scurvy

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   by scurvy 11y ago

   Definitely. Ever wonder why New Orleans' airport has the symbol MSY, but is named Louis Armstrong airport? MSY stands for Moisant Stock Yards, in honor of early aviator John Moisant. Im recent years, the city renamed the airport to Lo
2. 752.▲
   by scurvy 11y ago

   Thanks for downvoting something 100% true? It's trivial to Google the source, but here you are. Straight from the CEO's mouth to print. http://www.wsj.com/articles/potential-saudi-aramco-ipo-wont-...
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   by scurvy 11y ago

   Australia is particularly bad at the Internet because of state meddling. But Australians like a large amount of state meddling, so don't expect this to change any time soon.
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   by scurvy 11y ago

   The Aramco IPO doesn't include any reserves. Those remain 100% sovereign. You're just buying into the services company.
5. 755.▲
   by scurvy 11y ago

   The problem with that valuation is the fact that the IPO shares won't have any rights to the oil reserves. The devil is in the details. I'm sure most people buying stock think that they're buying part of SA's riches, but
6. 756.▲
   by scurvy 11y ago

   $150k isn't really exotic nor supercar territory. $150k is nicely optioned Merc or Porsche territory. When you're competing against those two, mistakes like this are costly. Tesla's only saving grace with the Model X is that
7. 757.▲
   by scurvy 11y ago

   You're ignoring all of the companies they bought.
8. 758.▲
   by scurvy 11y ago

   They have north of 90% of all .com registrations either directly or through companies that they acquired.
9. 759.▲
   by scurvy 11y ago

   I just wish that both firms would fix their mapping data. Both insist on picking me up and dropping me off around the corner from my front door. This is not a crazy street or anything. Two way next to two way. The data is so mind boggling b
10. 760.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    Which economy has crashed?
11. 761.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    They must not know SF's history...
12. 762.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    There's huge swaths of single family homes in SF; just not in the areas of soul-less high rise hotel/condos that young tech people seem to prefer. You do realize there's a Costco in Soma right? It's swamped with people.
13. 763.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    CA prop 13 fear monger much?
14. 764.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    Been to Miami lately? Take a drive around Edgewater. Foreign money is not a myth. The biggest problem is operational for these huge towers. The occupancy rates are all over the place with wild fluctuations. It makes things like staffing and
15. 765.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    And Miami is hot again from foreign (Russian and South American) buyers. Blocks of housing in Edgewater are razed to put up huge luxury condos. My wife (Brazilian) and I joke that we won't have to take the kids all the way to Brazil. W
16. 766.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    Where can you buy with 2.5% down? Those days are long gone. Skin in the game and all that.
17. 767.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    Could have fooled me. I get 3-4 letters a month from realtors wanting to buy my condo for a Chinese investor.
18. 768.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    Tenure and pork. Same reason Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond kept getting reelected when most of the population didn't like them. To paraphrase: she's a jerk, but she's our jerk.
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    by scurvy 11y ago

    She's a Democrat and a long tenured, high ranking one at that. Apathetic voters are largely to blame but no one wants to rock the boat because I'm sure she pork barrels a ton of money back to California. She also has access to ood
20. 770.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    Network costs. Bandwidth costs is where the cloud stops making sense. Even Netflix hypes up their cloud use, but they don't serve videos from there.
21. 771.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    One more: How is relying on a random Python library from OpenStack better than relying on a UNIX command line tool that's used by 100x as many people?
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    by scurvy 11y ago

    It's my hunch that they fixed "curating DNS by hand" with service discovery in another method. If you're just using DNS to name internal servers, big whoop. Unless you're using those DNS names for service discovery.
23. 773.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    Most people and customers are tolerant of 15 minutes downtime here and there once or twice a year. Sure, there will be loudmouths who claim to be losing thousands of dollars in sales or business, but they're usually lying and/or n
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    by scurvy 11y ago

    Also, this whole solution sounds like a Linux clone of Microsoft's Automated Deployment Services -- way ahead of its time and under-appreciated in 2004.
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    by scurvy 11y ago

    What happened to your DNS data? Did you switch to dynamic DNS based upon database data? You talk about how much a burden the manual DNS information was, but then you don't specify how you actually solved it using "automation.&quot
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    by scurvy 11y ago

    Rumor was that the other teams developed the self-modifying code, not Benetton. This is all rumor and speculation though. No one's going to come out now and say "Yeah we totally cheated back then" because the FIA could revers
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    by scurvy 11y ago

    Benetton in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Formula_One_cheating_cont... Once the FIA started demanding access to ECU's, programmers learned their system and figured out ways to produce faked checksums be
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    by scurvy 11y ago

    This man has nothing on Formula 1 ECU coders. Their levels of deception and track covering are beyond impressive.
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    by scurvy 11y ago

    Great, now even Yelp employees think that they're food critics. Also, get off your high horse for implying that a greasy spoon can't be good or have high standards.
30. 780.▲
    by scurvy 11y ago

    If you pay a fee, it's a visa. Whether if you get it ahead of time or on landing (a la Indonesia) doesn't matter. A fee is a visa. Speaking of Indonesia, they even charge you to leave!