If you transfer money in countries with more modern bank infrastructure it really takes seconds. Floating money during transfer is pretty much insignificant, it simply doesn't provide much value and is unreliable. I've seen computing infrastructure involved in SWIFT transfers for a couple of large banks in Europe, and I can definitely say that the slow speed is mostly caused by _really_ obsolete systems.
As usual, any systemd-related thread brings out losers whose arguments are "but my pile of shell scripts is so much better because that's what I've been doing for 15 years!111!!!".
Let's deconstruct this article - it's ALL whining. There are no examples of actual bugs (sorry, "servers don't boot" is just BS). Other examples are equally pathetic: "systemd-resolved that constantly interferes with our core network" - I guess they stopped reading manual before getting to "systemctl disable" part?
After this article I'm pretty sure that this "CEO"'s company will fail pretty spectacularly.
Oh fuck that noise. ML from an engineering standpoint is not complicated, just get a bunch of neural networks and connect them together. And there's an element of craft involved, as usual in engineering fields.
Statistical models (hey, they are still used!) are more complicated, but don't really require any math apart from a couple of BS-level university courses.
So you are deliberately slanting your bet by limiting the options to wireline and certain speeds. I'll bet you this: if by the end of next year there is a 10Gb fiber service to my house that costs just $10, I'll pay you $10,000. Otherwise, you pay me. How about those terms?
Oh no, you're not squirming away from this one. I'm not specifying anything unusual, 50Mbps is not unusual (I'm not even asking for 100Mbps) and I'm ready to change "wired" to "unmetered". If you can get me an unmetered 50Mbps wireless connection then I'm also OK with that.
Are you ready for my bet? Or are you going to eat your own words?
Yes, they declined to pay to expand an interconnect that was being saturated with traffic primarily from one source. I note that you've now transitioned from talking about my responsibilities as an ISP into a rant about Comcast.
No, they declined to expand. They didn't have to pay ANYTHING extra apart from trivial costs of additional ports in traffic exchange points. Let me repeat, Comcast decided to screw their cattle because they had no competition and felt no consequences from rent-seeking behavior.
I can't control who competes in your area. If there isn't enough customer base to support another ISP, that's not my fault.
It's a fucking downtown area with average house prices south of $1 million. If there's no "customer base" there then there's no customer base anywhere in the US.
But that wasn't what you claimed. You claimed that an ISP has a responsibility to make sure the service works to everyplace on internet.
Oh no, I didn't. ISPs have responsibility to perform all reasonable actions to make sure that customers can comfortable use their applications. Netflix is not a fucking site somewhere in middle of China.
Somehow I don't doubt that you are intimately familiar with how ISPs screw people. I am also familiar with how some of them don't.
There aren't any good ISPs in the top 10, so fuck you. There are some good local ISPs but they are being killed off by the top10.
You've changed a lot of words between your first claim and this one, but it is still wrong. My responsibility ends at the edge of my network. I cannot control what other network providers do, and I cannot control what bandwidth other content providers pay for.
No. It's you who are squealing like a pig being slaughtered. In case of fucking Comcast they were DECLINING TO BUILD UP THEIR INTERCONNECTIONS. Nobody was asking them to provide free transit to Netflix, they were asked to build up their fucking network so their fucking edge had enough capacity to peer with Netflix.
And Netflix is bending over their backwards to accommodate ISPs, at that.
There are four ISPs I can call at any time for service here, and those are just the ones I'm familiar with. There's 13 listed in the phone book.
I offered this bet several times - if by the end of the next year I have at least 3 wireline ISPs that will provide me more with more than 50Mbps connection then I'll pay you $10000. Otherwise you pay me that sum. I live in a middle of an affluent neighborhood (ZIP code 98119) and I can't get anything except Comcast or slow DSL. Do you believe your own convictions? I'm ready to post that sum into an escrow right now.
No? Then shut up your mouth. I actually used to run an ISP and I fucking know how deeply US ISPs are screwing people.
Actually, it IS your duty to make sure that customers can reach the fucking 1-st most popular destination on the Internet with a reasonable speed. If it weren't for a total lack of competition you'd be out of business if you failed to do that.
Of course I'm not paying them to do this. Why should I pay THEM to use my electricity and network backbone so they can charge my customers for their content?
You meant to write "my slaves", didn't you? People that you own and exploit for profit.
Because your customers PAY YOU to get the content. It's not like Netflix just shoves data into your network .
First, it's actually YOUR DUTY as an ISP to make sure that your clients are getting good service. Typically it involves paying the network that produces the content for peering.
Second, Netflix will gladly install caching edge servers in your datacenter and manage them for you: https://openconnect.netflix.co... - all free of charge. This saves something like 95% of the total backbone traffic. Yet Comcast was refusing it.
