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by skuhn 5y ago
That's my understanding with ARIN, yeah.
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by skuhn 5y ago
I actually think that what will really drive IPv6 adoption is if the price of IPv4 space continues its upward trajectory unabated. The price has about doubled at auction in the last year. How are those two things related? 1. There are a ton
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by skuhn 5y ago
I think that it starts to have downward pressure at /22 to /20. You can see Hilco's historicals at [1]. Not all purchases are done in public though. It seems to me like an arbitrage opportunity, since /24 and /23 ne
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by skuhn 5y ago
Amazon bought 3.0.0.0/8 from GE in 2018 [1]. So part of this is putting into service networks that they previously acquired, probably to keep up with growth. Buying in 2018 would have been a MUCH lower price than today -- and it can pr
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by skuhn 5y ago
Overtake: yes. The ability to launch a public-facing, commercial service and pretend like IPv4 never existed and you don't have to worry about it at all? Probably not within our lifetimes.
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by skuhn 5y ago
Public auctions (which they didn't use) are currently in the $45-50 per IP ballpark. At that price it's $247.5 million worth of IPs. At auction the larger networks tend to go for less money per IP since there is a smaller market o
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by skuhn 5y ago
People also died from circumstances created by Madoff's fraud, including one of his sons.
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by skuhn 5y ago
This NYT article [1] has some quotes from Sen. Duckworth that outlines the problem as she sees it. One in particular: "People don’t even know that we are deporting veterans. I think most Americans assume that when somebody serves, they
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by skuhn 5y ago
Exactly. An entire generation is saddled by massive student loan debt, and that has a very real impact on their economic situation for the rest of their lives.
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by skuhn 5y ago
Sure, you can receive financial aid -- I mentioned that that's why I attended that school. However, it isn't without strings attached and even most full ride scholarships don't account for the annual tuition increases. For an
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by skuhn 5y ago
Not typical (tuition was high when I went there relative to similarly ranked schools), but also probably not the most expensive school. Today's rate for the lower tier 1 private university I attended would be: Bachelor's: $74,180
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by skuhn 5y ago
I view network egress as the primary lock-in mechanism for all of AWS. If you want to migrate to another provider, network egress costs mean that you'll spend multiples of your normal monthly operating costs to do so. That stifles comp
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by skuhn 5y ago
The right answer for you may have more to do with your business requirements than technical requirements. I've done large scale storage in cloud providers (S3, GCS, etc.) and on premise (I designed the early storage systems at Dropbox)
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by skuhn 6y ago
The F-35 program is indeed a lot like socialism. And I think the layer of skim off the top is well represented in centrally planned economies like the Soviet Union. It was taken by well placed government ministers rather than business oliga
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by skuhn 6y ago
Yeah, it was a little bit. [1] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/solyndr...
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by skuhn 6y ago
The wind gently whispers: socialism.
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by skuhn 6y ago
I realize that I could have phrased it better. You're totally right that there were successes, I just meant that not all of the investments panned out. But also, that's what investing is: taking a risk. I find it comical that it&#
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by skuhn 6y ago
I worry about what happens when Pax Americana inevitably ends, as all things do, and if it will come in our lifetimes. I don't think that we have built a geopolitical system that will survive its absence. Spending our money on a giant
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by skuhn 6y ago
I haven't really looked into it all beyond a superficial level, but I certainly think that things like the F-35 program are a net negative to society when viewed at a distance. As another example, I wonder if Wisconsin's sweethear
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by skuhn 6y ago
I think that Solyndra was specifically a terrible choice for the government to make an investment in, but it was exactly the type of industry they should generally be investing in. But I guess at least Seagate got a nice building out of it.
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by skuhn 6y ago
I think we're maxed out on this thread for who to enfranchise, which is good! I believe one of the big downsides for citizens of Puerto Rico that has caused issues with the push for statehood is that they don't currently pay feder
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by skuhn 6y ago
It would be nice to fix the societal issue that ties up people's self-worth, status and sheer survival with their job, but that's a much bigger ask. Now you're into things like universal healthcare, UBI, mental health, educat
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by skuhn 6y ago
There was a brief push by the government to encourage funding of things like Solyndra under Obama, but obviously that didn't all pan out. I think that putting substantial funding into making the US the world leader in climate change re
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by skuhn 6y ago
I agree with you, and I'll go a step further. The US should not have any colonial territories or federal districts where US citizens live who have second-class rights compared to citizens of the 50 states. That means DC, Puerto Rico, t
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by skuhn 6y ago
I agree that the impact of Arecibo and these kinds of installations is actually very outsized relative to the number of FTE employees who directly work on it. The larger scientific community are the ones who booked time on the telescope aft
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by skuhn 6y ago
The problem (partly) is that the F-35 program puts money into 307 congressional districts in 45 states [1]. These insanely expensive defense projects are wealth transfer programs that make contractors like Lockheed and their many sub-contra
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by skuhn 6y ago
That's true, and was obviously an overreach in 1919. That it was dialed back in 1969 to limit banning speech likely to incite a riot is much more reasonable to my mind.
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by skuhn 6y ago
You're right that it doesn't present an immediate danger on the order of seconds or minutes in the same way as my analogy. However, I personally believe that his false speech does present an immediate danger to the public on the o
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by skuhn 6y ago
Freedom of speech must have limits. The classic analogy is that a person shouldn't be allowed to shout "FIRE" and thereby cause panic in a crowded theater, when there is no such fire. The right of the one person to (falsely)
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by skuhn 6y ago
Twitter didn't block that post for that reason. Also it wasn't on Trump's account, it was the NY Post which is, as you say, a tabloid. As you can see here, he posted about it and there is no warning label: https://

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