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by mmt 8y ago
> it's a scaling problem, which means software opportunity. From the perspective of someone who's not a software engineer but rather an ops engineer (a software concierge [1]), I find the idea of a scaling problem to be far mor
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by mmt 8y ago
Although the problem you described can be solved with software, is it really "high growth"? Put another way, can this grid flexibility problem be solved purely with a (currently popular in tech, especially among startups, as the G
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by mmt 8y ago
Unfortunately, announcement dates only give one endpoint of the timeline. The other endpoint, retirement date (from even previous-generation availability), is crucial to any anlysis.
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by mmt 8y ago
That's just the "enterprise" hardware model. It's overall extremely expensive to begin with and may have made sense back in the days of proprietary hardware, but makes no sense for a commodity hardware installation beyon
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by mmt 8y ago
> Consumption of sugar and sweeteners is definitely unhealthy I'm unconvinced that anything is "definitely unhealthy", especially when lumping "sugar" (which sugar?) in with "sweeteners". First, I want
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by mmt 8y ago
> Its not like technological solutions to fraudulence are un-intersting, or? What you're proposing, however, isn't a technological solution, at least not primarily. It's a solution based in modified human behavior. A techn
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by mmt 8y ago
> I'm a 3 hour drive from the ocean I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this would be a dealbreak for anyone for whom ocean access is even moderately important. Even the greater Portland, OR area being 2 hours away (assu
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by mmt 8y ago
I find that to be a fairly insightful (at least partial) explanation of sprawl, especially in Canada (where freeways seem to have been relatively unpopular to begin with) and in the US after the freeway "revolt" of the 70s. The US
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by mmt 8y ago
> It's not speculation: there are already markets (Norway) where close to 50% of all new cars sold are EVs. The latter fails to support the former. A country whose entire population is less than the size of a large city can't b
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by mmt 8y ago
> The point is that most EV owners typically charge at home Maybe today. Those are the early adopters. You're still speculating about a future that doesn't exist yet. > It's easy and inexpensive to install EV chargers
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by mmt 8y ago
> If it can fit in RAM, it ain't Big Data. Multiple TBs fit in RAM To be fair, the price for that RAM starts to steepen at (if not before) the 4TB mark, and 1.5TB might have been the limit on frugal main memory as recently as a year
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by mmt 8y ago
The difference is exclusivity or deservedness (with jealousy being a superset of envy). A combination of exclusivity and deservedness could be jealousy regarding a "cheating" partner in a monogamous relationship. To describe that
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by mmt 8y ago
> Normally being quite introverted, I found the experiences interesting but exhausting. It sounds like you're still introverted, even while drug-induced into being more social (perhaps you're conflating shyness with introversio
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by mmt 8y ago
This seems to be an opinion/summary version of https://hbr.org/2018/07/why-women-volunteer-for-tasks-that-d... (which it does link to) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17585397
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Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions(hbr.org)
13 points by mmt 8y ago|11 comments
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by mmt 8y ago
> I have little faith that a new form of ID would be any easier to obtain than current options. It's hard to see how having yet another option could make getting any ID overall more difficult, but, of course, merely easier isn'
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by mmt 8y ago
> Handling this at the local level introdces opportunities for limiting supply in areas where it is beneficial to the local party in charge to suppress the vote. That may be true but has nothing to do with my original point, which I perh
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by mmt 8y ago
It's fairly safe to say that, in computing, speed (in this case, a form of latency), always makes a difference to someone. In a cloud environment, that latency could be wasted money in paying for an instance not doing work. Sure, it&#x
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by mmt 8y ago
> The material I've been sent to "prepare" with This is likely the most telling. Asking you to prepare in a specific way [1] is both a red flag and can reasonably be used to make assumptions about the job itself, if not th
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by mmt 8y ago
We already had a vaccine, LYMErix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Vaccination No military involvement necessary, only emotional restraint and emphasis on rationality.
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by mmt 8y ago
True, but there can still exist a presumption that a large proportion of those connections aren't meaningful. I have no qualms connecting with a vendor or recruiter I just worked with, even if briefly on a single project, but after 6 y
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by mmt 8y ago
If you have enough unusual content, perhaps archive.org could arrange to have it taken to them. They seem to have an interest digitizing older, non-digital media.
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by mmt 8y ago
> If getting a state-issued picture ID was free, easy, and convenient I agree this is inadequately discussed/addressed. It might still be remarkably expensive overall to implement, but voter IDs could be handled at the local level,
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by mmt 8y ago
Keeping ranges undefined doesn't satisfy these wants, either. Using code points would at least allow for ranges to have the possibility of being usable to someone in a standard, predictable fashion, outside of the C/POSIX locale.
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Roku Intermitent audio after 8.1 upgrade(forums.roku.com)
2 points by mmt 8y ago|0 comments
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by mmt 8y ago
> the requirement to have to stop or make a special trip to fill up with gas every time they get empty is a disincentive to purchase combustion vehicles Not really, since this is a requirement of electric vehicles, too. > the fact t
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by mmt 8y ago
> And you can stop pretty much anywhere en route This is speculative and doesn't affect the emotional purchase decision today. > Plenty of flexibility there. Perhaps by some objective measure, but, again, that ignores the emotion
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by mmt 8y ago
Hard to swallow doesn't at least border (which is what I said) on extraordinary for you? :) All those "shoulds" being forced on a consumer are likely to be disincentive to purchase, no matter how "bad" or irration
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by mmt 8y ago
> Most people want to take a break after 4-5 hours of driving anyway I realize I'm not most people (I love to drive), but this seems like it's bordering on extraordinary-claim territory. I don't actually expect evidence, s
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by mmt 8y ago
Interestingly, the efficiency ratio you suggest appears to be reflected in the ratio between the overall cost (including ground transportation at the other end) of flying SFBA-SoCal and driving. Whenever I've spot-checked, the break-ev

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