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by abalone 8y ago
Given that Israel regularly employs deadly force against civilians, this does not absolve NSO's software engineers from moral culpability. That is like saying the backroom boys at Dow who developed napalm thought it was just being used
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by abalone 8y ago
The correct analogy would be a software engineer who crafts hacks for autonomous cars that tracks drivers to their locations, then sells them to oppressive regimes that go murder them. Yes, those engineers are scum of the earth.
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by abalone 8y ago
Speaking of underlying motives... you strongly imply that Heron was not a significant improvement on Storm and doesn’t “work well for end users.” Without evidence. Why? Re: motives, “Heron grew out of real concerns Twitter was having with i
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by abalone 8y ago
> $0.50 per million 1KB writes, which is 20x what aurora charges, since aurora allows 8KB writes. That's a weird comparison. 20x is only true if you write 8KB with every entry, and you haven't included the storage and instanc
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by abalone 8y ago
Why don't you use Kinesis for this? Isn't that what it's made for?
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by abalone 8y ago
Oh cool. For those reading along this is titled "How Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity accommodates uneven data access patterns (or, why what you know about DynamoDB might be outdated)". Is this a new feature?
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by abalone 8y ago
Ok but I'm not sure this is relevant. We're talking about using Aurora in place of DynamoDB, not how it compares to other SQL DBs. With DynamoDB the kind of internal sort you're talking about isn't even possible, right?
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by abalone 8y ago
> DynamoDB does offer autoscaling these days, which should alleviate a lot of provisioning-related headaches The problem they noted isn't lack of autoscaling, it's that you have to provision the entire datastore to accommodat
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by abalone 8y ago
So how did the fraud work? I seriously tried to read the whole thing. I had to click through to the indictment[1] to read that they improperly used funds from lenders that were supposedly for Newsweek's servers. But how exactly did the
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by abalone 8y ago
Any experience with using Aurora in place of DynamoDB? A couple years ago there was an interesting tidbit at re:Invent about customers moving from DynamoDB to Aurora to save significant costs.[1] The Aurora team made the point that DynamoDB
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by abalone 8y ago
I’m hearing two things: 1. You want to build these diagrams faster and perhaps semi-automatically instead of dragging around boxes and lines. 2. You want them to look better and not so perfunctory. To communicate better. There is kind of an
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by abalone 8y ago
Here's a fun image. I totally fell for it the first time. https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
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by abalone 8y ago
Poppycock. One of the top stories from this election is how establishment NY Dems are facing a challenge from the left, e.g. Ocasio-Cortez who is critical of the Amazon deal.[1] [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13&
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by abalone 8y ago
“But while the new report may lift concerns about an early death, it still links insomnia with illnesses such as dementia and depression...”
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by abalone 8y ago
Don’t get too excited. > But while the new report may lift concerns about an early death, it still links insomnia with illnesses such as dementia and depression, reports The Times.
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by abalone 8y ago
“Still work”? Was there a time that shareware worked? Serious question.. citations appreciated. Also it sounds like you are doing enterprise software. Shareware was more of a consumer pricing model. With enterprise you want to make it total
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by abalone 8y ago
I wonder if it would be useful to start including political culture in these comparisons. They tend to focus on cost of housing and “quality of life” metrics like the existence of third wave coffee and cocktail bars. And yet, clearly, there
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by abalone 8y ago
Can we talk about Molekule? Their team and some SF tech community folks have been plugging it all over Twitter during this tragic wildfire crisis. But it seems like snake oil to me. It’s $800. Certainly for smoke particles it can’t possibly
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by abalone 8y ago
Because it makes it easier for terrorists to obtain nuclear materials when they're deployed in civilian power plants as opposed to military facilities. That's one of the main concerns regarding proliferation.
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by abalone 8y ago
> (won't someone think of the children if the train overturns) > proliferation due to terrorists dropping from the sky This is exactly what I mean by a cavalier attitude towards these problems. It is dismissive, uses manipula
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by abalone 8y ago
> Sure, Medium editor is nice. Typography is good (for English, other languages are not supported). Publishing is free. That's it? I'm not sure the author accurately summarized the upside of Medium. I thought the main benefit
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by abalone 8y ago
That would make sense except the author said they have a “show in Safari” button for each article. Apple’s reply was very specific and said nothing about just adding titles and URLs or the safari view controller.
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by abalone 8y ago
I’m confused. What’s the violation here? Apps are supposed to open links in Safari “outside of the app” unless they have permission? What about in-app browsers???? Twitter, Facebook, Instagram... they all open links inside their app, in an
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by abalone 8y ago
I sincerely hope you realize oceans are functioning ecosystems and not conveniently located safe zones for nuclear disasters. This is the sort of cavalier attitude toward the nuclear waste and accident problem that permeates nearly every HN
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by abalone 8y ago
> The cost and risks were too high. Why? The anti-nuclear movement . Also the hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds that it costs to clean up nuclear disasters. But sure, good to know that nuclear power would be profitable
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by abalone 8y ago
But proliferation is a legitimate concern, no?
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by abalone 8y ago
Size is not the problem. Toxicity over centuries is the problem. Apples are a poor reference because it’s safe to be near them and they decompose within a year.
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by abalone 8y ago
> Nuclear waste isn't a huge problem, because there isn't much of it You just changed your argument. You originally said nuclear waste is less toxic than “‘regular’ waste from chemical industry,” not just that there was less
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by abalone 8y ago
How does this compare with the protesters' demands? Anything missing?
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by abalone 8y ago
> chips which power a tablet that has no software ready to use that much speed I think this comment underestimates the importance of performance to the iPad and Apple's long term vision for it. While "real Photoshop" won

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