Readit Newst3rabytes commented on Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation wsj.com/articles/cloud-ai... · Posted by u/marc__1
When DigitalOcean got it's a16z money: https://x.com/Vultr/status/489139385154420736
Right up there with New Relic writing a blog post about how you couldn't trust Sumo Logic (and should move to NR) after they got bought by Francisco Partners, only to be bought by Francisco Partners themselves.
AFAICT the 11" Mac Air failed in the market. It did not last long in the lineup.
It was available for 6 years (2011-2017), that's hardly a failure relative to other Apple products that have only made it through 2 cycles (the most recently iPhone Mini sub-family that lasted 2 years).
t3rabytes commented on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazo... · Posted by u/jbredeche
Why would they unionize when most of their comp is stock? The fear mongering, uncertainty and doubt stoked by their CEO's fully-owned press[1] would tank their stock value.
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/business/media/jeff-bezos...
Bezos isn't the CEO, and hasn't been since 2021.
It seemed like the initial Direct File rollout was limited to states that didn't have a state-level income tax, or directly cooperated with the IRS. Are they forcing all states to play ball, or will Direct File not cover state tax submissions?
> Typically, swipe fees cost merchants 2% of the total transaction a customer makes — but can be as much as 4% for some premium rewards cards, according to the National Retail Federation. The settlement would lower those fees by at least 0.04 percentage point for a minimum of three years.
Waait.... the merchants pay for the rewards?
Essentially. Take the Visa credit card lines for example -- Visa Infinite cards have a higher transaction fee than a Visa Signature card, and the high-end travel cards will be of the Infinite variety (Chase Sapphire Reserve).
The rural county I grew up in got tired of empty promises and with cash from the Obama administration has started rolling out fiber county wide. You can get gigabit fiber for a reasonable cost 10 miles from the nearest town and down semi maintained dirt roads. Any place the electrical lines go.
It works (and is the best option bar-none) until the big few lobby the state to outright ban municipal ISPs as happened in my state (NC). So frustrating.
t3rabytes commented on Family Dollar to close almost 1,000 stores nbcnews.com/business/busi... · Posted by u/pg_1234
t3rabytes commented on The hater's guide to Kubernetes paulbutler.org/2024/the-h... · Posted by u/paulgb
I haven’t used kubernetes in a few years, but do they have a good UI for operations? Your example of the AWS console where you can just log in and scale something in the UI but for kubernetes. We run something similar on AWS right now, during an incident we log into the account with admin access to modify something and then go back to configure that in the CDK post incident.
AWS has a UI for resources in the cluster but it relies on the IAM role you're using in the console to have configured perms in the cluster, and our AWS SSO setup prevents that from working properly (this isn't usually the case for AWS SSO users, it's a known quirk of our particular auth setup between EKS and IAM -- we'll fix it sometime).
What you USED to get in exchange for less salary was stability as government jobs were viewed as less vulnerable to economic cycles and uncertainty. Now that value prop is gone