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by illumin8 11y ago
This can really be traced back to the repeal of Glass Steagal. After the great depression in the 30s, congress passed the Glass Steagal act, which put a firewall between investment banks and commercial banks. In other words, Wall Street i
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by illumin8 11y ago
Thanks for that additional information - I didn't realize this was meant to be more open. Slack support is welcome.
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by illumin8 11y ago
I've done some terrible, terrible automation using PowerShell and PS Remoting across dozens of Windows servers, and wanted to smash my screen on multiple occasions. First, PS Remoting is terrible compared to SSH. Commands fail randoml
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by illumin8 11y ago
Why the downvotes? The bots Microsoft demonstrated today are tied to the Skype client, which is a closed ecosystem. I'd much rather develop bots that are not locked into a closed ecosystem, and can function across any chat provider t
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by illumin8 11y ago
I've seen plenty of server-based applications written in node.js. Just because javascript used to be pigeon-holed into front-end doesn't mean it can't perform well on server applications. A good example of a node.js app that
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by illumin8 11y ago
If you think Google even cares about 546GB of online storage you've gotta be kidding. This is like asking if Google is going to eliminate the free water in the water cooler because it costs a few cents per employee. You can put 1TB of
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by illumin8 11y ago
I'm sure most of us can assume reasons why collecting data with node.js might be "wrong," but it would be more helpful to the conversation if you would spell out specific reasons why using node.js for this use case is not opt
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by illumin8 11y ago
Brilliant! "SOMETHING MAGIC HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT A MARKETING GURU IN THE SAME ROOM WITH A PSYCHOLOGIST, A NOVICE CALLIGRAPHER, AND SEVERAL FAILED MUSICIANS. At Blandly we believe that you need a rich set of perspectives to build the pe
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by illumin8 11y ago
There is white label OEM gear (the Arista and Cisco gear is now just OEM with their firmware running on it), but unless you're Google or Facebook and can write your own firmware, chances are you're better off with an "enterpr
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by illumin8 11y ago
Having it cost credits or tokens would just mean the wealthy or powerful can trash the reputation of others. Yes, the incentives you talk about are really the reasons why someone would want to trash your reputation. Some people get angered
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by illumin8 11y ago
Here's one that's pretty popular: https://www.arista.com/en/products/7050x-series
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by illumin8 11y ago
The thing that's always bothered me about blockchain based reputation systems is that it becomes a wild west. Imagine if the credit rating system (FICO score in the US) allowed anyone anonymously to put negative credit entries on anyon
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by illumin8 11y ago
With any system of sufficient scale, you're bound to hit artificial (software design inflicted) limits to maximum scale or performance. The reason why a good software company tests extreme limits (1 million containers) that most custom
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by illumin8 11y ago
Google's exact ToR (top of rack) switch code isn't available, but you can buy a switch from any number of network gear vendors (Arista, Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, HP, etc), that can do VXLAN encapsulation and send the traffic over a
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by illumin8 11y ago
Yes, it's just a 10GbE ethernet switch that can encapsulate the traffic in VXLAN headers, so that it can traverse east/west between any of thousands (millions?) of hypervisors without requiring traffic to hairpin to a gateway rout
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by illumin8 11y ago
The shell company used to purchase high-end property is mainly a strategy I learned about that is prominent in the Manhattan luxury apartment market. If someone like Brad Pitt is buying a $10M condo, and doesn't want his name in the p
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by illumin8 11y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/business/international/chi... "...In Canada, they are paying $1 million for modest Vancouver bungalows..."
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by illumin8 11y ago
Lambda is not a good fit for long running processes. Also, the lambda instances that run your code only have a small amount of RAM (I believe 512MB is the default, but it is tunable). In short, I don't believe lambda would be a good
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by illumin8 11y ago
I wouldn't even say it's speculative condo buying - it's more like treating the condo as a piggy bank. It's considered a safer investment because it can be purchased through a shell company (LLC), hiding the true identi
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by illumin8 11y ago
If property values were tied directly to incomes, as they are in any normal market, and what you are saying is true about salaries being low, the Vancouver market would not be as hot as it is right now. The market is being artificially infl
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by illumin8 11y ago
This seems to be a direct result of capital flight from China. Wealthy chinese who are able to get their money out (through corruption, money laundering, or otherwise) are looking for somewhere safe to park their money for the inevitable d
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by illumin8 11y ago
With a 36-million installed base with compatible hardware, ~$150 lower starting cost (including PS4 camera), and the ability for people without a headset to play on the main screen in the livingroom, it looks like Sony might clean up on the
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by illumin8 11y ago
I had to count carefully, but it appears you're claiming 12 9's of durability for magic pocket, which seems like a subtle jab at S3's 11 9's. I think both durability numbers would be fine for customers, but I've als
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by illumin8 11y ago
If you read about the oven you'll see that they allow you to put your own ingredients in it. They'll even sell you pans you can use, and show you how to program the various functions of the oven to make your own recipes.
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by illumin8 11y ago
The vicious guard dog metaphor is very poor, most likely planned to intentionally confuse non-technical people. The reality is that he is asking Apple to weaken the front-door to the point where an average attacker can open it with a paper
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by illumin8 11y ago
Check out Avere systems. They have a clustered NFS appliance that you can spin up in EC2, which translates back-end S3 object storage into NFS for your clients. It supports between 3 and 50 nodes, and uses local RAM and SSD cache to accel
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by illumin8 11y ago
NYC has mostly moved to a digital system where you can pay with a credit/debit card and get a paper receipt to put on your windshield. In many smaller cities, however, they still have old meters that take coins and have a timer. There
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by illumin8 11y ago
I disagree. I live near New York and have only gotten a parking ticket one time. There was construction scaffolding up on the street, covering signs, and new signs had been put on the scaffolding itself indicating it was ok to park there.
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by illumin8 11y ago
This seems like a huge conflict of interest. The meter maids are essentially being paid "extra" for every ticket they write now. How is this not the equivalent of a meter maid not writing you a ticket if you give them some cash?
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by illumin8 11y ago
Touch ID requires your passcode after 48 hours. So, only if the phone had been previously unlocked with a passcode, kept powered on and charged, and 48 hours had not elapsed, could the government use a corpse fingerprint to unlock. The dev

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