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Do the indexes have some capacity to defer / waive buying into new stocks if they judge it in the interests of investors?


No, arbitrary decisions would defeat the point of indexes.

But they can and do add systematic protections, like only buying based on the free float to avoid a short squeeze.


This is a bit of a fairytale. Probably true for a certain subset of high earning westerners. Not true in general.


British class definitions are not at all the same as American ones. At least as traditionally defined, upper class pretty much meant you were in the titled aristocracy.


Not the heckin doggos :((


Certainly most of the independent internet.


It's the old IBM thing. If your website goes down along with everyone else's because of Cloudflare, you shrug and say "nothing we could do, we were following the industry standard". If your website goes down because of on-prem then it's very much your problem and maybe you get to look forward to an exciting debrief with your manager's manager.


That's lazy engineering and I don't think we as technical, rational people should make that our way of working. I know the saying, but I disagree with it. My fuckups, my problem, but at least I can avoid fuckups actively if I am in charge.


How do you mitigate large scale DDoS?


I don't, since my stuff is reachable only within the company network/VPN. If I needed to though, I would consult the BSI list of official DDOS mitigation services [0] and evaluate each one before deciding. I would not auto-pick Cloudflare.

[0] (German) https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Cyber-Si...


When the solution you pick inevitably has downtime too you’re in the same boat.

DDoS mitigation is one of those areas that an on-prem solution just isn’t well suited to solve.


Yeah, but people aren't using Cloudflare just for DDOS Mitigation. Some are running pretty much everything over it, from DNS to edge caching to load balancing and even hosting. That's what I oppose mainly.


Unless you are really big, onprem stuff would be 90% internal anyway. For everything public you'd host your hardware in a datacenter with better high speed connectivity. And pretty much every single datacenter I interacted with in the last 5 years does have a DDOS protection solution that you can order for your network.


The problem is the people that sign our checks usually aren't technical, rational people.

The system isn't designed for technical, rational decision making.


That's fair, yeah, and I agree it's not always feasible - but if you have any influence over technical direction at your org, I encourage what I wrote above. Otherwise yeah, let the pea counters in the C-Levels dig their own grave.


Cloudflare'nt


The terminal remains an extremely compelling computing environment in spite of its limitations and fifty years of technical debt. As anachronistic as arcane escape codes and box drawing characters seem in $CURRENT_YEAR, the fact remains that nothing has arisen to fill its niche.


Yes, that's the point they're making. Arguably US citizens are more complicit in the crimes of Israel than Iranians are in the crimes of Russia since Americans have more capacity to choice their leadership.


I understood that, only posted what I did because let's just not say "Iran is a democratic country, like the US". It is not.


Iran has a longer history, obviously, but it’s worth mentioning the US is no longer a democratic country. The congress has effectively delegated its powers to the president. You can’t really come back from that any time soon.


You (or rather the US) can come back from that in the next elections, let's hope it works.


Glad to see them sponsoring struggling indie developers like DHH.


You forgot the /s


I wasn't being sarcastic? I heard they're making a new Koenigsegg and I'm genuinely concerned that without corporate sponsorship it might be out of his price range.


You forgot you're not on Reddit.


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