Oh fuck off. Let's just skip to GESTAPO hauling people away because "time matters". What if you commit a treason in the next 5 minutes? Can't wait for it, can we?
If you can find a judge that fast.
Officers have judges on-call 24h and can get a warrant in minutes if they want. Typically it takes a couple of hours at most.
A lot of things endanger life. So what's your point? I've pointed out that even in your (pretty crazy) scenario it's extremely easy to obtain a warrant. It can quite literally be done in 15 minutes if officers so desire.
My Tesla is at 70000 miles right now and I'm still using the factory brake pads. They will probably survive until the end of car's life. Regenerative braking FTW!
My Tesla's tires worked fine for 40000 miles (they are rated for 50000 miles). I'm not light-footed - the ESP on Teslas is really good and prevents tires slipping in normal conditions.
If you're doing 3 full cycles a day then you're driving around 500 miles a day. If you're just doing small top-ups then there's little to no additional degradation.
Yes it does. He suddenly wants a protection for a political minority, while advocating that people should stop protecting minorities. Yep, totally consistent.
As usual, conservative lie, lie, lie. Let me quote from that screed:
Stop alienating conservatives.
Viewpoint diversity is arguably the most important type of diversity and political
orientation is one of the most fundamental and significant ways in which people
view things differently.
In highly progressive environments, conservatives are a minority that feel like
they need to stay in the closet to avoid open hostility. We should empower those
with different ideologies to be able to express themselves.
Alienating conservatives is both non-inclusive and generally bad business
because conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness, which is required
for much of the drudgery and maintenance work characteristic of a mature
company.
Provide examples of lies that NYTimes themselves committed. Reporting information from reputable sources that turned out to be false is not lying.
So let's look: "40% of colleges see dips in foreign students" - and 39% of them did. NYTimes simply rounded the number and reported it. I see no issues with that.
So go fuck yourself. You are the reason of the US troubles. You gloss over blatant lies of right wingnuts while working up over 1% discrepancy in the report in NYTimes.
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If you transfer money in countries with more modern bank infrastructure it really takes seconds. Floating money during transfer is pretty much insignificant, it simply doesn't provide much value and is unreliable. I've seen computing infrastructure involved in SWIFT transfers for a couple of large banks in Europe, and I can definitely say that the slow speed is mostly caused by _really_ obsolete systems.
SWIFT message exchange takes seconds. Bank processing might take days, lots of banks process messages _manually_.
I googled it. It looks like the pay gap is real.
As usual, any systemd-related thread brings out losers whose arguments are "but my pile of shell scripts is so much better because that's what I've been doing for 15 years!111!!!".
Let's deconstruct this article - it's ALL whining. There are no examples of actual bugs (sorry, "servers don't boot" is just BS). Other examples are equally pathetic: "systemd-resolved that constantly interferes with our core network" - I guess they stopped reading manual before getting to "systemctl disable" part?
After this article I'm pretty sure that this "CEO"'s company will fail pretty spectacularly.
Oh fuck that noise. ML from an engineering standpoint is not complicated, just get a bunch of neural networks and connect them together. And there's an element of craft involved, as usual in engineering fields.
Statistical models (hey, they are still used!) are more complicated, but don't really require any math apart from a couple of BS-level university courses.
So you are deliberately slanting your bet by limiting the options to wireline and certain speeds. I'll bet you this: if by the end of next year there is a 10Gb fiber service to my house that costs just $10, I'll pay you $10,000. Otherwise, you pay me. How about those terms?
Oh no, you're not squirming away from this one. I'm not specifying anything unusual, 50Mbps is not unusual (I'm not even asking for 100Mbps) and I'm ready to change "wired" to "unmetered". If you can get me an unmetered 50Mbps wireless connection then I'm also OK with that.
Are you ready for my bet? Or are you going to eat your own words?
Yes, they declined to pay to expand an interconnect that was being saturated with traffic primarily from one source. I note that you've now transitioned from talking about my responsibilities as an ISP into a rant about Comcast.
No, they declined to expand. They didn't have to pay ANYTHING extra apart from trivial costs of additional ports in traffic exchange points. Let me repeat, Comcast decided to screw their cattle because they had no competition and felt no consequences from rent-seeking behavior.
I can't control who competes in your area. If there isn't enough customer base to support another ISP, that's not my fault.
It's a fucking downtown area with average house prices south of $1 million. If there's no "customer base" there then there's no customer base anywhere in the US.
But that wasn't what you claimed. You claimed that an ISP has a responsibility to make sure the service works to everyplace on internet.
Oh no, I didn't. ISPs have responsibility to perform all reasonable actions to make sure that customers can comfortable use their applications. Netflix is not a fucking site somewhere in middle of China.
