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   by psc 14y ago

   Perhaps, but for now, it's cheaper to make a data center out of traditional commodity hardware. Let's say that a hard drive (or whatever storage device) has a failure rate of 1% over 1 year. With traditional hardware, for every 100 computer
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   by psc 14y ago

   Cool for a personal server, but there's one large downside—everything's soldered on. Upgrading a server like this isn't really possible. And what if something breaks? Unlike commodity hardware of the past, you can't just take the server out
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   by psc 14y ago

   Great breakdown. I took a quick look at the HTML, and this is what I got from the div ids, listed spatially: Mixer Section: "mastervol" "moog-volume2" "moog-volume1" "moo
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   by psc 14y ago

   I've read portions of the manifesto, like the one you mentioned, and I'm not claiming that I have a full understanding of all of Kaczynski's arguments, but I don't think I deserve such a vacuous and condescending response. I'd like to hear
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   by psc 14y ago

   Kaczynski's view seems a bit narrow—he takes a small portion of freedom and complains about how technology eliminates this freedom. But there's more to freedom than just the freedom of not adapting. Sure, it's becoming hard to get by withou
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   by psc 14y ago

   Exactly. Being frugal is can be great, but I think it's important to remember that it can sometimes cost more to be frugal. For example, walking for his trip to Michigan—if he had spent $100 on a bus, he could've shortened his trip by hours