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by mmt 8y ago
> fix the transportation and traffic problems around the airports and the logistical delays first, then brute-force the actual flight time Why this sequence and not the other way around, or both at the same time? The two don't seem
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by mmt 8y ago
>Suppose I'm a spare time Uber driver. The problem with that supposition is that it is just that. Rather, it's an outlier and just Uber's marketing of "gig economy", not a serious contributor to the kind of vol
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by mmt 8y ago
That's not a foregone conclusion, since wages aren't as closely linked to that payment as one might imagine. For example, in California: > The taxable wage limit is $7,000 per employee. (Yes, that's per year) https:/
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by mmt 8y ago
> Uber and Lyft can't just keeping banking on their VC benefactors forever. The other accusation I've heard, relevant to the discussion at hand, is that they're (also) banking on shifting the costs of externalities onto th
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by mmt 8y ago
> from my point of view my whole line of discussion is meant to be totally about pragmatism. I do suspect you're conflating pragmatism with principle, whereas they're often considered to be at odds. Perhaps, consider, instead,
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by mmt 8y ago
Looks like it's just a RAID-in-a-box, not entirely unlike, say, an 8-bay NAS populated with 10TB drives, rather than truly a single device. Considering how expensive something from Synology is, I wonder if there's a market for thi
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by mmt 8y ago
I just meant they'd be a replacement in the situation of someone packing ones own laptop bag. Of course, that could be considered an example of being surrounded by nothing but (ones own, single) MBP.
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by mmt 8y ago
Unfortunately, no, it doesn't really say how ZFS behaves when an error is encountered. This is super-disturbing and a dealbreaker, if it's still true: > The scrub operation will consume any and all I/O resources on the sys
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by mmt 8y ago
> 2) IF, and only IF, you'd like to take ADDITIONAL steps to avoid us accidentally flagging you, we also offered three steps (at the end of the article). However, these were totally optional. Getting warmer.. but: Even here, you&#x2
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by mmt 8y ago
No amount of debate, or even enthusiastic agreement, on the part of the "we" that would see this message, would ever result in meaningful changes, if this trend is being driven/caused by upper management. I posit that it is,
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by mmt 8y ago
> And that what people don't like is "dongle" and "multi-port" style adapters, not mere adapter cables that go from one form to another. I'm pretty sure that disliking dongles and multi-port style adapters d
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by mmt 8y ago
> You can just unplug that cable no? For the "road warrior" use case, one cannot, in general, assume that it will be possible to unplug an arbitrary cable (especially not within a reasonable amount of time), no. Even assuming o
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by mmt 8y ago
I suspect that part of what has people worried and continuing to complain about Google's attitude and "tone-deafness" is that your responses, which are seen as being representative of GCP, based on your revealing your affilia
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by mmt 8y ago
> unless you’re operating at a huge scale and with Google’s culture. I'm not sure one has to go to the extreme of huge scale, anywhere near where Google is now, (not that that's what you said), nor all the aspects of their cu
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by mmt 8y ago
Although that, technically, refutes an accusation of non-existence of customer support, it begs the question of what it means to be a enough of a "customer" to receive support (and at what level): Is it enough to use a gratis prod
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by mmt 8y ago
> Would you rather want free coffee, or hire more employees? (funny thing is we're not hiring) Indeed, an amusing twist on the traditional false dichotomy: the truth isn't that you can actually have both, but, rather, that you
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by mmt 8y ago
> One of the main benefits being reported here is the instant purchase, however with Amazon Prime Now (1-2 hour delivery of some items in metropolitan areas) I remember Amazon came out with this, but I initially dismissed it, thinking th
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by mmt 8y ago
Although I agree that flagging (at least your top-level comment) seems a clear abuse of that system (which appears only to have been "acted upon" in a purely automated fashion), commenting on it in-thread (especially without a lin
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that's undisputed, but it also doesn't address the concern of what happens once a customer finds themselves in that situation, whatever the reason. Furthermore, this response could be construed as reinforcing
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by mmt 8y ago
> when I asked an old timer about the IDC field format, I was told they were that way "because that's how they were on the previous paper forms." That's not actually surprising, since the current insurance/billin
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by mmt 8y ago
Just because an action is in their best interest does not absolve them from the fault of that action. Arguably, one can usually safely assume the opposite.
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by mmt 8y ago
There's no reason it needs to be just one or the other, especially considering a business based on network effect and, literally, market-making. > Ms. Whitman got in a few public tussles with the “community,” as eBay’s buyers and se
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by mmt 8y ago
I've never done so outside of FreeNAS appliances, partly because I remain persuaded that offloading the RAID portion to a card is more cost-effective and higher-performance, especially on otherwise RAM- and/or IO-constrained serve
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by mmt 8y ago
Using any technology that predates ICD-*, including paper. Current regulations may preclude using anything but a compatible EMR, but this implementatino detail is hardly fundamental to the practice of medicine.
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by mmt 8y ago
That's an equivalently bad e-mail from AWS, but it's a single datum, out of context. Actually, you did provide some context, which is that it was a "demo" account on a personal credit card. This, at the very least, impli
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by mmt 8y ago
Indeed, imagine a system where some providers are cash-only. They wouldn't even care about that ICD-10 stuff, let alone pay even the cost of entry for the proprietary coding system. Of course, I realize, that were an insured patient to
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by mmt 8y ago
The parent's point, I believe, was that it is privately owned, rather than being an instrumentality of the public/government/state/people, regardless of how it's called. There's an argument to be made that even
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by mmt 8y ago
> I remember a campaign few years ago telling startupers to use a cloud provider because hosting is a commodity and they won't earn money with it. That was the gist. IIRC, the essence of the argument was that, because running hardwa
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by mmt 8y ago
That example corresponds to $49k monthly, which, among "Silicon Valley" tech companies is, apparently, not a huge amount. To be fair, the machines you specify are pretty tiny and would easily fit into a half-U enclosure. Even assu
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by mmt 8y ago
Thanks! I had either missed that paper or had taken away more of the message that these errors are more likely to be from events like misdirected writes, cache flush problems (hence the high correlation with systems resets and not-ready-con

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