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by bklyn11201 4y ago
I've spent the last decade on Nginx and then of course spending lots of money on Nginx Plus for their upstream health checking. I knew HAProxy was a possible solution but was too happy with Nginx. The slow evolution of open-source Ngin
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by bklyn11201 4y ago
I remember being fingerprinted in elementary school. Is this still common practice in USA?
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by bklyn11201 4y ago
1. Zelle: all of the big banks have it. Credit unions are slower to adopt. 2. Mobile apps: big bank mobile apps are pretty great these days. 3. Credit cards: Bank of America rebates 2.625% for top customers. 4. Bill pay: the big bank bill
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by bklyn11201 4y ago
Can someone describe how it's possible to auto-scale the CPUs on a database? How are CPUs effortlessly attached and removed from a running MySQL database?
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
The performance here is amazing. Well done! I'm desperately searching for a way to replace old Handsontable (before they closed source), but the license here for DataGrid XL makes it impossible to easily bring into a large FOSS project
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
> "which points to the problem I’d have if I wanted to update my own five-year old iMac, I’d need to jettison a perfectly good display in order to move to an Apple Silicon CPU." Is it impossible to use the 27" iMac as a di
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
You describe a great use case for LoRaWAN: https://lora-alliance.org/about-lorawan/
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
You’re going to be shocked that A) Starlink will have lots of Indian ground infrastructure once approved B) Starlink will be highly compliant with nation state laws C) Starlink will comply with filtering requests made by nation states when
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
It’s just a misunderstanding on competition. Many Reddit forums show Americans looking for Starlink to compete with their fixed bandwidth provider like Comcast. American cable providers have very bad support reputations but generally provid
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
Starlink requires massive annual cap ex, is bandwidth limited per cell, and needs very expensive ground receivers. Jio is the most cost effective large-scale bandwidth provider ever created! They are on two different planets playing two dif
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
Could they bypass the laws of a nation state by using inter-satellite lasers? Yes! But what leads people to believe that Starlink is going to ignore the laws of powerful countries?!
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
Starlink provides access to geographically diverse customers but doesn’t work well for dense population clusters. And what promises have been made around censorship? Do we have any reason to believe that Starlink will avoid large swathes of
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
For anyone else like me wondering why hydrogen is difficult for airplanes (not mentioned in the OP article): from https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210401-the-worlds-first... -------------- Hydrogen has higher
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
I believe the difference is that institutions are using scholarship students to warm call alumni for donations vs. online program managers using large, paid call centers. I think it's just a different magnitude of marketing. Non-profit
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
The vast majority of elite institutions are completely unwilling to take the risks to capture 100% of the online revenue pie: a) They are unwilling to spend lots of money on upfront content development costs without knowing future revenue.
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
You will run into mountains of issues with USA systems if you insist on using the è. You will fill out physical paperwork at the hospital. How will it be translated by the typists and OCR? Passport matching against the airline information.
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
terraform plan -out takes a few minutes with a few hundred AWS objects in place. I imagine it takes quite a bit longer for a complex organization.
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
Maybe a comparison with open edX makes the most sense
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
Why pay AWS $0.09 a GB tax to listen to Spotify?
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
Can anyone point me to an example of a Github action resulting in standing up a fully working backend with a resolvable DNS entry for manual pull request testing?
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
This is totally fascinating and I'm surprised this post didn't get more coverage on Hacker News. Thanks for explaining it so well. Do you have any idea of what a typical setup will cost someone? Obviously, prices will come crashin
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
I know there is little info available, but what is the practical future here? Buying a $1-5k setup and then sharing your fast connection with neighbors? Or is this more an incentive for bars and coffee shops? Or is this a play for MVNO doll
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
This page ( https://ltse.com/platform/equity/ ) says "Trusted by 32,000 companies". What does that mean?
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
If you have knowledge that people want to inject money into your startup (and thus raising the value), then stuffing shares into a Roth IRA before a raise (that you know will happen) would surely be skirting the idea of fair-market value.
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
It is not legal to own an USA S-Corp and pay yourself a below market rate.
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
I read through the various pages several times and figured Amazon was putting up $100mm to be paid to developers that squash bugs in important open-source projects. It made sense as Amazon has now forked several very large and important pro
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
Precisely. Was anyone else allowed to buy Paypal shares at 1/10 of a cent in 1999? If he alone marked this price, how would it not be fraudulent?
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
I thought it was a good combination of practical while being backed with data. They are big proponents of modeling out energy use with something called Manual J. They advocate for designing based on data instead of hunch which often leads t
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
Information I have learned from reading the Green Building Advisors website over the past two years while building a new house (electric-only although I didn't start with that purpose): 1) Air source heat pumps have become incredibly e
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by bklyn11201 5y ago
It's all about deferring to death and then hoping for the best possible tax treatment at death allowing basis step-up and avoiding estate taxes via various trusts.

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