awinder

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by awinder 7y ago
I was ready to look past the title as just the cost of doing "business" in 2019, but the article has a lot of problems. Stuff like measuring latency from 1 computer in Iceland -- gaining empirical results from your actually runni
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by awinder 7y ago
Because it’s the right thing to do, costs a pittance in the grand scheme of things, and is the cheapest course of action compared to continuing to rebuild. The article begins with a woman who can’t afford to get out and just got running wa
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by awinder 7y ago
It’s exactly the same as dilution on shares except for in this theoretical, you’re talking about 1T in dilution while the asset wealth of the US is something over 270T. So this would effectively be one of the kindest dilutions ever — and ev
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by awinder 7y ago
This is basically Bentham vs Mill utilitarianism for anyone that wants to explore how at least humanity’s great balancing act has been recorded over hundreds of years. But to summarize — you should optimize for things like quality of happin
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by awinder 7y ago
"In more general terms, almost every database we tested with Jepsen fails, sometimes in dozens of ways, before its test suite passes. That's how we know Jepsen is working ! The vendor headline that comes out of that process is us
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by awinder 7y ago
You can now pay a per-request rate and skip the autoscaling / wcu & rcu math. https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/on-demand/
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by awinder 7y ago
It says "Improving Human Health" in the leftmost graphic on https://www.beyondmeat.com/about/ , and they list specific medical ailments under that. Only a lawyer could try to make the argument these weren&#x2
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by awinder 7y ago
Beyond Meat claims it's better for you in the first sentence on it's product landing page: https://www.beyondmeat.com/products/
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by awinder 7y ago
I doubt you're not trying hard enough. Are you interviewing for large or small firms (or combination)? > ghosted for the on-site after a pass Not sure if I'm misreading, but are you saying interview was cut short / you ha
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by awinder 7y ago
Snopes does a pretty good dissection of this including appropriately putting the research study in proper light: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wheat-toxic/ As if the getholistichealth.com domain wasn’t enough
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by awinder 7y ago
I think you’re right on. I worked as a lead for a startup that ended up with all these credits in SoftLayer years ago, and we steered into a Vyatta network setup that was fairly complicated and I had to really learn a bunch of networking in
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by awinder 7y ago
That’s not entirely clear, it’s just stated that he purchased from a dispensary. That doesn’t mean that’s the product that caused his issues, that he never used (cheaper) black market products, etc. https://www.google.com/am
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by awinder 7y ago
There's certainly a lot to unpack with some of the recent focus on "what is a company for", in all it's varied forms. I think you're correct to focus on some of the empire building, and you're right that there
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by awinder 7y ago
Your business is still putting you on AA/Southwest/Delta/Etc. though, they're not putting you on some random regional airline. That's the argument as I read it.
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by awinder 7y ago
For Mac users that want to get away from chrome for privacy reasons, I’d look at safari & the chromium based edge browser. Firefox isn’t in the same league on Mac, it’s not a priority and it shows.
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by awinder 7y ago
Er I don't know the right etiquette as far as original post, but I shouldn't have quoted/included "somehow", that's entirely fair. I think you've had great success to my eyeballs for placement on HN, but
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by awinder 7y ago
I had a whole thing written up, but in the interest of brevity, maybe covering my ass a little, but balancing some public interest for people who read these articles: 1. Cassandra Capital is "somehow" getting to the top on HN quit
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by awinder 7y ago
I don’t think I saw a support ticket in years around refresh tokens and we definitely expired them to avoid storing an infinite history of the things. And also a nagging sense of not increasing account token leakage. Tl;dr: I don’t know kid
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by awinder 7y ago
I would absolutely love to see a project like Camino start up again, that was the last time I had a tolerable experience with a “Mozilla browser”. I’m in alignment with what they want to do on the web but I’m on a Mac and the experience has
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by awinder 7y ago
I think I more understood the ethos of where the author was coming from at the end: “And by all means, we must not push everyone to use Big Mailer Corps“ which is totally fair. For the rest of the article though, it’s pretty clear that the
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by awinder 7y ago
its okay, I’m fairly certain that there exists Perl 5 code that will outlast our very species
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by awinder 7y ago
> If there is value you generate that doesn't go into your job, that's an inefficiency managers would be obligated by their role to optimize out. That is not a managers job, and it has 0 to do with the results they're goin
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by awinder 7y ago
I don't hate debugging in evented/microservice codebases, but it is more complicated to get a good debugging setup in place w/ distributed tracing. But after you do that you're often in a better place with logging, so,
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by awinder 7y ago
https://www.lawfareblog.com/withdrawal-universal-postal-unio... has a deep breakdown, I was just speaking to the consequences the USPS (which handles international mail in the US) felt from the price setting that occurs und
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by awinder 7y ago
FTA: "This is all related to the Universal Postal Union agreement that allows Chinese sellers to ship products to the U.S. for less than it costs us to ship to the same state." The USPS has been losing money on this arrangement fo
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by awinder 7y ago
This also seems inspired by broker markets that exist for all kinds of complex product purchasing. Not intended as a dig (because you clearly found that it could be used here!) but I think that way of looking at what you're doing make
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by awinder 7y ago
I would say the superpower is even greater. If you’re a mom and pop business, you can die — we will protect you so that like, your children’s children’s children aren’t still paying your debts. And if you’re a small or mid cap company you c
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by awinder 7y ago
Yes! In the same vein space law, which sounds like a Charlie Day specialty: > Space law also sets out provisions for extradition
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by awinder 7y ago
GERD/nicotine has a pretty strong link and it’s cumulative/long-term exposure that increases chances. Probably just a ticking time bomb that went off ;-). (No offense to the parent poster intended, I likewise have played games wit
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by awinder 7y ago
That would be related to the 2 following years when the problem absolutely blew up, to the point that 51 AGs had to take further action. He paid lip service but we should demand more.

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