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12091.
by api 10y ago
Maybe you could create AI agents to flood the Internet with seditious chatter.
12092.
by api 10y ago
Cautious about hiring and spending, not growth. That is pretty decent, though we are working on ways to increase. Hugging default alive means that when our growth goes up in a sustained reliable way, we can hire. To seen a model try: http:
12093.
by api 10y ago
I'm watching this very closely since I am a founder of another OSS-based company doing something very hard and trying to monetize via things like services, support, etc. (Ironically we just ported the new version of our SaaS code base
12094.
by api 10y ago
Its other niche is easy to deploy replication and sharding that actually works , actually scales , and does not lose data.
12095.
by api 10y ago
Russia has a fairly well known "troll brigade" as well. Search a bit about Russia's army of Internet trolls and propagandists. It's interesting. Of course I'm sure the USA does a fair bit of this stuff as well. Ever
12096.
by api 10y ago
We (ZeroTier) do P2P on mobile just fine. I just randomly pinged my phone over a virtual network to check. Granted it depends on how chatty a P2P system is and how much it depends on intermediate nodes for network assist. Ours is pretty idl
12097.
by api 10y ago
Lesson: RethinkDB should have been at the forefront of offering their DB as a service. Lots of OSS-oriented companies do this and it works at least well enough to keep the lights on while you can work to get to higher tiers of the enterpris
12098.
by api 10y ago
It's depressing that a half-baked constantly problematic effort like MongoDB wins while this gets neglected. Unfortunately we still live in a world where marketing beats merit.
12099.
by api 10y ago
It doesn't seem much worse than "throw money at people who can navigate a byzantine bureaucracy." It may be better since winning a social media contest requires creative thinking.
12100.
by api 10y ago
For quite a while I've suspected that you might be able to support Feyerabend's argument using modern learning theory. In particular I suspect that this is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch
12101.
by api 10y ago
Why do you assume performance would be bad? It's got indexes. Obviously if you never create an index or never profile your queries it might get sluggish but that's the same in SQL. The dearth of types can be good or bad depending
12102.
by api 10y ago
> There are a lot of promising preclinical results, and the vast majority never turns into any medical treatment. There are a lot of promising startups and the vast majority fail. Science needs to take a lot more risks, not less, and b
12103.
by api 10y ago
That is very good to hear. We just ported our backend to use it after evaluating many other options including managed databases. It's really a top quality piece of software in every respect, combining much of what's good about nos
12104.
by api 10y ago
Wish I was still working on genetic programming and digital artificial life. This would be barrels of fun.
12105.
by api 10y ago
Today's non-geek has two choices: walled garden or malware cesspool.
12106.
by api 10y ago
"What would the Nazis do with this?" is not wholly inappropriate. It's basically a way of looking at the worst case failure mode, like asking "what would happen to this nuclear reactor if all cooling and backup systems f
12107.
by api 10y ago
They haven't orbited anything yet, so not exactly. But it looks like the gap is narrower than some thought. Musk said he hoped to ignite a new space race. He might have one.
12108.
by api 10y ago
I will never put an always on Internet connected microphone run by an advertising company in my house. I don't care if it literally spits out cash and cures cancer.
12109.
by api 10y ago
I'd guess everything that can conceivably be reported.
12110.
by api 10y ago
The government has clearly pushed sprawl by discouraging or in some cases outlawing mixed-use urban development. People have clearly always had (and should have) the choice to migrate out of cities, but they should also have the choice to
12111.
by api 10y ago
Why have we done this? It seems to go back very far, at least to the 30s or so. The two leading explanations I've heard are: (1) It's a jobs program in the form of a subsidy for the construction and automotive industries, both of
12112.
by api 10y ago
It's already quite "real" in many countries around the world where using strong crypto in the wrong way can get you imprisoned or killed.
12113.
by api 10y ago
Not orbitally stable, and shares many other issues with a Dyson sphere.
12114.
by api 10y ago
Dyson swarms are a far more practical idea than spheres and can be incrementally constructed. It's basically just a ton of satellites.
12115.
by api 10y ago
But that's not Enterprise(tm)! Seriously... I feel like the Big Cloud vendors are making a ton of money convincing a lot of people that you're not doing it right if you're not using their stuff.
12116.
by api 10y ago
We don't use AWS or GCE. The other providers don't charge anywhere close to as much for bandwidth... to the point that deploying across multiple providers and using the Internet as our backplane network is no issue. One trick I
12117.
by api 10y ago
Sometimes it is the tech... just not in obvious ways. You have to look beyond the basic spec. Uber and Lyft are not just taxi apps. They are massively polished. When I use them I am astounded at how good they've gotten the UX and the
12118.
by api 10y ago
Personally I am partial to heterogeneous deployments across commodity vendors like Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode, OVH, etc. You do have to think a little bit more about security and devops but you get a lot of power and robustness for a lot
12119.
by api 10y ago
Virtually everything has come true except 'trodes, razor blade implants, and Rastafarians in space. Wait... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_st... Okay, so razor blade implants and Rastafa
12120.
by api 10y ago
AFIAK you would need some kind of monster megawatt laser to do that. Those do not fit in tote bags.

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