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Fwd: Why is DNS so slow? "host google.com ns1.google.com" takes 100ms for me. (via http://friendfeed.com/psanjeev)
"Bitkisel diyet", Burcu Dogan, Itachi and 10 other people liked this
The best I've found so far is 50ms for "time host smugmug.com usw6.akam.net". Does everyone just run their primary dns servers at 100% CPU or something?
- Sanjeev Singh
It has nothing to do with the endpoints - Google answers requests very quickly. One issue is that many caching nameservers do run at crazy high CPU because the ISP doesn't care if it's not an uptime issue. Also Internet UDP is truly unreliable (high drop rate) and retries are delayed by a long timeout. TCP requires connection setup. :-(
- Daniel Dulitz
from iPhone
I discovered some issues with my methodology. "host" by default does a bunch of other crap that requires talking to isp DNS servers susceptible to the issues Daniel is talking about. dig @nameserver domain is much better. I get 5ms for dig @usw6.akam.net smugmug.com and 21ms for dig @ns1.google.com google.com. We're trying to figure out who provides the best dns servers :).
- Private Sanjeev
dig even reports the query time for you. The difference between the recursive (and caching) bind instance in my house and going to google's name servers directly is approx 20msec.
- Andy Bakun
i'm getting 175ms ping to ns1.google.com and 243ms to friendfeed.com (avgerages of four) - i have noticed the backwards bug motion for dns activity a lot tonight w/ friendfeed. i'm using opendns
- Chris Heath
backwards bug motion in chrome that is
- Chris Heath
From home, I'm getting 30ms ping times and 34ms DNS query times to ns1.google.com, and 11ms DNS query times to usw6.akam.net for smugmug.com (akam.net doesn't answer ICMP echo). Whoever has the best connectivity can win here.
- Daniel Dulitz
Best? I have 0.130ms best, 0.191ms avg to www.yelp.com.
- Andy Bakun
I take that back, I have 0.034ms best and 0.041 avg to www.yelp.com.
- Andy Bakun
On, and by the way, the pings are COMING FROM INSIDE THE NETWORK... so I cheated.
- Andy Bakun
Chris, what is "backwards bug motion"?
- Private Sanjeev
In chrome, when a page is loading the tab has a 'bug' like other browsers do that moves to let you know that the page is processing. In chrome the bug just moves in a circle where the favicon ends up after the page loads. It moves clockwise and counterclockwise. Counterclockwise (or backwards) is when the dns is loading, and then it will switch to clockwise (forwards motion) when the...
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- Chris Heath
`host google.com ns1.google.com` might takes 100ms But `google.com/search?q=google` takes 5ms. Moving the bottleneck from db query to nslookup may be considered as a success ;-)
- Tzury Bar Yochay
http://friendfeed.com/search... I am receiving illegal deflamatory comments which is illegal with my first and last name being used and have made complaints but it is taking too long to deal with, this is effecting my business and money situation, I do not want to be forced to see a lawyer to force you people to remove this user or warn her
- dawngordon
Dawn, try the friendfeed feedback room http://friendfeed.com/friendf... or the spam report room http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Chris Heath
HiEnd3D - http://www.hiend3d.com/hq3x...
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Tracy, ǝuǝƃnǝ, Florian and 7 other people liked this
super amazing magnification filter! via amit p.
- Sanjeev Singh
Cool, inspired me to do this http://blogoscoped.com/blownup... (but using VectorMagic for resizing)
- Philipp Lenssen
I tried vectormagic on the same image, but the results don't seem as good. Vectormagic after HQ3x (or 4x) would probably do a really good job, though.
- Sanjeev Singh
The HQ*x scalers are only one of many: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... (or the docs for recent MAME versions, which include a giant stable of rescalers).
- ⓞnor
I love Lenssen's images -- they do such an amazing job of capturing the spirit and flavor of the character, it's almost worth framing on the wall.
- ⓞnor
I love Lenssen's images too. And the games they are from :)
- Amit Patel
Lenssen's vectormagic images are definitely more museum-worthy than HQ*X blowups :)
- Sanjeev Singh
Is anyone up for designing zazzle.com t-shirts with Lenssen's images?
- Sanjeev Singh
I would put this up on goodies at CafePress.com, like posters or shirts, but they are pretty strict (probably more than legally necessary) with their trademark policies... but I just uploaded this as SVG for you, so feel free to run with it: http://blogoscoped.com/files... (needs some cropping still for some pics to get the original image composition)
- Philipp Lenssen
The lookup table bit reminds me of the marching cubes algorithm.
