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by alexkus 14y ago
> I think it's rather telling the video doesn't show it negotiating a corner at a lean angle. Presumably that's quite a problem. I would expect that it is eventually intended that it leans in a corner, it would just require a controlled
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by alexkus 14y ago
Not if you read the second update to that page.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Indeed, not stepping back can lead you (via A/B testing) to just find a local maxima in usability/uptake/etc.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Exactly. The (stealthy) thing we're doing doesn't have much data at all since we're not doing anything with images or video. Data for 1M users would be ~40GB, of which only 8GB of that would be relevant at any single point in time. Well wit
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by alexkus 14y ago
> I do not get why that gives them the right to do so (apart from the obvious "being able to do that"). Their duty to shareholders is to maximise profit. Google are big and ubiquitous enough that they've probably decided that the negati
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by alexkus 14y ago
> Google pay taxes on all US income (not to mention payroll taxes, consumption taxes, etc.). There is a massive miscomprehension of these tax stories as they are portrayed as Google, Apple etc. avoiding all taxes when this is not the ca
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by alexkus 14y ago
Here's the simple version. A company pays corporation tax in the UK on its profit, not on its sales, just its profit. Your UK company makes sales of £500m and makes £200m profit. You offset this by paying a £200m 'license fee' (for nothing
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by alexkus 14y ago
> Yeah, OK, however it is paid by all the other companies working in the UK, Europe etc... and many have not the means to register at Bermuda... They all have the means to register in Bermuda (or Cyprus or several other countries used t
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by alexkus 14y ago
They're waiting for a US tax amnesty (last one was in 2004) to allow them to bring the money back into the US and only pay ~5% tax on it rather than 20% to 30% (depending on what has already been paid overseas) if they brought it in now. Ap
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by alexkus 14y ago
Sounds like a database migration [by Google that is] or dump/reimport that hasn't preserved the original primary/foreign keys and so items are now owned by other people. Oh the joys of referential integrity. The ownership of things seems to
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by alexkus 14y ago
It must be their own DC. Most rackspace rented (in UK DC's at least) tend to be a maximum of 16A (at 240V) per 42U cabinet, so just under 4kW. By my estimation those Mac Minis will be drawing ~13kW at peak.
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by alexkus 14y ago
> Hard drive encryption would have done nothing to prevent this. And it's quite common in corporate environments for PGP Desktop HDD encryption to be setup to use the Windows password as the key to accessing the HDD encryption key(s). F
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by alexkus 14y ago
Interesting. We're using APE for something similar (can't go into too much detail as it'll spoil our stealth mode) but with different scaling requirements. We have messages that need to go to our users in three tiers of channels:- a) a bunc
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by alexkus 14y ago
Excellent, thanks!
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Richard O'Dwyer ordered to pay £20,000 by US court(bbc.co.uk)
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by alexkus 14y ago
> big bottles lose fizz every time you open them Solved if you use Fizz-keeper pump caps. This helps put the bottle back up to pressure after it's been opened so that the water doesn't go flat doing the same job. We used to use these ~3
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by alexkus 14y ago
Gigawatt-hour storage does exist but it is limited in capacity. Dinorwig can store ~11GWh and can provide that at 1.8GW (going from 0W to 1.8GW in under 2 minutes) and is ~75% efficient as a store, but it's only got a 6 hour capacity due to
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by alexkus 14y ago
True, but in reality you're probably sending that password over something less secure (like an SSL connection) that doesn't require quite as long (but still a very long time) to crack. Anything is only as secure as the weakest link in the c
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by alexkus 14y ago
For an embarrassingly parallel task like this why does there need to be any blazingly fast communication between the nodes at all? My guess is that they've taken HashCat and not made any changes to it at all and just ran it on this virtual
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by alexkus 14y ago
> The site says you shouldn't host your private data on certain free services because they show you ads, so they recommend instead using free services that don't show you ads? > Come on HN, you know how this works. If a service does
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by alexkus 14y ago
Picking an EEC country is a good idea because (Other things aside from the tax...):- Talent pool. Higher unemployment at the current time. It's also part of the Euro so a good base (rather than the UK) for collecting payments from the Euroz
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by alexkus 14y ago
IME they just means Spanish (European) and Portuguese. They could include Catalan and French (because of Andorra) but unlikely.
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by alexkus 14y ago
"better profit" but only in the eyes of accountants, for a while. The money you've paid less tax on is still offshore. If you want to bring it back to your country then you have to pay tax on it (minus what you've paid already overseas) so
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by alexkus 14y ago
> Google, Amazon and Starbucks Not forgetting:- Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Pfizer, Adobe (amongst others).
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by alexkus 14y ago
You don't have to move offices to start doing the road of tax avoidance. It's all about where you channel your money internally if you have two companies operating in different tax regimes. It'll be interesting to see what they do with the
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by alexkus 14y ago
It's not, it's "tax avoidance" which is entirely legal but various Governments (UK and France in particular) and starting to get upset about. "Tax evasion" is not paying tax that you must pay. "Tax avoidance" is finding ways to not be liabl
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by alexkus 14y ago
Establishing an office (or even just a legal entity for the company) in Ireland to benefit from the various tax schemes can be done without needing to hire lots of devs there. This isn't all about tax.
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by alexkus 14y ago
It was 'just' a solid week of bad sleep, horrendous headaches and night sweats for me when stopping. Frightening to think of those withdrawl symptoms for such a seemingly innocuous drug.
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by alexkus 14y ago
I can't put in to words how much better I feel, and sleep, since switching to decaffeinated[1] coffee. 1. You still get some caffeine; decaf is about 5% of the caffeine of normal coffee.
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by alexkus 14y ago
> So how is a teenager supposed to fund his pot habit in 2020? Learn how to maintain/fix robots.

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