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dkhenry
13y ago
No you don't which I count as a feature, but I understand the opposite side. I can export my photos locally, but already my photo collection is larger then the storage space on my phone, tablet or Chromebook so a syncing solution wouldn't h
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dkhenry
13y ago
Yes, I don't have 70GB yet, but my Google Drive account currently has 100GB of allocated space in it. I can get up to 1TB If I want. I can access all of them from the gallery app on my phone ,and a web page on my desktop. I can print them v
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13y ago
Funny, Google+ and my android phone do everything he just mentioned. Why not just switch ?
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13y ago
No your deluded if you think people will shop around for something that has no direct influence on their finances. Your absolutely correct that ideally everyone would do the "right thing" and make the financially prudent decision that benef
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dkhenry
13y ago
So great I now know that hospitals charge different fees which is still pointless since my federally mandated heath insurance will pay either one of those prices at no difference in cost to me. In reality I can get my hip replaced at any in
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13y ago
I convinced my little brother to do a science experiment where we measured the explosive power of black powder by seeing how high it would launch a metal ball out of a tube ( We basically made a vertically fixed homemade cannon ) He brought
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13y ago
The MongoDB/AngularJS combination is really good enough on its own that you can shove most Language+Toolkits in there and have something together real fast I have use the following and its worked great each time MongoDB + Flask + Angu
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13y ago
Hopefully they can use some of that money to safeguard my information since they refuse to delete it from off there servers. Or alternatively they could use that money to issue their federally mandated privacy statements that they refuse to
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13y ago
Interesting so its more of a ease of use then a performance issue ? The numbers you quotes for performance seemed impressive.
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13y ago
Off the top of my head this is a reimplementation of the following * SNMP * CollectD * Carbon * JMX * WMI * CMIP And a whole host of other proprietary transports. So its cool and looks awesome, but what does it give me that the entirety
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14y ago
If I am not mistaken Iceland uses geothermal to a large extent and is very successful in doing so.
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dkhenry
14y ago
Since the title of this and all coverage I have seen of this is ambigous. It appears the student comitted suicide _before_ being ID'ed by Reddit. Not the other way around
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14y ago
I see this argument boiling down to two trains of thought. One is that people are fundamentally good and only external forces make them do bad things. That appears to be the opinion you have expressed. The second is that people are fundamen
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14y ago
There is, however even if you don't they still will keep it. Also as a bonus. The same law which binds them to keep that information mandates they give you privacy notifications, which Dwolla will not do, because they claim they are not a f
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14y ago
As a word of warning to those who would try Dwolla. Not only do they ask for tons of information as many posters have mentioned, but they will not remove your data if you close an account. If you read the Terms of Service Closely they dicta
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14y ago
Maybe we can call it a Tusser Economy
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14y ago
Because of the nature of bit coin its impossible to determine how much of the current activity is actual commerce and how much of it is speculative trading. The truth is the system is set up to encourage deflation and there is nothing to pr
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dkhenry
14y ago
Yes please Ignore the deflationary spiral that its currently undergoing. It amazes me that people are buying into a system which actively discourages people from using it as a way to exchange good and services.
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14y ago
FiOS clocks in at 150+ Mbps and starts at 25/25 Comcast is the prime offender in the you have no other options game.
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14y ago
but what do you do if that multiplier doesn't appear ? From what I have seen even when Verizon started a massive rollout of FiOS it didn't spur other ISP's to offer a competing service, they just relied on the fact that rolling out to _ever
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14y ago
I really want to see the ROI google is planning on having for theses projects. If my calculations[1] are correct they only need something like 200,000 customers to sign up to get a ROI of one year on both roll outs. ~ 100M for both rollouts
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14y ago
You comment about needing the brain the size of a planet is what leads off my doubts. Its like people who say that credit swaps are too complex to understand so don't even pay attention to them. Your basically admitting you have no idea wha
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14y ago
Not knowing the exact firm I would still debate that its purly mathmatical. _Every_ professional I have talked to has pretty much said that no matter how good your math there is still additional information required other then the raw data
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14y ago
I have for two years now been playing around with Algorithmic trading as a hobby and I am amazed by people who think wave riders or simple mathmatical transforms will get them profits in the market. I have found that the best method is stil
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dkhenry
14y ago
Really Awesome. This sounds like an awesome market to get into. I just spent the last three days toying with various Data center visualization solutions and they all suck ( even OpenStack) in terms of usability and accessibility. It would b
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14y ago
I would advise those thinking about using Dwolla to be very careful, aside from requiring more information then both my bank and employer to open an account, there is no way to remove an account once established.
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14y ago
Or you can do what c++ and rust did which is neither reference counting or GC ( yes I know rust has a GC just stay with me for a little). Its a strong and distinct message about what you plan on doing with the memory your getting. When I r
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14y ago
C programming is still alive and well is many parts of our profession. The biggest reason why is that even though c++ _can_ do memory management like C most of the time programs implemented in it don't and you can really start to loose a gr
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14y ago
This is why people think BTRFS isn't any good, because someone waltses up and says yeah well it doens't have XXX feature which only _one_ other filesystem has so its clearly lacking and immature. The truth it it works great its sufficently
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14y ago
So the two things I don't see are a comparison with BTRFS in terms of speed, and stability. I know ZFS is cool, but while we were waiting for it BTRFS got pretty darn good. I know ZFS has some additional features that BRTFS doesn't have, bu
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