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> > This means that any service built on top of Amazon S3 will never be less expensive than Google Drive. Period.

> That depends. With drive you pay for allocated capacity, with S3 don't you pay for actual usage? Depending on the level of overcommit, its possible for less expensive per GB "capacity" priced service to be profitable on top of a more expensive per GB "usage" priced service.

Normally I would agree, but the price gap is so large (close to 10x), you could easily downgrade to the next smallest capacity level in Google Drive. You would only actually lose money if you wanted to store more than 100 GB but less than 10/0.085 = 118 GB. That means for most overcommit levels, you're still winning by a reasonable margin.

> Plus, its at least theoretically possible, especially if a lot of the stored content is not efficiently compressed on its own, that the consumer capacity-priced service could also use compression and/or deduplication to further reduce usage on the usage-priced backend.

Compression is unlikely to yield enough, but perhaps deduplication would save you. Still, 10x is big gap to make up for.

> > Google Drive is not programmatically accessible like S3.

> Google Drive most assuredly is programmatically accessible via an API.

Admittedly, I'm not too familiar with the Google Drive API, but my impression is that it is geared toward entirely different use cases (compared to S3-like storage services). Could you build a business on top of it?
Solely from the taxation perspective, my home country now looks surprisingly friendly for small IT businesses.

We have a so called Simplified Taxation System for small businesses (not just IT.) Basically, as a company we can choose to pay either 6% of annual revenue, or the bigger of 15% of profit and 1% of revenue. That's it, no VAT or anything.

As far as wage taxes go, there is a 20% Unified Social Tax charged on the wage amount before income tax. Moreover, there is an annual cap on that tax, which a senior developer in a big city is likely to hit as early as mid-year. Otherwise, small IT businesses can qualify to lower that tax to 14%. All that's left after that is the income tax - 13% flat.

Which country you would ask? Russia. That's why I wrote "Solely from the taxation perspective" in the opening statement...
Focus 3D:
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It's still less than $9/month over the course of a year. It's approximately a $2/month increase. Skipping one Starbucks coffee would cover the cost difference for almost two months.

We frequently order from Amazon and use their video service and find lots of value in both. This won't cause us to bat an eyelash. It's not a significant increase relative to the value (assuming you use Amazon's services enough to make it worthwhile).
Now we're into some game theory. Perhaps the best thing is for the group to reject Prime. (assuming your premise of price hikes after putting little guys out of business is Amazon's plan; they could also just push suppliers downward, like the duopoly of supermarkets in Australia currently are)

As an individual, you are likely better off taking Prime until it is no longer the best deal.
Woocommerce because of architectural issues has issues as you approach sizable numbers of products (in the high thousands) especially at a somewhat quick order pace. With enough love and care it can do it, but it really is much better at handling a select few products.

Just something to think about.
> If you can use the thing without thinking, without having to read a sign, without having a cheat-sheet, when you're very sleepy, and you still do the right thing, then the interface is good.

I'm not sure any of this applies to table saws. You might be setting the standard a little high.
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I've been considering canceling since most things I order come with "free shipping for orders over $25." This makes canceling a no-brainer, unless I'm missing something. Even if my price is grandfathered (not sure if it is, after renewal time) it's still $79 more than free.
I've always seen this as "30,000 deaths and 120,000 permanent disabilities is the price we pay for allowing the sale of cars that can go faster than 25 mph."
Now I don't know jack about guns, but I'd heard that .22s can be way more deadly than heavier ammo, largely because of the bullets' tendencies to go spiraling around inside the body due to their low force/velocity/whatever.

Can you comment on this?

Or not, I mean, it's not like it's a practical matter or anything.
Well, it depends on how thoroughly it dissipates the projectile. Turning a high-velocity slug into a high-velocity blob of superhot molten metal would certainly reduce its penetration, but you still wouldn't want it to hit you in the face.
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Submitter here. I still refuse to do business with Sony after this incident.
I to this day still use the IntelliMouse. They are hard to find at times and I found someone on Alibaba selling knock-offs I've been real tempted to try.
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any chance of an invite? EDIT: Teceived, and removed email address!
The article quotes the 30,000 per year number, but it only really talks about fatalities or injuries to pedestrians by cars. The 30,000 number includes fatalities or injuries to people in cars as well. So a lot of relevant data is being left out.

Wikipedia has a link to NHTSA figures that give more detail. The link is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...

From the 2010 data:

* 32,885 total fatalities

* 23,303 (70.8 percent) of those were vehicle occupants

* 4,502 (13.7 percent) were on motorcycles (drivers or passengers)

* 4,280 (13.0 percent) were pedestrians

* 618 (1.9 percent) were cyclists

* 182 (0.6 percent) were "other/unknown non-occupants"

So the article is focusing in on something that's, at most, only 15 percent or so (counting pedestrians and cyclists, since the article talks about both) of the problem. I say "at most" because of other interesting statistics from the NHTSA report:

* 31 percent of fatalities were in incidents involving alcohol-impaired drivers.

