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by briffle 8y ago
If google starts "dogfooding" and moves all of their compute/storage, etc to being purchased from their cloud division, then they would be the worlds largest cloud vendor the next quarter.. That would be pretty interesting to
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by briffle 8y ago
Which google cloud projects have shut down this past year? Or Ever, for that matter?
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by briffle 8y ago
I'm having a hard time finding something in Google cloud that is NOT covered by their BAA: https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/hipaa/#covered-...
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by briffle 8y ago
Funny how everyone here complains about Google maps changing their licensing, but nobody brings up MS changing changing from per socket to per core licensing a few years ago. That burned several medium businesses I know.
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by briffle 8y ago
People said the same thing about the Foxcon deal in WI. And they have been drastically scaling back the scope of the plant, the skill and wages of workers required, and the number of them. Yet the state agreed to fund infrastructure impro
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by briffle 8y ago
Order a locomotive, or 5MW Wind Generator with free 2 day shipping with your prime membership..
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by briffle 8y ago
I wish I understood why the state runs a primary election. That seems like it should be the responsibility of the party to decide who their nominee is. Should be their own rules, and cost
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by briffle 8y ago
I'm not really sure how my copy of Excel and Word running on my work laptop (and subscribed to monthly) should qualify as "cloud revenue".. We do host our email on their cloud servers, but according to their own sales team, t
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by briffle 8y ago
Honestly, I kind of hope Dish and Sling hold out. I don't have cable any more, but many of my family members do, and constantly complain about rates going up all the time. If enough cable companies toe the line with HBO, and ESPN, it
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by briffle 8y ago
If there is one thing Y2K taught us, its to ignore any worry about the 2038 problem until 2036, then make a HUGE deal out of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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by briffle 8y ago
Or even better than just increasing salaries.. Let people work remote. Then people who want to live in the big city can (without the commute, which is a plus!) and people that want to live in the small town can, plus everyone in between.
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by briffle 8y ago
| It will start at $1,199, which is a slight jump from the $999 starting price of the older MacBook Air. apparently, a 20% increase is a 'slight jump'
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by briffle 8y ago
amazon's 'freetime' for their kindle is close. No games in there have any additional cost or ads. the problem is, finding decent games/books/etc, targeted to your kids age. The search/navigation is pretty hit
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by briffle 8y ago
I used to live in the country, and had to re-assess my assumptions when we had a several day power outage due to a blizzard. We had propane at the old farmhouse, but with no power to run the furnace/blower, I could only run the range (
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by briffle 8y ago
I have family that are 'preppers' but they aren't so much anti-government wacko's as they are government employees in the PNW that have seen the reports of what happens if 'the big one' comes (the Cascadia subd
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by briffle 8y ago
If steam spends some time working with the larger "anti-cheat" vendors, I think they could really bump up the list. Many of the 'borked' games use anti-cheat, like battle-eye.
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by briffle 8y ago
More common, every other year or so, they will get a 'raise' that management loves to promote, that doesn't cover the cost of living adjustments the last 2 years.
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by briffle 8y ago
I would say its definitely better for infrastructure building for anyone who does not use AWS..
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by briffle 8y ago
I came to Postgresql from Oracle. the ability to hit the up arrow in the CLI was groundbreaking :)
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by briffle 8y ago
That entire article seems to avoid saying how much INCOME each of those groups are. Yes, the top 3% pay 37.5% of income taxes. But is their total income less than or greater than 37.5% of the total? Without the numbers, its kind of meanin
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by briffle 8y ago
For decades, local counties in Oregon were allowed to put a small tax/fee on each load of timber hauled out of the national forests. This was because while it was federal forests, the county still had to maintain roads, build hospital
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by briffle 8y ago
Honestly, I would rather see it as a paid add-on to something like a synology or qnap..
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by briffle 8y ago
Right, like apple phones, the other major provider. Oh, wait...
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by briffle 8y ago
I wonder where I can purchase those.. I have a personal Plex Server that could use a few 4TB used drives that are cheap.
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by briffle 8y ago
I once got put under a similar contract, while I was employed. (part of a merger). The alternative was to be out of a job with a pregnant wife. I later talked to a labor lawyer, who told me it was essentially unenforceable, and he was &gt
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by briffle 8y ago
This is pretty much the whole point of SELinux (and probably AppArmour)
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by briffle 8y ago
And many docker users run privileged containers, because then they don't need to troubleshoot permissions.. It doesn't meant the underlying system is flawed, because people take the lazy way around it. I'm thinking of all the
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by briffle 8y ago
Yes, his other major gripe is that the security updates for non-official flatpaks take a while to get security releases out. I have the same problem when I run applications that have an official RPM repo, and a volunteer packages the deb a
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by briffle 8y ago
When wood burns (at least CLT Beams) it has a much longer time until failure than steel. When steel gets hot, it quickly loses its structural strength, and can collapse.
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by briffle 8y ago
I got a pair of Howard Leight Earmuffs to use at the range. They work amazing, and can be adjusted to amplify talking if you want. They have a small cord for plugging into your phone. https://www.amazon.com/Howard-Leight-A

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