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by waps 13y ago
Plus even if they know the solution, that proves practical knowledge of search strategies (having coded at least 1). Even if it only proves you know the naive one, that's good. Real world problems just aren't practical in intervie
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by waps 13y ago
I think the criticism to be read in that is that there really isn't that much economy in bitcoin, and it needs that to survive. The value of bitcoin currently is almost fully speculative, and all articles about it focus on the speculat
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by waps 13y ago
It points to the same fundamental misunderstanding of law. Law depends on overwhelming non-lethal force on the side of law. Where that is not available, it cannot be used. So complaining about US legal guarantees (that have exceptions, like
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by waps 13y ago
A real programmer would write : 83 f8 64 7e 06 ba 0a 00 00 00 c3 ba 05 00 00 00 c3 Or even : 10000011 11111000 01100100 01111110 00000110 10111010 00001010 00000000 00000000 00000000 11000011 10111010 00000101 00000000 00000000 00000000 110
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by waps 13y ago
Ok, true, Amazon has no profits. But Google does. Quite a lot even.
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by waps 13y ago
Sadly, yes, they're for reserved instances. With 1 year reservation "Light" the amazon price is $1070/month. Here's a calculator : http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
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by waps 13y ago
Don't say that. It scares me.
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by waps 13y ago
Why would I want my (will be in some years) teen to be social ?
849.
by waps 13y ago
Amsterdam and environs is an exceptionally good location for internet startups due to the massive cheap bandwidth available there (datacenters are expensive though).
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by waps 13y ago
So inside of EU/US you do use dedicated server providers ? AWS is effectively (almost) a transit-only network. That has pros and cons. On the plus side, it should have decent connectivity anywhere. On the minus side, if (almost) any li
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by waps 13y ago
That's something I don't really understand about all these offerings. They're all crazily expensive. There's small differences, but not much. Rackspace is a tiny bit cheaper, with significant disadvantages, google and aw
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by waps 13y ago
Actually it supports sending any byte stream accross. It amazes me nobody seem to have built a peer2peer network out of it yet. Seems like a shot for open goal.
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by waps 13y ago
Doesn't matter. Italy is not a sovereign state, and has no legal control over inter-EU commerce any more than a US state has. They have signed over the right to make laws like this to the EU, which seems unlikely in the extreme to conc
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by waps 13y ago
DNS requests do not specify who requests the IP address. So think of the problem a CDN has : it has to identify the requesting party's geographical location, based on where the request comes from. If it comes from 8.8.8.8 then you&#x27
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by waps 13y ago
Then how do you explain the obvious correlation between 2008's financial events and the oil price ? And all the previous times that happened ? Or do you think we've advanced ridiculously beyond what we had in 2008 ?
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by waps 13y ago
Except for nuclear, what technologies are you talking about ? If we expect oil to do what this article says it'll do we'll need at least 50 new nuclear plants across the US in 10-15 years, maybe less. They're not interchangea
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by waps 13y ago
They only have enough water and food because of constant imports of both. Without oil, Saudi Arabia couldn't realistically sustain 1% of it's population. Realistically, if the oil runs out, except for a few pockets and islands, Sa
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by waps 13y ago
The problem is also that oil becomes more expensive along an exponential curve. We'd have to see ~4% per year efficiency increase in the entire economy, every single year. That's not just finding more efficient systems. That'
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by waps 13y ago
Really ? Where were the technological improvements when oil shot up to $150 in 2008 ? Sure technological improvements eventually got us to the energy level we were at in 2005 ... but only just barely and only for a week. Since then it'
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by waps 13y ago
Actually the "rights" I alluded to above are the ones from Belgian law, although I do know the Dutch IRS has similar rights (the Dutch one also regularly detains people without (delcared) cause).
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by waps 13y ago
Well here's the numbers for the US only : http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ost... I think it's pretty safe to say that money involved in the climate change network is at
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by waps 13y ago
This prediction seems to have limited chance of success : http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22linux%20desktop%22 (sad, really)
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by waps 13y ago
From the article : "Disconnecting from the grid is not realistic for most people, Chung said. The current state of battery technology means they have to be replaced after a few years, he said. And putting a system with batteries on a t
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by waps 13y ago
Note that the law requires that all debts, public and private, can be settled using legal tender (ie. cash). In practice this is mostly implemented by demanding the person pay cash at a post office. You do not need a bank account to pay for
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by waps 13y ago
Lawyers are not priests, nor doctors. You are misunderstanding what it means. Attorney-client privilege (in theory) only lasts up to the point where the attorney is sure that something is illegal. If that line is crossed, there is a theoret
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by waps 13y ago
Having run the technical side of ~5 "small" businesses now (no more than $1.5M revenue), I disagree. Eventually, nothing can match the performance of storing binary blobs on a cluster. But that only becomes worthwhile if you datab
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by waps 13y ago
It certainly exists, it's just not that affordable.
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by waps 13y ago
Distributed power generation can never match the efficiency of centralized, for obvious reasons. This may not matter for renewables, as there's no fuel burned ... but ... I doubt it will turn out that way. So a larger cost will be much
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by waps 13y ago
because the electricity company will still need the full capacity of the grid in power plants spinning idle to be able to react to renewble output changes. So not much savings on existing infrastructure. That combines with selling 50-60% le
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by waps 13y ago
Here's my guide for when to enable HTTPS : Always. You're just adding one more reason. Anybody can do this if you're not using https (with real certificate).

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