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Re:Ask HN: With Delicious failing, what's the promise of cloud computing? on Sunday December 19, 2010 @06:23PM (#2022815)

Not really. Cloud services have much greater reliability than your PC-- if you were to store your data on your computer with that 1Gbps connection, that doesn't save it from a hard drive failure.

Services like Amazon's S3 have the advantage of redundancy.

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation? on Friday January 16, 2009 @01:41PM (#437034)

Oh wow. I never expected this many replies... But anyways, thank you for the advice. I guess I am expecting people to be like me, which I realize is a bit ridiculous, now that you point it out. I think I've been doing a little bit of what you said about trying to find people... I took up an internship at a public radio station because I thought the people there would be interesting, and the people there are great, but the age difference between me and everyone can be a bit awkward at times. I guess I need to repeat that kind of scenario where I put myself out there to meet new people.

You're absolutely right about doing stuff as a good cure for mental blocks. I got a road bike and started going for daily rides, and that helped a bit.

Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation?

Posted by daniel_ on Friday January 16, 2009 @03:07AM
from the ask-hn dept.

How do you deal with social alienation? Over the past couple of years of high school, I've slowly lost contact with all of my friends. Whenever I do speak with them, I constantly think about the differences between me and them, and why I'm not friends with them anymore. Despite that, I'm so alone now that I desperately want to have a peer group to be with again. The problem is that the only...

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