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by adamsmith 14y ago
Facebook also has many more features, which probably means more code, which probably means larger switching costs. Take anything: photos, privacy logic, news feed, etc., and Facebook has the more sophisticated feature set.
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by adamsmith 14y ago
You highlight really good points. I guess at scale the government does exactly what you propose (step in and allocate supply per person), for example rationing in World War 2.
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by adamsmith 14y ago
In a disaster situation if there is no elasticity between price and supply then price gouging laws (social or legal) make a lot of sense. For example, if there's a fixed amount of water around regardless of price people shouldn't be able t
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by adamsmith 14y ago
Cars will become more appealing than public transportation over time. As the downsides of cars fall away, their packet switched functionality will ultimately win out, particularly for wealthier people.
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Wanted: A Smooth Scrolling E-Reader(blog.adamsmith.cc)
5 points by adamsmith 14y ago|0 comments
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by adamsmith 14y ago
You are of course absolutely right! There was a bug (now fixed) that was causing only one cpu to show up in the VMs. All instances started after now should have the proper number of cpus visible. (Note, the number of cpus might be higher
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by adamsmith 14y ago
How embarrassing (but fixed now). That was introduced when I added the ability to boot five instances without a credit card. Thanks for letting me know!
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by adamsmith 14y ago
Yes, though I suppose you could just create another account. : ) You can stop a running instance by shutting down the OS. If it's something people really want we can add an API/UI mechanism to do it.
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by adamsmith 14y ago
Ok!, the two instances you were seeing were duplicate listings of the same instance. That bug was introduced a few days ago by some database optimizations, and is now fixed! Thanks for reporting it. The 1.56 core-hours is mostly from inst
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by adamsmith 14y ago
That sounds like a bug! Just sent you email : )
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by adamsmith 14y ago
Yeah, to be honest we're trying to avoid the business of selling wholesale access to a lot of IP addresses, hence the proxying of traffic. If there are specific, legitimate uses for a large number of IPs, for example fighting DDOS, then tha
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by adamsmith 14y ago
There's a surprising behavioral economics result that says people will do things for free that they won't do for small amounts of money. A check in the mail for a dollar or two every month isn't as compelling as being part of a group effor
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Show HN: Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using distributed computing(gridspot.com)
266 points by adamsmith 14y ago|144 comments
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by adamsmith 14y ago
If the 150 TB's slowed down local law enforcement enough to make them mishandle the warrant, any bets on how many petabytes he'll have waiting for them next time? : )
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by adamsmith 14y ago
Why use cosine to interpolate v.s. a linear smear?
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by adamsmith 14y ago
Got it. Thanks!
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by adamsmith 14y ago
I agree that the camera is rotating. I guess the follow up question would be: why isn't the Earth rotating as well about the same axis?
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by adamsmith 14y ago
Can anyone explain why the star trails make concentric circles? What's at the middle of the circles? I understand why you might see concentric circles in time elapsed photos from the North or South Poles on Earth, but why from space?
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by adamsmith 14y ago
One more: the taxi fleet model (fewer cars) makes it easier to replace cars with newer models, which tend to include more environmentally friendly technology.
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by adamsmith 14y ago
All good points! I should have mentioned this more explicitly but you could take the buying-raw-storage model and use it to do anything S3 does, I think. Eg you could have three independent whole copies, or one whole copy and 1.5 copies dis
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by adamsmith 14y ago
RE Least Authority, awesome!, thanks for the link!
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by adamsmith 14y ago
This is a really interesting question. At scale, this could be managed, I think, through a combination of (a) shipping hard drives around, (b) caching, and (c) peering between storage providers. For example, shipping hard drives around wou
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by adamsmith 14y ago
That's right. The main point is that these services still benefit from the falling cost of storage.
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by adamsmith 14y ago
> This article is basically advocating RAID 5 across many storage providers. That is correct. And to be more precise, I'm advocating RAID 5 across storage providers as a service , so people who just want to store data don't have to ma
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by adamsmith 14y ago
Thanks for the comment. I just edited the post to try to make it clearer. I'm proposing that anyone could start a company, Foo Inc, who would sell redundant storage and compete with S3. Instead of operating your own hard drives, you rent
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How to: Compete with Amazon S3 without Buying Hardware(blog.adamsmith.cc)
66 points by adamsmith 14y ago|37 comments
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by adamsmith 14y ago
The way the system is set up makes it a tax on global efficiency. All of these resources (crazy smart people, money, equipment) are needlessly wasted on getting lower latency when really it adds no systematic value. Instead, just as the sy
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by adamsmith 15y ago
Yes. For another account, see David Rusenko's blog post about GoDaddy and Weebly: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-... Their .com doesn't seem to have the same ugly ICE/government/FBI logo landing page, so that
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by adamsmith 15y ago
Yup it was the text adventure game, and yes I read the whole book. I remember finding the last parts to be the most amazing; I think they were about register machines.
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by adamsmith 15y ago
The relationship between boredom and grit, or maybe an intermediate variable like finding what you love, is an interesting one to ponder.

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