anpalton

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   by anpalton 13y ago

   They are not seeking to ensure portability between different kinds of services (and Azure has Linux VMs by the way) But portability between, AWS, Google Compute, Azure, Rackspace, Softlayer, Nephoscale, Linode, Digital Ocean, etc would be q
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   by anpalton 13y ago

   The analogy is false. One of the problems with what Icelandic banks were doing was this: "The rules prevent banks from posting their own debt as collateral (Central bank of Luxembourg). The three banks circumvented this rule by posting
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   by anpalton 13y ago

   Really? No, the experiment does not "change the odds of a coin flip". It could maybe change the odds on each choice that the subject of the experiment makes. But even that isn't new. People's choices aren't 50/
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   by anpalton 13y ago

   And private prisons aren't going to help with this at all. Now we'll have people lobbying for even more prisoners and stricter laws, just to get their business growing.