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by bkruse 10y ago
Every call has a CIC code (carrier identification code). If callerID was similar to ssl certs, the world would be a better place
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by bkruse 10y ago
They do not make money from it. Actually, robocalls are really looked down upon in the industry, as the traffic is not profitable. Imagine this - telco carriers are charging per minute. No monthly fee, no setup fee, no per-call fees, only p
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by bkruse 10y ago
That's a great comparison between AWS and Twilio. I think Twilio is going to try to get there - and they have made some progress that's made it difficult to mimic on the backend. I would hope that their cost structure is flexible
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by bkruse 10y ago
The cost of revenue is interesting. I want to shine some light from an insider perspective to the industry. I operate a telecom company that mimics the twilio API and we are nabbing their bigger customers left and right. Being fully transpa
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by bkruse 11y ago
From what I understand, they used to change volume slightly which they claim wouldn't negatively impact algorithms looking at historical data. Then, however, people were using volume weighted average pricing (VWAP), which would elimina
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by bkruse 11y ago
Bloomberg does this with data sales. They'll sell you particular financial information, like tick-by-tick for the Russell 2000 over the last 5 years. They embed unique hidden markers or fake trades with everyone they sell them to. They
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by bkruse 11y ago
Everything changed in 2.x - it's extremely stable and consistent. Never lost any data in the last 6 months and we beat the hell out of it. 2.x is really a completely different product
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by bkruse 11y ago
The basis of this, was being pointed in the right direction by the community. etcd had a HUGE issue with the implementation of the raft consensus algorithm they were using. This was in version 0.x The tough part was that, even though etcd 2
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by bkruse 11y ago
We've been using CoreOS in production with etcd and fleet for over 1 year now on 500+ machines. They're have been some growth pains, specifically with etcd - but now they are mostly gone (with the new raft implementation in 2.x).
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by bkruse 12y ago
I own a big wholesale telco that does tons of data center business and bandwidth. Of course, margins are super thin so we need great pricing. We are no Google, but we can achieve the same pricing, including the cost of bandwidth (that is 9-
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Etcd 2.0 Release – First Major Stable Release(coreos.com)
2 points by bkruse 12y ago|0 comments
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by bkruse 12y ago
Genomics!
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by bkruse 12y ago
First of all - absolutely love meteor. Couchbase/CouchDB support would be fantastic! More (NoSQL) database support would be fantastic. I worry that it's so MongoDB specific now and the "scale" technologies are MongoDB sp
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by bkruse 12y ago
This has always interested me. I need to do decently big storage for genomic data. It doesn't have to be fast, but it needs to be able to survive one data center blowing up. If I have 3 data centers, need to store 2-3 petabytes and nee
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by bkruse 12y ago
You got it! Political surveys as well as B2B. It makes no sense that it's magically non-dialer since 75% of the calls are now 12 seconds instead of 6 seconds :P People don't understand that flat-rate in this day in age means &quot
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by bkruse 12y ago
Michael, You are exactly right. All the traditional means (like blocking a callerID) is far past it's useful time. The dialer companies are getting smarter as well. It's BIG business for them, so it's worth the money to figur
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by bkruse 12y ago
How does ATT know it's a robocall? Also, the FCC (not FTC) mandates that ATT or any tandem-interconnected company accept ALL CALLS that come into their network via a tandem
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by bkruse 12y ago
I wouldn't say that carrier's have a large incentive. Dialer or robocall traffic is normally frowned upon in the telecom community. We charge per minute, and dialer traffic is the worst offender or taking up large amounts of resou
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by bkruse 12y ago
I work in the telecom space. I was previously over the carrier network at MagicJack and oversaw about 600 million minutes a month of telecom "traffic". I can say that the awareness is a step in the right direction, but these &quot
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by bkruse 12y ago
I think that is the issue - it's a mafia-style "join us or be sued". The relationship was semi-forced
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by bkruse 12y ago
Not an ignorant question at all! All were from trolls/non-practicing entities except for one (which we settled). As soon as we went public, we became a target. It would come in the form of: "Hello, we are XYZ company are you are i
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by bkruse 12y ago
I was part of a "partnership" with IV and MagicJack. http://www.intellectualventures.com/news/press-releases/magi... Even though the PR seems to say that MJ is joining the force - you can clearly see tha
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by bkruse 13y ago
The title's of patents are often misleading. Also, prior art allows this patent to be easily (and cheaply) fought in a lawsuit
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by bkruse 13y ago
Whenever this is actually figured out, wall street will beat the NSA to doing it - I am sure of that!
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How Much is Too Much for Employees(bkruse.com)
1 points by bkruse 13y ago|0 comments
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The Details of a $100 Startup(bkruse.com)
3 points by bkruse 14y ago|0 comments
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Increase Productivity in the Background (quick guide)(bkruse.com)
1 points by bkruse 14y ago|0 comments
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Increase Productivity in the Background(bkruse.com)
1 points by bkruse 14y ago|0 comments
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by bkruse 14y ago
I find this very hard to believe (the last part). With any confiscation, you can argue in court. 1 year without a computer was his fault. I'd slap that agency with a lawsuit.
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by bkruse 15y ago
^^ Well worth the read. Foundation book.

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