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901.
by ProAm 6y ago
We see just as much downtown with AWS with DR/HA/MTTR as with colo. You still have to set it all up and maintain it, its just different setup and maintenance than if you actually have a servers in DCs. Most people still have the
902.
by ProAm 6y ago
> Why is Windows a nightmare? Telemetry, the window manager, BT support, Ads, Cortana for a start.
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by ProAm 6y ago
> In this kind of market, all you need is a Donald Trumpish like figure and nothing else to keep the fake-valuation going on forever. Or due diligence? This is GM's fault really not Nikola (the latter was simply selling snaked oil)
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by ProAm 6y ago
This is nothing compared to how much money the Army loses over seas. Here is a case of 70 billion of literal pallets of cash going 'missing' [q] [y] [z] [q] https://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/
905.
by ProAm 6y ago
Let me see if I can find the podcast I listened to (or I can read this transcript) because it went into detail about the auction (the science behind it), how they knew about the flaws before but had spent too much time and money to not use
906.
by ProAm 6y ago
Sales and Revenue do not always equate to quality and user experience. All these companies when they get to this size start to lean on M&A vs build it yourself. Look at the history of Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and you'll see the sam
907.
by ProAm 6y ago
The podcast attached to the article talks about it in more depth.
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New precise maps of millions of bright quasars show our place in the cosmos(sciencemag.org)
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by ProAm 6y ago
> I subscribe to the Keynesian philosophy that the government should at the very least hire displaced workers to dig holes in the ground and fill them back up This is what the TSA is and largely the US military/defense (based on dol
910.
by ProAm 6y ago
Because Amazon has a history of product quality and control problems.
911.
by ProAm 6y ago
It's the first death pang to not be funded in a company the lives on getting promoted by 'new features or products'
912.
by ProAm 6y ago
It's what Skype did when MS bought them. P2P -> P2S2P
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by ProAm 6y ago
That is where I also disagree. Giving a higher rank to a AMP page that people like vs an page the is more accurate information seems like an issue to me. People are larger not smart enough to discern an accurate answer (look at how bad so
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by ProAm 6y ago
Is google search there to provide the most accurate information or the fastest load information regardless of content? "The primary goal of Google is to provide users with the most relevant, highest quality results based on user searc
915.
by ProAm 6y ago
I completely disagree. Its my website, my servers, my bandwidth I pay for. Google has zero obligation to dictate how others go about creating their own product. They can enforce web standards sure, but AMP is horrific, and Im sure they n
916.
by ProAm 6y ago
I need less Elon Musk in my life tbh.
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by ProAm 6y ago
Id argue its their job to index the internet, not dictate how people build their webpages to determine the order they are displayed. They want their crawler to be faster and to capture market share/screen time.
918.
by ProAm 6y ago
It's not Googles job to push 'industry wide-best practices' to third parties.
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by ProAm 6y ago
True there is not one answer for everyone. I just know Ive been a part of companies where we go IAAS, get rid of the people that have the knowledge to manage infrastructure and when it comes time to need the knowledge again we either need
920.
by ProAm 6y ago
> I think the main advantage of cloud providers is to offset the risk of purchasing equipment that eventually is no longer needed, Every corporate use case I have seen is labor based. They dont want the overhead of salary and healthcare
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by ProAm 6y ago
Orbitz used to charge higher fares for Mac users [2] [2] https://www.cnet.com/news/mac-users-pay-more-than-pc-users-s...
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by ProAm 6y ago
Interesting, when did they start being allowed to admit they even receive a NSL request. I thought that was part of not being able to challenge them in court is that you were not allowed to challenge something you 'never received&#x27
923.
by ProAm 6y ago
Are these reports worth much in the US with NSL's? Its nice but I always assume its half the picture.
924.
by ProAm 6y ago
I totally agree that these people deserve to earn money, but I believe that tipping the mean time exacerbates the issue, and now were seeing these companies go public with makes the societal issues permanent. I would say it's akin to
925.
by ProAm 6y ago
Tipping the driver in cash hides the larger problem of the gig economy and the VC funded startups that take advantage of it. While I agree these people need real income, this isnt the way to do it.
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by ProAm 6y ago
It's a rental market.
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by ProAm 6y ago
To each their own. Everyone gets their own rodeo here on earth and can live it exactly how they want to.
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by ProAm 6y ago
It depends on your worth, to become an ex-pat can be very expensive.
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by ProAm 6y ago
There was a period of time where the laptops were not updated for almost 5 years and the price didnt change. No one remembers the past
930.
by ProAm 6y ago
> This really flips the argument that Mac hardware is overpriced and underpowered on its head. This doesn't excuse years behavior not respecting their customers on (price + performance) divided by bugs.

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