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by mmt 8y ago
I can't imagine buying a disc and not immediately ripping and trans-coding it, though I was assuming buying some cheaper, downloadable content in the first place.
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by mmt 8y ago
> a toxic company culture that cultivated lying and, eventually, criminal fraud. FTA: > The scientists worked 12-16 hour days. I have to wonder if it's really as simple as exhaustion/overwork causing a breakdown in reasonin
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by mmt 8y ago
This is pretty big departure from your original comment. (Which was, I believe, supposed to be something of a rhetorical question, but my reply was to point out that it missed its mark.) > this is a fundamental problem in the world Altho
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by mmt 8y ago
Thanks (I'm not a parent). In those cases, yes, that pricing would make sense. Of course, it doesn't really matter if they control all the distribution anyway. They can just make "buying" a non-option, which I believe Di
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by mmt 8y ago
I didn't mean asking for a solution, I meant, more specifically, "asking" (really demanding) that certain videos be taken down, such as with a DMCA takedown request. Are you saying that Youtube has spent their own resources t
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by mmt 8y ago
> Small kids will watch the same thing over and over again. > being able to pay $10-$15 a month That seems like a terrible deal, compared with just paying for that "same thing" once and watching it over and over for free.
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by mmt 8y ago
I wish you had picked an example less fraught with flamewar potential, as this one has the sugar industry and water fluoridation firmly attached.
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by mmt 8y ago
Easy, because it's actually BigCo paying for someone to ask for that removal.
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by mmt 8y ago
> Decision is made, implementation and vendor selection is the hard part. >The cloud vendors are in fact already offering to take on a lot of this work of transitioning, which I am avoiding to avoid lock in at all costs. This gives yo
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by mmt 8y ago
This can't be over-emphasized, that, especially with no union, the power dynamic is immensely unbalanced. Even just the information assymetry is huge, since, despite recent innovations like Glassdoor, workers know very little about e
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by mmt 8y ago
> Yes, devs are often enthusiastic because they think they can ditch those boring old operations people who always stop them having fun. I think it's more subtle than that. (Also, I think the parent was trolling, but you knew that).
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by mmt 8y ago
That's the part that amazes me, just how much more companies pay for the cloud stuff, even on the labor side, yet startup executives (some of whom I've personally interviewed with) keep insisting it's cheaper.
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by mmt 8y ago
> I believe partially due to vendors getting their hooks in decades ago and expanding scope and increasing prices I would be surprised if this isn't the vast majority of it, with the rest being the over-provisioning you mention late
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by mmt 8y ago
> Today was the first time I ever complained about getting downvoted Well that's (easily) verifiable as false, and the behavior is contrary to the guidelines regardless of any "trigger".
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by mmt 8y ago
I agree with my sibling-commenter that this is a bit of a stretch, and I also think that merely not using a cloud provider's integrated database offering (e.g. RDS instead of running ones own on EC2 with or without EBS) doesn't
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by mmt 8y ago
That's extremely surprising. I see two possible explanations (both of which may apply): (1) You're getting the cloud servers for a remarkable discount, which, as other commenters mentioned, may not last if you don't put in th
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by mmt 8y ago
> hence why I always get downvoted or flagged), Actually, I suspect this complaint itself that causes it. Especially combined with words and phrases that tend to inflame skepticism. It's a bit disingenuous to imply otherwise.
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by mmt 8y ago
(Assuming one excludes the "natural" improvements to computing power from such things as Moore's Law..) > that person regardless of title can provision more computing power than ever before. I'm not entirely convinced
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by mmt 8y ago
> It's not "effectively" losing money. It's losing imaginary money. Well, to be fair, the money is real (or at least potentially real). It's the loss that's imaginary. > then every sale to attract custome
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by mmt 8y ago
> Article says 912 million barrels produced since 1999 Actually, it says: > In 2017, the Alberta oil sands produced roughly 912m barrels. The article doesn't actually tell us the whole history, it just cherry-picks one year. Ther
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by mmt 8y ago
If I understand correctly, although the GP may have been suggesting government subsidy as a possible solution, the point wasn't that this is somehow "best" from broad or moral reasons. Rather, it addresses the specific issu
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by mmt 8y ago
That sounds very much like Medicaid, or are you saying that the state mandates that the cost of the care come out of the "pocket" of the hospital?
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by mmt 8y ago
To clarify, my point wasn't about the driving itself, but rather, what both driving and Costco (and bulk purchases in general) represent, which is incompatible with a walkable, high-density city. I'm confident some people also
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by mmt 8y ago
Although I completely agree with this for any given "one-liner" or pipeline (even if it's multiple lines), I don't believe the mere use of awk in one place in the script means using cut elsewhere isn't simpler/
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by mmt 8y ago
I think, more practically, it's that this characteristic of heating is in stark contrast to traditional ovens, which are very much exclusively outside-in, no matter the composition. That is, "cooking inside out" is useful as
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by mmt 8y ago
And that's also much of what the article is about, though it's arguable if it's trying to get people more deeply interested in the language in general. Still, I'm not certain if the original comment is complaining about
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by mmt 8y ago
> Is there anything from cut I'm missing out on? It's a narrow tool. Other than the inherent advantage this brings in clarity/simplicity in a script, there's nothing else to it.
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by mmt 8y ago
I'll tend to do this in scripts, both for clarity and precision (i.e. when I know the specific, single delimiter). However, for ad-hoc command-line usage, I still prefer awk, because (1) the default delimiter is white space , which me
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by mmt 8y ago
> Not every milk is UHT but every grocery store offers it. But what about Costco (or other bulk-only sources), which is, really, the whole point of the thread (and original comment)?
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by mmt 8y ago
> And a car trip I suspect this is the real source of the hostility, rather than aesthetics: Costco represents, in general, a larger-land-footprint, car-dependent, suburban (or even semi-rural) lifestyle. There's likely something of

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