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  1. Here's my speculation on the underlying reason archive.today blocks Cloudflare DNS: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/135229/229725

    I speculate it's due to archive.today wanting granular (not overly broad) legal censorship compliance. Which is somewhat related to this post.

  2. Are you saying that cloudflare conducts or promotes DDoS?
  3. If you're building your own vision, that's working too.
  4. >By late adolescence, 78.2% of US adolescents had consumed alcohol

    I guess I fall into that group, since I had a few sips, given to my by my parents.

    > 47.1% had reached regular drinking levels defined by at least 12 drinks within a given year

    So less than half.

    > drug use by 42.5%

    Also less than half. I wonder how many tried it just once.

    > drug abuse by 16.4%

  5. According to [1], in 1973, Roe v. Wade said abortion is legal US-wide at 27/28 weeks and earlier, then in 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey said abortion is legal US-wide at 22/23/24 weeks and earlier. I'm not exactly sure whether the ages are inclusive or exclusive or how rounding/truncating works with the ages, which is why I made them fuzzy with the slashes.

    According to [2], there are 203 countries listed. I'll look at "on request" abortions.

    * North Korea is marked "unclear".

    * 6 allow abortion at 23 weeks (24 weeks is also an identical list): China, Colombia, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, South Ossetia

    * 2 additional allow abortion at 22 weeks: Iceland, Vietnam

    * 191 ban abortion at 22 weeks.

    * Australia ranges from completely prohibited to no limit, depending on region.

    * Canada ranges from 12 weeks and 6 days to 24 weeks and 6 days depending on region.

    * United states ranges from (ignoring the recent laws that prompted the ongoing cases) 20 weeks to no limit depending on region.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade#Planned_Parenthood...

    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_law#Independent_count...

  6. >this is a religious decision and giving fetus' rights greater than actual living humans.

    How is that? There still would be no federal law against killing fetuses, whereas there is a federal law against killing born people.

  7. From other firms located where?
  8. >Also note that watching a video at 2x speed may result in the server sending less data than watching a video at 1x speed.

    That's an interesting point, but I don't think that's the case for Youtube.

  9. Those numbers don't make sense to me. I just watched this video[1] in 4K 60fps on Youtube. I think it's ~5GB. I watched it at double speed so it took 15 minutes to watch. Your second link says it takes 5.12 kWh to transfer 1GB, so it took 25 kWH to watch that video. That's about $5 at California power prices. Did it really cost $5 to watch that free Youtube video?

    My ISP caps me at 1.2TB/month. That would be $1200/month, but I don't pay anywhere near that.

    25kWh in 15 minutes is 100kW. That's 150x the max amount of power my overpowered desktop uses.

    On HN people claim AWS overcharges on egress pricing. They charge between $0.05/GB and $0.09/GB[2]. Their "overcharging" price is much lower (5% - 11%) than the cost of electricity if your numbers are correct, which doesn't make sense. Their ingress price is free, so they're not making up for lost money there.

    [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gidJopKtcnc

    [2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

  10. The SaaS Connect 2017 video you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLKfbjNB5xE
  11. I think 1/59th the price is clearer than 59x cheaper. In 59x, what is the x for? Multiplication? What is being multiplied?

    "1/59th the price of AWS" is clear because you take the price of AWS and multiply it by 1/59. Probably more clear would be "1.7% the price of AWS".

    When I think there's an opportunity for misunderstanding, I point it out. I don't think I'm more likely to misunderstand something than the average person, but I am more likely to speak out if I see something potentially confusing.

    I would be interested in seeing a poll where we ask people to estimate "59x cheaper than $200", vs "1/59th of $200" vs "1.7% of $200". Obviously the last one is easiest to do exactly in your head, but we can still get a fair comparison by just seeing whether people are at least in the neighborhood vs way off.

    I would also like to see it with 2x, 1/2 and 50%.

  12. Yeah, I could guess based on context. I would prefer notation that's clear on its own without needing to look at context. "1/2 the price" is clear on its own.

    And it still makes me feel nervous that 3x improvement = 200% increase. It seems to me like a big opportunity for misunderstanding.

  13. > This came out to about a 2x savings over AWS.

    Is that a typical way to describe cost savings? I would have said 1/2 the cost of AWS. It almost sounds like cloudflare would pay them money (e.g. you go to the store and see something marked 200% off, so you get paid to buy it, like when oil prices went negative).

    Related: I've always found the 2x, 10x, etc notation confusing. Does a 2x improvement mean a 100% increase (e.g. 10 -> 20) or a 200% increase (e.g. 10 -> 30)? Would someone ever say a 1x improvement or a 0.5x improvement?

  14. Yeah, you're right, she's a bit younger than the typical grandma, so the use here does seem mostly for sympathy.
  15. Why does the crime elder abuse exist? Because older people often have a harder time with physical and mental tasks.

    I agree that whether she has grandchildren or not doesn't matter much, but people say grandma to be more polite than saying old lady.

  16. How often do speed traps tow cars? Brookside tows 1.7 cars per year for each household.
  17. The police are financing themselves with the fines. Without the fines, they wouldn't be able to go from 1 officer to 8 officers in a single year.
  18. Not all information is copyrightable. Just because there's a copyright notice doesn't mean there's actually a copyright.
  19. Yeah, I think there's a healthy middle ground between "courting is inherently unhealthy" and "you should quit your job and court full time".
  20. The other point of view is that parents splitting up is very traumatic on kids, so effort should be spent on trying to avoid that. A promise to stay together (marriage) is one possible way to try to avoid that.

    I don't think courting is trying to front-load the effort, but rather to avoid back-loading effort. Raising kids is a lot of work, and to prove that the two of you are willing to put effort into that, you put effort into planning cool dates while courting. Once the kids come along less effort is spent on cool dates, and more effort is spent on the kids.

  21. When you meet and it just clicks wouldn't you want to spend time together, plan dates, talk about your future together, send love letters (or texts), give gifts? Wouldn't that be courting? To me it seems courting is just dating with an eye toward marriage, so talking about a potential future together.

    Your analogies kind of contradict each other. If someone goes hunting for several days but doesn't get a kill, would that person say they're owed an animal? Hunting isn't a transactional activity. Dating/courting aren't transactional either.

  22. >I don't see a scam anywhere.

    They are telling the government they will pay out if the insured party is at fault for an accident, but in some (many?) cases they don't actually pay out. That sounds like a scam to me.

  23. >sex slave nudebeach

    Umm no

  24. Yeah I think it would be the other way around: money would be the integral of success.
  25. Is there any reason to think Michael Church earned more than Dr. Gebru? Michael Church only worked at Google for 6 months, so I would guess none of his stock vested.

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