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by fbags 13y ago
I directly addressed the "no true Scotsman" issue, for example. No, you didn't. You simply asserted that you weren't committing that fallacy. Similarly, you simply asserted that when evaluating unexpected positive and
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by fbags 13y ago
It's in no way appropriate. You're purposefully conflating completely different arguments to try to score cheap political points. And it's almost comic that you're essentially pretending that nobody talked about potenti
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by fbags 13y ago
If you're going to stand by your judgment, you should do so on both sides. Actors within government are generally aware that their actions have some negative consequences. They have a lot of smart people who tell them about problems t
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by fbags 13y ago
Give me a break. I guarantee that when NASA was proposed, nobody had a presentation which showed all the companies that would result, nor all the side effects of the engineering talent that would be accreted in industry and universities, n
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by fbags 13y ago
Yes. Any moderately intelligent and informed person could look at a government program and identify both positive and negative impacts. As an example, the entire Silicon Valley ecosystem started from the confluence of government programs,
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by fbags 13y ago
One other thing we can be very sure about this law: there's going to be a bunch of "unintended consequences", and some of them will be good. Some are likely to be very good.
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by fbags 13y ago
It varies from book to book. Some of them are only 1 or 2 devices. The annoyance is that I inevitably forget which books are device limited and end up unable to open them from work / while traveling / etc.
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by fbags 13y ago
The point stands that I can't read those books on original Kindles at all. It's not like there's a "let me read the text, and don't show some graphics" option.
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by fbags 13y ago
I bet all 1st gen Kindles can still buy all books from Amazon. You lose this bet. There are quite a few Kindle books like this: http://cl.ly/image/2t2m2V3Y0513 that won't play on basic Kindle devices. I discove
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by fbags 13y ago
This isn't about my preferences. The whole point is that only an arrogant asshole would claim their preferences are the only rational ones. As another example within GPS, Waze used to give truly horrendous routes, as it would often fa
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by fbags 13y ago
You seem to have defined rationality to mean 'a person who cares solely about the present, with no value put on the future'. Because a person who rationally cares about great map data for their whole lives, and also cares about ot
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by fbags 13y ago
Mutual funds are an investment. Hoarding is savings. One is productive, one isn't. That's the key difference. The difference is even more glaringly obvious if you think about the difference between equity in a productive company
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by fbags 13y ago
Dropbox's website used to say: All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES256) and are inaccessible without your account password. This was changed to simply say that they are encrypted after this FTC complaint was filed: h
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by fbags 13y ago
They're mostly addicts who still have room left on one of their credit cards.
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by fbags 13y ago
That's a different issue. This one is instances that are launched into an sg that is then left unmodified. If there are a moderate to large number of instances in that sg, intermittent network connectivity problems will ensue. The is
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by fbags 13y ago
Two points: 1) Dropbox has many thousands of their own servers, alongside the Amazon. It's not like they're just using raw S3 and nothing else. 2) Dropbox has a history of egregious mistakes which they try to sweep under the rug.
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by fbags 13y ago
As a simple example, if you have a moderate number of hosts in a single security group (e.g. 200+ hosts), you can expect to have intermittent communication problems between the nodes. They used to deny this was a problem. here's a sou
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by fbags 13y ago
The paid support tier is also atrocious and close to useless. AWS routinely denies the existence of major flaws for months or years, until they eventually admit it, often by just documenting it instead of fixing it. They're horrifical
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by fbags 13y ago
I've run a consultancy. They're not making anywhere near the money you likely imagine. There are several major sets of costs to consider. One set is costs directly related to employing you. Benefits, employer paid taxes, equipm
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by fbags 13y ago
I have huge amounts of money stolen from me, and spent irresponsibly and inefficiently. This is not a help.