Posts Tagged ‘economics’
Letters to Craig Murray #7
###Letter #7 Delivered 28 Sep 21 Hi Craig, It’s a shame that books sent from Amazon aren’t making it through. I was wondering what I’d write about this week, as I wanted to steer clear of politics, and somehow the week concluded with a few bookish things. Your letter reminded me of how I came […]
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Tags: Accelerando, Anne Currie, Azimov, economics, Foundation, SciFi, Stross
November 2020
There’s been lots happening this month, with the puppy growing, some IT failures, moving on from some previously loved products and services, more updates on streaming and VR, and a few things I forgot in October… Puppy He’s done a lot of growing from the start of the month: To the end of the month: […]
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Tags: Another Now, battery, Beat Saber, bookmark, Brio, dachshund, economics, electronics, JLAB, kit, lenses, mic, microphone, mobile, NAS, Pinboard, pinboard.in. pinner, PlusNet, prescription, puppy, pushpin, Star Wars, Starblinken, streaming, Three, UPS, vr, webcam
TL;DR We can model data gravity by looking at the respective storage and network costs for different scenarios where workload and associated data might be placed in one or more clouds. As network egress charges are relatively high, this makes the effect of data gravity substantial – pushing workloads and their data to be co-resident […]
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Tags: cloud, data, economics, equation, formula, gravity
The great bandwidth swindle
This isn’t a new thing. I’ve even written about it before. But it seems to be coming up in a LOT of conversations at the moment. The price that cloud providers charge for egress from their networks to the Internet is staggeringly high. Or as Bryan Cantril put it in a recent episode of his […]
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Tags: aws, Azure, bandwidth, cloud, cost, data gravity, ec2, economics, egress, GCP, Lightsail, pricing, s3, transfer, VPS
Marginal cost of making mistakes
In a note to my last post ‘Safety first‘ I promised more on this topic, so here goes… TL;DR As software learns from manufacturing by adopting the practices we’ve called DevOps we’ve got better at catching mistakes earlier and more often in our ‘production lines’ to reduce their cost; but what if the whole point […]
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Tags: architecture, cost, design, DevOps, economics, mistakes, risk
Race Against The Machine
I’ve been an avid follow of Andrew McAfee’s Blog ever since JP first pointed me in that direction. He’s clearly a man that understands how technology is reshaping how we do business. Whilst I was on holiday a few weeks ago I noticed that he’d published a book along with Erik Brynjolsson – Race Against […]
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Tags: #racemachine, copyright, economics, education, employment, entrepreneur, founders visa, immigration, Internet, patents, politics, race against the machine, regulation, review, SMEs, startups, technology
Mowing the Cloud
I had a good chat with JP yesterday, and one aspect of that chat related to cloud computing. This got us talking about the disconnect between goods and services. Goods have become very cheap (relative to services), and I have a couple of favourite examples. The first is bicycles. A decent kids bike has been […]
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Tags: cloud, economics, goods, services
I watched this film last week, but it’s taken me a while to find the time for a quick review. I guess I must like Michael Moore‘s films, as I’ve watched most of them, though I know from experience to expect a certain political perspective that I might not entirely agree with. I think he […]
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Tags: banking, capitalism, cdo, economics, engineering, film, Michael Moore, review, science, taxi driver
eBooks and price discrimination
The weekend brought a bit of a storm over Amazon booting Macmillan off its platform, which has brought lots of worthy analysis from Charles Stross, Tim Bray and others. Perhaps I’m missing something here, but it seems to me that the whole problem with eBooks is that they have only one dimension for price discrimination […]
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Tags: books, ebook, economics
The network isn’t ubiquitous
and probably never will be. My brother has been moving house this week, which has caused him to spend a certain amount of time off net, and to get very angry with BT (though it all got sorted out in the end [1]). Sadly my suggestion to get a Vodafone 3G dongle doesn’t seem to […]
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Tags: 3G, BT, economics, network, network fallacies, telco, three strikes, wifi
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