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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Hard pass. ;)
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
It's the price of civlization for all, not just the lucky few.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
I moved from Australia (with ~50% top marginal tax rate) to the US (where everything's all about "low" taxes and getting nothing for them except funding dumb wars) and my take home pay was higher in Australia. Let's not
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Taxes are the least of your problems in SF. It's not even a consideration and probably the wrong optimization to make when deciding where to live. There's a reason most US billionaires live in CA or NY.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
This already exists.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Those people always exist, but they cost a lot more than level 1 people. It's just impossible to scale that level of support to 100% of the customer base without escalation etc.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Compared to? I agree to some extent that ZFS on FreeBSD might have been more stable than ZoL, but in general? Meh.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
You can only ever sue a law/accounting firm for the total cost of services rendered to you in that year or whatever. Depends on the client agreement. Even then it's always a grey area where it's advice that may or may not be
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
It's not true, though. SF is pretty much average in this regard. Americans in general just don't seem to care about public spaces, pretty much anywhere in the country. I've travelled to many US cities and the only reason othe
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
These things are always just PR exercises. Someone always pays in the end. The question that should be asked is: Why would Sharp want to build TVs (which are sold at between a very small profit to a loss already while being built in China
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
CloudFront is one of the worst CDNs out there, so this isn't really a good point. Any CDN can be stood up in front of a small fleet of dedicated hosts, and you'd still be saving 80%.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Until the US switches to a parliamentary system, any third party is just a spoiler. See Jill Stein and the Greens. The Democratic party is centrist. But it's a huge tent that covers a lot of people and a lot of interests. I honestly
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Probably travel insurance. Otherwise something like Cigna Global.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Just in case you can forward this on... AWS EC2 eu-west-2 (London) to GCP Network Loader Balancer is about 12ms round trip for some reason. Most other anycast services located in London are 0.5-2ms round trip. Just something I noticed recen
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Can you guys please add this to the default VPC for people? For whatever reason every other region is there already but not this. I can't create GCE instances because it's missing the subnet and you can't add a subnet to the
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Title is misleading.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Anyone can buy ads for your app though. The two systems (iTunes Connect) and iAds aren't linked like that.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Google has this option in the Google iOS app (and presumably the Android one). Interactive Brokers have had something like this for a couple of years.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Stripe is better than Braintree in every single way. There's no contest. Braintree gets competitive when you've got more "custom" needs and large transaction volumes.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Discounts, etc. But usually these lists of "customers" is just someone trawling the user database for @foocorp.com and anyone signed up from there makes the company a "customer".
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
There really isn't one. But normal people (i.e. non techies) use these things for small "factoid" type situations. Weather, sports scores, stuff like that. It takes longer to ask a thing what the weather is than looking at my
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Downloading API kits and actually getting those things you built approved for distribution are very different things though.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Siri has an "API". A very limited set of things it can do. It's basically a hard coded list of events that get triggered if someone says a particular phrase. Spotify's use case isn't supported.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
How does NLP have anything to do with microphones? Siri's problem isn't speech to text -- try the dictation button on the iOS keyboard sometime. It's perfect. Siri's problem is that it's very limited.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
The problem, for me, is that Siri is just really dumb in comparison to Alexa and Google Assistant. And those aren't that smart yet either.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Do queries to github.net stay internal or do you also sync github.net zones to Route53/Dynect ... just in case? We have a similar setup with unbound and nsd (no need for powerdns for us). Even then it took a while to get it right becau
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Why would you want to double your CDN costs for negligible benefit?
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
I get this as: [nginx_parser] WARNING Skip unparseable block: "http" Which presumably means it's broken there too? :)
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
It takes 10 seconds to install unbound.
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by pbarnes_1 9y ago
Yeah these design documents always look nicer than the actual implementation. In practice Windows 10 looks... lifeless.

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