An airline or UPS can absolutely say “we don’t like the contents of what you are shipping so we refuse to transport it”. UPS will not ship marijuana, even for medical purposes, even in Canada where it is entirely legal. It won’t ship watches over $500 or ammunition.
I disagree with turning platforms into common carriers. As I wrote, I think this misses the issue: a protocol should be a common carrier, but a specific provider has no obligation to host things it doesn’t want to or do not make sense for certain territories.
>An airline or UPS can absolutely say “we don’t like the contents of what you are shipping so we refuse to transport it”.
Cf.:
>An important legal requirement for common carrier as public provider is that it cannot discriminate, that is refuse the service unless there is some compelling reason.
ibid
I suppose you can make "compelling reason" arguments for some things, but the default is carry.
Like, you may as well say "Well there are 'compelling reasons' exceptions so theoretically people can do the exact opposite of what the law says."
I don't use Google Analytics, and Carbon's script is restricted by my CSP to showing the display ad. They also have a reasonable privacy policy where they're not tracking users or generating libraries of behavioural data, as far as I know.
Fair. I take what I think is a reasonable and respectful approach, though: it takes only a partial IP address (which I don't look at), it respects Do Not Track, it anonymizes as much as possible, and it's basically a glorified hit counter. It's pretty lightweight, it's the only analytics script I use, and it's localized rather than sending users' data to a giant company.
This article should not be seen as an all-or-nothing approach. It's more the amount and type that concerns me.
It's cached and, I promise, hasn't crumbled under heavy load for years. I don't know what's going on but I've asked for more resources. It does make me sad and embarrassed, though, so that's something.
There's nothing embarrassing about it; I'm yet to see a WordPress based site which was able to withstand the Hug of ackerNews, though SuperCache should have helped.
For a WordPress site, yours is slim and very fast.
He mentions that in the second-from-last paragraph:
> The software that Google was most serious about — web search, Gmail, and so forth — ran in the cloud, and with the company’s legendary data centers, they effectively built their own hardware.
The El Injerto that won is a particularly excellent crop. I didn't know Stumptown got a parcel, but I've had the Phil & Sebastian roast of the same crop, and it's delightful, particularly in an AeroPress. You should give it a try.
