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811.
by sireat 9y ago
That is somewhat shocking that yahoo uses gmail internally. What happened to eating your own dogfood?
812.
by sireat 9y ago
True Google does it too and probably Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and probably Oracle too. In fact it seems that Facebook is actually doing more than most companies. From the article it seems that these service workers at Facebook actually get
813.
by sireat 9y ago
I mean it is possible that the model could work for someone with access to more capital and better fee structure than OP making $50 bets. Still, this seems like a model that will likely work about 95% then fail on outliers ie "picking
814.
by sireat 9y ago
When I am a pedestrian I would much rather take my chances with a inconsiderate biker than a inconsiderate car driver. Bikers killing someone are extremely rare. Bikers getting killed by drivers is more common (citation needed). When I am b
815.
by sireat 9y ago
Holy cow, $187 per click, that seems ridiculously high and no wonder has attracted attention of all kind of bad faith actors. Granted, I have not checked AdWords in 10 years back when most things cost less than $1 per click, save for some m
816.
by sireat 9y ago
I believe there was data that with 64GB of RAM you can expect at least a single bit error or two a month. Thus ECC would be super helpful to those that expect that most of the 64GB will be filled with bits that shouldn't be changed. Th
817.
by sireat 9y ago
Setting BTC aside for a moment how are ICOs not a bubble? There is no ICO that has not raised way more money than necessary. Then you add that most ICOs are little more than a white papers with some pedigree and you have the makings of a bu
818.
by sireat 9y ago
Makes sense that Taobao would be a great option in Shanghai :) I wonder how easy it is to receive Taobao merchandise in Europe. It appears you have to go through an agent.
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by sireat 9y ago
How's the buying experience for computer hardware on taobao? I bought everything for a dual Xeon 2670v1 system (starting with Dell T5600 as base) from ebay and it came out to $1000 last year including $150 for 64GB of ECC RAM. Very hap
820.
by sireat 9y ago
What provisions are there on restoring these Helium HDDs to working order 10+ years from now on? Helium will leak so that is an extra problem to deal with in preserving data. Regular HDDs, replace a controller or even open up old HDDs and r
821.
by sireat 9y ago
In my high school AP English class we had to and it was not that bad for a forced assignment.
822.
by sireat 9y ago
Suddenly Color and Clinkle don't seem so outrageous.
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by sireat 9y ago
I think the article paints too rosy a picture for older minds. Yes you can learn things as you get older but the bar for your achievements gets lower and lower as you age. Let's take chess: There are no cases of a novice starting to le
824.
by sireat 9y ago
You know your bank is horrible when Paypal has the better support. Over the years here on HN we have heard a number of Paypal horror stories but it seems Paypal is somewhat responsive. Personally, I've had two lockdowns on my small tim
825.
by sireat 9y ago
Sadly there is a major e-commerce provider in my niche which does exactly that - routinely forgets all my information. In fact sometimes their web form just forgets things for no reason. There is no competitor in sight because of the huge h
826.
by sireat 9y ago
Not counting Monero and a few others, most cryptocurrencies are only pseudo-anonymous.
827.
by sireat 9y ago
Sadly transaction costs in established crypto are quite high for small (<$10)transactions. Microtransactions are not viable at the moment. There would have to be a solid(likely with some sort of central authority) proof of stake crypto f
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by sireat 9y ago
I could have sworn there was still sizeable Bitcoin mining done near the cheap hydros such as in Washington State(around 3c/kWh). Sure China and Ukraine is cheaper but not that much.
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by sireat 9y ago
As has been mentioned elsewhere, why would they beg when they have FU money and can buy Lambos. They can honestly say that Storj lead developer left of personal reasons and no one else can take over. There is no obligation on their part to
830.
by sireat 9y ago
Please, elaborate on the opposite meaning! Dylan's poem seems much more straight forward (unlike Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening for one) For humanity it is all ephemeral/useless but give a good fight anyw
831.
by sireat 9y ago
The writup is sunny because it is the classic "local done good" story written by a local paper. It is an inspirational story. Just remember this business started in late 70s. This is not some get rich quick story.
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by sireat 9y ago
This "buyer" is not going to buy any of the books. The trick only works because the book is considered published yet it is out of stock so has to be back ordered. And these back orders still count for the NYT bestseller list. My g
833.
by sireat 9y ago
Another problem is that if you are doing your trading/speculation in the modern "bucket shops" you run into the very same problem Jesse Livermore had in the 1890s, you get banned from the premises and your profits taken away.
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by sireat 9y ago
It reminds me of the old Gary Larson Far Side cartoon: "Wait, wait, I guess it says HELF" If you see a sign on an isolated island, what are the chances it really is HELF..
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by sireat 9y ago
I am in the same boat, one of my use cases is many many instances of the same application. (100 instances would be good, as I get 70 on my dual socket E5-2670 v1) Only problem when compared to dual socket Xeon E5 solutions up to Broadwell(v
836.
by sireat 9y ago
Without resorting to hyperbole a reasonable case can be made that Tesla losing $5B is more utilitarian than SNAP,GRPN,ZNGA losing $5B. It is all about how society allocates its capital/claim checks(to use Buffett's term). Case is
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by sireat 9y ago
Are you really sure you want to live on a boat? First of all it might be more expensive than an apartment, mooring(slip?) fees are quite expensive. Second, boat maintanance can be expensive too. I recently spent a week on a reasonable 50 fo
838.
by sireat 9y ago
HN in general will tolerate dissent, if you can provide good argumentation. Sure there's groupthink in HN as in any other forum, but HN is more open to different ideas than any other forum that I have known since the days of Usenet in
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by sireat 9y ago
It almost feels like we have regressed. Making simple CRUD SPAs using HTML5/CSS3/JS/whatever frameworks is way more complicated than using AS3 to do the same thing. It all feels like a giant kludge. What have we gained by goi
840.
by sireat 9y ago
Granted there has been some progress but not to the extent promised by M2K. I haven't really followed nootropics but besides Modafinil (which is not really a smart drag) what smart drugs actually pass a meaningful double blind test?

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