- Laurence Gonsalves
small update in regards to Vectormagic approach: first decrease the resolution (without resampling), then increase it using a vectorizer, see image of Marilyin Monroe http://blogoscoped.com/files...
- Philipp Lenssen
hi Sanjeev Singh, http://www.hiend3d.com is not working do you have an alternative link?
- Bruno Simoes
This wikipedia page links to archive.org: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Laurence Gonsalves
WikiAnswers - How do you check for a radiation leak in a microwave - http://wiki.answers.com/Q...
berchman, Sanjay Parmar, Kishore Balakrishnan and 6 other people liked this
"You stick your cell phone in your microwave***DO NOT TURN ON*** and then get some one to phone your cell phone. If it rings your microwave is leaking radiation if not your microwave is a ok."
- Sanjeev Singh
from Bookmarklet
Does this really work?
- Sanjeev Singh
If anything this test indicates how well your microwave shields from pretty low power 800MHz or 1.9GHz signals. I'd say place your Wifi access point next to your microwave and then experiment measuring the link quality in different microwave modes.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
The wifi test might be a good one. I knew someone that used to lose his connection every time his roommate made popcorn. He used to joke about having a popcorn powered firewall.
- April Russo (app103)
CNN massacre day June 24, 2009 tehran baharestan کشت وکشتار بهارستان - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Michael Muller, Sanjeev Singh and Private Sanjeev liked this
The situation seems to be deteriorating :(
- Sanjeev Singh
This is their nature to be miscreants. Only a sick man can do that with people from same origin. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are same person
- WebXiom
Intentional Software video and slides http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us... http://download.microsoft.com/downloa... http://download.microsoft.com/downloa...
Joel Webber, Murat Gök, Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie) and 4 other people liked this
"Intentional Software is pioneering a radical new software approach that separates business domain knowledge from software engineering knowledge. This approach accelerates software creation and maintenance as domain experts themselves contribute domain knowledge in their favorite domain language and notation. Business domain knowledge is weaved into running software through domain transformations."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
The video is kind of long, but looks interesting (naturally I didn't actually watch most of it, but am hoping that someone else can summarize :)
- Paul Buchheit
Unfair summary: blah blah blah, we like to blather on about deep-sounding concepts but we will never, ever release an actual piece of working software. (This whole focus on enterprise DSL construction kits is new since being kicked out of Microsoft, maybe there will be some there there, but I doubt it.)
- ⓞnor
I think they were at almost the same stage 13 years ago.
- Sanjeev Singh
well how would unintentional software look like? .. any takrz? ......... and yes, the real goal is to programm via natural spoken language :]
- Petr Buben
I did watch it. It's a powerful IDE with interpreters and code generators aimed at allowing programmers to create DSLs (broad definition - includes graphical forms) and editors that non-programmers can work with. Cobol anyone? The interesting part of the video is at 30mins in. It's not rocket science, and it's been done before, but it makes sense where they are applying it - e.g. financial services.
- Robin Barooah
BTW, Intentional isn't the only language workbench around. You can take a look at JetBrains MPS (http://www.jetbrains.com/mps) which is open source and downloadable from the site.
- Konstantin Solomatov
18 Embarrassing Game AI Bugs Caught On Tape... and Fixed! — AiGameDev.com
Chris Prince, bob, Sanjeev Singh and 3 other people liked this
“Here's a list of the eighteen best, quirkiest, and most informative artificial intelligence bugs available on YouTube we've collected over the past 12 months. In the spirit of AiGameDev.com, you'll find a bunch of tips & tricks to help fix these problems when/if you see them in your own game.”
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Here is the link: http://aigamedev.com/open...
- denizoktar
Ack, somehow the link didn't go through when I used the FF bookmarklet.Thanks denizoktar!
- Amit Patel
@amit it was interesting to see that people liked it without the link :)
- denizoktar
Denizoktar, clicking on the thumbnail will take you there. We need to make that clearer (or not lose the link when people edit the title).
- Sanjeev Singh
@sanjeev I thought that would open the picture. Yes, making that would be better I am still not very comfortable with the new design.
