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by msravi 11y ago
> EBS w/ SSD doesn't have I/O request fees attached I didn't know that. Thank you! > Also, S3 and SQS are phenomenal I agree. Which is why I'm going to continue using S3 for my daily backups but move to DO for
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by msravi 11y ago
I'm actually contemplating moving out of AWS to DO. I signed up for a 1-year m3.medium reserved instance with AWS (Singapore region) sometime in May when the reserved instance cost was ~$50/month (it's now $35/month but
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SC Justices' comments on Affirmative Action(mobile.nytimes.com)
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Minority students may be better off going to lesser schools(theguardian.com)
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by msravi 11y ago
Sure, the government can. But that doesn't mean Netflix tries to satisfy the laws of all 196 countries in the world. Netflix is a US company, and they only need to satisfy US laws. And FYI, viewing of pornography is NOT illegal in In
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by msravi 11y ago
Where are all the gradient and curl operators in the picture of the original manuscript on the page? Or was that notation developed later?
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by msravi 11y ago
Hmm... I have uMatrix installed and it just loads the whole page.
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by msravi 11y ago
So you're saying that studios sign away all current and future distribution rights for all current and future movies that they create to an exclusive distributor for a particular region? It's not done on a per-movie basis? That is
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by msravi 11y ago
Sorry, I don't get it. Are you saying that the studios are forced into this situation because of earlier contracts they've signed with cable networks? Aren't contracts signed separately for each new movie that they create?
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by msravi 11y ago
I don't think they need to "operate" in India or anywhere else in the world. They just need to allow people to sign up for their service irrespective of where they're from and access content, just like, you know, how the
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by msravi 11y ago
Ok! Didn't know about this. One other VPN I tried (a year or so ago), was real slow and Netflix was unwatchable. They do have a free trial, so will give this a go.
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by msravi 11y ago
And for those outside the US, bittorrent is all you need. Seriously, I really don't understand - Hollywood is losing a ton by not allowing Hulu and Netflix to screen internationally. They end up pirated anyway - why the US-only restric
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by msravi 11y ago
I use uMatrix, uBlock0, and privacy badger, and am very happy about it. 1st party scripts are turned on by default by uMatrix, and for those that break, I selectively turn them on. Privacy Badger takes care of blocking cookies (first or thi
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by msravi 11y ago
> It looks like my 10mmx10mm comment was way off. Not by too much. A mobile baseband SoC that supports 2G+3G+LTE-Cat-6 will end up in the 7mmx7mm range with a 28nm process.
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ISIL communicates using Playstation 4(qz.com)
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by msravi 11y ago
Why are all the robotic insects built with flapping wings, as opposed to propellers or rotors that drones, airplanes, boats, and helicopters are built with? Is there something inherently different at that scale that requires flapping wings?
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by msravi 11y ago
Algebra. http://codeup.com/can-a-simple-algebra-test-predict-programm... Previous hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8741868
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by msravi 11y ago
Perch is a division of Samsung Research America, Inc. (“SRA”). The Personal Information collected by Perch may be shared within SRA or with entities that are controlled by, under common control with, or control SRA. This Privacy Policy is f
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by msravi 11y ago
> Apple didn’t sell me this software. They still own it, in fact. I’m just borrowing it. Does this also apply to older versions of OS X that are actually paid for (such as Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion)? Or is this only for the "fr
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by msravi 11y ago
> Her principal crime appears to be that she was a bit naive in making overly optimistic promises and embracing the celebrity CEO role, which has made her a target for schadenfreude. And the fraud committed in gaming proficiency-testing
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by msravi 11y ago
Very smart. And very deceitful. WSJ called them out for fraudulently gaming proficiency testing: > The two types of equipment gave different results when testing for vitamin D, two thyroid hormones and prostate cancer. The gap suggested
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by msravi 11y ago
> The sources relied on in the article today were never in a position to understand Theranos’ technology and know nothing about the processes currently employed by the company. Note the use of the word "current". Implicitly,
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by msravi 11y ago
It's really pretty simple, and rather clear from the article, that Theranos has been cheating, VW-style. They use regular equipment to get through "proficiency testing", but use the Edison machine for regular patient specimen
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by msravi 11y ago
UWisc has always been very aggressive with its patents. I recall sometime during 2002 or thereabouts, while working for a reasonably big semiconductor company with DSP/ARM processors, one of the guys in our team with an interest in com
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by msravi 11y ago
Yes. The first time you click, it returns a blank page (with an adblocker). The second time you click, the article's contents can be seen. Has happened to me on all the Forbes articles posted here.
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by msravi 11y ago
From the article: > Their executives concentrate on complex, expensive products for the highest-end customer. That creates an opportunity for upstarts to come up with cheaper products or services that get them entry into a market via low
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by msravi 11y ago
So now, given that "fixing" the problem will cause power loss, and consequently adversely affect fuel economy, wouldn't a number of VW owners opt not to bring in their vehicles for the recall? What's the incentive for VW
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by msravi 11y ago
Hmm... so is nytimes conspicuously missing from that list or did I miss it? The guardian gets more and more of my respect every day, not just for the lack of ads, but for the depth and choice of their articles - that's one publication
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by msravi 11y ago
Exactly. The audio sample on the page does exactly this. And yet, astonishingly, the author goes on to state: "...these types of syllables, astonishingly, really do not contain any vowels, epenthetic or otherwise" when in fact, th
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by msravi 11y ago
This is an excellent article that gets to the crux of the issue: other people’s money. And, I can't help but delve one level deeper. Who's money were the banks playing with? Pension funds, mutual funds... in other words, funds in

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