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Absolutely. That's why I reacted to the "most used" criterion.

> I have absolutely no doubts that the most used language is JavaScript - considering nearly every website in existence relies on it. You should have doubts because every website you look at is o…

What's your skill set?

Wouldn't it do that for reasons that are independent from the political nature of the results they provide?

Isn't pinning as a service essentially a CDN? Is there a reason to believe that such service would be cheaper than a "traditional" CDN?

Perhaps you can elaborate?

Is there a way (even not free) to ensure that my data in IPFS is always available (at least as available as with "traditional hosting services)? That's a bit of a requirement when building a…

Agreed, but Encrypted Git is... they don't see your repo. I don't know anybody else who does it.

Indeed, according to the page you linked: > Note that Live Share's cloud relay does not persist any traffic routed through it and does not "snoop" the traffic in any way. So it sound…

That looks very cool. With the "rendez-vous" URL being hosted by Microsoft (it looks that way in the video), does it mean your source code is sent to Microsoft, or does the server-side simpl…

What a great (and overwhelming) list! In the code hosting section keybase seems to be missing. It has git support.

In the "Simple Counter Example", it seems odd to me that both increment and decrement keys have the same "INCREMENT" parameter (ie Finite.Transition("INCREMENT" <- thi…

Could you give us some examples? I'd like to go check them out.

So does macOS' Mail.app

A service that has a non zero operating expense (which is, pretty much everyone) cannot survive if there is no revenue from users to support that OPEX (IT/cloud costs, dev pay, etc). You need re…

The scary thing about this is that, while you may have a good "security hygiene" around your devices, you have no control over others who you socialize with. It's a bit like ending on F…

Is there no option to rebuild an artificial ear drum? Is your ossicular chain also shot? Regrowing your ear drum is not going to resolve nerve damage, though: it'll deal with conductive hearing, …

Could you tell us what happened when you refused consent at the border?

> Even stupider: first class personal mail in the US can not be opened without a warrant. So you can mail your iPhone to your destination before you go. You can, but postal delivery (especially cro…

Word banning is known to be a poor method. First, because the use of the word can be in a positive or negative sentence, and thus can either agree or disagree with your "censorship rule". Yo…

> This sentiment, which I read repeatedly, really irritates me. Most of us program here. It's not that hard a problem! What solution do you think would work?

Thanks guys. Appreciated

> Our school also had an 'upstairway' and a 'downstairway' though where you'd get yelled out for going down the upstair way and have to lap the building to get to the downs…

How did you get your Startup credits?

> Aren't they an asset too? A contractor doesn't really care about the long term health of your company, if your company folds, he'll go down the street and work for a competitor . …

Apparently not: https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/public-policy-discuss... "Merchant fees and reward programs generate an implicit monetary transfer to credit card user…

Someone seems to have computed the cash vs CC money flow: https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/public-policy-discuss... "On average, each cash-using household pays $149 to…