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by specialp 8y ago
I really hope Cuomo didn't give Amazon huge tax breaks for coming to NY. Frankly Amazon needs NYC more than we need them. NYC is a boom town at the moment with a lot of jobs and skilled professionals moving in. Since 2010 the populatio
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by specialp 8y ago
Well their job (The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency[1]) by law is to regulate banks for systemic risk. Recall that this same government bailed out the banks due to systemic risks. JP Morgan is then participating in risky activitie
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by specialp 8y ago
Yeah that isn't sufficient. Most people are going to get their email rejected or spam filtered from many sources. Having an IP that is not blacklisted is not sufficient to have it have enough reputation to be accepted by large provider
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It depends on whom you send to. Like ironically I sent an abuse complaint to Verizon for a spammer and got rejected because they blocked all of Digital Ocean's IP space. Yahoo was particularly difficult too sending me a response saying
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by specialp 8y ago
You can send email from an EC2 instance but good luck getting anyone to accept it. A lot of email providers block EC2 wholesale, or if they do accept it you are going to have to have a long standing reputation.
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If you are proxying the content with a VPN with a static IP on an EC2 instance you cannot police people sending out spam as you cannot see and meter the SMTP traffic. So does everyone get a dedicated instance and IP? If that is the case peo
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by specialp 8y ago
The Strange Loop videos are in the process of being uploaded still. There are a lot that deserve a look. I was there at this talk as well. This is one of the most diverse and high level conferences out there. https://www.youtube.
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by specialp 8y ago
> While they complain of bad actors, bad actors always act bad. This will not disincentivize them (they are also often in a lot of interesting jurisdictions that would make it hard anyway). Yes this is not going to stop the Asian cloud p
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by specialp 8y ago
If one was able to convert it directly to 1 USD immediately then yes it would be a super easy arbitrage and the price of Tether would never fluctuate from 1 USD more than very small amounts (which would be arbitraged and restored) The probl
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by specialp 8y ago
Yes agreed. I am just saying this is an example of the FAA yielding a bit to make things a bit less complicated for those wishing to fly up there. My general argument is giving FAA control of all airspace from the ground up in such a large
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At 400ft with a glide slope of 20:1 you are at 0ft in ~1.5 miles. You'd probably hit something else in a mile or less that is far more substantial than a drone at a lot greater probability.
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Ok then I suppose we should trim all trees to 50ft or less and ban structures that high, and exclude all birds from the skies there because an aircraft might be on a near crash unpowered approach. Also at that point, hitting a small drone i
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by specialp 8y ago
I've flown a plane a few times before with an instructor, so I am not commenting completely out of ignorance. I am not claiming to be an expert. I also don't own a drone. I am also interested in getting a pilot's license. I
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I didn't say we should just barge in and make things unsafe. I am saying that we should have a discussion about whether it is needed or not to have <400ft AGL 4.5 miles outside an airport controlled as it is probably unnecessary. Th
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by specialp 8y ago
Yes I am not disagreeing with that. I am saying the bottom of the cone has to be more "cone" shaped. More resolution. Why not make it forbidden without authorization to fly large FAA regulated craft anywhere outside say a half mil
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The class B restriction is draconian and unnecessary. I live about 4 miles from an airport (Class B). The B zone is 5miles. There has never been an aircraft I have ever seen 400ft over my house, and if they were making a 4 mile <400 ft
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by specialp 8y ago
I am actually surprised the FAA was so tolerant of drones for so long. Commercial drone operators are for more regulation because they know the day some dope flies a drone into an approaching aircraft it will cause more draconian responses.
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Rich Hickey said himself "If a delivery truck comes to deliver a TV to you, do you care what else is on the truck? No, you are only interested in your TV" so the messaging idea is exactly right, and they weren't looking to im
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by specialp 8y ago
This is a problem that is very well suited to Haskell, but it is a subset of general software development. Here it is worth the substantial overhead of making robust types as independent teams are making rules for this spam filter and typin
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I think the happy medium is a dynamically typed language that gives you the option to type or at least have a way to check typing. Java isn't really statically typed at all since it is necessary to cast in daily usage. Truly statically
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I don't understand what the operational burden is. We literally do nothing to our K8s cluster, and it runs for many months until we make a new updated cluster and blow away the old one. We've never had an issue attributed to K8s i
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I agree with this. Think about if we had no regulation or social support. Jeff Bezos is sitting there with 100s of thousands of times the wealth of his workers near starving. He would not be able to have that much wealth as there would be a
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by specialp 8y ago
I wasn't saying they were. This is far from anywhere near. Bezos was not able to make all his money due solely to his hard work, it was off the backs of others including all of us whom have to subsidize the workers that he is making 30
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by specialp 8y ago
Median amazon warehouse employee pay is 24k a year. Amazon has around 300k warehouse employees. Jeff Bezos's wealth alone is equivalent to all 300k of them working 22 years at their current rate.
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It might be because people are getting married and having children later. I find that most people that I know that had parents that got divorced, it happened when their kids were in their mid to late teens. People now getting married at old
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If they released this to eliminate Asian Tiger Mosquitoes from the USA it would be a perfect limited scope experiment. They have out competed other mosquitoes in my area and are invasive. They also spread disease and bite 24 hours a day mak
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I actually have 2 Yubikeys, one with me, one in a safe place. But the price of these keeps rising. $50/$60 is starting to get a bit unreasonable for something that you were able to buy 2 or 3 of for the same price a few years back.
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Their point is not to actively trigger an emergency at a given time. If a bomb is undisturbed at the bottom of a water body it is not bothering anyone and actually is providing artificial reefs for marine life. Should it be found one day an
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We can perhaps say that when they are actually making batteries at $100/kWh. We could have said they were going to dominate in EV production in 2016 when they said they were going to manufacture 200k cars in the second half of 2017, an
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There's always this feeling that shorts are predatory and making money off other people's demise. Kinda like betting the "Don't Pass" line in craps. Stocks go up, everyone wins right? Oh no not those pesky shorts tr

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