* 47 percent of the crashes that resulted in pedestrian fatalities had alcohol use reported by either the driver or the pedestrian or both. Interestingly, 33 percent of the pedestrians involved in these crashes were alcohol impaired, but only 14 percent of the drivers involved were; in 6 percent of the crashes, both the driver and the pedestrian were alcohol impaired.

* 32 percent of fatalities were in incidents where the driver was speeding. (42 percent of the drivers who were speeding were alcohol-impaired.)

* 42 percent of motorcycle drivers, and 51 percent of motorcycle passengers, who were fatally injured were not wearing helmets.

* 51 percent of vehicle occupants killed were not restrained (not wearing seat belts, or not in child seats/restraints).

* 11 percent of fatalities involved large trucks (gross vehicle weight over 10,000 pounds); of those, 76 percent were occupants of other vehicles, 14 percent were occupants of the trucks, and 10 percent were pedestrians.

Taking all this into consideration, I see a very different picture from "vehicles are murder machines". It looks to me like the major factors causing fatalities are individual choices made by people that put them at higher risk. And it's not like those choices are difficult, or about things that most people don't know. How hard is it to wear a seat belt? To put a helmet on if you're on a motorcycle? To not drink and drive?
Are you crazy or a markov-chain generator?

EDIT: Oh! Oh. Oh...

Dang.
Not much, only a few super niche cases I can think of, and you can also use yEnc, but this is cooler. :)
Mouse Systems, Steve Kirsch's company, was shipping optical mice in 1982. They were standard issue on Sun workstations for years. I leave it to your judgment whether that qualifies as "mainstream".
Google seems to think so.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57586894-93/google-exec-see...
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Heh, cable companies are in the advertising business too.

What's funny in the new internet age they're making an even greedier grab to triple dip - charge the content providers, charge the end user, and charge advertising clients.
No, Amazon has been great about refunding packages so far. Of course, the packages stolen or opened by USPS in the last couple of weeks don't cost a lot. I doubt they would be this gracious with say a Macbook or other high price item, regardless of what their policy might be. USPS steals and opens packages. Period. This has been the case for decades. They also do not respond to any complaints.
i don't think this is a joke.

the only thing i want to know is: does this guy hang out with larry ellison?
That's awesome, champ.
I remember Sun's mice. You needed a special mouse pad with a grid layout printed on it.
Pretty sure it's free after $35. Also, I'm paying the 79 now and was told it goes up at renewal time.
What do you mean by "heavily subsidized shipping service"?
Submitter here. I still refuse to do business with Sony after this incident.
Are those the ones that needed special metal mousepads? Those were rad. My dad had one for drafting.
Most of the people are short-term visitors. Relatively few people you check through the border are immigrants.
There are plenty of "crazy Steve Jobs" stories that make him look like a brilliant visionary. This is not one of those.
I don't know if I'd say that. I can't tell you how often I employed VoiceOver pre-Siri as a way to dim the screen while playing YouTube audio or to read me all my emails while doing something else. In fact, a year to when Siri was announced, I referenced that and got a nudge-nudge, wink-wink that audio was one of the next big things.

In some ways I think Accessibility is a misnomer -- it's the way Apple says, hey, you 20% of pro users, here's something you can try. Hence Accessibility on Mac getting a security center so apps can use those hooks to resize and read the screen the way "most" shouldn't.

I treat it as a toy box, and frankly still miss most of its settings on Android. Have a look at WWDC videos on accessibility, unlike the counterparts from Google and Microsoft which often require special extensions or apps to enable, Apple delivers the whole thing, and it really works.

Why else would Apple offer 8-9 different font sizes in roughly four font weights (normal, bold, and fonts overwritten normal and bold). Yes, some options could be highlighted during the welcome screen, in the same way VoiceOver is on a Mac at first launch. But like right-click, some things you have to turn on yourself until they sync over the cloud. But that's life. At least their settings apply across the board to all apps.
What I don't understand is why google didn't bid on Time Warner.

With very little effort (compared with rolling out fiber in a couple cities) they could have completed the rollout of DOCSIS 3, and provided everyone with 343/143 Mbps using modems available today (zoom 5341j) and in a couple years when the 24 channel modems become more wide spread upgrade everyone to Gigabit operations.

In ten years will google fiber have cost them more than $45 billion? Will they have 1/10th the penetration that TW has today?
That's not surprising at all - censorship is a major reason for these laws, but of course the government won't acknowledge that.

