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by briffle 7y ago
Honestly, I want it to be more like Music. I can choose whichever streaming music company I want and get 99.9% of the same music, because they have standard fees they pay each other, etc. Streaming Video is incredibly fragmented. It's
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by briffle 7y ago
Interesting how the checksumming process sounds very much like zfs's scrubbing process. One of the reasons I trust zfs with my large data volumes is because it proactively looks for problems and fixes them. (and most filesystems reall
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by briffle 7y ago
Note this key part: Google has entered into similar partnerships on a much smaller scale with clients such as the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine. But in that case all the data handed over to the search giant was encrypted, with
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by briffle 7y ago
I know Paul Graham's legendary status, but someone needs to sit with him for 30 min, and get letsencrypt deployed to his webiste.
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by briffle 7y ago
I'm overall pretty happy with GCP, but wish they would better isolate their availability zones.. I have yet to see a single AZ problem, its often a full Region, or global, and that is not great in a cloud world..
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by briffle 7y ago
I love containers, and use them heavily, but am disappointed they don't sync to all your computers like bookmarks and extensions. Every new machine, I get to start over on the 'always open this site in work container'
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by briffle 7y ago
Many landfills [0] now recover the methane, and treat it, or burn it in generators to create power. They can sell the power, and change the methane to carbon dioxide (which is less of a greenhouse gas) In Madison, WI, [1] they create enoug
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by briffle 7y ago
John Day and the area around it are gorgeous. For the price of a nice home in Portland, you can have a home and acreage. Room to garden, enjoy the outdoors, and nice people. I visit there every spring, and think about it. Then I see how
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by briffle 7y ago
Back in 2003, people were saying the same thing about walmart. This article talks about how the demand for 'lower prices' almost drove a pickle company out of business: https://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-ma
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by briffle 7y ago
There have been quite a few lawsuits around related subjects. Facebook got sued because their targeting of ads allowed people to do things like target jobs to only men [0], or only to certain ethnicities [1], etc. Certainly, in some cases,
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by briffle 7y ago
In theory, so could Intel.
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by briffle 7y ago
We use DNS... Its been around about as long as IPv4
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by briffle 7y ago
You should really, really learn about the history of US involvement in the Iranian government before you state that. Like how we helped overthrow the democratically elected Prime Minister in 1953, to ensure we put in place a guy who was fr
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by briffle 7y ago
In the state of WI when they first implemented Voter ID, there were some entire counties where there was a single DMV location, that was only open for a few hours a week. (of course, during normal business hours). This makes it incredibly
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by briffle 7y ago
Have you worked on MSSQL licensing in the age of Virtualization and per-core licensing? It's gotten VERY complex according to some of my friends that still run it. It seems they have changed their pricing strategy: Oracle: What
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by briffle 7y ago
I'm sure it will be priced at just below the cost in legal fees to defend yourself..
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by briffle 7y ago
I think the point of the article was that they used to get hundreds of dollars in CASH. they then had some fees they had to pay to the club, etc.. and they were contractors, so they got a 1099 for the transactions the club had on its recor
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by briffle 7y ago
You mean that company that is all about privacy, and refuses to help the US government access phones of domestic terrorism incidents, but moves all china iCloud storage (and keys) to another company based in China? Apple has tried very hard
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by briffle 7y ago
Modern Diesels have some other tech to help lower the NOx levels (like EGR and SCR systems) but the main problems are that older cars didn't have such systems, plus, for many years, VW lied and faked data, partly to avoid having to imp
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by briffle 7y ago
You have movies where the country of the 'bad guys' was changed in post-production to North Korea to appease China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn_(2012_film)
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by briffle 7y ago
It must be awesome. I live in the 'ritzy' part of a capital city. I have 150/5 from Comcast, or 40Mb dsl not sure the upload) from Centurytel. I am really hopeful for 5g, or even Starlink. I really want more upload bandwidt
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by briffle 7y ago
Market share is measured in some very, very funny ways. Like Office 365 being part of their cloud division, including when people download and install office on their computer. If Google was to switch things around, and have Ad-words, Gma
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by briffle 7y ago
A bit off-topic, but this used to be discussed often on the consumerist.com web site, which Consumer Reports bought, and then archived. I miss that blog.
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by briffle 7y ago
For single PC's its not a big deal. When I worked at a small college, we started powering down all pc's 3 hours after the last class in the day, and then waking them all up with WakeOnLan about 30 min before their first classes.
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by briffle 7y ago
Ford doesn't have as high of a percentage of stock shorters :)
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by briffle 7y ago
The thing that blows my east coast friends' minds, is that is a 6-hour drive to Portland if traffic is nice. All Interstate freeway, but never leaving Oregon, and the biggest town along the way is 20k people.
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by briffle 7y ago
Pretty sure I had a photographer friend with a CFCard with built-in wifi before 2008 when this patent was filed.
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by briffle 7y ago
That is not true. Several middlemen are now going to not be able to see your data. Most people that used public resolvers were sending plain text UDP queries over their ISP. This could be redirected, hijacked, etc. If you had a connection
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by briffle 7y ago
Nextdns.io was featured on here a few weeks ago. They offer DNS over HTTPS (and they also list DNS over TLS)
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by briffle 7y ago
I don't know much about chef (have used ansible and salt-stack). In a previous story, it talked about how a developer removed his code from a repository of Ruby Gems that chef uses, and broke many systems that had that as a dependency

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