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110,929karma·51,750submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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Shouldn't the consumer decide what apps they want to buy instead of Apple?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Transfers_to_Minors_Act
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I have yet to run into a book they wouldn't/couldn't scan.
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So instead of telling us the limitations up front, we have to sign up for your service and stress test it ourselves to find out.
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Or just build the verification into the storage system, and send a SNS message if data loss has occurred (just like what happens when a Reduced Redundancy object has been lost in S3).
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I had a library of around 1000+ books; any book I couldn't get as a Kindle book, I had 1dollarscan.com scan. They did a phenomenal job. No relation, just very satisfied with their results.
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As someone who has paid upwards of $8K for a last-minute first class ticket (6 hours booking to flight), I don't doubt this at all.
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You'd be replacing those rental cars with your self-driving cars.
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Why would Google license the tech when they could buy Tesla (TSLA market cap is $3 BB; CHEAP for the value they deliver) and turn out Google cars themselves? They then control the entire ecosystem, si…
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Look, I'm an environmentalist (I fund projects that help pay for inholdings in state parks so they transition to what we'd consider the public domain), but I'm a realist as well. People need mobility.…
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Doesn't even have to be a major metro area. Start small. Someplace without snow (Google cars still have problems with snow). Puerto Rico. The Bahamas. Hawaii. These are all small places where you can …
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The device on top is a laser scanner creating a cloud point map for spatial awareness.
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Penalties influence the culture. As we all know, the first lesson in economics is that incentives matter. Sometimes, the right people aren't being incentivized to do the right thing.
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Or not having fire departments at all; speakers in your home for your home automation system (with Siri and Google Now plugged) would be used to put the fire out from the inside. Your home is going to…
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Wouldn't they just integrate wireless charging into the battery? To eliminate the need for a port?
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Yes. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020435800457702...
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Looking for fulltime or part time admins/linux ops?
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Either way you'd need an EC2 instance doing some work. No way to do it with just S3 and Dynamo.
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Honestly? I probably wouldn't. I'm in the minority though. Think how many Green charge card, OPEN card, regular consumer Amex credit card, and corporate card customers withe Amex there are out there. …
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Agreed. I have a Platinum American Express. I pay $495/year for my card, plus $175/year for three additional cards on the same account. I spend anywhere between $350K-$500K/year on the card (both pers…
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So coming up with your own data feed from human-generated/sourced data? ;)
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This. I had an argument about this with the CTO of Twilio during my DevOps interview with them. Their excuse is that it works "good enough". Can't expect much else when one of the founders comes from …
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YES! AWS needs a way to signal to all VMs in an availability zone a "going dark" command, which you could use to gracefully move workloads to other locations.
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You're referring to diesel/fuel polishing; its practically mandatory at sites storing large quantities of diesel fuel for extended periods of time for consumption purposes.
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Find 10-30 hosting providers; call each one and ask a) where they colo and b) if they can offer direct connect. Don't want to waste your time? Hire it out to TaskRabbit or IamExec. Most places are not…
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Call them and ask.
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"Heh look! Craigslist still takes my ad for my spare room even though my lease says I can't do this!"
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Unless you're a grossly incompetent terrorist, searching through your email isn't going to help you determine how much of a threat you are. Israel can continue what they're doing, but without any US p…
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It appears that even giving them your real email account will get you refused from the country. As a US citizen, I'm disappointed in Israel, and would prefer even less of my tax dollars are used to su…