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by mdasen 5y ago
AOL/TimeWarner was a failure because because it valued AOL at $200B and TimeWarner at $164B. AOL was just way over-valued. It wasn't really an integration failure so much as paying too much for something. If Time Warner had bought
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by mdasen 5y ago
There are a lot of things in the picture, but 5G is offering big improvements in many situations and it's going to get better. Yes, lower frequency networks offer better coverage. It's why we see sub-1GHz 5G deployments from the 3
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by mdasen 5y ago
I think whether it's currently unnecessary might depend on where you are and what network you're on. T-Mobile has mid-band spectrum that isn't C-Band spectrum and they've been able to deploy it sooner. They're seein
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by mdasen 5y ago
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile spent nearly $100B for their C-Band spectrum (including relocation costs). I think that creates a lot of pressure for them to be allowed to put them to use. I'm not saying it should, just that it does. I
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by mdasen 5y ago
Speeds are highly variable depending on location and network congestion. I think "already have good 4G" is a bit of a weird thing to say given that 5G can mean increasing the chance that you have a solid connection. But even with
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It's not just about what exists today, but what we want to be able to do in the future. First, there are situations where it's hard to get "awesome LTE" because there's a lot of usage. Getting more bandwidth is impo
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by mdasen 5y ago
The FAA doesn't cite that concern on their page, but having a 200MHz buffer in the US rather than a 380MHz buffer is a difference. As noted in the article you posted, Canada is requiring antenna down-tilting nationwide as well as exclu
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by mdasen 5y ago
The FAA has noted that in other countries there were mandates for lower power levels for 5G and that the antennas be pointed down toward the earth so that they interfered less. https://www.faa.gov/5g Lower power levels and
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by mdasen 5y ago
Very good points. I'd add that PostgreSQL didn't even get built-in streaming replication until late 2010 so if you were evaluating anything for a high-availability setup before 2011, you'd be looking at MySQL. As you note, d
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by mdasen 5y ago
The issue with blocking Gmail is that Gmail is a lot of people's only email. This list is a list of domains people use for addresses that definitively aren't their primary email address (since they are disposable/temporary&
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by mdasen 5y ago
No. Apple's "Hide My Email" uses the same `icloud.com` domain as the rest of their email addresses (unless you're using the "Sign-in with Apple" feature which uses `privaterelay.appleid.com`). Blocking `private
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by mdasen 5y ago
I don't think Buffett invests in Union Pacific. His company fully owns BNSF which holds a duopoly with Union Pacific in the Western United States. It looks like Buffett owned Union Pacific shares a while back, but sold them in 2009 so
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by mdasen 5y ago
These aren't wild guesses, but I also don't have inside information. 1. Browsing history. We know that Verizon is tracking it for their gain: https://www.wired.com/story/verizon-user-privacy-settings/ . I
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The same reason you get a smartphone or laptop. There's always a better one coming, but you need it. Really, articles hype up changes that tend to be marginal. I'm not saying that Tesla isn't doing good work or that companies
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by mdasen 5y ago
Is it that they truly want it distributed across the key space or distributed across the shards? With MySQL, you're writing to a single box. Because of that, you'll want to be on hot pages. With Firestore, you're writing to m
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by mdasen 5y ago
They do test a binary(16) field which is basically what you're talking about (and you could use a binary(32) for a 128-bit UUID).
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by mdasen 5y ago
I definitely concur on Apple not going back to Intel. Like you said, beyond performance, the problem with Intel is that they don't make the chips that Apple really wants. Apple is able to put an M1 into an iPad Pro because they were ab
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by mdasen 5y ago
This feels like Intel blowing smoke. Comparing an HK processor to the M1 Pro/Max feels disingenuous. AnandTech compared the 11th generation HK to the M1 Max and found the M1 Max to use a lot less power ( https://www.anandtech
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by mdasen 5y ago
I thought that my fan never turned on. I was curious so I installed a fan meter ( https://github.com/exelban/stats ). If I'm playing a game and running a windows VM, it does sometimes turn on around 2,000 RPMs. I ca
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by mdasen 5y ago
"It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em" Deciding to use the Google Translate API in a way that bypasses Google's API-key system seems like a dangerous game. Google controls your access
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by mdasen 5y ago
Yea, iCloud+ has been a simple, just-works solution. There's nothing fancy, it just kinda works how email should work.
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by mdasen 5y ago
I use iCloud+ which launched in the fall with custom domain support. It's kinda been nice having a simple email system where I use native apps rather than a web interface. For $2.99/mo, the whole family can share 200GB (not $2.99
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by mdasen 5y ago
I think there's a lot of pressure to get the spectrum in the hands of wireless carriers. They spent nearly $100B on that spectrum and Verizon and AT&T are anxious to put it into play. T-Mobile already has mid-band spectrum for 5G a
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by mdasen 5y ago
When watching FoxNews or CNN, we know that someone is making editorial decisions. When looking at something popular on Twitter, we assume that the number of likes is "real" and not made-up. This is akin to FoxNews or CNN presentin
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Yea, it's a 16x10.4 display. If you're watching 16x9 content, it didn't stretch vertically on old Macs that were 16x10 either. On this screen, it just doesn't come close to the notch. If you're doing full-screen wit
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by mdasen 5y ago
I think it gives Harvard a lot of cover for their admissions decisions. As you noted, Harvard has come under fire for rejecting a lot of Asian American applicants while also coming under fire for letting in less-qualified legacy applicants.
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I'm a little surprised that Amazon hasn't created ClickHouse as a Service. They've done it for Elasticsearch, Presto (Athena), Hadoop, Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL. ClickHouse seems like it would fit with their strategy of offing
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by mdasen 5y ago
Of course they're scared. Even if Intel is able to close performance gaps, cloud computing is often an easy sell for ARM and Amazon is likely going to be able to get the chips cheaper given that they're looking for markup on the s
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by mdasen 5y ago
> 5G only does about 15-20% more data hertz for hertz than 4G At low-band, it's often quoted as 20%, but when you get to mid-band it's a lot more. That's one of the reasons there's been a mad-dash for mid-band spectru
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by mdasen 5y ago
In the US, that won't be the case. AT&T shut down GSM at the end of 2016. Verizon will be shutting down its 2G/3G CDMA network at the end of 2022. T-Mobile is also slated to shut down its 2G GSM network at the end of 2022. As

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