alecbaldwinlol

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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Even with 80% discounts for large "friends of the business", yes, I agree that better AND cheaper alternatives should be pursued ;)
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Reminds me of Larry Ellison's old joke, "So when building our cloud, we decided to go with Oracle... we got a good price..."
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but doesn't YourMechanic do this as well? I suppose auto repair and geo-location are a better match together than house cleaning (rip HomeJoy, I really liked that company but it isn't as hard to book cleanin
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
How am I supposed to figure out how to break the chains of my oppressors when I need to disable my adblock to read the page? :)
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Money that comes easily, goes easily. Where did the VCs get the money from [1][2]? If they didn't break a sweat, they won't hesitate to throw it around without asking questions about profitability. EDIT: People who are downvoting
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
But isn't this an ironic example, because the witches weren't actually witches, it's just that the normal observer could be convinced they were?
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Yes, I completely agree with the above. Litigation is handled poorly, taxation handled poorly (federal and state), identity handled poorly (Social Security Admin), legislation, elections, law enforcement, and these are just the things I can
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Tough to say, but if this link is right: http://video.stackexchange.com/questions/8850/typical-size-o... Then being conservative, we can say an hour of video is 1-2GB of data, so between 500 and 1,000 GB of data u
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Sweet, I appreciate that info :) I imagine 5PB fills up quite quickly for Google too! At that scale, it's just a function of (number of ethernet cables) x (avg size of ethernet cables), rather than disk space in their data center, I&#x
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
That seems like a silly minimum for WDC to have, unless the discounting is phenomenal (50%+) compared to other vendors. I'm asking myself, even if I'm a WDC rep that is selling hundreds of thousands of PC hard drives and having an
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
That's all good, it would just increase the number of disks required to be purchased and the amount of electricity/cooling/floorspace to maintain them. It would add to the disk count, but not really affect cost per TB all tha
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
I imagine maybe 10x more than this. The numbers actually aren't too shocking if you think of the mirroring of data that's required for maximum uptime (not even archival), and the occasional disk failure. 1,000 TB (1PB) can be easi
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Food is the private property of someone else. Pay for it or ask for it for free.
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Without perfect information, market participants can act irrationally. This is why Ethiopian farmers sell their coffee beans for pennies/kilo, while Starbucks charges $5/gram (made up numbers).
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
They probably don't feel their drivers are valuable assets worth retaining, much like how tech companies treat their telesales staff. You want to quit? Go nuts, we have 50 people who will work for less ASAP, and we think we can onboard
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Implicitly, that person is. But what that comment really says is, "if my government tells me they need my taxes so that we shall kill instead of being killed, that is a decision I am prepared to support." Anyone who pays US taxes
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
MREs are quite tasty and good for survival situations (liquid water is extremely heavy and voluminous- hard to transport). I haven't looked specifically at the salt and preservatives inside MREs but if they have a long shelf-life witho
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Place responsibility back on the party with the most to lose in the situation- the one risking something. Don't want to have to evict your tenant? Don't sign them for an overpriced lease with expensive ammenities if you can't
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Obligatory post that you can make healthier, tastier meals for marginally more cost if you buy and boil frozen vegetables. If it doesn't taste good enough then add salt or whatever other freebies you can find. You can eat for $3 a day!
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Guys, I've got it- instead of locking ourselves in with one vendor's platform and being subject to their mismanagement and arbitrary rules, why don't we buy our own hardware and do it ourselves? We can free up our OpEx budget
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
Sounds like the solution is contained in the article?? More people are finding that the only work they can find is a desk job working long hours with a long commute and many expenses to worry about. Throw in the US' massive subsidies f
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
I love it. It's also why they are so against distance learning (Quartz has a poll out on it, only 30% of faculty "support" it). Academics have the gaul to set up an extortionist racket, and then find someone else to pay the c
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by alecbaldwinlol 10y ago
I majored in history at UNC and paid off my $26,000 in student loans with my first commission check from my first sales job. One's major and even one's skills are not an accurate predictor of ability to pay back loans. It is entir
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by alecbaldwinlol 11y ago
You're being downvoted by plenty of people who have devoted their lives to pleasing the spouse that beats them, aka the academic profession. Congrats on rattling the hornets nest!
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by alecbaldwinlol 11y ago
A-B-C. A Always. B Be. C Correlating. Always be correlating. ALWAYS BE CORRELATING. A-I-D-A. Attention, interest, decision, action. Attention, do I have your attention. Interest, are you interested, I know you are because it's publish
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by alecbaldwinlol 11y ago
It's bleeding through to the corporate world too. What an amazing time to be alive!
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by alecbaldwinlol 11y ago
They're sitting out there waiting to give you citations! Are you man enough to take it? These are the new grants. These are the NSF grants. To you, they're gold, and that's why you, don't get them.... because to give the
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by alecbaldwinlol 11y ago
The bike is luxurious? The fuckin bike is luxurious?! You're luxurious!!!! My old college town had free busses to be fair. But you can get a bike for like, a few weeks worth of not eating
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by alecbaldwinlol 11y ago
The real favor is to deny tenure for your fuckin ass, cause a loser is a loser! I drove here in a 2014 Subaru, you rode here on a bike, THAT'S my name! EDIT: btw for everyone downvoting me- tech industry is bullshit, funding down, layo