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They probably mean that a large percentage of internet services are hosted on US-based servers. As a regular AWS/Azure customer, the regions in which I tend to see provisioning issues makes this seem right, though I'd love to see some numbers.
I realized I was spending a whole bunch of time tracking down web references for my grad school assignments (and forgetting most of them) so I made something super simple that generated them from my bookmarks:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmarks-to-refer...

Re:Show HN: tttfi – Middleware for IFTTT on Monday July 17, 2017 @06:34PM (#14792809)
I've started using stringify with IFTTT to get a lot of my home automation working now.

I'd use stringify exclusively but IFTTT has a lot more integrations, so I end up using IFTTT as both a trigger and action in stringify. Ugly, but it works.

Re:Supercharging the Elasticsearch Percolator on Thursday October 15, 2015 @01:15PM (#10394445)
Can you explain how a positional query is a subset of boolean queries?

Intuitively it feels like the reverse would be true.