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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Change: Elliott $800,000 in 1960, 8K RAM, 2kHz CPU vs Raspberry Pi Zero, $5, 1Ghz, 512MBIf you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 434,000: square-feet in Facebook's new office; $62.5 billion:
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The most detailed picture of the Internet ever as compiled by an illegal 420,000-node botnet. * $40 billion: P2P lending in China; 20%: amount of all US margin expansion accounted for by Apple since 2010; 11: years of Saturn photos; 117: number of different
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: 100 years ago people saw this as our future. We will be so laughably wrong about the future. * $24 billion: amount telcos make selling data about you; $500,000: cost of iOS zero day exploit; 50%: a year's growth of internet users
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Gorgeous picture of where microbes live in species. Humans have the most. (M. WARDEH ET AL) * 14.3 billion: Alibaba single day sales; 1.55 billion: Facebook monthly active users; 6 billion: Snapchat video views per day; unlimited: now defined as 300 GB by
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Cool geneology of Relational Database Management Systems. * 9,000: Artifacts Uncovered in California Desert; 400 Million: LinkedIn members; 100: CEOs have more retirement assets than 41% of American families; $160B: worth of AWS; 12,000: potential age of oldest oral history; fungi: world'
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Movie goers Force Crashed websites with record ticket presales. Yoda commented: Do. Or do not. There is no try. * $51.5 billion: Apple quarterly revenue; 1,481: distance in light years of a potential Dyson Sphere; $470 billion: size of insurance industry data play;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The amazing story of Voyager's walkabout and the three body problem. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * $18 billion: wasted on US Army Future Combat system; 70%: Americans who support an Internet
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The other world beauty of the world's largest underground Neutrino Detector. Yes, this is a real thing. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 170,000: depression era photos; $465m: amount lost due
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Best selfie ever? All vacation photos taken by Apollo astronauts are now online. Fakes, obvi. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * millions: # of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet; 8%
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Elon Musk's presentation of the Tesla Model X had more in common with a new iPhone event than a traditional car demo. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 1.4 billion: Android
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: How long would you have lasted? Loved The Martian. Can't wait for the game, movie, and little potato action figures. Me, I would have died on the first level. * 60 miles: new record distance for quantum teleportation; 160: size of minimum viable
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: This is how you blast microprocessors with high-energy beams to test them for space. * terabits: Facebook's network capacity; 56.2 Gbps: largest extortion DDoS attack seen by Akamai; 220: minutes spent usings apps per day; $33 billion: 2015 in-app purchases; 2334: web