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Has to be trained by a licensed service animal program and fit under the seat.

There's usually a third party manufacturer you can get replacement batteries from for any decently popular system.

My cost on batteries/electricity is probably less than I would have spent on fuel. The noise/size/maintenance-free advantages of electric are huge too.

Depending on your need for KDB, old school InfluxDB, OpenTSBD, SciDB and Promethius are open source alternatives.

Interestingly enough this causes all kind of weird distortion on my brand new 16" MBP. Not sure if it's a hardware issue, but it only happens in the browser with GPU acceleration turned on...

If I'm targeting an individual/organization a watering hole attack requires that I can own a site the target visits regularly.

This seems a lot more complicated than just going to any unencrypted website via network redirection of some sort. Do most people routinely visit encrypted sites that are easily hacked to target an RCE on an individual?

I've experienced this with $5k buy-in poker games settled via Venmo... I'm sure there's other good reasons.

> If you need 50 engineers to be able to manage 200ish servers, well, uh, you just don't have a ton of options.

Who needs 50 engineers for 200 servers? My IT team manages 750 servers in 5 co-locations + 200 end users + DBA responsibilities with 5. If we grow above 1000 we might need to hire a 6th.

> It'll cost you a half million to build a full rack, power it and give it connectivity for a year.

For $1500/mo you can get half rack (5Kv) and 50 Mbps internet. A couple $5k switches and 6-8 10k servers and you're well under $125k, plus you probably don't need $10k servers or $5k switches and can find cheaper hosting. I realize you said a full rack, but that's probably overkill and could be done for $350k or less. Once you have the servers/switches your fixed costs are relatively low.

> If Uber were running a profitable business, the rides would be as expensive or more so than taxis.

Might be off topic, but in downtown Chicago before/after work cabs (including tip) are often cheaper than Uber/Lyft (with no additional tip,) although they offer other conveniences (payment, tracking, can be "hailed" to anywhere, etc.) At less busy times ride sharing can still be a bit cheaper than a cab.

> guarantee its no where near $97B

Worldwide? What if you include brothels, strip clubs, "used" items (ie panties, gamer girl bathwater,) etc.?

Here's the source for $97B, puts US at $10-12B - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/things-are-lo...

InfluxDB is written in Golang as well. It's rather performant and scales out nicely, given my experience I don't think I'd consider Golang a big concern.

> Looks a lot now, but back then you didn't have server CPUs with gazillion cores on the cheap.

You also didn't have the AES instruction set to improve the SSL performance.

> It's generally a function of network cost versus infra cost, and so the 'equation' solves differently based on the longest tech cycles,

It used to be OpEx was easy, CapEx was hard to get approved. As people took advantage and OpEx went through the roof people are getting alot more pushback on reducing OpEx.

> but you can not say whatever you want on 4chan

Since when? Probably depends on which board you're talking about I guess.

It would be better if they composted it.

> great to live in if you are not too ambitious or entrepreneurial.

While it clearly hasn't worked out this way (yet) having that social safety net actually should encourage entrepreneurial activity since you have a lot more freedom to fail. Once you succeed you sell out though, because it's easier to grow/expand in other locations.

> They are paying per showtime anyway so a full or empty theater doesn't make them any money but the concessions do.

Perhaps, but the distributor (who gets 40-90% of the ticket cost) would have to agree to it somehow,.

I've enjoyed Radius Silk Floss (https://madebyradius.com/collections/all/products/natural-bi...) but I haven't tried Tom's so I can't really compare.

> my options are shitty Comcast for $66 for 60Mbps or $50 for 18Mbps from AT&T.

So sonic.net doesn't service your area? They were a great CLEC/ISP when I was in the bay area, mostly carried over AT&T lines so you could get it anywhere AT&T did DSL.

> not because of what they'll do to the product, but I guarantee their partnerships with hotels and hotel groups will evaporate when contracts expire.

I'm not sure. It may be harder to book future dates with HT after the contracts expire, but in my experience HT is most useful when AirBnB isn't (same day booking.)

I'd imagine hotels probably like the last minute bookings. Also you can book at 1 or 2am when hotwire cuts you off at midnight and many other ways of booking stop working after about 10pm.

> DELL wants to re verify by phone 3 times before they bill or ship anything. Don't ask me why, I don't know, I keep begging them to stop doing that.

You need to get a Dell sales rep you deal with everytime you order. You'll get better pricing too.

You might have to tumble it first.

> What’s the resell market like for EV?

Leaf's are pretty cheap relative to new, I think some buyers remorse is leading to a flooded market but I'm not sure.

Tesla's aren't that much less than new (although I was looking at "certified" ones through Tesla.) I decided there wasn't much reason to buy used.

Maybe in 3-5 years it will be different.

> That's mostly a decision to increase turnaround speed on their bridges, it is faster to swap a rotor for a new one than it is to turn one down.

I used to turn the rotors on my European cars, but about 10-15 years ago the alloys started warp after being turned just once or twice. Easier to just pay to replace than take the risk of doing the labor twice.

> I use mmj for an autoimmune disease, so it feels pretty ironic to read vaping damages immune system cells; will have to go back to the Volcano.

Pure MMJ extracts are a different beast. This is almost definitely related to PG/VG base used in electronic cigarettes. PG is used to kill airborne bacteria in hospitals for instance.

> Few if any were ever printed in a way that made it easy to to from number to name

Law enforcement, most libraries and other phone companies always had access to public printed reverse number phone books in the late 1980-1990's.

> I tried living in Chicago without a car

Really depends on where you live and want to be. This is true everywhere (NYC, SF, Seattle, etc.)

> The math is very simple, you need about $30k/year which is $50k pre-tax.

This is wrong.

$30k - $12k standard deduction = 18k taxable, 0% tax on 0-$10k, 12% tax on $10k-$18k = -960 taxes owed, then you get 2500 American Opportunity Credit or $2000 Life Long Learning Credit. So if you earn 30k as a "full time student" you would take home ~$31k less 0-10% state income tax on $18k

> That would fall under criminal law. So even if the victims couldn't sue Uber due to the ridiculous arbitration clause, the person committing the crime could still be arrested and go through the usual criminal justice process. Is that correct?

Yep. Uber doesn't want to end up in court because they connected you with a rapist contractor. They'd end up getting sued and losing the emotional appeal to the jury, even if they hadn't been negligent in their process of connecting you with a "safe" driver by doing reasonable background checks.

> Getting a blood test means either going to the police station, or letting a cop stick a needle in you on the side of the road.

You have to go to the station anyway, the Portable BAC they use roadside is inadmissible in court, they give you a more accurate test at the station if you fail roadside. Having a nurse available to take a blood sample instead shouldn't be unreasonable.