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Looks like the old servers melted down and the site had to be switched to a new service.
Here’s Ron’s letter from the editor:
As many of you probably noticed, our website had been sluggish or even occasionally unavailable over the last few days. Although we’d initially assumed it was some sort of software problem, we gradually began suspecting that it was on the hardware side, and then suddenly late yesterday our server completely died.
Since the server was a high-end dedicated unit leased from one of the leading server companies, I’d never imagined any possibility of such hardware failure, but sometimes the unimaginable does happen. Obviously, our traffic has grown considerably over the last year and with many tens of thousands of articles and posts along over a million comments, strain on the database system and disk operations had surely increased, so perhaps that might have been a factor.
Fortunately, our automatic daily backups safeguarded all our content material and comments, with the exception of yesterday’s additions, with these latter probably being far fewer than usual because of the ongoing website problems.
We’ve now configured a new website server from the same leading company, but based on their newer Cloud technology, which they claim almost entirely eliminates the possibility of future hardware failure and also has various other performance advantages.
Although nearly everything seems to be working again and we’ve therefore now shifted our www.unz.com URL to the new server, we’re temporarily disabling comments so as to give us a bit more time to test performance issues and various other remaining features on the new server. We simply wanted to get the basic website back up ASAP to prevent people from becoming overly concerned. Please do be patient with any remaining problems you notice, and once commenting has been reactivated, please describe any problems you notice so that we can attempt to correct them.
Given the provocative and controversial nature of the articles we publish, I don’t doubt that many readers suspected we’d been hit by a CIA Drone Strike, perhaps aimed at sending a warning to Julian Assange and Donald Trump, but the truth was far more mundane, though almost as shocking to me.
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I wondered if Mr Sailer had commented on this academic study. I couldn’t find anything, so apologies if I missed a discussion.
DOES IMMIGRATION INDUCE TERRORISM?
from the Journal on Politics
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/684679
There is a heated debate on whether immigration is associated with domestic and transnational terrorism. As of yet, however, we lacked rigorous evidence that could inform this debate. As a contribution to address this shortcoming, we report spatial-econometric analyses of migrant inflows and the number of terrorist attacks in 145 countries between 1970 and 2000. The results suggest that migrants stemming from terrorist-prone states moving to another country are indeed an important vehicle through which terrorism does diffuse. Having said that, the findings also highlight that migrant inflows per se actually lead to a lower level of terrorist attacks. This research significantly improves our understanding of international and domestic terrorism and has critical implications for the scholastic approach to terrorism, as well as for countries’ immigration policies worldwide.
I won’t say I suspected a drone strike . . . but the thought did gnaw away at the back of my mind. So nice to have Unz.com back!
Are the comments working?
“Given the provocative and controversial nature of the articles we publish, I don’t doubt that many readers suspected we’d been hit by a CIA Drone Strike, perhaps aimed at sending a warning to Julian Assange and Donald Trump, but the truth was far more mundane, though almost as shocking to me.”
That is exactly what THEY expect you to say!
Free Ron!
Yesterday I posted to the comments my proof of the Riemann hypothesis, engineering plans for a working cold-fusion reaction, and the secret formula for Coca-Cola, and now you’re telling me that that’s all gone?!?! Damn it.
No, Steve! Can’t see a thing! 😛
Yes
P.S. I want to repost something I made in a comment when things were wonky. Someone said something about how awesome Steve Sailer is, I agreed, and said we should have a Steve Appreciation Day or, better, support his work! SO I repost the link by which one can send donations to keep Steve writing all this good stuff and doing what he does: SUPPORT STEVE HERE
“Steve Appreciation Day”
A.K.A., SAD!
To be frank I thought you’d suffered some sort of cyber-attack from the usual suspects.
Of course, Ron Unz would never admit it if that’s what happened.
I did suspect a network attack of some kind. Good to hear there’s a non-paranoia-encouraging explanation.
By the way, I read this Guardian apologia for the mass hyping by critics in the 1990s of Oasis’ third album (possibly mostly a British phenomenon), and was struck by:
““There are good populisms and bad populisms,” Niven says. “In the mid-90s, there was a sense that you might just have a good populism, and Oasis seemed to embody that. It nodded at sport and working-class culture and the heritage of the counterculture. Obviously, it wasn’t substantial enough so it didn’t realise its potential, but there is something valuable in that idea. I’m not sure we’ve had a collective moment on that level since. You can only get those moments when there’s a hovering suggestion of a genuine democratic breakthrough, as there was in the 60s and the mid-90s.”[he means Labour General election victories of course – leftist populism good, rightist populism not just bad but doubleplusungood]”
…..
