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by skuhn 6y ago
The McMaster site doesn't show shipping costs, because they package your items and then get the dimensions and weight. They only ship things very fast, and they charge you what that costs. They are optimizing for fast and correct, not
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by skuhn 6y ago
Rolling out shared library updates to resolve security vulnerabilities is not without its own issues. The big one, which surprisingly places still manage to fumble due to poor process controls or simple mistakes, is that you have to restart
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by skuhn 6y ago
Economic activity is not the be-all, end-all purpose of human life. But even if it was... Every business opening tomorrow as if there was no pandemic does not mean the economy will magically return to Nov 2019. People who do not feel safe d
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by skuhn 6y ago
Many states are facing insolvency, because expected revenue has declined by as much as 30% [1]. States have "rainy day funds" to cover unforeseen events, but most have between 5-10% of general fund expenditures set aside [2]. Stat
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by skuhn 6y ago
I hope that even if this situation doesn't eradicate other diseases, it at least pushes us to take more care with infectious disease in general. Since I've been exposed over the last few months to roughly a million people claiming
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by skuhn 6y ago
I'm referring to disenfranchisement by way of disrupting the operation of the mail, which I don't think has been a major focus for quite that long. Jim Crow laws were much more effective means of disenfranchisement during Reconstr
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by skuhn 6y ago
The underlying motivation here is to accomplish two things: 1. Destroy the viability of the post office as a business (a long running campaign) 2. Disenfranchise voters (a relatively recent campaign) Tens of thousands of people were disenfr
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by skuhn 6y ago
Yeah, that's coming from these four Fastly VCL variables: conn_speed: https://developer.fastly.com/reference/vcl/variables/geoloca... conn_type: https://developer.fastly.com/reference&#x2
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by skuhn 6y ago
The VCL for it is available at https://gist.github.com/simonkuhn/a380a6fa205db87a3625f26ad0... vcl_recv and vcl_error are the important bits, the rest is VCL boilerplate from https://developer.fastly.com&#x2
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by skuhn 6y ago
Since most CDNs are already doing GeoIP lookups (for request headers or log entries), you can leverage that to provide the data back in the response body via origin, worker or even CDN edge config. Programmatically populating the response b
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by skuhn 6y ago
The operative words you seem to be missing are "at the end of this", but fine. Lets look at right now, and put aside notions of "industrialized countries". 1. 538,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths worldwide; 132,000 confirme
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by skuhn 6y ago
Nice catch. The Iliad doesn't actually concern itself with the end of the Trojan War. The horse is mentioned briefly in the Odyssey, since it's attributed to Odysseus's cunning wit. Probably the work that describes it most th
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by skuhn 6y ago
The Honda full-size equivalent is in the Acura lineup in the US. I don't think I have ever seen an Acura at a car rental place though. One time I had the option in the lot between a Malibu and Impala, and figuring out which one was &qu
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by skuhn 6y ago
No, it isn't easy for me to say this is what needs to be done. I don't have a job at the moment, I'm trapped in another state, and I started a non profit to distribute hand sanitizer for free in that community -- BECAUSE IT I
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by skuhn 6y ago
Even worse, rakuten.com is now the former ebates site? And the former buy.com is rakuten.com/shop? Their branding strategy is garbage.
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by skuhn 6y ago
They should keep factories closed, unless they are engaged in solving one of the four problems that need to be solved in order for things to safely re-open: 1. Producing masks, gloves, face shields 2. Producing tests or test supplies (cotto
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by skuhn 6y ago
All I have to add is this: If Bernie can't "compromise his values" enough to make political deals to get the nomination, then he would be completely ineffective as president -- where getting your policy enacted requires const
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by skuhn 6y ago
The company may lose money and ultimately fail, but you're still getting paid. You also get to call yourself an entrepreneur / founder / investor / whatever for your next thing. The point of these kinds of businesses isn
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by skuhn 6y ago
It is part of his appeal, and I like a lot of what Bernie has to say. But you can't win if you don't play the game and politics is definitely a game. Hillary and Biden snaring the nomination ahead of Bernie show how thoroughly the
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by skuhn 6y ago
Not exactly to your point, but you raise an excellent reason to never ever use your "personal" account for business things. Google, Amazon, YouTube, it's all the same. It's all very convenient, until you lose access 10 y
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by skuhn 6y ago
Your resolver may not always permit this sort of thing, and that would just obfuscate what they're doing a step further which may come across as sneaky. I doubt it is at all common in end user environments, but unbound for instance can
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by skuhn 6y ago
I do wonder why Bernie didn't vote (and why some people voted against this), but it's also possible that it wouldn't have mattered. The real voting is often done at the party whip level. If McConnell knew Bernie was going to
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by skuhn 6y ago
Bernie hasn't voted yet since the senate reconvened May 4th. There has been no explanation that I'm aware of for why he isn't voting. https://projects.propublica.org/represent/members/S000033/vo
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They tested 7541 people out of 39,082 inmates in quarantine. These numbers aren't inclusive of staff -- 556 tested positive, but how many were tested? Are staff quarantined to prevent spreading the infection out of the prisons? The mos
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by skuhn 6y ago
Increase production of hand sanitizer, masks, gloves, test kits and other supplies as much as possible. Ensure all medical, food and other essential workers have access now and for the foreseeable future to the supplies they need to perform
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Herd immunity is easier said than done. A portion of the people who become infected require medical intervention, and many parts of the US medical system are inadequate to meet this need. It will take years to get to herd immunity levels th
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by skuhn 6y ago
They build sites, but they also lease space from the same providers as everyone else. It's also worth noting that sometimes when a company builds a datacenter in a green field situation, it may be working with a datacenter provider on
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by skuhn 6y ago
You're right, AWS does heavily discount at this price point (as do other providers). Egress fees on the order of 40-50% off list are possible in my experience.
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by skuhn 6y ago
100PB would be $2.1 million per month. You're right that it is a similar order of magnitude of the egress fee. That still means to exit AWS you have to add 2.5 months of opex to your budget, which will weigh against the perceived benef
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by skuhn 6y ago
Imagine migrating 100 PB from S3 to Oracle's object store. First of all, the egress fee will cost you $5,000,000 (no joke). Second, it will take months. Don't think your early stage startup will ever have that problem? That's

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