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by saddlerustle 6y ago
Who cares how much power it needs? Plug it into a hydroelectric dam. A superhuman AI would surely provide higher ROI than the terrawatts used for smelting Aluminium.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
Amazon gets away with high bandwidth pricing because almost all their customers are businesses with high revenue per byte served. If you want to serve large assets economically you have to look elsewhere. Bandwidth on Oracle Cloud is $0.008
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
That the throughput available to a single EC2 instance. S3 as a whole will do hundreds of Gbps no problem.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
This. There is no alternative for high performance object storage outside of AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage. Even Azure's offering is wonky. Lots of providers claim to offer object storage, but try hitting them from couple thousand co
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
Why would imports of vegetables be more expensive? The EU doesn't have export tariffs.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
Waymo is not currently offering any rides. Their service has been suspended for riders since March.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
technically , but only a handful (<5) of vehicles are run without a safety driver, each has a dedicated remote operator and a follower vehicle, and the area covered is much smaller than their regular operation (a small area in the subur
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
A company might not do a dividends or buybacks now , but if they are successful they are likely to do so eventually , and that expectancy is worth something just the same.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
The fundamental value of a stock is the net present value of future cashflows that stock entitles you to. Buyers and sellers are welcome to believe otherwise, but in the long run they will lose money.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
Why do you think that'll make drugs significantly cheaper? Drug companies are only about as profitable as other science-heavy industries.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
Where's the gutting? The budgets of the FAA, the FDA and the CDC are all at or near all time highs.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
To keep that in perspective, the GDP of Niger (population 22 million) is about the annual budget of San Francisco (population 900 thousand). Is comparing very poor countries to individuals from very rich countries a relevant framing? Global
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
Who has more money than governments? Sergey Brin is worth about $65 billion. The US federal budget is ~$3 trillion _per year_
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
The only LPDDR3 modules on newegg is aftermarket ram for iMacs, of which an 8GB stick is $90 for a lower speed.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
Please let me know where I can buy an 8GB 2133Mhz LPDDR3 module for $30, because that's a very very good price.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
Trash article. The Xbox code leaked in 2004 and was passed around extensively. You can find public download links from even ~2010. This was discussed in the popular 2005 CCC talk: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005&#x2
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
The N64 GPU Verilog has been circulating for like 10 years, that's not new in this leak.
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by saddlerustle 6y ago
The price $2999 in the US. There's no markup here, Apple's EU pricing just includes 20% VAT ($600) and implicit AppleCare (~$300) as required by EU consumer law.
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by saddlerustle 7y ago
> IMHO, your analogy is exactly correct and if Safeway was as big as Amazon, Warren would be calling for them to be broken up too. Walmart does this too and has double the revenue of Amazon. Warren has not called for Walmart to be broken
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by saddlerustle 7y ago
E-mail is very far from secure. The overwhelming recommendation for private 1:1 communication is "use WhatsApp or Signal". But you're right that a federated and private 1:1 platform is possible /in theory/. However
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by saddlerustle 7y ago
> Either that or legally mandate interoperability so that we can move to a federated social media landscape to encourage genuine innovation and competition. The Facebook API providing "interoperability" is exactly what got 100
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by saddlerustle 7y ago
Lots of people in this thread are claiming that it doesn't based on gut feeling, but consider: - Facebook publicly claims it does [1] - Mark Zuckerberg testified in-front of congress and stated they do [2] - Multiple government regulat
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by saddlerustle 8y ago
Facebook giving away your data through its api is exactly what got us access to everything in the hands of cambridge analytica and huawei. They shouldn't be allowed to have an open api.
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by saddlerustle 9y ago
No, that was Zcoin. Different project run by fools.
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by saddlerustle 9y ago
That seems backwards, given planes are 10x safer than cars
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by saddlerustle 9y ago
Every major airline gives the option of paying 10%-20% more and getting more legroom. United has Economy Plus, Delta has Comfort Plus, American Airlines has Main Cabin Extra...
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by saddlerustle 9y ago
IQ variance might explain part of the difference in nobel prize winners, but is minuscule at average IQ in tech (~90th percentile).
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by saddlerustle 10y ago
Seriously. QUIC was announced 4 years ago. Also QUIC requests show up in devtools fine
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by saddlerustle 10y ago
Keep in mind that the technology Mercedes is actually shipping today is said to be worse than Honda's and significantly worse than Tesla's [1] [1] http://www.thedrive.com/tech/5707/the-war-for-autonomous-