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by bb611 7y ago
I work at a large B2B SaaS that stores customer data, we pay extra for the option not to return failed drives that can't be wiped for RMA. We still get a replacement but the original is physically destroyed with a shredder.
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by bb611 7y ago
I work at a big enterprise saas company that's moving a couple billion dollars worth of hardware into cloud services, the price difference is wild. Original unoptimized costs were 8x, dropping to 6x in our first round of optimizations.
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by bb611 7y ago
Working in the Bay Area, I'm sure I've had more colleagues who would implement this than would not. That's even though I've specifically chosen to work at companies that emphasize the importance of social good in their b
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by bb611 7y ago
200 GB of storage on Google One is precisely $3/month
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by bb611 7y ago
Why are you so focused on online dating? 80%+ of couples don't meet on the internet: https://flowingdata.com/2019/03/15/shifts-in-how-couples-mee... If online dating expectations are really the issue, wh
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by bb611 7y ago
Regardless of whether you classify it as a disease, the CDC does in fact track and research car accident deaths and injuries: https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.ht... Additionally there are
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by bb611 7y ago
His NDA included USG restrictions on what he could publish, if he didn't accept the changes the outcome would be the same. NDA available via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998966
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by bb611 7y ago
Why would someone averaging <500 miles of driving a year need to own a car?
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by bb611 7y ago
It's a major issue with AWS across a bunch of sectors. I work at a large SaaS company transitioning to public cloud, the number of companies that contractually obligate us not to host on AWS is at least an order of magnitude higher tha
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by bb611 7y ago
Here's a comparison project by Cooling Effect, which was recommended to me by reasonable skeptical, saavy people at my work: https://www.cooleffect.org/content/project/affordable-cookst... My guess is this is
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by bb611 7y ago
I work on a product with a large amount of tech debt, and that debt was almost universally created using the methodology in your first category. Most of it is extremely well documented. That doesn't magically make it not technical debt
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by bb611 7y ago
> in places where public transit is good (NYC, Chicago, Boston) The Boston one is a real giggle. At best, public transit in Boston is no better than the Bay Area, and on average is much worse. The real reason for not running shuttles in
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by bb611 7y ago
Its job is to deliver a fission warhead without being intercepted by current or future antimissile defences, the dirty bomb inside is comparatively unimportant.
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by bb611 7y ago
Seems more like perfect examples of jury nullification and professional misconduct in the justice system.
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by bb611 7y ago
There's a high chance you'll go try to vote as someone who simply didn't register. In California you could then register as that person and vote provisionally, but polling officials will check your identification. Alternative
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by bb611 8y ago
I've run in affluent neighborhoods in at least a dozen US cities, walked in too many to bother counting. This isn't something I've experienced anywhere.
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by bb611 8y ago
That's not really what they're trying to do. What they're trying to do is make it so challenging to host MongoDB as a service that cloud providers can't do it. They implemented it with an absurd requirement forcing contr
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by bb611 8y ago
I use offline Google maps (I have ~10 areas since I travel frequently) but still use 600 MB/month of data from that app alone, I'm assuming traffic data.
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by bb611 8y ago
Cahill park is frequented by dog owners (and their dogs) and has a really nice playground for kids, it's a good anchor for a family friendly neighborhood. There's also a great used book store a quarter mile further down the Alamed
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by bb611 8y ago
Rush's last tour ended over three years ago and the band is over. Neil Peart has apparently left the music business entirely
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by bb611 8y ago
It's not a charity, his donations to it aren't tax deductible or tax free. If the business makes tax deductible donations those will pass back to him.
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by bb611 8y ago
USS is only applied to US Navy ships in active service, so the ships name is just the Essex. An interesting parallel for sure.
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by bb611 8y ago
The large majority of Americans work for the military industrial complex?
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by bb611 8y ago
> the bottom 20-30% of men who are involuntarily single Is there data to support this percentage? > Romantic companionship is part of Maslow's Heirarchy for a reason Maslow doesn't classify it as a requirement, it's a c
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by bb611 8y ago
Is there data to support this argument?
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by bb611 8y ago
The issue isn't geography of the launch, it's company registration for regulation.
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by bb611 8y ago
I use Lyft frequently on iOS all over the US, it gives an estimate that tends to be conservative (i.e. high). Do you not see the same thing in your app?
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by bb611 8y ago
They have started collecting that data. The real issue is they don't seem to properly weight responses to get accurate current year numbers. The estimated total comp for my position is about 1/3 low on Glassdoor, it's about 1
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by bb611 8y ago
> actually achieving meaningful results takes time and gets you bigger raises Do you have evidence this is true? I agree with your point about satisfaction, but I've seen a lot of people who believed this about salary and got totall
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by bb611 8y ago
I fly frequently in the US, if you pay for TSA pre they don't check fluids below the limit, don't take anything out of your bag and you keep your shoes on. My average time in line is about 6 minutes (mostly driven up by a time whe

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