And UK has already put everything they need in place - next thing on the list, invade Ireland :-)
it's not obvious that "bipartisan" and "nonpartisan" are always auto-antonyms. it may often be the case in practice, but there are are other parties for voters to choose from. for that reason, it's not a universal anto-antonym like say, flammable / inflammable.
Well... not to be contradictory, but don't be so quick to count the little round out. They can penetrate car doors depending on where they hit and the angle of the shot. The caliber debate is pretty silly, .22 have killed many, many humans and game of all size. Is it the most powerful? Of course not. But it's hard to decide what is, live bodies are weird that way.
I can also say that anyone who calls a .22 with a silencer completely silent has never shot a .22 with a silencer.
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Sleep deprivation, which was subsequently "overused." I put that in quotes because "too much torture" implies accepting some torture.
Not to mention that in a real communist state, you would never be paid per unit of work done, you would be paid a fixed stipend.
Why would the same logic be applied? Surely a conviction for vehicular manslaughter would be held to the same standard as a conviction for regular manslaughter, which is to say proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
To those naysaying Mark for selling out our privacy--sure he does that, for profit--but I'd rather a company sell my shopping and searching habits to another company than the government take something I say on Facebook out of context and put me on the no-fly list, or worse an enemy combatant---the more power the NSA has the further towards Nazi Germany and Gespacho / Secret police territory we go...so good for you mark--you could do a LOT more to ensure our privacy, and maybe you will -- hopefully this isn't just 'posturing' but as he's a 30 something techy geek who probably hangs out on hackernews as much as the rest of us, he may actually be sincere about it.
Since submitters won't bloody stop submitting paywalled articles, has anyone yet made a simple, reliable Chrome plugin to bypass the NYT's paywall?
Super Saver Shipping has been $25 in the US for as long as I can remember.

If you're Canadian, you may simply be remembering incorrectly as Amazon.ca used to be $39, but also changed to $25 a few year ago.
Suicides are voluntary. You can die in an accident through no choice of your own.
Sort-of...

Its a cost benefit analysis issue.

Netflix took a very early stance that they wanted a large portion of IT ops pushed out of the company.

One still needs to provide the means to supporting the actual tools which are required to the core business continuity -- but the industry has matured a great deal in the last ten years to the point where you have multi-billion dollar enterprises where their whole core business is that singular department that Netflix has chosen to push out of their management purview via outsourcing that cost....

This is not a bad business decision - the AWSs DOs etc have commoditized all the portions of that previously in-house IT department in a way which everyone can benefit.

The risk is in the last mile.

The most needed disruption in the tech-world today is in the carriers in their current incarnation. THEY MUST DIE.
Oh yeah, I should have put "plot hole" in quotes. It's more an acceptable break from reality.
Only if you are testing a specific hypothesis. If you simply observe an apparent correlation for the first time, a causal relationship is no more likely than before your observation.

It's simply the basis for forming a hypothesis, which is the first step needed to even look for causation.

Most hypotheses do not pass testing. This implies that most observed correlations turn out to not be causal.
Interesting idea, but it looks like it turns into just a vote, which doesn't work. A problem: even in the small positions, what if you agree with one part and not the other? Just in:

>[1]Seatbelt fines are a joke - [2]people should be responsible for their own safety

I see multiple parts. Implicit is three: seat belts only affect your own safety. Maybe there could be a system where you can separate sub parts and debate them.

Edit: Sorry, I see md224 said something similar already.
Hah. Speaking of which, I hear you can add underlines in iOS 7.1 too. Yeah, Mr. Button Shapes in Accessibility strikes again: http://ios.wonderhowto.com/how-to/whats-new-removed-apples-l...

Makes sense to me.
Papers, Please 2 right there.
Nearly every form of motorsport racing requires the following:

5, 6 or 7 mounting point harnesses
Head and Neck restraints
Helmets
Trying it out. Pretty neat software.
That's exactly the sort of thing I mean. I imagine that the safety of commuter trains with open stations and at-grade crossings must be vastly different from the safety of subways with closed stations and full grade separation. But I would love to see real numbers.
[citation needed]

The extremely low barrier to entry isn't just price point. It's hard to say which is more important, but the simplicity difference between DO and competitors is greater than the price difference.
That's no excuse. Someone in senior management has been bribed? You have a serious security breach unreported, undiagnosed? That's a whopping shareholder lawsuit coming at you if you don't hunt it down and terminate it.
What kind of "technical minutiae" do you put in your Anki deck? I use Anki for Japanese study, but I've been thinking about doing more with it. Wasn't quite sure how to make useful tech flashcards... outside of memorizing as many powers of 2 as I could :)
1. Create laws to shut down public knowledge.

