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JamesP

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  1. One thing I would like to point out: it's counter productive to attack someone's point of view, simply because you don't agree with it, in that sense people act like they are competing to see who "wins" the argument. I have no such notion of winning and won't become upset or attack anyone with a different point of view, because I see we are here to help each other and not to compete.

     

    There is a difference between attacking the person and attacking the idea, hence ad hominem.

  2. So yesterday we had 500GB of bandwidth consumption. That would include us getting swamped and having to rate limit during the last few hours of the evening.  I can only suspect that today would be similar.

     

    We don't have 500GB days every day, but it's reasonable to expect that we will be seeing more of them in the future.  We're averaging around 250GB per day right now.

     

    Yay growth! :)

  3. Thanks for the links. Can you make any recommendations per your experience? I'm pretty new to CDNs from the tech side of things.

     

    I can get more information regarding the throughput expectations later. But just for now, the traffic to the site had increased such that the 100mbps network interface was completely slammed. There are no available upgrades with the current hosting provider.

     

    The other thing to keep in mind is that we do have a bandwidth allowance of 20TB per month on the webserver so anything that allows us to take advantage of that would be a plus, but it's not absolutely required.

    We also have plenty of application capacity; it's the network that limits us right now.

  4. Parents do far more damaging things for "aesthetics" (see: circumcision).

     

    I'm not sure I have any answers here, but I do have a few thoughts.

     

    What is your husband's relationship like with his sister and brother in law?  What were their childhoods like?  Has he had anything to say to his sister about this?

     

    Perhaps you could ask them what they want their relationship with their child to be like when she grows up, and how might causing her truly unnecessary pain affect that relationship.

     

    I mean, getting a shot at the doctor also hurts, but it is frequently necessary when the child is very young.

     

    To answer the more immediate question with my opinion... I think I would not go and would be very clear why: "you're asking me to celebrate causing your daughter unnecessary pain and I will not be a part of it."

  5. The question is, "where is the line (in the sand)". He's not arguing for violence for the sake of being angry. Chris Cantwell brings up a good point. Here's the quote that has stirred up so much contraversy. 

    So what to do? It's a terribly unpopular thing to say, but the answer, at some point, is to kill govenment agents

     

    Why is that the answer?
  6. Asking what happens if you are attacked is jumping ahead of many many steps in the exploration of personal safety. Even in today's statist world, the best defense is self-knowledge and orchestrating your life so as to avoid attack as much as possible.

     

    A free society would have so much less predation with the absence of a state that you would be able to see danger coming from a long way away.

  7. To add another couple of analogies:

     

    I can tell you how I lost weight, but I can't burn off your fat for you.

    I can tell you how I managed to wakl again after a tragic accident, but I can't do physical therapy for you.

    I can tell you how I manage my diabetes, but I can't take the insulin shots for you.

     

    Self-knowledge isn't a possession. It's like health–it comes about through the accumulation of good habits and self-care.

     

    There are some who will probably never pursue self-knowledge. There are also some who make some efforts but abandon them for some reason (usually due to some relationship they don't want to examine too closely).

     

    Did you disagree with this statement?

  8. OK, I'll look at that... try setting the Severity to something other than "0" and let me know if that works.

     

    If so, I think I've seen this before. Kind of annoying, but good to know what the problem is.

  9. Yes, it's a XSS (cross-site scripting) prevention thing that became standard in the past few years.  What that means (among other things) is that the browser won't transfer cookies across different hostnames unless you explicitly indicate that it's OK to do so.  This is a problem for the download files since the files are effectively behind a paywall (so to speak).

     

    It's just easier to make sure everything is on the same server, or that you control all the domains in question.

     

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    OK, cool, it seems to be working OK, at least initially.

     

    One question: can we not have it automatically start downloading right away? I think that will inflate the download count.

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