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by hhw 6y ago
Teksavvy which has pretty good national presence using lines from any of Shaw, Telus, Bell, and Rogers charges $45/mo for 30Mb, $55/mo for 75Mb, and $70/mo for 100Mb. Just in nominal dollars without adjusting for currency, th
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by hhw 6y ago
Canadaian broadband pricing is actually quite reasonable, especially as you have smaller players that are able to buy last mile lines wholesale at/near cost to compete. Wholesale metro fiber is also considerably less than in the US, as
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by hhw 6y ago
> especially when he has much of his wealth invested in the very industry that is likely to be affected by the results of this Coronavirus study Citation needed. As far as I can tell, his only healthcare related holding is Schrodinger, I
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by hhw 6y ago
Historical rate of return on stocks is about 7%. So in theory, a stock trading at a price to earnings ratio of 14 or less is good value, whereas a stock trading at 15 times earnings is not so much. However, other factors could play a part,
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by hhw 6y ago
However, evidence of absence is unlikely to be found as the vast majority of researchers tend not to bother publishing papers with negative results. So if an idea seems like it should have been researched already, but no research papers are
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by hhw 6y ago
It's not about ideological purity, but about respecting the GPLv2. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/ IANAL but Canonical's justification for the ZFS kernel module a
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by hhw 6y ago
It may not have explicitly stated that there was no human to human transmission, but that was strongly suggestive that there wasn’t. The default assumption should be, that a virus affecting hundreds of people already, could be contagious. S
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by hhw 6y ago
You're unlikely to see anywhere near line rate though, especially with higher packets/s, as cheaper equipment tends to use CPU based forwarding. Whereas ASICs based gear, even when using merchant silicon like Broadcom or Marvell,
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by hhw 7y ago
I think you're missing the parent's point, that you can use a /31 without separate network (not gateway) and broadcast addresses. Putting multiple customers on the same /24 introduces all kinds of issues. Either you leav
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by hhw 7y ago
China has state run Telecom companies providing all the eyeball access, so it's relatively straightforward to ensure outside connectivity goes through the great firewall. Hong Kong has multiple private companies providing eyeball acces
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by hhw 7y ago
Maybe if your load is unusually extremely erratic. In the vast majority of cases, you could purchase 2-3x more than you need in bare metal hosting resources (with data centre and hardware operations already outsourced), making scaling not a
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by hhw 7y ago
From a dedicated hosting provider's perspective, some customers will notice interruptions more than 5 minutes (1 monitoring cycle), start submitting trouble tickets at 15 minutes, and require RFO's at 30+ minutes of downtime. An h
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by hhw 7y ago
A c4 dedicated host at AWS (simply picked as the 2nd listed in the Dedicated Hosts Configuration Table as c3 the first doesn't show up under the Instance Types page) comes with an E5 2666v3, 64GB of RAM, and no storage for $810/mo
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by hhw 7y ago
2-3 hours per year is a lot of downtime. Most competent bare metal providers see maybe one major outage of less than an hour every 3-5 years. Nothing other than a facility wide power outage, if the load somehow gets dropped because the gene
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by hhw 8y ago
It doesn't really matter how much money economy brings in at the top line, if there's little to nothing to be made on the bottom line. An entire plane of economy only at market fares is not worthwhile for an airline to operate on
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by hhw 8y ago
By all accounts I've previously heard from people in the airline industy, you have the economics completely backwards. The bulk of the profits come from premium classes, while economy is totally unprofitable but serves to provide the e
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by hhw 8y ago
They could also just rent dedicated bare metal servers on a month-to-month basis, getting whatever hardware specs they want so long as it's not overly exotic. Then they don't have to worry about anything at the data centre or hard
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by hhw 8y ago
If they were going to buy the card for $30K anyway if you didn't discount it, yes. Even if they weren't going to buy the car without the discount, but someone else would likely come along and buy it for $30K, then still yes, you w
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by hhw 8y ago
Vancouver, BC is probably the easiest city on the West Coast to manage without a car. The downtown core is very walkable, and there is reasonable public transit through most of the greater metro area. There's a high proportion of resid
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by hhw 8y ago
Last updated in 2003. Seems eerily prescient, most of what it said back then would apply even more so today. All that would be needed is an amendment to 3) so that it also applies for init systems, to bring that list fully up to date.
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by hhw 8y ago
Most volumetric attacks are UDP reflection based, and relatively simple to filter out at the network level using ACL's. When using decent network gear, these can be filtered at line rate using ASICs. These comprise the vast majority of
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by hhw 8y ago
The rate of increase far exceeds what could be accounted for by the natural cycle, so there's no legitimate question for anyone both informed and intellectually honest about the subject about whether climate change is anthropogenic.
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by hhw 8y ago
In a world where more and more power is concentrated into fewer and fewer large corporations, I'm not so sure this is crazy that they're not allowed to do this, nor that it would be a good thing if they were. The natural result wo
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by hhw 8y ago
But the article states quite clearly that he is NOT claiming to use genuine parts. “PCKompaniet has never removed the coverup of the Apple logo on the screens that have been imported and has no interest in doing so. PCKompaniet does not pre
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by hhw 8y ago
Correlation != Causation The more likely explanation for Castro seeking treatment in Spain is that Cuba is a relatively small country of only 11 million, and it should be expected that they're not at the very forefront of the world on
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by hhw 9y ago
Yet the US has double the carbon footprint per capita of China and more than 8x that of India. It would be much easier for Western countries to cut their resource consumption in half than for Eastern countries to cut their population in hal
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by hhw 9y ago
Anything can be construed as a racist comment by an unreasonable person. I don't see any legitimate cause for a reasonable person to construe it as such however. And although it shouldn't really matter, I say the above as a person
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by hhw 9y ago
JunOS is based on FreeBSD, which doesn't have a fix yet. Not sure about the different variants of Cisco IOS. You wouldn't run untrusted code on a router though, so spectre would not be a concern. In fact, it's probably better
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by hhw 9y ago
Not sure how far back you're going, or which model of Cisco router you're referring to. I first cut my teeth on networking working at a Tier 2 carrier back in 2005 on Cisco GSR's (12000 series) which use a 200MHz R5000 MIPS C
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by hhw 9y ago
I run a not too small hosting ISP today, and ten years ago I used routers based on commodity hardware running OpenBSD. Back when we were at Gbps scale and most customers were on 100Mb links, this worked fine. However, it did not scale to 10

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