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Answer: evolution. The ones who tried this don't exist any more.

Amazon is an outlier.

If another company did this, but it's stock price didn't keep rising, corporate "raiders" will replace the board and get money back as dividends.

Sorry if my point isn't clear. I'm typing this in a hurry.

I have a static IP at home. I use my Pi to enforce IP-based access restrictions on most sites that allow it. I use ssh's built-on socks proxy (-D on command line or DynamicForward config option) to do this. Firefox and Chrome both support SOCKS proxies.

I also use it to deploy hobby web sites.

I'm very curious what aspect of Twitter's TLS code makes hard to intercept whereas other websites can be easily intercepted? I'm also very curious about how they intercepted Whatsapp. Does it do something stupid like eval'ing code received over regular HTTP?

Quoting the paragraph, in case my paraphrasing is inaccurate: "What’s depressing is that I could have easily helped them intercept basically all of the traffic they were interested in (except for Twitter – I helped write that TLS code, and I think we did it well). They later told me they’d already gotten a WhatsApp interception prototype working, and were surprised by how easy it was. The bar for most of these apps is pretty low."

I was hoping for Yubikey support. But I'll take this for now.

I'll have to see if the Google Authenticator app shows up on all of my iDevices linked to my Apple account and whether the code from any of them will work (from the setup process, I don't see why not). Does anybody know?

If the app will work from any of iDevices, it would not be secure enough for a service storing bitcoins :) because the second factor should be hard to copy (which a real hardware token is, while a software token isn't).

I personally like semicolons. It's similar in spirit to the period of English. Even languages which didn't traditionally have the period have adopted it in the last couple of centuries.

More practically, it seems to remove a class of errors. Semicolons are optional in Javascript and I've seen posts here about subtle errors that can creep in when you change code a little carelessly.

And even more practically, it allows you to type "one liners" into things like REPLs even if they aren't one liners.

Just my two cents.

At the risk of starting a flamewar :), what are some advantages of Flask over Bottle and vice versa? [I started on bottle and never switched]

Try Adobe Lightroom [yes, our favorite whipping boy Adobe :)]. It's really really awesome as a photo management tool. IMHO. If you find it slow, try throwing in an SSD. Don't run it with less than 8 GB RAM.

Given your last point re: kids, how is it "insane" that people want to buy houses? Most people have/want to have kids.

Btw, I don't agree with your last point. It's pretty much possible to stay in a rented apartment for 5 years at a time quite easily. And kids go through wrenching changes every five years on average (home->kindergarten->middle->high school).

You make good points about the drawbacks of buying a house. However, the ability to lock in your housing expenses for the next 30 years (i.e., no impact of inflation) shouldn't be underestimated. IMHO.