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by easp 17y ago
Among nasty byproducts of high density meat production: Multi drug resistant bacteria. New strains of the flu. I love meat. I'm not giving it up, but I moderate my consumption due, in part, to stuff like this.
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by easp 17y ago
I completely disagree that Apple needs to compete on features. They need to compete on the overall experience. Also, I'd avoid putting too much stock into: 2009=1991, iPhone=Mac and Android=Wintel. Yeah, there are some similarities, but t
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by easp 17y ago
Yeah, you are wrong. In the windows 3.1 era, macs were at least as stable and much easier to use and maintain than the Microsoft alternatives. It wasn't really until Windows 95 came out that the stability of macs started to fall behind. W
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by easp 17y ago
Or they might be permitted some land of their own where they can grow their own food, or be given access to commons to where they and their animals can forrage. You have a totally skewed way of thinking if you think we need free markets in
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by easp 17y ago
There are a motif reasons for the better taste. Often organic produce doesn't get shipped as far, which means growers can pick varieties bread for something other than shelf-life and durability. Also, organic farmers manage the soil differ
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by easp 17y ago
To be fair, I've met more than one pro-organic person who thinks organic foods are more nutritious. These are often the same people who worry about vague things like "toxins" from eating meat.
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by easp 17y ago
A PCB laced hamburger and one with no such contamination are going to have the same nutritional content. Really though, part of the point of organic food is that it dumps less crap in the environment. Even if the direct impact on human heal
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by easp 17y ago
Yeah, let's just write off another generation.
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by easp 17y ago
And don't forget how its spurred other perversions, like the corn ethanol industy.
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by easp 17y ago
And don't forget how its spurred other perversions, like the corn ethanol industy.
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by easp 17y ago
Various members of the mustard family are used for phytorememdiation. People eat many members of the mustard family. You realize, right, that you are reasoning from a very shaky foundation and using that reasoning to make advice about heal
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by easp 17y ago
Lots of 'probablys.' You should probably do more reading and less writing. There are elevated lead levels around "civilization" due to human activity. (Lead paint, tetra-ethyl lead in gasoline, pesticides, etc). Food crops vary in the de
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by easp 17y ago
That sheds some light on things. One thing that doesn't make sense to me is that your disk writes are completely flat now, no real variation through the day.
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by easp 17y ago
Belatedly, you probably want to check out DRBD. It can do sync and async mirroring of Linux block devices over a network. http://www.drbd.org/ With a cluster-aware filesystem like GFS, both copies can be r/w (though that might be a littl
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by easp 17y ago
Its like the f'ing tobacco industry did for four or five decades. Once they realized the science is against them, they start spraying FUD out every orifice, delaying action for as long as possible.
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by easp 18y ago
Is the 4 core limit really an issue? Really big deployments, where they are most sensitive to performance per watt, are finding it more cost effective to go with fewer cores per server because it gives a more optimal balance between proces
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by easp 18y ago
Didn't intel have a license to Produce ARM CPUs? Didn't they end up producing StrongARM after they acquired it from DEC (or was it already Compaq).
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by easp 18y ago
Apple has more than a little experience with moving between CPU architectures, and with distributing multi-architecture binaries. Plus, they control the application distribution channel. I doubt they'd have too much trouble switching. We
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by easp 18y ago
What's your beef with the "Luddites?" Byron was supporting the original Luddites, not the knee-jerk technophobes the term has come to represent. I don't condone their use of violence, but I don't find it any more morally appalling than a so
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by easp 18y ago
This sounds like typical corporate group-think to me. There are lots of reasons for underperformance. Many of the "bad" people might be great in another group, another company, or doing their own startup.
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by easp 18y ago
Yes, but there are lots of reasons for underperformance.
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by easp 18y ago
I'm not just being flip by saying this: You went to the wrong school.
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by easp 18y ago
Their commercial pricing seems pretty competitive with other "cloud computing" offerings. What quota issues are you talking about?
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by easp 18y ago
I did some digging into their docs. It looks like it is peristent as long as the virtual disk for the virtual machine(s) are persistent.
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by easp 18y ago
You can also take advantage of predictable declines in costs by setting pricing below your initial costs, but making sure that its more than made up for over the life of the subscription as your costs decline faster than your pricing drops.
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by easp 18y ago
I don't buy the argument that this somehow puts a big provisioning planning burden back on users. Most small users of EC2 know that they are going to need one or two instances on all the time. Amazon just lowered their base costs, making i
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by easp 18y ago
Even under the less restrictive licenses like BSD/Apache/MIT, there is a strong incentive to contribute private changes back to the project. If you don't, then the public version and your private version start to diverge and it takes more
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by easp 18y ago
And how would your s3 bandwidth costs compare to running your clustered servers? Is the DIY storage triply redundant? I'm not saying you made the wrong decision, or the right one, but is the comparison apples-to-apples?
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by easp 18y ago
You need to bound the problem before you can figure out whether S3 makes sense. * How many new files do you expect to have uploaded every month? * How many files do you expect to be deleted every month? * What's the average file size? *
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by easp 18y ago
You need to bound the problem before you can figure out whether S3 makes sense. * How many new files do you expect to have uploaded every month? * How many files do you expect to be deleted every month? * What's the average file size? *

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