BogusIKnow

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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
AWS has Werner Vogels who is not a CTO but a tech salesman on every conference.
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
Nice marketing work by Amazon, eh? Had the same thought.
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
"It's certainly not accurate, but the characters are totally believable" This is the major danger and trap all these films fall into. Our imagination of the past after decades of these films has nothing to do with reality.
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
1. "Our analysis (..) shows that women are harder on other women than they are on men. Men are harder on other men than they are on women.” 2. Not peer reviewed. 3. The confidence intervals may overlap. 4. Graphs all have non zero base
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
"Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t-whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi." Could be a quote from the last psyc
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
"Dorothy Thompson (9 July 1893 – 30 January 1961) was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt. She is notable a
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
Hitler admired the US. One of the reasons to attack Russia was to colonize Eastern Europe the way America was colonized to stand a chance in the future with more agricultural land. With the support of facist governments against communisim a
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
"Buyers must promise to only use the information for political purposes." I promise!
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
"It's not a problem for companies which collect customer data for internal use only. It's a big problem for companies which sell that data." It has nothing to do with companies selling data. It's a problem for any s
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
From my understanding the reason safe harbor is falling apart is because a citizen went to court because the Irish data protection agency didn't want to investigate the data transfer of Facebook in detail. Not because a determined citi
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
Where is the place for a French citizen to 'resolve' the issue when being spied upon by the GCHQ? Where is the place for a UK citizen to 'resolve' the issue with the BND?
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
The real problem is the image the EU has of itself. The EuGH decided that personal data in the US is not safe but it is safe in the EU. When in reality at least the UK, French and German secret agencies have spied and are spying on internet
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
Tonight the deadline set by EU data protection agencies ends. On Monday it will be illegal to transfer personal data to the US for EU startups based on safe harbor. Main impact is on email marketing. Currently not clear if exiting BCR and s
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
You're right.
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
No sorry, it was a.) philosophy b.) before the internet
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
Main problem still is Google: They consider HTTPS and HTTP links the same. When switching a site to HTTPS you lose all your incoming links. Redirects only transfer a small amount of juice. You're toast. We tried migrating several times
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
I once wrote a paper at university about the psychology of version numbers.
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
Thanks for the insights, it's always amazing who reads and comments on HN.
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
Not if you have to teach every new intern how to use LibreOffice when they know to do stats and calculations in Excel.
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Ask HN: Emailing laws around the world for startups?
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
Wasn't that in the CIA operations manual that surfaced some time ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
+100 'Antirez should write a http web server'
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
And this from antirez who writes such excellent programms, Redis runs in several companies I've been, without ever crashing, making any trouble - most people I've met forget they have Redis running because it just works and works
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
It takes some weeks to get it working, I'd say two to four, depending how often you've done it. Then for weeks there is nearly no Ops at all (security updates only mostly while the servers are humming) with releases done with Dock
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
"Something like Cloudfront would cost you a million just to get going." We've used CDNs in the past, way below a million/year for a medium, growing startup. care to elaborate?
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
I'm working at a medium, growing startup and wonder when/why to use AWS? We currently use a mixture of root servers (DB) and VPS (App, HAProxy, NGinx) at a hoster. * We use a Docker/Consul/Nomad/SaltStack setup to i
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
What I found interesting is the study that shows that Facebook depresses people, because all their friends put up their best moments and photos and so seem to have all wonderful lives.
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
As a German I don't use Facebook. Most of my friends also don't use Facebook. For me it's just a waste of time and doesn't make sense.
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
The book that completely changed my view on Hitler was 'Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning' by Timothy Snyder. It explained a lot of the inner logic of WWII and the Holocaust.
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by BogusIKnow 11y ago
The way to go for Philips would be the way of Apple. Build an ecosystem around Hue (Apple app store). Have help pages but don't do any support (Apple app store).

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