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by mmt 8y ago
> Are these the two scenarios that are being compared? I wouldn't know, other than assuming that the subject of the article is the model for the indoor farm. > I agree that indoor farming will likely seem more profitable even tho
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by mmt 8y ago
> Energy is energy Even this isn't quite true, since it's not fungible, except in the narrow use-case of creating heat[1]. > Whether the energy is carried by glucose/ATP or electric current is just an implementation det
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by mmt 8y ago
I don't doubt it, but it still doesn't quite answer my question. (The answer may seem obvious to an industry insider but likely to anyone else). If labor costs, for any comparably-sized farm, dwarf artificial light [1] costs, then
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by mmt 8y ago
That also raises the question of if it's implementation-dependent (especially if Apple optimizes AFP over everything else), rather than generally applicable to SMB, not that this would negate the validity of the example. > Over cabl
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by mmt 8y ago
> And labour is our biggest cost > But outside, we got sunshine. And it’s free. Nothing is cheaper than free! Would simulated and/or pumped-in sunshine cost more than (or even a significan fraction of) the labor? If not, that see
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by mmt 8y ago
My reading of that article is that what's currently being fought over is the secrecy of the recoring activity, rather than consent. That it is this level of nuance that is being argued in court suggests that the issue of consent is wel
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by mmt 8y ago
That seems like an overly simplistic anlysis, unless an employee who quits or gets fired not on an anniversary receives a pro-rated partial share at departure. Otherwise, a separation before the first anniversary (presumably a certainty for
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by mmt 8y ago
Moreover, it stands to reason that much of that excess (beyond assets) value is predicated on their unit economics, which depend on fulfillment costs, remaining good.
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by mmt 8y ago
> people who use postgres understand query performance more than people who use mysql This statement strikes me as likely to be true, at least for database non-experts. It was certainly true for me. I didn't have anything approachin
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by mmt 8y ago
> The question is, is learning it useful? Even that question is too broadly posed. The question is, is learning it in addition to [1] the previously-standard tools useful? [1] In the context of the article, this might be "instead o
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Ten (really Eleven) Lessons from Counsyl(linkedin.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
> seemed dumb to me to cool the interior of your refrigerator by dumping heat into your home, which your AC has to then extract and dump outside. This doesn't strike me as dumb at all, unless the refrigerator's heat pump is mor
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by mmt 8y ago
I've never heard that, but I also don't use SMB heavily (especially over Wifi) to begin with. Is there a site you can point to that details the protocol's latency-sensitivity? If something like bulk file transfer is at issue,
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by mmt 8y ago
Updated of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18108980 Bulk of discussion at the submission for the slides pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099304
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Updated – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [video](youtube.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
PDF of slides discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099304 Updated version https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109098
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [video](youtube.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
Looks like the full talk is on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KFpXuHqHQg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18108980 And an updated one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__wn9z
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by mmt 8y ago
Outright short-selling has unbounded losses, but there are other ways of "being short" (i.e. betting on a price drop) where the loss is limited, such as buying put options, though these tend to be time-limited as well, to a couple
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by mmt 8y ago
> Why drive? Besides the usual arguments against public transit, such as schedule inflexibility, comfort, and cost[1], there's overall trip time. Unless your other endpoint is similarly close to a Caltrain "bullet" stop (a
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by mmt 8y ago
> There is another route though - to build something like Blekko engine, but it requires a big amount of help from the users. Considering that Blekko was, ultimately, shut down, users may be less inclined to contribute to something simil
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by mmt 8y ago
Oops.. [2] should have been https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18089067
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by mmt 8y ago
> With that kind of problem, you may want to abandon x86 altogether At this end of the spectrum, that means abandoning commodity hardware, with everything it implies, not just a change in binary architecture, as it might for ARM vs. x86
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by mmt 8y ago
Although I'm skeptical (though see below), as the sibling comment is, that this small an increase in best case latency would make a difference in a typical office environment, I'm curious if it was (as close to) apples-to-apples a
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by mmt 8y ago
I think it's pretty widely understood that the denominator is the whole company.
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YC's SAFE Financing Documents(ycombinator.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
> The parent was asking for something "off the shelf", and I took this to mean purchasing a motherboard by itself. The parent did ask about a mobo, specifically, but I think it's a stretch that the question was about the c
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by mmt 8y ago
> That implies a 40gb NIC It may imply that but only outright requires 40Gb/s total, which is provided by the "4-port 10GBase-T Ethernet SIOM (Intel® X550 controller)" of a SuperServer 7089P-TR4T. The EBS bandwidth can be
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by mmt 8y ago
The "custom" and "proprietary" are largely irrelevant, in that they're merely internal implementation details. These systems (from SuperMicro or Lenovo, for example) still fit in a standard 19" rack, and still
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by mmt 8y ago
> https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-7088B That's previous generation: >Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800 v4/v3 family The articles states: > All three sizes are power

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