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by keepper 10y ago
I love AirBnB, and have used them many times. But in the case of NYC, AirBnB brought this wholly on themselves. They knew landlords were running whole buildings in nyc as pseudo hotels, and they did little until now. [1] They knew individua
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Peter Thiel sorry for date rape comments(theguardian.com)
5 points by keepper 10y ago|4 comments
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Self-Organizing Teams: Our Learnings and Successes(insights.newscred.com)
2 points by keepper 10y ago|0 comments
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by keepper 10y ago
This reminds me ( and I guess every time i leave a shared bathroom ), how people really don't know how to wash their hands[1]. I guess anti-bacterial soap came in as a nice marketing gimmick to quick hand washing. I've stopped sha
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by keepper 10y ago
I think no one really knows "the solution". Solutions for social issues are ever changing. I think the knee jerk fear of change over what are minute issues is the disheartening part. This would be trivial to implement, but the ram
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by keepper 10y ago
<rant> Not directly related to the article, but reading thru the series of negative replies when a poster suggests "hey, this is a great idea, we should do it in the US", is disheartening. A great deal are so fiscally short
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by keepper 10y ago
"In addition, coyotes eat dozens of road runners trapped along the outside of a perimeter fence that was designed to prevent federally threatened desert tortoises from wandering onto the property." Well, nice to hear the ACME(tm)
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Researchers Map Locations of Servers in Netflix’s Content Delivery Network(spectrum.ieee.org)
84 points by keepper 10y ago|36 comments
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by keepper 10y ago
It's pretty amazing Open Connect[1] doesn't get as much "fan fare" as Netflix use of AWS. This is arguably the core of what they do ( push tons of bits to the end user ), and something the cloud could not do for them. [1
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by keepper 10y ago
Today, corn is corn That's because many see domesticated crops as a different thing than GMO crops... and of course, use the assumed bad behavior of one company, as a detriment to the science behind crop enhancement.
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Jeff Bezos on Gawker vs. Peter Thiel: 'Develop a Thick Skin.'(recode.net)
1 points by keepper 10y ago|0 comments
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by keepper 10y ago
It isn't an "attack". Look, I'm not trying to change minds, I'm hoping people step back for a second, and see this for what it is. Just another thin skinned person with way too much financial power getting his way.
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by keepper 10y ago
He's expressed support on the "right" of businesses to discriminate based on race/gender/etc[1]. As well as libertarianism being critical of the civil rights act, the civil war, etc [2]. How is that doublethink? [1]
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by keepper 11y ago
I assume the parent is flame-bait... but figured I'd bite. Your comment is akin to saying "now that we have biologist/geneticist/etc, we no longer need doctors". Admins/Systems engineers are closer to a "t
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by keepper 12y ago
> What kind of comparison is that? The DR is practically a failed state. You've already gotten down voted enough, but wow. DR has had a 7% growth rate for the last 20 years, one of the highest in the Americas... Your others points a
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by keepper 12y ago
Except I pay for the roads.. you know.. registration, taxes on gas, taxes on purchase of the car, etc etc... But hey, you're welcome to pay a little for the roads too ;)
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by keepper 12y ago
Question a cop who's wrong about the law... Stand in front of your house in any major city as a minority... Walk down the street in any major city as a minority... The bad perceptions of the police have very real reasons behind them. R
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by keepper 12y ago
Half a million dollars of load balancers? Either you are buying from the wrong vendor, or you have some wonky ideas of how many load balancers you need per data center, or are not using them correctly. ( hint: check a10 networks and Zeus) T