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110,926karma·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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I'm a steak lover, and reading about mechanically separated meat makes me throw up in my mouth a little.
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Actually, that's a beautiful comparison.
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If you're paying AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint per GB, and you're getting 250GB/month from Comcast on your home connection, yeah, you're going to want your iPhone to intelligently switch to the "cheape…
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I believe that in almost all cases, the LEO tasked with seizing equipment in an operation are going to be ill-equipped to execute this attack. Now, if its the CIA or NSA after you, you have other prob…
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Lets all rejoice in how fast those who created the disaster fixed it. rolls eyes
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Backblaze is OK. $5/month for unlimited backups is great, but have you ever had to use their web interface for restores? Argh, its horrible. Also, it doesn't allow you to backup your Applications dire…
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https://www.backupify.com/ I use it to backup both my personal Gmail account and my Google Apps work account, as well as my Flickr account. Its cost effective, and helps me sleep at night, consideri…
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Object storage for end users; still a huge problem to solve, considering Google's missions statement is to organize the world's information.
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And run the entire server out of memory. 64GB of ram is cheap on servers now; you boot from a write-protected flash drive, and everything is done in memory. If you power the box down, anything stored …
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6 is Discover
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Need beta testers?
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The best you could do is do the query after the call, and cache it locally if the caller calls again.
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The world is graying extremely quickly (Japan, Western Europe, the US, and soon China).
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Sounds like an awesome idea for an API: Submit a URL/URI and get back metadata without your app or mobile device having to do the heavy lifting.
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Downvote? For quickly summarizing a wikipedia link? I guess we all have time to waste skimming wikipedia articles, don't we?
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TL;DR The world is getting older, hence less babies born.
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Don't forget: Offloading almost all freight traffic that can't be done by rail to automated vehicles between 1-6am daily. Airplanes fly constantly, because each second they're on the ground is a secon…
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So use the Dropbox as the golden copy/SHA reference, and fetch the file from peers over Bittorrent. DB is always going to be able to be used like a resilient tracker/datasource, and DB devs can only p…
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As an OpenStack user with several PB in production, thank you!
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Like iMessages (iPhone) and Google Voice/GroupMe (Android)?
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My Nexus One running CM7 is also 0.2 seconds off.
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https://nimbus.io/ Almost public release, and $0.06/GB.
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I was quoted $480/year per user on Box.net (80 users). Dropbox may not be as good as them, but is a satisfactory solution based on their significantly lower pricing.
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Have already been working on an app for this (just for lulz); haven't had time to finish it yet. I pull from public DOE data regarding generation locations.
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Ads. In the car. With the option to buy the product or take you to the seller immediately. Billboards....HAH!
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86.9F isn't hot enough for you? Also, other warm locales are just a short flight away.
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If you haven't tried FutureAdvisor, try it. I've been using them since I first heard about them over a year ago on HackerNews, and let its recommendations guide my Fidelity portfolio.
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I'm completely OK with a predominately female group being told men would be there serving drinks? African americans serving racists? That's a totally different ballgame.
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Yes, because you clearly have no rights if you're mistaken for an employee at an event. How does offering to have women bring you beer at an event take away your rights? Shall we be boycotting Oktober…
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Thank you! I don't feel like I'm being sexist at all. Scoot didn't say "HEH! We have naked women bringing you beer!" They said "We're having women server you beer". This is a perk for some men. What's…