2. Use those laws to shut down public knowledge.

3. Invade a country to see how the rest of the world responds.

4. This is the most important step. We respond with strength or we respond with diplomacy.

5. If we respond with diplomacy step 6 would be for Putin to invade another country. If we respond with force, it would lead Putin to respond with backtracking...

The choice is theirs.
In Beijing, the idea of yielding to pedestrians when turning doesn't seem to exist.

In parts of the US, too. Travelling across the US, there were a couple of places where as a pedestrian I had the right of way (pedestrian crossing light illuminated) and I actually had to stop crossing otherwise I would walk into the side of the car turning right in front of me, cutting me off.

I also noticed wandering around some inner suburbs of Austin that it was hostile to pedestrians - some houses just decided to stretch their gardens all the way to the road, blocking the footpath. Pedestrian traffic had to step out onto the road, in one case a secondary thoroughfare, to get past the property.
It got changed to $35.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=5...
Not sure about what you mean about how poor Angular performs - Angular performs pretty well, unless you're naively doing inefficient things.

I've written some medium sized Angular apps that are pretty performant.
It's sort of a funny question.

Do roads make economic sense if we didn't have a federal government to subsidize them? Probably not: Texas derives around 58% [1] of its highway costs from vehicle-related fees (e.g. registration, gas tax, etc.) and the rest is subsidized from unrelated sources.

Then again if we did not have a road system, our economy would be in poor shape, because it is harder to get the store to buy things, and to transport the things around. So from that perspective roads are an economic net positive even if they were 100% subsidized from unrelated businesses.

Gigabit internet is similar to roads. It probably can't/won't be funded 100% by the people who use it. At the same time, it is important infrastructure that opens up new avenues for economic opportunity, and I suspect that any major city that had gigabit as available as roads or electricity would find that the benefits exceed the costs, be they subsidized or otherwise.

[1] https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAKsWA7R5a0YQGg3ptGBpPlvQ...
The article says a lot about the politics and legal aspects of car deaths but the way forward is through engineering. With existing technology you can make a big difference by segregating fast traffic from pedestrian areas. Slow the traffic in towns and residential areas by speed bumps, closed streets, 20mph limits and the like and build multilane pedestrian free roads for people to get from A to B.

In the future self driving cars and similar safety systems are the way forward and probably the only practical way to drop the death toll from 30,000 to below 10,000.
Amazon is the new Walmart, just worse because you definitely have no local employees. :)
Google Fiber is taking over and people will choose it over their regular ISPs because it's better. And soon enough it won't matter what OS your mobile device is running. For as long as you're connecting via Google Fiber, Google has your data.
Meteoric: similar to a meteor in speed, brilliance, or brevity: a meteoric rise to fame

I think the phrase exists in a quantum state of dumb and not-dumb.
Ugh, when 'cars' is used in this context, it's obvious it means a car and driver together, not the inanimate car.

If you ask someone how they got to the meetup and they say "Bus", do you say "yeah, right, like a bus can drive itself. It was probably a bus driver responsible. Unless we're talking about self-driving buses that can spontaneously turn themselves on (blah blah blah)"?

"I'm going to fly to Berlin next summer" -> "What? Humans can't fly. Don't you mean that a pilot (blah blah blah)"?
It's difficult to find the history of the IntelliMouse, but it looked like the original one launched around 1998 had the scrollwheel and a mouse ball, but the second generation one has the optical addition. Not sure when it launched though. According to this site: http://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/microsoft/ it's around 1999. But there is no attribution or month listed. This was for the 1.0 version though, that was quickly discontinued. 1.1A launched as a minor hardware revision later, and the first reliable one seems to be the 3.0 from forum posts on the subject, which dropped around 2001-2002.

The history of the Apple Pro Mouse is super-easy to find though, it launched in July 2000. So sayeth Apple-History and MacTracker. Looks like MS was first to market but with a fairly flaky original and refined it on the market.
Speculative, but culture?

Look at how the Motorola acquisition played out. Motorola was a company that had a pretty damn good (maybe just a bit heavy) engineering culture.

If you buy out a culturally bankrupt company infested with assholes, you have to root out all those assholes while simultaneously continuing operations and developing the future. I dare say this would be much harder than a new build out.
OT, but IMO on Google, while open allocation is probably worth looking at, I'd settle for firing Vic Gundotra for now. Not because of "Real Games", but the Real Names fiasco and this: http://www.businessinsider.com/sex-and-politics-at-google-it...
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There's another aspect to the question - how engaging or how people feel about speed reading when it comes to being immersed in a story (assuming you read a novel with that technique, for example). Most of the Speed Reading demos out there focus on reading short paragraphs and that's it. Even if comprehension is not a problem, how fast and how feelings develop in your brain as you read may not be comparable between traditional reading and speed reading. That can make a huge difference on how much you enjoy the piece of text you are reading, not matter if you can still get 100% of it.
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