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by pavs 8y ago
I would Akamai Nodes at the same level. A lot of times large sites leverage on Akamai infrastructure for distribution/CDN. Facebook heavily relied on Akamai (esp outside the USA) for a long time, I don't if they still do it. Youtu
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by pavs 8y ago
I was talking specifically about the person I replied to and many others (actually most comments) in the discussion which had nothing specific about net neutrality about ISPs being profitable.
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by pavs 8y ago
Really this. As an ISP owner, I have to say this is the truth. People and organization who like to badmouth big telcos and ISPs that they are ripping them off don't know anything about the business aspect of things. Because they are of
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Trump on Going Without Electricity(trumpspeaks.us)
1 points by pavs 8y ago|0 comments
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by pavs 8y ago
They scaled by making a huge investment in their network. They didn't make a fundamental new technical discovery that didn't exist before. They had money, they threw money at the problem, as expected it worked. The problem was an
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by pavs 8y ago
It's OK to be optimistic about something different. It's also ok to discuss the reality, that's not necessarily negativity towards a project. Are we only supposed to discuss one side of the argument and ignore reality just be
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by pavs 8y ago
Their hands were forced by law, which is why they implemented this. The law itself was created because of Facebook Actions (being one of the main reasons). You are making it sound like he is doing it because of the goodness of his heart, or
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by pavs 8y ago
Almost all telecom's network service will vary depending on specific location. Instead of X has better latency than Y, the correct conclusion should be that X has better network _in this particular location_ than Y.
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by pavs 8y ago
That's a common misconception of how dopamine works. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/2017...
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by pavs 8y ago
Seriously? Is "Looks a bit cartoonish compared to falcon9" is really such a horrible thing to say? Even by HN standard (which I have been visiting quite regularly for over 10 years), this is really tame.
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by pavs 8y ago
Looks a bit cartoonish compared to falcon9. I know they have a different purpose and are different in size.
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by pavs 8y ago
Youtube?
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by pavs 8y ago
> This argument would hold water if China's Internet policies were unique to telecom. They're not. The same instruments which protected Baidu and Tencent promote local steelmakers, phone makers, car manufacturers, battery and s
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by pavs 8y ago
As much as its fashionable to hate on China and its government, it's important to understand that Foreign government social manipulation of citizen and instigate chaos is real and it's not limited to US or western countries or onl
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by pavs 8y ago
If users need to go through so many hoops to avoid facebook tracking, Best use privacy badger + don't use facebook at all.
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by pavs 8y ago
I think you meant to ask why is Facebook treating its users like shit?
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by pavs 8y ago
Wow. You are either willfully ignorant at best or deliverately spreading false info at worst. Musk's Tesla package is performance based. He only get 'paid' by stock if he meets some ridiculously hard performance benchmark (ie
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by pavs 9y ago
While Linux doesn't require as much tinkering to make things work on the desktop like it used to. It still does require more tinkering than out of the box MacOS or Windows10 and does have software support and availability issues for ca
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by pavs 9y ago
> I bet in 20 years no one will know what ReactJS even is, but ReactOS very much will preserve NT regardless of Microsoft’s successes. Don't be sure about something in the tech on such a long time frame. Just to put things into cont
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by pavs 9y ago
Have you tried installing MacOS on non-apple hardware? Not sure I understand the comparison. MacOS shines as long as you are within Apple walled garden, while I personally like MacOS, I know plenty of users who like Apple hardware but not t
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by pavs 9y ago
Also has very good support on Lenovo (in my experience), which would make 3 of the largest PC/Laptop manufacturers in the world that has good linux support. Here is a list of certified vendors for Ubuntu: https://certificati
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by pavs 9y ago
> Then a coal power factory somewhere can buy the Norwegian credits and claim to be 100% green and sell that. It's no wonder many people don't like this scheme. No this is not happening anywhere, where are you coming with this
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by pavs 9y ago
What would be the point of this "loophole"? This is pittance money for All the big companies, Apple, MSFT, Google etc. I don't think most consumers even care about whatever marketing buzz this might generate. This is a net po
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The Social Media Echo Chamber Hell(slashgeek.net)
1 points by pavs 9y ago|0 comments
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by pavs 9y ago
When doing buy-outs or acquisations, how often do company consider culture-class as an obstacle? I would think thats not even brought up during discussion. For a startup, it might make sense. Not for large established companies.
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by pavs 9y ago
Please stop spreading FUDs, given the option I think most people would prefer China over USA's policy of bombing the shit out of your country to install democracy or rather pro-American democracy.
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by pavs 9y ago
> I live in an area that is mere miles from Google Fiber but I will never get an option to use them. In the world of physical fiber connectivity, a "mere miles" could be anything from 100s of thousands of dollars to millions of
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by pavs 9y ago
> If a country like the USA can have its elections manipulated, how vulnerable might smaller democracies be? This has to be a joke, right? The USA has been responsible for undermining democracy all over the world more than any other coun
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by pavs 9y ago
very true.
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by pavs 9y ago
My rule with Youtube is that, if the production value is relatively high, the character is an act (ie, scripted). I don't know who poppy was had to look it up and saw some of her older videos and it seemed to me that right from the beg

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