Somehow I don't doubt that you are intimately familiar with how ISPs screw people. I am also familiar with how some of them don't.
There aren't any good ISPs in the top 10, so fuck you. There are some good local ISPs but they are being killed off by the top10.
You've changed a lot of words between your first claim and this one, but it is still wrong. My responsibility ends at the edge of my network. I cannot control what other network providers do, and I cannot control what bandwidth other content providers pay for.
No. It's you who are squealing like a pig being slaughtered. In case of fucking Comcast they were DECLINING TO BUILD UP THEIR INTERCONNECTIONS. Nobody was asking them to provide free transit to Netflix, they were asked to build up their fucking network so their fucking edge had enough capacity to peer with Netflix.
And Netflix is bending over their backwards to accommodate ISPs, at that.
There are four ISPs I can call at any time for service here, and those are just the ones I'm familiar with. There's 13 listed in the phone book.
I offered this bet several times - if by the end of the next year I have at least 3 wireline ISPs that will provide me more with more than 50Mbps connection then I'll pay you $10000. Otherwise you pay me that sum. I live in a middle of an affluent neighborhood (ZIP code 98119) and I can't get anything except Comcast or slow DSL. Do you believe your own convictions? I'm ready to post that sum into an escrow right now.
No? Then shut up your mouth. I actually used to run an ISP and I fucking know how deeply US ISPs are screwing people.
Of course I'm not paying them to do this. Why should I pay THEM to use my electricity and network backbone so they can charge my customers for their content?
You meant to write "my slaves", didn't you? People that you own and exploit for profit.
Because your customers PAY YOU to get the content. It's not like Netflix just shoves data into your network .
I think you need to adjust your tinfoil hat and disconnect that intravenous Alex Jones news feed.
Pure BS.
First, it's actually YOUR DUTY as an ISP to make sure that your clients are getting good service. Typically it involves paying the network that produces the content for peering.
Second, Netflix will gladly install caching edge servers in your datacenter and manage them for you: https://openconnect.netflix.co... - all free of charge. This saves something like 95% of the total backbone traffic. Yet Comcast was refusing it.
Can you find a SINGLE FUCKING EXAMPLE of a demented person not getting found because police was not able to get records in time? Nope, you can't.
So in order to "fix" a completely fake news scenario you're proposing to kill the privacy completely. I'd say anti-Godwin suits this just fine.
If you can find a judge that fast.
Officers have judges on-call 24h and can get a warrant in minutes if they want. Typically it takes a couple of hours at most.
A lot of things endanger life. So what's your point? I've pointed out that even in your (pretty crazy) scenario it's extremely easy to obtain a warrant. It can quite literally be done in 15 minutes if officers so desire.
You can get a warrant for a wandering dementia patient. Look up the Silver Alert.
Every time I start a new VM on Amazon EC2. Since you're paying by a second now, boot time matters if you're launching hundreds of instances.
Have you tried speaking with your family members? There are tons of free messenger applications for it. No Facebook necessary.
My Tesla is at 70000 miles right now and I'm still using the factory brake pads. They will probably survive until the end of car's life. Regenerative braking FTW!
My Tesla's tires worked fine for 40000 miles (they are rated for 50000 miles). I'm not light-footed - the ESP on Teslas is really good and prevents tires slipping in normal conditions.
If you're doing 3 full cycles a day then you're driving around 500 miles a day. If you're just doing small top-ups then there's little to no additional degradation.
Because Mitch McChildeater said so. Duh. And Obama didn't want to pick up a fight over a minor commissioner with essentially zero power.
Do you seriously think that Republicans wouldn't have appointed somebody like him anyway?
Yes it does. He suddenly wants a protection for a political minority, while advocating that people should stop protecting minorities. Yep, totally consistent.
No he didn't.
As usual, conservative lie, lie, lie. Let me quote from that screed:
Stop alienating conservatives.
Viewpoint diversity is arguably the most important type of diversity and political orientation is one of the most fundamental and significant ways in which people view things differently.
In highly progressive environments, conservatives are a minority that feel like they need to stay in the closet to avoid open hostility. We should empower those with different ideologies to be able to express themselves.
Alienating conservatives is both non-inclusive and generally bad business because conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness, which is required for much of the drudgery and maintenance work characteristic of a mature company.
Yes, that's what he said, read the memo. And also proposed affirmative action for "conservatives", so his memo is not even self-consistent.
Links?
Provide examples of lies that NYTimes themselves committed. Reporting information from reputable sources that turned out to be false is not lying.
So let's look: "40% of colleges see dips in foreign students" - and 39% of them did. NYTimes simply rounded the number and reported it. I see no issues with that.
So go fuck yourself. You are the reason of the US troubles. You gloss over blatant lies of right wingnuts while working up over 1% discrepancy in the report in NYTimes.