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by likpok 5y ago
10^5 is also on the low end of hyperscale. I'd bet that google/amazon have high single-digit millions of machines. So yes, big companies can afford to pay people to customize their systems, and do so. The infra teams at these plac
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by likpok 5y ago
Kubernetes doesn't get patches from hyperscale companies because kubernetes is not really hyperscale software. If I recall correctly (probably don't), clusters can handle tens of thousands of container hosts. That's not manag
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by likpok 5y ago
The top link is a study that shows that the improvement is pretty marginal in practice. It does miss something: in specific ethnic enclaves SAT coaching is much more effective, perhaps because of a culture of out-of-school schoolwork and te
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by likpok 5y ago
It would be easy to determine if Morgellons was caused by a bacteria or some other physical thing: you can take samples and look at them under the microscope. When the CDC did just that (looked at samples of the fibers), they found them to
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by likpok 5y ago
You can even handle impressions/clicks/conversions in a lossy system, you just have to bound how much loss you're willing to accept. The counterbalancing factor is how expensive you want your logging infrastructure to be -- t
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by likpok 5y ago
Tokyo’s population has constantly risen, even as japan’s has fallen. Tokyo has inexpensive housing because they’ve allowed people to build it. You can compare the chart of new housing growth in Tokyo versus Paris, London and NY, and Tokyo b
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by likpok 5y ago
That's the same way that Venmo (or any of the other p2p payments) work (though I guess Venmo has a specific "opt in to some extra protection for a fee").
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by likpok 5y ago
Is answering subpoenas in the US strictly necessary for the provision of a service? I believe that's the wrinkle with Privacy Shield.
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by likpok 5y ago
So you propose to copy the private data of European citizens on US servers? What happens when the law makes that illegal?
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by likpok 5y ago
There are a lot of edge cases that people don't think about. A lot of communication data has two people associated, and a lot of it is highly sensitive. If a US person and a French person chat how does each get the messages? Message
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by likpok 5y ago
The wordle code has two distinct arrays: the list of answers and the list of other words you can guess. If you carelessly remove words from the answers you will also make it impossible to guess them. I figure they removed some answers witho
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by likpok 5y ago
Zsh (and possibly other shells?) will expand a raw ^ into filenames. '' is a little shorter than '^' if you have to quote it.
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by likpok 5y ago
How does this exploit avoid environment sanitization? Is that because most environment sanitization (e.g. clearenv) adjusts the pointer rather than the memory, and argv[argc + 1] is the original environment location?
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by likpok 5y ago
All this boils down to: in India there's a national ID database you can use, which makes this a lot simpler. The US does not have a national ID database, and there is a lot of resistance against making one. Each state could probably us
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by likpok 5y ago
Are you saying it's a good thing that Comcast was able to break up an upstart competitor? I'm not sure a world where that's easier would have fewer monopolies to today. Even in your example the large and established company w
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by likpok 5y ago
I stopped reading a couple years ago after it was clear that many of the most interesting posts were fictional. There was a series written by someone styling themselves as the "troll queen" (all under different accounts). In gener
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by likpok 5y ago
Legaladvice is also a place people love to put creative writing, so I’m not sure how much you can take from that.
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by likpok 5y ago
The question isn't whether there's a bull case for tesla, there obviously is. The question is the bear case which the GP laid out pretty clearly. Tesla might grow to eclipse the existing auto industry! Certainly the story of &quot
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by likpok 5y ago
The bear case is that Tesla merely becomes the worlds number 1 electric car manufacturer but does not become the worlds only electric car manufacturer. Right now Tesla's market cap is about 10x that of Ford, on a third to half the reve
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by likpok 5y ago
During the Edo period Japan was quite peaceful. The linked page shows nothing between 1638 and 1863. The Tokugawa shogunate started a little earlier (1600ish) and marked the start of a long period of internal peace. That's 200-250 (dep
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by likpok 5y ago
Journalism about physics has always been like this. The Alcubierre drive is 25 years old, even before that there were widely-publicized discussions of the same kind of idea: invert the equations and come up with interesting results. The rea
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by likpok 5y ago
Good VR headsets are cheaper than computers today and cheaper than computers were back when Second Life was getting started. People almost universally own smartphones which can support a LOT of additional activity. That's not to say th
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by likpok 5y ago
There was a big study a while back that showed something like only 30% from out of state? The tricky is they had an expansive definition of "local": they were measuring where people most recently became homeless, which means alm
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by likpok 5y ago
Why would a company's management be aligned with the workers here? If you're hiring people to run your food production factory "crosses a picket line" seems like a good thing. Collective bargaining might help, but even K
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by likpok 5y ago
Being a striker does give additional legal rights you wouldn't other wise have, but I don't think that this is one of them. It's also unclear whether the author or people using the script are actually fired employees or bor
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by likpok 5y ago
Forest management history is complex and varied, and depends a lot on specific details about the forests. Logging practices over the past two hundred years have had big impacts on how the forest ecology works: what trees grow, what animals
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by likpok 5y ago
To add on, California has CEQA that allows for any person to demand long environmental reviews. This has been abused by neighbors (along with historic preservation) to prevent development. The "historic" Mission laundromat is a cl
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by likpok 5y ago
Tokyo is a notable exception to that list as housing prices have stayed steady even as population grew. It did this by building an enormous number homes over the years. It's true that many cities face the same problem: by making it dif
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by likpok 5y ago
I've always thought it weird that Jack was a part-time CEO, but there are certainly CEOs that have at least as large of a "thing to manage", even if they aren't technically two companies. Facebook is a giant VR company a
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by likpok 5y ago
The bigger cost is the branch and the teller, both of which scale less well.

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