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Even if there are, it’ll be minuscule compared to what is necessary to drive effective change.

The fine for one person’s information from this site should be equivalent to their entire revenue for the year; should not be permitted to be resolved by bankruptcy, and should be required to transfer to any company purchasing their assets.

Their entire executive team should be jailed for a minimum of 3 years per individual offense.

Only then will there be any modicum of an opportunity for us to see some real change.

Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more.

Rest in peace!

Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a public good in a similar way as pool.ntp.org.

Checking for generic Internet connectivity (i.e. not only having an IP address, but being able to reach public sites, these sites being non-cached, not-captive-portaled etc.) seems like a problem that too many apps, scripts, and devices are solving again and again.

so now the race is to get the order in (or out) @ 29.999999985 seconds or 15nS before the batch deadline. Interesting twist on the game. Unlikely to change who wins it, could it be worse for retail punters?

We need to kill "front running" as a criticism of low-latency algo trding with fire. It's garbage.

Front running is highly illegal and is where a broker knows a client is going to do a big trade due to inside information and trades on the account of others (themselves, typically) to exploit that inside information. It's a straight up cheat.

Inferring from market data alone which way a price will move is legal, honest, been attempted since forever and absolutely fine. Also very, very difficult. Anyone who can do it makes the market more efficient, reduces the money available by doing it (which goes into investors pockets through tighter spreads) and really earns their money. You don't have to like them if you don't want to but it's worlds apart from front running using inside information.

Where did algo trading profit come from? Won by being more competitive from brokers profit with a good chunk of that broker profit going to investors. Spreads are tighter.

Where are the clients' yachts? Well tech did something about the some of the broker ripoffs earning their yachts - which puts money in your pocket.

I've learned a lot from people who make Youtube videos for a living.

Paul Saladino advocates a theory that humans cannot handle a lot of linoleic acid in the diet: it decreases the performance of membranes, particularly of mitochondria (which in turn causes insulin resistance, obesity and other problems cause by chronic lack of ATP).

Saladino says that it would have been impossible for an ancestral human (particularly in Northern Eurasia where meat from grass-eating animals constituted the majority of calories) to get more than about 3% of calories as linoleic acid whereas the US average is now about 11%. Sunflower seed oil for example is 67% linoleic. corn oil, 53%, soybean oil, 52%. (Most of the omega-6 fatty acid in the human diet is linoleic acid.)

Here is Paul Saladino explaining it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j75kc5qamXs

I'm surprised there's no discussion here about the inflammatory role of vegetable oils (aka seed oils). I think it's likely that these oils are actually causing inflammatory diseases generally, through a mechanism that isn't understood.

Anecdotally (fwiw), in my household my daughter had been struggling with severe rashes that appeared to be triggered by food. An elimination diet caused us to conclude that she is highly reactive to vegetable oils (canola (rapeseed) oil, sunflower seed oil and soybean oil have all been introduced as food challenges and all produce a reaction within 3-6 hours)

We currently cook only with tallow and her symptoms have improved considerably (we tried olive oil and avocado oil for awhile but it was unclear on her)

As a challenge to anyone objecting to this comment, I ask you to look up the history of canola oil and say whether such a substance would be accepted into the food supply today.

And my question to everyone is, what is the mechanism by which seed/vegetable oils could lead to rashes? The only theory I've heard has been around omega-3/6 balance, but I am looking for alternative theories. I conjecture it has something to do with heating, as she isn't affected by ice cream containing these oils.

how is it ridiculous? so far, reducing saturated fat intake has a direct correlation with lowering LDL that is a marker for cardio risk no?

Tons of choices: Restic, Borg, Duplicity, Kopia

Though Backblaze is pretty good at what it does and you can set your own encryption key, if that's the concern.