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I'm not exactly starting new startups once a year to keep up on this stuff but I can say I have yet to hear of any of these providers but Stripe Atlas within my circle. It also comes with $5000 in AWS credit which can be very valuable.

I just saw an ad on Twitter today from eToro saying basically "Doge is a joke. But seriously we sell doge and you can't deny the returns have been impressive this past year. Buy doge with us"

They were emphasizing the returns being impressive without the expected caveat "past performance is no guarantee of future results" stock brokers must make to ensure people think before chugging the hype.

Crypto exchanges have a duty to educate and make sure people aren't putting their life savings and taking out loans to buy crypto. That's not happening right now.

Should be automatic like the DMCA filings they send out.

...of doom.

It's kinda nice we don't have to worry about our phones dying if they get splashed or dropped in a pool though right?

That has definitely cut down on a lot of waste.

Somebody needs some https://shop.tesla.com/product/tesla-short-shorts

I'll use the food stamps argument: All I see is millions and regardless of how insignificant that number is with regard to how many the program has helped, I'm going to argue the whole program should be shut down because my party says so and uphill bootstraps.

If it's 200M of fraud that's less than a percent. I don't think you can safely say less than 1% of Americans have had their identities stolen so they've done a hell of a job if you ask me.

In light of social distancing can we get a not-so-hands-on version?

It's not easy to refute when there are 10000x as many uneducated people as there are actual scientists who could be trusted to refute it.

This is how online communities work. Small number of moderators fighting off an endless stream of BS.

We can't encourage discussion on life or death matters when they are shared without even citing a single source! There is no debate, just emotional pandering.

This was removed because it was half-conspiracy and half-maybe-useful. In any case you can't encourage people to "share and debate" half-biased articles.

Share the actual studies! Debate those. Don't encourage the very armchair scientists the author derides in his article.... The author of the article is one too!

You don't go to your friend and open a debate about how you should treat your cancer, you go to your doctor and start the conversation there.

Yes, we would be doubting everything the article said when it was an argument cast by a lunatic spouting numerous other conspiracy theories like Covid-19 is a bioengineered virus that escaped a bioresearch lab.

This is more hearsay to lend support to a crank conspiracy theorist.

Yes, we can not have a discussion spawned from a crank conspiracy theorist about general relativity even if his ideas are sound.

It was a bit of both. I don't think they had the infrastructure to support everyone, I think they had major growing pains as they tried to scale, and I don't think they had the experience to identify sources of partial-failure proactively which resulted in 40-360 minute effective outages that weren't as easy to fix as with AWS where we can shift the stack to a new AZ in minutes.

DO had no cross-"AZ" networking. We tried to form a tunnel but it was so unreliable they admitted they needed their own backbone to support that use-case but even when that did come out we'd still have to use public IPs...no VPC peer type thing. Our only option to switch "AZ"s was to have downtime and that wasn't acceptable.

We were able to increase capacity 300-500% on AWS for the same cost so there's a lot going on in the equation for us. We needed better capability to dynamically resize and more options for low-cpu high-memory. We needed better flexibility with disks especially by network like EBS but given their network issues I understand why they don't have that.

We stopped using it when we were always the first to notify them when they were having data center issues...always a switch or gateway or some other excuse causing major network issues.

Not to mention their security model allowed any instance to talk to another instance from any account until 2019....

Stopped using them after Firefox sync destroyed my very well curated set I had about 10 years ago. Now I copy paste text snippets into Google keep.

It's like the embodiment of "nice guys" but for startups.

Not unless the service requires a phone number in order to enable MFA. Some providers require the phone number for "recovery" purposes once MFA is enabled very much defeating the usefulness. Countless times we've heard of a helpful AT&T / T-Mobile / Verizon employee forwarding texts or generating a new SIM card for a scammer with a fake ID. It's just too easy.

I can do that today. What app are you using?

Google maps 2012 refactor was what made it amazingly useful to me. The street names are much more readable now, they actually had a decent breakdown of the before and after and how the street names are much more readable overall now that they switched off of a "dumb" text fitting model vs their scaled text and "smart" placement of street names.

