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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Changing the schema of an upstream data source almost always breaks or requires updates to the downstream analytics system. It's an unavoidable problem whether its a microservice or a monolith; you just get to choose where you put the
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Lambda is mostly used for it's trigger functionality for data or artifacts that are created at irregular intervals. Eg, an object is uploaded to s3 which triggers a lambda which runs a copy command for that object into redshift. The ki
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
AWS data pipelines and AWS lambda. It's cloud services the whole way down. https://aws.amazon.com/datapipeline/
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
From a project management perspective, each data source should have some requirements behind it from the business team. Those requirements should be prioritized meaning you can prioritize which data source to tackle first. You automate the
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
I'm going to disagree heavily here. The world of cloud computing, microservices, and hosted/managed services has made the analyst and data engineers job easier than ever. If the software team builds a new dynamodb table, they simp
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
I laughed, but this is really a comment suited for reddit and not HN.
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Yea it gets even more interesting when you consider historical figures. Charlamagne is no more real to me than Walter White is (in fact, I'd argue due to the additional sensation of audio and video he might actually be more real from a
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Yea there was a great two part planet money series on recycling this year. And the economic take away is that the current state of recycling in the US is broken and we have more than enough landfill space for thousands of years. One idea wa
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
I think it's another twist on John Locke's idea of perception in essays on human understanding. Basically, humans are the product of our sensors (vision, hearing, touch, emotion, etc). I'm going to butcher the explanation her
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Numbers below are just for making a point: Let's say someone is trying to sell snowboards using ads. Previously they could target say "young male users who have previously browsed snow sports." Let's say the ad had a 5%
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EU considered it anticompetitive because of Google's marketshare in search (something like >80% in the EU). Amazon doesn't have nearly the same marketshare in retail.
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It's the military. They don't need people with experience. They'll train as many as they need.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
I have a complex prescription and I buy my glasses out of pocket from the web at around $15-20 a pair for both lenses and frames. My last order I bought 6 pair and a pair of sunglasses for less than $150 out of pocket. They may not last as
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
No, I know what the eurodollar is. The power of London over the "eurodollar" at the time was that the businesses and banks in Europe were doing business locally in their domestic currencies (eg Italian Liras) which did not have an
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
The Euro didn't exist and the 70's started under the Bretton Wood's agreement. It wasn't until '76 that countries agreed to a floating currency. I don't think London's ability to influence a basket of medi
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Regulations and criminal law are two different things. If btc-e were part of a well-regulated financial system, they would have gone through a liquidation process and creditors would have been paid some % on the $ what they were owed. This
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
You lent that money to a shady organization. Once you lent it, it was no longer your property. You then became a creditor of that organization and your coins became their assets. The organizations assets were seized due to systemic criminal
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
The word you are looking for is non-partisan. Bi-partisan means it currently has broad support in both parties. You can't say a bill is bi-partisan if it doesn't actually have that support. Saying you have a goal of bi-partisan su
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
This is a very biased source: >The Campaign Life Coalition (sometimes shortened to Campaign Life) is a Canadian political lobbyist organization founded in 1978. Based in Toronto, the organization advocates for socially conservative value
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Gaming keyboards tend to be the cheapest high-quality mechanical keyboards.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
You have a source on the government going after a car dealership for funds from selling a car that was seized?
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
You are conflating two different things. Asset forfeiture for assets used in a crime and asset seizure of stolen assets. The former the government generally keeps as it has no rightful owner (eg a car purchased with drug proceeds) while the
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
The problem is that 3rd is where all the downtown bus stops are. If you commute by transit, it's almost impossible to ignore. Your only option is to rush to the next block and hope nothing goes wrong.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
See for example this blog post: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/blind-since-b...
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
That seems fundamentally backwards. The CI system should do the tagging. Allowing manual tagging introduces intentional or unintentional malfeasance in shared projects.
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So no vetting on new ad tech?
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> Of all the sites on the internet, StackOverflow has the demographics that any advertiser would crave. How large of an inside ads sales force would you need to target higher than average income earners? I'm curious what you think t
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Because they have a lot of patents. Either they developed the tech in the patents independently or they stole tech which other companies declined to patent. The latter option doesn't make sense since everyone in the wireless industry m
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>That's literally what it implies. The curve was relaxed. It became easier to meet the standard of a minimum pass grade for a given level of performance. A curve can be shifted without changing the standards for passing the class. E
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I don't see how this is complicated. US has a lot of allies and those allies have agreed to this. Turkey does not have a lot of allies (or at least as strong of allies as the US has/had) and thus doesn't have the same agreeme

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