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by HillRat 5y ago
TLDR; The author uses arbitrary distance metrics to construct a graph structure from a public dataset, which fails to reveal anything of interest.
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by HillRat 5y ago
My impression is that the title’s accurate, with the exception of “identifying,” “fraudulent,” and “network analysis.”
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by HillRat 5y ago
Not a big fan of the article, but don’t dismiss the concept. I’m not sure if my former employer coined “MLP” or not, but we certainly used it extensively; I generally would describe it to clients as a “vertical slice” of the vision that is
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by HillRat 5y ago
Let’s just say “signals that people believe correlate with various sorts of bad behavior,” which consistently happen to be identified with out-groups. Having said that, the counter-examples to even that are legion: the professor who’s det
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by HillRat 5y ago
To be honest, live streaming isn't something I've estimated before, so I wouldn't be able to give you an informed opinion. I do know that Cloudflare, at least, can save livestreamed content for later replay, so there's p
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by HillRat 5y ago
Yeah, it's really just a way to talk through cloud architectural choices when you're designing for cost: committing to reserved instances for VMs (goodbye, eternal soul -- for at least the next three years), minimizing your data r
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by HillRat 5y ago
One point I'd make to clients when doing cost estimates was, essentially, that CPU and RAM want a long-term relationship, disk space likes to meet for a cup of coffee, per-use APIs say hi when they see you on the street, and bandwidth
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by HillRat 5y ago
Yeah, you can optimize pricing by going through the cloud providers themselves (you can hit about $0.025/GB plus cache fill charges for small requirements), but, to be honest, if a user is having trouble with $3,500/year, they are
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by HillRat 5y ago
My gut feeling is that Vimeo is playing a little fast and loose with that characterization -- it's almost certainly "1% of the users in her particular tier," not OTT customers or their enterprise tiers.
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by HillRat 5y ago
Her previous Vimeo charge ($200/year) equates to about 8min/video on a commercial CDN, so you can tweak the assumptions to figure out what that would look like under different scenarios. The key takeaway, I think, is that (A) she&
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by HillRat 5y ago
Her videos seem to be fairly long (multiple-hour) art tutorials, so back of the envelope suggests that for most users, monthly delivery costs from a straight CDN (based on 24 months, four hours per video, 1080p quality, per-GB CDN price at
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by HillRat 5y ago
Alternatively, this is (arguably) the most paradigmatic example of genocide on European soil since the post-Yugoslav wars: the official line of the Russian government is that there is no such thing as a "Ukrainian people," only a
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by HillRat 5y ago
My former firm put a lot of effort into Flutter as a preferred alternative to RN or native app dev -- including standing up a lot of onshore/nearshore/offshore experience -- but we never were able to to make it a viable alternativ
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by HillRat 5y ago
I think this tends to overestimate the amount of time folks who aren't developers want to spend developing. Most spreadsheets, even of the complex variety, exist as steps in a chain of human decisions -- they basically replace notepa
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by HillRat 5y ago
Basically, it's a distributed code-first workflow manager (as opposed to configuration-centric solutions that use BPML). It's a fork of Cadence, which was the author's project at Uber to create a single workflow manager for t
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by HillRat 5y ago
I think around here that's not exactly an unpopular opinion. :) The problem is that there's no obvious return on investment for space exploration once you get out of Earth orbit, since you need to overcome a vast number of complex
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by HillRat 5y ago
Very explicitly the latter, but predicated on the assumption that energy production is infinitely elastic — as long as you priced power high enough, someone will eventually generate it for you. In this case, however, you could run the spot
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by HillRat 5y ago
PowerPoint collaboration is … interesting, and gets more interesting as people mix web, Windows, and Mac apps simultaneously, and as the number of people on a single deck increases (which seems like an edge case, but more than once I’ve had
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How Miami became the most important city in America(ft.com)
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by HillRat 5y ago
I like GCP quite a bit, and I've architected on it both in the "giant global company" and "small startup" spaces, but it's just not well-positioned competitively. AWS has first-mover advantage and massive lock-
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by HillRat 5y ago
Traditionally, the "activist" in "activist investor" simply means "an investor who is actively pushing for specific policies," generally to increase the return on their investment. "Financial activists&quo
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by HillRat 5y ago
As I see it, GCP has successfully become a peer competitor to AWS and Azure (which I was, to be honest, uncertain they could pull off), while, conversely, Workspace is a truly painful experience compared to almost every alternative -- and I
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by HillRat 5y ago
We're talking criminal prosecution here, though -- the only pre-trial settlement is a plea bargain or a dropped prosecution, neither of which are likely if the prosecutor really takes this dog to trial. The next steps are going to hing
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by HillRat 5y ago
Don’t let the propaganda fool you — like any other empire, China has never been “pacifist,” whether we’re talking about the PRC that established itself through a long and brutal civil war, or the Qing dynasty and its endless internal and
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by HillRat 5y ago
A US company wouldn't be selling a CCL-restricted product to a foreign state without going through USG review -- or at least, they'd get to do that once, before DOJ comes in with the search warrants.
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by HillRat 5y ago
Given John Malone’s recent overtures to Trump, it’s possible that this is a Liberty Media PIPE deal with the intent of adding Trump to Liberty’s channel lineup as a FOX/OANN competitor, which would be broadly consistent with their corp
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by HillRat 5y ago
Commercial eggnog definitely uses pasteurized and sugared egg yolks (generally in small quantities); they come as a homogenized liquid. For home cooks who don't have access to pasteurized (or to pasteurize) eggs, or don't want to
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by HillRat 5y ago
It was revealed in recent news reports that Facebook has essentially handed moderation authority over to the government of Vietnam in order to avoid being blocked there, so it’s less a case of “being sympathetic to the Vietnamese government
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by HillRat 5y ago
you wanna take a loan against your stock? you pay taxes on that loan. That’s exactly the problem —- loans aren’t income, they’re debt, and debt isn’t taxed. Worse yet, the ultra-elite can carry out “buy (or ‘found’), borrow, die” strategi
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by HillRat 5y ago
I think the issue is more around GOOG allegedly using illegal tactics to keep people inside their integrated supply chain — e.g., trying to discourage header bidding.

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