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by jpatokal 8y ago
I emphasize with the general sentiment, but this doesn't appear to be applicable to this particular deal, which seems to involve parking lots and disused government buildings.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Details of the specific lots in question can be found in the linked Memorandum, with a map on page 7: http://sanjose.legistar.com/gateway.aspx?M=F&ID=6e29db0e-c5d... The biggest lots appear to be currently used only for
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Google could buy $110M worth of land, without subsidies, for San Jose megacampus(cnbc.com)
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OPEC is notorious for having members agree to various things on paper and then doing something else entirely.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
That's not what the previous poster was referring to. "Controlled by Just Three Men" sounds like there's a smoky back room where Joe, Bob and Fred meet weekly to collude on oil pricing. Instead the three men are heads
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Clbuttic!
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Diane was the founder of VMWare, back in the day when virtualization was as shiny and new as containers are today.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
GSA was a physical box you stick in your on-prem data center. It's about as un-Cloud as it gets, and IIRC its deprecation predates Google Cloud as a brand.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Which is why Kubernetes/GKE is the public version of Borg.
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Black Friday production readiness guide from Google(cloud.google.com)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Traffic in residential Tokyo streets is also super slow, because drivers are well aware that they're full of kids, grannies, cats, etc. And you're pretty much automatically at fault if you hit a pedestrian.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
You're incorrectly conflating "enterprise" with "large" here. For example, Snap and Apple are very large companies in terms of Cloud spend, but they're very much not an "enterprise"/Fortune 50
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> truely and royaly screwed over their search appliance customers Got context? Are you referring to the (still ongoing!) deprecation of hardware search appliances as announced in 2016?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
UberX doesn't operate in Tokyo, if you use Uber there you get a regular taxi with a surcharge on top. (Which may still be worth paying if you're not up to communicating in Japanese with GPS-less regular cabbies, mind you...)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
But today they have the biggest network of drivers, and until they do disappear (or get disrupted by something like self-driving cars), network effect ensures that they'll remain the default option.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Quite the opposite: the EU found that you cannot copyright food tastes.
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A catalog of ingenious cheats developed by machine-learning systems(boingboing.net)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Local environments have carrying capacities; see eg. the Rwandan genocide for a reasonable convincing example of what happens when they are exceeded. However, I don't think we are anywhere near the carrying capacity of the planet as a
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by jpatokal 8y ago
No, it's not temporary. The trend is global and will see the world's fertility go below replacement level soon enough. Of course there are various hotspots, but they'll be smoothed out eventually by emigration or less pleas
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by jpatokal 8y ago
China has been enjoying the "demographic dividend" of having lots of young working-age people without retired parents or children to support. It's now in a race against time to get rich before the ratio reverses and the coun
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's a walled garden with over a billion people, there's plenty of choice. If anything there's more choice since BBAT copycat each other furiously: imagine if every time Google launched a product, Facebook, Apple, Amazon,
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I see a lot of one-man plumbing companies advertise 24/7 availability. We can bitch about IT working conditions here on HN, but at least we're not getting woken up at 3 AM to go unclog somebody's overflowing toilets.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Bingo. Japan also was (and is) infamous for long working hours, but turns out that just hides a lot of inefficiency.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
People looking for a second manual labor job are the mainstay of the gig economy (Uber, Airtasker, etc).
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Well, consider being a chef. Does it make sense to shoot to be the next cooking superstar Rene Redzepi or Ferran Adria and achieve success on culinary skills alone? Or instead be a competent cook who also knows how to balance a checkbook,
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Actually, Australia's preferential voting & proportional representation do a far better job of connecting politics and voters than any country with a FPTP system (including US & Canada). https://www.aph.gov.au/A
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Huh? That's only feasible for intersections of large roads, but American four-way stops are usually on small(ish) residential roads, where single-lane roundabouts work just fine.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Genuine question: is Oracle actually still superior to alternative solutions these days? I used to work with Oracle in my telco days, and RAC in particular was a nightmare to deal with. But then as now, the standard defense used to be &quo
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Random datapoint: when writing an Extended Essay for the International Baccalaureate, one word (not letter) of English is considered equivalent to 1.2 Chinese characters (all hanzi) or 2 Japanese ones (a mix of kanji/hanzi and kana syl
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Tangential aside, but I have to admit that "You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want" is a perversely brilliant title: 20 single-syllable words strung up into a staccato yet cohesive whole.

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