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by edaemon 9y ago
Facebook isn't really threatened by either of those companies. They own Instagram. They also own WhatsApp, which is overtaking Snapchat in users[1]. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/3/15537000/wha
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by edaemon 9y ago
It's worth noting that, no matter where you go, the ICP licensing process is political. We've had trouble with ours and essentially nobody has answers. The requirements can change without warning and no companies inside or outside
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by edaemon 9y ago
At my work we use them to host a static site and to serve streaming video content in China. We've also used the elastic compute service before. Their platform is surprisingly comprehensive and similar to AWS/Azure but is not perfe
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by edaemon 9y ago
At my work we tested various services for providing content to our users in China and we found that the most important factor was whether or not the content was hosted inside mainland China. If it has to traverse the Great Firewall it will
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by edaemon 9y ago
Alibaba Cloud doesn't have full support for English-speaking customers either. The billing interface is only in Chinese, and some of the core features are only available on their Chinese site (there are two separate logins with a nearl
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by edaemon 9y ago
Interesting to see the parallel drawn with the mattress industry and its practice of confusing models and brands. Over the last few years there have been a few companies (Luxi, Tuft & Needle, Casper, etc.) that have been somewhat disrup
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by edaemon 9y ago
Can't you use the /raw/ URL for that? E.g. https://pastebin.com/raw/AC3FGHBX
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by edaemon 9y ago
If your mom's house was also in Portland, I'm not that surprised by the outcome for the same reason that a house closing at 25% over doesn't seem that extraordinary: Portland's housing market is bonkers.
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by edaemon 9y ago
As Daniel Parker (acloud.guru) mentioned in the article comments, they went with Algolia [1] despite being AWS experts. He cited the uncertainty and complexity around AWS ES as the problem. [1] https://www.algolia.com/
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by edaemon 9y ago
I think people like their privacy too much for that, as efficient as it may be. It seems more likely to me that private (or public single-occupant) autonomous cars will become smaller. Something like a Smart car size autonomous EV -- small
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by edaemon 9y ago
The ones I've seen so far have either four or five slots. The lane allocation isn't set in stone; I've seen a few that have 3-x16, 1-x1, and 3-x4 (M2) [1] but I've also seen one that has 4-x16, 1-x1, and 2-x4 (M2) [2]. I
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by edaemon 9y ago
What's the incentive for a user to switch to the Brave browser? What advantages does it have over a different browser using ad- and tracker-blocking plugins, especially now that the Brave browser allows ads from these ad providers?
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by edaemon 9y ago
Right, that makes perfect sense. I'm mostly unsure of what tempestn said.
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by edaemon 9y ago
None of that light would ever reach your eyes for you to see it, though, right? Or am I missing something really obvious?
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by edaemon 9y ago
The point of travel mode isn't to dodge border control policies or questioning; the point is to prevent the exposure of credentials when travelling, even if the exposure is to a border agency. If a border agent asks you directly, &quot
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by edaemon 10y ago
As far as I understood it, it was a non-profit that Luckey funded to help promote Donald Trump's presidential campaign. It was seemingly going to do so through memes, though it never recognizably progressed beyond its initial promotion
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by edaemon 10y ago
Adverse weather could be a problem, but these weapons are intended to fight against things that would also be hampered by the weather.
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by edaemon 10y ago
The protocol only prohibits the use of weapons whose intended purpose is to blind people. If a laser is meant to be lethal and happens to blind you, that wouldn't violate the protocol.
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by edaemon 10y ago
It's entertaining that one can make an innocent HN comment about something esoteric like cloud databases and be quickly corrected by three different Google engineers. To provide a non-Google example, AWS DynamoDB's pricing is base
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by edaemon 10y ago
They revealed this palace by blowing up a prophet's tomb.
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by edaemon 10y ago
I don't know of any public examples where someone made an emergency switch from one provider to another. I doubt it's happened often, mostly because multi-region failures are so rare. Like I said, if your infrastructure is at all
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by edaemon 10y ago
I think it's best to keep your critical infrastructure portable. It usually doesn't make financial sense to have a hot backup on another cloud service but having a plan to quickly switch it over in case of emergency is a good idea
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by edaemon 10y ago
I've had trouble finding a competitor that offers the same service with DDoS mitigation, WAF, and CDN for a flat fee. Every other service charges per request and/or by bandwidth. Do you know of any comparable alternatives?
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by edaemon 10y ago
I suspect the raw dump is a list of sites that use the CloudFlare DNS servers, but HN uses a CNAME setup on their own authoritative DNS servers so it wouldn't appear in that list.
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by edaemon 10y ago
This list doesn't appear to include sites that use a CNAME setup with CloudFlare -- i.e. sites on the Business or Enterprise plans that retain their authoritative DNS and use CNAMEs to point domains to a CloudFlare proxy. There probabl
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by edaemon 10y ago
There was also an 8 BTC (~$9250 USD) bet placed on "Yes" two days before the collision announcement.
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by edaemon 10y ago
I suppose the loss of a region doesn't apply (yet), but yes, the quorum requirement would still apply even if you only had instances in a single region.
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by edaemon 10y ago
While I'm not familiar with Spanner's inner workings, I would guess that they recommend 3 instances for quorum establishment in case a region becomes unreachable. If that's the case, using fewer than 3 instances could cause m
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by edaemon 10y ago
Do you mean the amount of time it takes to initiate a failover or the amount of time for a failover to complete? For the former, I don't think they specify beyond "automatic". For the latter, "service is typically restor
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by edaemon 10y ago
Aurora's read replicas share the underlying storage that the primary uses, so AWS claims that there's no data loss on failover. They also claim -- and I've never heard anyone say they were wrong -- that Aurora failovers take

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