- denizoktar
the gta one was pretty funny - but maybe it wasnt that the cops couldnt swim, rather the big fall was killing them :P
- bob
@Sanjeev I have a question for you about FF, would you send me a direct msg? It seems I can't before you subscribe to me.
- denizoktar
Invisible Hand Networks, Inc. - Market Data - http://www.invisiblehand.net/index...
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John Lam, Paul Buchheit, Thomas Brox Røst and 7 other people liked this
Daily average spot bandwidth price at a NYC exchange, 2002 - 2008, down from ~$200 in 2002 to ~$20 (per Mbps-month) in 2008. For comparison, telegeography data shows a substantial (but lesser) drop in prices for transoceanic routes.
- ⓞnor
May 2002: http://web.invisiblehand.net/wp... predicts "[Within] 12 months (by mid-2003), Cogent's price for a 100Mbps wholesale circuit will be near $5,000/month ... other providers' prices will probably continue to decline at the historical rate of 30% per year ... In the meantime, buyers should be aware that there is no such thing in the year 2002 as a Mbps for 10 or 30$/month." I think they were wrong about Cogent.
- ⓞnor
Mar 2007: http://money.cnn.com/2007... describes Cogent (in Fortune magazine) as if their strategy and surprisingly cheap prices were news. I remember the de-peering events they talked about; some of them created substantial disruptions in Internet traffic.
- ⓞnor
Apr 2007: http://www.renesys.com/blog... comments on Cogent de-peering some smaller ISPs in Europe, and discusses their overall strategy. Nothing I've read really explains their anomalous pricing in a satisfactory way. Anyway, I'm done with this curiosity-quest now.
- ⓞnor
Cogent released $10/Mbps pricing in 2003 (I probably misremembered what the sales rep told me about 2000). http://www.net99.net/htdocs... I guess availability of $10/Mbps has spread to more data centers and areas of the country since then, though the price hasn't gotten lower. I'm curious how you found the graph, though. Awesome sleuthing!
- Sanjeev Singh
I found it with a Google search for [bandwidth prices].
- ⓞnor
So this is your yearly post?
- j1m
No, it's just an extended comment on Sanjeev's post.
- ⓞnor
i like that graph just as on object.
- edythe
Sorry to jump in late but I just stumbled across this. I am the person who wrote that white paper about Cogent and also published that graph every month. I think I was right about Cogent that their pricing was unsustainable. Their price didn't go up from $30 to $50, they went bankrupt instead. Here's a follow-up from 5 years later....
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- nemo
Wow, fantastic, thanks for the update.
- ⓞnor
"We're all hosed" - James Lovelock http://www.newscientist.com/article... (via http://friendfeed.com/psanjeev)
"Bitkisel diyet", Tracy, Amit Patel and 4 other people liked this
Well, only 90% of us.
- Sanjeev Singh
What depresses me more than the interview are the comments. There's no hope for humanity if that's the typical representative of humanity.
- Piaw Na
"Resistance is futile you will be assimilated into the one world government socialist police state and forced to comply with global warming regulations and bank recapitalisation."
- Jim Norris
He can spread his outrageous doomsaying all he wants. I'll still be here, living in post-industrial splendor, long after he's gone.
- Stefan Moluf
although he's a bit off the deep end, his carbon solution is novel and worth a look (by me, at least).
- grant fox
test
Did it work? :-)
- Tony Ruscoe
Tests used to be such a bummer! So much more fun now-a-days!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Jackie Chan's China comments prompt backlash - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
Jérôme Flipo, Simon, eviltom and 6 other people liked this
""I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not," Chan said at the Boao Forum. "If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic." Chan added, "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.""
- Mike Yang
from Bookmarklet
Maybe he's planning a run for the communist party.
- Sanjeev Singh
Even in the most free countries (however you measure it), you don't have absolute freedom. There's a quote, "my right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins".
- Chris Lamprecht
Everyone, friendfeed will be down for 10 mins around midnight PST tonight (in ~1 hour) for scheduled maintenance.
PurpleZoe, Morton Fox, Jeanine W. and 15 other people liked this
'like'
- Rob Schonberger
Did that happen? Did anybody notice?
- Louis Gray
So is it down now?
- Richard A.
It should be back up now. Please let us know if it still seems down for you. thx!
- Sanjeev Singh
Working fine for me in that case.
- Richard A.
