cobookman

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by cobookman 5y ago
Well, Vimeo does allow downloading the original video. When I think YouTube I think of a Video Social Media network. Similar to how I don't expect to download the original picture on Instagram, Snap, or Facebook. Where-as Vimeo is clos
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by cobookman 5y ago
Welcome to (a large number of) cryptocurrencies in a nutshell.
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by cobookman 5y ago
I'm surprised Democrats haven't made taking a loan against an asset a taxible capital-gains event.
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by cobookman 5y ago
US Government gets paid back also through tax revenues on the salaries of the school, salaries of studends, expenditures of the schools to US based companies, etc. It might still be favorable for the US Tax Payer even if these loans end up
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by cobookman 5y ago
population growth is starting to recede. Most 1st world countries are growing through immigration, with a birth rate that is too low to support our population. We are trending towards having a smaller population in 100 years. EU Birth rate
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by cobookman 5y ago
Store the content on the bitcoin blockchain. Expensive but it'll be available for 500+ years
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by cobookman 5y ago
Sometimes I wonder if this is how Michael Burry and others felt before the housing crash. Right before the housing crash, most the in-industry folks were fully aware it was unsustainable, but they felt it would continue long term. Same goes
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by cobookman 5y ago
100% the m1 reminds me of the leap from a BlackBerry to my first iPhone. With my m1 laptop, I never have to worry about bringing my charger. My intel MBP always had slowdowns, with my M1 I've never noticed a slowdown. The m1's com
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by cobookman 5y ago
durability != uptime. The 11 9s of durability encompass the likelihood they'd loose your data.
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by cobookman 5y ago
Up until ARG_MAX is reached, or you run out of RAM that is... https://serverfault.com/a/844666
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by cobookman 5y ago
It's shameful the EPA still hasn't banned leaded aviation fuel.
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by cobookman 5y ago
I used to think i needed a headphone jack. Then I got bluetooth headsets and I honestly wouldn't go back.
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by cobookman 5y ago
Funny too as both Alphabet & Facebook do CSAM Detection. Believe iOS only uploads the neural-hash if & before the photos are uploaded to iCloud. https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/1033093.
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by cobookman 5y ago
Waymo has raised 5.5B so far. How much does it cost to add a market and how long will it take to recoup those costs? How much are Waymo vehicle operational costs vs rider revenue? How long do Waymo vehicles last? Even with this announcement
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by cobookman 5y ago
As a cloud photo hosting provider (iCloud) they might legally be required to (IANAL). Google [1], Dropbox [2], Microsoft [3], and many many other Photo Cloud storage providers have implemented similar child porn detection. [1] https:/
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by cobookman 5y ago
As did Emory: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emory-apologizes-for-past-discr...
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by cobookman 5y ago
I find that the model S doesn't have enough 'premium' to be justified over a model 3. That is unless you're looking at the model S plaid, but I can't envision huge demand for a car starting at 129k.
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by cobookman 5y ago
US uses 118B gallons of water/day in agricultural usage. Desal costs about 2k/acre-foot (325,851 gallons). That's ~724MM/day in water costs or 264B/year for water. US GDP is 21 Trillion. As cost of water increases,
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by cobookman 5y ago
Lack of fresh water in the US is a solvable issue. We have oceans all around us and the US has the know-how to ship fresh, desalinated water from the coast to middle america.
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by cobookman 5y ago
Especially since the used battery pack would likely fetch 11k+ on ebay.
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by cobookman 5y ago
The investors ONLY saw a 28.5% loss (1B/1.4B). In the scheme of things it could have been way worse if the whistleblower didn't speak up. If they gave say 1% of the assets to the whistleblower (10 Million), it wouldn't have r
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by cobookman 5y ago
For employees you pay the same in taxes. RSUs are treated as income just in Stock based compensation vs USD. RSU vest is the same as taking a USD based salary and purchasing the shares. The Employees do get the benefit that between the gran
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by cobookman 5y ago
pod A uses 2 cores, pod B uses 1 core. Machine has 4 cores and all remaining unscheduled pods require 2 cores. How do you attribute the partial usage of the node? Is it 2 cores billed to pod A, 1 core billed to pod B, and 1 core billed to s
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by cobookman 5y ago
it is. "Prior to FedRAMP, the Security Control Assessor (SCA) had to visit the data center to check the “gates, guards and guns” every single time, even if that specific assessor had previously visited that data center. That is no long
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by cobookman 5y ago
> how would Signal inter-communicate with e2ee intact with say, Facebook Messenger? Couldn't you use Public Key Cryptography? Kind of like what we've done for encryption between the Web Browser and Service Provider using PKI+TL
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by cobookman 5y ago
Robinhood was in in Menlo Park / Palo Alto. Here's a list of startups in Palo Alto: https://angel.co/location/palo-alto Here's a list of startups in Menlo Park: https://angel.co/location&
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by cobookman 5y ago
Super excited for what eBPF brings to the table, and how Pixie makes it accessible. It is empowering being able to have a centralized DevOps/SRE/Security team gain insights across all their applications running on Containers witho
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by cobookman 5y ago
and taxes. Buy lunch yourself, its on after-tax wages. Employer buys you lunch, it is a tax write off for the employer. Income tax at the marginal tax rate can reach nearly 40% for some of these workers. So that $10 lunch would require a pa
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by cobookman 5y ago
Youtube and Facebook have a much different encoding problem then say HBO/Netflix/Hulu...etc YT & FB have a few popular videos, and a ginormous long-tail. That long-tail needs to be encoded, and cheaply as it might not get many
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by cobookman 5y ago
I'd expect in aggregate at the country level, its fairly accurate. E.g. its unlikely deaths increased 100%+ across all of india due to existing death-causes.

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