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by sobbybutter 15y ago
Well, you'd have complete data loss on RAID-0 if there's a single drive failure. With RAID-10, you can sustain at least one drive failure without data loss. That way, even though you can't replace a failed drive, you can at least get the da
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by sobbybutter 16y ago
This reminds me of an old stock tip scam. A scammer would mail a large number of stock tip letters, 50% claiming that the market would move up the following week and 50% claiming that it would go down. The scammer would then repeat this eac
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by sobbybutter 16y ago
I think what made facebook appealing in the beginning was the "post an update, get an immediate reaction" phenomenon. The number of posts was small enough and the number of friendly eyes high enough that the probability of even the smallest
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by sobbybutter 16y ago
I think Thoreau said it best: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
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by sobbybutter 16y ago
"In the mid-1970s, a man sought a ticket that ended in 48. He found a ticket, bought it, and won the lottery. When asked why he was so intent on finding that number, he replied, 'I dreamed of the number seven for seven nights. And seven tim
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by sobbybutter 16y ago
What does it matter if some parts of our culture are better in "easily measurable ways?" If one is making the case whether or not these people should be exposed to the Western world, one must keep in mind the net utility that would be added