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Ask HN: Why are flash memory prices going down so much faster than RAM?
165 points by altoz 10y ago|76 comments
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by altoz 10y ago
I'm going to guess the lack of a state income tax.
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by altoz 10y ago
Anyone a little suspicious about the bias of this report given that it's owned by Jeff Bezos? Not to say it's untrue, but I wonder how much of it is spun to favor one side.
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by altoz 10y ago
The article doesn't really touch on this, but for people embarking on a PhD program, school is what they've been doing 8 or so hours a day for 16+ years and school is what they're good at (or else they wouldn't have gott
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by altoz 10y ago
Am I mistaken or is it because of the possibility of earthquakes?
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by altoz 10y ago
Hypothesis: peer-reviewed articles aren't rigorous Prediction: a flawed article will pass peer-review Testing: https://svpow.com/2013/10/03/john-bohannons-peer-review-stin... Analysis: Peer review is not
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by altoz 10y ago
You have two groups: 1. 5 million unemployed people 2. very highly sought after workers The employers complaining about people in group 2 being scarce are merely not paying enough. The workers complaining in group 1 need more skills that th
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by altoz 10y ago
RTFA. The idea of smart contracts isn't dead, but Ethereum looks like a terrible platform for it, given that it's very hard to audit the smart contracts on it.
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by altoz 10y ago
> To me it would only be scary if a media company was taken down by a rich entity simply litigating them until they couldn't afford to fight the lawsuits anymore It already is scary because people are taken down by the media company
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by altoz 10y ago
> Excluding people based on their beliefs is completely a judgement call about whether you think their beliefs are so far from your own that nothing productive can come from sharing a department with them. Would the author of this comme
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by altoz 10y ago
Anyone else see this headline and thought, "Some government gave them a 10-year-old?"
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by altoz 11y ago
Is the website super slow for anybody? Scrolling takes several seconds on my desktop with an i7 on Chrome and Edge.
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by altoz 11y ago
This is absolutely fascinating. Is there a website like airbnb.com where you can read reviews and book something like this?
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by altoz 11y ago
"Tax revenue is down so we must raise taxes" Yep, definitely happens a lot outside the corporate world.
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by altoz 12y ago
I cannot emphasize this enough. To bid for a government contract is a MASSIVE undertaking. Just to win the bid is very, very difficult. The RFP, RFQ, ITB are just a small part of the process and the evaluation process of each bid is not mer
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by altoz 12y ago
And the computer systems that run the bank. And the disaster recovery systems that back up the bank. And the cars that come to the bank to do banking. And the construction vehicles that build ATM's, bank vaults, bank buildings. And the
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by altoz 12y ago
Fun game. Just finished. May I suggest a part 2? It can include rebasing, cherry-picking, stashing and resetting, among other things.
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by altoz 12y ago
Believe it or not, the alternative was much worse. In the US, the Civil War cost roughly $8 billion (in 1860 dollars) and 600,000 lives. There were roughly 4 million slaves in the US at that time and using the New Orleans auction prices of
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by altoz 12y ago
I'm not sure how the exclusive sale model would work with information. Some problems I see are: 1. You can't prove a negative. The seller cannot prove that there's not a copy of the same information elsewhere. 2. If you preve
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Charlie Shrem sentenced to 2 years(twitter.com)
2 points by altoz 12y ago|0 comments
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by altoz 12y ago
Lots of money has been lost in other security breaches, oftentimes with much worse consequences because the data is centralized. This hasn't stopped people from shopping at Target for instance. The nice thing is, security breaches in a
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by altoz 12y ago
This proposal reminds me of the people that want to redo the world's calendar (every year still has 365 days, but each Jan 1st is always Monday, for example). Changing something as deeply ingrained as time simply isn't going to ha
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by altoz 13y ago
They have a lot of verified users. Depending on how much you're willing to pay for a user, it' may not be that terrible a proposition and a lot of the reputation problems go away when you bring in new management. Basically, thei
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by altoz 13y ago
Very interesting observation. It's very similar to work resumes in that it's very difficult to tell which positions a candidate had which meant anything.
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by altoz 13y ago
tl;dr urgency and prudence don't go together.
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by altoz 13y ago
tl;dr liberal intellectual claims criticism about liberal intellectuals and their friends are invalid.
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by altoz 13y ago
Those are the realistic paths to upward mobility in each society.
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by altoz 13y ago
I've noticed this, too. There's often a violent rejection of bitcoin at an intensity that doesn't correlate to how much it's hurt them. In fact, the nastiest remarks about bitcoin come from people that own zero bitcoins.
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by altoz 13y ago
Overtime laws definitely affect the cliff at 40 hours. That said, there's something to be said for reliable and consistent employees. I know that a lot of small business owners I know would rather have a few trusted employees than man
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by altoz 13y ago
Prediction: /r/Science goes the way of /r/politics and /r/atheism and stops being a default sub-reddit.

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