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We know that removing traffic calming devices causes faster and more reckless driving. Poorly designed streets in high-density areas tend to rely on heavy traffic as their primary means of traffic calming. The pandemic could also separately be playing a role, but its certainly not the only cause if it is a factor.

Renewables are already cheaper - solar in the US is the cheapest form of energy in the world. The remaining challenges are improving batteries for storing it, and continued panel efficiency to reduce the amount of space needed for generating solar power.

For anyone interested in listening to the interview, I believe aroman is referring to "How I Built This" from NPR: https://www.npr.org/player/embed/493923357/494083296

That's even in the FAQ:

But really, I’ll get something, right?

No, we’re not even taking your shipping address. All we have to offer is nothing.

It's not storage that's expensive with glacier, it's retrieval costs. If you pull data down too quickly its conceivable that it could add up to thousands. In addition to the retrieval fee you have to pay for data out which is huge - $0.09 after the first GB in us-east-1.

Let's say you store 1TB and decide to download it all later. The retrieval fee is $9.73 (1024GBx0.95x$0.01) and data transfer is $92.07 (1023x$0.09). That's over $100 for just that one retrieval.

> set their spot max price at the same price as an on-demand instance

People have played that game before and lost. Spot pricing can and has gone above the on-demand prices. It is normally a great way to save money, but there's no way to avoid the possibility of having your instance terminated. If that's not something you've built around then you have to stick to on-demand (or reserved).

You don't pay for a specific device. You pay for unlimited runs using 1 device, but that device could change each run. So its sort of akin to leasing without an option to buy.

Those are awesome and I'm sure well-deserved jumps. However, you definitely have not maxed out on the pay scale, especially if you're in SF/NYC. To quote patio11:

> Pick a number, any number: somebody does a lot better than that. For most numbers you’d naively think of, its an awful lot of somebodies. $100k? Not the top. $250k? Not the top. $500k? … Not the top.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/

Do you have a source for that number? I've seen recent estimates of about 2.5-3.5 million Bitcoin users, but that's the global total. I have no idea how you could filter that down to just U.S. users.

This is really awesome! I've been passively looking for something like Vault for a while, can't wait to start integrating.

I just finished tossing together a Chef cookbook to get Vault installed/configured up to the init/unseal step. Here's the link in case its useful to anyone: https://github.com/hexedpackets/chef-vault

Coinbase is hosted on AWS in the us-east-1 region; this makes co-location incredibly cheap and accessible. The specific availability zone isn't publicized, but it would be trivial to do latency comparisons between the zones and figure it out - since Coinbase is a fairly new company, there are only 3 zones they could be in.

Not any frequency, the radios have physical limitations that only allow them to transmit on a small range of frequencies. They can certainly cause interference outside of the bands they were designed to operate on, though.

Storage is a little different since there are some things you can reveal about files while keeping them private (filetype, size, last modified time) which are relevant to providers. Email is much more difficult, with the exception of the sender and the time there is very little information that can be provided from an encrypted email. That makes it harder to provide a feature-heavy client. You of course have the option for using something more light weight; Gmail does not have that option, it would be a completely different product and business model.

Using web of trust signed keys is all well and good for techies. How would Google possibly set that up for average folks in a way that they themselves could not circumvent? I certainly could not see my parents working with key pairs unless the vast majority of the work was done automatically.

That's not viable. First, Google's business is built around data. Having unreadable emails kills half the features in Gmail as well as their targeted advertisements. No money and a less useful product means they go out of business (ignoring other products, of course, but I'm assuming you would advocate for similar models in those).

The other option is the government would just force them to bypass their own trust model to give them meaningful access, such as what happened with Lavabit.

A couple of bundles have allowed per-dev split, but not all of them.

There are easter eggs in many of the crucial services on the Internet. The HTTP status codes are the first that come to mind.

After all, what's the point of running a massive service if you can't have fun with it?

I have a few Ubuntu instance and didn't receive any notification.

Isn't that just a needlessly complicated version of a stock grant, instead of stock options?

What benefit would this have over negotiating for a stock grant instead?

If I remember correctly, the RethinkDB team opted to match their in-house version numbers with public releases. So the 1.x releases would be more comparable to 0.x releases for other projects, and 2.0 would be considered stable and production ready.

Switching SSH to any other port is a good idea as it will reduce the random attacks against it.

Sure, those drive-by attacks are pretty weak and not much of a threat against a hardened configuration and the real attackers will find the new port anyway, but it reduces noise significantly.

Cleaner logs are easier to parse, so the net result is that you can spot attacks that you care about much more easily.

$720/mo is solely for the instance. Add in the cost of traffic (Softlayer appears to give you 5TB, so let's use that) and you're up to $1463/mo.

Absorption is directly correlated with frequency, yes. Their 2km mile is probably a lab condition free-space number which will never even come close to being reached in the real world, especially in urban areas.

This could be useful to a telecom if they implement an expensive design that uses obstructions to their advantage. Essentially blast the radio waves down streets as if they are isolated tunnels. That would reduce interference to almost nothing, but require many more access points than they currently have. They would also still have the problem of penetration indoors.

Once you add in a proper confidence interval, 17 responses on a yes/no question is enough to make decisions like this - as long as you know in advance what your target numbers are. The downside of the small sample is that your margin is going to be extremely large, of course.

Using Clopper-Pearson at95% confidence tells us that between 23.3% and 70.8% would answer yes to this question. I do agree that is probably still too broad to decide to kill a business, but if you know you wanted a 60%+ (for example) positive response from this audience to hen that sample is enough to cause some serious worry.

You wouldn't get $1k a month in equity. First of all, you can't ignore interest as its a huge part of what you pay on a mortgage. Depending on your down payment and rates, you could end up being over half the cost of the actual property in interest and property tax. Then there's maintenance, insurance (much more costly than renter's insurance), and so on.

It is a grey area, at least in the US. The main federal law for computer crimes is the ancient Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The provisions of the act state all work off the concept of "exceeding authorized access" - but the law never defines what authorized access actually is. Logging in with a default username and password has never been tested in court, as far as I know, and I think there are arguments to be made for both sides about whether that counts as authorized access.