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by snoshy 6y ago
Fair point about the unit costs being drastically lower due to economies of scale. As with any large scale infrastructure, it will certainly be a mix of both local generation and utility scale transmitted power. The real question is where
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by snoshy 6y ago
But also because households have lower expenses due to not being able to engage with the service industry, travel, shopping, and leisure expenditures. People are simply spending less because they're stuck at home.
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by snoshy 6y ago
Electrical distribution in the US is actually aging quite badly and is in deep need of replacement of large parts of it. Inefficiency isn't entirely the problem, although many (including me) would argue that it isn't as efficient
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by snoshy 6y ago
Why wouldn't they? Maybe not the best of the best of chip designers, but sure, at least a half decent one. Just so you know what kind of chip would be perfect for the kinds of workloads that you have, without divulging secrets to any
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by snoshy 6y ago
What you're talking about here is the client/inference side, not the server/training side of the ML/DL compute battle. The former is meaningful in a sense, but practically insignificant in relation to the latter. Almos
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by snoshy 6y ago
> The Financial Report is an interesting read. Mind sharing a link if you have one?
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by snoshy 6y ago
Glad you called it for what it is. The fact is that LACNIC, AFRINIC, etc. are actually contractually bound to investigate allegations like these and to follow up on them, no matter where they come from. They're doing the job they are
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by snoshy 6y ago
Well I'll be glad to see some real competition in search when I actually see it, but if that's all you have to offer, I'm sorry no one's going to believe you.
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by snoshy 6y ago
News Corp [1] is pretty much the definition of the Australian news companies, because of the stranglehold they have on news properties and regulators in the country. Google has been fighting this basic idea across Europe as well, and just r
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by snoshy 6y ago
Any search company that is at a Show HN stage is quite far from really even beginning to threaten Google, unless they've managed to play politics to ensure regulatory capture to an extent that product quality is irrelevant.
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by snoshy 6y ago
A public funding source can provide that kind of support for a decade, but even for the likes of Google that's a stretch. I prefer to think of a moonshot as longer than a longshot, whatever that might be worth. It sure is sad though, c
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by snoshy 6y ago
Agreed, I would wager that this is where a good majority of startups begin until they take a good stock of the situation at hand.
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by snoshy 6y ago
For sure. I shared this in another comment earlier, but they literally were using a free trial of Okta [1] to secure prod. This is why all of their user data got leaked. Their code was written to fail open, so if Okta didn't respond
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by snoshy 6y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with the hardware capex vs bandwidth tradeoff, but I don't think either of us are aware of their balance sheet to reasonably claim if this is an insurmountable cost for the business today or not. Payi
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by snoshy 6y ago
I fear that that moment is not all that far off, given the direction that Mozilla has been taking with respect to Firefox development recently. Chrome might be playing hardball, but Mozilla seems determined to just walk away due to incompet
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by snoshy 6y ago
Interesting, that explains how he thinks he Streisand Effected himself.
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by snoshy 6y ago
You're quite right, and I stand corrected. Although it's not the datapoint I suggested previously, I suppose there is another datapoint to be gathered: for someone in his position, perhaps nuking the world (physical and virtual)
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by snoshy 6y ago
To clarify the cause: Google is essentially saying that Chromium will no longer support bookmark/password/history sync across browser installs, even though this has worked perfectly fine for years. Their claim is that sync suppo
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by snoshy 6y ago
This whole episode serves as an interesting datapoint in how long a public person needs to stay out of the spotlight in order to return to their pseudoanonymity after being threatened to be outed by the media. It's not common to face
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by snoshy 6y ago
Probably because their workloads haven't stabilized at any meaningful threshold. You can only justify the capital expenditure if you know you can amortize it over time. Hard to do for a startup whose existence is being threatened. T
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by snoshy 6y ago
Interesting, could be fallout from the SolarWinds incident, although if they got to financials, why not go for technical secrets as well?
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by snoshy 6y ago
Yeah, those requirements are quite steep for what Parler does. That being said, it is actually incredibly hard to scale any product that sees a sudden massive influx of users, media attention, and conflict like this. I mean this from a pu
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by snoshy 6y ago
This seemed inevitable, as Amazon has done this several times now when asked to pay to support the organizations behind large enterprise OSS offerings.
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by snoshy 6y ago
Unfortunately, this kind of blatantly illegal detention among Indian authorities is not new, and far from uncommon. India has a decades long history of suppressing anti-Hindu speech, largely at the local level due to morally bankrupt burea
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by snoshy 6y ago
Facebook isn't even a party in this legal proceeding. The only ones are the court, Amazon, and Parler. Facebook could commit genocide tomorrow, and it would not affect this lawsuit.
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by snoshy 6y ago
I'm curious... how so?
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by snoshy 6y ago
This smacks of whataboutism to me. No doubt Facebook hosted large amounts of this activity, but it does not negate the fact that Parler did so as well. Amazon's court filing detailed hundreds of incidents that they had given Parler m
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by snoshy 6y ago
I'm not sure if I agree with that. Outside of unabashed copyright infringement and grossly objectionable content (child porn, etc.), there hasn't been a real precedent for a tech player getting booted like this on a moment's
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by snoshy 6y ago
It seemed apparent right when the case was filed that Parler didn't have a leg to stand on. It was partly a play for publicity that plays well into their customer demographics, and a dying gasp of trying to seek some kind of injunctiv
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by snoshy 6y ago
It must have been a big reason why these sites fell to irrelevance so quickly. And to think of the missed opportunities...

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