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In my experience the biggest drawback with EFS is startup time for systems that mount it in.

For example a container or EC2 instance might only need a tiny bit of your storage and with s3 can just download what it needs when it needs it.

As opposed to EFS where the container or instance needs to load in the entire datastore on startup which can add minutes to startup time if the EFS drive is large.

yes, a bank's job is to do due diligence, not to blindly believe anything a startup founder says without reading any of their bookkeeping.

> The stock market does not equal the economy. At best, it equals what 1% of the population thinks they can get out of the lower 99%.

WeWork's ridiculous valuation was not the stock market, it was VC private investors (mostly SoftBank) who hyped up the valuation.

When WeWork hit the stock market is actually when reality started to hit. They have NOT done well on the stock market and this is part of why they're about to go bankrupt.

> resulted in a complete k8s cluster failure for us, but only the 08 cluster! It worked in the first 7.

This actually made me LOL, that's amazing

Nope, the FTC has been historically toothless from 1990-2020 or so. Some people (such as Lina Khan and Joe Biden) are trying to turn that around.

Doesn't seem likely to fully turn around as the next Republican president will likely appoint another toothless chair of the FTC.

Democrat presidents for the foreseeable future will probably be going after big companies more than their predecessors in the 90s and early-2000s did.

They definitely are relevant despite what the armchair experts say on HN. Do you use AWS or GCP or Fastly? These companies don't provide huge sponsorship dollars to Apache out of the goodness of their hearts. Many of the cloud services you use are backed by one or more Apache projects.

1. Please don't email-spam one of the most significant OSS orgs in the world.

2. What has the author done to engage so far? Has Apache responded to their emails? Have they opened any threads in chat forums?

3. Honestly, just who cares? So what if OpenOffice is just being minimally kept alive?

How much of that was actually generated directly from "Google X"? Seems to me that most of it came out of DeepMind, which was just a run-of-the-mill big company buys innovative startup type of acquisition.

Opposite lots of commenters here deriding the article as "all over the place", I thought it was very well-written and comprehensive. Seems like there are concerns across a wide swath of companies and industries in Germany.

Reading between the lines, the proposed solution seems something like lower corporate taxes (currently making decamping to Dublin more attractive) and lower energy prices.

The risk brought up is that if things continue it will likely lead to increasing blaming of immigrants and a rise in the far-right AfD party, which has already started.

In Seattle there's a company called "Sustainable Living Innovations (SLI)" that a few years ago started this modular apartment building that was supposedly going to fly right up because their modules are so efficient: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/company-bre...

That was two years ago, and I can clearly see the building is still not done. It's gone up at a snail's pace compared to "traditional" construction nearby. Might be that the company is having financing and/or supply-chain issues.

This is odd to pop up on HN, hasn't this always existed? I've been using it at least 5 years...

> "better predictive text" and "better multi-language support" - is that it?

For me this is half of it, it's also performance. It is MUCH faster at bringing up word suggestions. As in faster than I can even reach my thumb up to type the next word there are already excellent suggestions available, and I often can type entire sentences only touching keys on the keyboard a few times.

Just the performance difference makes the iOS builtin keyboard predictions almost unusable for me (in addition to the fact that the predictions are simply much better on swiftkey).

An ARM cpu is groundbreaking? I don't think anyone outside the tech world has even noticed.

I'm not so sure. When is the last time apple came out something groundbreaking? Has there been anything since Tim Cook took over?

Siri is still extremely basic and barely usable for anything besides starting a kitchen timer.

6 times? My reading of these prices is that it's 45x more expensive (for 8K) and 90x more expensive (32k)

Bit misleading but I don't think the image is what was actually purchased. That's a concept car from CES.

What they've purchased are the "Ford E-Transit Battery Electric Vehicle", which AFAICT look pretty much identical to the standard Ford Transit vans that are ubiquitous all over the US.

Do datacenters actually do anything to draw in engineering or a significant number of tech jobs? Beyond just HVAC and a few server operations people.

us-west-2 certainly hasn't done much to make The Dalles, Oregon a tech hub (or even Portland for that matter)

This is interesting because I recently bought an Apple TV and noticed that the Spotify app on Apple TV does NOT support on-screen lyrics (which the Spotify app on FireTV does support)

Wonder if it's related? Could Apple have blocked Spotify from adding on-screen lyrics?

AWS and GCP execs must be kicking themselves wondering how this one got away. Azure appears to be years ahead in offering usable AI models to cloud customers.

At Amazon practically everything that’s not AWS falls under “retail”. Including things like prime video and alexa.

You've referenced by far two of the most innovative countries in Europe. What about all the rest? Is it easy to start a small business in Spain and Italy?

Interesting, that does seem like a more useful metric. Where do you find that data?

> Also, most of the ocean plastic comes from a small number of rivers in the less developed world. [1] Rich countries aren't really the problem.

That reference isn't exactly justifying your statement. AFAICT that research is just comparing the relative amounts of plastic going to the ocean _from rivers_. Rivers are not the only way that plastic gets into the ocean.

Most of the ocean plastic is actually from fishing gear...so if you want to reduce ocean plastics your best bet is probably to stop eating so much fish: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/great-pac...

> The problem here was that it was a used laptop.

How do you know this? I would expect a $500 used lenovo laptop to have decent-enough specs.

> Apple...completely boycotting Google's formats

This is not exactly true, they are a "founding member" of AOM: https://aomedia.org/membership/members/

> Apple's stance is especially interesting because it's unclear to me what they gain by pushing license fee encumbered formats.

My guess is cheaper hardware. AV1 is simply behind HEVC in terms of hardware (ie, ASIC encoder/decoders) support.

Anyone have a writeup that doesn't require the browser extension?

Hyundai kona and ioniq, chevy bolt, nissan leaf.

These all seem pretty normal to me.

> But in a more chaotic environment riding on the roads in a place that has hills, it's unusable

I ride my vanmoof in Seattle (very hilly and urban) and to say the auto-shift is "unusable" is a huge exaggeration IMO. It occasionally catches me out when I'm pedaling hard but for the most part it works OK.

Also, they've supported manual shifting for almost a year now: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22649901/vanmoof-s3-x3-au...

It's pretty simple. The journalist/editors want to write an article about privacy and web tracking. The business people want ads on the website to keep the lights on.

And to be fair to the business people, it's not like they have much choice. There are no major privacy-focused ad networks and they need a source of revenue. What do you expect them to do?

AWS workmail or Google workspace are both great.

Workmail has a better management interface for the admin whereas Google has a better user UI (at least for the webapp).