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Re:Ask HN: Why Netflix still using AWS when Amazon is their biggest co...
on Sunday May 10, 2020 @06:13PM (#23136792)
Because AWS is a huge profit center for Amazon, they are able to invest those profits into reducing prices on the retail side of their business - amazon.com. Netflix doesn't compete with Amazon's retail business, Walmart most certainly does.
Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?
on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:22PM (#22559955)
"Even in flyover country", ouch, you realize the comments earlier about Walmart's Y2K efforts were all driven out of Arkansas, right?
Re:Amazon Argues Alexa Speech Protected By First Amendment In Murder T...
on Thursday February 23, 2017 @09:21AM (#13714016)
Ahem Orwell's 1984. It's a book.
Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my worst job ever
on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @03:15PM (#10154969)
It's possible that the computers didn't run on tubes but rather the radar systems. The two may have been conflated. I believe I've read that tubes are still quite common in high-power radio transmitters because they're more effective than solid-state components. Still a bad situation, but maybe not as sensational as it appears on the surface.
Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muha...
on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @08:56AM (#8879815)
> It's going to take a while before Islamists change their views on this issue.
It's only been 1,500 years. Lets give them a little more time mmm-k?
Re:Microservices for the Grumpy Neckbeard
on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @04:04PM (#8229197)
I'm guessing it's a joke. Y=vertical scaling, X=horizontal scaling, Z=? scaling