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by xuki 4y ago
So we do it British style, go up the family tree and find the nearest cousin or whatever.
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by xuki 4y ago
I'll let you guess why (hard) asset prices have increased so much for the past 20 year.
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by xuki 4y ago
I’m not in the US and I’m happy with this new change. Local telcos have eSim support but only for postpaid. Now US iPhone users will come and demand eSim for prepaid, it should finally force them to support prepaid users (or lose out to com
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by xuki 4y ago
In the US the banks write the loans and then offload them to Freddie and Fannie. So the gov is backstopping these loans and taking all the risks. There is no such thing in Canada and banks don’t want to take the risk (technically there are
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by xuki 4y ago
It's not wrong by itself, but it's a signal. Enough "signals" and the transaction is flagged for manual review.
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by xuki 4y ago
Follow the money: https://i.imgur.com/kVDBZuO.jpg
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by xuki 4y ago
If you don't care about TOS, it's very easy to run macOS on x86 hardware these days.
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by xuki 4y ago
I don't know about India, but China's policy to block US big techs is the reason why China have the tech companies they have today.
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by xuki 4y ago
Unused memory is wasted memory.
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by xuki 4y ago
> At home: 12 or 42 €/month (details¹), depending on whether I want gigabit upload or not. Your consumer gigabit connection is not comparable to a DC gigabit connection. Your ISP is over subscribing 20x and hoping people don’t use a
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by xuki 4y ago
This is a policy problem, not a technical one. They'll keep WKWebView around but only for non-browsing purpose. Anything that resembles a web browser, SFSafariController or rejection.
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by xuki 4y ago
How is the battery life? M1 laptops can easily last the whole day without plugging for most users.
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by xuki 4y ago
Now this has been proven a pipe dream, I really don't understand the current valuation of Uber.
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by xuki 4y ago
You don't even need to go to court, just get a lawyer to write a letter will go way further than any (overworked) customer service rep can help.
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by xuki 4y ago
As someone from a tropical country, 0C is not a little cold and 100F is a normal day. As a universal unit, Celcius makes more sense because it can be defined easily.
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by xuki 4y ago
For MySQL there is xtrabackup - https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-xtra... .
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by xuki 4y ago
> I cannot see their motivation to offer anything for free. Oracle is not alone. AWS/Google Cloud also have free tiers. They want you to get to know the system and might grow out of the free tier. But Oracle's offer is signific
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by xuki 4y ago
This is the way. Everything on 5GHz, unique SSID for 2.4Ghz IOT devices and buy enough APs. Life is too short to debug wifi problems.
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by xuki 4y ago
What you're describing is colocation and it's not cheap. Hetzner also take care of the hardware for you, if there is anything wrong with hardware they fix it.
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by xuki 4y ago
I think they panicked when the pandemic arrived and did not consider the long term ramifications of the changes. Without those changes many players would quit the game.
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by xuki 4y ago
Because they’re THAT good. Or maybe I’m a shill too :).
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by xuki 4y ago
Who goes for horse betting when you could buy powerball tickets?
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by xuki 4y ago
In the US the banks write the loans and offload them to Fannie and Freddie. It’s essentially a government back stop.
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by xuki 4y ago
Apple/Google revenue will see a big decline if those games are regulated. Most if not all the top grossing games on mobile follow the same spending pattern, and a big chunk of app stores' revenue come from those games.
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by xuki 4y ago
Yeah, I was affected by another datacenter fire (WebNX Utah). I had hourly back up, everything was back and running on Digital Ocean within an hour. There are reasons to use AWS/Google Cloud/Azure but reliability is not it.
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by xuki 4y ago
That might be part of it, but also VCs are not interested in $100 mil exits, they rather you go all out and either capture the market or die trying.
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by xuki 4y ago
> uses consumer hardware I run dedicated servers at Hetzner and the consumer parts are CPU and motherboard. Memory is ECC, NVMe SSDs are data center grade. How often do you see CPU failure?
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by xuki 4y ago
You can deduct capital loss from capital gain, unless it occurs in the next financial year then you get to carry it forward indefinitely.
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by xuki 4y ago
https://i.imgur.com/qz4EeQS.jpg - This is (was?) their ads "15% interest. No surprises."
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by xuki 4y ago
Here is the secret: USD is not backed by anything, and the US can print an unlimited amount of it. That's why they have zero risk of a bank run. Tether is "backed" by USD and they can't print USD, that's where the p

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