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by skj 11y ago
A puff piece would be if some tech reporter wrote about the wonders of GCP. This is the Spotify team, and they've clearly put their money where their mouth is by actually making the move.
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by skj 11y ago
Feel free to suggest a viable alternative.
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by skj 11y ago
So intolerance exists only through violence? That seems wrong on its face.
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by skj 11y ago
Why would they be something to be ashamed of?
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by skj 11y ago
2% poorer?
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by skj 11y ago
The external power source was presumably a wall outlet, since he was testing its ability to charge.
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by skj 11y ago
Because when a man goes, no one looks at him funny.
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by skj 11y ago
Decades in power?
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by skj 11y ago
Without specifically disagreeing with you, the real advance that led to the bloom in Bayesian statistics was fast computers. MCMC and Gibb's sampling, and variational interference are what got the intractable-when-useful field of Bayes
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by skj 11y ago
Yeah when I think of selling female action figures I immediately make the leap to murder.
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by skj 11y ago
Or any composite number. If it's divisible by a composite number, it will also be divisible by the smaller primes.
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by skj 11y ago
You seem like a bad person.
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by skj 11y ago
Victim blaming.
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by skj 11y ago
Nice typo about Shirley's elder son wanking in on her... I hope?
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by skj 11y ago
That's not the slogan. It's "don't be evil." "Don't do evil" is impossible for a corporation with 50k employees. "Don't be evil" is a worthy ideal to strive for.
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by skj 11y ago
This is your complaint? How silly.
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by skj 11y ago
As I mentioned in another post, I'm not trying to convince anyone. I'm just saying I have confidence. Even so, security is a road, not a destination. If people want to argue that you should put your data anywhere, I'll buy it
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by skj 11y ago
Yes, and as a result traffic is now encrypted between data centers. And I'm not sure what your quote adds to the point.
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by skj 11y ago
It's not clear to me what you're suggesting - your two statements are, at least superficially, at odds with one another.
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by skj 11y ago
My trust in Google comes from me believing Google is capable of preventing undetected access, and limiting detected access to that which is legally obligated. I'm not going to try to convince you that this is the case, only state that
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by skj 11y ago
(disclosure: I am a Googler, but I have nothing to do with this project) Passwords are problematic, easy to lose, easy to steal, but an issue with biometric identify verification is that you can no longer maintain multiple personas. Using a
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by skj 11y ago
While it may have been foolish, theft is not excused.
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by skj 11y ago
My experience is a little different... customers are great and seeing problems and solutions, but I only pay attention to the problems. Their solutions typically apply only to their 5% use-case and would be disastrous if implemented.
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by skj 11y ago
With all due respect, you don't only "feel" silly.
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by skj 11y ago
The other day I spent some time tracking down a bug where someone forgot a trailing comma in a multi-line parameter list. That was annoying.
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by skj 11y ago
Sounds like the typical twisting of facts from a conspiracy theorist. That said, I welcome evidence of the original claim.
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by skj 11y ago
Any source about this "voluntary PRISM-like setup for the NSA"? And that this thing was the hack vector?
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by skj 11y ago
Hah. I think it's only mildly controversial to assert that Google search created the web.
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by skj 11y ago
In 2012? :)
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by skj 11y ago
It does extend to GCE, to an extent. The reason for this is that if someone is DDOSing your GCE VMs, they're going to be affecting the network performance of unrelated projects. So, Google has to provide some protection so that, at a m

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