I wonder if your area has more trouble than most areas due to street shapes/density? The before and afters for me everywhere I've traveled and where I live are a huge step forward compared to old maps.

core77.com/posts/21486/google-maps-designing-the-modern-atlas-21486

I don't note that it's changed much from this 2012 release.

1. When the powers out, gas pumps are out too unless there are generators. Even in Florida where this is expected after storms, we still have 95%+ of stations offline during power outages.

2. Typical fast charging times are < 20 minutes and you don't typically aim for full. The first half of the battery charges in less than 15 minutes, nearly matching a typical gas station stop on a road trip. You can get 75 miles of charge in just 5 minutes at peak with a Tesla.

3. Most users charge at home or work keeping them topped up ready for up to 180 miles typical miles of driving that day as long as they return to base and don't want to extend into the lower or higher reservations in the battery for long term health.

I imagine using known IP ranges (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges.... & https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges....) you could redirect to local resources within their region.

I'd probably use Lamda/NodeJS with a ~20 minute in-memory range cache that should stay under 128MB of memory per instance. Perhaps I'd store all the range starts and ends each as two 64-bit ints on a database of your choice for persistence, indexing, and comparison. Finally, some code to convert IPv6 and IPv4 into 128-bit (2x64-bit ints) IPv6 integer space and back.

A second service could listen for IP range updates avoiding any bandwidth fiasco if a new range opens up with a sudden influx of traffic.

I'd recommend using an OpenID Connect provider to authenticate if you're concerned about their practices but it's just as easy to improperly implement auth even with mainstream libraries to help you connect something like Auth.0 to your app.

e.g. Don't assume the email address is owned by the person making the claim. You can sign up for an account with an email and if it's not verified or the verification is mis-clicked or phished into being clicked the original account owner would never know the difference.

Still, at least with OpenID Connect you know your password isn't sitting in plain text.

I invite you to go to your local Fox/ABC/CBS channel's website and TRY to read an article vs AMP.

AMP is about stopping....that. It's indescribable how horrible these companies have become.

1. Auto-playing ads 2. Scroll-jacking 3. Overlay...after overlay... after overlay. 4. Popover 5. Paywall 6. Popover again for good taste. 7. Oops you scrolled too far better redirect you to another page entirely. 8. You wanted the video version of this article right? Better force you to read the article in 20% of the screen so all of our ads, bars, and video can fit on the page.

When you choose a "private" post it mirrors the old functionality of imgur.

Whoa, whoa. You're the one misleading people here. Sagi (a person) purchased Crossrider outright for $37M then RENAMED Crossrider to Kape.

It's even more clear that the Crossrider "Adtech" (read Adware) was produced by the very same company Crossrider which is now called Kape. They are one in the same.

Kape _is_ Crossrider. Crossrider was renamed Kape and a new CEO was put in place to "exit the advertising market" transitioning to cyber security.

That's not true. I watched the whole video and their charging practices were a joke. They knew they were driving too fast, they knew they didn't charge enough before they left.

In any case, from 500 miles with 10% degradation, 10% reservation, and 50% inefficiency due to towing you're still going to get 200 miles. Most superchargers are within 50-100 miles of each other. Ezpz.

At 250 miles with those same metrics, you're at 100 miles of range. Sure you don't want to go cross country but you can make the haul if you want to.

The biggest problem is going to be trucks with trailers hogging the whole bank of chargers so they don't have to detach their trailer.

+1 for printnode, except the last two months where a botched upgrade and some redundancy issues they had internally resorted in outages.

They also hit the door with a sledgehammer as hard as they could and didn't dent it. The video for that is pretty amazing.

Meanwhile, AT&T and Comcast made it so difficult to sign-in and stay signed in let alone all the false positive "this is only available at your house" nitpicking that I rarely was able to use my TV service except when I was ass-in-seat in the living room.

I do not plan on ever getting cable again. If NetFlix wants to work with them to start being anal about how I use the service too I know who's on the chopping block next.