Either way, you need to be doing the kind of work where you can lose VMs on short notice and keep going, but it's a very nice discount if you can.
The only problem is availability... Short of maybe database and legacy software... You shouldn't be writing distributed system that can't handle individual node failure..
So the only thing holding this back is the fact that they don't promise availability and that they can take down all your nodes at once.
I would argument one ought to run a percentage of ones servers as spot nodes... or preeamable VMs.
But the gun that has anti measures to prevent you from shooting your foot off, isn't necessarily more complicated to operate.
One can argue it's simpler because you have fewer body parts to watch out for...
In rust sense, one can argue it's simpler to code because there are entire classes of bugs that can be avoided with static typing. So you don't have to worry about that kind of bugs anymore.
Similarly one can argue that haskell is simple because if it compiles, then it'll very often do the right thing. So you don't have to watch out for bugs, the compiler will... Of course it's very hard to write anything non-trivial that compiles in haskell:)
Has there ever been a new language that wasn't described as "both simpler and more powerful".
I'm not sure it's simpler... But the type system offers some really interesting ownership models.
One can than argue that it being harder to shoot yourself in the foot makes it simpler:)
Again, I advocate for vaccinations, but I must support the principle of religious objections because it is among the founding principles of our country and your argument based on public health is weak at best.
He he.. maybe... I think the argument would be stronger if we had major epidemics... Which we're increasingly likely to see if nothing is done about it.
On topic, I agree with you... Also not vaccinating put children who can't be vaccinated (due to medical conditions) at risk.. Not to mention that vaccinations doesn't always work, so people whose vaccination was ineffective are also put at risk, when someone chooses not to vaccinate.
Religious freedom exists within the bounds of the law, not outside it.
Yes and no, it's within reason... The right to religious freedom can certainly be used to invalidate laws that targets religious conduct for no good reason. Say a law that makes the printing of a specific religious symbols illegal. Or a law that shoves beacon down the throats of religious non-pig eaters...
I think it was the Rehnquist court that developed a "conviction test" that was pretty useful. (i.e. It was something like not bending your conviction even when faced with pressures or threats by all of the following: state, peers, family, death, etc...).
I (sarcastically) like the death one... it's like the witch tests were only death can prove your innocence:)
That said, if you're threaten by the state your right to freedom of religion have been violated. So again, you can only prove that you have a religious conviction by accepting punishment for that religious conviction and having your religious freedom violated.
That smells wrong.
That being said, freedoms such as that of religion, speech, etc. generally doesn't extend to allow you to hurt others. Not vaccinating your children is dangerous to others.
I think you meant Digital Restrictions Management. It's a sad day for Mozilla, the w3c, the web as a whole, and open culture.
So just to be clear, Mozilla supplies a sandbox that and downloads a decoder from adobe (I think). This is a LOT safer than flash, java plugins or silverlight.
DRM sucks no doubt, but at least it's now isolated... In a sandbox that is open source, not a sandbox created by adobe.
Long term, I think DRM will die on it's own, like it did in the music industry. But I don't see Mozilla having the capital to change the market, not when Google, Apple and Microsoft all embrace DRM. Honestly I would rather see Mozilla around to fight another day, because the I don't think the war on DRM is over.
That said, at least this is better, safer and less intrusive than current alternatives (flash, silverlight and various other plugins).
$1 every 3 months. You have commitment issues over $4?
There is something about recurring expenses... that people don't like...
Now if they decided only to sell it as $50 and then you get spotify for 10 years... with no binding or recurring expenses people might bite:)
Note, I pay for spotify, but I bought it in Denmark even though it's $20/mo, because the European selection is much better than the US selection (I live in US).
OK, JPay owns all your posts, what does not follow is the Original Poster being liable for any and all copyright violations of the content they created.
Hmm... Maybej JPay wants to argue that the original poster was not authorized to send the video to his sister because it was copyrighted:)
Lol, I hope the summary is inaccurate, because there is so many disturbing elements (like criminally corrupt violations of human rights) to that summary...
More concerning is why the US Prison system is worried about a private corporation's intellectual rights and safeguarding them?
Yeah, that's what blows my mind too...:)
Did JPay have a judge-signed court order to send this person to solitary?
Also isn't copyright violations normally a civil matter, and resolved through damages, as in money. So effectively this is solitary confinement as a form of debtors' prison...
Wow, that's a lot of disturbing things..:)
Seems like the sort of thing a trust/lawyer company would be good at. They can keep the bills paid, and hiring an IT person to fix anything that breaks.
Probably cost a fortune though.
