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781.
by sib 7y ago
Yes, makes sense that it has to read them (and presumably calculate a hash and send that hash to your service) to deduplicate; in this case, it took multiple days to complete the process. This is about how long it took to upload the directo
782.
by sib 7y ago
Yes, that's exactly what happened. It required re-uploading more than 300GB of data. Will reach out to support.
783.
by sib 7y ago
Hi Yev - sorry to jump in here; I've been a customer for a long time and would like to understand the best way to move some particular directory structure from an internal disc to an external disc (both of which are backed up by Backbl
784.
by sib 7y ago
Wow. That is the strangest thing that I've read ion a while. Are employers allowed to take the location of prospective employees' residences into account when deciding to hire or not? If I lived across the country, would the emplo
785.
by sib 7y ago
You don't use a lot of Adobe apps, do you? (Not trying to be snarky, but I spend a lot of time in my hobby using their apps and I could easily use 10x the overall processing power / speed)
786.
by sib 7y ago
It sounds like a lot to me, but it's worth noting that there are individuals with more money than that (and certainly plenty of tech companies who could invest that much). The Gates Foundation alone could fund that investment.
787.
by sib 7y ago
Many people cancel cable and don't subscribe to anything, and decide to read books instead, but we wouldn't call "nothing" or "reading books" a "cable replacement service"... From the GP's commen
788.
by sib 7y ago
Services such as Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, Amazon ("non-Prime") Video, Fandango, etc., satisfy this use case, at least in certain geographies.
789.
by sib 7y ago
Netflix is not a "cable replacement" streaming service. Those services are the so-called VMVPDs such as PS Vue, DirecTV Now, SlingTV, YouTube TV, etc. The key characteristic of these services that differentiates them from Netflix
790.
by sib 7y ago
Premium video ads sell at much higher CPM than YouTube. Hulu makes more money from users on their "with-ads" tier than on the higher-priced "ad-free" tier.
791.
by sib 7y ago
Google sees Amazon as its biggest and most threatening competitor. Starving your competitor of lots of high-margin revenue is a good thing to do.
792.
by sib 7y ago
It's much easier to buy a public company than a private one (in a "hostile" or undesired situation), so if a company becomes public at a lower valuation, it's cheaper for Salesforce to acquire them and eliminate the comp
793.
by sib 7y ago
Or, rephrased, "They become really expensive for me to acquire and add to my crappy pile of product spaghetti in a monopolistic fashion! It would be much better if they went public when the were still cheap."
794.
by sib 7y ago
"Something like a 70% failure rate, with 20% being moderately successful, and 10% being very successful is considered very good for the VC industry." While that's true overall, I don't think those expectations are the sa
795.
by sib 7y ago
The challenge with a statement such as this is that it's stated like it's a natural law ("you can't fly aircraft when you're bankrupt"), rather than the result of a particular set of legal structures in a par
796.
by sib 7y ago
Which is exactly why they are installing Wi-Fi at Supercharger stations.
797.
by sib 7y ago
If I ran the place (I'm just the "primary member" for a 20-space private space in one of their LA locations), I would suggest that they prioritize handling all of these real problem tickets and stop spending time planning and
798.
by sib 7y ago
Happens more than you'd think. My grandmother (perfectly healthy and living on her own at 92) slipped and fell in the bathroom. She broke her hip and could not get to the phone. No one knew for 18 hours, after which the initial relativ
799.
by sib 7y ago
I have a backup phone...
800.
by sib 7y ago
While I agree with you (hobbyist DSLR photog with everything from 14mm to 500mm lenses) that field of view is more precise, I think most people don't know the correlation between the two. I'd say that far more people in the genera
801.
by sib 7y ago
True, but only by the standards of traditional photography... The standard iPhone lens (26mm) has always been pretty much normal for phone camera lenses. When Apple introduced the second lens (51mm), they called it "telephoto," ev
802.
by sib 7y ago
I guess I'd call that "property rights" - the owner of the book (or its digital version) should be able to sell or not sell to whomever she wants.
803.
by sib 7y ago
"Tablets are better in some ways than e-readers but much worse in others. There's no killer does-everything-pretty-well e-reader solution yet. They rock for casual, lighter reading, though, which is probably a fairly high percenta
804.
by sib 7y ago
Completely agree. Multiple times I've had USPS drivers report packages as "delivered" late in the day when they were not delivered at all, then they are actually delivered the next day. Sure makes their metrics look better, t
805.
by sib 7y ago
I don't know, but I always assumed that a simple optimization would be one that compared your typical driving speed to posted speed limits on open roads. That is, do you usually drive 5 or 10 miles (kilometers) per hour under or over t
806.
by sib 7y ago
Or the Beetle?
807.
by sib 7y ago
Where are you located? In some (US) states, it is illegal to resell electricity, so companies with EV charging networks in those states (including, for example Tesla) charge by time, rather than by the KWh. In this way, they are basically a
808.
by sib 7y ago
Sure, agreed, but GP was saying that (s)he 'use[s] it all the time to set reminders. "Ok Google. At 2 PM next Tuesday remind me to <insert pretty much anything here>".' I find that Siri is perfectly capable of crea
809.
by sib 7y ago
If you can make it, you should... I was lucky enough to go there for a trip a couple of years ago and it was incredible, in all the ways that others have described.
810.
by sib 7y ago
I use Siri to do the same. Is it an issue of better ASR or NLP that makes the difference for you?

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