Veratyr

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by Veratyr 10y ago
The thing is that there's nothing actually special about SpiderOak as a service. Since the data is encrypted end to end, the only special thing is the client and as you've pointed out, there's is terrible. On that note, once
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I don't disagree with you but I don't think deaths per mile is a good way to compare modes of transportation. The car/truck numbers include intra-city miles driven for a start. If you can narrow it down to accidents on inters
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> They've been around for a while and are highly regarded. By who? My only experiences with them have been horrible. Their client is buggy, slow and horrible and their support left tickets for literally months until they basically g
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> Is it sensitive for me to google a man page or look up some algorithm or another? It doesn't make sense to cut out such specific uses. The real question should be "are my Google searches sensitive?" and the answer to tha
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by Veratyr 10y ago
RSUs are taxed when they're granted at the same rate as income but with the withholding of a bonus. Capital gains tax only applies to the difference of sell price and grant price.
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I'm in the same boat as a very small portion of the music I listen to is western made and hence available on western services. But I think your average non-HN-reader is usually going to have fairly conventional tastes and if you look a
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Why not view streaming as convenience, and still be interested in backing up what you pay for? To put this into context in Japan, there is, even now, not even one streaming music service that can satisfy most people's musical need
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I've always wondered after reading this: "Sampled signals are often depicted as a rough stairstep (red) that seems a poor approximation of the original signal. However, the representation is mathematically exact and the signal rec
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Warning: Pure speculation ahead. I think it might be because in Japan at least, there's a very different approach to music consumption. In the west we basically moved from CDs to iTunes to Spotify but in Japan, online streaming and dig
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by Veratyr 10y ago
There just doesn't seem to be much interest in the west, though it's quite popular in Asia, largely it seems due to Sony pushing it. A bunch of FLAC stores have been mentioned but here's a couple more (and other lossless form
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Ah yeah, I definitely found that in the past, especially with noisy sensors. Since getting a full frame camera though, I find noise isn't nearly as much of a problem and Capture One's noise reduction is fine. Certainly not as good
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13099671
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> Isn't murder survival of the fittest? Murder is bad for society, as people who can benefit society through say their knowledge of medicine or physics aren't adept at self defence. A similar argument could be made that people
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> You have a theory that the average person will wisely assume the responsibility to vet the health effects of what they consume, but empirical reality disagrees with your theory. Right now people are injuring themselves with products at
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by Veratyr 10y ago
All this propaganda from the media is worrying. I'm not American or old enough to really remember what it was like when the US started the Iraq war but from what I've read, the way the media spreads propaganda now sounds a lot lik
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I think either way punishes people for the way they're born. Making everyone pay the average cost means shorter people are paying more for fuel than they're costing. Heavier people are paying less than they're costing. So the
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Not entirely sure if this is what you mean but there's a system called Vitess that sounds like it might be relevant: http://vitess.io/overview/
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by Veratyr 10y ago
If you transfer from an account within a standard US bank to another account within the same bank, it can be same day sometimes, next day others. If you transfer between US banks, it will take between 1 and 5 business days, depending on whe
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by Veratyr 10y ago
The US does have wire transfers but they nearly always cost $15-$20 from what I've seen, which is silly. Aside from that all you have is ACH, which is what's being complained about. Most of the developed world has essentially free
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I find that while most alternatives produce better quality output than Lightroom, none come close to it when it comes to organising and managing your photos. I also find that when I process with Capture One Pro, I nearly always get better r
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> It's a pity most compare it to Lightroom I don't think I can agree that it's a pity. Lightroom is the standard for photographers right now for pretty much everything but fashion photography (Capture One) and perhaps arch
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by Veratyr 10y ago
In terms of raw machine cost it generally goes owning a DC < owning machines + leasing racks < leasing dedicated < VPS < cloud. But each level down you go is another level of expertise you have to employ someone for and a loss o
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Google's known for poor or no support on their free services but their paid services often have decent support. Personally, I've found GCP, GSuite, Project Fi, Google Store and Pixel support to all be pretty great but haven&#x
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by Veratyr 10y ago
1) AWS has similar limits: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_many_instances_can_I_ru... and it's pretty simple to fill in the form and request more. 2) GCS has an S3 compatible API so you can use your S3 t
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Yes but the difference is that what's called "lobbying" in the US often consists of what most other governments consider "bribery".
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> Corrupt? They all follow the law. These things are not mutually exclusive, particularly when the corruption has resulted in changes to the law.
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If you get YouTube Red (which also saves the kids from ads), you also get offline support built into the mobile app. Just in case you weren't aware.
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> Huh? This is an intercept system, not a weapon. The gun here is America's nukes. America currently can't really even think about using its nukes because of MAD. With a functioning nuclear defence system, America doesn't
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Django is a framework, Wordpress is a CMS. Django aims to be able to build pretty much any web application, Wordpress aims to make it easy to add and display content. I'd use Wordpress when building simple websites that serve as landin
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> I really want more evidence of the importance of performance in web systems (to justify my hobby, if for no other reason), but things from ten years ago just don’t cut it. > Can we please stop citing articles from ten years ago and

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