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Comment · 3 years ago
Reminds me of ice-nine from Cat's Cradle.
Comment · 4 years ago
Being out in the sun itself would be a huge step up in quality of life of cattle. Doubt free range cows represent a majority.
Comment · 4 years ago
Withdrawing a service is very different from delivering a malignant service. McDonalds is withdrawing from Russia instead of serving contaminated Burgers.
Comment · 5 years ago
Regardless of multi-cloud deployment preferences, multi-cloud readiness has tremendous value in itself.

Biggest of the values is having the freedom and choice to pack up from one cloud and go to another at the drop of hat.

Another equally important reason is to provide some commoditization of cloud providers so they don't grow all powerful.

It also keeps cloud market open for new entrants that can come in with better/different value propositions than the existing players and stand a fighting chance of playing upon merits.

Unless you (as in general developer and not you specifically) want cloud providers to become massive rent seeking institutions, keep optionality in the ecosystem.

Comment · 5 years ago
There’s a difference b/w how things are and how things should be. The former doesn’t excuse away the latter.
Comment · 5 years ago
Great to see Social distancing related icons in the list.
Comment · 5 years ago
More than the abstract notion of it being a communication platform, it's the specific usecases that open your imagination to the unlocks connectivity is bringing. Using WhatsApp to report timber theft is something I would never have guessed.

I thought you'd have guessed the spirit of the comment since you're so adept at guessing.

Comment · 5 years ago
More than the statistics, it's the stories that open your imagination to the unlock connectivity is bringing. Using WhatsApp to report timber theft is something I would never have guessed.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I doubt GitHub or any org is changing their SOP based on my comment. But the mere existence of a scenario equivalent to the one in question in the operating guidelines suggest there is room fur sanity to prevail in the interpretation of the law.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
This particular case was overreach by Github and not the US Lawmakers.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

  118. I have a client that is in Iran to visit a relative. Do I need to restrict the account?

  A: No. As long as you are satisfied that the client is not ordinarily resident in Iran, then the account does not need to be restricted. See FAQ 37. 

Source: https://twitter.com/Hamed/status/1346433510786138114/photo/1
Comment · 5 years ago
Sorry... webRTC doesn’t work on ios Webviews and hence non Safari iOS browsers. It should work in Safari. Momentary brain freeze.
Comment · 5 years ago
iPad / Safari (and by extension, all apple mobile browsers) doesn’t support camera access from browser.
Comment · 5 years ago
They aren't mutually exclusive

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