cobookman

Note cloud vendors get the benefit of mixing high IOPs workloads with low IOPs workloads.

Say a cloud vendor needs a bunch of HDD for a database workload with high IOPs. Using modern disks (4+ TiB) this leaves a lot of stranded disk storage that can only be used for low IOPs workloads.

Archive storage uniquely meets the criteria of lots of storage, yet low IOPs.

Disclaimer work for Google but have no knowledge of how AWS glacier works.

Itd actually be a good thing for the environment.

The greater the cost the more conservation makes business sense.

If an efficient fridge is only 15$/month cheaper it's not replacing your current fridge. At 50$/month it quickly pays off.

Maybe now would be a good time to create a credit monitoring startup.

Should replace Google with HCL. The actual employer and one lobbying against unionization

Just look at Alibaba. The government likely owns even more shares through proxies or threatening of families.

It’s due to the government not being able to compete on salary due to federal salary schedule limitations.

The joke is they can easily pay a contractor 150$/hour though. But can’t pay an employee hourly wage of 100$/hour

I’ve wondered as solar gets more popular we’ll have heat and cooling systems that take advantage of the free excess electricity.

For example heat my water to 140% the ideal temp and cool a thermal sink for ac when I’m away from home during peak solar.

Then when I’m at home and it’s no longer sunny my electricity needs are nil as I utilize the pre stored coolant and heat.

Haven’t done the math but I’d assume a 500 gallon water tank that’s heated or cooled during peak solar with insulation could be used to keep your home at the perfect temperature by using excess solar.

Say you can get debt at 3% interest. The same money could get 4-7% yearly average return in safe investments over a 7-15 year time frame.

Why wouldn't you aquire debt?

This is the same reason rich people get a mortgage even if you could afford to buy the house outright.

Best part is that debt is defaultable.

Airbus did the same as well with thier 320 series

Companies can easily get around this.

Instead of Facebook opening the Bank. It'll be zuck first banking national forms a partnership with Facebook Inc. Accomplishing the same things.

Only accomplishment will be that it's harder for the two companies to share their point datasets. Albeit, not impossible.

Source to back that up? From my understanding Snap's entire spiel is user privacy

It’ll be interesting if rates ever do rise.

Right now you might as well buy a house just cause. At 3% interest. It’s basically free money. Especially if you view inflation at 2%. Plus rental income and property appreciation. Why not?

You could just use a VPN service

1TiB of CDN egress at market rate for large customers is less than a cup of coffee

Sry. Source was from a blind thread. Not an internal thread. Mixed the two up

https://us.teamblind.com/s/5YFH3CqL

Sry. Source was from a blind thread. Not an internal thread. Mixed the two up

https://us.teamblind.com/s/5YFH3CqL

Sry. Source was from a blind thread. Not an internal thread. Mixed the two up

https://us.teamblind.com/s/5YFH3CqL

The 64% against includes entire blind community. Of those working at Google who replied it was majority for it.

Put another way, even though the macro blind community was against. Googlers in said group were for it. Showing googlers are more likely to be for than against

If you are a googler. View the ethics-discuss group. And search for Meredith's post where she discloses her managers performance review.

The manager feedback was posted in an internal mailing list.

It said no such thing. manager asked her to focus on her day to day job. Her ai ethics work was not aligned to the job she was hired for.

She asked to be moved to RMI. No hiring manager in RMI wanted her on their team, and she didn't complete the ladder transfer process.

Instead demanding a forced transfer.

Could be wrong here, but that's how it was presented internally by Meredith herself.

Proof of retaliation? I've yet to see anything concrete here.

If anything it sounded like they disagreed with the company's business direction. Leaders listened, made some changes.

They still disagreed...this time with leadership not feeling a change was necessary.

they then quit as they disagreed with the company's direction.

How does this look bad for Google? Honest question.

Realize Meredith and her crew are a minority of employees. We are talking < 10% of employees shared all her views.

Majority of googlers wanted maven. They wanted search in China.

Biggest change to culture is people getting tired of SJW outrage. And a focus back on our users and business

Gps trackers cant penetrate a thick lead shield.

Simply shield the electronics from being able to emit. Then deal with it at a later point

Or are compostible.

All grocery packaging should either be multi use or compostible. I hate how plastics are used where they don't need to be

Then just damn up the entrance to the bay and control it's water level. Same risk as draining the bay all together.

Either way global warming is going to change the landscape. Might as well attempt something that limits damage

If the Netherlands managed to reclaim land through dikes. Why couldn't California do the same in their coastal affluent neighborhoods? California doesn't get bad storms and it rarely gets a hurricanes / tornadoes / tsunamis...etc.

For the bay area...Why not just drain the bay. There was a proposal previously and cost wise it'd easily pay off given the land gains. Heck could easily solve our housing and transit issues

I know Google does the same