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by dialtone 14y ago
So, instead of preserving the neutrality of the essential facility, which allows anyone to prosper and reduces unfairness (as demonstrated by laws and past rulings), we should allow somebody to harm smaller competitors who may or may not ha
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by dialtone 14y ago
This argument doesn't make complete sense. Not everyone can lay down cables or use phone lines or in general bring bandwidth to the house or peering with certain destinations. Bandwidth (intended as both the capability to transmit data and
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by dialtone 14y ago
Your sentence is strangely ironic... You want a completely free market without regulations and yet you are complaining that a company doesn't give out standard billing rates. The idea of the non-regulated free market is that you'd choose wi
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by dialtone 14y ago
Except when you have to factor in all the plane flights to replace broken HDD. And the risk of not making it in time for when it breaks.
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by dialtone 14y ago
Only 15% of them are using advertising tools? Are YC startups averse to this type of marketing?
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by dialtone 15y ago
What you say is mostly correct but I want to fix a few of your statements and assumptions. Regarding the skepticism on the end results of retargeting I can say that all the transparent retargeting companies offer you A/B testing of your ret
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by dialtone 15y ago
It's the other way around. The original intent of patents is to disclose the making of a device to the public domain in exchange for an exclusive royalty and eventually, after a certain amount of time, for the device to become public domain
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by dialtone 15y ago
What this service does is analyze which URLs are fetched from the sites you visit and compare them with a list of known tracker URLs. It doesn't need to care for flash cookies or such, it's there to inform you of who's on a page potentially
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by dialtone 15y ago
There's a reason why those are called 'panic doors'. When a mob is trying to escape a place you're gonna have a hard time trying swing the door inside rather than outside and usually people get trampled while trying to open it.
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by dialtone 15y ago
This is great. I organized EuroPython 2011 and I wish I had something like this to help the attendees to find each other more efficiently.
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by dialtone 15y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. I work at AdRoll ( http://www.adroll.com ), a rapidly growing, well-funded startup based in downtown San Francisco. We are adding to a small team of smart, driven and friendly people who are passionate about ta
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by dialtone 15y ago
Instead of having monkeys typing random characters and then collating together, it would have been more interesting to have monkeys typing the entire work at once and then selecting the work from the monkey with the closest output to 'breed
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by dialtone 15y ago
The "intelligent person" would be the survival of the monkey.
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by dialtone 15y ago
I fail to see how this is related to "forego the benefits of cloud computing"... Does your startup have the resources to manage multiple datacenters by itself (such as one in US and one in EU)? Isn't this a clear benefit of cloud computing
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by dialtone 15y ago
CloudFormation is also affected now.
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by dialtone 15y ago
However I think most of the criticism doesn't come from trying to picture Truman as a killer or as someone who has vaporized a city for lust of violence. Criticism comes from the fact that today we know what nuclear warheads are capable of
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by dialtone 15y ago
It's not a factual blame issue. Are then only those that dropped the bomb responsible? It's a mentality problem, people feel guilty because they don't think anything changed in their society and feel powerless and afraid that something like
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by dialtone 15y ago
Actually besides airport taxiing and unexpected events there's no reason to have humans in the cockpit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
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by dialtone 15y ago
Delayed action though leads to speculation and uncertainty as was shown in the past few weeks. Nothing changed in the Italian economic policy since friday last week, but monday and tuesday brought deep losses and the Italian BTP bonds reach
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by dialtone 15y ago
Obtained like that it's not that interesting... A more interesting number would have been 'looking for love' but weighted on the size of the gender group. That results in: 2.3% of Men looking for love and 0.37% of Women. These are very litt
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by dialtone 15y ago
More than the size of the increase since 2003 would be interesting to know what are the components of this increase.
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by dialtone 15y ago
Python has a proper GC to remove cycles in reference counting, it's just not the "main" one. http://docs.python.org/library/gc.html Since the collector supplements the reference counting already used in Python, you can disable the col
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by dialtone 15y ago
What EuroPython 2011 and PyCon Italy Four did to avoid multiple meetings for rating talks is to setup a community voting system. http://ep2011.europython.eu/blog/2011/04/11/talk-voting All the early bird tickets are allowed to vote on the
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by dialtone 15y ago
It's incredible how accurately this applies to EuroPython 2011 (I'm part of the organization this year). Beyond normal reasonable help to people who can't make it, this year we decided to ask for the speaker, who usually pay discounted pric
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by dialtone 15y ago
For your application though a failure is a failure in any scenario. EBS went down in one zone and was slow in a couple others for a few hours, it's a bad downtime but some services survived the problem relatively unscathed. This suggests th
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by dialtone 15y ago
The importance of the short release cycle has decreased a lot for us since we moved to EC2. It's really simple to re-deploy the entire infrastructure on newer and supported images. Using puppet and cloudformation or whatever it is that you
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by dialtone 15y ago
This is even more serious than the one in 10.04. While in 10.04 the bug would slow down the machine for a while in 10.10 with 2.6.35 kernel will simply hang the machine and requires a reboot (which can only be achieved by rebooting from the
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by dialtone 15y ago
First you need to resolve the other bottlenecks or more megapixels will only make the inadequacy of the lenses more obvious. The lesson to learn here is that the camera needs to grow more organically, it's useless to grow megapixels so much
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EuroPython 2011 Early Bird ends in 2 days(ep2011.europython.eu)
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by dialtone 15y ago
How exactly do all these cost comparisons factor in the ability to quickly deploy hardware in 4 different regions in the world without having people at location to swap broken hardware or reboot an instance that is not available for whateve

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