and simple rules. For instance, this code is quite hard to reason about:

    1: my @to-infinity-and-beyond = 0, 2 … ∞;
    2: say @to-infinity-and-beyond[1008];
    
    # OUTPUT:
    # 2016
This is self-indulgent mucking around. An inference procedure which goes from "0, 2 … ∞" to "the even-nonnegative integers" is bound to lead to unpleasant and hard-to-debug surprises.
Estragon··on Wow, Perl 6 [video]
Ah, right. Thanks.
Estragon··on Wow, Perl 6 [video]

   say "Code took {now - INIT now} seconds to run";
   # Code took 0.01111143 seconds to run
Implicit string interpolation??? What if I just want to print out the string "now"?
Estragon··on Google launches Public Datasets program
Your best is different from his/her best.
Estragon··on A Decade of Container Control at Google
When did the internal projects start using Kubernetes? I heard that its uptake within Google has been very anemic.
Estragon··on Show HN: EverythingStays – Immutable and Distributed Node.js Modules with IPFS
Side question: what is NPMJS Inc's business model?
Estragon··on Live with me; and I'll teach you how to program
Being enthusiastic for wholesome things is a skill in its own right.
Estragon··on Docker for Mac and Windows Beta
You could probably whitelist with a .dockerignore like

    *           # exclude everything
    !README.md  # include the README.
    !run.sh     # include the initiation script
You would want to check exactly what the globbing rules are for the .dockerignore file, though. I don't know whether '*' will catch .dotfiles, for instance.

  https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#dockerignore-file
  https://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#Match
Estragon··on On the Impending Crypto Monoculture
f(X)=sha1(concat(md5(X), X)), then.
Estragon··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
If it was a good implementation, I'd agree with you, but it's not: https://github.com/azer/left-pad/pulls
Estragon··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?

  >  I can use multiple debuggers
What does this look like, and how does it improve the experience over using a single debugger?
Estragon··on What ISPs can see
iVPN. Mainly based on their excellent privacy tutorials: https://www.ivpn.net/blog/privacy-guides

Steer clear of PIA. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982095

Estragon··on The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp
The whole world is flooded with fiction about using guns to stop bad people with guns. The narrative around crypto is tiny by comparison.
Estragon··on Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones
Classic HN response.
Estragon··on Wmail – Desktop client for Gmail and Google Inbox
Are there any CLI gmail clients which can handle 2FA? I'd like to have a way to read my work email in emacs, but I'm pretty sure work would be unhappy about me putting an app-specific credential on my hard-drive without 2FA.
Estragon··on The Ad Blocking Wars
> How much are you really worried by this?

It's a very serious ethical issue. You might not have any exploitable weaknesses given the current technology, but other people do: alcoholism, pain medication, financial distress, loneliness, straight-up boredom...

Estragon··on Python 3 in 2016

  > What language has decorators, generators, comprehensions, modules, but isn't Python?
Clojure, Haskell. :-)
Estragon··on Google Cloud Debugger: use local source, Go and Node.js support, IntelliJ plugin
Is there an emacs package for this?

Is the server code open-source as well?

Estragon··on Why GNU Emacs?

  > Most of my time is spent outside of the editor
Emacs has a leg up, in this respect.
Estragon··on Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
It cost $750 to become a citizen, last time I checked.
Estragon··on The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
Has anyone successfully found something useful which they couldn't find elsewhere using this tool? I tried it on a few things yesterday and was disappointed.
Estragon··on AI That Annoys Telemarketers

  > had to clock out even to use the bathroom (illegal practice that the company just broke the law on).
Assuming you're in the US, what's the relevant law?
Estragon··on Bill Gates: My parents took me to a child psychologist
He's humble-bragging.
Estragon··on Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dramatic genetic discovery
Oh, look, another genome-wide association study found a suggestive correlation. Didn't we learn our lesson about this kind of bullshit in the Zeros?
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