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by sulam 6y ago
I don't know about Azure, but AWS is also very transparent with their volume discounts. You know exactly what price you're going to get, without talking to sales. And they don't negotiate those discounts. (At least they don&#
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by sulam 6y ago
I work for a company with a premium service, and we have a number of employees who have worked on other premium services. It’s definitely true in the aggregate. * Worth noting, since you mention tech savvy individuals, that these are not te
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by sulam 6y ago
The largest cohort with these premium services take the free trial and then immediately cancel. Then you have to earn them back.
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by sulam 6y ago
Spotify, Netflix. Also something like Tinder’s premium service is in the teens.
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by sulam 6y ago
Around twice that would be typical for content service trials.
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by sulam 6y ago
I dispute your characterization that people had no clue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt#Biological_...
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by sulam 6y ago
Ha, I didn't even notice the domain, thanks!
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by sulam 6y ago
There are orthodox interpretations that essentially mean you not only won't do work on Shabbat, you won't cause work to be done on your behalf. The tradition of the Shabbat goy is interesting here, and suffice to say there are lot
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by sulam 6y ago
I'm confused, is there a usage of the word 'kosher' that isn't safe at work? Are you worried that they may think you're Jewish and discriminate against you? p.s. You may know this, but from the religious POV, you ar
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by sulam 6y ago
> Neoen, who owns the Hornsdale Power Reserve, are close finalising testing that will increase the capacity of the battery from 100MW to 150MW. Surely the battery capacity is measured in joules or at least megawatt hours, not watts?
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by sulam 6y ago
It would make them legally liable for the content posted on their sites. Today they can claim that they aren’t responsible for it, the posters are. If they are operating in an editorial capacity, that shield is removed.
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by sulam 6y ago
If you are a conservative cheering this on, ask yourself what you think would have happened when Trump was using Twitter as a platform to raise questions about Obama’s birth certificate? Do you really want the government to be effectively r
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by sulam 6y ago
If I am to believe the poster, this is a draft of an Executive Order anonymously sent to her. As per: https://twitter.com/klonick/status/1265850206396076033?s=21 The implications are fairly dramatic if this is leg
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by sulam 6y ago
If they are _determined_ to use your data, they will have backed up before they announced this and saved it off somewhere. Normal backup mechanisms won't get the job done, though, because they typically age out. GDPR and CCPA both requ
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by sulam 6y ago
If you, like most people in this thread, find this incredibly unethical and/or potentially damaging to your relationship with your current employer and as a result you are trying to delete your account, do one thing first: Obfuscate yo
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by sulam 6y ago
Okay, at the risk of putting way too much effort into this, I'm going to assume you have 5 people on your team, therefore you're on call 10 times a year roughly. 5 weeks out of the year then you'd be oncall during a sev2. Ass
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by sulam 6y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of widespread. It is relatively common, but it's also far from universal, and there are companies that use on call which have a vastly different experience that what many people at Amazon report. I
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by sulam 6y ago
I'm trying to interpret your words as something other than "well, yeah, my weekends were interrupted, but it wasn't my choice so it's not worth mentioning." I can't come up with another way to read it, though.
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by sulam 6y ago
I think you're confusing BSD with posting on HN.
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by sulam 6y ago
Just having these antibodies does not mean you will not still catch Covid.
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by sulam 6y ago
Not every tool we use has to be free.
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by sulam 6y ago
One thing you also have to understand here (other than the replies I've read) is that you can in fact lay off people and yet increase the percentage investment you are making in something. You have to cut your budget by 30% -- you can
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by sulam 6y ago
The blackjack move is in fact a FOCUS of your attention, which potentially increases risk (but in fact if it increased your risk you wouldn't make that move -- you pick the focus based on expected value). And it's pretty rare (if
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by sulam 6y ago
Sorry, but there is so much confounding an analysis of this sort that I can take a 30s look at it and blow holes a mile wide through it. For instance, there is no correction in there for density. There is also the fundamental problem of att
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by sulam 6y ago
I have absolutely read articles, in the NY Times, comparing Sweden’s approach to other countries. Initially they were positive and then they turned negative when the death rates started climbing.
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by sulam 6y ago
That’s a really weird conclusion to draw looking at what’s happened globally and in local pockets. Look at Singapore and South Korea — full lockdown and great control, and then outbreaks in places where the lockdown put people in close quar
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by sulam 6y ago
My browser doesn't have a MIDI out, so I don't understand how that's meant to work.
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by sulam 6y ago
Sounds apocryphal.
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by sulam 6y ago
Which markets? If you are referring to the S&P 500, hope is outweighing fear right now, I'll give you that. If you mean crude oil markets, well, they reflect the narrative. If you mean bond markets, yields are declining. Also, it w
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by sulam 6y ago
All indications are that we are going to experience a not-so-great depression. Not a recession, an honest-to-goodness depression. 2020 will be down YoY in terms economic output probably across the world, and it wouldn't surprise me if

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