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by mdasen 4y ago
I looked up their numbers and was surprised. DigitalOcean got $533M in revenue over the past year while Rackspace did $3.1B. It looks like Rackspace's revenue is 5.8x that of DigitalOcean. Cloudflare's revenue is $894M. Even Akama
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by mdasen 4y ago
I find these kinds of comments hard to respond to. I want to respond in a way that's constructive, but it's hard. It's hard because many Republicans are pushing the US in a direction that will harm millions of Americans in ve
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus... It seems like this is basically coming from Elon Musk through someone he chose. What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, base
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Webpass and similar services work well with line of sight. Even Starlink wants line of sight, but it's generally easier to get that up than across. What happens when a neighbor a mile away has a 3-story home or there's a hill? Wit
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I'm always curious about details on situations like this. Really nerdy stuff like: what's the average housing lot size; what's the average driveway length; what kind of "largest city in the state" (since 20 minutes
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It's probably also more beneficial from a policy standpoint to get twice as many people signed up at 50Mbps. As you note, the jump from 50Mbps to 100Mbps isn't that big, but the jump from 3Mbps DSL to 50Mbps Starlink means that yo
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Fly.io's pricing seems fair. It's not amazingly cheap, but there aren't a lot of PaaS offerings out there and most are very expensive and have complicated pricing compared to Fly.io - even Digital Ocean's AppPlatform is
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Unlike your code which you can redeploy after a bit of downtime, you might not be able to un-f^ck your database. I think that's ultimately the selling point. No one wants to be responsible for keeping the data safe when it's not t
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"Free money, no strings attached!" Did they knowingly invite scammers? Probably not. Someone showed up talking about free money with no strings attached and they decided not to question it. Every scam is a situation where people w
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In terms of annual revenue, Disney has $83B against $29B for Paramount Global, $30B for Netflix, and $13B for Warner Bros Discovery. So Disney's debt is 0.6x revenue while Warner Bros Discovery's debt is 3.7x revenue. If Disney&#x
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It's very on-brand for Buffett if you follow his stuff. He's always kinda hawking the stuff he owns. You'll see the can of Coke on the table at the annual meeting, you'll see him eating See's Candies, he'll tal
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Did you delete the post or did mods delete it?
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According to what they've told Wikipedia, they want the links to be to archive.today (and not archive.ph even if it redirects there). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_archive.today#Archi... "The owner
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I think there were so many things. Apple already had an ecosystem from the Classic Mac OS. It had lots of apps, lots of loyal users, etc. It had issues, but Apple wasn't starting from scratch. BeOS was simply new. That means trying to
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Court Sides with LinkedIn in Data Scraping Lawsuit vs. HiQ Labs(adweek.com)
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I think the complication here, and the case for Qualcomm, is that Qualcomm doesn't want to transfer the Nuvia architecture license to Qualcomm. Qualcomm wants to transfer what was created by Nuvia with that license. Qualcomm argues tha
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Qualcomm is being targeted because they bought Nuvia. In some ways, it's Nuvia being targeted. ARM alleges that Nuvia's architecture license required them to get ARM's approval before transferring their chip designs to anothe
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It wouldn't impact Apple because Apple isn't acquiring Nuvia. The article doesn't do a good job of talking about the case. I will try to summarize what is at issue (IANAL nor an expert on this case). I'm going to start b
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I've worked at places that had to implement policies limiting features for a while because scammers would use credit cards that would turn out to be fraudulent. I don't know the details of how they worked it out, but they could si
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We do have ARMs in the US, but fixed mortgages are a lot more popular - presumably because they allow someone to know how much it's going to cost.
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Silly question, but how do you budget given floating interest rates? Let's say that you buy an $800,000 place at 3% interest with a 20% down-payment ($640,000 borrowed). Your payments are $2,698/mo. Fast-forward a couple years and
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by mdasen 4y ago
Just for some context, Twitter has around $4.5B in revenue per year. Clearly, you can't cut all spending. It looks like the "cost of revenue" is around half that ($2B) and you probably can't cut that. Do you cut sales an
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It seems like he could have accomplished that without signing an agreement to purchase Twitter - especially one that waived due diligence. 1) Tweet things like "I should buy Twitter", "I'm working on moving money around,
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I don't think that will happen with Linode (but I certainly could be wrong). When Rackspace bought Slicehost, people didn't really know what the future was going to look like. At this point, we've seen AWS/GCP/Azure
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As someone who used a custom-domain-Gmail as a primary account, it caused issues in various places. I think some of the issue is wanting to separate corporate accounts (which shouldn't be leaking and entangling information outside the
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How does replying work? Specifically, if you're sending email from MyCoolDomain.com and you don't have DKIM/SPF/etc., aren't you going to face potential deliverability issues? Or is Google sending the message as `ns
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I wouldn't really call it a talent acquisition. It's more the same reason that any company pays people to work on open source projects. For example, Google pays people to make Flutter and Dart. Are those employees a "talent a
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I don't know everything about the new policy, but I can say that MIT historically acted quite differently from a lot of universities (or any other institutions). The campus was more open than basically any space. Groups with tenuous ti
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I think Windows on ARM still faces the same problem it always has: there's little reason for most people to care and it creates a collective action problem. With macOS on ARM, Apple said they'd stop making Intel machines and they
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I would say that it's not just that they send their salary/rent data and know salary/rent data from others. I think the fact that the price is determined by an algorithm is a key component. To greater and lesser extents, we k

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