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Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire(arstechnica.com)
567 points by jamroom 8y ago|339 comments
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by jamroom 8y ago
Being median income I have a feeling that the US median is "pulled up" significantly by the top .01% of earners in the US - I have a feeling they account for a far larger amount than the top .01% of German earners. Also - this doe
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by jamroom 8y ago
I use Night Shift on my external 4K LG monitor no problem.
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by jamroom 8y ago
I agree 100%. For some reason environmental discussions always have to include the "cost" to business in the decision whether we do anything about it. I imagine if I told my neighbor that I felt it was cost prohibitive to pay for
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by jamroom 8y ago
Looks like they paid no US income taxes in 2017: https://www.seattlepi.com/business/tech/article/Amazon-paid-...
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by jamroom 8y ago
Here's what you want: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/macbook-air/2012 Just replaced the internal SSD on a 2012 MBA myself - works great now :)
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by jamroom 8y ago
This is true if you believe in the LNT (Linear No Threshold) model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model Then check out the idea of Radiation Hormesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by jamroom 8y ago
Yes - I believe it will start the new job while the old one is running - your backup script should write a PID file to ensure it isn't already running.
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by jamroom 8y ago
I know you're being sarcastic, but it looks like there are 6 vaccines in the first 2 months: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/easy-to-read/child-ea... Not that I think it matters - I was just curio
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by jamroom 8y ago
"cutting corners" is part of the overall profitability picture for a health organization (or any large corporation) so literally _anywhere_ that corners could be cut is already happening.
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by jamroom 8y ago
But that also includes the OS License if I am reading the article correctly. The value of a replacement for the OS is the cost to download it from MS.
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by jamroom 9y ago
It's not too expensive - the US can easily afford $150B. We just have to decide that it's a priority and make it happen. Each year we some how find almost a trillion dollars for defense (more if you include "black budget&qu
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by jamroom 9y ago
Because Google no longer will show you the BEST results - it will show you the results that are most profitable for Google.
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by jamroom 9y ago
OK I'm feeling kind of dumb - let's say a car gets 20mpg - if we are emitting 411 grams of CO2 per mile that comes out to 8,220 grams of CO2 in that 20 miles, which is 18.1 pounds of CO2. How do we get 18.1 pounds of CO2 out of a
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by jamroom 9y ago
I can't believe that a car dumps a pound of CO2 every mile..
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by jamroom 9y ago
Yep - in the long run it has been much cheaper for me as well. I moved full time to Mac in late 2008 with an aluminum Macbook, and used that Macbook daily until May of 2015 when I picked up a loaded Macbook Pro 15. I got almost 7 years out
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by jamroom 9y ago
I'm sure you mean "entitlement" in the legal sense, which social security, medicare are (i.e you are entitled to these) - not the pejorative that the word has become. I'm hopeful that "patriotic centrists" wil
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by jamroom 9y ago
I'm sure you did, but just in case - did you checkout Sox?: http://sox.sourceforge.net/ I've used both FFMpeg and SoX extensively for audio and have found SoX very useful on more than 1 occasion.
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by jamroom 9y ago
I don't know about kids cartoons, but I just watched the original Star Trek episodes from the late 60's and they are 50 minutes each (for a 1 hour time slot) so that's 10 minutes of commercials. Hour long episodes are now ab
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by jamroom 9y ago
Just want to say I can complete commiserate with you - I'm 6'10", wear size 16 shoes, 2 or 3 XLT for shirts and am 36x36 for pants. Shoes are a total PITA. Do you play basketball? :)
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by jamroom 9y ago
If you were buying, then you don't pay a commission - both the seller AND buyer's agent are paid for by the seller.
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by jamroom 9y ago
Why? I don't personally care if MongoDB succeeds or fails, but if they can listen to their users, fix their issues and come out the other end with a database that works as advertised what is wrong with that? Why is it so important to
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by jamroom 9y ago
So what do you do when you get cancer and run up $1 million in bills? That's what insurance is for. Not sure if your monthly fee is going to work for you like that.
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by jamroom 9y ago
You're right of course, but the "correct" amount of alcohol is still going to be much more toxic than most other foods that enter your body. Alcohol is a poison.
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by jamroom 9y ago
Wow - if true I really hope Comcast gets taken to the cleaners over this. We REALLY need more ISP competition in the US- this is just ridiculous.
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by jamroom 9y ago
This is what drives me nuts about AWS, but is genius on their part - they've got you to spend more $$ on ElasticSearch and Lambda to overcome the fact that one of their other products just doesn't work very well.
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by jamroom 9y ago
I was a big fan of SimpleDB - I feel like if they would have just given it some love (i.e. feature updates and moving it to all SSD) it would have been a really friendly, scaleable "almost SQL" database. I found it way more flexi
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by jamroom 9y ago
while not as portable, using double brackets - i.e. [[ -z $var ]] can be a bit "safer" in regards to quoted variables. Works in bash and KSH. Edit to add: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/669452&#x2F
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by jamroom 9y ago
This isn't union - this is just how huge corporations work. I worked for Verizon and they did the same thing - everything was locked down and you had to file a Remedy ticket to get anything done (ugh).
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by jamroom 9y ago
I believe many of the engineers are in the SPEEA: http://www.speea.org/ "Since January 2016, Boeing has cut 1,332 engineering and technical jobs from its Washington workforce". As a Washingtonian I am _so happy_ w

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