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DDoS prevention may be essential, but not CloudFlare.


Smaller is less efficient. They don't get to benefit from economy of scale as much as larger.


They also don’t have the communication and process overheads and don’t have existing contracts that constrain how fast and where they can go. If smaller companies weren’t possibly to run more efficiently, you’d never see startups leapfrogging established players. Economies of scale are a strength and can also be a weakness (e.g. your economy of scale to do X means you can’t do Y which is more profitable / cheaper)



Blocked in uBO by The Block List Project - Malware List.


Block list without veracity or traceability doesn't mean much...


I was hoping someone would know why it was blocked as malware, thinking it might be compromised and that people should be warned. VT says it's safe though so it's likely a mistake. Not sure what you mean about traceability. You could check the github.


I don't think that would break it because you have a limited amount of time. You base it on 1/e of the number of people you expect to date not the number of potential options.


Such bans are rare, and usually get reversed if it was only triggered due to Linux.


The issue isn’t as much as bans but that the online multiplayer service won’t let you log in or that servers will auto kick anyone who fail the AC health check when they join.


> several hundred thousands

Several thousand, coming from Trump's rally which only had about 20k total.


But you know that's the next step and it's going to happen.


If you want to avoid fingerprinting you should use tor-browser. And using a chromium-based browser over tor makes you more fingerprintable, not less.


Neither was omitting Putin's admission that he wanted Trump to win from the Whitehouse transcripts.


I can't edit my comment, so here's a citation in reply: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/tr...


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