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Limit the number of posts new users can make. At the moment you get batches of low quality new posts made by a new users who post short, useless, replies in multiple threads.

rsync + rdiff-backup. I have just set up rclone backups for a client.

4% is very high compared to the proportion of Christians who support ISIS. 4% is not a trivial number. You mention UKIP as a significant force, and polls show they have a 4% share of the vote. Then, given that 5% and 89% = 93%, that implies 7% do not know. That adds up to a quite significant...

Religion is not the defining issue in Ireland. It is a matter of whether people identify as British or Irish. It is perfectly possible for a protestant (such as these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Irish_nationalists ) to be an Irish Nationalist, or an atheist for that matter...

Credit cards. Bitcoins look like a viable alternative, atleast for small transactions, but I have not needed them yet. See no reason to use Paypal

You were right about what? The circumstances of the peace in Northern Ireland were very different, and the ideology of the IRA was simple nationalism, nothing like the oppressive and expansionist ideology of ISIS. While things like the invasion of Iraq contributed to current terrorism, the...

Python has the advantage of being usable for a lot of other things: desktop apps (Calibre, Deluge), numerical stuff (with Numpy. SciiPy etc), graphics, as an embedded scripting language, non-web servers....

@maounique I was talking about the immediate reaction, especially emotional, and what ordinary people do day to day, you are talking political and long term action. I agree with much of what you say, particularly policies that make things worse (like making alliances with extremists, even...

The first I knew of it was when I got an SMS from my sister asking whether we were OK. We are not far from Manchester and go in occasionally. I found it sickening, but I also remember the people who did it want us to be sickened and to disrupt our normal lives. We need to carry on as normal...

Re Youtube, as far as I know, you can make money off Youtube ads. Also, a lot of people use Youtube to host video then them embed on their own sites. They make the money from their site, while Youtube gets the ad revenues in return for providing the video hosting service.

I do not entirely agree with Bloomberg's point - there is lots of good content that does not really make people a living. From what I know midlist authors, for example, cannot live from writing even though really successful authors can get rich. Where I do agree with them is that it is...

So they only started working on paying the people who do the writing four years after launch, and they have only just started about the need to do something new and different. I think that explains their failure.

How much money did the actual writers make from medium?

I am sure there was another thread critical of BuyVM as I posted in it,  but I cannot find it and I am not confusing it with this one because I have not posted in this.

I usually listen to BBC iPlayer Radio  comedies when working. For a change I have a rather mixed queue: Just finished Don McLean's Vincent, currently Enya's Flora's Secret with her WIld Child on next, and Strauss's Four last Songs sung by Kiri Te Kanawa after that.

It is easier to scale at a trivial level (adding resources is easy). It makes the easy problems easier. I doubt it makes the hard problem of developing a scalable architecture easier. I have personally found that an easier a service is to get started with, (particularly things like...

@risharde Was that "ass" as in donkey, or "ass" as in posterior? If the two of you meant the word in different senses it could account for it. If you meant the latter (which writting it as a**) implies you were being pretty insulting and it seems reasonable to ban you until you apologise.

Containers were the lines on which I was thinking, but:  Docker means a container per application, which complicates things for sites that require more than one application. Will something else work better? It seems a lot of work for single deployments. I can see the advantages if you are...

With a real relational database you would not even need to ask. Transactions take care of this. With MySQL, you are probably OK if the tables were created with a recent version of MySQL. Check whether they are InnoDB or MyIASM tables. If they are InnoDB it is definitely OK. If they are MyIASM...

1. I dislike control panels, but Cloudlinux looks distinctly interesting. I was thinking of something like Alpine Linux (or something else with grsecurity to provide real jails) or a BSD and jails, but this looks easier. 2. Why did I not think of that!?  The more I think about it, the more I...