eye2sky

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   by eye2sky 10y ago

   You cannot read from multiple platters in parallel. When you are aligned to read from a certain track on a certain side of a platter, you are not necessarily aligned on all platters. This head mechanism is not accurate enough for that.
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   by eye2sky 10y ago

   For the second situation, I prefer the compress/transmit/decompress metric (as a function of transmit pipe speed), as described here: http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/compression-benchmark....
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   by eye2sky 10y ago

   Not true. AMZN had positive net income for the last 4 fiscal quarters. Also for fiscal 2015, and fiscal 2013 (but not 2014). http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AMZN
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   by eye2sky 10y ago

   I still think you are mischaracterizing Brin. He does not think transparency "solves everything" or is "the solution". He just believes that reciprocal transparency is the least bad option. If there were a better option,
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   by eye2sky 10y ago

   That is not David Brin's point[1]. Brin's point is more that the government will inevitably surveil citizens, and since citizens cannot reasonably prevent it, the best option is to try to level the playing field so that citizens c