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Equifax is a private company.

I have tried switching to fastmail and it was incredibly painful. In a nutshell, Microsoft/Hotmail and possibly other providers started to throw my emails to people to spam. I've missed out on important things in the physical world because of this. I've invested a lot of time trying to debug the issue. To their credit, Fastmail's customer service was excellent and they really tried to resolve the issues but in the end could not.

Also, fastmail web UI was okay but not great. I do like the new GMail UI better.

For me, it sure beats dying!

You wouldn't download a car, you wouldn't block an ad! :)

You are required to get a new prescription because your original prescription expired.

How about simply visiting Australia without your corporate laptop? Or take the laptop but without the means to connect to the corporate network/accounts?

Sure but QLDB isn't a blockchain. Blockchain is just one of many things that can be implemented on top of it. You could implement the same thing with an SQL database and signed history tables.

That doesn't give you the ability to cryptographically verify integrity of the database. Think git repository with pgp signature on every commit.

I regularly buy Darigold milk (a local PNW brand) at Safeway.

Because the browser (or the user) has no way of knowing if the certificate changed for a good reason. Certificate pinning tries to tackle this at the CA level but it's not perfect (in a nutshell, browsers know that google.com can be signed only by a certain small subset of CAs).

That's exactly why I like Spotify - it doesn't shove the social nonsense down my throat like everybody else. Don't take it the bad way but I don't care what you, or anybody else with very few exceptions, thinks about this or that album.

What should be used for I/O throughput tests instead?

This. I tried buying a pair of flight tickets from a German airline Condor with a US credit card. What a hassle, in the end I had to call the bank, get redirected and verified 4 times (because they don't pass the verification along when they redirect your call) and I was finally able to pay for the damn tickets when they "pre-authorized" the transaction.

I'm also happy to see EFF now accepts Bitcoin.