I think it's happening right now
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
Congratulations for putting this out there. Is there a standard place I should be looking for service status (like I don't get at some other unnamed site) ;) It would be a great thing if it's not there already.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I feed the pigeons :)
- Private Sanjeev
More machine juggling. We don't expect more than 10 mins of downtime between now and 11pm PST.
Kol Tregaskes liked this
That's 11pm PST today, in case you were wondering :)
- Sanjeev Singh
So no more than 33% downtime in the next half hour, then?
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
yep.
- Sanjeev Singh
Well, I didn't notice anything. Everything went well for you guys?
- Stefan Moluf
Everyone, friendfeed will be down for 10 mins around 12:30am PST (in ~45 mins) for scheduled maintenance.
Nicholas James, Chris, Taskerrific Guy, Stylish Eve and 3 other people liked this
Done. Please let us know if anything isn't working for you, thanks.
- Sanjeev Singh
Sanjeev - Does it have to be FriendFeed-specific?
- Mitch
Good one, Mitch! Sanjeev, my earnings to spending ratio doesn't seem to be working for me - could you work on that? kthxbai.
- Laura Norvig
:)
- Private Sanjeev
Our future living room
Bay Chang, Peng-Toh, j1m and Paul Buchheit liked this
where?
- Paul Buchheit
nice!
- Sanjeev Singh
Viking Kittens - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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John μller, April Buchheit, mikepk and 17 other people liked this
zeppelin rules
- Paul Buchheit
Amen.
- Sanjeev Singh
headshaking!
- Daniel
It was created here: http://www.rathergood.com/ (some of the music videos are not children-friendly, fyi).
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
rathergood is awesome - the white strips punk kittens is one of my favorites
- mike "glemak" dunn
never gets old!!
- felix
Entertaning and educational - with the Zeppelin to English subtitles.
- Steve C
I'm somewhat partial to the 'Tanz mit Laibach' kittens: http://www.rathergood.com/laibach...
- Thomas Brox Røst
here's punk kittens - http://www.rathergood.com/punk_ki...
- mike "glemak" dunn
http://www.vikingkittens.com/ Valhalla I am coming!
- Jim Norris
my brother in law just showed me this site.
- Trish Haley
video's been pulled
- MicahBear78
LOVE this! Saw it years ago and never knew how to find it again. Awesome song AND kittens!!
- BEX
best of craigslist : a letter from a shelter manager - http://www.craigslist.org/about...
Tudor Bosman liked this
So sad.
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Sad; I saw this a few days ago and didn't want to post it as I found it too depressing.
- Tudor Bosman
shelters should hand this out to anyone who drops off an animal
- Sanjeev Singh
[Phoronix] Ubuntu's Power Consumption Tested - http://www.phoronix.com/scan...
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Atul Arora liked this
Wow, I would not expect different versions of Ubuntu to consume power differently. 5.04 seems best under load, 6.10 best when idle.
- Sanjeev Singh
from Bookmarklet
Without error bars, it's difficult to make any conclusions based on this experiment. The numbers like 21.47 look suspicious to me; implicitly they suggest that the error is less than 0.01 Watt, which I don't believe - there are too many factors that affect power consumption.
- Igor Krivokon
Ana YANG Bubble Artistry - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Casey Muller, Adrienne, Gary Burd and 3 other people liked this
Ana is pretty good with bubbles :)
- Sanjeev Singh
Yes, I am pretty amazing :) Actually, *that* Ana Yang is a Guinness record holder. I actually decided I'm going to go see her show in NY on my 30th birthday this year! :) http://www.telecharge.com/BehindT...
- Ana
Amazing stuff! The bubble liquid formula helps too. Even though it's kind of curious (if now unwanted ;-)) to have the identical name as someone very famous, the Bubble Girl is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Nenad Nikolic
No, Fan Yang is her husband. Ana Yang is the bubble lady whose Google results have been dogging me for a decade.
- Ana
I wonder what her bubble solution is made of.
- April Buchheit
why has it been dogging you?
- eviltom
None of the Above: What I.Q. doesn’t tell you about race. - Malcolm Gladwell - http://www.newyorker.com/arts...
Zia Syed, Лосось норвежской выделки and Lizunlong liked this
"I.Q.s around the world appeared to be rising by 0.3 points per year, or three points per decade, for as far back as the tests had been administered. For some reason, human beings seemed to be getting smarter."