I see a business opportunity here... You leave your domain with the hosting company, the company does a scan (convert site to static site) and hosts it on say S3 once you're dead... You pay them upfront for say 1000 years of hosting and domain management. Why not, 1k years keeping the lights on a static site is only going to get cheaper, so how expensive do we really think that is...
We could call the business "dead simple hosting":)
For all the people who ask why, I ask why not keep my personal blog around 1k years after I'm dead. Sure it might be worthless, but some of it might have interest to my grand children.. After all my blog is my legacy, however, uninteresting it may be.
Yeah, I know there is the wayback machine, but it's also not the same...
But celebrating the failures of somebody else's country is pretty close to what the Germans call schaedenfreude, and what Americans call "a dick move".
So far the Americans haven't recognized their "failure", nobody have been persecuted for these transgressions, the only one anybody is talking about persecuting is Snowden.
So this is clearly a political provocation, aiming to signal that many Germans takes the transgressions committed by the US very serious, at lot more serious the than most Americans. It's not "a dick move" when the Americans aren't acknowledging their faults, and correcting their wrongs.
Note, I for one can't blame the Germans for being mad about the NSA, keep in mind they have very bad experience with mass surveillance (stasi, gestapo enough said).
Nice try, I'm pretty darn certain this isn't what they're going after, paying a buddy gas money to haul your couch. What they're going after is, people who are "your buddy" for hire and make a living off of hauling shit around without the proper licensing and quite likely half of it is under the table...
Thanks for the common sense here... I totally agree.
It's the same thing with Uber and ride sharing services, no authority cares if you ride-share with a friend, co-worker or neighbor, the problem is when apps tries to organize these kinds of "friend"-services, which makes them a commercial enterprise that doesn't honor regulation.
Compared to other crimes... this isn't such a bad one. Note that:
A) The loss is your time,
B) Your bank/credit company absorbs and amortizes the money stolen (only perusing it further if it makes sense financially),
C) Apart from your time (A) no property was destroyed or lost.
Compare this to a burglar who turns your home upside down, makes it impossible to assess what was lost, and then think that this burglar sells your MacBook for 10% of the asking price... Lost of property destroyed and lots of value is lost in such a crime. Not to mention psychological stress of someone invading your private home.
Or compare to a spammer, just think how many man-hours (distributed over many people) a typical spammer destroys, spamming is an extremely destructive crime (And lots of "legit" companies still send spam in one form or another).
I'm not saying identity theft is a nice crime, there are certainly bad examples of people building up a lot of debt and rather than just using a few fake checks and credit card purchases.
IMO, large part of the problem here is also companies willingness to let you take up debt without proper proof of identity. And companies fighting back aggressive and sending you to collection when you refuse to talked to them because you declare it fraud.
Note, I'm not saying fraud shouldn't be investigated, and that there aren't extreme cases that warrant a lot of investigative resources. But in many cases, such as simple credit card fraud, this is one of the least destructive crimes.
Put up a statue to the folks who prosecuted the Christian Democratic Union's campaign donations scandal in 1999, or Kathrin Oertel, the leader of an anti-islamic nationalist group who recently resigned and recanted, and *then* you can pat yourselves on the back.
Have these people fled their country due to fear of unfair prosecution? Have they been prosecuted?
These cases are good example of people doing the right thing and being recognized for it... As oppose to facing unfair being persecuted.
Also don't compare a donation scandal or the onset of common sense in a racialist to the persistent violation of privacy (a human right) by the US. Note that the US haven't recognized wrong doing, despite violating human rights on a global scale (crossing borders, etc).
I'm sure the donation scandal (I don't know the details) was bad, but it's not global, it didn't violate the rights of hundreds of millions of people.
I don't understand why phone companies don't just set a max for your bill and then shut you off if it goes over that, at least for billable items like long distance.
Because it doesn't cost them anything to sell you 23k in long distance service... So even if you'll never be able to pay it off, that's not a problem for them.
In fact many credit card companies (pay day loans) etc. prey on people in ability to pay off loans, that then proceed to incur interest and late fees.
The only way to fix things like this through regulation... i.e. force phone providers to set a default max limit of say $500, and require that customers are offered a way to change the max limit.
These things won't come on their own.. So they'll likely never happen in the US.
checks... phones... physical mail... standing in line at public offices...
I'm from Denmark where I would apply for university, student housing, educational support, taxes, housing support, birth certificate, chance of address, all digital; any interaction with public sector was digital... All money transfers were digital...
