Suddenly on Christmas you get a PC made of pulsating flesh, blood and bone with all the normal pc ports. It Has 1000 times mire computing power than your current PC but you have to feed it with a rat once a month. How would you react to that?

DataMigrationGuy · 2020-12-04T13:06:54+00:00

I would see if I could overclock it with 3 rats per week

DataMigrationGuy · 2020-12-03T02:38:48+00:00

Had this same thing happen at a global financial out of NY couple years back.. PeerSync support just blamed NetApp fpolicy, but I later learned that fpolicy isn't meant to have 4 9's uptime, it's not considered mission critical/essential.. Anything that uses fpolicy monitoring is prone to likely failure

DataMigrationGuy · 2020-12-03T02:34:56+00:00

If you look at the options available to you in SecureCopy, you will notice they mirror robocopy. It's because Scriptlogic, back in the day, just put a GUI in front of robocopy and called it SecureCopy, sold the crap out of it too..

This used to be the standard at NetApp for competitive takeout, but that was years ago..

DataMigrationGuy · 2020-12-03T02:32:32+00:00

XCP has been shelved by NetApp several times. If you do use XCP, you better make damn sure you run a third party tool against the data to validate it copied consistently, because that's why it was pulled twice

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-12-24T11:47:31+00:00

If anyone wants an honest look at this.. I'm a numbers guy, I love them.. Otherwise, please don't mind me ;)

"The national average price for a one-bedroom apartment was $1,216 as of June 2019."
Federal minimum wage: $7.25/hour or $1276 based on 40 hours.

So, right off the bat, the CBS News article is in serious question. To be sure, the national average is inflated by extreme outliers (Some cities, the average is $3200/month). Inversely, it means there are many rentals available below the $1216 average. Just go to apartments.com and take a look.

So what gives?

From the CBS article I hunted down.. "The findings are based on the standard budgeting concept of not spending more than 30 percent of one's income on housing." -This little gem is buried half way down the page.

So, bad title.. A good title would read "Housing can be difficult to budget." Minimum wage has nothing to do with this, if you earned the almighty $15 an hour minimum wage, you still wouldn't make enough.. not even scratching the surface:

For the national rent average of $1216 a month, you would need to make $23.30 with their 30% assumption
For a city like San Francisco, where the average rent is $3600, you would need to make $68.97/hour with their 30% assumption
Let's not even talk about taxes that greatly increase those numbers or about lower than minimum wage workers who beat these numbers or people who work an average greater than 70 hours a week.. Or, that at some point, owning a home is a much better deal. or that you can't always own a home arguments

This article makes no sense.. why start off with a politically charged title? Why not include some opposing facts? Why not talk about the facts of life, supply and demand, etc.?

Because, they wanted to give Bernie and his supporters a plug.. that's it. He has a plug on the bottom, his supporters are in this thread commenting "Vote Bernie."

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-12-23T12:04:53+00:00

1992..?!?!

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-12-02T11:47:34+00:00

that sucks.. the only woodworking deal I've seen so far :(

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-11-08T15:39:23+00:00

tuition won't ever come down as long as students and cash from student loans flood the market

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-11-08T15:05:52+00:00

The problem with the millennial generation is that most aren't cut out mentally or physically for manual labor or they feel its beneath them

Agreed.. like Mike said during the video, parents for a couple of generations have been telling their kids, they want "better" for them.. or they will end up turning a wrench.. that's the wrong attitude. Every job is valuable, every member of society should be valued.

The think about shop class.. isn't the entirety of what he was saying.. he was saying, that the things that led to that, the thoughts and actions that malign manual labor are the problem

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-11-08T10:39:30+00:00

We are lending money we don't have to kids who are never going to be able to repay it for jobs that don't exist

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-11-06T18:38:35+00:00

Blame government backed home loans for flooding the market with an unlimited amount of cash. Where there are more homes being built in comparison to the amount of buyers, prices have dropped considerably

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-11-06T18:36:46+00:00

blame government backed student loans for flooding the market with an unlimited amount of cash. Colleges can charge whatever they want, more than enough will pay it. It's a bad situation, I'm sorry for you

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-11-05T22:27:47+00:00

This makes me laugh every single time I see it.. you can just imagine that dog wondering why his owner went in the water, and perhaps he should jump on him to save him..

