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by briffle 6y ago
>But what isn't ambiguous is that GameStop stock wasn't worth nearly 400 dollars, and whatever was going on was fishy. Having many people buy a stock after being encouraged also sounds like how the system has worked for decades
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by briffle 6y ago
there has been a 3GW DC interconnect between Portland, OR and LA for 5 decades or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie
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by briffle 6y ago
There is a 3.6GW DC line that goes from about an hour East of Portland, Oregon, down to LA. Its 2 wires. Texas doesn't have any interconnections with the west. But even if they did, 3GW would not be nearly enough to solve their prob
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by briffle 6y ago
this whole thing is kind of a fun accounting game. If Google used google cloud for its own internal services (adsense, gmail, etc), and billed the different teams, everyone would be talking about the newest cloud leader.
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by briffle 6y ago
at a previous company, HR (or a PR firm they hired) would stuff the ratings with tons of super positive reviews for the company.
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by briffle 6y ago
Yep, or the brand new cosmic crisp, but the price is rediculou s on those right now.
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by briffle 6y ago
Anecdotally, I built 4 computer labs at a college with Dell optiplex desktops, and a year later, 30 of the 104 had their motherboards replaced due to blown caps. And at the time, the nearest certified tech was 70 miles away, over a mountai
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by briffle 6y ago
We had a post with short video of a 'suspicious white car, casing the neighborhood' several days in a row at 4am. A dozen posts about how things are going to hell, etc, followed by a post: Hi mark, it's my car. I've de
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by briffle 6y ago
To a person dealing with the IRS over millions, a whole team of lawyers at $1k/hour each is a drop in the bucket. to a person who cheated uncle sam of $2k, its cheaper to settle (even with penalties) than to hire a single lawyer to re
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by briffle 6y ago
I agree, I see this in many forms: (From IT projects, to dealing with huge homeless problems, to drug crime) We shouldn't do this, because this doesn't 'solve' the problem in 100% of cases. That is how nothing ever gets
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by briffle 6y ago
My signal is set to backup my message db daily. it works, but its a hell of a key to type if I lose my current phone, and need to restore. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
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by briffle 6y ago
My dog just had major knee surgery (TPLO). Its cost will be total of about $5k when we have some x-rays in a few weeks. I don't have pet insurance, however, most companies don't cover it. There are tons of loopholes, like human
613.
by briffle 6y ago
Ikea is officially a non-profit, and pays a tax rate of 3.5% because of it https://www.fastcompany.com/3035734/ikea-is-a-nonprofit-and-...
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by briffle 6y ago
I had a friend that worked at the south pole for a year. They had a few hours a day they could access their main communications satellite. Something like this could be a game change for remote research stations..
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by briffle 6y ago
I am interested, but not sure of system requirements. What kind of resources does it use on your cheap VPS?
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by briffle 6y ago
They actually did attack Oregon with a similar setup (but an I-25 submarine) . They dropped some incendiary bombs on the forests near Bandon, OR hoping to cause massive fires, damage war critical timber production, etc. I guess they didn&#x
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by briffle 6y ago
I'm already looking. One of the problems with living 'in the woods' is poor internet connectivity. My job is 100% work from home, so it doesn't matter if I am in SF, or some small town in Colorado.
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by briffle 6y ago
I agree with you in principal, but I have had no problem connecting to Slack today (I have a free one I use with friends, not a business account) so to say they are down would also be inaccurate.
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by briffle 6y ago
yes! I much prefer my Roku, and its super simple remote. I also appreciate how I can just block one domain in my home DNS for roku, and stop telemetry. Also, My Roku is regularly updated, unlike most smart TV's, and I have heard horr
620.
by briffle 6y ago
Any time I put a less than 5 star review, i get contacted by the seller, who many times offer to send me a free replacement, a newer model, or another product I may be interested in, if I change my review. I have refused, but I imagine man
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by briffle 6y ago
There is a dc line from east of Portland to near LA, the pacific inter-tie. It was built as 2 wires in the 70s, carrying 1.4GW. Since then, over many changes, it was upgraded to 3.1GW. that involved equipment changes at both endpoints, b
622.
by briffle 6y ago
Yes, but as far as I have seen, not auditing/compliance frameworks have updated their recommendations yet. Maybe its not the frameworks, but the individual auditors and their templates, but I have seen it a 'requirement' for
623.
by briffle 6y ago
Fedex stopped being a carrier for Amazon (I think earlier this year).
624.
by briffle 6y ago
Its time for a new internet rule. If Oracle or IBM buys your vendor, you should be migrating.
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by briffle 6y ago
So does the country, if they start taxing it. They they will be heavily interested in officials demanding bribes, when they are tracking the value chain to make sure the state gets it cut
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by briffle 6y ago
That must be why nobody buys Oralce, or SAP, or mainframes.
627.
by briffle 6y ago
I came from Oracle, not SQL Server, but the largest benefit to me, is at a previous job, I ran Oracle Standard (that cost About $25k for our 2 core servers) and one of the critical limitations is you can't build an index without lockin
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by briffle 6y ago
There is also (and especially if your a small shop) the thing where if your self hosted stuff goes down, you have a crappy time fixing it, over weekend, holiday, etc, until its done. If AWS goes down, thousands of other people are working o
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by briffle 6y ago
A previous town I lived near took a few years to get started with Municipal fiber. First they wired up city offices/departments, schools, etc, in a traditional fiber network. They had a few years experiance with it. Then added a few
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by briffle 6y ago
I work from home (and have for a few years) but have one kid doing google meet based classes daily (probably 3-4 hours per day), video chats with friends she misses, and occasional netflix for all 4 of us. I used 700GB with XFinity last mo

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