Over here it's in my experience mainly paper.. paper and more paper... I've never used a check before...No automatic bill payment system, etc. my bank offers to send a check by mail from their website (I honestly thought the teller was joking when he told me this)..
In this specific case, there's a lot of international temperature data that is simply not available publicly, largely due to a variety of local political concerns
Health data too... Lack of proper regulation of exhaust... and lack of gasoline taxes we see on most other industrialized nations causes a lot of pollution in the US... This affects both the global environment, but it certainly also kills a lot of people who live in cities in the US... Due to lung cancer, etc....
Some day I want to find the author or pundit who started this whole 'the government is responsible for monopolies, they can not exist without the state' meme and punch them. Then force them to take actual classes in history and economics.
Please do... I suspect it's the same crowd that thinks EU anti-trust cases against Microsoft, Google, etc. is all about handing out fines to American companies...
That's what CA gets for demonizing police. Here, people cheer when a cop pulls over someone being an idiot in public.
I live in SF... I regularly see police cars violating full stop signs... Or driving so fast down hill that it makes sounds when they break...
From what I experience most Americans, as in an actual majority are completely reckless on the road. Even inside a major city. Running stop sign, accelerating towards stops signs and red lights... Entering an intersection while a pedestrian is crossing. During right through a pedestrian crossing while a pedestrian is cross...
Don't get me wrong, I understand that every now and then, we all make mistakes in traffic. But in the US it seems like there is a systemic disregard for public safety.
Note, obviously the roads also configured in a manner where they can't handle the load (street parking on major road). Personally I don't drive in SF, because I don't think it's possible for any normal human being do to so responsibly. That's not to say that I endorse systemic disregard for the traffic law, only to say I understand why people drive the way they do. Unfortunately the implication is that people shouldn't drive (because it can't be done legally), but of course you can't convince an American about that.
Like US car companies, it is very hard to admit when the fat years are over. Give them time; I suspect they will come around a bit.
Like anything in the US, all the big players wants to keep status quo. In many ways I experience the US as being hopelessly stuck in the 70'ties...
Granted I've only lived here for a little more than a year now, nor was alive in the 70'ties:)
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Either way, you need to be doing the kind of work where you can lose VMs on short notice and keep going, but it's a very nice discount if you can.
The only problem is availability... Short of maybe database and legacy software... You shouldn't be writing distributed system that can't handle individual node failure..
So the only thing holding this back is the fact that they don't promise availability and that they can take down all your nodes at once.
I would argument one ought to run a percentage of ones servers as spot nodes... or preeamable VMs.
But the gun that has anti measures to prevent you from shooting your foot off, isn't necessarily more complicated to operate. ...
:)
One can argue it's simpler because you have fewer body parts to watch out for
In rust sense, one can argue it's simpler to code because there are entire classes of bugs that can be avoided with static typing. So you don't have to worry about that kind of bugs anymore.
Similarly one can argue that haskell is simple because if it compiles, then it'll very often do the right thing. So you don't have to watch out for bugs, the compiler will... Of course it's very hard to write anything non-trivial that compiles in haskell
That's not how Windows works, it's not running a continuous render-loop like a game.
Are you sure... I mean it would explain a lot :)
(Sorry, I just long for the good old days where we could get away with windows bashing)
If the 1500 children of mainland Chinese billionaires are actually American citizens, they should not be discriminated against.
I hope that's not to say that it's okay to discriminate based on citizenship? :)
command of English, which might or might not be part of a legitimate application process.
The summary says "Asian Americans", I strongly suspect their native language is English...
Has there ever been a new language that wasn't described as "both simpler and more powerful".
I'm not sure it's simpler... But the type system offers some really interesting ownership models. :)
One can than argue that it being harder to shoot yourself in the foot makes it simpler
Again, I advocate for vaccinations, but I must support the principle of religious objections because it is among the founding principles of our country and your argument based on public health is weak at best.
He he.. maybe... I think the argument would be stronger if we had major epidemics... Which we're increasingly likely to see if nothing is done about it.
Religious freedom exists within the bounds of the law, not outside it.
Yes and no, it's within reason... The right to religious freedom can certainly be used to invalidate laws that targets religious conduct for no good reason. Say a law that makes the printing of a specific religious symbols illegal. Or a law that shoves beacon down the throats of religious non-pig eaters...
I think it was the Rehnquist court that developed a "conviction test" that was pretty useful. (i.e. It was something like not bending your conviction even when faced with pressures or threats by all of the following: state, peers, family, death, etc...).