- Paul Buchheit
It does seem like a bit of a leap to extrapolate from "Chinese in S.F. Chinatown in the 1970s" to North East Asian Americans in general.
- Sanjeev Singh
Also the "black american GI children in germany" studies could be explained by the fact that military screening equalized the IQs of black and white servicemen stationed there.
- Sanjeev Singh
after reading closer, I realize Gladwell makes Saletan look evil by misquoting him. Saletan himself thinks that environmental interventions that raise IQ from 83 to 97 are a big deal (and a good thing) but you would not know that reading this article.
- Sanjeev Singh
the claim that IQ is rising can be compared to the claim that living standards of the world have risen since the WW2, but this would be overly generalizing and missing the mark (such as widening gap between the rich and the poor,etc).
- Hayk H.
Dear Austrian Economists, please explain how having fewer, larger banks is good.
ankur and Susan Beebe liked this
It seems like this would be the inevitable outcome if you just let insolvent banks go bust.
- Sanjeev Singh
I think this might be a bad thing for two reasons: (1) These megacorps are less likely to fail, but when they do, they can cause a crisis (Fannie, Freddie, AIG) (2) Do you actually believe the customer is better served if competition is reduced?
- Sanjeev Singh
Didn't some of the other European countries (Sweden? I forget...) end up buying their banks in a recent crisis and things turned out OK?
- Patrick Lightbody
Regardless, seems like either path (pseudo-nationalizing like we just did vs. letting them fail) leads to the same thing: fewer top-level ownership of banks. The only difference is who the owner is: Joe Taxpayer or BofA
- Patrick Lightbody
Please explain how having fewer, larger central banks is good. =)
- Jim Norris
Yes, rescuing banks (UK, USA) allows more of them to avoid acquisition by other banks. In the case of the UK, the prime minister is chairman of the board of a few of them and can set executive compensation. However, he's beholden to the electorate, so you can argue he'll make more globally optimal decisions. In the US, the fed forfeited their voting rights (I think) so there was no increase in concentration of control. It's probably too early to say "things turned out ok", though.
- Private Sanjeev
I like Buffett's plan the best. Spend the least amount of government money to kickstart private investment in undervalued banks, thereby keeping them afloat and independent. The Austrians would discourage any intervention at all.
- Private Sanjeev
I think Austrianists would argue that this crisis was caused by bad monetary policy on the part of central bankers and government over-regulation that prevented smaller private banks from being able to compete with larger ones.
- Jim Norris
I agree with the Austrian interpretation of the cause, but not their fix!
- Private Sanjeev
If insolvent banks weren't allowed to go bust when they are "too big to fail", that introduces a moral hazard (large banks can get away with taking larger risks since losses are socialized) and a big competitive advantage (smaller institutions like Countrywide and WaMu don't get the government guarantees that big ones like GS and JPMorgan Chase do).
- Jim Norris
It's an arguable point, but what if the cost of letting the big guys fail is anarchy?
- Private Sanjeev
I think the problem is that we shouldn't allow too many entities to get "too big to fail" in the first place. It also seems, with derivatives, that even fairly small entities can now become too big to fail (LTCM). Would the Austrianists have intervened to prevent or regulate derivatives?
- Private Sanjeev
Fed's assets, including loan to AIG and misc bear sterns investments more than doubled to $1.77 trillion last week from a year-earlier total of $873 billion that consisted mostly of treasuries. Fed balance sheet is above 10% of gdp and climbing.....
- david A
Culligan Aqua-Cleer® Advanced Drinking Water System | Culligan Aqua-Cleer® Advanced Drinking Water System - http://www.culligan.com/index...
Are these water filtration systems good? And why is this one "Not for sale in California"?
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I suspect that it is because California has the highest standards for water. So far I can only find reference in bottled water stories, but it appear CA has a health code saying you can't sell water with carcinogens, and that may include utility water. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...
- Clare Dibble
How pure do you want your water? Some people think drinking water that is too pure is bad for you because it removes stuff you might want to stay in you via osmotic pressure gradients. Do you have a whole house filter? You would definitely want to start there because if you don't your fancier filters will quickly foul.
- Clare Dibble
I don't know about their products, but this website has a good summary of factors to consider that I mostly agree with from setting up the water system at SpheroSense. http://www.advancedwaterfilters.com/whole-h...
