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by Slartie 7y ago
Even if that was technically possible, it sounds like just putting these last few meters into the hands of the driver who's in the car anyway (yeah, I know, level 5 self-driving tech will solve that problem in 2020 as well - another on
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by Slartie 7y ago
This is the lofty dream castle that Amazon successfully dangles in front of the public in order to distract from what's going on with the people who actually do the deliveries. "Yeah, these poor guys, but...hey look, soon we will
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by Slartie 7y ago
Sorry, but the electrical grid is not built like a Netflix server farm. Its explicit purpose is to provide reliability to the customer, so the customer will not have to invest into mitigations for network failures, because it is much cheape
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by Slartie 7y ago
Updating any non-trivial layer in your stack usually gets you into "complications" - that alone must never be an acceptable reason to be stuck on old versions, especially if there are serious problems with them. You simply chew th
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by Slartie 7y ago
So you are basically saying it doesn't work because people in the US just don't care if there is obvious bullshit going on. Okay, great (or not so great for the self-acclaimed forefront of democracy), but why should that change if
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by Slartie 7y ago
For some weird reason, Germany has been doing the impossible for decades now. Nobody "finds" boxes of ballots here, and all votes are cast anonymously. Several people in this thread have already explained how this magic trick wor
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by Slartie 7y ago
Because minimizing ground covered with man-made stuff is a goal worth chasing. Leaves more of that thing called "nature" intact and doing its job, which - among other things - is to keep us alive and breathing. Hence the idea of d
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by Slartie 7y ago
That thing was the worst product in history. It was not a promotion for a product, but a product in itself, which I consider to be fundamentally different things.
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by Slartie 7y ago
I think this shows a significant disconnect between the ostensibly-wealthy managers that cooked up this genius marketing ploy and their customers: if the managers want an intercontinental flight, they just book it at whatever the current pr
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by Slartie 7y ago
There's common consent that the lowest bar for some hosting to qualify for the "cloud" moniker is that it must abstract from the physical hardware. Most people would even add that it is necessary for some kind of management s
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by Slartie 7y ago
The exact monetary cost of work time and application downtime (if there even is any, maybe you just shift the load to the second box) varies greatly depending on the context in which the respective project is run (hobby vs. paid-for, I&#x27
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by Slartie 7y ago
I actually have had physical boxes with Hetzner, as suggested by the author, for over 10 years, and ran multiple projects on them. Of course I had my share of disk failures. You tell them the disk serial via a special form, tell them when t
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by Slartie 7y ago
> I'm surprised more mid-size companies - those with AWS bills in the 6-figure-per-month range - don't leave the cloud, get physical hardware, and pay some sysadmins. I'm not surprised at all: that's thanks to the bea
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by Slartie 7y ago
I would guess the existing law on speed limits effectively stops thousands of these guys. It's however hard to prove this without an alternate reality in which there are no speed limits whatsoever.
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by Slartie 7y ago
Is it also sufficient to you if the other guy that's crashing into your car's rear end at insane speeds promises to "self-regulate" his top speed next time?
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by Slartie 7y ago
A long time ago, because I've got bookmarks for 5 or 6 news sites that I regularly visit (usually daily). And of course those bookmarks go to the front pages. Facebook for news...seriously? Even HN, though I sometimes follow links to n
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by Slartie 7y ago
It's worth it until you miss a payment and run in the absurdly high interest rates. Which makes it not riskless, because your risk of missing a payment is non-zero, even if you think it is zero. And regarding having cash: if you set as
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by Slartie 7y ago
I laughed at that point, too. Would have immediately showed the door to such an applicant. Reminded me a lot of little kids' job dreams: "I want to be a boss when I'm big..."
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by Slartie 7y ago
Sure that didn't fail too because its creation could not be announced on Slack? ;-)
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by Slartie 7y ago
Nope. In that case YouTube is just forced to adjust their targeting - they're simply showing the wrong ads! As another comment already correctly stated: kids do have indirect spending power by being able to manipulate the spending of t
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by Slartie 7y ago
You forgot #4: young kids have, in comparison to most adults, an insane amount of free time to spend watching content, and usually don't object if that content is of bad quality. They're the ideal audience to suck up truckloads of
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by Slartie 7y ago
And by refusing to offer a Linux version of their backup tool, which would be a totally logical thing to do, given their apparent focus on tech-savvy customers (just look at how and where they advertise). Tech-savvy people use Linux on thei
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by Slartie 7y ago
> The customer taking advantage of a mistake to receive an unfair deal and Amazon not paying taxes are more or less the same behavior. This is the key insight. The customer takes advantage of Amazons' inability to deal with its high
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by Slartie 7y ago
They are already doing that. Amazon Prime Video annoys the shit out of me with those stupid ads for other shows shown before a series episode actually starts. It is just a small step from this kind of self-promotion to showing ads for stuff
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by Slartie 7y ago
> It is also much easier to hide all the bandwidth associated with capturing all that extra audio since it has access to a network that the user doesn't completely control. However, it is pretty hard to hide the large drain on the b
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by Slartie 7y ago
> Now they could have provided a library to communicate directly with the keyboard They could have also opened a named pipe. Much cleaner, faster, less overhead than a web server, and way more secure (last time I checked, a website could
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by Slartie 7y ago
> they hired a web developer to write their driver configuration tool This is the real problem behind all of these cases of "why the heck is tool/driver/app/whatever X running a web server locally?" - the market
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by Slartie 7y ago
What is this "obvious problem"? Aside from the quality loss due to re-encoding - which should be identical to the loss encountered when capturing digital video and audio output, assuming the capture is done correctly - I fail to s
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by Slartie 7y ago
You mean disruption like: "park" a large number of trailers in cities, containing small office rooms, small apartments, hotel rooms, rows of lockers...whatever. Then rent out those and undercut other market participants which actu
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by Slartie 7y ago
Which can be considered a concession of failure for the idea of "law-as-code", because apparently when the going gets tough, that concept needs to fall back to good old "law-by-humans" in order to continue being relevant

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