“Wilkinson was also carried away by his fandom. “I was definitely on their side. There weren’t many bands who were demonstrably from a council estate background. The way they became part of the establishment was pleasantly absurd. I remember thinking in my heart of hearts there was something not quite right about what I was saying, but such was the phenomenal momentum you did want it to keep going – for them and the wider world. That made me err on the side of generosity.” He laughs. “I was completely wrong, of course, but at least it was hysterically bad to the extent where it’s remarkable.”[doesn’t that remind you of how lefties today worship even the most contemptible “minority” public figures, even when they know in their heart of hearts there’s “something not quite right” about their claims?]”
‘Flattened by the cocaine panzers’ – the toxic legacy of Oasis’s Be Here Now
Though it’s a nice reminder that metropolitan elite lefties once used to worship white wrong’uns, as well as immigrant ones.
Between the start of the primary season, and after 4chan came to notoreity, unmistakable outside propaganda began to spam us. They use complete different language than we use and always stand out. But we weren’t wannabe wonks persuaded by the last pamphlet we read, so they accomplished nothing through normal means.
So they switched to simply starting thousands of contentless threads every hour, with the result that good content gets “slid” off the board before it can be archived. A normal user who has been away for a year and is unaware of what’s going on will have his experience totally disrupted.
And now Unz gets his good servers fried by a similar raw volume?
Consider:
JOHNNY MILLER (ID: 8YO1ImSq)
IT IS HAPPENING!!! CTR SHILLS (…) 10/06/16(Thu)15:54:48 No.91760017
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“In order to shut down as many pro-Sanders FB pages as possible, Brock’s Super PAC, Correct the Record, paid trolls $1M to post porn, and in some cases paedophilia to those pages, then thousands of other trolls would flag the page, causing automatic shutdown by Facebook’s bots. They have continued their attacks today. This is what Hillary will stoop to, no matter how low or vile. For her, election fraud and voter suppression didn’t do enough. So now she allows paedophiles to work for her. This is what our election year has come to.”
The most obvious indication that CTR was operating at full capacity happened during and after the Trump/Clinton debate.
Entire message boards were flooded with generic two-sentence posts that provided a pro-Hillary meme along with some sort of ad hominem attack on Mr. Trump. While it has yet to be proven, a vast majority of Reddit, /pol/, and even Facebook users note that Hillary Clinton’s CTR PAC is likely behind the effort.
SAUCE: http://www.northcrane.com/2016/10/06/hills-shills-hillary-clintons-correct-the-record-aka-paid-trolls-names-publicly-listed-on-fec-website/
And by cloud technology, they mean “If someone shot our server, there’s near-instant failover to another, better server with the exact same state/data because it’s all getting backed up?”
/Works in cloud.
//Hardware always fails eventually.
/Works in cloud.
//Hardware always fails eventually.Replies: @Dissident
But what ultimately powers the cloud, if not hardware?
DOES IMMIGRATION INDUCE TERRORISM?
from the Journal on Politics
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/684679
There is a heated debate on whether immigration is associated with domestic and transnational terrorism. As of yet, however, we lacked rigorous evidence that could inform this debate. As a contribution to address this shortcoming, we report spatial-econometric analyses of migrant inflows and the number of terrorist attacks in 145 countries between 1970 and 2000. The results suggest that migrants stemming from terrorist-prone states moving to another country are indeed an important vehicle through which terrorism does diffuse. Having said that, the findings also highlight that migrant inflows per se actually lead to a lower level of terrorist attacks. This research significantly improves our understanding of international and domestic terrorism and has critical implications for the scholastic approach to terrorism, as well as for countries’ immigration policies worldwide.Replies: @SteveRogers42
What are the socio-econominical implications of NONE?
I half expected an update at the old isteve.com.
Then I saw that Isteve.com is completely gone.
Then I expected an update at isteve.blogspot.com
It has been untouched for over two years.
I still remember the shift to Blogger and the excitement of being able to comment for the first time, a game changer!
I myself posted the funniest joke ever written, alas I forgot to back up. . .
Then I saw that Isteve.com is completely gone.
Then I expected an update at isteve.blogspot.com
It has been untouched for over two years.Replies: @Lurker
You’re right, it’s gone! It’s been a long time since I looked in there.
I still remember the shift to Blogger and the excitement of being able to comment for the first time, a game changer!
Oh man, I had just posted a general proof of Fermat’s conjecture that a^n + b^n = c^n has no solutions in the positive integers, if n is an integer > 2. But now I have forgotten it.