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by mdasen 7y ago
The US doesn't use that much glass compared to aluminum and plastic. Aluminum recycling is very efficient which is why recycling centers really want it and refilling aluminum cans doesn't work well compared to glass because they
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by mdasen 7y ago
The article notes that the 5-cent deposit is hampering recycling rather than helping it. The Natural Resources Defense Council noted that expanding the bottle deposit would "punch a hole in the economic model of curbside recycling.&quo
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by mdasen 7y ago
Are fiction books really that updated (in terms of the words, not formatting)? I'd argue that a movie's visuals are part of the experience, but something like the font or pagination doesn't change the experience of a book in
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by mdasen 7y ago
JIT'd code isn't just about specific CPUs, but about optimizing hot paths. For example, you don't want to inline a commonly used function all over the place, but if there's one area that calls it 10,000 times per second
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by mdasen 7y ago
GC is complicated because what works well for one thing might not work well for other things. GC can be both about clever things and about hard trade-offs. That said, I'll try to talk about GC without having a religious war erupt. K
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by mdasen 7y ago
This is definitely a big part of it. PHP as a language was, to a certain extent, made for the web. The language included things like MySQL access. That meant that projects didn't need a lot of dependencies. PEAR existed for librarie
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by mdasen 7y ago
Given that google tells you what CPUs they use and that a vCPU is one hyper thread on that CPU, it doesn’t seem proprietary at all. Digital Ocean’s shared CPU plans seem like the ones where you’re unsure what you’re buying. Your thesis migh
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by mdasen 7y ago
The comparison on the Google compute instances is a bit iffy. First, why are we looking at Google's N2 instances rather than N1 instances? The N1 instance would be $52 rather than $61, but the author hasn't talked about why they
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by mdasen 7y ago
I know that the Shenandoah people have tested with Elasticsearch and seen great improvements. https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/605efbc0fed86899dcbf87... Christine Flood is pretty great and she has some wonderful talks
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by mdasen 7y ago
From what I understand about the E2 instances, the point is that there's often a lot of idle CPU cores compared to the vCPUs that have been allocated by users. That observation in combination with live-migration and larger host machin
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by mdasen 7y ago
https://stadiamaps.com Stadia Maps is pretty cheap. $25 gets you 25,000 map views per day or around 750k/month. $100 gets you 250k/day or around 7.5M per month.
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by mdasen 7y ago
Boeing/Aurora are kinda trying that with the D8 (aka double bubble). It’s not exactly the same since it is basically two circles next to each other rather than one large one, but it will be twin aisle. The D8 is one of the cooler proje
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by mdasen 7y ago
I think part of the issue is market timing. If we went back to June, Tesla is sitting at a $33B market cap after a huge slide. Uber started sliding in August. If we were just looking at market cap, Uber's had been decently stable fo
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by mdasen 7y ago
Yes, it is a top school in the country, equivalent to an Ivy League school. In terms of the price, a few things come into play. First, most other schools have similar pricing. Northwestern is $54.6k and U Chicago is $58.2k. Yep, it'
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by mdasen 7y ago
I think most people would say you're correct about the Econ department, but that isn't the whole university. Plus, it's not like U Chicago is that far off from other universities when it comes to tuition and fees. They cost
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by mdasen 7y ago
I'm in Boston and even here my bike gets me places faster than my car, at least between 8-10am and 4-7pm. Traffic is such a killer to car speed. Right now at 3pm, Google Maps tells me that my 6-mile commute home by car would be 32-39
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by mdasen 7y ago
How do you know if they're malicious if you don't make HTTP requests to them? One of the things that phishers and others do is use link wrapping and other services to hide malicious links. So, I get something.wordpress.com/s
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by mdasen 7y ago
IRV isn't perfect, but it's a huge improvement over the current state of affairs. I would point out that the "won't elect a centrist" perspective might be a bit of an American perspective and a perspective that migh
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by mdasen 7y ago
Even given stock, the workers would prefer unprofitable factories because the stock would be a smaller portion of their compensation compared to lost wages. The problem with stock compensation is that a worker’s incentives aren’t that of an
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by mdasen 7y ago
I think the issue is that people got used to getting a lot of the content they wanted to watch for around $10/mo. Originally, no one realized that streaming would be such a huge thing. Owners licensed content to Netflix at cheap pric
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by mdasen 7y ago
I'm left wondering how much benefit there is with public banks. First, we already have not-for-profit credit unions and member-owned cooperative banks. Why does the bank need to be owned and run by the city? I'm a big fan of credi
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by mdasen 7y ago
Both GSM and CDMA are going away. T-Mobile is a mostly-LTE carrier already. Both Sprint and T-Mobile use LTE and most Sprint customers will already have compatible handsets. Others will be given upgrade offers. T-Mobile’s network will form
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by mdasen 7y ago
T-Mobile also merged with MetroPCS after the failed AT&T merger which was key for their resurgence. T-Mobile's turnaround had a bunch of facets. 1) Increased spectrum. In 2011, T-Mobile didn't have the spectrum to launch a co
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by mdasen 7y ago
T-Mobile has shown that they can be an effective mobile competitor to AT&T. However, it's unclear how long that can last. With 5G, home broadband and entertainment is likely to come into play in a huge way. Let's fast-forwar
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by mdasen 7y ago
I'm not a fan of Sprint and I don't think they provide a lot of competition in the industry, but... Sprint hasn't been hemorrhaging customers. Between 2007 and now, Sprint has basically stayed flat at 54M customers in 2007,
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by mdasen 8y ago
It wasn't hiding something nasty. First, AT&T didn't divest and re-acquire. The AT&T that you know today isn't the AT&T that sold off AT&T Wireless. For a little telecom history... AT&T (the long-distanc
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by mdasen 8y ago
The AT&T/T-Mobile merger is a bit of a weird case. The breakup fee was substantial at about $6B (half in cash, half in spectrum). Without that additional spectrum, T-Mobile would have had a hard time launching an LTE network. Th
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by mdasen 8y ago
That's the point. Apple showed people what could be done with smartphone technology. Literally, Steve Jobs got on stage and played with music, maps, the web, etc. in front of people to introduce how the iPhone would be important to t
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by mdasen 8y ago
The tablet that they show sending a fax from the beach is essentially a smartphone. The thing is that smartphones weren't popular until Apple even though they had existed. Palm, Nokia/Symbian, Danger, and Microsoft had been pushi
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by mdasen 8y ago
There's the usual suspects like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. If you're just looking for a VPS, DigitalOcean is cheap and easy.

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