aaronbwebber

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by aaronbwebber 7y ago
No, the value does not increase. The price increases. Price and value are different in economic contexts, and you quite clearly were referring to "value" as economic value in your first comment, and are now using "value"
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by aaronbwebber 7y ago
No, that is not the only answer. There is at least one other possibility, which is that the demand for money is increasing.
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by aaronbwebber 7y ago
Is that saying that you are comparing Cockroach running on 81 c5d.9xls vs Aurora running on 2 r3.8xls? I get that part of what you are trying to show is that Cockroach will scale far past what any single-master system can, but it feels pret
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by aaronbwebber 7y ago
Yours is better.
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by aaronbwebber 7y ago
That's at best a misunderstanding of what that means, and a less charitable reading of your comment would be that it's deliberately misleading. "San Francisco" refers to the metro area which includes a much larger area.
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by aaronbwebber 7y ago
It's not intended to be pronounced with a hard G either, but that doesn't stop people.
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by aaronbwebber 7y ago
The only fee you mention is $50, that really doesn't seem like that big of a deal. The blog post does not do a very good job of explaining why being a C Corp has been a "nightmare".
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by aaronbwebber 7y ago
Sure but that means your argument for building a new highway needs to be "it will get more people where they are going" and not "it will reduce congestion", and you definitely can't pull any "if people are able
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by aaronbwebber 7y ago
Using the LD50 for a carcinogen is inappropriate. LD50s are used as a measure of acute toxicity. The issue isn't that it's going to kill you from toxicity, it's that if you expose thousands of children to even low levels of i
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by aaronbwebber 8y ago
I highly recommend using flexible-freeze if you run Postgres in production - does not take very much effort to set up and almost certainly will help you avoid issues with txnid wraparound: https://github.com/pgexperts/f
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by aaronbwebber 8y ago
Then you are just forcing your application to deal with the dangling reference in the case of a failed "transaction". The whole point of TPC is not to have to deal with that complexity. Whether that complexity is actually difficul
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by aaronbwebber 8y ago
It's kind of weird that this is an HTTP link. It's also kind of weird that certificate-transparency.org doesn't redirect you to HTTPS.
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by aaronbwebber 8y ago
> with increased density comes increased crime, stressed parking, and other problems. Increased density does not increase crime. There's no evidence for this. There are very dense places with low crime and very low density place wit
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by aaronbwebber 8y ago
This quote is bonkers: > like “an oblique reference, like the tall bald guy who lives on East 18th Street. If someone said that in an email, that would be information you’d need to provide me with access to under the GDPR,” says Straight
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by aaronbwebber 9y ago
Why do you value democracy? My answer would be because democracy realizes liberal* ideas in a political process. But if liberal processes lead to illiberal outcomes, what do you do? I don't think you can argue that the past ~40 years o
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by aaronbwebber 9y ago
Why not?
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by aaronbwebber 9y ago
The $1000 units are gone, forever. If Portland builds enough to keep up with demand, eventually inflation will cause the rent in real terms to be equivalent to $1000 2017 dollars, but the sticker price for these units will never be $1000 ag
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by aaronbwebber 9y ago
YES. This is basically proxying to S3. Why would you ever want to do that? You want to give clients a presigned URL to do the upload. Lots of ORMs support "file fields" though which encourage you to do this or something similar.
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by aaronbwebber 9y ago
Since 9.2 Postgres has had index-only scans which can substantially improve the performance of `SELECT COUNT(* )` queries. If you need to get exact counts, and your query plan is not showing an index-only scan, you should try adding an inde
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by aaronbwebber 9y ago
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Stop teaching kids anything! It will just make wages go down! If you teach every kid to read and write, it will proletarianize the scribes! </sarcasm> Seriously, though, this
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by aaronbwebber 9y ago
EDIT: OK, I think I see what's wrong with this analysis: https://github.com/18F/identity-idp/blob/master/spec/service... . They do include Z1 in the data they pass to KMS decrypt. This is becaus
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by aaronbwebber 9y ago
I think Python's primary use case has now shifted far enough from scripting to server-side web development that ~35 ms of startup time to deal with Unicode better is a worthwhile tradeoff for the majority of Python users. It does raise
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by aaronbwebber 9y ago
It is not unless you are a federal employee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class If you are a federal employee you are covered by a different law than everyone else, and that does include political affiliatio
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by aaronbwebber 10y ago
There are very few if any bike-only trails in the Marin public open spaces. Generally there are hiking only, hiking/horse and hiking/horse/bike trails. There's no horse-only or bike-only or horse/bike trails.
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by aaronbwebber 10y ago
There are a lot of fire roads on Mt. Tam and in the Marin open spaces that are shared and are totally safe to go more than 15 mph on, although honestly it varies a lot on how windy the road is and what the visibility is. There are also a fe
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by aaronbwebber 10y ago
It's not so much the skyline in SF, it's that somehow "not building anything" has become a sort of "progressive" litmus test - if you are in favor of making any changes that would result in more housing being d
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by aaronbwebber 10y ago
Why wouldn't storing energy by dragging a train uphill work? It's basically the same as pumped hydro storage, and that's being used right now.
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by aaronbwebber 10y ago
The taxis did not circle the streets. That was part of the problem. Unless you were walking out of the lobby of a downtown hotel, there was basically no chance of catching a cab in SF. The wait time for calling for a ride has been lowered f
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by aaronbwebber 10y ago
This is a very good point. You should run actual performance tests. The results may surprise you! In my actual work, optimizing in memory searches is not worthwhile because saving half a dozen microseconds on a search is not real valuable w
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by aaronbwebber 10y ago
The graph really is totally flat below the L1 cache size line, and even on a log-log graph the slope between 10 MB and 1 GB is not significant.

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