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This generally depends on the tier of service you're paying for. Every infra provider offers tiers that provide dedicated resources. AWS handles this via CPU credits, other providers are less sophisticated.

Generally speaking you're not going to get banned unless you spin up max quotas and have other signals for fraud, such as zero payment history, connecting from regions with high fraud rates, etc. More often the provider will just limit your resources - either openly, like AWS does, or more subtly.

You don't know what the word fraud means, and I recommend reading these crazy things called 'terms of service'.

No, it's because it's an extraordinarily common fraud vector, and causes noisy neighbor problem because despite GP's remark about 'paying for resource usage', cloud providers don't actually anticipate anyone using 100% of CPU 24/7/365. And the folks who really are crypto mining are never going to pay their monthly invoice.

Source: Worked at a cloud infra provider that struggled deeply with this problem.

what about bombing merchant ships in indonesia, has that been refuted too?

I mean, Ted was definitely a terrorist, but the size of his crimes pales in comparison to the institution that experimented on him and continues to exist to this day.

No, but they've bombed a lot more innocent people than TedK did. For one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Lawrence_Pope

Depends on the usecase, and whether you're shelling out the huge sums for Cloudflare Enterprise. Don't think there's too many cheap options for obfuscation if e.g. you're hosting a game server, which also happens to be one of the most common DDoS targets.

Some of the very first reports of log4j were against Minecraft servers. If you go look at the original Github issue in which it was identified, all of the posts prior to anyone understanding its gravity were from Minecraft server operators.

I'll just quote the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article on it:

"In 1961, the US government put Jupiter nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey. It had also trained a paramilitary force of Cuban exiles, which the CIA led in an attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow the Cuban government. Starting in November of that year, the US government engaged in a campaign of terrorism and sabotage in Cuba, referred to as the Cuban Project, which continued throughout the first half of the 1960s."

I'd recommend The Jakarta Method for some insight into the legitimacy of the concerns of regime change.

The bar for a valid DMCA claim is very low. While it's definitely the case that frivolous, non-valid DMCAs get taken at face value and treated as valid by some companies, fixing this wouldn't fix the underlying problem since filing spurious valid DMCAs has almost no real punishment, since no one has been willing to actually litigate to punish people doing it.

Is there an analogous service, or are you SOL with them shutting down?

This is an obtuse read of the author's point, which is apply what we've done to fruit trees and nut trees to perennial staple foods.

He's not going to fuck you.

If you try to use the Following tab on Android, every refresh brings you back to the For You tab.

It will leave you sad and a bit forlorn, likely.

Ah, yes, Elon promising a deadline for a release. Those always hit on target.

Even better that there's absolutely no indication of what this will actually look like.

Yeah, the article despite its title, doesn't really paint 'EU' as winning, except insofar as they've likely succeeded in discouraging anyone else from exiting the union.

They fit the Snow Crash aesthetic in the torment nexus sense. Though, based on his recent professional decisions it turns out that all along, Neal Stephenson was actually advocating for the torment nexus!

This will hopefully help recover DigitalOcean's IP space reputation for good actors: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/smtp-restricted-by-default but it's going to take awhile.

You're missing the fact that defying this norm makes it easier for bad papers to exploit writers, even if it improves things for the good ones.

There's a modern version available for free on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/804270/Chex_Quest_HD/

Yeah, this was the point. I was intentionally hyperbolic.

A common resolution for modern 27" monitors is 4k, even. For several years now.

Yes, I don't know where this person is getting the idea that you shouldn't have to worry about settings at $2k? Fifteen years ago you could spend $10k and still have to worry about settings!

This ignores the possibility of housing stock consolidating, and price-fixing, which can keep rents artificially inflated by just keeping capacity off the markets. Example: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...

Ugh, the google smartbox pulled '2003' from somewhere. You're right, it was 2009.

Yeah, OnLive did it back in 2003!

They get paid well to not do crimes? That's nonsensical.

The bottom of their risk is having to become labor again, that's not a risk, that's the default for every one of their employees.

Maybe dollars spent at local restaurants isn't the metric we should be optimizing for?