- Clare Dibble
perhaps it's not certified by CA. "When a manufacturer claims that a drinking water treatment device will reduce toxic chemicals or makes other health related performance claims, the device must be certified by the California Department of Public Health" http://bit.ly/2ZdQY5
- David Vasileff
Interesting...: "There are no "whole house" or point-of-entry systems currently certified for health claims."
- Clare Dibble
How do whole-house systems work? It seems wasteful to filter the whole domestic water supply when you only need drinking water filtered.
- Gabe
Some chemicals go through the skin. Kurzweil recommends a whole house filter for this reason. But yeah, you should only need it for showers and drinking/cooking water.
- Sanjeev Singh
Lung surface area way exceeds skin surface area, and is way more porous. I recall a General Motors Institute study showing, when winds parallel the roadway, pollution density downwind of heavy traffic exceeds ambient levels (as measured by stations) by 1 000 000-fold. Why not install HEPA filters in your car?
- John Lam
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: Intrade Betting is Suspicious - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008...
Michael Nielsen, ǝuǝƃnǝ, Karl Rosaen and 7 other people liked this
that's just plain weird.
- MikeAmundsen
Those sudden spikes are a really inefficient way to trade -- somebody is losing a ton of money every time they do that, just because they can't be bothered to make many small trades instead of a few big trades.
- ⓞnor
I was wondering why intrade pricing was so off compared to the other markets. @nor if their goal is to manipulate the price over the short term, then large amounts are the way to go. They *want* the price to be impacted.
- Sanjeev Singh
"This is the exact mirror image of the Obama trading" - no, actually, it isn't. Clinton trading has three drops in the marked period; Obama trading has two. Obama peaks at Sep 23 5:54 PMPDT at 50.5/2000; Clinton has 1600 shares traded spread out between 5:17 and 5:32. Yeah, you can talk this into something, but ...
- Jutta Degener
Yeah, by "exact mirror image" he seems to mean "vaguely similar pattern of two or three large orders placed during a day". The times aren't lined up or anything super obvious like that. Sanjeev, yes, possibly it's optimized for manipulation, though I'm not convinced of that.
- ⓞnor
It doesn't help that the time periods in the two graphics aren't aligned, and cropped to suggest a periodicity that isn't there in the larger frame... The other thing is - 100$ intrade = 10$ US; so the trade volume is smaller and grainier than what y'all probably think it is, and, yes, very much subject to manipulation by the malicious or stupid. Still, valuing Dem win so much more than Obama win *is* weird; I figured overestimated likelyhood of catastrophic events, but don't really have a good explanation.
- Jutta Degener
EPA wistleblower Dr.William Marcus - http://video.google.com/videopl...
John Lam and Mihalcea Razvan liked this
On the difficulty EPA scientists face when they try to publicize politically unpopular truths.
- Sanjeev Singh
Dump trucks going to work all night again 50 metres from my bedroom. Beijing government sucks.
Sanjeev Singh liked this
I was wondering if you escaped the earthquake :)
- Sanjeev Singh
I didn't feel a thing, although some people did in Beijing. :)
- Kiam
hey all, I'm going private at the end of the week, and unsubscribing people I don't personally know.
Mihalcea Razvan, Amit Patel, Bruce Lewis and 3 other people liked this
I want to get a better feel for that use case. Expect me back in a few weeks :).
- Sanjeev Singh
It's been real.
- Jim Norris
Keep me in there Sanjeev. Dig your stuff ?!
- Charlie Anzman
OK have fun. If any of your real friends are friends of me you'll still see all my cat pictures and PB&J postings anyhow. :)
- Alex Scoble
S'okay. You're not subscribed to me anyway. :)
- Morton Fox
Oh, heh, yeah he's not subscribed to me either, hehe.
- Alex Scoble
Same here.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Same as @Charlie
- Elias Torres
Isn't that was facebook is for? I use facebook for real life relationships, and friendfeed for good spirited conversations on the interwebs.
- Chris Hollander
Chris W, yes I'm going to kick off subscribers temporarily.
- Sanjeev Singh
Chris H, Facebook is more about socialization and social communication (how are you doing? what are you up to?). I just want to find and discuss cool stuff with my friends :)
- Sanjeev Singh
How will you let us know when you are back? I'll miss your stuff!
- Clare Dibble
Actually I think I'll just create a "private sanjeev" account.
- Sanjeev Singh
My friends use Facebook notes http://facebook.com/notes.php for cool and hot stuff.
