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Before the limit was quoted in a maximum number of servers, now it's quoted in a maximum number of total VPUs (virtual CPUs) that all of your servers contain.

Unless you're running a lot of instances, this doesn't change anything for you because you're probably not bumping into this limit.

Generally when you run an in-person focus group or user interview, you're combining the interview time with the "watching" time since you're there in the same room. With instapanel, it's definitely faster than doing the interviews yourself, but there's no forcing function to watch the videos.

Reminds me of how my dad stopped watching talks at Xerox PARC once they started webcasting them. Without needing to show up for the talk at a specific time, he could always say "I'll watch that later".

When I worked at Climate Corp, it was pretty interesting to hear the (nearly universally) Republican farmers argue for why there should be farm subsidies. About half wouldn't even try to justify it, and just said if the money's there I'll take it.

I went in strongly in favor of Prop E, I came out as convinced that obesity and soda are bad, but less convinced that this law was a good way to address the issue. I'll probably still vote "Yes" on Prop E, but it was fun to hear the other side out.

But what if the book industry spent $15/SF voter to stop some law that applied to books? Perhaps that law would be harmful to book publishers AND to society overall.

It's amazing how soda companies have come to be seen as evil so quickly.

It's only SF so people will just drive to Daly City to stock up on soda. There are tons of other sugary products that won't be taxed - like milkshakes or candy. It's a tax at the distributor level, so small businesses will just get their soda from outside the city.

Why not tax cigarettes, soda, pollution, and other bad things. The dead-weight loss from the tax is actually a good thing in these cases.

Agreed that there are always unintended consequences, I don't really know for sure, and democracy is unfortunately usually about feelings.

Get people to bicycle an hour for cigarettes and soda? That's a public health official's dream.

Watching the responses, I've changed my vote to "No". The panelists raised a lot of great points about the holes in Prop E. It's only SF so people will just drive to Daly City to stock up on soda. There are tons of sugary products that won't be taxed. It's a tax at the distributor level, so businesses will just get their soda from outside the city. It's a regressive tax. On and on.

I think it's quite reasonable to assume that differences in listening and paying habits between users would NOT average out, and a per user split would be fairer.

To bring a bit more consumer psychology into the discussion, people love SUVs because they give them the choice to go driving off-road, driving in snow, etc. Those SUV owners aren't then suddenly overwhelmed each morning with the question "Should I commute to work or should I drive to Tahoe?"

Android is a flexible tool that allows you to make choices when you want to make choices.

Swiss Re reinsures Climate Corp, not any individual policy. So Climate Corp sets the price for each policy and pays out each claim. Swiss Re pays out to Climate Corp if in aggregate all the claims are greater than the price charged.

Does that make sense?

Insects are far more efficient than livestock. Also, you can feed them things that humans can't eat (like rice stalks and husks) so they can be an environmental net win.

Doesn't seem to be true: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/everyt...

It makes me think of the first iMacs having clear backs so you could see inside and see how complicated but tidy it was inside. Contrast that with a modern iMac where you'd have a hard time even opening it.

I think most people on HN belong to a segment of the population that wants to know how things work, that is always asking questions, that grew up taking things apart to see inside. As much as I wish it was different, most people are not like us. They want things to just work, they ask for the elevator pitch, they want the milk not the cow.

If you're making something for the HN crowd, then by all means give them a peek behind the curtain. But if you're selling mass market, keep it simple and abstract away all the "messy" details.