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Even with 80% discounts for large "friends of the business", yes, I agree that better AND cheaper alternatives should be pursued ;)

Reminds me of Larry Ellison's old joke, "So when building our cloud, we decided to go with Oracle... we got a good price..."

Maybe a dumb question, but doesn't YourMechanic do this as well? I suppose auto repair and geo-location are a better match together than house cleaning (rip HomeJoy, I really liked…

How am I supposed to figure out how to break the chains of my oppressors when I need to disable my adblock to read the page? :)

Money that comes easily, goes easily. Where did the VCs get the money from [1][2]? If they didn't break a sweat, they won't hesitate to throw it around without asking questions abo…

But isn't this an ironic example, because the witches weren't actually witches, it's just that the normal observer could be convinced they were?

Yes, I completely agree with the above. Litigation is handled poorly, taxation handled poorly (federal and state), identity handled poorly (Social Security Admin), legislation, ele…

Tough to say, but if this link is right: http://video.stackexchange.com/questions/8850/typical-size-o... Then being conservative, we can say an hour of video is 1-2GB of data, so b…

Sweet, I appreciate that info :) I imagine 5PB fills up quite quickly for Google too! At that scale, it's just a function of (number of ethernet cables) x (avg size of ethernet cab…

That seems like a silly minimum for WDC to have, unless the discounting is phenomenal (50%+) compared to other vendors. I'm asking myself, even if I'm a WDC rep that is selling hun…

That's all good, it would just increase the number of disks required to be purchased and the amount of electricity/cooling/floorspace to maintain them. It would add to the disk cou…

I imagine maybe 10x more than this. The numbers actually aren't too shocking if you think of the mirroring of data that's required for maximum uptime (not even archival), and the o…

Food is the private property of someone else. Pay for it or ask for it for free.

Without perfect information, market participants can act irrationally. This is why Ethiopian farmers sell their coffee beans for pennies/kilo, while Starbucks charges $5/gram (made…

They probably don't feel their drivers are valuable assets worth retaining, much like how tech companies treat their telesales staff. You want to quit? Go nuts, we have 50 people w…

Implicitly, that person is. But what that comment really says is, "if my government tells me they need my taxes so that we shall kill instead of being killed, that is a decision I …

MREs are quite tasty and good for survival situations (liquid water is extremely heavy and voluminous- hard to transport). I haven't looked specifically at the salt and preservativ…

Place responsibility back on the party with the most to lose in the situation- the one risking something. Don't want to have to evict your tenant? Don't sign them for an overpriced…

Obligatory post that you can make healthier, tastier meals for marginally more cost if you buy and boil frozen vegetables. If it doesn't taste good enough then add salt or whatever…

Guys, I've got it- instead of locking ourselves in with one vendor's platform and being subject to their mismanagement and arbitrary rules, why don't we buy our own hardware and do…

Sounds like the solution is contained in the article?? More people are finding that the only work they can find is a desk job working long hours with a long commute and many expens…

I love it. It's also why they are so against distance learning (Quartz has a poll out on it, only 30% of faculty "support" it). Academics have the gaul to set up an extortionist ra…

I majored in history at UNC and paid off my $26,000 in student loans with my first commission check from my first sales job. One's major and even one's skills are not an accurate p…

You're being downvoted by plenty of people who have devoted their lives to pleasing the spouse that beats them, aka the academic profession. Congrats on rattling the hornets nest!

A-B-C. A Always. B Be. C Correlating. Always be correlating. ALWAYS BE CORRELATING. A-I-D-A. Attention, interest, decision, action. Attention, do I have your attention. Interest, a…