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721.
by matt-p 2y ago
Can't agree. This is like saying $popularApp will fail because they buy expensive hosting at AWS. Rubbish they will fail because the product didn't fit the market, if they're successful they'll have money to buy servers
722.
by matt-p 2y ago
So what's the solution, just make squatting illegal again?
723.
by matt-p 2y ago
Same in the UK. I think we can choose any number of options to maintain this; We keep building houses until house prices are stagnant and do not grow any more. Honestly even if houses lost ~1% of their value almost no-body would be underwat
724.
by matt-p 2y ago
I wonder what the split is here? Lets say 1000 squatters how many can afford housing but choose not to? Of those who can afford to rent how many have jobs and cars but do this so they can save for a house deposit rather than all 60% of thie
725.
by matt-p 2y ago
Yes, seriously, blaming a real-estate listing website for listing real-estate is absolutely insane. We all need to build more housing, that's it. That's the solution.
726.
by matt-p 2y ago
Can we establish that the squatters are doing this out of economic necessity and not to "profit" (e.g can't afford to rent or own someplace else)? I imagine so as living with no security in an abandoned building with no utili
727.
by matt-p 2y ago
Completely agree; it's great to allow it but we need to grow housing and infrastructure to match it - right now we also need to 'catch-up' for the years we failed to. By the way reproduction is not driving growth in most of t
728.
by matt-p 2y ago
From the supply side NIMBY attitude is clearly a major problem. However that's looking at it in complete isolation, vast majority of population growth has come from Immigration, so it would be just as one sided to say "The bogeyma
729.
by matt-p 2y ago
That it was historically "more difficult" to have more than one website per IP address particularly if it was using SSL because doing that needed amendments/extensions to DNS and other specs. We now have it, but still need to
730.
by matt-p 2y ago
This looks fantastic! Congratulations, really amazing work. It's unfortunate it's twice the price of others in the field like remarkable, it's a little bit beyond what I'd buy for "that seems cool, I might use it fr
731.
by matt-p 2y ago
This is almost always the answer, adding an instance should be a fairly rare event.
732.
by matt-p 2y ago
Most likely true, but things are going deeply wrong if fresh Debian VM boot times are a function of the organisational structure of your hosting provider.
733.
by matt-p 2y ago
I understand that, apologies for not making that clear. I guess I'm just struggling to see how having more VMs means it takes longer to provision one? A database query to find the space and get an allocation should be milliseconds in e
734.
by matt-p 2y ago
Yes, but why specifically does that mean boot times of a VM are faster? One has to be 'nimble' to improve that?
735.
by matt-p 2y ago
Exactly, so a large provider should theoretically have faster boot times if anything, no? More chance of having a customer who cares deeply, more wasted CPU cycles (and therefore incentive to optimise) as it's multiplied by 10 million
736.
by matt-p 2y ago
What's size got to do with boot time? Serious question.
737.
by matt-p 2y ago
Yes, exactly. I'm saying that even if you're too small for that it's still pretty cheap.
738.
by matt-p 2y ago
it's different at scale, and you mostly don't need SSDs since you have cache boxes, most your storage is videos that are very rarely used. You're looking at probably a rack of SSDs for every 5-10 racks of spinning disks X 3 d
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by matt-p 2y ago
It's purely a scale problem. On the "Revenue" side you will quite probably need to have enough eyeballs that advertisers come to you directly to display ads and do so in volume. On the "Costs" side you'd want t
740.
by matt-p 2y ago
True, to some extent this is also an artefact of (comparatively) poor software optimisation for pi. In this case almost certainly zoom and others apps will be using cpu encoding/decoding rather than offloading.
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by matt-p 2y ago
It massively depends on the nature of the service and your target market. A general piece of advice: identify the closest measurable factor(s) to "the more I do $X, the more business value I get out of the service." For example, i
742.
by matt-p 2y ago
G.fast covers over a million premises in the UK. Extremely low take up partially as they started acceleration of FTTP build pretty much at the same time. By the way most of the fibre needed to connect the FTTC/VDSL/GFast cabinets
743.
by matt-p 2y ago
Very common across Europe too. Makes sense, running a second line is so much labour that only a few would have to order it to make the extra cable cost for everyone worth it.
744.
by matt-p 2y ago
Not really. It's true it would usually need more context than a single series dataset but you can predict broadly accurate-ish bandwidth usage trends just using simple statistical extrapolation, we've been doing that since the ear
745.
by matt-p 2y ago
Yes I'm thinking of buildings probably 1980/90s onwards. We are tearing them down and rebuilding apartments in some cases I'm aware of. That seems like a real shame to be honest. I know in canary wharf for example they are tu
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by matt-p 2y ago
I suspect charging a nominal but non zero fee e.g $2 on peak $1 off peak per trip probably ends up with the best of both worlds. Free ends up with some negative side effects
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by matt-p 2y ago
I think to be fair we have been doing this in Europe for quite a while, many apartments were once factories or something else 100 years ago. I think, from my understanding, the greatest challenge is in turning modern office blocks into hous
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by matt-p 2y ago
Yes, I am. More complicated, yes, but produced at much, much higher volume. That is critical. A (year by year even more) niche market for applications that are ok with high latency, low-ish bandwidth and are stationary will not support prop
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by matt-p 2y ago
I agree, still some applications for it, but LEO is cheaper per terminal and per bit, so GEO will just not be a product (for commodity services like internet access/Calls) in future.
750.
by matt-p 2y ago
You can already sue a manufacturer for consequential loss if you can prove negligence?

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