davenaff

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by davenaff 4y ago
Guns are now the leading cause of death for people under the age of 24 in the US (and have been for several years). Yes, they exceed motor vehicle deaths. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/05/25&#x
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by davenaff 5y ago
I do think Filecoin is closer to cloud storage than 'free hard drive space'. The hardware requirements for miners (storage providers) are pretty significant and pretty much guarantee that miners are running dedicated hardware. Whi
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by davenaff 5y ago
This. The comparisons to S3 are specious. Filecoin is doing some interesting things such as their proof of storage and collateralized contracts, but there are significant differences between S3 and Filecoin: - Filecoin is 'cold storag
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by davenaff 11y ago
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by davenaff 11y ago
BrandVerity |Seattle, WA| Full-time Onsite Python Developers At BrandVerity we think big and we don't cut corners. The internet is full of bad guys trying to trick unsuspecting users and make a quick buck. Our mission is simple: Clean
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by davenaff 12y ago
And anything in the trash gets automatically deleted in 30 days.
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by davenaff 12y ago
In gmail you can setup a filter that automatically deletes messages. Not quite /dev/null but pretty close.
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by davenaff 14y ago
Interesting analysis for sure, but I think the only solid takeaway here is that (unsurprisingly) Google's private backbone between regions offers a huge performance advantage over the public Internet between EC3 regions. As the analysis sta
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by davenaff 14y ago
If I recall correctly, as an independent company Feedburner charged a modest fee for CNAME feeds. Once Google acquired Feedburner, Google made the feature free. I'm pretty sure the consumer got a nice win here.
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by davenaff 17y ago
A great outcome for a truly hilarious collection of tweets. I've always wondered whether the 'dad' was real, but I ultimately decided it didn't matter - the tweets are simply hilarious.