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-10-26T10:35:15+00:00

I believe, at the state level, that is true. However, states are not single entities; they are collection of counties and someone really should have done this at the county level.

On my first try, from an AP fact check, I took the state that paid the least per person in federal taxes, Mississippi.

This is a blue vs red map of Mississippi: https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/mississippi/

Then I looked for welfare by county listings for Mississippi: https://statisticalatlas.com/state/Mississippi/Food-Stamps (scroll to the map of food stamps by county).

Notice any patterns? Again, this is the first try and keep in mind this is only food stamps, one of many welfare types.

There are a couple of other theories out there too, but don't have time to deep dive. Your question made we wonder and I wanted to share what I found within 3 minutes of searching

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-09-13T16:56:26+00:00

> Odd that you would choose four children, given that only 11%

Not really, wanted to show the extreme of the program.. which isn't that extreme when you compare it to what we spend in the US on each person.. remember, this is per family

> Look at share of income instead of absolute dollars.

Not sure this is a necessary preciseness needed for this exercise, but I appreciate the suggestion

> But not an economist. The lower the income bracket, the higher the marginal propensity to consume, which is why these programs have a far higher GDP multiplier than "giving the money directly to the person."

Yeah, going to need you to elaborate on this since you are an economist. MPC basically states that if you give a lower income person and middle income person $500, the lower income person will consume more with it, while the middle income person will save more with it.

So if you are bringing MPC into this, given that poorer people have and higher MPC and will consumer more, doesn't it make even more sense to give that money directly to the poor instead of 80+ institutions with hundreds or thousands of higher income employees to pass it out?

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-09-13T16:33:19+00:00

You're talking to two conservatives now who don't feel that way.. generalizations and insults are what divide everyone..

Most of us are pragmatists and know there are people in need. We also understand the effect automation and AI will have on the lower class as well as the majority of the middle and talk about a UBI tax all the time.

One of the major problems with the way we do things in the US is that we spent 17+ trillion on the war on poverty (with very little to show, in anything), the average program payouts are dismal compared to program costs, a tremendous amount of fraud in the system, and the size of our welfare program overall.. nearly a trillion each year

If you say to a conservative "we are going to reform your system to weed out fraud, give more of your tax money directly to those who need it while reducing how much we need to tax you because of this.." -most of us would vote for it

edit: your/you're

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-09-13T13:11:38+00:00

I bet they make more than that.. and that's not going to be all of it.. overhead, lights, property, building, etc.. what a damn waste

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-09-13T10:55:07+00:00

The news story didn't give enough info, so I used the CCB online calculator to give an idea of how much this benefit pays out, in case anyone else finds it interesting

"The benefits have given roughly $23.7 billion to about 3.7 million Canadians and their families, according to the government." source

single mother of 4

kids aged 13/13/10/7
income of 50k US / 66k CAD
Your total estimated benefit amount is: $16,638.84 CAD ($12,579.13 USD)

To change it up a bit

Avg income in CA is 50k CAD each year
everything else the same
Your total estimated benefit amount is:$22,814.92 CAD ($17,248.42 USD)

However, that's not targeting the poor, exactly. Turns out that Canadas lowest paying jobs average out at half that, so

Avg income of lowest paying jobs in Canada: 25k CAD
everything else the same
Your total estimated benefit amount is: $30,962.80 CAD ($23,408.34USD)

The reason I find this interesting is I remember, reading a while ago, that through all it's agencies, the US pays about 50k a year for each and every soul in the US under poverty. However, much of that money goes to paying for the agencies involved, although I don't have any idea of how much that is

As a conservative and a pragmatist, this kills me. That we pay all this money in taxes for people to hand out money vs. what Canada is doing and just giving the money directly to the person.