- John Lam
Chris White/premium content comment FTW
- j1m
jeev, remember to keep me in, took me a while to locate you !! haha!!
- Lim, Kok Kim
But I just learned about flouridation from you last week! :|
- Mona Nomura
Any chance you can leave me on your feed? I enjoy reading your science related posts.
- GS 2Go
Dr. William Marcus (EPA) on the dangers of flouride - http://www.fluoridealert.org/health...
Mihalcea Razvan and Jeanette Bosman liked this
"When I got a hold of the contractor report and reviewed it very carefully, not only was it reporting cancers in the animals, [it was reporting] osteosarcomas which bothered me a lot because I've been trying to produce osteosarcomas in animals for almost 20 years and the only luck I ever had was with an experiment in dogs and monkeys, and the osteosarcomas took nearly the lifetime of the animals, and we were using radium which specifically produces that in bones. And here we have a compound commonly available - fluoride - that did it in rats in two years or less."
- Sanjeev Singh
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"Due to his criticisms of the tumor downgradings, Dr. Marcus was fired by the EPA. The US Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, later ruled that EPA fired Marcus out of "retaliation" for Marcus' stance on fluoride, and ordered EPA to reinstate Marcus with full back pay and compensation."
- Sanjeev Singh
I get worried when I see comments in Jim's code.
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'cos it means the code is super tricky.
- Sanjeev Singh
what was the comment?
- Amund Tveit
I get worried when I see Jim.
- Steve C
// normally you would not use random number here, but it's the only way it works
- Karim
assert false
- Chris Lamprecht
New machines
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Give more info? What choices did you make and who did you go with? Also, where do you house them?
- Derek Collison
Umm. Where are the drives? I do not see them.
- Jauder Ho
hmm, quad socket. SAN or iSCSI?
- clarke thomas
the drives are to the left, out of frame, this is a blade server, which pulls the air from the front to the back
- clarke thomas
Shiny!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
We went for power efficiency, since we're in a conventional data center that can only do 30A per rack. This is a Supermicro 1025TC-TB. Measured at ~210W at idle for both nodes. Each node is 2 x Intel L5420, 24GB RAM, 4 x 200GB 2.5" drives.
- Sanjeev Singh
nice pizza box... we need stats though.
- Uncle CW™
good to hear, I'm about to buy 10 servers of the same CPU, 40Watt is nice.
- clarke thomas
Clarke, the L series Xeons are 50W tdp, I think. Hopefully you are putting those in systems that don't use fbdimms :)
- Sanjeev Singh
Adverse Health and Behavior from Silicoflourides - http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rmaste...
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Silicoflourides are commonly used to flouridate municipal drinking water. Unfortunately they are associated with higher levels of substance abuse, crime and learning abilities, possibly as a result of increased lead absorption in the body :(.
- Sanjeev Singh
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Luckily my municipal water company does not flouridate my water. Unfortunately, the ground water source they use already has flouride in it, of unknown form.
- Sanjeev Singh
Flouridation started for San Francisco in 2005! I wonder if I should be worried. Thanks for this, Sanjeev.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, if you're worried about flouride, some water filters can get it out of your water. Brita doesn't, but some others might.
- Sanjeev Singh
It's. Still. Not. Done.
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Seriously. Please. Do not think this market looks cheap. The calamity is not yet over. If nothing else, you will sleep better and be a nicer person to be around if you are on the sidelines.
- Christopher Sacca
my old boss had a big laminated sign over his desk that said, "Cash is King." I always liked it.
- Mark Foundos
Y'all don't subscribe to the random walk theory, I take it? Or you're just warning about volatility?
- ⓞnor
nor, I think the random walk theory applies when the market is working well. This could be a case where the market/economy is hitting a divide by zero.
- Sanjeev Singh
So, you selling short? (Or buying puts, etc?) Because if you believe that, you should be, right?
- ⓞnor
I have been 2x short since Friday. Unwound my position today. With prices where they are, the psychology of value will probably compel some buying. Nevertheless, this mess has not fully trickled through the market and is not fully priced in. Thus, I continue to be bearish. Just not willing to use leverage to make that bet.
- Christopher Sacca
Oh, and while muni bond funds are paying 4.25% yields, I am pouring loot in there. Won't last forever. But, tax-free yields equivalent to make 7% make me temporarily happy.
- Christopher Sacca
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