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by drawkbox 8y ago
Thanks, strange it is in the ToS. For paid accounts: - Network bandwidth: 1TB/month - Soft - Storage: 1TB - Soft - API requests: 500 requests/minute, 3 deploys/minute* - Hard For free accounts: - Network Bandwidth: 100GB&#x2F
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Not seeing any bandwidth, storage or other costs so I wonder what their soft/hard limits are for those things. I see their forms have really low limits for the price 1000 submissions and 1GB file upload limits, 2m functions on the $45
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by drawkbox 8y ago
A technology/security/defense product that the DoD is, should be more product focused rather than just metrics, metrics are important, but product, usability, security is more important. The wrong metrics can lead you astray[1]. T
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> Test reports we reviewed make it clear that simply having cybersecurity controls does not mean a system is secure. How the controls are implemented can significantly affect cybersecurity. For example, one test report we reviewed indic
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> Amazon has gov contracts it wants to protect so Im not surprised they would deny this at the govs request, and Apple's #1 product is privacy so having something like this show up on their servers would undermine that product stra
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Isn't it better to get your money and not be hoping for a bonus or stock award? Most people would take the guaranteed pay raise over the non-guaranteed bonus or profit sharing/stock awards. Let people decide what to do with their
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> The problem with doing something right the first time is nobody appreciates how hard it was. Sometimes if you do put in quality and do it right in development it costs you in time and then by perception. When you hit the ship date ov
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Unless they got you on that non-compete for 2-3+ years on that 6 month contract, at that point you are their value and everything you brought was theirs, nevermind they might not have had the value if you hadn't brought/created it
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by drawkbox 8y ago
That isn't an Amazon specific thing though, it is an American workplace thing that is more like a dictatorship/feudal empire than anything with rights. In the US, we live in 'freedom' but then go work on a feudal/sh
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Very smart. Amazon and Bezos is one of, if not the, best at reinvesting profits back into the company, mostly for research and development or new products. Increasing employees pay can also boost the machine and the product which many compa
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> TIOBE measures the sheer quantity of search engine hits. PYPL measures how often language tutorials are Googled. Popularity by who searches for language help like Java or C/C++ is mostly because those are more difficult language
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> The organized crime cartels have many streams of revenue. There's nothing there to legalize in the case of activities like natural resource theft. True, however with less criminal opportunities due to more legal/decriminali
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Black markets have decreased supply, increased demand due to decreased supply (through legal limitations and criminal interactions) all this leads to more margin and profits. To fight criminality and massive gains in black markets, the only
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by drawkbox 8y ago
We need to run elections through something like the finance system, digital, data always present and researchable, always able to be looked up that your vote was counted and correct, and fraud day one can be reversed as well as anomalies. F
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Agreed on messing with small players and real estate getting favorable treatment, but did you miss the part where they were in million+ properties with shell corporations? > Treasury this week expanded and extended a program targeting l
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by drawkbox 8y ago
When they looked into high-end real-estate in 2016, up to 30% of all deals were suspicious of being money laundering. [1] They looked just primarily at New York, Miami, Los Angeles and other big markets. > The rules cover properties pur
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Musk can easily bring in process people and metric focused people to help. Removing the product/engineering focused CEO that is part of the product innovation and success is a very bad idea. You do need a focused innovative leader to
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> most major european car makers survived the great recession just fine Most of the European (Mercedes/BMW) engineering and product people have power. Even Honda for a long time engineers/product people drove most of the decisi
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Tesla is a product company, they do little, if any, marketing. Find me a Tesla owner that doesn't love their car. Tesla is an engineering led product company first, both for the good of the environment and for making products that peop
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Yeah the article has it correct. In the video on the article he opens with talking about the paper and said it came out in 2010. Maybe he first saw it then. Part of Bitcoin/crypto success was due to the sketchiness of the Great Recess
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Apple's first Apple I sold for $666.66 [1]. Teslas are Model S, Model 3, Model X, (S3X). Model E was taken so they had to go with Model 3. Possibly a Model Y coming (S3XY). People can have fun at work still, though shorts and MBA C-lev
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Elon Musk survived the Great Recession when other car companies needed bailouts, that is pretty good line item. Ford probably would have needed one as well if Ford's didn't still run it. Elon is also an engineer first, that is ne
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by drawkbox 8y ago
If Jobs hadn't of gone back to Apple in '97 after being fired in '85, they wouldn't be here today. Jobs was their last hope after Sculley made them mediocre. Apple was down to relying on a 150m investment from Microsoft
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Obviously car companies are hard to run. Though internet companies aren't the best at cash flow management either, it is more about getting the market / customers then the profit. I think innovation is excusable for revenue/p
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by drawkbox 8y ago
If Elon Musk is removed as CEO at Tesla, Tesla is over. I find it curious that an innovative American company pushing to help our carbon problem by going electric is so lambasted, shorted, constantly under attack. It cannot be argued that T
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Armstrong said the Bitcoin paper came out in 2010, it actually came out in November 2008 and the first implementation of it was in January 2009 [1][2]. Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies correlated with the Great Recession so that added fuel to t
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Another confirmation that engineers and product developers are no longer in control at Google. Engineering and product first is how Google won the game initially, very easy to forget that when the money rolls in massively and the power stru
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Interesting technique for movement Gravity on the surface of Ryugu is very weak, so a rover propelled by normal wheels or crawlers would float upwards as soon as it started to move. Therefore this hopping mechanism was adopted for moving a
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Things come and go but when independent media goes it is especially pensive, heavyhearted and filled with melancholy. Village Voice is gone but hopefully the New Times can hang on for a while. Real independent people and voices need a che
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Video games built on consoles have this benefit in that they are locked to a hardware iteration, granted there may be some server communication now but historically arcades and consoles capture the hardware snapshot as well. I prefer PC gam

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