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by 013a 8y ago
Who doesn't have an incentive to mug someone on the street? So, what stops them? Morality. Law. Responsibility. Reputation. All of this applies to companies. Morality comes from shared culture and values. Laws like GDPR help. Reputatio
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I tend to believe that it isn't a problem with the core idea or philosophy of privacy (and I'm an intensely staunch privacy advocate). I believe it's a problem with Google. Or more generally, any company which has any financi
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by 013a 8y ago
That's totally fair; that comment was just in reference to comparing other cloud providers (AWS and Azure primarily)
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I hate the word Microservice, so I'm just going to use the word Service. Most monoliths software companies build aren't actually monoliths, conceptually. Let's say you integrate with the Facebook API to pull some user data. F
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- Native integration with G-Suite as an identity provider. Unified permissions modeling from the IDP, to work apps like email/Drive, to cloud resources, all the way into Kubernetes IAM. - Security posture. Project Zero is class leading
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Cloud providers have all of the potential in the world to make each region truly isolated. I shouldn't have to architect my application to be multi-cloud, at least for stability reasons. Yet, somehow every major cloud provider experien
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by 013a 8y ago
We've got renders Notice how they all look like cars from Altered Carbon? And how the specs mention autonomous driving with a retractable steering wheel, augmented reality, and rear-facing front seats? VW will have these out by 2020 fo
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Of course the first ones were converted ICE vehicles. I could take a lawnmover and make it electric, that doesn't mean it would feasibly compete with a true designed-from-scratch electric lawnmower. Those first EVs designed like that s
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by 013a 8y ago
Beyond the hype, I think it's feasible to believe that Tesla has a massive multi-year advantage that other car companies will be playing catchup to for a very long time. Having the global manufacturing infrastructure of someone like Fo
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Those are great resources. But all of them appear to be tightly coupled with a SQL storage backend. That's valuable, but what I believe the ecosystem needs is a generic system which can "pre-compile" a GraphQL query into a ba
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GraphQL to REST is a more typical comparison. In this case: designing a GraphQL API is substantially easier to both make and consume; while REST just tells you "here's some guidelines, now go do it however you want", GraphQL
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EKS is, without a doubt in my mind, among the worst products Amazon has ever released. You pay $0.20/hour for the "benefit" of a managed high-availability control plane, no matter the size of the cluster, then are forced into
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by 013a 8y ago
I disagree, totally. Most companies who buy Office 365 want Active Directory just as much as the office products. Azure AD is an official Azure product; it's got Azure right in the name and lives on the Azure console. AD, hosted email
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I don't believe these are "missed opportunities". A true missed opportunity would be, say, Microsoft and the phone market. The train came and went on that because of the network effects of a phone platform putting momentum be
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by 013a 8y ago
I think you're right, and that's what makes Apple such a historically powerful company. They're the most valuable public company on the planet and there are still things where I'm like "if they just did this they
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by 013a 8y ago
20% is a huge overestimation. Apple's revenue in 2017 was $239B [2]; Google paid them somewhere between $1B and $9B [1]; 0.5% to 3%. [1] http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng... [2
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by 013a 8y ago
They compared an $800 tablet to a $250 gaming console. The A12x is pretty awesome, but its one of the dumbest comparisons Apple has ever made.
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Google takes G-Suite/Enterprise focused products very seriously. I can't think of many major examples of them axing one of their enterprise products (or really any, though I'm sure there's one or two fringe examples). In
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This is it right here. My teeth are horrible. A combination of genetics and an adolescence/pre-college diet of soda, I'd imagine. We're talking trips to the dentist every month or two for fillings, replacing fillings, the odd
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by 013a 8y ago
I find the directions the cloud space is evolving in completely fascinating. I suspect we're going to see some major shifts over the next decade. Primarily: Azure is already super successful and I see it taking a solid #1 over the next
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There is a substantial amount of evidence that the most effective product teams are cross-functional, and in parallel, the most effective product engineers are cross-functional. This idea doesn't necessarily hold up when you get into v
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That's arguable. Even the RTX 2080Ti, the most powerful consumer graphics card on the planet at $800, barely breaches 60fps for many games at 4K (with a 7820x and 32gb of memory) [1] Battlefield 1 - 97fps [2] Far Cry 5 - 70fps [3] Gran
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It's very difficult to find games that are bottlenecked by graphics cards nowadays (at 1440p60 or below). There are three major reasons why this is happening: - Nvidia has been killing it in graphics card design relative to the compe
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by 013a 8y ago
> One of the central contradictions of capitalism is that what makes it work — competition No. Competition and Capitalism are literally antithetical. This is outlined better than I could ever explain in Zero To One by Peter Thiel, but in
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I think that's actually arguable. They have all the pieces in place to make it work; they have an email service, they have calendar, contacts, they've got everything. The only thing they don't have is the custom domain names,
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by 013a 8y ago
From the article: "When I tell our customers something is wrong outside of our control" I think this is both the issue with the article, and the issue with Firebase (ironically). First of all, its an issue with Firebase. All softw
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by 013a 8y ago
I don't believe the situation you outline is the case in reality. Dollars are not, in a sense, "debt" to the Fed. I don't owe the Fed a dollar because I have a dollar (you could make an argument that inflation actually m
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I think, in that example, the bank wouldn't loan the money in the first place. This sounds like a cheat, but banks do this every day; if you ask for money and their analysis concludes that its unlikely they'll get it back, they&#x
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Student Debt is a weird one. The purpose of all debt is to act as an investment to increase net productivity for the borrower at a rate higher than the interest rate. When phrased like that, you realize there is literally no debt an indiv
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Simply, an "economy in equilibrium" is one in which there is no concept of Debt. Once you introduce Debt you get cycles. If I make $50k and can borrow $10k, I can spend $60k despite $10k of that $60k being "created from thin

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