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   by api 12y ago

   EC2 is generally very expensive for CPU. RAM and storage are okay but CPU is crazy. Anyone know what recommends EC2 over Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode, etc.? Are they more reliable? Enterprise features? Network bandwidth? Cause right now the
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   by api 12y ago

   Your first point is a deeper problem that goes far beyond economics. We do have a government corruption problem. As for #2, the problem is that economic demand and economic activity means doing anything at all , including fixing environmen
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   by api 12y ago

   True, and I'm sure the fact that we've likely passed peak conventional oil is a contributing factor to the current malaise. In both cases there was probably a physical underpinning, but economic policies could indeed have helped.
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   by api 12y ago

   I have gradually become convinced by mountains of evidence from many quarters that the Keynesians are right-- we are in a demand constrained economy. One of the problems I think is that economists and politicos tend to always be fighting th
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   by api 12y ago

   "Meanwhile, Barclays was advertising LX to high-frequency traders by offering them more information, lower fees, and faster connections than it gave to institutional investors." Whether intentional or not, it sounds like they buil
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   by api 12y ago

   If we did that, wouldn't people just run more Enron-type scams? Fraudsters and con men have been engaged in a Red Queen's race against investor intelligence and government regulation since there has been economies. https:/&#
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   by api 12y ago

   CEO pay is interesting. We tend to focus on the outliers, but I guess this is the average CEO at the average company.
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   by api 12y ago

   Some very interesting ideas in here once you mentally strip off the postmodern blather. Totally unnecessary.
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   by api 12y ago

   I had a big failure years ago. It was horrible, and in retrospect there were a lot of really screwed up things going on from day one. This included a business partner who turned out to be a delusional sociopath, etc. Nevertheless I learned
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    by api 12y ago

    Great comment. Things like the military bureaucracy or the financial system can be hostile to us because their incentives are very much out of line with humanistic goals. I do think it's legitimate to be at least a little concerned abo
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    by api 12y ago

    The runaway escalation of corporate-feudalist surveillance business models will continue until people actually care and modify their buying / usage behaviors accordingly. It will escalate until the market rejects further escalation.
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    by api 12y ago

    Exactly. Liberal types try to win by being right. Right-wingers win by... Umm... Winning. I was not arguing that the inverse correlation between secularism and birth rates is a good thing.
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    by api 12y ago

    Don't worry. This is how things get more secure. Just stay the course and whack the moles. :) Docker is awesome by the way.
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    by api 12y ago

    I think we are firmly in YMMV territory here. :) I always noticed that at academic conferences the casual greeting seemed to be agreement about the impending human die-off due to global warming / ecological doom / whatever.
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    by api 12y ago

    Unfortunately religious guilt often gets replaced by secular neo-Malthusian doomsday ideology. That might not be your experience but it seems to be common. It plugs into the same port: "forgive us nature for we have sinned... we have o
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    by api 12y ago

    > morality and self-restraint. ... and hope. Note the lack of hope among so many skeptics. Start talking to them about the future and you quickly discover that not only is life meaningless and success essentially random, but human civili
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    by api 12y ago

    This is legally problematic, as others have posted already. It would amount to nationalization of private infrastructure. I personally favor a different solution: liberalize frequency allocation and open up quite a bit more of the radio ban
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    by api 12y ago

    I found Elon's secret business plan! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
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    by api 12y ago

    I have an app with auto-update, and one day I realized that I had (more or less) root on hundreds of users' machines. I'm not special in this regard. I take fairly strong precautions with my keys: offline storage, encrypted, signi
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    by api 12y ago

    Everything this article says is true. That being said, it also applies to any regular application that can be upgraded automatically or that's upgraded at all by a third party. Anything you get off an app store can have its code swit
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    by api 12y ago

    Also known as "peaking in high school."
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    by api 12y ago

    Used it myself here: https://www.zerotier.com/admin.html I found that I had absolutely no need for jQuery, etc. Just do all UI stuff with CSS+HTML and use Knockout's data binding for binding it to data and logic. Knock
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    by api 12y ago

    Sounds like some of the girls were practicing some form of queueing theory.
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    by api 12y ago

    The hacker has been partly replaced by the hustler, and that sucks. But there are still hackers around. There's also things that the hacker can learn from the hustler, like how to take something early or minimal and make it self-suppor
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    by api 12y ago

    Server-side encryption. Sigh. Trying to think of a really pithy analogy... something like taking a taxi to a bank heist.
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    by api 12y ago

    This PDF is a tiny bit old, so I wonder what they'd say today. I guess it depends on how conservative you want to be. RSA has been through a ton of cryptanalysis and peer review and has stood the test of time. Ed25519 is newer. It&#x
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    by api 12y ago

    I used Poly1305, but exactly in the way Daniel J. Bernsetein used it in his NaCl library. I also used his ECC signature scheme, also in exactly the same way. :) As far as I can tell the gotcha with Poly1305 is that you absolutely cannot r
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    The P = MVP Problem(zerotier.com)

    3 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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    by api 12y ago

    This was surprisingly brilliant and interesting (and I'm not a Christian). His point about Nietzsche piqued my interest, given that he is often cited as inspiration for people like Rand who were very anti-environmentalist. But I see wh
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    Peter Thiel at The Veritas Forum [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by api 12y ago|1 comments