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WillyOnWheels··on FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server
It's basically a Caddy plugin that works as a drop in replacement for php-fpm, created by https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kdunglas
WillyOnWheels··on Homebrew 1.5.0
I think most users should and would add python libraries with pip3.
WillyOnWheels··on Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested
I don't agree with your implication that shadowy intelligence agencies killed Jack Parsons, but the story of Jack Parsons is fascinating! I think he just mixed too many random rocket fuel precursors. Or maybe L Ron Hubbard really did successfully curse him. There are a few fun books written about this.
WillyOnWheels··on Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested
New converts to a religion are always the most zealous.
WillyOnWheels··on Red Dawn in Lapland
photos of the course the Finnish forces invited the US squad to

https://imgur.com/gallery/Wc3P1

WillyOnWheels··on Red Dawn in Lapland
best Sami movie is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_(1987_film)
WillyOnWheels··on ‘Nigerian Prince’ Email Scammer Arrested in Louisiana
Can you give me a source for this?
WillyOnWheels··on Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables: report
> and not too long ago a big portion of Internet were rerouted to Russia (BGP)

This happens every few months, and not always by Russian ISPs. This would never happen if all upstream providers had proper filters on accepting BGP requests.

It really means the current system of using BGP is not resilient, and never has been.

Look up bgp hijack nanog

WillyOnWheels··on Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater
What socialism? Socialist politics are basically banned Indonesia.
WillyOnWheels··on E Pur Si Muove
n-gate.com is going to have a wonderful time with the comments here.
WillyOnWheels··on Homebrew 1.4.0
It's incredibly weird since Apple employees are heavily discouraged from running Homebrew.
WillyOnWheels··on Bitcoin Exchanges Are Buckling While the Price Surges Past 16,000
Many of the exchanges are down. Consensus time is very high. Would anyone have been to take their profits?
WillyOnWheels··on Uber paid 20-year-old Florida man to keep data breach secret
A well known heavily trafficked site was put under onerous FTC sanction and had to agree to prepare monthly reports about how they were keeping user's data safe for the next ten years.

Perhaps Uber will face the same penalty.

WillyOnWheels··on Enter 'petro': Venezuela to launch oil-backed cryptocurrency
> It is apologising for them when you say 'there is blame on both sides'.

Blaming the Venezuelan government and left wing groups for all of the recent violence is too general. In this case there really is blame on both sides.

I was recently reading https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/venezuela-maduro-helicopt... , which condemns the Maduro government, wealthy right wing Venezuelans, and outside corporations who really wish Maduro would hurry up and leave so they can start trading in Venezuelans mineral and fossil fuel wealth.

The Conservative papers are totally trying to glue, at least in the minds of UK voters, Venezuela to Corbyn! I remember headlines like 'Corbyn's future plan for the UK: VENEZUELA'

WillyOnWheels··on Enter 'petro': Venezuela to launch oil-backed cryptocurrency
> The odds on favourite to be next British Prime Minister is a Chavez / Maduro apologist: > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/11....

Trying to glue the legacy of Venezuela to Corbyn is silly. I am well aware of Corbyn's admiration of Hugo Chavez defying American intervention in Venezuela.

If the various papers in England want to keep up that theme, they should explore Conservative ties to Saudi Arabia and Pinochet's regime.

WillyOnWheels··on A Dark Web Version of Wikipedia
I'm not sure why this is necessary.

Wikipedia has very strong user privacy policies.

WillyOnWheels··on A Dark Web Version of Wikipedia
Wait until Pakistan figures out how to ban Tor, like China does.
WillyOnWheels··on The World Is Running Out of Sand
Was it Warren and Henny?

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-headlines-coastal-f...

WillyOnWheels··on Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (2008) [pdf]
related http://seansrussiablog.org/2016/06/15/the-stillbirth-of-the-...
WillyOnWheels··on ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More
It's about ratios.

There are about 220 million White Americans. Your data claims 392 White Americans have been killed police in 2017 so far.

There are about 35 million Black Americans. Your data claims 190 Black Americans have been killed by police in 2017 so far.

If Black Americans were killed by police hypothetically at the same rate as White Americans, 62 Black Americans would be dead.

Do you see the huge disparity there?

WillyOnWheels··on Superheroes a 'cultural catastrophe', says comics guru Alan Moore [2014]
Alan Moore has dedicated his life to writing comic books and hating Grant Morrison.
WillyOnWheels··on Ask HN: Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into Steam and Reddit?
I use a different computer for every single website.
WillyOnWheels··on Atom's new concurrency-friendly buffer implementation
> FYI: When clicked, that link takes you to an image of a testicle in an egg cup captioned with a sarcastic comment about Hacker News.

jwz has strong opinions about Hacker News

WillyOnWheels··on The East India Company, the original corporate raiders
I'm not an apologist for the former British Empire, but India's collection of tiny fiefdoms were basically lawless until the British showed up.
WillyOnWheels··on Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)
Not sure what the point of all this is. Thousands of very smart, accomplished men and women have gone through GenEd at Harvard without murdering multiple people.

Personally I think Kaczynski was influenced more by his inability to get a date in his entire life.

WillyOnWheels··on Theranos Low on Cash After Settlement with Walgreens
It's interesting that at this point any institutional investor still has funds parked in Theranos. They must really think they know something that everyone else does not know.
WillyOnWheels··on ⁠Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
Redhat is worth billions of dollars. Someone must be using Redhat.
WillyOnWheels··on 18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system
> Adobe had him arrested on the stage as he gave his talk.

I was there!

The FBI arrested him in a hallway, 1 day after his talk. Dmitry at first thought it was a joke put on by a Defcon prankster.

During his talk, the panel moderator asked Dmitry to pause for a minute... and said "Would you mind saying 'Can you tell me where are the nuclear vessels in Alameda'?" Dmitry was confused by this request and said, in his Russian accent, "I do not know where the nuclear wessels are in Alameda?" The mostly American Trek-familiar audience had a good laugh, and Dmitry continued with his talk.

WillyOnWheels··on The Odin Project – Learn Web Development for Free
> I question starting people on Ruby for web development.

news.ycombinator.com and its various tentacles runs on Ruby and Arc

WillyOnWheels··on A Huge Diamond Mine That Helped Build The Soviet Union (2014)
I hate GDP statistics but it is generally understood that the Donbass' mining and heavy industry account for about 1/4 of Ukraine's GDP and 10 percent of Ukraine's population.

You may think it's a backwater but people actually live and work there.

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