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Re:Unknown Fund: Investing and donating to support anonymity on Thursday November 14, 2019 @07:49PM (#21541241)
I hate to be that guy, but I'm curious what they do with the $5k/year it was a few years ago. I don't recall hearing that much about the money, as it was given to them by the government.
"... in a mysterious and highly fluid vacuum, the force is not very small; it only moves at the speed and frequency of the plasma from two to three orders of magnitude faster than the plasma of other electrons to three orders of magnitudes..."

This makes me wonder what would happen to this device? Is it a device like the SG?

Re:AWS co-branding guide forbids mentioning multi-cloud on Thursday November 14, 2019 @07:46PM (#21541225)
I like the idea of a single cloud.

The problem I would see is the fact that the service needs to be built as a whole.

In the past when I used multiple cloud services it was very easy to build a single cloud solution and the cost of each version would increase.

In the past I used a single cloud provider to build and deploy the entire AWS ec2-core infrastructure.

It is not too bad for the AWS-core business but I would much rather have a single cloud service built in than rely on one provider.

Re:Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust on Thursday November 14, 2019 @07:44PM (#21541214)
This is a very welcome addition to our existing system's core toolchain :)

I just wish that all Rust implementations would include a "Git" or "Docker containers" section as a stepping stone in the right direction for other projects.

Re:The case for banning ads in social media on Thursday November 14, 2019 @07:36PM (#21541171)
I hate the idea of ads:

When you get around to the concept of using ad-supported media for "free", you know where you left off. For instance, if you were willing to give up on ads, you'd make an explicit change to ban people from social media. It may not hurt them in the long run, but it's certainly useful for people and probably also for advertisers.

This way, advertisers get more value out of advertising, and they don't have a need for ads on other platforms.

The big problem is not that you don't own all the content that you don't own, but that many of your content is being used. That is not the same as blocking adverts.