I (sarcastically) like the death one... it's like the witch tests were only death can prove your innocence :)
That said, if you're threaten by the state your right to freedom of religion have been violated. So again, you can only prove that you have a religious conviction by accepting punishment for that religious conviction and having your religious freedom violated.
That smells wrong.
That being said, freedoms such as that of religion, speech, etc. generally doesn't extend to allow you to hurt others. Not vaccinating your children is dangerous to others.
I think you meant Digital Restrictions Management. It's a sad day for Mozilla, the w3c, the web as a whole, and open culture.
So just to be clear, Mozilla supplies a sandbox that and downloads a decoder from adobe (I think). This is a LOT safer than flash, java plugins or silverlight.
DRM sucks no doubt, but at least it's now isolated... In a sandbox that is open source, not a sandbox created by adobe.
Long term, I think DRM will die on it's own, like it did in the music industry. But I don't see Mozilla having the capital to change the market, not when Google, Apple and Microsoft all embrace DRM. Honestly I would rather see Mozilla around to fight another day, because the I don't think the war on DRM is over.
That said, at least this is better, safer and less intrusive than current alternatives (flash, silverlight and various other plugins).
Afaik it downloads a binary decode from adobe (I think it is) and runs it in a sandbox managed by Firefox. It's a LOT better and safer than flash...
$1 every 3 months. You have commitment issues over $4?
There is something about recurring expenses... that people don't like... :)
Now if they decided only to sell it as $50 and then you get spotify for 10 years... with no binding or recurring expenses people might bite
Note, I pay for spotify, but I bought it in Denmark even though it's $20/mo, because the European selection is much better than the US selection (I live in US).
OK, JPay owns all your posts, what does not follow is the Original Poster being liable for any and all copyright violations of the content they created.
Hmm... Maybej JPay wants to argue that the original poster was not authorized to send the video to his sister because it was copyrighted :)
Lol, I hope the summary is inaccurate, because there is so many disturbing elements (like criminally corrupt violations of human rights) to that summary...
More concerning is why the US Prison system is worried about a private corporation's intellectual rights and safeguarding them?
Yeah, that's what blows my mind too... :)
Did JPay have a judge-signed court order to send this person to solitary?
Also isn't copyright violations normally a civil matter, and resolved through damages, as in money. So effectively this is solitary confinement as a form of debtors' prison... :)
Wow, that's a lot of disturbing things..
Seems like the sort of thing a trust/lawyer company would be good at. They can keep the bills paid, and hiring an IT person to fix anything that breaks. Probably cost a fortune though.
I see a business opportunity here... You leave your domain with the hosting company, the company does a scan (convert site to static site) and hosts it on say S3 once you're dead... You pay them upfront for say 1000 years of hosting and domain management. Why not, 1k years keeping the lights on a static site is only going to get cheaper, so how expensive do we really think that is...
:)
We could call the business "dead simple hosting"
For all the people who ask why, I ask why not keep my personal blog around 1k years after I'm dead. Sure it might be worthless, but some of it might have interest to my grand children.. After all my blog is my legacy, however, uninteresting it may be.
Yeah, I know there is the wayback machine, but it's also not the same...
But celebrating the failures of somebody else's country is pretty close to what the Germans call schaedenfreude, and what Americans call "a dick move".
So far the Americans haven't recognized their "failure", nobody have been persecuted for these transgressions, the only one anybody is talking about persecuting is Snowden.
So this is clearly a political provocation, aiming to signal that many Germans takes the transgressions committed by the US very serious, at lot more serious the than most Americans. It's not "a dick move" when the Americans aren't acknowledging their faults, and correcting their wrongs.
Note, I for one can't blame the Germans for being mad about the NSA, keep in mind they have very bad experience with mass surveillance (stasi, gestapo enough said).
Nice try, I'm pretty darn certain this isn't what they're going after, paying a buddy gas money to haul your couch. What they're going after is, people who are "your buddy" for hire and make a living off of hauling shit around without the proper licensing and quite likely half of it is under the table...
Thanks for the common sense here... I totally agree.
It's the same thing with Uber and ride sharing services, no authority cares if you ride-share with a friend, co-worker or neighbor, the problem is when apps tries to organize these kinds of "friend"-services, which makes them a commercial enterprise that doesn't honor regulation.
Compared to other crimes... this isn't such a bad one. Note that:
A) The loss is your time,
B) Your bank/credit company absorbs and amortizes the money stolen (only perusing it further if it makes sense financially),
C) Apart from your time (A) no property was destroyed or lost.
Compare this to a burglar who turns your home upside down, makes it impossible to assess what was lost, and then think that this burglar sells your MacBook for 10% of the asking price... Lost of property destroyed and lots of value is lost in such a crime. Not to mention psychological stress of someone invading your private home.
