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by shimon_e 15y ago
I was making a point that Chinese courts generally don't award large lawsuits. The peasant sued for 4 rmb but the court felt that was too much. Here is the news article if you are interested: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2010-02/0
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by shimon_e 15y ago
Wow $1.6 billion. I remember a case in China few years ago when a peasant found a 3cm bug in a bottle of Sprite. He sued Coca-Cola for 4 rmb ($0.64). The court ruled in his favor but only awarded him 2.05 rmb. I wonder if this is a change i
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by shimon_e 15y ago
Probably not going to last. When Google launched checkout it had better rates than paypal. After a few years it ended up matching paypal. When Amazon started selling music online it was 89 cents a song. Now it is on par with iTunes.
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by shimon_e 15y ago
If I can use China as an example, then in my experience, yes, the cost of the driver makes a huge difference. However, I am not entirely certain if the government is subsidising anything.
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by shimon_e 15y ago
If your company can not created enough work for you. Then you create enough work for yourself. You need to justify your pay check to the company somehow.
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by shimon_e 15y ago
How much cooling do these racks need? It could be a killer sales point if these servers need no cooling.
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by shimon_e 15y ago
More than 1% of Americans are millionaires. Compared to less than 0.05 of Chinese.
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by shimon_e 15y ago
I would also take into account that many internet users in China are still using IE6. And, internet connections tend to be of low quality so it is more bearable for the user to download one busy page from two simpler pages.
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by shimon_e 15y ago
Hahaha... I should really be shouting this out... If you are doing big numbers... sign up for Paypal in the UK. 1.4% for UK transactions and 1.9% for other currencies/countries. You need to be doing a considerable amount per month but you a
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by shimon_e 15y ago
Using half depth motherboards a rack is able to support 90 servers. Some providers like OVH in Europe focus on only building such racks.
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by shimon_e 15y ago
I'd bet visiting the sick is more effective than the placebo effect.
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by shimon_e 15y ago
Saying it is used by twitter makes it a lot easier to sell to management.
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by shimon_e 15y ago
Based on those times I'd say he is in Russia or very close to an Australia-Japan peering exchange.
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by shimon_e 15y ago
Surprisingly, China does not have good enough links to Hong Kong yet. From what I understand the government is mostly busy improving internal infrastructure and end-user speed. Chinese generally use China equivalent sites for your major ban
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by shimon_e 15y ago
It looks like their IP is residential. This ISP even has 1gbps lines commercially available in Tokyo from what I understand. I wouldn't be shocked if just put up a rack in up in the ISPs datacenter to make use of the cheapest bandwidth rate