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by hhw 10y ago
Almost everyone new I meet moved to Vancouver from elsewhere. I often get the comment that I'm the first person they've met that grew up here. Rain is preferable to freezing snow in most other parts of the country, and true Vancou
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by hhw 10y ago
I've lived in an older but expensive (even by Vancouver standards) neighbourhood with larger houses and lots most of my life, and many of our neighbours have been replaced by mainland Chinese with absentee husband/father. I'd
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by hhw 10y ago
Yes, we pay 7% PST on sales tax, which doesn't apply to groceries or restaurants, where presumably a lot of their spending would go. That's a far cry from the income taxes that should be paid if they're claiming resident stat
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by hhw 10y ago
The worst part is they collect social benefits like education and healthcare without paying any income taxes into the system.
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by hhw 10y ago
There's no such tax on 'passive income', it's just taxed as business income, which is exactly what it is and taxed no higher than employment income. It's just not taxed as capital gains nor has dividend tax credits,
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by hhw 10y ago
> Whoa, nope[1]. Perhaps fewer issues in the last month, but your own status page shows a litany of issues in September and earlier months. And I am fairly certain your status page has not covered every instance of attacks / packet
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by hhw 10y ago
Moving to suggests you're not actually there yet. What are your aggregate capacities like in each location at present as of this announcement?
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by hhw 10y ago
Why the heck would you send traffic out transit links using GRE tunnels, when it's more cost effective and you have more control over your own private backbone links? At the scale I speculated 1/10th of what you're suggesting
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by hhw 10y ago
"we now manage our own true service provider network, allowing us to deliver robust and reliable connectivity." What's needed to combat DDoS attacks is distributed defense. Without their own backbone / private transport
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by hhw 10y ago
Other people's tragedies can be cathartic, or at least so I recall being taught in high school English class from nearly two decades ago. Knowing that someone has it worse than you do can make you feel better about your own situation,
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by hhw 10y ago
I'm not sure what was shared with me should be public knowledge or not, but based on how the numbers were come up with, I think most employees would've received high 5's to 6's. Not sure about early employees, or if ther
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by hhw 10y ago
This would count as capital gains, so (33% federal + 14.7% provincial) / 2 would be closer to 23.85%. That's not counting the portions that fall under lower tax rates, or the lifetime capital gains exemption of $750,000. If he di
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by hhw 10y ago
Way to assume the worst of someone without knowing anything about him, or any details of the situation. I have good friends who work there, and they received generous bonuses when the acquisition happened last year, as well as having been t
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by hhw 10y ago
How many networks still run SONET at this point? Most global carriers would run OTN over DWDM at 25GHz or 50GHz spacing, with up to 200Gbps per channel. There is of course OTN encryption though
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by hhw 10y ago
His regrets after Malcom X was dead were warranted, and doesn't excuse his betrayal. What matters is how you treat someone when they're alive, not what your sentiments are after their death. It's been several years since I re
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by hhw 10y ago
Ali also turned his back on Malcom X: http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/25/467247668/...
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by hhw 10y ago
It's the GPL that's incompatible with the CDDL and not the other way around, which is an important distinction. Other than other GPL variants and BSD and MIT style licenses, the GPL has restrictions which make it pretty much incom
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by hhw 10y ago
Using dedicated ZIL significantly reduces fragmentation: http://www.racktopsystems.com/dedicated-zfs-intent-log-aka-s... Anyone using ZFS in a serious capacity would have both dedicated ARC and ZIL.
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by hhw 10y ago
Property crime is commonplace in Vancouver, given that we've always been the heroin capital of North America. Violent crime like muggings, however, are very rare. The addicts are not confrontational.
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by hhw 10y ago
Itanium was EPIC, pretty much the opposite of RISC. Intel bet on compilers being good enough to tell the CPU which branches it could execute in parallel, and lost that bet.
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by hhw 11y ago
It's not trading with China that's resulted in Hong Kong's success, but that they were the exclusive intermediary for trade with China for a very long time. North Korea doesn't trade with the West so there's no poin
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by hhw 11y ago
Hong Kong's prosperity in the 80's and 90's had more to do with being the gateway between China and the West as trade started to open up, and less to do with policy or entrepreneurship, as much as some people would like to ta
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by hhw 11y ago
If you need something US side, one of my ventures, microservers.io offers C2750 using Supermicro MicroBlades starting at $25/mo (with coupon code LAUNCH) out of Seattle. Includes full KVM over IP access so you can install any OS you li
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by hhw 11y ago
If a single point of failure took down your entire network, then your solution wasn't engineered properly. Just because on provider messed up big time doesn't mean every other provider would. The hardwdare design/architecture
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by hhw 11y ago
The CDDL does not prevent ZFS from being used in Linux. It's the GPL that prevents using CDDL code in the kernel. Oracle doesn't have any grounds to sue based on their IP. They would only be able to sue on behalf of Linux, and vio
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by hhw 11y ago
It's possible to only pay the lower end of that range for a 2Gb 90th percentile commit on a 10Gb connection out of most major markets. Cogent pricing fluctuates wildly depending on your ability to negotiate. Ignore the whole song and d
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by hhw 11y ago
This is a false dichotomy. There's no need to flip to colo, when dedicated hosting exists. The provider takes care of the network, hardware, and potentially much more depending on the service agreement. You can even have the provider s
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by hhw 11y ago
The real package manager itself comes upstream from Debian; Ubuntu just normally puts fragile GUIs around it. Most of the positives for Ubuntu come from Debian. The Ubuntu specific stuff on the other hand sometimes breaks core functionality
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by hhw 11y ago
There's still a whack of services that should be disabled on a server like rpc/nfs, bluetooth, avahi, etc (depending on 5.x/6.x/7.x) even if you go with a minimal install. Bloat aside, they can be security risks.
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by hhw 11y ago
From the op: "I enjoyed its minimal install to create a light environment, intuitive installation process, and it’s package manager." CentOS is neither minimal nor light. Ubuntu also isn't either of these things. Both of thes

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