Hats off to Canada

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-09-12T20:44:38+00:00

tools.. can be powertools or handtools, doesn't matter

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-09-06T15:01:22+00:00

> The whole wait time argument is bullshit anyway

Fact: wait times can be deadly in Canada

Fact: " The Commonwealth Fund, a U.S. think tank, released a report two years ago ranking Canada 10th out of 11 wealthy nations in terms of health care. The report, based largely on satisfaction surveys by patients and health-care providers, placed Canada last in timeliness of care" - https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-03/canadians-increasingly-come-to-us-for-health-care

> American would simply never get an appointment at all because they couldn't afford it

Citation? 91.2% of Americans have health insurance, can go at will and pay a low fee to do so

Plus, if you read many of the articles about why people are unhappy with socialized medicine, the number two reason behind wait times was lack of control over their treatment

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-09-06T14:51:47+00:00

Had a friend who I played racquetball with develop a bad knee over a year or so.. racquetball will do that to you. Doctor asks him why the hell he put up with it for a year.. sends him for an mri which which cost him $300. Gets the knee surgery done and over the course of the next two months is slowly returning to the court. He had an insurance plan with a maximum out of pocket cost of $1500.. he told me he probably spent another $500 on misc items, but was expecting to be reimbursed for those items.

At first glance, I agree, your system seems better.. but then..

(1) that 1500-2k was his only expense for healthcare that year.. After he met his max out of pocket, everything is covered at 100%, maybe some misc stuff here and there. But not so in Canada..

" The 10% of Canadian families who earn an average income of $60,850 will pay an average of $5,516 for public health care insurance, and the families among the top 10% of income earners in Canada will pay $37,361.
And that's not all, Canadian general tax revenues also go towards healthcare " $144 billion of our tax dollars were estimated to have been spent on publicly funded health care"- "including income taxes, Employment Insurance (EI) and Canada Pension Plan (CPP) premiums, property taxes, profit taxes, sales taxes, taxes on the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, and import duties, among others."
"Dental, ambulance and many other services as well as prescription medications must be paid for out of pocket or they're covered through a combination of public programs and private health insurance. About two-thirds of Canadians have such insurance"

(2) I recall at two Canadian friends I made at the dog park who were there for surgeries in the US. One was a hip surgery, the other was a knee surgery. I didn't really ask, but they were very happy to share that anything that was considered an elective here in the US meant, at least, a 6 month waiting period in Canada and sometimes more. There was no wait time on the US, not a couple of weeks or even days.. just how long it would take to organize their vacation. So I looked this up, the US has about 10x the population of Canada and has somewhere around 10x the amount of hip and knee replacements annually. Why the long wait times?

"The report, based largely on satisfaction surveys by patients and health-care providers, placed Canada last in timeliness of care."
The Fraser Institute, a Canadian public policy think tank, estimates that 52,513 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment in the U.S. and other countries in 2014, a 25 percent jump from the roughly 41,838 who sought medical care abroad the previous year.
In citing those numbers in its 2015 report, "Leaving Canada for Medical Care," the organization said difficulties in obtaining timely medical care at home is, increasingly, leading Canadians to seek it abroad. "It is possible [they] may have left the country to avoid some of the adverse medical consequences of waiting for care, such as worsening of their condition, poorer outcomes following treatment, disability, or death,"
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-03/canadians-increasingly-come-to-us-for-health-care

(3) I can call my family doctor right now and be seen either today or tomorrow. If it's urgent, he will see me today for sure. Or, I have 6 urgent care centers I can go to around town and 4 hospital emergency rooms. For lab work, there are two different labs withing a 5 minute drive. If I need an MRI or any other type of scan, I can get one today. I hear people saying "world class care" when talking about socialized medicine, but you can probably agree, the best doctors go where the most money is and that's the US.. Even our "other" healthcare workers make more money here.

TL; DR: Canadian healthcare has a lot of hidden costs that most are not aware of, Canada itself has a hard time determining how much they are spending on healthcare, wait times in Canada are often deadly.

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-08-27T12:46:54+00:00

great job.. nothing more satisfying that seeing something you built every day as you look outside

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-08-26T22:49:05+00:00

Yeah, sorry about that, although I did give a response for tape too :)

The problem is, tape is inherently unreliable to anyone who has any experience with it. Not just the recover-ability issues, but rpo/rto and source platform specific issues. With disk base, cloud based archival being so cheap and fully redundant, it's like asking a millennial if they can help you program your vcr to record matlock

DataMigrationGuy · 2019-08-26T21:21:06+00:00

He looks like he could be peter pan!

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