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by skuhn 6y ago
Yes, Amazon buys space just like everyone else. I have been in lots of buildings or campuses where they were located. They buy a lot of space, and they work with lots of providers, but they don't own very many sites. So I guess they do
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by skuhn 6y ago
This was one of the factors that led me to replace two 40 gallon gas water heaters (on two separate gas lines, so $60 every month before a single pilot light is lit) with one 80 gallon HPWH. The other factor was that you have various option
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by skuhn 6y ago
They are a bit noisy, but it depends on the location for your site. In a basement, maybe it doesn't matter as much (and HVAC equipment is likely to be much noisier). Current models range between 49 and 55 dBA, equivalent to a refrigera
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by skuhn 6y ago
They do have more parts, but these units are basically a heat pump mounted on top of a water heater. It's more complex but not absurdly so. There are only four manufacturers who sell hybrid heat pump / electric water heaters in th
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by skuhn 7y ago
The receivers can be made to report their GPS data back for tracking purposes.
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by skuhn 7y ago
Which leaves them with selling subscriptions, so you still wouldn’t be able to read it.
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by skuhn 7y ago
I have used it in conjunction with Slack; a channel for infrastructure team members to share sensitive details, or to direct message secrets to people. It works well for that light usage. I cannot imagine replacing Slack with it for all com
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by skuhn 7y ago
I really like Calca and still use it a bunch, but it has a few annoyances (some of which cause incorrect answers) and seems to get updated about once every 4 years. Putting the answers inline rather than over in a separate column (ala Soulv
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by skuhn 7y ago
Testing your unfiltered water as a control to your filter is a good idea, but also you're still bathing in that water. $400 seems quite high. There are much cheaper tests available, such as the National Testing Labs City Check test ($1
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by skuhn 8y ago
Comcast is still doing content injection, for a similar reason. If you go over your monthly quota, they inject a pop-window into HTTP sites to inform you. Every other business manages to inform customers by e-mail or text message or phone c
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by skuhn 8y ago
I think your comment lays out a lot of interesting parts of the realities and problems at this hypothetical company (which is pretty much everywhere I've ever worked to some degree). I don't think that these learnings are enough t
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by skuhn 8y ago
The mid-2015 model (which I still use and think is way better) is over 3 years old now. It was always bound to be discontinued eventually. There are still some available in the Apple Store under the clearance section ( https://www
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Polyvore acquired by SSENSE and is immediately shut down(blog.polyvore.com)
5 points by skuhn 9y ago|5 comments
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by skuhn 9y ago
Yes. University endowments are all tied up in investments. This is necessary in order to grow the endowments and make them "permanent", since you need to replace what you spend with the interest you accumulate. However, it also in
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by skuhn 9y ago
HBO is an interesting outlier in cable TV (and media creators in general). As you said, they have consistently been at the top of the heap in terms of quality even while reinventing their product and adapting to changing markets over the ye
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by skuhn 9y ago
As others have said, Yahoo Japan is a separate company (that shared technology with Yahoo US). They also moved to Google search results after Yahoo gave up and started using Bing results around 2010, which probably helped them maintain mark
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by skuhn 9y ago
Snap went beyond just retaining a majority of voting control with the founders. Due to the share structure, the two Snap founders control 88.5% of the voting rights. Their shares are worth 10x, and publicly traded shares are worth 0x. Anyon
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by skuhn 9y ago
I had (and I guess still have) user id #10, which for a few years conveyed a minor amount of Internet cred. I should have sold out in 2005 and retired to a country with an extremely low cost of living.
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by skuhn 9y ago
These accounts weren't created to make money for Wells Fargo, that's just a by-product of the mechanism used for this fraud. The fake accounts were used to make money for managers and executives at Wells Fargo by convincing shareh
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by skuhn 9y ago
A DNS based GSLB system makes a lot of sense when you don't control (or trust) the client and you need to make smaller transfers where latency is more important than throughput -- i.e. web pages being loaded by any random web browser.
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by skuhn 9y ago
All of my objects used standard redundancy. My recollection is that regardless of object class, you will get a 405 error if you try to fetch an object that has been lost. I didn't use SNS notifications at the time (which might only wor
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by skuhn 9y ago
I think factors beyond the storage algorithm are pretty important to consider when thinking about storing data that's important to your business. To your specific point though: 1. Amazon claims 99.999999999% durability of objects over
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by skuhn 9y ago
We moved to JobScore based on a recruiter recommendation. I wouldn't say that I love it, but it does reliably notify hiring managers and it has a humongous list of job boards that it integrates with. The web UI is a bit old fashioned,
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by skuhn 9y ago
Today. Here is the job board integration from Lever [1], taken directly from my Lever account. Here is the job board integration from JobScore [2][3][4], taken directly from my JobScore account. I wouldn't say that JobScore is necessar
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by skuhn 9y ago
It does notify by e-mail, sometimes to some people. I am a 'Follower' on every currently open job req, and a 'Hiring manager' on a few of the reqs. I'm not a 'posting owner' on any of the current reqs. The
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by skuhn 9y ago
Stay away from Lever. It's a slick web application along the lines of the fanciness of Asana's interface. What it isn't is a sane applicant tracking system. It doesn't reliably notify you when candidates apply. It suppor
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by skuhn 9y ago
It's especially irksome to me in this case because Symantec (and maybe some of their actual customers) are acting like this is unheard of. Services did just recently have to update their certs to move away from SHA1 intermediate CA cer
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by skuhn 9y ago
As it happens, your hypothetical situation was exactly what did transpire: Samsung wanted to remotely deactivate the phones, but Verizon refused on those grounds. http://bgr.com/2016/12/09/galaxy-note-7-recall
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by skuhn 9y ago
I personally don't think that she will ever work again. She'll be a board filler at a bunch of places I'm sure, but probably not CEO again. We'll see though.
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by skuhn 10y ago
PenFed has a card that does 5% on gas (although there are more strings attached now versus the card I have) [1]. Additionally it has no foreign transaction fee. It's well worth becoming a member if you will ever want to finance a car,

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