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I get "502 Bad Gateway" after a long wait. An AppEngine issue?

Yes, a soft fork means consensus (majority) among miners. The developers (of Geth, Parity, cpp-ethereum, etc.) can propose the changes, but it's up to the miners whether to adopt them.

Note that the Ethereum mining community is considerably more decentralized than e.g. Bitcoin.

FUD article. No (soft/hard) fork will happen without community consensus. Decentralization is not violated.

SSHGuard has supported IPv6 for a long time.

This is 9 years old. Linus has been happily writing C++ for some time now. For example: https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface/commit/56ed3f1c6119b9...

It's not a replacement at all, and has almost nothing in common with what is discussed here (except the name).

Yes.

It's not "proposed" in any relevant standards body, which is why this is also misleading.

The title is misleading. This isn't "proposed" in any relevant standards body. The project itself has a misleading name too, because it's not "standard" in any meaningful way, it's just a set of questionable personal preferences.

Because:

1) Bluebird is orders of magnitude faster and more memory-efficient than the current V8 native promises. Better native promises performance has been promised, but we are still waiting for it.

2) Bluebird is just as much standard-compliant as are the native promises.

3) Bluebird has very useful extensions, which are not (yet?) part of the standard. You are not forced to use them, but they are still very nice to have.

No Pastafarianism? No Jediism?

Comparing the two is completely meaningless. Ethereum's hash function (Ethash) is orders of magnitude more expensive than Bitcoin's SHA256. And also, it is ASIC-resistant.

I think the current size is about 8 GB, not 40 GB, according to some recent posts (not running a node myself though).

The same can be said for any public company.

Uncertain. There could be other JS-related technologies below the cut - React, Redux, etc.

To be fair, JS appears in 'loved' as Node.js.

Thought this would be about the database (PostgreSQL precursor), turned out to be about an artist.

Node.js Stable tries to follow the V8 version from latest stable Chrome quite closely (i.e. soon after the corresponding Chrome release), but occasionally a V8 version may be skipped, e.g. if it has problematic API changes.

Node.js LTS branches stay on a fixed V8 version.

Doesn't matter much, it will reach Stage 4 soon, which is equivalent to being standardized.

s/Front/Font/

Hapi might be an alternative to Express (both are outdated callback-style frameworks), but it's in no way an alternative to Koa.

The sci-fi novel "The Dark Forest" by Chinese writer Liu Cixin describes a similar phenomenon. In that case it was achieved by detonating bombs to produce "interstellar dust clouds", in order to cause flickering of the light from the star, visible from other systems.

Maybe the aliens from KIC 8462852 read Chinese sci-fi novels.

"the bug, which is less critical than several other public reports that we have rewarded and celebrated"

The bug lead to full access to critical data, and possibly to full control of their servers. It's interesting what these other "more critical" bugs were.

"Not very original" != "not critical". Alex seems to imply these are equivalent.

Google Maps link to one of the figures: https://goo.gl/maps/sFgt17ZiYhF2

Good e-voting systems would allow you to change your vote as many times as you want before the deadline. This makes pressuring/bribing ineffective, as you are able to change your vote afterwards.

So TiDB is similar to the (unfortunately) abandoned FoundationDB SQL Layer, but written in a proper language? Nice :)

How does it compare to CockroachDB?

The release has been delayed until Monday (7 September).

sshguard can protect IPv6 as well.

uBlock Origin is actually the "normal" one.