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by cknight 10y ago
For standard plans, both Vultr and Linode have 1 CPU core at $10, both have 2 CPU cores at $20, and so on. Up to $80 a month, both companies have the same CPU count, but Linode has double the RAM. Vultr's bandwidth starts out a bit bet
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by cknight 10y ago
I was a fan of Vultr until, after Linode changed their $10 plan to have 2GB RAM, Vultr didn't match it. Beyond $5 it's no longer all that competitive. I guess the same couple be said of DO but I've never actually used them.
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by cknight 10y ago
As jsnathan mentioned below, Scaleway's offerings are all multi-core. Sysbench defaults to using only one thread - you need to tell it to use more. (In your case, use --num-threads 4)
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by cknight 10y ago
I ended up on Scaleway after OVH led me on with this nonsense as well. For me however, it was when I first signed up. After getting the documents in order (which actually wasn't easy, as it was for my startup and we didn't have mu
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by cknight 10y ago
Online.net's data centres are all located in the Paris region.
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by cknight 10y ago
Not really. If you see both figures on the same page without any units named, you can generally assume from the context that 0-60 and 0-100 bare both in miles. 0-100 mph is still a pretty common performance indicator in its own right, it&#x
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Show HN: Suitocracy – Rating tech companies' ethics(suitocracy.com)
2 points by cknight 10y ago|0 comments
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by cknight 10y ago
It is interesting to hear the SR-71 was so efficient once it got going. Certainly when it was stationary it was possibly the least fuel efficient aircraft ever - its body was designed to leak fuel when on the tarmac. The hot airframe would,
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by cknight 10y ago
I think this lesson has been learned. After making losses for a while, British Airways did the research and found that people who were willing to pay for the Concorde's pricier tickets were actually willing to pay substantially more. A
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by cknight 10y ago
No solution is going to be perfect. Going pure solar and wind in the US would require several hundred thousand square kilometers of photovoltaic panels. More for the windmills if you can't build them all out at sea. Aside from the cost
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by cknight 10y ago
When working as intended, nuclear is low on emissions and the main concern is the requirement for waste disposal. The waste can be deposited far from human habitation or particularly sensitive ecological areas. Big problems that kill or inj
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by cknight 10y ago
Someone made something like that: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/psychol... I'll note they seem to have pivoted a lot since then, which isn't a surprise. When I first read about it
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by cknight 10y ago
I couldn't find a place online where I could easily get an overview of how a corporation was conducting itself ethically. Instead I would find information and impressions from a mix of news websites, Reddit, HN, blogs, and try to piece
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Show HN: Suitocracy – A website for rating and ranking corporate conduct(suitocracy.com)
11 points by cknight 10y ago|4 comments
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by cknight 10y ago
We're talking 25% off a Saver fare, which can often be well under half the price of a Standard fare. Because Locomore has only one train for one line, virtually all Locomore customers are going to be long distance DB customers as well,
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by cknight 10y ago
Exactly. "A €22 ($23.50) one-way ticket is less than a quarter of DB’s €115.90 ($123) standard fare." is a bit misleading, given that DB's Standard fare is far from their cheapest. I have a BahnCard 25 (so a 25% discount), an
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by cknight 10y ago
Cheers! Gonna read this. My SO (scientist) and I were just recently discussing the idea of funders as an alternative, but not to any level as detailed as this proposal.
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by cknight 10y ago
This is really cool. I'm no scientist, but it was Uni Göttingen where I was properly introduced to the world of academia, doing programming for a research group there. This was just 2-3 years ago, and Elsevier was a regular discussion