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11941.
by api 10y ago
Does data locality matter if the servers are controlled by a US company?
11942.
by api 10y ago
OVH has a monster data center there too. The region has very cheap power due to a lot of hydroelectric available.
11943.
by api 10y ago
... or a capacitor or other sink for current in the system slowly discharging? I remember old CRTs that would fade to black when shut off. Just speculating.
11944.
by api 10y ago
Yes, and the theories which seem to be nonsense according to most physicists I've read. If you stick to the pure experimental aspects of "we put a microwave in a can and obtained these anomalous results" and ignore everything
11945.
by api 10y ago
It couldn't be fusion -- at least not anything like hot fusion. If it is something like fusion, it'd have to be new physics.
11946.
by api 10y ago
That's a dominant player but not a monopoly. The danger is that we'll get to the point that >90% of Internet traffic in the US flows via AWS or uses something in AWS. At that point AWS owns the Internet and can start consolidat
11947.
by api 10y ago
I hope not. Over-consolidation of this space would be bad for everyone as it would open up the potential for Amazon to monopolize the Internet core. We will stick with DO and Vultr for most things. They also still have a bit of a performanc
11948.
by api 10y ago
Is the use of a tech shift or form factor change as an opportunity to redefine the product so as to reduce customer freedom or introduce surveillance a dark pattern? I've thought of this with the mobile revolution. You could never have
11949.
by api 10y ago
That may be the case, but mobile OSes and apps are designed around the cloud-centric service-centric consumer model that much more closely resembles the mainframe/VT paradigm. iOS is more extreme than Android in this area, but both pla
11950.
by api 10y ago
This looks like an extreme version of a thesis I've had for a while: mobile devices are portable dumb terminals for the cloud. This basically drives the entire mobile UI remotely. It's like 21st century touch based VT macros.
11951.
by api 10y ago
So our brains have Speedstep and are able to shut down cores to save power? :)
11952.
by api 10y ago
Critics claim that this simply tied the oxcart to the fossil fuel train. I'm in the middle. If we can transition beyond fossil fuels then it will work out, but if not that claim will prove true.
11953.
by api 10y ago
Only two companies with almost the same name? As the dying replicant says at the end of the Blade Runner film, "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."
11954.
by api 10y ago
Sometimes there can be value in doing rapid shallow MVP type iteration with key customers, but there should ideally be a step between that and stuff going into the mainline product where somebody thinks.
11955.
by api 10y ago
This is both true and dangerous advice. You must listen to your customers, but then you must conceptualize their needs, prioritize them, and think about how to solve those needs well . There is nothing worse than a "Christmas tree pro
11956.
by api 10y ago
Earth is just a test network for demo purposes. You can create your own with any IP scheme you want or none at all. It's sort of like VXLAN over a P2P network. This has been on HN at least once before and it's under very active de
11957.
by api 10y ago
Amazon seems to be trying to build a 100% proprietary global mainframe that runs everywhere. Up side: ease of use, ubiquity, big backer, scalability, etc. Down side: absolute lock-in of everything to Amazon, privacy nightmare, and if Amazon
11958.
by api 10y ago
Not terribly impressed. It's like Digital Ocean and Vultr but with no IPv6 and no direct network interface. What I love about VPSes as opposed to AWS, Azure, or Google is that you get a completely a la carte box with a direct interface
11959.
by api 10y ago
This is a great point. Keep am eye on the "Raspberry Pi clamshell case" type laptops. These are truly disruptive. A much higher end version of this could be interesting. I'd consider an Octacore A64 with 8-16GB RAM and 4K or
11960.
by api 10y ago
The opposite happened when mainframes and minis transitioned to PCs, but he's right from the 2000s onward. Something changed, and I'm not 100% sure what. Tech is reflecting the larger political trends of the world where strong man
11961.
by api 10y ago
He's ignoring a rather large elephant in the room: iOS is the most locked down OS in history. That's going to keep two kinds of people from ever moving to it as their primary computing device: people who care about freedom, and po
11962.
by api 10y ago
The two blur together at the top.
11963.
by api 10y ago
The editor sets the voice. If the owner wants to change that they would change the editor.
11964.
by api 10y ago
In the end he nails it without fully realizing it. The problem is that the iPhone is now everything for Apple. Having one single mega cash cow tends to result in the whole company organizing itself around that cash cow. Microsoft did it for
11965.
by api 10y ago
So basically anything critical of standard US foreign policy or centrist neoliberalism is all a big Putin conspiracy. Got it. There does appear to be some kind of Russian propaganda machine online but it's voice is mixed in with all th
11966.
by api 10y ago
It's also used for OOB access in high security environments in case you are getting strategically DDOSed. Makes me wonder what you'd find wardialing in 2016.
11967.
by api 10y ago
Pop is crap. Always has been, always will be. We now have a pop Internet. I too was optimistic years ago that it might not become crap, but I think we are just seeing the reality here.
11968.
by api 10y ago
I've worried about exactly what you've described for years... to the point of wondering if "virtual reality" (broadly defined) might not be a great filter (Fermi paradox sense). What we are doing here is creating a colle
11969.
by api 10y ago
The only viable alternative is Qt, and it is almost as big and offers a less familiar programming model. Native is only an option if you want to rebuild your app UI from scratch a minimum of twice and never support Linux or other less commo
11970.
by api 10y ago
Where does the momentum go when the virtual particles re-annihilate? Even if it is pushing against QM background I suspect that could only be part of the story. There has to be an "and then" unless we want to toss a conservation l

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