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by thu2111 6y ago
None. Technically the election is a poll, just with a sample size of 100% (by definition).
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by thu2111 6y ago
I've read that US polls are much smaller than equivalent UK polls, like sample sizes 90% lower, sometimes just a few hundred people whereas political polls in the UK use more like a thousand or two. It seems like an odd discrepancy. Bu
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by thu2111 6y ago
Look at it another way. Docker is a complete PITA with many severe flaws as a piece of software, but it won because it raised investor money and spent it on stuff that was then given away for free. Basically it funnelled investor money into
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by thu2111 6y ago
Not necessarily. When bandwidth balances you can get peering agreements, but AWS will be very server heavy. Moving data in would just improve their ratios and help them reduce their own costs, so, it makes sense to make it free.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Even 50 person seems like a lot. I think people tend to forget that there's a lot of room at the bottom. If you want to give your product away for free you need to accept that there'll be less revenue, unless you can pull off the
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by thu2111 6y ago
E.g. Trafalgar, who also got it right last time. There's an interview with the guy who runs it here: https://unherd.com/thepost/robert-cahaly-how-we-got-the-poll...
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by thu2111 6y ago
Most users don't have a credit card - they're not all in the USA. A big chunk don't even have bank accounts at all. However that's basically what phone verification does. In case of suspicion someone has to provide their
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by thu2111 6y ago
The vast majority of Google accounts have no real identity associated with them. Also, this doesn't help if an account was NOT a false positive. You're assuming this guy is truly innocent of all problems, but from past experience,
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by thu2111 6y ago
A lot of abuse is things like posted comments. The locks are retroactive and "account disabled" is a signal to each service to hide content generated by that user. Read only mode would make sense for content that's truly priv
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yes, you need to know how to use Linux. And as the article astutely points out, there is an undiscussed problem with UNIX skills loss across the industry. AWS provides GUIs and Linux doesn't - accepted. However for the many, many peopl
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by thu2111 6y ago
Why? If the primary benefit you're getting from the cloud is VMs, it's valid to compare to hardware. The overhead of bare metal on top of cloud VMs is basically knowing how to handle RAID and set up load balancing.
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by thu2111 6y ago
You probably don't get on the phone with Dell. There's a large area in between EC2 and racking your own boxes in your own datacenter. You can buy dedicated machines from OVH or similar firms with lead time of a few days, and it&#x
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by thu2111 6y ago
Their stats are here: https://stackexchange.com/performance Their DB handles peak of 11,000 qps and peaks at only 15% CPU usage. That's after caching. There are also some ElasticSearch servers. Sure, their traffic is
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, it's an interactive database backed web site. That describes like maybe 90% of the things running on AWS. StackOverflow is useful because it reminds people that machines are fast, and you probably don't need that many of the
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by thu2111 6y ago
I used to work at Google on stuff related to account bans. Global bans are not new. They were standard a decade ago. The reason is due to the structure of the various spam/abuse industries that plague any service that allows user gener
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, maybe monopoly in east Africa, but that's hardly surprising given the difficulty of doing business there.
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What simple explanation exists for the documents being ripped open and an extensive search not managing to find them? Is this a common problem for UPS, do packages randomly get opened during transit with no explanation?
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by thu2111 6y ago
Read my post again. Yes, the FA doesn't apply to companies. But it exists because the underlying principle is very important. Important for everyone , not just the government. It is entirely reasonable to point out that if something
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by thu2111 6y ago
Nobody is screaming in a Walmart. That analogy doesn't work at all, especially not for mailing lists where the users requested to be on it.
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by thu2111 6y ago
The answers Satoshi gave were convincing, which is why the project was able to grow in the first place, and why so many of the people involved from the start wanted it to become a global payments solution. Computers are fast, Bitcoin paymen
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by thu2111 6y ago
And as also a fellow Brit, I think you need to exercise a bit more judgement before leaping on the bash America bandwagon. Firstly, it appears the Democrats are contradicting themselves about what happened. That article links to another art
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by thu2111 6y ago
Normally, you'd expect people demanding awkward and massive social change to show evidence that it works and isn't dangerous. You should not invert this by demanding people prove things don't work and aren't dangerous; t
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by thu2111 6y ago
The emails are pretty clear, e.g. this part "Overall I think this piece can work best if it is significantly narrowed down to what you first discussed with Betsy" The changes requested are "significant". "I do th
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by thu2111 6y ago
Where does Reclaim the Net claim Mailchimp is the federal government, or does not have a right to make these decisions? Nowhere: that appears to be a strawman. It is perfectly legitimate to be angry when companies start restricting their se
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Tucker Carlson claims that his evidence "got lost in the mail" No he didn't - where did that come from? He claimed the mail had been intercepted, someone had ripped open the parcel in transit and stolen the documents, and t
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by thu2111 6y ago
The "peer review" being provided by most media outlets appears to be worse than useless, as Greenwald's experience shows. Typos and spelling errors can be fixed by machines for a very long time already. Editing for space is l
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by thu2111 6y ago
I also subscribe to Taibbi. I have a slightly more positive impression than you. Yes, it's true that his thing is meta-journalism with dollops of amusingly worded outrage - "the first pebbles from the towering Matterhorn of bullsh
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by thu2111 6y ago
In fairness, all those things are the expected outcomes of hugely profligate spending and have been seen in other economies that adopted the same policies. It's surely a bit of an open question why the USA, and to some extent other w
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's interesting. It's not just India and it's not about race. The NYT has a problem with Britain too, believe it or not. This article goes into some examples but they aren't the only ones: https://unherd.co
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by thu2111 6y ago
Give me HTML+CSS+JS any time. Sure! And Chrome is superbly tested. But HTML/CSS/JS aren't anywhere near good enough to build GUIs of any complexity by themselves, so everyone layers tons of stuff on top. And then those ...

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