Or compare to a spammer, just think how many man-hours (distributed over many people) a typical spammer destroys, spamming is an extremely destructive crime (And lots of "legit" companies still send spam in one form or another).
I'm not saying identity theft is a nice crime, there are certainly bad examples of people building up a lot of debt and rather than just using a few fake checks and credit card purchases.
IMO, large part of the problem here is also companies willingness to let you take up debt without proper proof of identity. And companies fighting back aggressive and sending you to collection when you refuse to talked to them because you declare it fraud.
Note, I'm not saying fraud shouldn't be investigated, and that there aren't extreme cases that warrant a lot of investigative resources. But in many cases, such as simple credit card fraud, this is one of the least destructive crimes.
Put up a statue to the folks who prosecuted the Christian Democratic Union's campaign donations scandal in 1999, or Kathrin Oertel, the leader of an anti-islamic nationalist group who recently resigned and recanted, and *then* you can pat yourselves on the back.
Have these people fled their country due to fear of unfair prosecution? Have they been prosecuted?
These cases are good example of people doing the right thing and being recognized for it... As oppose to facing unfair being persecuted.
Also don't compare a donation scandal or the onset of common sense in a racialist to the persistent violation of privacy (a human right) by the US. Note that the US haven't recognized wrong doing, despite violating human rights on a global scale (crossing borders, etc).
I'm sure the donation scandal (I don't know the details) was bad, but it's not global, it didn't violate the rights of hundreds of millions of people.
I don't understand why phone companies don't just set a max for your bill and then shut you off if it goes over that, at least for billable items like long distance.
Because it doesn't cost them anything to sell you 23k in long distance service... So even if you'll never be able to pay it off, that's not a problem for them.
In fact many credit card companies (pay day loans) etc. prey on people in ability to pay off loans, that then proceed to incur interest and late fees.
The only way to fix things like this through regulation... i.e. force phone providers to set a default max limit of say $500, and require that customers are offered a way to change the max limit.
These things won't come on their own.. So they'll likely never happen in the US.
In the seventy-ties?
That's a very strange construct.
checks... phones... physical mail... standing in line at public offices...
I'm from Denmark where I would apply for university, student housing, educational support, taxes, housing support, birth certificate, chance of address, all digital; any interaction with public sector was digital... All money transfers were digital...
Over here it's in my experience mainly paper.. paper and more paper... I've never used a check before...No automatic bill payment system, etc. my bank offers to send a check by mail from their website (I honestly thought the teller was joking when he told me this)..
In this specific case, there's a lot of international temperature data that is simply not available publicly, largely due to a variety of local political concerns
Health data too... Lack of proper regulation of exhaust... and lack of gasoline taxes we see on most other industrialized nations causes a lot of pollution in the US... This affects both the global environment, but it certainly also kills a lot of people who live in cities in the US... Due to lung cancer, etc....
Some day I want to find the author or pundit who started this whole 'the government is responsible for monopolies, they can not exist without the state' meme and punch them. Then force them to take actual classes in history and economics.
Please do... I suspect it's the same crowd that thinks EU anti-trust cases against Microsoft, Google, etc. is all about handing out fines to American companies...
That's what CA gets for demonizing police. Here, people cheer when a cop pulls over someone being an idiot in public.
I live in SF... I regularly see police cars violating full stop signs... Or driving so fast down hill that it makes sounds when they break...
From what I experience most Americans, as in an actual majority are completely reckless on the road. Even inside a major city. Running stop sign, accelerating towards stops signs and red lights... Entering an intersection while a pedestrian is crossing. During right through a pedestrian crossing while a pedestrian is cross...
Don't get me wrong, I understand that every now and then, we all make mistakes in traffic. But in the US it seems like there is a systemic disregard for public safety.
Note, obviously the roads also configured in a manner where they can't handle the load (street parking on major road). Personally I don't drive in SF, because I don't think it's possible for any normal human being do to so responsibly. That's not to say that I endorse systemic disregard for the traffic law, only to say I understand why people drive the way they do. Unfortunately the implication is that people shouldn't drive (because it can't be done legally), but of course you can't convince an American about that.
Like US car companies, it is very hard to admit when the fat years are over. Give them time; I suspect they will come around a bit.
Like anything in the US, all the big players wants to keep status quo. In many ways I experience the US as being hopelessly stuck in the 70'ties... :)
Granted I've only lived here for a little more than a year now, nor was alive in the 70'ties