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Not knowing what a VPN doesn't exclude you from using one. Many workplaces use VPNs and it's likely that public internet access points (such as libraries, lounges, restaurants and cafes) could be using VPNs too.

Wikipedia says that Indonesia has an internet penetration rate of 50%. It might be reasonable to assume that a low penetration rate means that a significant amount of the internet access is happening in a work place rather than in a residential place. If a significant amount of access is happening at a work place it might also be reasonable to assume that a lot of that access is happening over a VPN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...

Comment · 9 years ago

Their privacy page has some notes on this

> We do not participate in, or co-operate with, any kind of blanket surveillance or monitoring. (We also point out that Australia does not have any equivalent to the US National Security Letter, so we cannot be forced to do something without being allowed to disclose it.)

So while they cannot harvest data and then share it in bulk, they can access data in individual cases and share it with law enforcement.

https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html

Comment · 9 years ago

The original comment said .biz when they may have ment .bit

Comment · 9 years ago

99 percent invisible has a podcast discussing this issue with a designer who takes the opposite position. A main point is that a simple, reproducible logo is ideal.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/negative-space-logo-de...

Comment · 9 years ago

Value is only realised by completed features, so a developer that can deliver completed, value producing features by themselves is a good thing. Teams should aim to have compositions of experts in single fields with developers who know enough in all fields. This way features can be owned by a single developer, pairing when needed.

Comment · 9 years ago

Australia is an island so it has a fairly unique biodiversity. For international flights bringing in fruits is a concern since it can introduce pests that don't otherwise exist in Australia.

Australia is also a very large island, and the biodiversity of the east coast is very different to that of the west coast, so the same concerns apply. If you drive along the highways between states you'll see signs telling you to dispose of your fruit.

http://www.interstatequarantine.org.au/

Comment · 9 years ago

Check out ipfs station if you use chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-station/kckhg...

Comment · 9 years ago

Mosquito surpression is an ongoing effort. For now it is free, but it will transition to a subscription service at some point.

Comment · 9 years ago

> According to the report, Instagram Stories has more than 200 million users per day, with that number being measured by people updating their story or watching a friend's.

I wonder what the number would be if those who only watched stories were excluded. Its also worth considering that Instagram delivers some of their announcements as stories and whether or not people viewing those also count towards the active user number.

Comment · 9 years ago

Emirates have tourism advertising as well as, funnily enough, advertising for the entertainment system your using right at that moment.

Comment · 9 years ago

Anecdotal, I know, but I was on a flight a few months ago where the wire for the hand held controller for the entertainment system had gotten so hot it burnt my hand. I'm not sure how far away the autoignition temperature of cotton is from the burn-my-hand-temperature, but I suppose it's possible that if it was cotton on that wire as opposed to my skin it may have caught fire. And while the wire delivering that content was non critical and probably on a seperate power network to the main systems of the plane, a fire on a plane is a fire on a plane regardless of which system caused it.

Comment · 9 years ago

Ah, I was unaware that there could be multiple IPs on an A record, thanks for that. If I'm understanding this right though, the extra IPs would just be for redundancy and resilience and cannot be relied for geographic routing? In this case ebay.com redirects to www.ebay.com.

Comment · 9 years ago

> if we just look at the three top 35 sites tested in this post, two send uncompressed javascript over the wire, two redirect the bare domain to the www subdomain, and two send a lot of extraneous information by not compressing images

So uncompressed javascript and images are bad, but I thought apex domain to www subdomain redirection was an optimisation as the apex domain can often only point to a single server but the subdomain can point to a range of geographically well distributed CDNs. So rather than going to North America for every request, the browser only needs to do it once than the rest can come from a regional CDN. Am i misunderstanding something, does this also break down on a slow connection?

Comment · 9 years ago

Waterloo is pretty good in encouraging their students to pursue and monetise their ideas. They quite fancy being able to brand themselves as a university preferred by accelerators and incubators.

Comment · 9 years ago

Yes, I tend to do something along those lines when I don't want to be tracked. To the original point, it's an annoying extra step to have to do but not unreasonable enough to stop using the site, I'm simply answering your question on why someone might find it annoying.